Sentences with phrase «was dead on arrival for»

Bill's old resume used a traditional, chronological format that was dead on arrival for corporate employers.

It's dead on arrival for Assembly Democrats.

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Trump declared on Monday morning that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is «dead» amid frustrations with his inability find a permanent solution to the issue many want to see resolved.

Basic economics strongly suggests the proposed combination should be dead on arrival, at least if the nation's antitrust law still stands for competition and lower prices for consumers.

The case for «Christian» gay marriage is Dead on Arrival.

Cuomo declared de Blasio's call for a tax on high - earners to help fund the MTA «dead on arrival,» telling reporters in Rochester: «The millionaire's tax I do not believe is politically viable.»

But he also wants to strengthen and expand charter schools in the process — a proposal that has been considered dead on arrival for Assembly Democrats.

The proposal has been called «DOA» — dead on arrival — by a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - Northport) and attacked by Republican county lawmakers as «Bellone's water tax.»

Mr. Morelle's candidacy, for this reason alone, could be dead on arrival.

Lending his voice on the need for its withdrawal was a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator representing Abia south, Eyinnaya Abaribe, as he said the budget was dead on arrival.

That's similar to what he campaigned for to pay for Pre-K for All and likely to face the same fate; Senate Republican Leader John Flanagan said it's dead on arrival.

Others, are simple dead on arrival (the Henry Winkler scene, for

Surprisingly dull and unfunny for the talent involved, «Life After Beth» is a dead - on - arrival comedy that's just as much in need of some brains as its title character.

That wouldn't be a problem if the bits actually paid off, but all the gags in the film either start well then sputter at the end (e.g. the opening Exorcist - inspired sequence, which for all its eventual shortcomings is still the most effective in the film; an overlong takeoff on a Nike commercial) or are dead on arrival (a forced Weakest Link reference).

SPOILERS The producers behind The Walking Dead spent all summer promising that the arrival of the villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) would be a reset for the show, which is tacitly admitting that something had gone wrong and they needed a big new character to drive the show back on track.

Add a title and publicity campaign to rival Howard The Duck for sheer wrongheadedness, and the result is a film likely to be dead on arrival.

His most mainstream production, 1998's infamous shot - for - shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, was dead on arrival.

WASHINGTON President Bush's $ 32.3 - billion education budget for fiscal year 1993 has gotten a comparatively positive reception on Capitol Hill and in the education community, where a decade of Republican budgets have routinely been declared «dead on arrival.»

For something this cheap, I was concerned that it would be dead on arrival.

Finally there is the Ultimate eReader campaign and I beg a pardon Michael but it has none of these things going for it and the specs as they read on the campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-ultimate-e-reader#/ are dead on arrival.

You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is «dead on arrival,» arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

I remember many of you who are the same commenters who claimed the Switch was dead on arrival, yet it seems to be doing alright for itself.

If you're looking for something fun to waste time with online, R.I.P.D.: The Game is dead on arrival.

The game was originally designed as a multiplayer only game, which could explain why the story premise is so odd, but unfortunately the online community for the game is dead on arrival.

So when Federation Force was revealed, with a cartoony look and simplified action - based gameplay that was a stark contrast to the atmosphere and exploration the series is known for, the game was all but dead on arrival.

For the installation, D.O.A. (Dead on Arrival), whose title is borrowed from the police jargon used to describe a murder scene, Shenhav meticulously recreates a hunter's cabin, complete with all of the tools of his trade: rifles, knives, guns, tree stumps, ammunition, traps, taxidermy deer heads and fur pelts.

The three most famous of all Weegee's images were shot for PM and are featured in our show with their original captions: «Coney Island... Temperature 89... They Came Early, Stayed Late,» «The Critic,» and «Their First Murder» (with the accompanying «Here He is as He Was Left in the Gutter... He Got a DOA Tied to His Arm, That Means Dead on Arrival»).

And guaranties that the cited above G8 deal is dead on arrival... Not that the deal will change anything, except for UK government which has been fantastic on Carbon reductions, The Senator and acolytes would have trouble explaining the disappearing Arctic Ocean ice, not that someone is capable of «Hoaxing» vanishing multi year ice, and even further, failing to match their statements with Polar ice disappearing in tandem with world wide temperatures being flat, not rising for ten years now, as they like to claim, how to explain the disappearing ice then??? Those trying to explain a long term cycle, beware!

And so, even though the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in December 1997 and the Clinton administration signed onto it in 1998, the White House never submitted it to the Senate for ratification, knowing it would be dead on arrival.

The chain still has a long way to go, but for its first month, bitcoin cash has shown the blockchain wasn't «dead on arrival», like many opponents predicted.

I am sorry but I am not going to raise a request after every 4 days again and again what you all have been doing is after every 2 days you take a request and cancel it yourself and on every 4 th day i have to call you back to give me a solution which is now not going to happen it was a dead on arrival phone for which your executives have been giving me N no of reasons and just blaming either on the system or the technician who visits me so Now I am not going to do anything.

You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is «dead on arrival,» arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase.

The cameras on the back were truly excellent for the time and the addition of microSD was great, but the questionable build quality, lackluster display, and dead - on - arrival modular system held it back from true greatness.