Sentences with phrase «as nails in the coffin»

Trump has already picked one Supreme Court justice, Neil Gorsuch, a conservative whose appointment was viewed by some as a nail in the coffin for legal efforts to preserve the Clean Power Plan.

I see it as another nail in the coffin of having social skills.

As much as I wanted to like this film it's ruined by soap opera antics with an unforgivable, poorly written death scene, that serves as the nail in the coffin.

«If the high - powered incentives and supports that IMPACT created didn't work during a sustained application, we would've viewed that as a nail in the coffin of this literature.»

Of course, the US Senate had signaled it wasn't going to ratify the Kyoto Protocol anyway, but the Bush Administration's announcement nevertheless served as a nail in the coffin for US participation in the treaty.

Obviously, the first hypothesis makes a lot more sense than the second, but one would need to confirm it before citing this as the nail in the coffin of the Wegman report.

Not exact matches

As for the IPO, the last nail was already in the coffin.

Meanwhile, right - wingers in Israel see this as an opportunity to put a nail in the coffin of the two - state solution by pushing for legislation to annex parts of the West Bank or creating political hurdles that will make it impossible for any future government to negotiate on the final status of Jerusalem.

Putting the nail in the coffin so to speak, even when creating a best case scenario, we calculated the most an acquirer, such as Cisco Systems (CSCO), should pay for ININ while still earning a quality ROIC was $ 49 / share.

Warped Reality — Frauds such as you quote have been trying to put the nail in the coffin of Christianity for 2000 years — and have failed.

Songbook # 20 tried to talk about the 9 - 11 interregnum and how it dealt a blow to rock's radicalism, but in retrospect, it was really more about the nineties revival - of and eventual disenchantment - with such radicalism, with 9 - 11 seeming to serve as the final nail in the coffin.

In the view of scientific experts, the recent findings vindicate what used to be the minority opinion of those who referred to cigarettes as «coffin nails» and who otherwise challenged what were commonly viewed as the health benefits of smoking.

He saw it as a chance to pick on someone who is obviously far more intelligent than he is and thus a turn to spew more hatred of atheists... he just keeps putting more nails in christianities proverbial coffin - no harm done to our side.

«The industry's manufacturers, small and large, call on the NSW and Victorian Premiers who are currently considering a CDS to use this report as the final nail in the CDS coffin.

A truly lacklustre contest between two dire teams drowning in the lower reaches of the Bundesliga was probably the final nail in the coffin of Huub Stevens short term reign as Stuttgart boss as the hosts failure to land a much required three points sees them remaining firmly rooted to the bottom of the table.

But Iceland turned the game on its head quicker that you can say «# 1 quiche» as Coleen Nolan and that Essex bird from the jungle fired first - half nails into the coffin of a nation in crisis.

yes OG dry spell was the final nail in the coffin but we started stumbling when Cazorla got injured... and then Coquelin... Explains the emergency buy of Elneny as well.

It was the final nail in the coffin of his Arsenal career as his slow play and lethargic performances meant he was shipped out after just two years and only 25 league appearances.

Late in that game, cameras captured Smith on the sideline as he mimicked hammering the final nail into an imaginary coffin.

The final nails in his coffin as far as I am concerned were the last two transfer summers.

So if Chambers does get the nod for England this summer it would probably be the final nail in the coffin of Jenkinson's career as a Gunner.

I would have felt cheated, they probably did as well until their first goal went in, then the next and then the nail in the coffin, the third.

Many expected the Murdoch scandal to be the final nail in his coffin but he has emerged as the major winner of the reshuffle.

His condemnation of the bill helped put the final nail in the coffin, at least as far as public opinion was concerned.

Former mayor Jim Sottile, a Democrat, drove yet another nail into his political coffin as Amedore's ex-officio campaign manager in Ulster.

Judging by the reactions of politico's I talked to this morning (mainly Labour) they see it as the first nail in the electoral coffin.

While some have suggested that the proposal's defeat in the polls was the last nail in the coffin of electoral reform, others have interpreted it as the first step in a longer journey.

«Governors Paterson and Cuomo put the final nails in the coffin of the member item process as we knew it.

Hunting and deforestation have already brought chimpanzees to the brink of extinction, but «diseases such as anthrax, Ebola, or introduced human respiratory viruses may serve as the final nail in their coffin,» says disease ecologist Tom Gillespie of Emory University in Atlanta.

But in spite of getting a kick out of the Creature stage, Gregory and Eldredge saw it as the final nail in the coffin for Spore's claim of having anything to do with evolution.

With the cap - and - trade option for carbon reduction buried in the U.S. Senate at least until 2011, yesterday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D — NV) began to drive nails into the coffin for a national mandate on renewable energy, known as a Renewable Energy Standard (RES).

Anatomist John Hutchinson of London's Royal Veterinary College says that the study «puts a nail in the coffin for the idea that mammals do not routinely exhibit LAGs as a natural part of their growth».

But later - developed techniques such as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could make this approach obsolete, and the final draft of the stem cell guidelines, due out by July 7, might put the nail in the parthenote coffin

g.» [The reanalysis of Narmada Man] puts another nail in the coffin of Homo erectus as a viable taxon.»

None of these points, however, great as they may be, constitute nails in the coffin.

Not only do these meta - analyses put the nail in the coffin as far as saturated fat causing heart disease, but a plethora of health benefits have been elucidated in the scientific literature regarding coconut oil consumption.

Part 2 of the Coffin Nail Endurance Workout combines kettlebells with battle ropes to really challenge your aerobic conditioning as well as muscle endurance in this challenging workout.

I thought I felt a twinge of excitement as the weather slightly warmed, but it rained today as if to put the final nail in the coffin.

It's worth noting, as well, that the thick accents make it awfully difficult to discern what the characters are saying most of the time, which is ultimately the final nail in the coffin for what could (and should) have been a taut little thriller.

With Nintendo adamant on not releasing any Zelda Wii U info, this Zelda news was warmly appreciated and sparked a lot of excitement and enthusiasm in gamers world - wide, but as jubilant as I want to be, I can't help but think of this news as the final nail in the coffin that is original Zelda titles & stories, exclusive to hand - held, is indeed dead, or just very close to it.

As Hayter explained, that was the final nail in the coffin.

This week we return to the world of current releases to put the nail in the coffin, or not, of the career of M. Night Shyamalan as we discuss his latest film The Visit as well as our smattering of thoughts on whatever we enjoyed this week with the return of our newest segment No Time to... Continue reading «TUMP [EP # 217 — THE VISIT][SPOILERS]»

This week we return to the world of current releases to put the nail in the coffin, or not, of the career of M. Night Shyamalan as we discuss his latest film The Visit as well as our smattering of thoughts on whatever we enjoyed this week with the return of our newest segment No Time to Explain.

With undeveloped action sequences, slotted caricatures of Asian mobsters, and a tiresome and predictable Liotta further driving nails into its coffin, Revolver is a spectacular, gaudy trainwreck that serves as a punctuation mark on one of the goriest career immolations in recent memory.

As the president of Marvel Studios, Feige's latest comment seems to put a nail in the coffin of the idea that Venom, Black Cat or Silver Sable could show up in Spidey's solo films.

(The final coffin nail in the Hooper - as - director myth.)

I just wonder now if this is the first nail in the coffin for storyline as more and more organisations move to «mobile first» design?

As with the rapid ascent of online learning, Moe's second nail in the unions» coffin is picking up speed.

«Those will stay in place with the curriculum narrowed for so many pupils as schools work to ensure they reach an ever - rising bar, which means they are not deemed below the floor and labelled as failing,» she said, adding that the time had come to «stop moaning about the test» and «put the nail in the coffin of testing».

«This is another nail in the coffin for testing as a gold standard of assessment.