Sentences with phrase «never got off»

In 2002, HUD tried to foster a package approach with a single price, but participation would have been voluntary and it never got off the ground.

Those BC: UK scholastic textbook systems, to the best of my remembering never got off the ground.

Take for instance Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic, and Bitcoin Unlimited: a few alternative bitcoin softwares that tried to enact similar changes but never got off the ground.

Some were always a joke; others became a joke; and others were simply cursed with unfortunate names which meant they never got off the ground.

Eunoia never got off the ground as its founders had different views about how the company should be run, according to Allen.

This appeal never got off the ground.

Plans to revitalize the site as the Atiritari housing project never got off the ground for a variety of reasons — cost of environmental remediation being one, and lack of a burning platform another.

(Just as a United States of Africa or Arabia has never got off the ground.)

Looking back in 1967 he observed that «the desire for a National Art, to show the world how great Canadians were, never got off the ground.

A rock, paper, scissors bonus game is also described, but there is no trace of it in source code or art, so it seems that the idea never got off the ground.

Target never got off the ground in Canada, and from day one, had constant supply issues....

Unfortunately, the Intavision concept never got off the ground, eventually joining the pile of failed video game - to - television projects.

Did you think it was sort of «game over» at that point, that you couldn't compete or that your project would never got off the ground?

However, that game never got off the ground because Disney reportedly had no faith in the studio to make anything other than racing games.

The «Galaxy Tab» in every room idea never got off the ground, since you would never put something in a guest's room that has about a 98 % chance of frustrating them.

You'll save yourself a boatload of time and uncertainty not to mention downright frustration spent wondering why someone else's book zoomed to the top of the charts while yours never got off the ground.»

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

Like I said, I never got off the ice, but I sure had fun on it.

It never got 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If I remember correctly, Christian Bale was slated to take this part himself 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.

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

So the relationship never got off the ground.

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

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 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.

VanBuren says there was a lack of commitment to the project, so it never got off of 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.

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

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

It never got off the ground.

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

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.

At Fulham last Saturday, I saw Shay Given, who never got off the bench at City last season and wasn't allowed to move, give a majestic display, which saved his mediocre team from almost certain second half defeat.

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.

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.

But Buffone never got off.

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.

Lovable Yankees coach Don Zimmer, who has had more hard objects bounce off his skull than Gilligan, was on the bench for the perfect games by Don Larsen (1956) and David Cone -LRB-» 99) and never got off in between.

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.

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

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

No matter how hard they tried, for three years and 98 episodes, the seven castaways on Gilligan's Island never got off the island.

The castaways never got off the island because they didn't have a good reason to do so.