home-stretch

For parents, the home-stretch of year has arrived, and for many families it can feel like they are running an obstacle course to the new year.

Darryl Sollerh: The Dancing Parent: The Holidays, Part 1 Darryl Sollerh 2010

For parents, the home-stretch of year has arrived, and for many families it can feel like they are running an obstacle course to the new year.

Darryl Sollerh: The Dancing Parent: The Holidays, Part 1 Darryl Sollerh 2010

For parents, the home-stretch of year has arrived, and for many families it can feel like they are running an obstacle course to the new year.

Darryl Sollerh: The Dancing Parent: The Holidays, Part 1 Darryl Sollerh 2010

For parents, the home-stretch of year has arrived, and for many families it can feel like they are running an obstacle course to the new year.

Darryl Sollerh: The Dancing Parent: The Holidays, Part 1 Darryl Sollerh 2010

With only a few days until election day, big infusions of cash are flooding into critical home-stretch activities like phone-banking, mailings, and last-minute polling to determine where the last bursts of cash for TV ads should be spent, new filings with the Federal Election Commission show.

In Home Stretch, Money Floods Into Phone-Banking, Mailings And Polls 2009

Sen. McCain's home-stretch strategy relies on winning a swath of states that voted for President George W. Bush in 2004, none of which are out of reach despite public polls that show Sen. Obama leading in some, said Mike DuHaime, Sen. McCain's political director.

Expanded Number of Battleground States Keeps Candidates Scrambling 2008

He sat down and took a long rest, torturing himself meanwhile to keep awake, and then started warily down the home-stretch.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

Mr. Webster was then on the home-stretch, and it was shortly after this date that the incident I describe occurred.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

The chief idea was to keep just behind the pace-maker, and be ready to rush to the front when on the home-stretch.

The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path Donald Ferguson

As she swung down the home-stretch behind the senior and junior, Nancy's mates began to shout like mad girls:

A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe