Sentences with phrase «last of a dying»

To say he was the last of a dying breed is almost too on - the - nose.

If the Giants somehow make it through their best starting pitchers getting raptured and contend for the NL West, will they be the last of a dying breed?

The last of this dying breed was John Ravitz, who represented the Upper East Side in the Assembly between 1991 and 2002, when he lost a special election for state senate and walked away from public office.

The last of a dying breed.

i am what you call last of a dying breed.

Charles and his mother, Mary (Alice Krige), are the last of a dying breed who are able to stay alive by feeding on the life force of young women.

Ben (Sheridan), Carter (L. Miller), Augie (J. Miller) are the last of a dying bunch, the scouts.

Along with John Carpenter, Eastwood remains one of the last of a dying breed of meat - and - potatoes filmmakers, descended from Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh.

Long time friends Ben (Tye Sheridan), Carter (Logan Miller) and Augie (Joey Morgan) are out on a camping trip as the last of a dying breed at their high school.

Logan and Charles may be the last of a dying breed.

As the last of a dying breed — Muppet fans — when the opportunity arrives to visit star - studded Los Angeles, they don't hesitate in touring around the old muppet theater, which they find has long been abandoned and, with its contract about to expire, is in grave danger, as business tycoon Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) is eager to collect on the oil beneath it.

Yep, the LC 500 is the last of a dying breed.

John Grady Cole and his good friend (and spiritual brother) Billy are the last of a dying breed, young cowboys hanging onto the life of a rancher in Texas.

Like the Kindle 3, it is the last of a dying breed.

VA financing is the last of a dying breed of flexible and aggressive home loan programs.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may be the last of a dying breed of disc - based video game consoles.

I'm the last of a dying breed,» they might be resistant to retraining and infuse your workplace with a negative attitude.

HYPE Off Life is for the people... The last of a dying breeds.

I must have been the last of a dying breed.

The last of a dying breed.

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Chavez sat three seats behind the window that smashed and partially sucked out the passenger who later died and «prayed and feared for her life» as she contacted her children and prepared to die, according to the lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

«One of his repeated phrases was «the best,»» David Jr. recalls of his dad, who died last year at age 101.

And in an interview first granted to the Mexican press and picked up by The Guardian, Yorke said: «This is is like the last fart, the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.»

Even though so many others died around the same time, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force General John J. Pershing declared that Gunther would be known as the last man killed in action in the war.

But Gunter wasn't the only troop to die in that last hour of World War I.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faced student criticism and then abruptly walked out of her own press conference during a visit on Wednesday to the Parkland, Fla. high school where 17 died in a mass shooting last month.

Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.

President Donald Trump's staff did not want him to attend last year's White House Correspondents» Dinner, because they were «terrified that he would die up there in front of a seething and contemptuous audience.»

Not all powerful business families implode: When Paul Desmarais died last year, his sons, Paul Jr. and André, succeeded in dividing responsibilities over the vast financial services firm with little evidence of acrimony.

Of 60,000 adoptees from Russia to the U.S., only 19 have died from abuse or neglect in the last 20 years, according to The Christian Science Monitor.

Sam Shepard of The Right Stuff and Black Hawk Down died last week after a previously undisclosed battle with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara died last month in Tokyo at the age of 105.

A new study by consultancies BBMG and GlobeScan has found there are four consumer categories around sustainability retail decisions: the die - hard «yes» sustainability - conscious shoppers, whom they call «Advocates,» the «no» shoppers (there are two categories here, the «Practicals,» who prioritize price and quality of a product and look at sustainability last, and the «Indifferents»), and a fourth category: the «Aspirationals.»

Some are in Rochester, New York, for the funeral Friday of longtime Rep. Louise Slaughter, who died last week.

One year after Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs died, the world saw one of his last passion projects quietly launched in the Dutch shipyard of custom yacht builder Feadship.

It took years for Radiohead to agree to put its music on Spotify in 2016, after frontman Thom Yorke once called it «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.»

Ailes, who resigned from his positions as chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network amid sexual harassment allegations last year, has died.

(There was also speculation last year that Disney may try to acquire Vice outright, but those rumors have died down of late.)

While she was finishing her last year of college, her mother died suddenly of lung cancer.

What we are seeing in the 2016 presidential election, therefore, may be the last, dying gasp of protectionism.

While some of the rhetoric around trade tariffs on China has died down over the last couple of weeks, the prospect of a trade war has not.

Scalia, who died last February, was a leading proponent of originalism, an approach that seeks to resolve constitutional disputes by focusing on the document's text, its historical context and the framers» intentions.

Harrison's wife of more than 50 years, Linda King Harrison, died last fall.

And last year, Li & Fung was responsible for some garments produced at the Tazreen Fashions factory, when 112 workers died in November in a fire after many of them were ordered to continue working even though alarms had sounded.

But in a meeting last week, scientists warned the advisory committee that oversees the plan that the goal of improving the reef environment is unrealistic after back - to - back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, contributing to the worst coral die - off ever recorded.

People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas,» at one conference last year.

Over the last six years, more than nine of 10 journalists were killed in countries that scored lower than 45 on the index, and one in five journalists who died was covering a story about corruption.

Sons Paul Jr. and André marked the start of a new era this year — overseeing Power Corp., the international financial services conglomerate, without the man who founded it: Paul Sr., who died late last year.

It has shown promise in metastatic melanoma, renal, and lung cancers — the last of which represents a huge opportunity for pharmaceutical companies (160,000 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer this year, compared with 10,000 from melanoma).

Bad luck threw the company's external search for a new chief executive off track when the principal of the executive search firm it had hired died of a terminal illness, obliging it to hire a second firm last summer.