hail-mary

So full of hail-mary, as standuponit might say, that I had to get baptized. but at least it wasn't a dyno.

mama says you gotta go to the baptist fashion show standuponit 2009

Why should we take a huge risk on a hazaedous hail-mary Mars project without taking full advantage of this well placed proving ground, the Moon?

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

As you say, there are far fewer hail-mary attempts, because under socialism they get rid of the most expensive and least successful procedures.

Health Care Beliefs and "Sicko", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Now that the plan has failed -- or "hasn't worked," as BP has put it -- plan-B is a hail-mary "junk shot," where golf balls and shredded tires are injected into the leak with the hope they might clog it.

Erich Pica: The American Power Act: Kerry's and Lieberman's Climate Junk Shot 2010

Winning 21-14 at the their own 49-yard line, quarterback Cam Newton rolled out to his right and threw a deep hail-mary pass to the end zone.

Cam Newton Throws Hail Mary Touchdown: Auburn Scores On Last Play Of First Half (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Winning 21-14 at the their own 49-yard line, quarterback Cam Newton rolled out to his right and threw a deep hail-mary pass to the end zone.

Cam Newton Throws Hail Mary Touchdown: Auburn Scores On Last Play Of First Half (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Winning 21-14 at the their own 49-yard line, quarterback Cam Newton rolled out to his right and threw a deep hail-mary pass to the end zone.

Cam Newton Throws Hail Mary Touchdown: Auburn Scores On Last Play Of First Half (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Winning 21-14 at the their own 49-yard line, quarterback Cam Newton rolled out to his right and threw a deep hail-mary pass to the end zone.

Cam Newton Throws Hail Mary Touchdown: Auburn Scores On Last Play Of First Half (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

And finally there are the authors of Superfreakonomics, whose best-seller muddling the science of climate change and advocating for hail-mary policies like geoengineering seems mainly to have served to rouse the progressive intelligentsia to climate science's defense, and to a greater awareness and engagement on the climate issue.

David Roberts: Greens Have Finally Got the Big Mo 2009

Then I threw a hail-mary: I told him that I wanted to know what it was like to wake in the pre-dawn hours on a tree-lined street in the middle of America and leave for war ...

Doug Stanton: The Quiet Professionals: The Untold Story of U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan 2009