Sentences with phrase «never got it off the ground»

If entrepreneurs sat around waiting for funding to arrive, the majority of ideas would never get off the ground.

Most of these ideas never get off the ground, however; we decide it's not really worth the time and effort to create the perfect dog toothbrush, clothes hanger or juice squeezer.

So how to explain the seemingly confounding detail that when MAD decided to crack the conspicuously high - rise New York City market in 2009, it never got off the ground floor.

But the plans never got off the ground due to the collapse of the real estate market in Arizona.

Biggest failure: We spent a year attempting to create a new human potential oriented internet portal, and we never got it off the ground.

A Low - Cost iPhone Could Mean A Deal Between Apple And China Mobile (Bloomberg) China Mobile and Apple have been trying to reach an agreement for years, but the high cost of the iPhone and China Mobile's unwillingness to provide a subsidy for the phone meant that a deal never got off the ground.

Without paying customers, your startup will never get off the ground.

If they did that, the companies would never get off the ground.

By the way I don't think the host is real, so again your analogy never gets off the ground.

However, he may never get off the ground.

Southern looked outside the family to replace Richardson; former Phoenix Cardinals and Kansas City Chiefs running back Stump Mitchell took over in 2010, but his tenure never got off the ground.

The 25 - year - old was linked with a move to Anfield back in 2014, but the deal never got off the ground and he ended up staying with the La Liga side.

Reds» boss Jürgen Klopp tried to bring the 28 - year - old Serbia international to Anfield not long after he took over from Brendan Rodgers but a proposed transfer never got off the ground and we ended up taking Steven Caulker on loan instead.

And whilst it's a shame that so many young players will never get off the ground with Liverpool, that's just the nature of football.

Sadly, the money - making potential of these items pales in comparison to the magazines / cookie dough venture, so my idea never got off the ground.

Other potential challengers for Mr. Donovan never got off the ground.

It never got off the ground.

This invited the rejoinder that if the foundations are badly planned and badly built the house never gets off the ground.

Unsurprisingly, that idea never got off the ground,» Reif tweeted.

Christie answered the questions, but saw his popularity plummet and his presidential campaign never got off the ground.

Eimicke was also involved in a Syracuse University project that Cuomo wanted to fund, but it never got off the ground because of opposition from Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

«If certification of spacecraft was demanded, as you would for, say, a Boeing 787, in all probability the industry would never get off the ground,» said George Whitesides, Virgin Galactic CEO, in an interview before the crash.

That the AFVG never got off the ground, and that Zuckerman was the origin of many a subsequent ministerial misjudgment, seemed not to diminish his enormous influence whatsoever.

The satellite, called Deep Space Climate Observatory, was once scheduled for launch from a space shuttle in 2000 but has never gotten off the ground.

Some of my dreams have come to fruition, while others never got off the ground.

So the relationship never got off the ground.

Wired is in some ways a sincere attempt to deal with the material, but it is such an ungainly and hapless movie, so stupidly written, so awkwardly directed and acted, that it never gets off the ground.

The movie never gets off the ground.

Spielberg is the master of spectacle, so there is plenty of eye - popping action to look at, it's just so hollow, and the characters so shallow, and the world so unexamined that RPO never gets off the ground.

Back in 2005, a feature film was announced, but the project never got off the ground.

Blade star Wesley Snipes attempted to make a Black Panther movie with Marvel in the 90s, which ultimately never got off the ground.

If I remember correctly, Christian Bale was slated to take this part himself but the project never got off the ground.

He also considered «Man & Wife» last spring, but that film, with a plot about a husband who's a hitman and his wife who finds out, seems done to death and it's probably best for everyone that it never got off the ground.

While Robert Rodriguez talked for some time about remaking Barbarella, the kooky kitch sci - fi romp starring Jane Fonda and the Orgasmatron, his movie never got off the ground.

To Campbell's credit, the film has some impressive action sequences, but it's ultimately the flimsy and derivative story by Robert King, screenwriter for such flops as CUTTHROAT ISLAND and RED CORNER, that handcuffs Campbell with material that could never get off the ground in the first place.

Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill clash in a bid to launch a new superhero franchise, but Zack Snyder's shoddy adventure never gets off the ground

Pixels Adam Sandler's lazy acting means that this intriguing idea never gets off the ground.

So it's unfortunate that Schrader's Touch, based on Leonard's novel of the same name, never gets off the ground, especially because it has all the elements of a good time — bouncy atmosphere, an ensemble cast, playful humor, and, befitting Schrader's thematic obsessions, a cheeky religious story.

Now Superman Lives, the man of steel's adventure which failed to take off, is once again being resurrected, this time in a doc exploring why the film never got off the ground.

Hollow Man never gets off the ground, soon becoming boring, until finally falling completely apart with a final half hour of unpleasant images and ridiculous booga - booga horror clichés.

Wesley Snipes reveals director John Singleton's idea for a Black Panther movie that never got off the ground in the 1990s.

Too often, my efforts to personalize around academic - readiness levels never got off the ground because the material itself felt irrelevant and lacking in any real - world application.

Although the school is now a success, at times it seemed like it would never get off the ground.

In the end, one of the most cherished elements on the reform agenda never got off the ground, namely, the right of school principals to override the job protection of long - serving teachers.

It never got off the ground.

sadly, B&T's digital movie plans never got off the ground.

I don't know how it will do — whether it will float on the wings of my earlier success or never get off the ground, but I'm willing to take the chance as I believe in this novel.

Finally, if you can not define your book's Audience and Platform, your book will never get off the ground.

You might have an awesome marketing plan for your book but it will never get off the ground if you can't finish writing it.