Sentences with phrase «run into the ground by»

Sears, once a giant of America's consumer - led economy, was run into the ground by hedge - fund king Eddie Lampert.

Maybe he's a medical insurance provider and Obama is running him into the ground by forcing him not to discriminate against pre-existing conditions.

«Trite» really isn't doing justice to the degree to which [the film] has not a single thought, character, or line of dialogue that hadn't been run into the ground by the beginning of the»80s.

Chemical plant accountant Kurt (Jason Sudeikis, «Saturday Night Live») can't stand to see the company of his fatherly longtime boss (a briefly - seen Donald Sutherland) run into the ground by the chief's real son, sadistic cocaine - addled Bobby Pellit (a combed - over Colin Farrell).

As a result he ran it into the ground by not paying our bills.

Most people would balk, figuring a studio took a good idea and ran it into the ground by exploiting gullible fans, but what if you consented to being exploited?

Not exact matches

Lokai, a lifestyle brand that began by selling bracelets, ran into a speed bump just as a huge partnership with Charity Water was getting off the ground.

Despite the backlash, the SNB will face from those who are nursing potential losses that could run into billions, many analysts thought the decision was inevitable in light of next week's expected announcement by the ECB to break new ground in its efforts to inject life into the ailing 19 - country eurozone economy.

So, in theory, the consumer could punish PE companies by never buying from the companies they are running into the ground.

When you stall your entry into the market, you run the risk of getting outrun by competition who will have gathered valuable on - the - ground information and solved problems before you've even planned your launch party.

Running 16 miles per hour down the 76 - foot runway toward the vault, Jordyn Weiber starts with a round - off onto the springboard, then jumps into a back handspring onto the vault, which sends her flying high through the air in a vertical lift topped off by two and a half twists, before landing with her feet on the ground.

Especially after the high - handed ways by which the government ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into the ground, setting a fire in the epicenter of our financial crisis.

For Beal, Brooks is just trying to cover his ass b / c he knows how immensely he phucked up by running Beal into the ground.

I love AW, but no - one brings up the fact that this manager plays the same players every game until they suffer injury, he runs them into the «ground» as we say in N.A... only then he brings in players from the bench but by that time, the injured player is out for 6 months, costing us the a trophy or two.

And did you notice the amount of ground covered with pace by TR, who stared the move for the 2nd goal at the halfway line and runs on into the box ahead of the OX, looking for the return pass!

But as time goes by, my advice to anybody who gets into this business is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can and hit the ground running, because as time goes by it does get more difficult to do the job.

Hydro - fracking is not just about drilling into the ground, but running hugely powerful diesel engines to create the necessary pressure to fracture the underground shale as well as fleets of heavy duty trucks criss - crossing rural and scenic roads carrying heavy equipement and toxic by - products, including uranium.

-- but, with a largely right - wing press and public opinion still largely suckered by the government myth that Labour ran the country into the ground, headlines really do matter.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.

This is almost as bad for farmers as drought, since the rain falls on parched ground with extra force, and much of it runs off without soaking into the ground, and it causes damage to boot by washing away soil and plants.

With We're The Millers, we find ourselves with a half - decent premise swiftly run into the ground, by a combination of mediocre direction, weak scripting and poor characterisation.

► A police car flashes lights and a voice on a bullhorn tells a man to stop walking in a park as another man fires a gun into the ground and runs; he is shot at by police, he jumps a border crossing gate, and surrenders to soldiers that point rifles at him (we later hear that the other man was killed).

In an extended sequence a 30 - foot long wolf and a huge gorilla begin destroying a major city as people evacuate by bus and on foot; the animals toss several vehicles off the road, into walls, and demolish a bus and several skyscrapers as we hear crashing metal (no one is in any of the smashed cars or the bus); the wolf jumps into the air and bites a helicopter in half as men and women run through the streets, screaming and the wolf extends flying - squirrel type wings and slides from a building to the ground.

He's still an alcoholic and a drug addict, but now he gets to flaunt his detrimental behavior by running his company into the ground and prominently displaying a portrait of him having sex with a tiger for all to see as they enter his mansion.

As Above, So Below didn't come from the increasingly lackluster Blumhouse Production field that's taken successes like Insidious and Paranormal Activity and run them into the ground repeatedly but it may as well have since it follows the same strand of small promise followed by major turn into the uninteresting and laughably absurd.

Ianucci excels at writing vulgar dialogue and scathing banter shared by awful people responsible for running the countries they represent into the ground.

And the profligate heir has already started to run the company into the ground by firing loyal employees and frittering away profits on prostitutes and cocaine.

I'm sure they do not want to be the ones who ran the organization into the ground — killing the goose that lays the golden eggs — by trying to be more diplomatic.

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Usually they are the guys paid to run a company into the ground by making bad decisions.

Nails that are never trimmed or never worn down by walking or running on solid ground often grow back into the skin.

Strange thing is, I have yet to run a flashlight into the ground so I'm wondering why you find so many... Side Quests — now you can free roam the town and actually unlock new areas and content by being your usual, nosy self.

Transform the open world into your tactical playground by grinding, vaulting and wall - running across the city while using a devastating, unconventional arsenal.

And I don't think it can be fixed by speeding up the run cycle... There is something about cartoony leg spin vs. two feet on the ground sprint that fools the brain into thinking he is going faster.

For long periods administered by students prone to exhausting funds, causing floods, and offending venue staff, time and again Young / New Contemporaries was run into the ground.

In Robert Holyhead's Untitled (yellow), a variegated yellow ground is interrupted by two, flatly painted, white triangular shapes reading as cut - outs, accompanied by a vertical line of a different yellow, running along the right hand edge branching out at top and bottom into two triangles causing the yellow of the ground to recede, and creating a lively ambiguous space.

Yes, the «skeptics» who deny the IPCC «most» attribution are being pushed further into greenhouse dragonslayer territory by these facts on the ground, but they need to run the numbers for themselves, and check what they are saying before reflexively denying the next IPCC attribution statement.

«To expend taxpayer money on such a biased group as CCS was just wrong and exemplifies how Governor Granholm has run this state into the ground — by putting political agendas ahead of truth and Michigan job creation,» said McMillin, R - Rochester Hills.

The site will reduce stormwater run - off into the combined storm sewer by 67 percent through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phytoremediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water.

It has been over eight months and she had to hire managers to run «our» business, (she has less than zero experience), who wiped out our business line of credit, and has been running the business into the ground, while we sit by helpless, not even permitted on the premises.

Many a family run business has been destroyed by divorces in which one of the parties refuses to cooperate and instead runs the business into the ground.

Being driven by others» opinions is a quick way to run yourself into the ground, either when they criticize your work or simply do not notice your accomplishments.