Sentences with phrase «pipe dreams»

She wants to be supportive but the family doesn't have the money to fund Lady Bird's pipe dreams.

So Rose's pipe dreams of her daughter's stardom continue to run on fumes as the Great Depression diminishes the demand for such entertainment.

Hollywood's scripted impression of romance is not representational in any way shape or form of a real persons life, yet so many ordinary people subconsciously strive to live up to these pipe dreams.

But like many upstate residents, Gravitt wants results from the enormous investment, including more training for real jobs — not pipe dreams.

On the other, he can't afford to be viewed by his own party as touting pipe dreams rather than focusing on day - to - day progress.

Much more important, no question of a second referendum to give people a chance to change their minds because circumstances have changed, or because the promises made by Brexit supporters have proved to be no more than pipe dreams.

Fortunately, I didn't hold tight to those pipe dreams for too long, either, because while that might be someone else's life (perhaps they have lots of help, or money to afford said help, and had easy births and minimal trauma, unlike myself), it certainly was not for me.

These are my kumbaya around the campfire Utopian society pipe dreams for GGN's near future.

A textbook on betting, not a collection of gambling stories; describes the reality of handicapping and exposes the pipe dreams.

Sure there were other pipe dreams floating around, Mark Richt, Chip Kelly but I think Brohm would have came and done a hell of a job here.

False hope and pipe dreams are all we can seem to muster from within our junior ranks.

The LB Edmunds is my absolute favorite player I'd take, even over Vea but both are pipe dreams.

All pipe dreams.

We have waited too long and fallen too far to dream about the Lacazettes or Aubamayang's those players are now just pipe dreams for us.

As far as pipe dreams go, it's a fun one and would make for an interesting future.

This is where the pipe dreams go.

Along the way, the building received a complete technical upgrade to equip it for the Internet of Things, giving SugarCreek capabilities that were pipe dreams only a few years ago.

, fun pipe dreams, and life.

What kind of person's pipe dreams revolve around seemingly unattainable yeasted baked goods?

CJ Casciotta writes for RELEVANT about how our entrepreneurial generation is creatively using community to provide for their pipe dreams.

How sad that you put so much of your one and only existence into pipe dreams of happy ever after fantasy.

They want you Christians to stop making other people act a certain way because of your unsubstantiated pipe dreams.

A: The pipe dreams of eight million barrels of oil a day from the oil sands are almost certainly never going to be achieved.

Over its lifetime, the platform has helped fund roughly 100,000 creative projects that otherwise would have remained pipe dreams to their founders.

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This will save you from overspending based on pipe dreams that may never come true.

To Manjoo, the first cracks are already appearing in the pipe dreams that are barely holding these stories together.

Not pipe dreams, in other words.

By having a team charged with stocking the top of the funnel, other members weeding out the real from the pipe dreams, and led by someone who can close the deal, the sales funnel becomes a real tool that executives can use for planning.

This isn't a pipe dream.

While work / life balance may be a pipe dream and a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works, leaders who make strong, healthy choices publicly are role models for their employees in integrating their work responsibilities into the totality of their daily lives.

But unless you can convince investors that you're capable of delivering the goods, persuading the world to buy your fancy throne and managing phenomenal growth, they'll write it off as just another pipe dream.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

But until he comes up with a concrete plan to address the issues above his pipe dream may simply go up in smoke.

As 1991 wore on, it became clear that hitting $ 20 million was a pipe dream; even remaining flat at $ 7 million would be a challenge.

«The popular narrative around using Bitcoin to buy coffee or pizza is a pipe dream at this point.»

«What Tony is pursuing strikes me in part as a pipe dream and in part as something worth doing,» he says.

But at the same time, here in the real world keeping kids away from gadgets feels like a pipe dream.

LinkedIn's vision — which includes creating a digital profile for every company and worker in the world and lifting the global economy — may come off as an idealistic pipe dream to many.

Thanks to technology and today's «always - on» culture, the 40 - hour workweek has unfortunately become somewhat of a pipe dream in the business world at this point (RIP).

Of course, Google will never be able to stop some small town kid with a sluggish internet connection from trying to load all seventeen of his favorite music videos all at once, so eliminating buffering is a pipe dream.

But is it a pipe dream?

But at present count that objective is still a pipe dream; the nation's current electric vehicle fleet is only 50,000 strong.

It may be tempting to think of the paperless office as a failed pipe dream left over from the «90s.

So, making money on the internet isn't just a pipe dream.

That might sound like a pipe dream, but thanks to Google Ventures, something along those lines is actually a reality.

«What that imposes on us is the need to ensure the design of the power plant we put together is consistent with the utilities» view of the power grid, consistent with what's available on the vendor market and (the need to) build them on a scale to change the nature of energy supply, and that it isn't just a physicists pipe dream.»

Even if fully autonomous cars don't work out as planned (some critics think it's a distant pipe dream), autopilot tech that aids drivers and prevents accidents is available now on Tesla EVs and other cars.

Here's the process of making all - day McDonald's breakfast go from a pipe dream to a national reality.

Building an explosively thriving games community is no longer a pipe dream for many companies.