Sentences with phrase «on abortive»

Travelling expenses and loss of earnings incurred on abortive contact journeys: Southend - on - Sea bedsit payouts for breaks which had to be cancelled.

These issues need to be addressed at the very outset to ensure that occupiers are not disappointed by final outcomes and that time is not wasted during the design process on abortive work or in trying to make a budget work to an un-affordable brief.

The days pass in a cumulative hazy blur of scores, drunkenness, begging sessions, and long periods shooting the shit in fast food joints, before a potential overdose sees Harley rush back to Ilya's side and the two embark on an abortive trip to Florida.

The globetrotting narrative focuses on the abortive prostitutional dalliance of a miscellaneous International Business Traveller played by Jude Law, another of the dweeby, Beta - male characterisations he's getting worryingly good at.

Earlier in the game he'd run 69 yards for a TD, reversing his field on an abortive sweep left when holes twice closed up on him.

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The wheels are in motion and the speed is visibly increasing, rendering perfectly abortive any attempt at resistance on our part, whether physical or mental, to the tide that is sweeping us along.

Saul's abortive attack on Jonathan anticipates the main plotline, his later assaults on his son - in - law, David.

therefore, treacherous and abortive to superimpose the imagined excitements of a given crowd on a given day by the devices of accelerando, ritardando and dynamic effect.

On May 28 2002, a three - man «independent commission», appointed by the FA, concluded that Wimbledon Football Club — who were in dire financial straits following Sam Hamman's chairmanship and an abortive move to Dublin — should be allowed to move from the London borough of Merton to the commuter town of Milton Keynes, some seventy miles to the north.

More broadly, this tactic reminded me of what folks from the abortive Mark Warner presidential campaign said a couple of years ago about his appearance in Second Life: very few people actually saw Warner there, but many more talked about it, and they talked about it on tech sites and gaming sites that are normally tough to break into.

The Commons» leading civil servant has sent a clear signal he backs abortive plans to give more power to backbench MPs, in an unusual break from his silence on the issue.

Gianaris said campaign finance disclosures set to be filed on Friday would show he has raised $ 350,000 in the statewide account, New Yorkers for Gianaris, that had its roots in his abortive run for attorney general in 2006, when Eliot Spitzer vacated the office to run (successfully) for governor.

The PPP, in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency on Saturday, said: «The Ford vehicle saga calls for fresh and independent investigations into President Mahama's role in the abortive STX Korea deal.

The father of late Harun, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and writer who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.

According to him, several efforts made by the retirees to attract governments attention through these past years has proved abortive and called on the Ayade - led government to see to their plight by ordering their payment.

All efforts to get a copy of the petition proved abortive as at the time of filing this report but a dependable source who wants to remain anonymous said the petitioner wrote the petition that it will be unjustifiable for the Governing Council to pay for the 12 months salaries the workers of the institution are allegedly claiming since they were on strike for about 9 months, saying the petitioner allegedly called on the two owner states to invoke no work no pay rule on the workers of the institution.

Effort to reach him on phone proved abortive as he made his way to the police station.

According to the source, all efforts by the government team to reach labour leaders in the state on their mobile and contacts have proved abortive, as the leaders remain adamant that a substantial part of their arrears must be settled before they can call off the strike.

Therefore, efforts to speak to the outgoing chairman of the party on the allegation proved abortive as several calls to his mobile phone was neither picked nor responded as at the time of filling this report.

Guiliani's abortive post-mayoralty presidential campaign in 2008 and speculation about Bloomberg's national ambitions were based on their putative mayoral achievements, not on their commitment to an ideological agenda.

«The complainant tried to reach them on their cell phones but all efforts to get through to them proved abortive.

The former international development secretary spent thousands of pounds on air tickets during her abortive round trip to Nairobi

AS CLIMATE negotiations grind on in Cancún, Mexico, this week, the atmosphere has not been improved by revelations from WikiLeaks of hardball tactics by the US during and after the abortive talks in Copenhagen a year ago.

Last fun fact: a lot of the early development work that went into Secret of Mana was eventually re-purposed and laid the foundation for Chrono Trigger after the abortive SNES - CD add - on, designed by Sony before they started working on the PlayStation, fell through.

by Walter Chaw Leaden with mock gravitas and embarrassing aspirations to the Shakespearean, Michael Caton - Jones's aggressively uninteresting City by the Sea is a purported true story (based on an article by Michael McAlary) that proves to be just another by - the - numbers police procedural crunched with an abortive middle - age romance and a stultifying Oedipal complication.

So after two abortive attempts to make up a terrible score on a unit quiz, she finally passed the quiz with flying colors - because she had a study method that worked!

Commenting on the deal, another senior publisher said: «If I were Waterstones, I'd rather tie up with a ruthless devil than an also - ran,» a reference to the abortive deal with Nook.

With Jelly Bean, building on the solid groundwork of Ice Cream Sandwich, Google's platform is finally feeling up to speed for tablets; our experience with the Nexus 7, which runs Android 4.1, suggests that Android has — after the abortive mess of Honeycomb — eventually come of age on larger displays.

After so many months of trying to get a loan online proved abortive, i was frustrated and i lost hope because i had bad credit and even the banks turned me down, then i heard of my friend who recently got his loan online from a loan company then i decided to contact him to hear from him, on meeting him, we discussed about the issue and to our conclusion he told me about the loan firm called PROFITIAN WEATHLENS FINANCIAL HOME LLC., So i called them and applied for a business capital loan sum of Rp 1,992,975,000.00 ($ 150,000.00 USD) with an awesome interest rate of 2 %, The loan was approved easily without stress and all the preparations where made concerning the loan transfer and in less than 3 days, the loan was transferred to my account.

Here they talk about what it's like to install art in this unique space, and how responding to the museum's history touched on experiences that are painfully close to home — from Emin's abortive pregnancies to Rego's relationship with her mother

«So Pasmore, in spite of his abortive pursuit of pure abstraction, joined the ranks of the British semi abstract painters, Lanyon, Hilton, Scott, Hodgkin, and others, who can not commit to a full hearted abstraction, but in their irresolution on the question offer succour to all those who hold on to that naturalistic spatial illusion, or hints of such, that keeps their work linked to the old English traditions of poeticised landscape reference»

Rooted in literature, cinema and music, his work preys on these categories, their genres and their legibilities: his works are often abortive, interruptive and abject.

These were: the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) hypothesis is invalid from a scientific viewpoint because it fails a number of critical comparisons with available observable data, the draft TSD was seriously dated and the updates made to an abortive 2007 version of the draft TSD used to prepare it were inadequate, and EPA should conduct an independent analysis of the science of global warming rather than adopting the conclusions of outside groups such as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and U.S. Government reports based on IPCC's reports.

An abortive attempt by the backbench business committee to give some shape to these occasions, by trying to group speeches on particular subject areas together, has now been abandoned.