Sentences with phrase «of false starts»

After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically.

Dating can be a series of false starts hiccups and challenging situations.

After decades of false starts, the e-book revolution is finally upon us.

Like most painters willing to take chances, she has had her share of false starts.

It took 56 years, and there were a couple of false starts along the way.

It took the artists two years and a long succession of false starts.

Content of false starts the rhetoric of failure and the making of american.

This is the kind of false start that takes place over and over again.

Yet I've had nothing but a series of false starts and stops over the past couple of years I've tried to shake the baby weight.

After a number of false starts, including manuscripts lost in a house fire and publishers going bankrupt, it was traditionally published by a Canadian publisher in 1984.

I also believe these projects had a lot of false starts and monies being spent in naive ways.

After a couple of false starts I found someone who I am very interested in.

After years of false starts with Turner, this was my best shot to bring our companies together.

I had a bit of a false start with this recipe after I tried a recipe for baked donuts and they came out looking like mini footballs, but I think the donut recipe was at fault, because since then I've used this egg replacer powder in all sorts of cakes, cookies and brownies and it's worked well every time.

Lee meant not only the six hours sitting at the school board meeting to hear his application was approved, but the four years of struggle he was involved in before that, and two more years of false starts before he even got there to turn around the high school in the northeast San Fernando Valley.

The Gaydon era Lagondas had something of a false start with the Concept LUV in 2009 until AML announced the Lagonda Taraf, a car that owes its styling to the 1980's wedge.

After a decade of false starts on the big screen, an adaptation Jonathan Franzen «s The Corrections looked to finally be making some headway on the small screen.

Their path was long and hard, full of false starts and broken code along with plenty of do - overs.

Apparently, this foster pet parent put up with two years of false starts in having their canine charge placed in a permanent home, not to mention a startling lack of communication from the rescue organization in question, only to have the dog taken away by the organization under the guise of a visit to the vet.

Arguably too, it's a sort of false start, as his message is repeatedly obscured by the cult of his person and power.

While Campbell has suffered a number of false starts under Wenger, his emergence as a goal threat may just provide the manager with a rather damning assessment of where Oxlade - Chamberlain is as a player.

The governor also again hyped the new mini-branch of the Q line between 63rd and 96th Streets, which opened on New Year's Day after nearly a century of false starts and cost overruns — and which is still awaiting another $ 6 billion in funding so its «Phase Two» can extend into Harlem.

After a series of false starts Jaume Collet - Serra (House of Wax, Orphan, Unknown) will direct.

is a familiar story of false starts and last - minute revisions that every Disney hit seems to go through.

And his rueful account of false starts and structural blunders en route to writing American Gods is worth the purchase price alone.

Perhaps fortunately for Apple, it's taken the competition close to a year to catch up, after a couple of false starts including, most notably, the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

After a bit of a false start at CES 2011, the Android tablets are now out in force and each of them promising Google's exciting Honeycomb OS.

Plus, you have time for a couple of false starts without any judgment from yourself or others, and you can treat the new year as a time to recommit to your goals.

Getting a bunch of competitive quotes for car insurance in Louisiana was trickier than I thought it would be, as many highly regarded insurance companies in the Southeast Region choose not to do business in Louisiana (the list of false starts for me included Nationwide, Alfa Insurance, and Auto - Owners Insurance).

Allowing home automation hardware makers to tie their products together and into iOS, HomeKit has suffered something of a false start since its inception, but is now finally starting to gather pace.

There were a series of false starts when approval was received from one agency or official, only to hit another roadblock later.

That could be a tall order, however, given the troubled history of the $ 469 million project, which endured nearly a decade of false starts before construction began in 2012.

It's taken 25 years since the first Honda NSX arrived for Honda to reveal a new NSX, with lots of false starts on the way and concepts (here and here) to get excited about.

Those projects earned Mahoney a reputation for pushing her ideas through at record speed - a criticism she accepts in a region that has suffered years of false starts on projects like rebuilding the Hotel Syracuse.

Most women get plenty of warnings that things are about to start (a show, waters breaking, hours of mild contractions), and first babies often like to keep you on your toes with plenty of false starts and trips to the hospital only to be sent back home again!

Manchester United's season under Louis Van Gaal has had its share of false starts and disappointments.

Steam Machines travelled a rocky road from their very inception, with a couple of false starts before launching back in November 2015 with little fanfare.

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Following a number of false starts in other cities, Habitat Puerto Rico appeared to be the first viable project after the success of Habitat 67.

This is a complex area that has been full of false starts and revolutionary interventions that failed miserably.

As I mentioned in Asha and my recent episode on media and entertainment favorites, I love getting big stacks of books at the library, particularly because a book needs to hook me within the first few pages or I give up on it (meaning, I tend to have a lot of false starts with books).

But since ESEA reauthorization is now overdue by the age of a third grader, with lots of false starts along the way, stakeholders haven't known when to ramp up and focus their advocacy efforts.

But unlike his sober, stentorian - voiced father, the eventual George VI (father of Queen Elizabeth II) is hopelessly tongue - tied when it comes to public speaking, the victim of an acute stammer that turns ordinary conversation into a humiliating succession of false starts and too - long pauses.

Loosely based on the couple's courtship and early romance, the movie moves easily between a seemingly endless series of false starts and setbacks, which never feel forced or plot - driven, but simply a reflection of the dizzyingly overdetermined experience otherwise known as Life.

His prominent Hollywood debut in Robert Redford's «Lions for Lambs» was a bit of a false start; perhaps he'll have more luck opposite Keira Knightley and fellow Next Big Thing Carey Mulligan in next year's «Never Let Me Go.»