Sentences with phrase «slow deaths of»

Besides letting some of my plants die slow deaths of neglect (see my sparse little fern on the shelf above who is now trying to resuscitate himself from my accidental neglect?)

After all 16 hour work days six days a week will do that to a person, and the literature is full of reformers witnessing the slow deaths of these poor wretches.

They witnessed many slow deaths of cats who were severely injured.

The slow death of giants like Yahoo!, and the overnight collapse of others like MySpace, speak to a common problem: one new idea will only take you so far.

That you tell this story of wanting to, first, tear bloody holes through one of God's creatures, then, when that wasn't possible, wrack the intestines of one of God's creatures with the slow death of poison, and after all that frustration of not being able to destroy, kill, ever how painfully or slowly, of finally having to settle with just trapping them (and I don't even want to know what you did with them once they were trapped; did you find some explosives?

What you are actually seeing the slow death of a persons soul as it posts on CNN.

I think the theme of the album is death — the slow death of our old selves and agendas, expectations and sin natures, followed by the new resurrection life that comes with following Christ to the cross.

I am celebrating the slow death of demoninational churches - all the while the churches are blaming everyone except themselves.

The kind that when you have to wake up at 3:30 am to get to the airport on time — THEY came to the rescue and made your very - early - hardly - any - sleep morning quite happy or that other time you took a 6 am road trip to your favourite city seven hours away and knew you couldn't count on rest stops to fuel you and you'd probably die a slow death of malnourishment instead of being happy you're going on an adventure — they came to your rescue!

Too many are inhibited, coming to the islands in the thrall of an unfortunate mainland belief that any sportsman over 30 who does not have a physique like Sandow should confine himself to dog paddling, occasional tennis and a slow death of weekend golf.

Guest writer Arpit Verma laments the slow death of the Red Devil dream under the totalitarian tutelage of Louis van Gaal.

By continuing to see the male role in such constricting terms — as breadwinner or nothing — we are inadvertently contributing to the slow death of marriage in our most disadvantaged communities.

So users may embark on the slow death of addiction or death from stroke heart attack or other organ failure and the number of overdose deaths involving methamphetamine have doubled in just two years,» said Jaquith.

What feels like the slow death of Maria Miller's cabinet career has once again brought to light the continued flaws in parliament's efforts to police itself.

The long, slow death of the baiji was caused by overfishing, construction of the Three Gorges Dam and other changes in the vicinity of the Yangtze River (where more than 10 percent of humanity makes its home), rather than hunting or other direct human impacts.

Instead, these opportunistic organisms may simply be capitalizing on the slow death of the invertebrates due to pollution, climate change, or other factors.

«Study reveals how fishing gear can cause slow death of whales.»

This is the story of a very slow death of the narrator.

As everything I built and worked for over the past few years seemed to crumble in front of my eyes, I could only anticipate the slow death of the old me.

Ah, the slow death of meetings * facepalm *.

Director Kyle Henry, screenwriter Carlos Treviño and a wonderfully talented ensemble cast deliver a 21st century relationship time capsule of Rogers Park and some of the people who call it home — but this tightly scripted, dialogue - driven character study is also brimming with universal truths about the long - hidden but nevertheless permanent bruises of family tragedies, the changing and sometimes numbing nature of even a truly loving long - term relationship and the slow death of knowing one's dreams are almost certainly defunct.

Haunted by the specter of cults, new age opportunism, drug paranoia and Me Decade narcissism, Inherent Vice is as much a requiem for the slow death of the»60s as it is a goofball, sun - kissed film noir.

The jokes are mostly of the simple - minded nature, focusing on sex and crude language simply for the sake of «earning» its R. Again, the film starts out with enough momentum to almost fool the viewer into thinking that they're watching a high quality R - rated flick, but then quickly the film nosedives into a slow death of flat jokes.

Here we are, several years into the Great Recession and the slow death of film criticism, and I am able to access almost three dozen professionally authored and edited reviews of a movie that can barely inspire critics to shrug.

But with the rise of smart phones and tablets, are we looking at the slow death of printed publications?

If the standards survive immolation on the altar of politics, they could face the slower death of bad implementation.

«A quiet, sub-rosa fear is brewing,» EdWeek assistant editor Steven Sawchuck wrote last May, «among supporters of the Common Core State Standards Initiative: that the standards will die the slow death of poor implementation in K - 12 classrooms.»

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Can the slow death of the independent bookstore be halted?

As the name implies, a slow death of the retinal tissue takes place.

Even amid what has been described as the slow death of licensed commercial dog breeding in Pennsylvania, Lancaster County remains a potent force.

While Galaxy 2 will very likely be a blast and I'm curious to see if Nintendo can save the slow death of the console Zelda, it's not enough to get me giddy like it used to.

Underneath the games cutesy art style however, lies a much darker experience that deals with mental illness, depression, the stagnancy of the middle and lower classes, and the slow death of the small town America.

Such is the slow death of The Crew, a foundation of a serviceable racer, weighted down with the worst tendencies of AAA «added value» game design.

While the slow death of optical media is undeniable, this could not be the best idea for Sony.

This has prompted fears among many investment banks that their research will steadily be dumped — resulting in the slow death of sellside analysts.

From Pakistan to the Caribbean there are stories today about the slow death of the Great Barrier Reef, the intolerable heat allegedly set to afflict the Red Centre and how big chunks of Hobart will be swallowed by the heat - swollen waters of the Great Southern Ocean.

Slow death of attrition now.

A side effect of the slow death of print is the surplus of newspaper boxes.

The slow death of coal is reason to celebrate — coal - fired power is still the worst offender worldwide in terms of carbon emissions, and preserving a stable climate depends largely on phasing it out.

So are attorney alternative fee arrangements here to stay, or this just a bump in the road to the slow death of the billable hour?

I've been doing some work of late with a very significant publishing client, trying to understand the reasons behind the painful slow death of a product.

The introduction of the iPhone 7 signaled the slow death of the 3.5 mm headphone jack and headphone makers have capitalized on creating wireless and Lightning connected options.

These four communication mistakes pretty much spell the slow death of a relationship.

That blocks an exchange of gases and will lead to the slow death of the tree.

Not exact matches

But that's the situation that fans of the critically - acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all things.

But, given that crossing deserts brings a slow, miserable death to a number of these immigrants (and others will suffocate in the back of cargo trucks or be murdered by smugglers), a few more feet to climb is probably going to deter only a small number of potential immigrants.

This drug slows down nervous system pathways and abuse leads to permanent death of the nerves.

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Falling into the water likely meant a slow, freezing death for any Continental, even if they managed to get out of it.