Sentences with word «kibosh»

(See related blog post by Chameides: «China Puts Kibosh on New Coal Plants (in Three Regions).»)

It begins with King's US Open win, which makes her the highest - earning women's tennis player in the world, but her efforts to get equal prize payouts for women fails, kiboshed by Jack Kramer (Bill Pullman), head of the United States Lawn Tennis Association.

As in, a quick trip to the mall gets quickly kiboshed when you spend 20 minutes circling the parking lot.

Few people realize that a new marriage automatically kiboshes any prior will, unless the will includes a special clause.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has a hang - up with in - flight calls, perhaps enough to put an official kibosh on them — and soon.

But as proven by the Finance Minister's kiboshed Q&A at the Cambridge Club, it's easy to lampoon.

I love the word kibosh..

Unswayed, the commish kiboshed the second appeal on April 26 and ruled that the five - game suspension would begin immediately - meaning, in effect, that Clemens would miss one scheduled start.

It was an abrupt kibosh on negotiations that concluded Friday with a framework for a legislative package that was said by sources to have included public financing of judicial campaigns, new Cuomo - appointed inspectors general at public universities as well as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

He also charged Cuomo of being chummy with rocker Jon Bon Jovi, whose music was kiboshed in many Buffalo bars for being the front - man for a Toronto - based group looking to buy the Bills.

In July 2012 91 Conservative MPs voted against Lords reform, defying a three - line whip and kiboshing Nick Clegg's dream of reform to the upper chamber.

In the Spirit world where evil prevails, Casper must use all of his ghostly powers to defeat Kibosh's wicked plot to rule all.

For example, California moved two years ago to allow student test data to be tied into teacher performance as part of the development of the now - kiboshed CALPADS and CALTIDES data systems.

The other model — putting the school under the CommPACT schools initiative controlled by the Nutmeg State's NEA and AFT affiliates — would kibosh Parent Power by eliminating the school governance council already in place; it would be no better than being under the Commissioner's Network.

The latest version of Kline's plan also won't outright eliminate Title VII programs — including funding for traditional district programs serving American Indian and Alaska Native children — as he attempted to do last year; apparently his colleagues Don Young (who chairs a House subcommittee charged with overseeing education and other issues involving Native communities) and others with substantial Native populations in their districts have convinced Kline to kibosh original plan.

For example, California moved two years ago to allow student test data to be tied into teacher performance as part of the development of the now - kiboshed CALTIDES data systems.

Meanwhile the AFT has spent plenty this past fiscal year to kibosh efforts by reformers to expand school choice.

For example, school choice groups such as the Center for Education Reform tout multiple authorizers as a key to expanding the number of charters serving communities and a way to get around traditional districts who want to kibosh choice.

Even as the likelihood of passage remains as unlikely as it was back in March, when House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline's plan was kiboshed amid opposition from movement conservatives within the Republican majority, there are still some who think that the version under consideration now could pass if Kline's colleague, Lamar Alexander, can get his plan into conferencing.

The Pro 2 SE's active noise cancelling (ANC) technology can put a serious kibosh on an otherwise noisy situation.

Initial plans included a second vaulted ceiling, but existing ductwork kiboshed the idea.

(My nephew's dad also recalled my Cosmopolitan years when I asked him to wear a blindfold for a story about feeling fake and real women's boobs to see if he could tell the difference — my sister kiboshed it — and the time I asked him to pose for a 50 naked men story... He was give permission to do that one and appeared in a national magazine holding a Vegemite jar in front of his privates...)

Yesterday, Barnes & Noble put the final kibosh on the future of the NOOK by giving customers a week to salvage their purchase content.

While Michael Fassbender «s plan to make a western earlier this year with Lynne Ramsay was kiboshed when that project hit a few rocky patches, leading to the exit of both the director and actor, it looks like the thesp has gotten back on the horse.

A: Few people realize that a new marriage automatically kiboshes any prior will, unless the will specifically includes a clause stating that it was made «in contemplation of a future marriage.»

In the past few years, two other high - profile deals — one for MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) and the other for Potash Corp. — were kiboshed by the feds.

And MailChimp, a purveyor of email newsletters, put the kibosh on dispatches that self - interestedly hawk virtual moneys.

Don't put the kibosh on your dreams of a beachside retirement in an exotic locale.

To entice people to forgo summer vacation or put the kibosh on job hunting, teams are equipped with no - strings - attached $ 7,500 to assist in launching their ventures.

It's part of the traditional Republican canon to say that too many federal and state regulations put the kibosh on business growth.

AMC put the kibosh on the whole concept of texting - friendly movie theaters in a statement posted on the AMC Theatres Facebook page.

South Korea put the kibosh on ICOs, too, and has threatened to levy major taxes on exchanges.

In March, reports emerged that Microsoft was mulling over an $ 8 billion bid to snatch up the red - hot, $ 3.8 billion work chat app Slack — but Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates put the kibosh on that before an offer could be made.

(Earlier this year, it put the kibosh on items like wraps.)

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is currently working out the details on how to implement the law, and the decisions it makes are critical: If the regulations are too burdensome, they could put the kibosh on crowdfunding for franchises before it even starts.

Tang et al. argue that the answer to this challenge is a strong board to vet the CEO's deviant strategy and put the kibosh on the doomed ones.

Massachusetts put the kibosh on the practice in their state.

argue that the answer to this challenge is a strong board to vet the CEO's deviant strategy and put the kibosh on the doomed ones.

A possible snag right now is that the Securities and Exchange Commission has put the kibosh on ICOs of all sorts following a wave of speculative mania and blatant fraud involving tokens.

Without a counterbalance, the sector would continue to grow unchecked; China decided to put the kibosh on the funding mechanism before the space could get any more bonkers.

The GOP's proposed tax overhaul is putting the kibosh on your favorite deductions and credits.

McDonald's has decided to put the kibosh on its monthly same - store sales data dump.

But the Trump administration has put the kibosh on that plan, withdrawing $ 5 million in ad funding less than a week before the signup deadline.

Kiboshing this deal, he says, «clearly would not advance that.»

On the same day the Obama Administration put the kibosh on the Keystone XL pipeline, two engineering contracts totaling $ 12.2 billion were awarded to two U.S. companies for work in the Alberta oil sands.