1. The use of antibiotics is permitted only in extremis.

2. This alarm button is only to be used in extremis.

3. I'll only ask the bank for a loan in extremis.

4. The President was in extremis, trying to figure out what was going on.

5. Keynes argued that governments, in extremis , could boost demand by digging holes.

6. Yet now he was here, in extremis, to seek an alliance.

7. Real Reagan was willing to raise taxes in extremis, and a firm believer in arms - reduction talks.

8. No, the decision is imposed on the man at the points, so in extremis numbers of lives saved must count.