Sentences with phrase «were dead in the water because»

I think the main reason why this is dead in the water because when we spoke to Delta Electronics they were always saying «we are looking for partners, or investment» they focused on very niche segments and never raised the money they needed to do a commercial release.

The Kyoto Protocol, which is arguably the most costly single project ever undertaken by human beings, is dead in the water because the signatories have been unable to meet the quotas.

As an example, Lubitz cites the four weeks last summer when closings in Miami were dead in the water because of the hurricanes.

Not exact matches

Startups that don't gamble are likely to either lose money because they are not bringing in enough customers or they are going to simply push along, without spending much and without making any revenue, which is as good as being dead in the water.

because parents dunk their child's head in water with a witch doctor present doesn't mean their dead body should be subjected to more silly religious ritual.

And it's done this way because clearly there is no water with which a dead guy, Jewish or otherwise, may be baptized in spirit prison (which looks a lot like Cleveland, Ohio).

This defense of the accuracy of the Fourth Gospel in reporting the words of Jesus is undertaken, in spite of what must appear to the disinterested student insuperable obstacles, because to these lovers of the Gospel the alternative seems to be surrendering the authenticity of some of the most precious and manifestly true of Christ's reported words: «I am the bread of life... I am the light of the world... I am the good shepherd... If you continue in my words... you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free... He that drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst... I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live... I am the way, the truth and the life; no one cometh to the Father but by me»... and many more.

I am upset that my dead hamster was never baptised because now the little fur ball must be suffering in eternal damnation or whatever it is is supposed to happen to something that did not have water poured over.

«So let me get this straight, you have two - way conversations with invisible spirits, you think the earth is 10,000 years old, you believe the world was once covered in water (about 5,000 years ago), you believe your invisible sky father came to earth in human form after a virgin birth, then rose as a zombie, from the dead, then ascended into an invisible sky city... all because the first people on earth ate and apple before proceeding on with decades of incest... am I getting this?»

Part of me thinks that AFC have put transfers on hold until they can raise more funds and go back with one last try for Lemar, I know it looks dead in the water because Monaco have raised their asking price but it might be the fact we do not have that money and without that money it is dead... but we get the money and it could be on again.

«Because these cells are dead, they can not be actively involved in pumping water.

Jordan is a strong proponent of the Red — Dead project, mainly because per capita, the country's access to fresh water is among the most restricted in the world.

Less oxygen dissolved in the water is often referred to as a «dead zone» (in red above) because most marine life either dies, or, if they are mobile such as fish, leave the area.

FIRST OFF: NO Smokers, NO Drunks, If your pic is of a naked torso, If you have a big bushy beard or mustache, If you are a Hunter or have a dead animal in your pic or profile, If you are a Fisherman, Love water, camping or running and going to the gym» Then PLEASE just pass me by, because...

Back when it sounded like Suspiria was dead in the water, Green noted that the reason was mostly because the budget was just too big for a film that a studio was essentially going to be taking a risk on.

As a «new» author, who is considered dead in the water by the traditional publishing industry because of being chronologically «old», self / indie publishing is a no - brainer.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

CaCO3 tends to dissolve in the deep ocean, both because of the high pressure and because the waters have been acidified by CO2 from rotting dead plankton.

We recently experienced a mass fish die off with thousands of dead fish washing up on our beaches because of the hot water, and the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.

Much of the reading I do on climate scepticism is dead in the water before the authors get going, because they use a model skeptic that is unlike any I have met.

Because the Dead Sea gets its water from runoff further north, it is a barometer of water availability in the region, Torfstein told OurAmazingPlanet.

Just because you miss a payment doesn't mean your policy is dead in the water.

As an organization, if we believe that our job is ever done because we've arrived, we're dead in the water.