Sentences with phrase «own coffin»

Nearby stood a rusted kiln, a pair of filthy mops and a gunmetal gray coffin, broiling in the desert sun.

Just as the coffin was seemingly being lowered into the ground, a faint tapping was heard.

Prince William, left, and Prince Harry, the sons of Diana, Princess of Wales, bow their heads as their mother's coffin is taken out of Westminster Abbey Saturday Sept. 6, 1997 following her funeral service.

Google's decision is yet another nail in the coffin for Adobe (ADBE) Flash technology.

Billionaire investor Stephen Jarislowsky, whose firm manages $ 35 billion in assets, wrote an op - ed for the Financial Post that says higher taxes on capital gains would, «hammer another nail in the coffin for Canadian investments, particularly at a time when our economic outlook is already relatively weak.»

In fact, Suitsupply's rep has a lot to do with the success of its online business: Suitsupply's distinct coffin - shaped boxes are shipped to your doorstep in two to four days — «anywhere in the world» — and can be returned free of charge.

«It is the American flag that is draped across the coffins of our fallen heroes when they come back from war.

Launching the Prime Wardrobe service in June 2017 was «another nail into the department store coffin,» Wells Fargo analyst Ike Boruchow wrote in a note to clients.

In fact, any veteran can have a flag on their coffin.

Scientific confirmation that spending time with your smartphones late at night is contributing to a national epidemic of undersleep might be the final nail in the coffin for your evening email or text habit, but Johnson is hardly the first to urge entrepreneurs and others to put down their phones in the evenings.

Keen also cites more recent example, including the auto industry's «chrome coffins» that created carnage on U.S. highways in the mid-20th century.

When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by 120,000 people on April 24, 1865, his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, explicitly banned shutterbugs to preserve the privacy of the solemn moment.

And the Hanging Coffins in the Philippines.

From the book: «For 2,000 years, the people of Igorot Sagada have laid their dead to rest by jamming their bodies into compact wooden coffins and hoisting them up onto brackets driven into the side of a cliff.

Carson estimates that fewer than 50 advisors have agreed to climb into the coffin and lie there with their eyes closed while listening to soft music and a reading of their self - written eulogy.

We have the Merry Cemetery of Romania, the tiger - shaped coffins of Ghana, the bone churches of Europe.

«Those that go through the coffin thing see the end for a moment, and it drives them to live their lives by design, not by default, and succession planning is part of that,» Carson said.

By the way, he added, driving the final nail into the IMAW coffin, «I intend to share profits with everyone here.»

And most likely, that cabinet will become a coffin where papers and files go to die.

Welch followed a long line of fabled CEOs that includes Charles Coffin (1892 - 1922), Ralph Cordiner (1950 - 1963), and Reginald Jones (1972 - 1981).

It may seem like a guy who tools around his home base of Los Angeles in a white van emblazoned with «1 -800-Autopsy» — and a guy who, as a side gig, sells couches made out of coffins — would be a sucker for attention.

Coffin bread is a piece of super thick white bread French Toast, that is hollowed out and stuffed with something tasty.

As for the IPO, the last nail was already in the coffin.

After Chuck Berry died, his beloved cherry - red Gibson guitar was bolted to the inside of his coffin lid.

A miserable holiday season would be the nail in its coffin.

For B2B businesses, every bad client is another nail in the coffin.

When his friends stole his body from the LA airport, drove it to Joshua Tree National Park, poured five gallons of gasoline into his open coffin, and lit it with a match, they fulfilled his dying wish to be cremated in the desert.

Meanwhile, right - wingers in Israel see this as an opportunity to put a nail in the coffin of the two - state solution by pushing for legislation to annex parts of the West Bank or creating political hurdles that will make it impossible for any future government to negotiate on the final status of Jerusalem.

The nail in the coffin for syrupy cereal mascots might be a law tabled in late - April by the Federal Trade Commission, proposing that companies should only market food to those ages two through 17 if they are low in fats, sugars and sodium.

New export legislation hammered the final nail in Evandale's coffin.

Jeff Schwarz, known as «The Liquidator,» joins Catey Hill and Quentin Fottrell to talk about his many efforts to buy and sell merchandise — from coffins to pickled peppers.

That February 3 decline put a nail in the coffin for the current rally, thereby forcing my rule - based market timing model into «sell» mode for the first time since June of 2013.

CEO Jack Griffin's 18 - month redo, post - Tribune split from its mothership, Tribune Company, in mid-2014 was only the latest twist since Sam Zell took control of the company in late December, 2007, performing a clean sweep of top Tribune management, installing his own people and then entering the famed five - year bankruptcy from hell (David Carr's 2010 nail - in - the - coffin column: «At Flagging Tribune, Tales of a Bankrupt Culture»).

At a synagogue just a mile from where she had been gunned down, Meadow Pollack, 18, lay in a plain wooden coffin, closed in accordance with Jewish tradition.

Site C Dam is now putting the nail into the coffin for the delta and none of you are doing anything to stop it.

That was the nail in his coffin.

If that comes to pass, borrowing costs for Illinois will uptick dramatically, and it could be the final nail in the coffin.

Anything requiring lead generation and / or customer acquisition I call Matt Coffin.

If they are not careful and try to fool the market again oil is going to be shunned like the plague and may put the nail in the coffin a lot sooner than the 2030 or 2040 estimates.

On the very same day Uber stuck the knife into email's gut, Facebook announced its very own nail for email's coffin in the form of a KLM partnership that will allow the airline's customers to receive flight confirmations, boarding cards, reminders, flight status updates, and customer service directly through Facebook's Messenger app.

While the announcement seemed to be the final nail in the organic News Feed coffin, the death of organic reach on Facebook has been a long time coming.

So Uber's two months from hell may not be a nail in the coffin for the company.

It just needs to slowly and continually outsell Fitbit to put nails in its coffin — and I think that's already starting to happen.

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz, also a Democratic candidate for governor, wrote in a series of tweets: «While Baltimore seemed a perfect fit based on @Amazon's criteria, it's clear that a lack of public transportation, following Larry Hogan's decision to kill the Red Line, was a critical nail in the coffin.

Putting the nail in the coffin so to speak, even when creating a best case scenario, we calculated the most an acquirer, such as Cisco Systems (CSCO), should pay for ININ while still earning a quality ROIC was $ 49 / share.

The carry trade, derivatives and massive injections of money created out of thin air are but nails in our coffins and if we do not stop these evil people it will mean destruction.

Blips, speed - bumps, setbacks, or nails in the coffin?

In fact, if the Priv fails to make a dent in the Android market, this may just be the last nail in the coffin for Blackberry.

I'm betting that she'll soft pedal the changes so the industry (and its vociferous defenders, the WR and PCs) can't argue that she's put the final nail in the coffin for the oil industry.

Roubini has previously predicted that looming regulations would be «the nail in the coffin» for «the gigantic speculative bubble» of Bitcoin and other digital coins: