Sentences with phrase «pulling plugs»

This outlet cover prevents your baby from pulling plugs out of an outlet.

Chaplains help patients and family members manage their raw and often conflicting emotions and opinions around pulling plugs, saying goodbye, forgiving (or not), donating organs (or not), blaming each other or fighting over property before the patient even dies...

The Tories are challenging her to pull the plug on the Liberals for blowing at least $ 585 million to cancel two gas plants for political reasons.

(In February, for example, he pulled the plug on Target's video - streaming service.)

«The last thing you want to do with borrowed money is pull the plug at an inopportune time,» says Jonas Friel, vice-president and senior investment adviser at BMO Nesbitt Burns.

The major record labels don't promote talent the way they used to; they pull the plug at the slightest excuse.

It now seems to be more accepted than it used to be that entrepreneurs will make mistakes along the way — that not all projects work, and sometimes you just have to pull the plug.

In less than three weeks, I decided to pull the plug.

Pinterest is almost four years old and it's big enough for its britches — big enough to pull the plug on its affiliate links program, a money - making gravy train that more than a few brands, bloggers and Pinfluencers will sorely miss.

Google pulled the plug on its beta baby so it could «focus on what's coming next.»

You pulled the plug on Peeple's website, YouTube channel and all of its social media accounts, as well as most of your own.

However, after much bad press, some technical flaws and too many ongoing projects, Apple pulled the plug on the Newton.

«This cycle continues till investors pull the plug.

«You can apply for that loan, have it all set up, and then pull the plug at the last minute, if the dealer's offer is better.»

Roskomnadzor, the Russian agency in charge of media, pulled the plug on the open forum because it contains advice on how to grow «magic mushrooms», a psychedelic drug.

Reuters tried to create a web - based media operation too, spending millions to hire writers and editors and investing tens of millions in a new content system — and then a new CEO pulled the plug, saying the returns didn't justify the investment.

Weaker - than - expected earnings from Cognex could provide more evidence that Apple is pulling the plug on the iPhone X.

While Uber's recent expansion has been prolific, he notes that the company didn't «pull the plug and go super aggressive» until they were confident they could deliver a seamless user experience across the board, a process that took multiple years.

A court - appointed receiver pulled the plug on the last 250 Canadian stores this fall.

Although the South Korean unit has been hobbled by labor costs and hurt by GM's decision to pull its Chevrolet brand from Europe, a key export market, any decision on whether to pull the plug on the unit will not come easy for GM Chief Executive Mary Barra.

On September 30, IBM pulled the plug on Lotus 1 -2-3.

Target pulled the plug on its massive Canadian expansion less than two years after opening.

By forcing internet service providers to pull the plug on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, the government there hopes to stem the spread of hate speech and fake news it blames for attacks on the country's Muslim minority.

But if the project doesn't look promising, pull the plug ASAP and move onto the next one.

Now, San Francisco's city attorney, Dennis Herrara, is threatening to pull the plug on scooter sharing.

In short, it's the piece of paper that tells them whether to pull the plug or not.

«She stuck with a bad strategy and bad execution — private cloud and a small «bonsai» public cloud — before pulling the plug,» he said.

Those risks are what led China to pull the plug, and the same thought seems to have occurred to South Korea's financial regulators.

On Mar. 22, Google announced that it was pulling the plug on its Chinese Google.cn search site and redirecting its audience to the uncensored web site in Hong Kong — Google.com.hk.

Some of the best decisions I've made involved saying no to a potential partnership or pulling the plug on a product that wasn't working.

Lack quickly pulled the plug.

These privacy concerns, plus the host of bugs discovered in the beta version and its lofty $ 1,500 price tag, meant that Google Glass continued to receive bad press until the company finally pulled the plug on the project last winter.

LONDON, Jan 15 (Reuters)- Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS - the mobile OS which could have replaced native apps with HTML - based apps - a final death throe in the mobile OS wars.

LONDON, Jan 15 - Carillion collapsed on Monday when its banks pulled the plug, triggering Britain's biggest corporate failure in a decade and forcing the government to step in to guarantee public services from school meals to roadworks.

If that happens, governments may decide to pull the plug on austerity.

Even if the network does pull the plug next spring, the gang at Greendale Community College will enjoy a healthy victory lap in reruns.

In 2013, Avon pulled the plug on a $ 125 million software upgrade that had created chaos for sales reps and the company always seemed to be struggling to fix its basic systems.

Many of them did — to the point where Shop.ca pulled the plug early.

Others can better be explained by poor managerial decisions, like Target's ill - advised foray into Canada, which the company pulled the plug on in 2014, taking billions in losses in the process.

The company expanded into both areas aggressively, but pulled the plug on both ventures half a decade ago.

That sentiment was put to its ultimate test in 1994, when IDB Worldcom was acquired and the new owners gave Justice six weeks» notice of their intention to pull the plug on the switch that served as the physical hub of Justice's entire business.

Earlier on Tuesday, Deadline reported that Apple pulled the plug on an Elvis Presley biopic, apparently abandoning a development deal for the film with The Weinstein Company over the recent deluge of sexual harassment allegations against that production company's co-founder, Harvey Weinstein.

«Now's a good time to pull the plug.»

Although the final decision to pull the plug came quickly, it was precipitated by months of struggling, weeks of discovering all of the things we were doing wrong and analyzing the many factors that were just plain out of my control.

Should governments pull the plug on megaprojects like ITER, it wouldn't stop private - sector players like Burnaby, B.C. - based General Fusion Inc., a year - old startup by former Creo Inc. managers that has so far attracted about half the $ 50 million in venture capital and federal research funds it says it needs to demonstrate a kind of «magnetized target fusion» by 2013.

Roger Phillips, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents United's pilots, called the decision to pull the plug on the program «the right thing.»

Beats dominates the U.S. market for high - end headphones, but it failed to give HTC its groove back, so the Taiwanese smartphone company is pulling the plug on their partnership.

«It's not as if Europeans have panicked and pulled the plug and stopped putting money in,» observes Theriault.

However it has not been spared from controversy within the country, with the producers pulling the plug on a 2007 series «Valley of the Wolves — Terror» which dealt with the fight against Kurdish militants after just one episode.