Sentences with phrase «down the drain as»

In the West, there is increasing talk of triage... If the U.S. decides that the grant would simply go down the drain as a mere palliative because the recipient country was doing little to improve its food distribution or start a population control program, no help would be sent.

Chairman Ellis Short saw a lot of his pennies trickle down the drain as the likes of Craig Gardner, Lee Cattermole and John O'Shea have failed to live up to their pricy transfer fees so far under Bruce.

All went down the drain as neither the former nor the latter could do anything to course of the game.

Don't pour it down the drain as there are things you can try (in addition to trying to feed it to baby later on to see if the aversion has gone away).

Everything you worked on today can go down the drain as fast as you pick up a bag of chips or reach for the ice cream.

That way the messiness isn't an issue; it goes down the drain as opposed to on my sink and / or clothes.

Baron frequently uses Down the Drain as an example for educators of what a good Internet project should be.

She puts the last peeled carrot down onto the pile of them stacked on the cutting board and watches the skin spin down the drain as she runs the disposal.

No matter whatever, every effort and investment goes down the drain as utter waste, if quality is found to be reduced.

Do not flush it in the toilet or wash it down a drain as ticks can survive such attempts at permanent disposal.

When we flushed the toilet instead of going down the drain as it should most of the water poured into our basement below thank goodness it's unfinished.

Not exact matches

But as you now know, I also have watched tens of thousands of dollars flush down the AdWords drain due to mismanaged campaigns.

It can be a tired feeling as your formerly pumped - up selling emotions trickle down the drain.

From completely unsubstantiated stories of critical supply hubs in Africa being drained of oil to another article exposing China as an oil hoarder, the trend is unmistakable — inventories are coming down.

By 2008, as the financial markets around the world melted down, his plans to save the world through enlightened entrepreneurship were circling the drain.

Oh and this just goes to show that CNN and the Christian Right are getting desperate to be taken seriously, as their world view of what Christmas should be is going down the drain... wave bye bye!

I have watched so many small colleges sucked down the drain by specious appeals to «liberal values» and «top drawer scholarship,» as though one can not find excellent teachers who are also Christians.

Today's world man has become with no value other than his organs if sold or stolen... so what is happening only proves that we are imposing marketing the wrongs against the rights... cultures and beliefs are going down the drain with all those values, morals, virtues some how turning into commotion among cultures and beliefs turning against each other misunderstanding each other or unaware of cultures way of living and beliefs to ease communication mutual understanding as a nation of mankind and a nation of faiths.

And what's going on is that the culture around us — including work that is draining, food that's easily available, and television shows made as attractive as some of the best minds in our country can make them — encourages us to plop down in front of the TV and spend two hours there.

I think I was converted to more natural cleaning products when I used half a tub of bicarb down the sink plughole followed 10 minutes later by half a bottle of vinegar and then a while later a kettle full of boiling water, and found it un-blocked the sink just as well as any previous drain unblocker I had tried AND without all the noxious fumes and damage to our septic tank!!

I've found that draining and rinsing canned black beans and cooking them down and mashing gives them creaminess without adding any extra fat (using the Bon Appetit Bean Tacos recipe as guide for spices).

I drained the rhubarb and cooked down the liquid as directed, and this makes a fabulous sauce to drizzle over the bread pudding.

Hi Pat ~ by draining the juices you'll end up with a thicker more flavorful sauce, as opposed to a more watered down sauce.

Drain the dates but reserve the water and add them to the food processor with just enough water (start with 2 tablespoons) and process until it's as smooth as you can get, scraping down the sides as needed.

I was ready to toss the remainder of the bean mixture down the drain, but my husband said he would eat it as he does not like to waste anything.

Another area that Conte will need to look at is his wing - back positions, as with busier fixture schedules, the likes of Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso will need to be rotated to stay fresh as running up and down the flanks two or three times a week will drain them.

There was a lengthy delay as workers went round and welded all the drain covers down, which took so long the first race of the weekend had to be cancelled.

It's draining we lost to spurs but more over than anything the way we lost was embarrasseing and shocking we were played off park most game that has concern us as fans spurs bullied us out played us hungry in every department it's has fall with wenger when is time when he just accepts game has passed him matter of fact it has passed us arsenal fans aswell no control in middle very poor from xhaka and elneny and again dembele bought mortgage in midfield he's the owner my god vieria would of knocked he's house down but look we're very poor and away from home sad really how wenger keeps he's job is just pure stupidity but not just with today's results over all away from home we're relegation side go get Enrique before Chelsea get him and let but of class and youth take our great club back before Tottenham spuds leave us so far behind we won't even complete this series lack lustrous club

Honestly don't believe there is any cause behind this, is just a short sighted and damaging way of getting AS half price for a year, oblivious to the fact that we're throwing 100 million down the drain.

The point secured here was arguably a minor triumph for Everton, a team whose top - flight form has drained as the campaign has progressed, given they played most of the second period a man down.

So that's where some of the # 50 million went — it certainly wasn't down the drain, as the United fans» sarcastic song goes, laughing at those who wrote him off so soon.

It is also important to try to make sure that your breast is as drained as possible (look for your milk streams to slow down or stop flowing when you are pumping to know it is getting drained) because the body will replenish what is drained.

As these products wash off our bodies or leave through our digestive waste process, they go down the drain and into rivers, streams, and open water.

Also feed your baby in varying positions: alternating sitting up, lying down, and using the football hold, in order to help drain the breast as much as possible.

The definition is just as it sounds: To pump or express breastmilk from your breasts and then to immediately dump it (down the drain, for instance) instead of saving it for your baby.

As I pumped round the clock, it pained me to just pour this milk down the sink drain.

Part of this has to do with what's called magical thinking, which is the same phenomenon that makes a two - year - old insist on only using a pink spoon (because food won't taste as good with another utensil) or results in her refusing baths since she is quite certain that children can disappear down that drain.

Most medicines shouldn't be flushed down the toilet or poured down the drain, as they could contaminate the water supply.

The ads ask the public and state legislators to demand Cuomo stop «washing his hands» of the state's responsibilities and to save services, such as public safety and those for people with cancer, mental illness, or developmental disabilities, «before they go down the drain.»

The Liberals are the dirtiest fighters at street level and if you had heard Chris Huhne shouting down Humphrys this morning on the Today programme for daring to suggest that Clegg was just as much a political insider as the other two, which he is, except worse as he slithered up the Brussels gravy drain, you would have heard their nasty side in the raw.

As a superfluid, atoms could flow down this channel, from the source to the drain.

Most car - detailing services continue to employ environmentally harmful products such as ammonia, volatile organic compounds and other chemical - based treatments that off - gas harsh pollutants inside the car as well as harm waterways when they are washed down storm drains

Every year, as waters drain down the Mississippi River basin, they accumulate 1.2 million pounds of atrazine before reaching the Gulf of Mexico.

An analogy would be the way in which water rotates around a vortex core as it drains down a plug hole.

Similar to how water in a bathtub forms a whirlpool as it goes down a drain, the gas and magnetic fields that feed a supermassive black hole swirl to form a rotating disk — a tangled spaghetti of magnetic field lines mixed into a broth of hot gas.

Should this happen, the H. erectus idea would go down the drain, and we would be looking at a possibility of another, yet unknown, migration of humans out of Africa perhaps as early as 2 million years ago.

The researchers dipped the strips in a bath of silicone oil, taking high - speed videos of the experiments, and then measured the amount of fluid that drained down as they pulled the strip back up.

Supermassive black holes lurk at the centers of galaxies, and when those galaxies collide, eventually their supermassive black holes will first slowly circle each other spiraling inward like water down a drain, then eventually merge as well.

So every night, as he got out of the bath, he dropped his washcloth over the drain, so the water wouldn't get cut as it swirled down the drain.

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