That's the final offer, the committee says, and it has set May 17 as its absolute deadline.

But "absolute deadlines" on this matter have come and gone before.

The case has since been delayed several times and is now subject to an absolute deadline to be heard by 19 April.

The absolute deadline for the cleanup is Sept. 1, 1998.

For at least the past five years, the Israeli leadership has made threatening sounds about absolute deadlines.

We have an absolute legal deadline of July 12.

The absolute deadline, they said, is July 1, the start of the city's 2003 fiscal year.

May 15 was an absolute deadline for putting the cotton seeds in the ground.

However, no absolute deadline was set by the Council.

True, it does not tick toward the absolute deadline that ends women's childbearing years.