Sentences with phrase «nonstarters with»

The prestige pictures listed could, for a variety of reasons — even through no particular fault of their own — go the way of The Conspirator and the Crowne, becoming nonstarters with critics, audiences, and Academy tastemakers alike.

He said he isn't thrilled with the tax on clothing and would prefer the soda tax, but the fact that he didn't even include that is in latest extender bills (which, by the way, won't be delivered until tomorrow) seems to indicate he knows that's a nonstarter with the Legislature.

She proposes rewarding teachers equally with school - based bonuses, a nonstarter with Rhee, who is zealous about getting rid of those she calls «bad teachers.»

Warren's plan won't go anywhere in Congress — it proposes covering the costs by raising taxes on the wealthy, a nonstarter with Republicans.

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Bown told me that based on conversations with former Canadian and Mexican officials, the US proposals are nonstarters.

He also developed innovative methods for the enumeration of lactic acid bacteria in conjunction with nonstarter lactic acid bacteria and has isolated an organism responsible for slits and cracks in cheese, named Lactobacillus wasatchensis.Read more.

Maria Sharapova, the leading light in the WTAcast, was a nonstarter, out since August with a rotator - cuff injury.

Of the nonstarters the standout, of course, is Polaris, who has been the improving horse recently with five important wins in his last seven starts.

When I raised this idea at a recent meeting with my own school district's food services, I was told that the idea was a nonstarter.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called the DREAM Act a nonstarter in his house, and with good reason — politically speaking — considering the fact that a number of his new members actively campaigned against the measure during the 2014 elections and were successful at the ballot box as a result of their opposition.

Otherwise, Senate Republicans are pointing to legislative term limits — a nonstarter in the Assembly — as evidence of action, and the Democrats who dominate the lower chamber point to a suite of bills, including some restrictions on outside income, that were approved with full knowledge that they were dead on arrival in the State Senate.

Cuomo himself described a $ 13 increase as a «nonstarter» with the legislature this past spring.

Some researchers involved with HDST worry, however, that no matter how broadly appealing such a powerful instrument might be, any proposal for a supersize space telescope is destined to be a nonstarter: although giant observatories are astronomically useful for researchers, they also tend to be deemed astronomically expensive, especially lately.

But he agrees with paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who says the idea is a nonstarter because no tools, fire, or other signs of culture have been linked to the fossils.

It took me 15 minutes of listening to him for me to determine, simply based on what she said to him, that she was a «nonstarter», someone I would NEVER start a dating relationship with.

While Hannah is picking up her first theatrical writing credit, Singer is no stranger to journalism dramas, having penned the nonstarter Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate before rebounding with 2015's spectacular Best Picture winner Spotlight.

The present very high uncertainty and poor performance relative to «projections» with global climate modeling would be an absolute nonstarter for commercial gas turbine modeling.

Fed up with the incessant repetition of buzzwords like viable analysis, multidisciplinary analysis, and nonstarter in CIA publications, two agency writers put together the Bestiary of Intelligence Writing.

«Trying to get companies to bring Internet to America with little or no profitability is a nonstarter.»

Shepherd was recently at a dinner party with a woman who kept on saying how tired she was, an unexplained feeling and a conversational nonstarter.