Sentences with phrase «of a damp squib in»

It was a bit of a damp squib in the end with two defeats in the last two games once we knew our place in the Premier League was safe, but the season as a whole was far from that with some outstanding performances, and in particular a superb home record.

However, the Fire Phone has been something of a damp squib in America where it launched, attracting some disappointed reviews, with many tech bloggers questioning if the device is special enough to encourage someone to move contracts and suggesting Amazon left its entry into the smartphone market too late.

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When added to the fact that they're struggling to score as well, this season is shaping up to be another damp squib after a lot of promise going in.

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

Labour has issued a briefing note saying that David Cameron's attempt to use the reshuffle to address the shortage of women in the government is «a damp squib».

Things have gone steadily his way all week, with a decent Lib Dem ICM poll score of 21 % last weekend (and another due in tomorrow's Guardian poll), a solid victory on the contentious and potentially divisive tax package, and the damp squib of Charles Kennedy's speech on Tuesday.

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

Sadly, these often strong scenes of the family's interactions with one another are undone by the film's constant need to cut away and remind us of the larger plot involving the hitmen and thus sacrificing where its strength lies in order to set up and build toward its damp squib of a finale.

With the Wii U proving to be a damp squib, despite boasting a number of great (mainly first party) games, Nintendo were quick to put it to one side and launch a fresh new console, smack dab in the middle of the controversial but also kind of successful 1.5 upgrades from Sony and Microsoft.

A sale of 140 or so contemporary works that was held in Paris this February was a bit of a damp squib, and raised barely # 300,000, half what had been hoped for, to fund the opening in April of The Dairy — a not - for - profit contemporary arts and exhibition centre in London which Cohen shares with another dealer / collector, Nicolai Frahm.

Since an assortment of the scientists Matt cites have already written the WSJ to complain of his gross misrepresentation of their work, his views on climate sensitivity seem damp as a squib in a Yorkshire coal mine, of which the Ridley estate owns several:

For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of the existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.