Sentences with phrase «quiet death»

The man himself echoes this: «There is an air of quiet death in this house,» he says.

ALBANY — The reform package Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in the sixth and final stop of his State of the State tour consisted mainly of ideas he has proposed in past years that have met quiet deaths when brought before the Legislature.

«There is an air of quiet death in this house,» he remarks, seemingly unaware that his own fastidiousness and peevishness might be the cause of a slow, steady entombment.

Then the shares would have died a quiet death in the graveyard of forgotten penny stocks.

A quiet death, I'd guess, has been a hope of humanity for tens of thousands of years, a quiet end and peace at the last.

In the most recent edition of Campaigns & Elections, we learn about the quiet death of a voter - contact technology:

That was dying a slow, quiet death, and they should have just let it go.

In the most recent edition of Campaigns & Elections, we learn about the quiet death of a voter - contact technology: Facebook recently announced a grassroots murder.

First, magazine size gets whacked by a judge, there's been ZERO followup / enforcement on the noncompliance for registering assault weapons (which took a lawsuit just to get a number), and now the ammo database will die a quiet death.

Hein, a born organizer, hastily gathered an impressive cast of «the usual characters» (said Cahill) at a press conference last week shortly after a bill to extend the Ulster County's «temporary» 1993 1 percent sales tax died a quiet death in the Assembly's Ways and Means Committee.

The second is Bill's quiet death, five simple, poignant steps concluding with a crumpled corpse on a pristine manicured lawn.

The resulting film has, in Woodcock's words, an «air of quiet death» about it: like a serene snow globe with nobody to shake it.Hide

As a fan of the first «Underworld» movie, I really wish that Screen Gems would stop making these horrible sequels already and just let the franchise die a quiet death.

At one point Reynolds threatens his sister and business associate Cyril (Manville) stating, «There is an air of quiet death in the house, and I do no like the way it smells.»

Since then the project seems to have died a quiet death...

«There is an air of quiet death in this house,» he mutters one afternoon in his atelier...

It went into peer review and there died a quiet death.

IPL recently suffered a quiet death with the replacement of the aged Q60, but that doesn't mean Infiniti is done with performance.

I think if you self - publish a bad book too early, it will die a quiet death in the arctics of Amazon.

Several members of the House of Representatives have crafted bills, but they all died a quiet death.

With no time to garner support for the bill, the 17 month effort to draft a comprehensive, effective and fair bill died a quiet death in the OK House Ag committee.

Go to any bookstore and look for these books and trainers; they promise the world, claiming to have invented a new «cruelty free» type of training (not telling you the greatest cruelty is what happens when they fail you and your dog, and your dog ends up in a veterinarian's office with a needle in its forearm while you cry and the dog slowly drops into a quiet death).

«In the 1980s, lobbyists told us that the proposed Clean Air Act Amendments would cause, quote, «a quiet death for businesses across the country,»» reported EPA administrator Jackson last year.

Thus we can expect it to die a quiet death and for Canada to fall off Jon Stewart's radar for another few years.

Quiet death?

BlackBerry refuses to die a quiet death.