Sentences with phrase «buckle under the weight»

New York will have to sort out who wears the C, but Messier's leadership would remove the responsibility of running the dressing room from Leetch, who buckled under its weight.

One concern is that the frame has been known to buckle under the weight of heavier babies over the course of time from extended use.

California is buckling under the weight of its pension obligations.

And we've seen a bipartisan process buckle under the weight of these withering forces, even as we have produced a proposal that is by all accounts a common - sense, reasonable, non-ideological approach to target the root problems that led to the turmoil in our financial sector.

But the former shadow justice secretary is not one to buckle under the weight of political attack by his opponents.

Don't let the arms buckle under the weight of the legs.

It may buckle under the weight of Marvel mythology, but Joss Whedon's superhero sequel is a lot of fun

He discovered a lingering interest in drama during his teenage years, but buckled under the weight of discouragement from an acting coach, and put acting on the shelf to focus on career pursuits in banking and the oil industry.

This could be a great comeback story for an indie developer that buckled under the weight of fan expectations last summer.

MCU entries have buckled under the weight of much fewer characters, but if there's anyone out there who can successfully manage a comic - book cast list of Tolstoy proportions, it's the writing and directing team behind those last two Captain America movies, marvels of multitasking that they were.

So front - loaded with cliches that it initially feels as if it might buckle under the weight of its own derivativeness, Battle: Los Angeles eventually finds its footing during an explosive bridge battle around the midway mark, and subsequently muscles through with the efficiency of a battle - hardened Marine.

Full of straight - faced suspicion, suspense and a whole lot of grey, Scribe is a film that buckles under their weight of its American thriller inspirations.

It holds an 84 % rating at Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus being, «Though it threatens to buckle under the weight of its meta gags, Deadpool 2 is a gory, gleeful lampoon of the superhero genre buoyed by Ryan Reynolds» undeniable charm.»

The show is a romantic one after all so before Ellis can buckle under the weight of her homesickness she meets the dark and daring Italian plumber Tony (Emory Cohen) on the lookout for Irish girls at the local ceili.

Is it worth the price of admission, or does it buckle under the weight of its lofty ambitions?

Three decades later, the Swiss photographer went to see it for himself — and found it buckling under the weight of tourism

Each platform buckled under the weight of DDOS attack and hackers during the holiday season, though the PSN hack of 2011 (in which hackers stole the personal data of thousands of customers) still remains as a serious red mark against PSN more than four years later.

It was a lot to put on a single product, and perhaps the whole thing just buckled under the weight.

News of the camera industry's troubles is everywhere you look, and some companies have buckled under the weight.

Not exact matches

Joshua Green, writing in the Atlantic Monthly, notes that whenever the truck returns to Alabama, «a 57 - foot yellow I - beam crane that spans the ceiling of the Clark Memorials warehouse drops down to retrieve the Rock from its chariot, and even this one — a five - ton crane / — buckles visibly under the weight.»

The same papers are also regularly guilty of overhyping young footballers, many of whom subsequently buckle under the unbearable weight of expectation.

The glare of the media, expectations of a nation, and the weight of history have caused successive generations of England teams to buckle under pressure.

Pros: - Little learning curve - Adjustable between multiple carriers - Comfortable for long periods of time - No buckles, not bulky - Distributes weight somewhat well - Inexpensive (the Infantino's are only $ 35 and you can get custom made ones on Etsy for under $ 100)

In the meantime, my marriage was beginning to buckle a bit under the weight of fear and hopelessness I carried.

Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician («Whiplash»), actor («Birdman»), novelist («Listen Up Philip»), painter (Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner»), actor again (Chris Rock's upcoming «Top Five,») concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke - directed fall - festival documentary smash «Seymour»), actor once more (Olivier Assayas» «Clouds of Sils Maria»), rock singer (the Michael Fassbender - starring «Frank»), documentary filmmaker (Noah Baumbach's upcoming «While We're Young») and actor again (Al Pacino's «The Humbling»).

Admittedly, it's not like the engine buckles under the Nissan Sentra's weight every time you apply pressure to the gas pedal, and the 1.8 - liter unit does admittedly return some very good fuel economy figures (automatic models return 29mpg in the city and 37mpg on the highway; versions with a manual transmission are two mpg less frugal in both instances).

Still Standing # 19, seems to be collapsing in upon itself, almost giving the impression that one of Cooper's large canvases buckled under its own weight and gave way to this amorphous shape.

Vinyl blinds will tend to bow and buckle under their own weight.