Sentences with phrase «kiboshed calpads»

Aragorn, Bilbo, Sam,... I kiboshed Mordor as too bleak for something so cute.

(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...)

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

I'd kiboshed the wedding night hotel too.

In November 2009, after the OFT beat the banks in the High Court and Court of Appeal, a shock technical ruling from the Supreme Court overturned this and kiboshed the OFT's hopes in the test case; soon after the OFT decided it wouldn't continue, even based on new arguments.

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.

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.

The Cannes news made us wonder if Harvey Weinstein, who is signed up to distribute the film, had weighed in and kiboshed those original plans.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm hopeful that the global economic contraction that is occurring will put a kibosh on the plans to expand the oilsands, for the sake of our children and grandchildren whose world is being poisoned and raped for a few more years of fossil fuel - based «growth».

If it does go through this highly populated area, the first spill will kibosh it like the Exxon Valdez which still is not cleaned up and never will be.

Yet the gradual rate hikes plus the steady reduction in the balance sheet could eventually put the kibosh on this bull.

Based on the results of the agency's investigation, the SEC determined that MUN tokens were securities as per Section 2 (a)(1) of the Securities Act and put the kibosh on the offering.

Further, if Alphabet can't prove Uber is using those misappropriated trade secrets, it could hurt their case for a preliminary injunction that would theoretically put the kibosh on some of Uber's self - driving efforts during the duration of the lawsuit.

Putting the final kibosh on religion to include Mormonism and therefore this blog.

For a short time yesterday and today, both YouTube and Facebook put the kibosh on material for Kirk Cameron's Unstoppable (not to be confused with Denzel Washington's Unstoppable.)

And Luke sets the story straight in the above «kiboshing» of the lamb and lion prophecy in Isaiah 11 and Isaiah 65.

Then we have the situation where to the best of our knowledge Abraham and Moses did not exist putting the kibosh on the OT.

Putting the kibosh /» google» on all religion and its lack of relevance to preventling violence in less than ten seconds: Priceless!!!

What if the preist only appeared to bless his rosary, when in fact he actually put the kibosh on them?

I love the word kibosh..

I mean it's nice but by the 25th we usually put a kibosh on the fourth side dish.

He seems to think that the Blues, whether due to Mourinho or the owner Roman Abramovich, would put the kibosh on this transfer bid.

While multiple inquiries to multiple bat manufacturers through multiple methods of communication went unreturned, it should be noted that Easton, at the very least, made it look as if they've tried to put the kibosh on this.

They too had a Double Header scheduled before Mother Nature put the kibosh on Softball..

The only downside of this move it that it could put the kibosh on the Keita Baldé Diao deal.

If enough people did this, they might decide to put the kibosh on the company supplying the fake flips.

Yet Evan, who I believe has been a pretty smart and grounded adviser in all things romantic in general (he was an instrumental voice in Lori Gottlieb's 2011 book, Marry Him: The Case for Mr. Good Enough), put the kibosh on her idea:

The report takes Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver to task for failing to put the kibosh on the AEG contract at the outset, instead adding conditions that he knew would tank the deal in the long term.

Let the government publish the evidence that showed the scheme not being best value for money and the alternative evidence used to put the kibosh on scrapping it, and let the public decide.

However, in practice the expenses saga appears to have put the kibosh on Thomas» original theme.

Schumer also urged Amtrak to put the kibosh on any discussion of trying to make economy seats smaller to squish in more passengers.

Bloomberg put the kibosh on that with a successful push to extend term limits and seek re-election himself.

«Trucks stay double parked for hours because there is no incentive not to,» said Assemblyman David Weprin, who is co-sponsoring a state bill to put the kibosh on the program.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo put the kibosh on the Senate Democrats» proposed property tax cap circuit breaker, which has also been endorsed by a number of taxpayer advocacy groups.

They went further downhill when Miner put the kibosh on plans developed secretly by Cuomo and Mahoney for a new Syracuse University sports arena in the city.

The comptroller also rather surprisingly put the kibosh on the push by his former colleagues in the Assembly Democratic conference to bring back member items.

«Howie Hawkins represents the kind of strong progressive politics this club has historically stood for; such as when, with the aid of Eleanor Roosevelt, it helped put the kibosh on the last vestige of Tammany Hall style corruption in New York in the early 1960s.