Sentences with phrase «of killing off»

Personally I stopped using Twitter in 2014 and there was talk then of killing off 3rd party apps.

I can keep the screen on while waiting for my Lyft and watch YouTube TV on the ride home without fear of killing off what little battery I have left.

Will Bitcoin live up to the libertarian utopia of killing off fiat currencies and central banks?

She believes limiting the open enrollment window — it's 45 days this year instead of 90 — and slashing the advertising budget is the Trump administration's way of killing off the ACA.

Even if it were feasible, keeping the sea level constant would still not accomplish the goal of killing off 95 % of the humans on this planet.

Doing a great job of killing off the ever - increasingly vacuuous «Lovemark» concept.

Normally, this would just be an instance of killing off a random character because they aren't in the game and, well, it's the Injustice comic.

In comparison, if you insert Power Pressens into one of the Active Combo slots Nilin will deal greater amounts of damage and have a chance of killing off enemies by triggering one of her finishing moves, where Nilin will overload the memory of her enemies.

By the act of killing off susceptible cancer cells, chemotherapy also selects for cancer cells that are resistant to treatment (drug resistance), so a drug may become less effective at each subsequent treatment.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, Crime Fiction Collective author Andrew E. Kaufman talks about the repercussions of killing off a character.

I am sure, it would have sparked an interest in the topic for a lifetime, instead of killing it off by forcing students to simply line up all the dates and events ad nauseam.

Oh, and another possiblity - VIZ's minions have killed off or are in the process of killing off a number of scanlation sites who haven't dropped or added back their titles.

So, instead of killing off a few folks, the antagonists in this book want to wipe out much of the world's population.

You might think BMW had done a pretty good job of killing off the Mercedes E55 AMG when it launched the deeply wonderful BMW M5 last month.

Peters: Every character calling attention to the «wind advisory» so the writers could acquit themselves of killing off all the minor X-Force members in one long trombone chorus minutes later.

Appearing on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, Azaria threw out the possibility of killing off Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, one of 20 - 30 regular characters he says he's voiced on the long - running animated Fox series.

Coogler had the dream of killing off Rocky Balboa in the franchise and to metaphorically show a fight that Rocky could possibly never win.

The possibility of killing off the character — in a scenario that plays out between the events of «Star Trek Beyond» and the upcoming film — has been discussed but Abrams isn't sure he wants to go that way.

This plot revolves around a videotape that supposedly has the curse of killing off any who view it seven days later, and they know this due to a phone call they receive after watching it informing them of that fact.

Infinity War saw Thanos gather all of the Infinity Stones and hastily snap his fingers, achieving his goal of killing off half the universe.

Spoiler alert for other franchises now, but here are some of the high profile sequels that pulled the same twist of killing off the love interest: The Bourne Supremacy, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Fast & Furious (the fourth one for those who've lost track of the titles).

A fever is the body's way of killing off germs, mucus is there as a vehicle to bring germs out of the body, so should these things really be suppressed?

The same logic as above applies to taking antibiotics, although they don't have the same strength as Accutane, but essentially, they are doing the same exact process of killing off some sort of inflammation in one part of the body, but damaging something else.

Avoiding IGF - 1 may be essential in those who have cancer and are trying to inhibit it's reproduction while in the process of killing them off but may be a non-issue for otherwise healthy bodies, in fact it may be essential for us for recovery from injuries / training.

If you stop taking your medicine too early, your immune system may not be capable of killing off the stragglers, and any resistant bacteria left unscathed will be able to proliferate and spread to other people.

«ZBP1 does an amazing job of killing off infected cells.

Ed Miliband, still struggling to convince the electorate of his leadership credentials, has written a foreword for the book, but one of the authors, Lord Mandelson, accuses him of killing off New Labour without having anything to replace it, leaving the party «prone to clutch at straws and grab at any passing fad».

Best advise i can give: If you have a dishwasher, put your child's plastic toys through a cycle, it does a great job of killing off a lot of germs.

Antibiotics, while effective at fighting off bad bacteria have the unwanted side effect of killing off good bacteria in the process.

Spalletti has perfected the art of killing off promising players from the Zenit Academy.

«If we had traveled 1,200 miles to «butcher wantonly,»» says the author, «we would most certainly not have ventured beyond our camp with shotguns, since it would have been easy to use the Eskimo's method for getting food] of killing off an entire flock with rifles or sticks while they slept on the ground.»

Mr O'Hoy, who is a director of Byron Bay craft brewer Stone & Wood, says the dilemma for the big brewers now as they try to tap into the independent, craft brewing sector, is the risk of killing off the very independence and creativity they are seeking to buy if they choose to acquire rather than build their own brands.

He will do it again at the end, when instead of killing off people in a great flood, He'll cast them into hell.

Card takes the daring step of killing off Captain Malich in the middle of the book.

The impulse to bring together and put in written form the material of the Koran, came as a result of the killing off in warfare of many of those who were able to recite it from memory.

Without the development of these techniques which are not entirely negative, we would not have achieved the result of killing off the MAI at the OECD.

He said that he was talking about the idea of killing off the character since the fourth or fifth episode of season eight but that it was something the showrunner Scott Gimple could have had in mind for a while.

I haven't titled it as sugar free because of the huge amount of fondant icing covering the cake kind of kills off the prospect of this cake being healthy!

Not exact matches

Have someone stay constantly on top of the situation so that you can kill off the bad spends and double down quickly on what's driving actual results and purchases; and (b) use these channels and your content to drive traffic from the big guys to sites you own and control so that all your efforts and all your dollars aren't wasted just working to make money for Zuck.

They're not maniacally happy all the time - that would kill their desire to succeed - but their day to day circumstances don't take their eye off of their long - term goals.

Turn it off early and it's a tragic tale of Maverick accidentally killing his best friend, Goose.

It is a tough problem, because the twin forces of automation and globalization are only escalating and the industrial capacity killed off by the petroloonie is not coming back, even with the recent fall in oil prices.

I called today a victory because both of my kids brushed their teeth the first time I asked and haven't killed each other yet on this, the fifth day of their week off from school.

When a rifle company spent a couple hours taking an enemy machine gun position, losing half of its hundred men in the process, the defenders would be killed in the end, perhaps finished off with bayonets, and everybody at the front understood this.

Having your most compelling product yanked off the market is the kind of blow that could easily kill a startup.

Young already had a history of acting as a watchdog for crew safety and firing off blunt memorandums when the Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff in January 1986, killing all seven aboard.

That doesn't include a 2005 episode in which one of its jets skidded off a snowy runway in Chicago and onto a road, killing a 6 - year - old boy in a car.

While across the Western Front most units took it easy and laid low, having no desire to kill the enemy or be killed that day, the one - off incidents of fraternization should not be taken as normal.

So assuming (as the philosophy professor insists you must) that you don't have time to haul any of the various unconscious people off the tracks, your choice is effectively this: should you divert the trolley, thereby killing one person, or do nothing, and allow five people to die?

Apparently, audiences were not interested in seeing a nearly three - hour - long movie about a robotic alien truck eluding the clutches of an intergalactic bounty hunter by joining forces with prehistoric robot dinosaurs — that would be Transformers: Age of Extinction — or that one where Tom Cruise is repeatedly killed while fending off an alien invasion... or something.