Sentences with phrase «from pipe dream»

And now that the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is coming to Switch, the former PlayStation star's presence is far from a pipe dream.

It isn't, of course, and the Hubble's development from pipe dream to reality was an especially long and bumpy ride.

Along the way, the hope is that the project will transform the technology of neuroscience — in the same way that the Human Genome Project (HGP) helped take genome - sequencing from pipe dream to everyday reality — and ultimately revolutionise our understanding of brain function.

Enabled by REDC funding, the Central New York Biotech Accelerator at Loguen's Crossing has gone from a pipe dream to a reality — and it is now helping biotech and biomedical companies from the region and around the globe bring emerging technologies into the marketplace.

«We are proud of the fact that we took permanent affordability from a pipe dream to something that people saw as realistic and implementable.»

Here's the process of making all - day McDonald's breakfast go from a pipe dream to a national reality.

By having a team charged with stocking the top of the funnel, other members weeding out the real from the pipe dreams, and led by someone who can close the deal, the sales funnel becomes a real tool that executives can use for planning.

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But at the same time, here in the real world keeping kids away from gadgets feels like a pipe dream.

This will save you from overspending based on pipe dreams that may never come true.

Of course, Google will never be able to stop some small town kid with a sluggish internet connection from trying to load all seventeen of his favorite music videos all at once, so eliminating buffering is a pipe dream.

It may be tempting to think of the paperless office as a failed pipe dream left over from the «90s.

A: The pipe dreams of eight million barrels of oil a day from the oil sands are almost certainly never going to be achieved.

The five - year - old experimental lab marked Google's first significant excursion from software and first investment in futuristic pipe - dream projects, its moonshots.

Pig learns from Zebra that transhumanism is a pipe dream: Secondhand Smokette insists this cartoon is really about me.

Do you agree, or is this just a pipe dream from Xhaka?

False hope and pipe dreams are all we can seem to muster from within our junior ranks.

What had been considered a pipe dream was now very much reality, and they very nearly made it four seven minutes later when Chiellini, who had been up for a corner, sent in a cross from the left that was at a perfect level for Mandzukic to finish his hat trick only to be headed out at the last moment by a Madrid defender.

From the outside looking in, this is a white, middle - class movement trying to educate other populations about what is good for them while ignoring the structural inequalities that make breastfeeding a pipe dream or a total impossibility for less privileged families.

While again hundred thousands of Egyptians show their defiance of the old regime at Cairo's Tahrir Square and worker protests have broken out in several Egyptian cities, Washington and London still follow a pipe dream of a gradual transition from Hosni Mubarak to a more or less democratic, yet by all means secular new government.

Zac's passion and plans for house building - and emphasis on «ownership» not just rental schemes — earned support from a diverse group of voters, united in a desire for ownership to be a reality not a political pipe - dream.

But like many upstate residents, Gravitt wants results from the enormous investment, including more training for real jobs — not pipe dreams.

If you don't have your eye on the prize from the beginning, and work your ass off, and get lucky along the way, those high - level big pharma research jobs are a pipe dream.

I know, it's a bit of a pipe dream, but it comes from my deep rooted love of playing hostess.

So between the unlikeable characters, the unfunny script, the painfully apparent product placement (you'll have a hankering for Hooters by the time the end credits arrive) and the fact that all of this actually came from the director of The Wedding Crasher, we're now living in a time when even a watchable Adam Sandler movie, let alone a good one, has become something of a pipe - dream.

Lost World gets credit for being a more involved game that some of its predecessors, despite an occasional fascination with bumpers it's anything but automated, but Lost World pulling inspiration from a masterpiece like Mario Galaxy is ultimately a pipe dream.

As it turns out, Brooke harbors a pipe dream of opening a restaurant in Williamsburg, and schemes to raise money from a wealthy old acquaintance (the reliably goofy Michael Chernus).

The dreams those principals expressed range from the very practical — the «basics» that many schools still lack — to pipe dreams that will never happen.

Because of this, as of right now, it is a carnal pipe dream for those teachers who don't want to «do» their jobs and their techie buddies who intend to get rich from it.

I changed my major from Piano Performance to English and realized that my pipe dream might have a shot at materializing.

If your Aunt Sophie and best friend from middle school are the only people who bought your last title, you probably feel like becoming a self - published author is a pipe dream.

While early retirement may be a pipe dream for most of us, every once in a while I hear from readers who have pulled it off and are living almost tax - free on dividend income alone.

Furthermore, those with student loans from private lenders virtually have no chance of reconciling their debt in bankruptcy, making this a pipe dream for the majority of borrowers.

Since 2014 and throughout more than 300 episodes, they have shared lessons learned from their own travels about packing light, making the most of frequent flier miles and how to make travel less of an expensive «pipe dream» and more of an affordable reality.

Everybody saw it coming, but it's gone from being a pipe dream to now becoming a reality for the state of Nevada.

Perhaps the core is inches from completion and content will soon be piped in willy - nilly and with joyous abandon, and the dream realised.

The fact that League of Legends numbers are from a global audience should be noted, but there's no arguing that eSports is already well on its way to achieving Mike Sespo's pipe dream of just a couple years ago.

I don't imagine Nintendo will get permission from Wizards of the Coast to do this game again though, so it's basically a pipe dream.

That's a pipe dream of course, but I think that'd be better than just removing it from the store.

But with such a large sum of money owed to American citizens, Cuban lenders insisting on immunity and American museums not wanting to make light of outstanding claims against the Cuban government, a timely exhibition of works from Cuba may be a pipe dream.

Here are articles describing the kinds of efforts I'm thinking about — all of which are very different than simply catching and compressing CO2 from smokestacks and pumping it into the ground (a process that remains a pipe dream at anything approaching the necessary scale):

Mitchell put it all together, and by the time he sold his company to Devon Energy in 2002, the idea of extracting natural gas from shale was about to turn from technological pipe dream to very real economic powerhouse.»

Like the fact that mercury emissions from coal fired - power plants continues to rise and that carbon capture and storage remains an elusive pipe dream that will take another 40 years to deploy on a commercial scale.

In brief, Joe said that Hydrogen as a substitute for gas (petrol) won't work, mainly because of the distribution costs, but from this he extended to suggest that the Hydrogen economy is a pipe - dream.

From the feds comes news that wind power had its best - ever year last year, while from The University of California - Berkeley, an analysis suggests solar energy could supply up to a third of the electrical energy used in the Western U.S. Neither comes close to meaning that fossil - or radioactive - powered sources are going away — the solar energy proposal puts the effective date at 2050 — but then they aren't pipe dreams, eitFrom the feds comes news that wind power had its best - ever year last year, while from The University of California - Berkeley, an analysis suggests solar energy could supply up to a third of the electrical energy used in the Western U.S. Neither comes close to meaning that fossil - or radioactive - powered sources are going away — the solar energy proposal puts the effective date at 2050 — but then they aren't pipe dreams, eitfrom The University of California - Berkeley, an analysis suggests solar energy could supply up to a third of the electrical energy used in the Western U.S. Neither comes close to meaning that fossil - or radioactive - powered sources are going away — the solar energy proposal puts the effective date at 2050 — but then they aren't pipe dreams, either.

Climate scientists and environmentalists have criticized carbon capture and storage (CCS), the main enabling technology for zero - emissions coal, as a «pipe dream» that distracted attention and resources from already existing solutions.

Dogz anything is possible if you have deep enough pockets, apart from the cost of the nuclear reactors and desalination plants, factor in the rest of the infastructure and it is a pipe dream.

They are motivated by a desire to jump into one of the world's lowest - risk oil investments and to quench the exploding energy demands of Asian markets — even though getting the product from Canada to Asia is just a pipe dream now.

The school's unusual effort to protect them from their own «unhealthful food choices» makes that a bit of a pipe dream, however.

Even though recovering any amount from the respondent might be no more than a pipe dream in the circumstances, the amount set in this case would seem to lack any deterrent effect and is hardly proportionate to the nature of the breach.

Their self - sufficiency is taken from them, and their dreams are crushed by fire, theft, even by something as simple and everyday as a broken pipe.