| This is a couple of weeks earlier than most people had expected, I fluctuate between thinking it will be a great success or a damp squib. |
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| For a government that claims its willingness to take tough decisions, this paper really is a damp squib. |
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| Ironically, the champion of the less well off appears more of a damp squib than a Catherine wheel. |
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| After that little squib in today's Wall Street Journal, I thought it was time to let you know about the new book. |
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| A spectacular charity firewalk has been called off because council bungling turned the event into a damp squib. |
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| The legislation was little more than a damp squib, offering the possibility of some positive changes but hardly making the necessary difference. |
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| Horace Walpole had written a squib against him, which Rousseau attributed to Hume. |
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| The final straw came when the captain forgot to give the countdown to midnight at the New Year's Eve, making a damp squib of the party. |
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| With five seconds left in the game, Guerra kicked a short squib which Prospect quickly downed. |
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| The guy gets shot, he falls backwards, the squib explodes, tearing open his shirt clearly letting us see the blood package taped to his chest. |
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| Christmas too has been a damp squib for the merchants and businesses as people rethink and re-evaluate their priorities. |
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| She warned that although there was a lot of potential with the town twinning, unless the community pulled together it would be a damp squib. |
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| Me, I rather felt that Rich had missed the big important news story, which is offered as a squib at the end. |
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| I was a tad worried that the new series might be an over-hyped damp squib. |
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| When served with squib, quail or capon it highlights their qualities without swamping them. |
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| Well the cynics among you may well be thinking that this is yet another government report that arrives in a blaze of glory and ends up as something of a damp squib! |
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| Organisers of York's November 5 fireworks spectacular were slammed as the aerial display proved a damp squib, with thousands of people unable to see the show. |
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| The singer's anthemic effort failed to live up to Ireland's high-scoring record in the contest, and that made the event something of a damp squib. |
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| Despite fine words about sustainability and pages of pretty pictures of the environment, the Scottish Forestry Strategy turns out to be a damp squib. |
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| And maybe that is why cricket's fiction is all too often a damp squib, an ersatz simulacrum of the real thing. |
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| But it proved to be a damp squib and an anticlimax if ever there was one. |
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| Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was among those mourning the damp squib of a final day. |
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| In particular, the issues of shield building design methodology and the squib valve technology are under review. |
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| As the latter they would deliver enough material for an entertaining squib. |
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| But that little squib on Lex's views is all by way of background. |
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| But they all seem to cite back to this little squib in the Post. |
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| Fireworks Night is already past, but November will be remembered as the month when Rangers either went off like a damp squib or blazed like a rocket. |
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| Your Honour, I do not want to squib the answer, but the answer is maybe, and I will need to spend a little more time later saying why it is maybe, rather than yes. |
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| The valve would have a diagraph disk punctured by a small squib device, allowing the complete, instantaneous discharge of the agent. |
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| On the following kickoff, Birmingham's squib kick went off the leg of a Grant player and was recovered by Laolagi. |
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| However, replacement of most items was required to restore the system, including replacement of the latch opening actuator, off-wing slide compartment door actuators, and the spoiler blow-down squib. |
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| She is not a squib, although that is a very good guess. |
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| After the ousting of their charismatic vocalist John Bush and the damp squib that was the reunion with Belladonna, Anthrax had to find a new frontman. |
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| Their third with the hosts proved a bit of a damp squib as Nooij tried out a few new men, knowing full well a draw would see them top the group with seven points. |
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| Sophomore Ben Reiffarth took the squib kick and darted 71 yards for the touchdown. |
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| Gas generators are designed to ignite as soon as the temperature inside the gas generator reaches 160-180° C. In such cases the ignition squib and the solid fuel burn without destroying the gas generator. |
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| I think Game of Love is a damp squib of a second track, Lose Yourself to Dance is too slow and the lyrics are either meaningless or sentimental in a peculiarly continental way. |
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| The activists wailed that the senators were a bunch of lily-livered Bush toadies who would all be ousted if they didn't toe the line. In this section Resolve, but no solution Bungled Damp squib or mutating monster? |
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| A week ago this Ashes series, beginning so soon after the summer's dampish squib and some desolutory prep, seemed like it might a truly tepid affair. |
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| Cataleya's archnemesis and the entire reason for her revenge spree, Don Luis, is a damp squib and then some. |
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| Kicking off from the 25-yard line, Wright knocked a low, hard squib kick up the middle. |
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| After taking over the ball at their own 26-yard line when junior Thomas Wickham fell on a squib kick by Hudson, the Gaels promptly produced two highlight-reel plays. |
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| The trouble with this big bang is that a damp squib is set to precede it, in the shape of ten fixtures that have to be shoehorned into the preceding week. |
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| Lowell recovered its own squib kick to retake possession, and this needed just three plays to go 44 yards for another touchdown, and on and on it went. |
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| This time Squib laughed and gave her a kiss filled with all the passion and love in his being. |
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| Howard Mattocks in the Fife Siglen, Brian Mather in the Squib Con Brio and Gareth Wright in the Hilbre Hie built up big leads and generally the boats were well spread out. |
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| Brian Mather in the Squib Con Brio led almost all the way only to be pipped in the final few yards by Peter Read in Blue Peter who claimed the Pauline Morewood Challenge Cup. |
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