last-ditch
 adjective
 desesperado
EN What started in the late 1970s as a dribble of ill-fated convicts had, by the turn of the century, become a regular feature of the nation's public life, played out to a peculiar combination of silence from U.S. politicians and last-ditch pleas for clemency from the European Union, Amnesty International and other moral bulwarks of the West.
GL O que comezou a finais da década de 1970 coma un goteo de mortes de infelices converteuse, 30 anos máis tarde, nun elemento máis da vida pública nacional, caracterizada polo silencio dos políticos estadounidenses e os chamamentos desesperados da Unión Europea, Amnistía Internacional e outros baluartes occidentais dos dereitos humanos.
 Fonte: C03 (1142)
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