Sentences with phrase «nearly killed off»

Consider how the team nearly killed off the beloved Loader Bot in the first episode:

Firmly in the «so bad it's good» category, this very bizarre film which was completed posthumously after Stanley Kubrick died and nearly killed off the careers of both Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, as well as spelling the end of their real life marriage.

Strong storms that struck California in 2011 nearly killed off a population of oysters in the San Francisco Bay — probably by diluting the salt water.

Not exact matches

I took off in it by mistake and nearly killed myself.

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.

The causes of the crisis that nearly killed Bilinkis's company were many: a patronage system, started by Juan and Eva Perón in the 1950s, that grew into a bloated government bureaucracy; a corrupt privatization of government services that sold off some of the country's most valuable assets at fire - sale prices; and a reactionary monetary policy that exacerbated both of these problems.

Yes, the purpose of the flood was for god to let off a little steam by killing nearly every living thing, including the unborn, infants and animals.

He is in such straits because his magic curse, intended to kill the infant Harry Potter, rebounded off the baby and nearly killed him instead.

After that Brighton were out for the kill and Gross nearly made it two just 3 minutes later but Cech pulled off a great save for a change.

Neuer, who also had an outstanding season for Bayern, was excellent throughout Brazil, teetering on the edge of disaster yet always managing, just about, to avoid getting sent off for nearly killing a man in the final make his tackles.

Gun owners and gun - control advocates squared off Friday over a plan to ban «bump stocks» — the devices that allowed a shooter to fire faster and kill nearly 60 people last year outside a Las Vegas hotel.

Other widespread population buildups can be toxic — as in May when a bloom of dinoflagellates covered nearly 4,000 square miles off China with a so - called red tide that killed off millions of fish.

Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and, more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.

In these cases there's not nearly enough drug to kill off the hardiest bugs, while plenty is available to kill weaklings and bystanders, for the entire duration that the compounds are applied.

In the early evening of Tuesday, 1 April, a magnitude - 8.2 quake occurred off the coast of northern Chile, killing six people, generating 2 - meter - high waves, and prompting the evacuation of nearly 1 million coastal residents.

Last week, Norway's minister of agriculture and food gave the green light for hunters to kill off the entire herd in which three infected individuals were found, about 2000 reindeer, or nearly 6 % of the country's wild population.

Every year nearly 30,000 Americans die from an aggressive, gut - infecting bacteria called Clostridium difficile (C. difficile), which is resistant to many common antibiotics and can flourish when antibiotic treatment kills off beneficial bacteria that normally keep it at bay.

It first emerged on this continent in 1999, on Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia, where it ultimately infected more than 200 people, killing nearly 9 % of them.

Soon after T'Challa is crowned king in an exciting ceremony in which he's nearly killed (I'll say no more), he sets off for South Korea to take down a cackling madman arms merchant named Ulysses Klaue (motion capture king Andy Serkis, who is great in this «full - bodied» role), who has stolen an ancient Wakandan weapon made of the precious and all - powerful vibranium.

Did the movie need to kill off nearly everyone (except Mark Strong's Merlin, who's still there to provide tactical support) simply to introduce Statesman, which operates behind the cover of a successful whiskey brand, as opposed to Kingsman's posh Saville Row suit shop (the costumes are tip - top, as always).

Why it was bad: It took a great two first movies, not to mention an entire franchise, and killed off nearly every character in useless ways.

A bomb goes off on Baker Street and Sherlock is nearly killed, which doesn't faze him so much as it interests him.

He's killed off by the closing credits, an intertitle card informing us that nearly two decades after the release of his most famous work — after which he would never publish another book — he died of liver cancer (likely caused by years of alcoholism).

In addition to the terrifying Xenomorphs that kill off countless characters across the franchise, the Alien films are also known for introducing advanced android characters that can be nearly indistinguishable from humans.

After ripping off a few poker games, Joe decides he's going to rob a bank and run away with Emma, but Albert gets wind of it and double crosses poor Joe, nearly killing him.

Long story short, he ruled the universe, killed off half of its inhabitants, and (nearly 30 - year - old spoilers here) eventually ended up at the mercy of every superhero, supervillain, and cosmic entity.

There's also one of the very best human moments in the whole franchise, which is when Bourne sees off his reluctant accomplice (played by Julia Stiles), after she's had to change her identity after nearly being killed.

Unlucky number thirteen nearly killed him in 1970 when the transmission exploded, shearing off part of his right foot.

Book Two is nearly a twin of Book One, just some fresh faces to kill off.

In this large - format graphic novel, brothers Duffy and Sumo set off on an adventure into the belly of an ancient volcano, and their shocking discoveries nearly kill them.

His escapades range from almost getting shot by an angry boss and drunken landlord to falling off a flume while trying to dislodge a log jam and nearly getting killed by a mountain lion.

Maybe he should do something more constructive with his life like stopping HUMANS from making species go extinct like the Chinese killed off the white river dolphin and there is currently a North African lion that is nearly gone.

Abigail Kamleiter, director of the No Kill South Carolina initiative, said the statewide effort got off the ground in the last year and a half and that she's been pleased by the reception she received while visiting nearly every animal shelter, about 80, in the state.

Along with killing off black rats, the first phase of the eradication effort killed nearly 50 birds from 11 different species, Faulkner said.

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I can't think of a more heart - wrenching scene as a player when you're the one who has to kill off a character you've spent nearly two decades with.

Now that the world has gone awry and a global pandemic has killed off nearly all humanity, Deacon St. John will have to use his bounty hunter skills to survive in a world full of insane gangs and zombie - like creatures.

Since the aforementioned reveal, Nintendo has very clearly re-affirmed that the nearly 12 - year - old Virtual Console banner and its branding, first introduced on the Wii, have been killed off going into the future.

When I say nearly I mean you can sit on it and have a bear / cougar / wolf whack away at it and it'll take ages to die, while jumping off a cliff or shooting it in the head with a pistol will kill it instantly.

The brand nearly killed itself with a half - baked and depressingly shallow sequel but after many years off and a new console, Crackdown is coming back.

Pollution in China is so severe that it is causing the premature deaths of nearly a million Chinese citizens yearly, killing off species and fouling the air and water of much of the rest of the planet.

In the summer of 2013, SSA blocked illegal Japanese whaling operations off the coast of Antarctica to save nearly 1,000 whales from being killed.

In the wake of a Valentine's Day shooting that killed 17, a handful of Parkland, Fla., teenagers are on the cusp of pulling off what could be one of the largest marches in history with nearly 1 million expected in DC and more than 800 sister marches planned across every continent.

In the wake of a Valentine's Day shooting that killed 17, a handful of Parkland teenagers are on the cusp of pulling off what could be one of the largest marches in history with nearly 1 million expected in DC and more than 800 sister marches planned across every continent.