Sentences with phrase «last possible day»

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

His 16th birthday falls on August 31st — the last possible day of eligibility for his age group in England — so formal confirmation could be delayed, but he will likely be wearing blue next season.

It was the last possible day before the commission was, under law, required to begin its work.

Earlier this year the shadow Chancellor told The Daily Telegraph that a former Labour Cabinet minister had told him that the general election would be held on «the last possible day that the law allows».

No one could have guessed that on the last possible day to act, April 10, the Governor would ask the legislature to change the effective date of that bill from «now» to 2013.

The Hidden Predator Act passed the Georgia House of Representatives 170 - 0 on the last possible day last month, but can't get a...

If the market doesn't like the acquisition / split it make make sense to make the move now, or wait until the last possible day depending on which part they don't like.

Because it takes three business days to settle a transaction, the last possible day to sell both Canadian and U.S. securities to be eligible for a capital loss for the 2016 tax year is Dec. 23 for settlement by Dec. 30, 2016.

Because it takes three business days to settle a transaction, the last possible day to sell securities to be eligible for a capital loss for the 2015 tax year is Dec. 24 for settlement by Dec. 31, 2015.

Until six months ago, a government that had been downgraded in this way would be holding off an election until the last possible day in the hope of burying the bad news, or else would have gone early, before releasing the bad budget news that triggered the downgrade.