Sentences with phrase «wither over»

And many leaders in the Republican - controlled Congress, where gun restrictions have withered over the years, have shown no change of heart in light of this week's school shooting.

After keeping largely silent as his priorities for New York City in Albany withered over the last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio today ripped Gov. Andrew Cuomo, accusing him of seeking «revenge» for perceived political slights by stymieing progress on key issues.

Not exact matches

I haven't really commented on EC topics since I bowed out 6 - 7 years ago, but my sadness over what was lost when that community withered is all coming back to me having read this thread.

CNN: Giglio bows out of inauguration over sermon on gays In the face of withering criticism over a sermon he apparently delivered on homosexuality in the 1990s, the Rev. Louie Giglio has withdrawn from giving the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration.

Baccalaureate programs in many places withered and died in that environment, but some were taken over and transformed by students into events more to their liking.

«All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of the field; the grass dries up, the flowers wither, if the breath of God passes over them.»

In the parable, the seed in one case fell upon ground having a rocky bottom, covered over with a thin layer of earth; when the seed began to take root, its downward growth was hindered by the hard stone and therefore it spent its strength in pushing its green shoot aloft as high as it could, but having no inward moisture derived from root nourishment, it withered away.

Eventually, like all other meanings, religion would wither away, except perhaps for those poor souls programmed for piety, nodding away over their beads.

The not - at - all - unreasonable expectation is that, over time, this so - far - astonishingly - successful movement will wither and die.

Cuomo was withering in his criticism of de Blasio, who he has clashed with over a variety of issues virtually since the mayor took office.

Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump has withered to 3 percentage points, signaling their battle for the White House has become too close to call heading into the two major - party national conventions, according to a new McClatchy - Marist poll.

The criticism of Cameron over Europe by Lord Howe prompted a withering intervention by Lord Mandelson.

Cuomo, who has endured a week of withering criticism over his administration; s meddling in an anti-corruption panel, holds a double - digit lead and has amassed a $ 35 million warchest.

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

Animal experiments prove that an intact nerve cell can take over the function of a neighboring nerve cell that has become damaged or that has simply withered with time.

People with more than 20 years of work experience have sown seeds over the course of their careers, and these seeds have either born fruit or landed on rocks and withered.

These rock formations filled with tiny crystalline surprises take shape once hollow cavities form in the earth, often left over from magma or withering organic matter.

Why muscles wither with age is captivating a growing number of scientists, drug and food companies, let alone aging baby boomers who, despite having spent years sweating in the gym, are confronting the body's natural loss of muscle tone over time.

The leaves just wither and die and slowly fall off over the winter months.

And over time, that idea slowly withered and no longer held any power.

Bored tale of squabbling over Californian wineries withers on the vine.

Like most third world or disadvantaged artists, Piňero acquisitioned the art of the ruling class: Of the three poems recited in their entirety over the course of Leon Ichaso's scattershot biopic Piňero, the first of them hijacks Percy Shelley's 1819 «Ode to the West Wind» (in its shift from Shelley's «withered leaves to quicken a new birth» to Piňero's «candy wrappers in the wind») and the last of them Longfellow's «My Lost Youth.»

Wolverine's mutant gift of healing has allowed the character's appeal to survive over a decade in the harsh world of cinema, withstanding withering conditions, including the ineptitude of directors Brett Ratner and Gavin Hood and an impatient and greedy studio keen to cash in on a popular character, with scant regard for quality control.

I remember chortling about the first Gulf War, too, thinking how funny it was that our military pounded fourth - generation Chinese armour with bombs left over from Vietnam in a withering blitz that left Saddam Hussein's vaunted «million man army» of non-volunteer soldiers buried in their trenches and surrendering to the press.

Reynolds Woodcock has a tendency to look inward or downward, and when he does look at others, it's usually a withering stare over the top of his glasses, a dismissive expression communicating that whatever or whoever he's looking at is beneath him (something further underlined by his lilting, regal voice).

«Damon Wayans, moving over from the Fox TV show «In Living Color, «also demonstrates some big - screen presence and occasionally tops Willis in withering sarcasm.

In short order, however, Bowie's John begins to develop frightening symptoms, aging years every hour, and the erotic tenor of the film shifts rapidly to an extended metaphor for disease, with Deneuve's Miriam presiding over a host of immortal but aged lovers trapped as withered husks in coffins, testament to an addiction that consumed them.

Three pivotal school board members, who were elected less than three months ago on a platform of keeping the Minneapolis - based company in Hartford, said last week that their support for the experiment had withered during more than two months of negotiations over how much money EAI should receive from the district.

If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable.

Adobe has announced that it plans to stop development of Flash for Android, though, so this notable advantage will wither and fade over the next year.

Kei Wither, Haruto's rival in taking over the Kaguragi family empire, has shown up at Oto's workplace demanding to see Haruto.

Topline dips slightly behind withers then rises over short, broad loin.

An interesting fact about Corgis is that some have a marking known as a «fairy saddle,» a marking over the dog's withers, caused by changes in the thickness, length and direction of hair growth.

Those with Great Danes that are «long in the leg», over 36 - inches to the withers, may notice their dogs always seem to have a harder time getting those rear legs up..

(Males stand over 30 inches at the withers and weigh up to about 140 pounds.

Amazingly, this creature, just a few pounds at birth, can weight over a hundred pounds and stand 30 inches tall to the withers in just one year!

Height at the withers is eight - to - 11 inches, and dogs over 12 inches are disqualified from the show ring.

Too many Cavaliers have very faulty toplines from sagging backs to very high rears, giving a very unattractive outline especially when accompanied by an incorrect croup and very gay tail — and I don't mean the high tail of a macho male posturing in the ring, I mean a tail clear over the back almost touching the withers.

Designed specifically for the «big dogs» (over 50 pounds and 19» or higher at the withers), it provides ergonomically correct feeding for improving...

Designed specifically for the «big dogs» (over 50 pounds and 19» or higher at the withers), it provides ergonomically correct feeding for improving digestion and posture.

Although dogs» hair is most often raised over the withers (the area where the tops of a dog's shoulder blades meet), dogs can raise their hair all along their spine.

The medium poodle is a dog over 35 cm up to 45 cm at the withers (a height of approximately 14 - 18 inches.)

The topline runs without any visible break from the set on of the neck, over the well defined withers, falling away slightly in a straight line to the gently sloping croup.

The best time to explore the real Crete, before its natural beauty is withered and mass tourism takes over the island.

As Bill Withers» «Lean On Me» comes over the sound system, Megan tells the youth in her van the story of Marincello — and the grassroots effort that quashed the nascent housing development in the Marin Headlands during the 1960s.

Her paintings recall the rust oranges of canyons and the flat sky blue that hangs over Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner's desert battlegrounds; their flatness however becomes streaked and abstracted, with a withered hand poking into the crook of another block of colour as in the painting «Shade» (2010).

I just hope that, unlike Wright's beautiful wall - painting, which will be painted over when this year's Turner Prize exhibition closes at the start of next month, the newly refreshed impulse to make beautiful works of art won't soon wither and fade away.

Motivated by early efforts to gather climate and weather data over new media Eli asks, wither Twitter and is not very optimistic.

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Climate science and climate scientists aren't the only ones who have come under some withering scrutiny over the past 12 months.