Sentences with phrase «false starts»

The film had many false starts with funding issues, money was never raised to start the project.

After several false starts and failed negotiations, the No. 3 and 4 wireless carriers officially unveiled their plans to merge over the weekend.

If you actually convince the opponent to jump early is a 5 - yard false start penalty.

She says that she has a dozen false starts on her computer.

You could have several false starts before the actual race started, which meant delays for both the paid attendance as well as TV viewers.

Addressing the 99 questions it contains will save you time and help you avoid false starts and wasted effort.

It took 56 years, and there were a couple of false starts along the way.

If you don't have a strategy, don't false start.

With more than a dozen false starts, the technology has yet to be demonstrated on a commercial scale.

While the inevitable climb of mortgage rates has had false starts over the past couple of years, the recent hikes could be the first phase of a long - term trend.

I'm feeling a bit anxious — after my cookie baking failure false start last week, I'm hesitant to test new recipes out on the group.

After numerous false starts (i.e., withdrawing without defeating all the enemy waves), I was finally able to finish the missions, which was admittedly very satisfying.

One evening, after one false start too many, I just gave up.

The 2003 rule was a modification of a rule that allowed every starter a single false start.

Dating can be a series of false starts hiccups and challenging situations.

False starts often happen when you start dating someone.

With enough false starts and doubling back, I finally covered the main floor, and then I fell into the rooms above and below.

In 1988, the work False Start, sold at auction for $ 7 million, breaking the record for the highest price paid for the work by a living artist.

Below are six important tips that we hope will make the process smoother by eliminating frustrating false starts and unnecessary bumps in the road.

With a few false starts, I finally broke the habit of vegetable oils, and was encouraged by some weight loss.

After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically.

Eventually, perhaps, and often after many false starts and wrong turns, the true seeker will find something.

After several false starts, the producers returned to the old text.

Granted, the drug discovery business has had false starts before.

Now he's back at Torrey again, hoping to avoid the ignominy and injury of last year's false start at this course.

If LSU had been called for false starting instead of an illegal shift on the previous play, that would've been game over before all of this.

After so many false starts in New Orleans, it's a joy to see Gordon thrive with the league's best team.

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It's taken a long time (there were a few false starts with financing, and the film had a long post-production period of nearly two years), but it's certainly worth the wait.

There's an undeniable realism to their courtship, full of awkward moments and false starts as Elio confronts his budding and confusing sexuality.

There were a series of false starts when approval was received from one agency or official, only to hit another roadblock later.

Contained within this print, and economically packed into one plane, are a slew of Johns's signature motifs: a stencil of cartographical shapes alluding to his signature maps, a section of colorful splotches recalling masterpieces like False Start (which sold for $ 80 million in 2006), and trompe l'oeil touches like the tape and curling corners of the composition and the faux bois of the embedded frame.

After false starts in troubled productions (The Thing; Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter; A Good Day to Die Hard) and great work in little - seen pics (Death Proof; Smashed; Alex of Venice), the wait is over for patient fans that have known her A-list status was inevitable.

The false - start rule was initially altered at the behest of broadcasters who disliked being at the mercy of delays that resulted from multiple false starts in sprints and hurdles.

After nine years, the sum of the fizzles and false starts led her to look elsewhere.

(The previous rule, in effect from»03 through» 09, charged the first false start to the field and disqualified an individual for the next one.)

At Pre, officials ignored several times the rule following false starts that would have DQ'd big - name runners, including reigning 200 - meter world champion Allyson Felix.

Sep 11, After a few love false starts, Khlo Kardashian finally has her Prince Charming NBA player Tristan Thompson.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who opposed the BCRA, expressed her disappointment in overall strategy after an initial false start on the bill.

In the middle of all of this, the Falcons never forgot how to run the ball, or play offensive line without false starting.

UM stalls out in UW territory (a first - down false start basically dooms the drive before it starts), then pins the Badgers at their 10 with a punt.

Technically Hart won, but he pretty clearly false started.

After the race, Bolt acknowledged his slow start, admitting that he «didn't want to false start again,» like he did at the 2011 World Championships.

They then false started, stalled the drive, and extended Tennessee's 12 - quarter offensive TD drought.

After similar false starts with a few more students, I ended up being reluctant to work with undergraduate researchers at all — until a new student helped me realize what is required to mentor undergraduates, and the rewards it can bring.

It's for this reason that, as much as we all enjoy tracking the blossoming arcs and occasional false starts of Oscar season, to obsess too single - mindedly over awards potential can be to sell both ourselves and the movies short — whether by putting inappropriate pressure on films that may find a different path to an audience, or by overlooking niche films that may have more staying power than today's piece of prestige studio bait.