Sentences with phrase «scrapheap of»

However, as with everything in life, these dreams don't come true easily and most new cryptocurrencies will end up on the scrapheap of despair.

Drop City is the first feature - length documentary film about the artists who created a community of iconographic dwellings from the scrapheap of a wasteful society.

The days of debtor's prisons have been assigned to the scrapheap of history.

In my opinion, the CVT is destined for the scrapheap of history.

Every time the kid looks at a field of numbers and symbols that start jiggling across a screen to clicky music, but not jiggling as fast as his brain, he's exiling the kind of hero played by Willis to the scrapheap of history.

A host of outdated local laws are set the join the scrapheap of legislation the coalition government is prepared to eliminate.

Mears had been keen to establish a football team on an open piece of land in west London but difficulties arose and the idea looked like being consigned to scrapheap of unfulfilled dreams.

In a short time, they'd be with their erstwhile liberal Protestant bedfellows in the scrapheap of political history.

Not exact matches

This kind of fatalism treats people like pieces of metal that can be thrown on the scrapheap.

Thus, there were expected to be few tears shed when the four bells, whose tolling has marked the march of time and a funereal adieu for the great and good at Notre Dame cathedral for 156 years, were taken from their belfry and consigned to the scrapheap.

Then there was a week ago at Indianapolis, the site of his last Cup victory, when he clearly had the superior car before a bobble by quasi-teammate Martin Truex Jr. on a restart sent both crashing and turned the No. 18 Toyota into a mangled mess destined for the scrapheap.

Now, part of his fall was down to van Persie's form, part was his own confidence smashed into the ground, but when Wenger insists on playing some players despite their clear lack of form (Denilson, Eboue, Arshavin, now Iwobi), it does saddens me how some get chucked on the scrapheap so quickly.

Despite Redknapp's vast experience at most levels of the footballing pyramid, the former manager of Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth (twice), Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers along with a brief spell in international management as the boss of Jordan, the popular 70 - year - old has been cast to the managerial scrapheap, likely to be for the final time.

That is exactly the issue at hand with our democracy today: politics concentrates power to a handful of voters in wealthier swing seats, while throwing 22m votes in the electoral scrapheap.

But millions of those people's votes are being thrown on the electoral scrapheap.

And yet this is the same government that passed an emergency budget that could put more than a million workers on the scrapheap, that jacks up a VAT that lands heaviest on those who are the most hard - up, that floats shrinking some public services by up to 40 % — that almost gleefully drops the guillotine of cuts on the necks of the poor.

The C2 voters who walked away will bear the brunt of Conservative thrift, the once - Blairite middle classes are contemplating the scrapheap, and Lib Dem supporters are appalled that Nick Clegg has become the Trojan horse for Tory cuts.

Either way, if the researchers fail to spot a dimming of the steady radio source associated with the Spitler burst, then the whole magnetar theory may be ready for the astrophysical scrapheap.

To the chagrin of the seasoned and artificially maintained models Gigi (Bella Heathcote) and the more neurotic Sarah (Abbey Lee), who are already facing the scrapheap in their early twenties, Jessie's natural look and virginal glow is the source of the magnetism instantly recognized by a cynical booking agent (Christina Hendricks), a vampiristic photographer (Desmond Harrington), and a salivating designer (Alessandro Nivola).

Then it's back to London for some very bad news: MI6's Double - 0 program is under threat thanks to the machinations of creepy surveillance agent C (Andrew Scott), leaving old warhorses like M (Ralph Fiennes), Q (Ben Whishaw) and Bond himself facing the scrapheap.

Saved from the scrapheap, this special unit has been brought out of retirement by ARIA to enforce her will... and Kilgore obeys.

It is explicit in the manual strength required to construct one of her sculptures or to scramble up a scrapheap, yet also implicit in the movement, form and scale of her painting.

Donated bikes that are unfixable are responsibly recycled with the help of volunteers, who kept more than 44,000 pounds of steel from going to the scrapheap in 2008 alone.

An otherwise entirely forgettable tablet, Tesco's Hudl 2 is rescued from history's scrapheap by virtue of its stonking value - for - money.

We can't leave the most vulnerable on the scrapheap, without a way of getting a job and being able to live as independently as they can.