Sentences with phrase «squib in»

Since an assortment of the scientists Matt cites have already written the WSJ to complain of his gross misrepresentation of their work, his views on climate sensitivity seem damp as a squib in a Yorkshire coal mine, of which the Ridley estate owns several:

However, the Fire Phone has been something of a damp squib in America where it launched, attracting some disappointed reviews, with many tech bloggers questioning if the device is special enough to encourage someone to move contracts and suggesting Amazon left its entry into the smartphone market too late.

It was a bit of a damp squib in the end with two defeats in the last two games once we knew our place in the Premier League was safe, but the season as a whole was far from that with some outstanding performances, and in particular a superb home record.

It didn't matter as the ball squibbed in to the net and Spurs were 3 - 0 up.

Not exact matches

Icahn also owns stakes in Herbalife and Bristol Meyers - Squib.

Of course in reality this was just «blind luck» on the squib's part.

Today, however, his importance is scarcely a rumor even to the very literate, and the best known book about him in English is a ghastly, feeble, and imbecile squib by one of the twentieth century's most indefatigably fraudulent intellectuals, Isaiah Berlin.

When added to the fact that they're struggling to score as well, this season is shaping up to be another damp squib after a lot of promise going in.

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

Those who predicted a profound shift in the ideological landscape might now look back on the 2008 elections as a damp squib.

Brown's closest ministerial ally, Ed Balls, said the email was a «damp squib» by a few disgruntled MPs and insisted that the cabinet was «absolutely united» behind Brown.But the number of cabinet voices emerging in support of Brown did not begin to rise to a chorus until early evening, among them two of the ministers tipped as possible successors to Brown — the home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, who said today's call by rebels would be seen as a «temporary distraction» from the job of fighting the Conservatives and laying out future plans for the country.

The Tories have spent the last few days briefing that this would be the reshuffle which fixed David Cameron's «women problem» but it's turning in to a damp squib.

Labour has issued a briefing note saying that David Cameron's attempt to use the reshuffle to address the shortage of women in the government is «a damp squib».

Things have gone steadily his way all week, with a decent Lib Dem ICM poll score of 21 % last weekend (and another due in tomorrow's Guardian poll), a solid victory on the contentious and potentially divisive tax package, and the damp squib of Charles Kennedy's speech on Tuesday.

If one does in the coming hours, then what Brown's allies were happy to call a damp squib will spark back to potentially lethal life.

Gloria De Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities, said: «The Tories have spent the last few days briefing that this would be the reshuffle which fixed David Cameron's «women problem» but it's turning in to a damp squib.»

We've improved in leaps and bounds since the last solar maximum but we still can't say whether an approaching flare will be a perfect storm or a just a damp squib.

Scientific American gave the Princeton professor an award in 2003 for his critiques of digital privacy.The squib we ran at the time read: «Corporations intent on monopolizing the digital economy have come to fear Edward Felten, who has fought their claims with technical analysis sharpened by a sense of the ridiculous.

Much in the spirit of the Fraser Institute's damp squib we reported on last year, S. Fred Singer and his merry band of contrarian luminaries (financed by the notorious «Heartland Institute» we've commented on previously) served up a similarly dishonest «assessment» of the science of climate change earlier this year in the form of what they call the «NIPCC» report (the «N» presumably standing for «not the» or «nonsense»).

After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, in 1990, Dr. Chen began his work at the Bristol - Myers Squib Company as a research scientist.

A squib living in the muggle world know there is more out there.

Blacks occasionally crush, but the lack of DVNR makes up for it — even if the ridiculous filters used in daylight exteriors (director Fleischer describes the construction of these filters in his commentary as revolutionary water squibs dyed green) are all the more obvious as in - camera trickery.

For all its contrivance and soupçon allure — it literally milks the premise for every drop — it does fall a little out of step in the third act as it trades in squibs and send - ups for a melodramatic subplot.

Filmmakers and actors from the films were in attendance to participate in a panel before the night's festivities, including directors Alexander Payne, Ryan Coogler, Spike Jonze, and Jehane Noujaim, and actors Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station) and June Squib (Nebraska).

Sadly, these often strong scenes of the family's interactions with one another are undone by the film's constant need to cut away and remind us of the larger plot involving the hitmen and thus sacrificing where its strength lies in order to set up and build toward its damp squib of a finale.

But the real fireworks are in the gunfights, which combine martial - arts moves, precision trigger - squeezes, and convincing digital squibs to drop Wick's enemies.

Live rounds, squibs and pyrotechnics are all in abundance throughout making every scene feel more punchy and gut - wrenching in its violence.

A whirlwind of circumstances, coincidences, and consequences bring Doc, Squib, Hunger, Hazel, and Mildred together in a perhaps ill - conceived plot for revenge, which nudges Leonard Pelf, a broken, angry, and desperate foster kid, squarely onto Christopher's path.

The tavern had disappeared in a squib of flame.

And thanks for including Funny's squib about working more in retirement than on a job.

With the Wii U proving to be a damp squib, despite boasting a number of great (mainly first party) games, Nintendo were quick to put it to one side and launch a fresh new console, smack dab in the middle of the controversial but also kind of successful 1.5 upgrades from Sony and Microsoft.

A sale of 140 or so contemporary works that was held in Paris this February was a bit of a damp squib, and raised barely # 300,000, half what had been hoped for, to fund the opening in April of The Dairy — a not - for - profit contemporary arts and exhibition centre in London which Cohen shares with another dealer / collector, Nicolai Frahm.

Painting, Parody, and Disguise, curated by Michael Stillion, at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (2014); The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2013 — 2014); Domestic Abstractions: 1986 — 2013 at Kavi Gupta BERLIN (2013); MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986 — 1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2013); This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s, ICA Boston, MA and Walker Art Center, MN, curated by Helen Molesworth (2012 — 2013); Rainbow at Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City (2012); Judy at Leo Koenig, New York (2011); Life During Wartime at Rochester Art Center, Rochester (2011); Squib at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2009); Basics at Kunsthalle Bern (2002); Judy at Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (2001); as well as solo exhibitions at Feigen Contemporary in New York (2002), Feature, New York, NY 1993, and Karsten Schubert Ltd. in London, England (1987).

2016 Me And My Arrow, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US Tony Tasset, The Suburban Milaukee, Walker's Point, Milwaukee, US Past Tense: 50 Years of Master Drawings, Lawrence & Clark, Chicago, US 2014 Spill Paintings, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US 2013 Domestic Abstractions: 1986 — 2013, Kavi Gupta, Berlin, Germany 2012 Selected Works from the 80s and 90s, In / Situ at Expo Chicago, Chicago, US Rainbow, Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, US 2011 Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US Judy, Leo Koenig, New York City, US Life During Wartime, Rochester Arts Center, Rochester, US 2010 Selected Works 1986 - 1996, Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, US Eye, Pritzker Park, Chicago, US 2009 Squib, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 2008 Kavi Gupta Gallery, Leipzig, Germany 2007 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, US 2006 Frownland, VonZweck Gallery, Chicago, US 2003 University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, US Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, US 2002 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 2001 Judy, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY Tony Tasset: As It Is, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1998 Tony Tasset, Institite of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1997 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1996 Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995 Robert Smithson / Tony Tasset: Site / Nonsite, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (catalogue) 1994 Feature, New York, NY 1993 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Feature, New York, IL Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (catalogue) Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue) 1991 Feature, New York, NY Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 Feature, New York, NY 1989 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1988 Feature, Chicago, IL Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Feature, Chicago, IL 1987 Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, England (catalogue) 1986 Domesticates, Feature, Chicago, IL (catalogue) Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY

In its inception, section 43 (a) of the Lanham Act began as a short squib about false and misleading representations.

For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of the existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.