Sentences with phrase «final death throe»

Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS - the mobile OS which could have replaced native apps with HTML - based apps - a final death throe in the mobile OS wars.

I suspect that David Cameron will preside over the final death throes of a union that has gone beyond its shelf life.

Also evident are concentric rings around the object, the result of material being periodically tossed out in the star's final death throes.

They tease the fabled Battle of Jakku - the battle which takes place 29 years before the events of The Force Awakens, as the Empire suffers its final death throes.

But, de-equitizing partners, cutting support staff, raising rack rates to counter discounts, and freezing summer associate programs do nothing to address the underlying problem that the old legal model is in it's final death throes.

Not exact matches

As opposed to Novitas Mundi, now American pragmatism is the true prelude to the thinking now occurring for the first time, and most immediately so the uniquely American theology of the death of God, a theology which while voiding pragmatism is the last gasp of modernity, and it in these death throes that a final apocalyptic thinking is born.

We are witnessing the death throes of prohibition while its advocates make a desperate and frantic last stand, their final frenzy.

We then fade to a long, extended shot of a prison janitor sweeping away the piss and feces of the prisoners that's flowed out into a prison hallway, then see extended scenes of Sands in the throes of dying: Scenes of bed sores, blood in toilet bowls, delusions, hearing loss, and then a final vision, near death, of a young Sands running in the woods.