Sentences with phrase «of nonstarter»

«The bill is kind of a nonstarter for us at this point,» said Scott Astrada, director of federal advocacy at the Center for Responsible Lending.

They were salty and had a pit in the middle — a bit of a nonstarter for a kid in the market for sweeter treats.

The best media available is made from fetal calf serum or horse serum, and you know, that's sort of a nonstarter.

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.

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In the most recent bout of negotiations over the weekend, the deal reportedly sputtered out over the number of unauthorized immigrants covered under the deal, and certain immigration enforcement - related measures that Republicans wanted to include but Democrats considered nonstarters.

Stephenson said during the press conference that a sale of CNN was a «nonstarter,» adding that the company was confident it would not have to sell any assets.

If its annual returns are not in the top half of all funds in its category over most, if not all, of those time periods, this investment is a nonstarter.

In the latest round of negotiations over the free trade pact between the US, Canada, and Mexico, which concluded on Tuesday, US negotiators made a number of protectionist demands that Mexico and Canada consider nonstarters.

The tortured topic of gays in the military is far from the «nonstarter» the late Bush re-election campaign, incredibly, assumed it to be.

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.

Or perhaps it's a simple matter of Kent's using 10 players to execute its 94 - foot style and starting its five best defenders while sixth man Trevor Huffman leads the Flashes in scoring and assists — the only Division I nonstarter to do so.

(God Save the Queen, the U.K. anthem, is always a nonstarter because of the Nationalists among the Giants» fan base.)

The idea of not using anesthesia — epidurals are the most commonly used form of pain relief during labor — is a nonstarter for many women.

Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski, of Rockland County, called it an «absolute nonstarter.»

Mike Long, chairman of the state Conservative Party, said last week that Giambra is a «nonstarter» for his party's endorsement.

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.

John DeFrancisco, the second-most powerful Republican in the state Senate and a potential Republican gubernatorial candidate, isn't a fan of Cuomo's proposed $ 168.2 billion budget, calling it a «nonstarter.»

If it weren't a nonstarter in the LGBTQ community, I sure such an arrangement would support of all unmarried couples.

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.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie also opposes linking the extension of mayoral control to sweeteners for charter schools and has already called the Senate bills a «nonstarter.»

* Called ethics reform a «nonstarter» for the Legislature in budget talks despite a slew of corruption scandals, including the conviction of one of the governor's former top aides.

Even before the election, Mr. Cuomo had told Mr. de Blasio raising taxes was a nonstarter given Republican control of the State Senate but that he would provide money for the prekindergarten expansion, people briefed on those conversations said.

Paying science and math teachers salaries higher than those of other teachers is probably a political nonstarter, Vasquez said.

Currently Internet voting is «a nonstarter,» according to Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of Johns Hopkins University's Information Security Institute and author of the 2006 book Brave New Ballot.

The algae industry suggests that the National Academy of Sciences's concerns about water are a «nonstarter»

Despite the development of Hindu numerals and some speculation on atomic concepts, India appears to be a nonstarter.

It has been a nonstarter in the U.S. not only because of its loopholes but also because Congress is deeply hostile to any treaty that places limits on the American military.

According to Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame, any moon - versus - Mars argument is a nonstarter.

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.

Already, one staunch advocate of human spaceflight, Sen. Bill Nelson (D — Fla.) is calling the budget a «nonstarter» due to its defunding of the ISS.

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.

The magnetism between these stiff nonstarters wouldn't stick to a fridge, especially when the war - ex-machina forces them apart for years but the only credible passing of time is our own.

How much will the recent string of allegations of sexual harassment and assault in Hollywood darken the proceedings and render some potential contenders nonstarters?

Jacques is a nonstarter of a character and Besson seems to have known it, because when the narrative jumps from 1965 to the present (1988), the director first reintroduces Enzo, who's continuing his bombastic shenanigans.

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.

The four leads sell it as well as they can, but this film was going to be a nonstarter regardless of whom they cast.

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.»

But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed «merit pay,» while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.

Now, however, Louisiana was planning a major intensification of teacher job reviews, another chapter in a longstanding drive to reform public education, this one focusing on better identifying top - notch instructors and ushering out nonstarters.

which was a nonstarter, the e-tailer said it would give authors the option to receive 100 % of the revenue from sales of their e-books, a sum that would include what both Amazon and Hachette normally earn from each sale.

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.

For now, Twitter's Activity API still limits developers to push notifications for just 35 accounts, which is a nonstarter for clients like Tweetbot which need to provide notifications to «hundreds of thousands» of users, according to developers.

Part of the problem, sources said, is that Faraday attracted serious offers from investors, but keeping Jia in the picture was a nonstarter.

Not being portable or battery powered will render the Edifier Luna e25 HD a nonstarter for some, but if you're looking for a powerful set of bookshelf Bluetooth speakers for your listening room, this pair is hard to beat for the money.

The prospect of Apple giving up its pay - per - song model is a nonstarter, so iRadio will have to coexist in its ecosystem as a vehicle to the real moneymaker; streaming music nets the host, and more importantly the artist, very little in licensing fees.

Thanks to the security of blockchain systems, trust issues are no longer a nonstarter for P2P lending between strangers.

Speaking of the Surface RT, Bloomberg also notes that shipping a device that runs on Windows RT is basically a nonstarter at this point since all major OEMs have abandoned it and it doesn't have anywhere near the number of apps that Windows 8 has.

Developers of blockchains for such disparate applications as health care management and solar - power trading see Bitcoin's energy - intensive design as a nonstarter and are now crafting more sustainable blockchains.

Given the limited size of the Moto 360's display, typing is a nonstarter, so the majority of your interactions are via voice.

Everyone has a personal set of factors that are firm nonstarters.