Sentences with phrase «to die on the vine»

In 2011, I wrote, «This particular pipeline has a good chance of dying on the vine in any case if and when easier, less expensive sources of transportation fuel come online» and that appears to be what's happening.

A lot of good stories in mma die on the vine because of journalistic business practices that maybe could use an adjustment.

This particular pipeline has a good chance of dying on the vine in any case if and when easier, less expensive sources of transportation fuel come online, including domestic oil and natural gas (and there are competing pipeline options and routes).

Planet Java and Mad River Traders died on the vine after the company spent millions for them.

The early poll should give Dean Skelos time to retool the Cohen campaign and reconsider the lunacy of letting Davis Storobin die on the vine with no support from the SRCC.

Many goals die on the vine for this very reason.

We're in a golden age of automobile design and engineering — and some truly outstanding cars are dying on the vine due to some warped public...

That got me thinking about all the great Wii U gamers that died on the vine on the Wii U. E3 2017 has passed without anymore announcements, but take a look below for a list of five Wii U games that need Deluxe versions ASAP.

Track which opportunities end up being real and which ones die on the vine based on the answers to those questions.

If it is the latter, true desire dies on the vine and turns into hopelessness.

Without an audience, gossip dies on the vine.

A few weeks ago a trusted parishioner looked over our year - end financial statement and lamented, «We're dying on the vine here.

One started, got about the size of my thumb and then died on the vine.

The Devils are given about a 96 percent chance of finishing 5 - 3 or better, which means most dreams of a seven - way 4 - 4 tie die on the vine.

The worst thing any campaign can do is to reach someone in a palpable way, and let that fruit die on the vine.

Well it was a short sighted and really stupid approach legislatively speaking to let the other 9 «Provisions» die on the vine last legislative session.

Or HowAboutWe does nothing, and hopes that the feature dies on the vine at Match.

That story thread dies on the vine fast.

But its champions can now breathe of a sigh of relief: several movies that seemed, earlier this year, to have all the earmarks of Oscar buzz, like Emma Stone's sports biopic Battle of the Sexes and Jake Gyllenhaal's Boston attack biopic Stronger, recently died on the vine with very sedate box - office showings.

Creative teaching strategies and projects sometimes die on the vine because, as a teacher in the article laments, «This classroom is just like my father's classroom!

Is the 8.9 - inch Fire HD dying on the vine?

It was awful, watching these books die on the vine.

Stop loss be damned, I am willing to hold it until the hysteria dies on the vine.

Be strategic about the relationships you want to make sure don't die on the vine and smart about the various means that you can use to keep them alive.

Some of those features end up making their way to public Google Maps releases while others die on the vine, so there's often no use in covering them.

It is perplexing to me that the budget included money for dropout and truancy prevention, but ignored the needs of our 4,500 publicly funded after school programs in CA, that are dying on the vine because of cost pressures from the minimum wage increases.

Speaking of, a wonderfully original idea from the mind of Andy Murdock, «The 10 most bromantic destinations,» died on the vine after it became clear that it served no useful purpose and publishing it would incur the wrath of several DMOs.

This sort of filmmaking has been dying on the vine for some time, so for Fox to put their faith in a project like this and see it through to its fruition without meddling made mainstream movie making exciting again (a similar bit of praise can be put at the feet of Paramount for having the courage to give a movie like mother!

The result is a halving (down 62 %) of our grain crop due to lack of rain, a large chunk of fruit crops have died on the vine due to the unseasonal frost.

Meanwhile the startup faces the risk of dying on the vine.

TV is dying on the vine in certain ways, or there's just more opportunity by reaching to those who need you most online!

Startup entrepreneurs think it's a dream come true when someone invests in them — and then the majority of them die on the vine.

Many entrepreneurs now expect it to die on the vine.

«And the thing that really frustrated me was that the most important stories would die on the vine.

Otherwise, they will die on the vine.

On Monday, Donna Kennedy - Glans, the associate minister for electricity, quit saying the promised reforms by Redford were dying on the vine.

One of the key strategies of AFC during the last decade was the supposition that FFP would cut the legs out of both City and Chelsea which our board and most tellingly Wenger thought would «level the playing field» but it didn't and as many thought during this period FFP would either die on the vine or the big financial giants would find ways to bypass it.

I learned very quickly after I started working for the Blazers that just because a trade is discussed doesn't mean it's likely to happen — there are countless ways a deal can die on the vine.

«Levy's picking up quite a head of steam and (Rick) Lazio's dying on the vine,» LaValle insisted.

Construction unions and developers were unable to come to an accord on prevailing wage standards to be written into the 421a tax exemption by today's deadline — meaning the abatement will die on the vine, and the future of the New York real estate market will be left uncertain.

«I know this issue is not going to die on the vine,» says John Calvert of the Intelligent Design Network in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, who helped write the standards that were thrown out.

Some of these avenues may lead to a discovery made that would otherwise have died on the vine.

Simplified: Current scare flicks still sometimes enjoy provocative subtext (like the recent Freddy Vs. Jason); more often, they die on the vine from WB-itis.

Or a foundation would underwrite professional development or a new curriculum for several years, only to see it die on the vine when outside funding dried up.

«This is a large leap forward for a movement that a lot of people thought was dying on the vine,» says the AFC's Jensen.

Progress has ground to a halt and bills are dying on the vine.