Sentences with phrase «stampede away»

But it is GM — which has seen revenues vanish as Americans stampede away from SUVs and other gas gluttons — that is pursuing the most ambitious program.

Any spike in prices to $ 100 (or even just $ 80) will only accelerate the stampede away from oil.

But the minister bears ultimate responsibility for the teaching; and unless he has been stampeded away from regarding this supervision as his principal «teaching,» he will feel a deep commitment to the entire teaching work of the church through this redefinition of his teaching function.

The crowd stampeded away from the palace.

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Swatting them away seems unlikely as their carapace is as strong as iron, plus they travel in swarms that are louder than a herd of stampeding horses.

Whatever one might call it, though, it is presently racing away from the sun and has sparked a stampede of astronomers rushing to observe it before it fades entirely from view in the darkness of interstellar space.

Potential victims would do anything to avoid the pain, which in crowded situations could lead to injury in others fighting to get away, or even a stampede.

There might also be no film more in need of help being championed, a work surely going to be stampeded in a year where more brash, loud and bombastic films will take all the attention away.

People still take notice of our parking - cone orange 2015 Ford Mustang around Detroit, but a big part of me was aching to spirit it away to a land less overrun with stampedes of the new fastback.

These magic boxes tend to sit in corners, under desks or are otherwise hidden away in obscure dimensions of space, forgotten about despite the important task they play in delivering wi - fi and herding the constant stampedes of data passing through them.

Impose a 20 per cent carbon tax at the gasoline pump, and watch the current trend away from gas - guzzlers to fuel - efficient vehicles become a stampede.

Conservative supporters of the Bush Administration have expressed a particular contempt for the United Nations and its various institutions, reflecting both a frustration at the unwillingness of the UN to be stampeded into decisions and a shift away from traditional diplomacy to the wilful assertion of power, perhaps best illustrated by the appointment of America's most hostile critic of the UN, John Bolton, as US Ambassador to the world body.

While most of the mainstream Wall Street has stayed away from bitcoin, it is unlikely that the introduction of bitcoin futures trading by the CBOE is going to lead to a stampede for initiating long positions.