" The Sun headlined its post-vote edition with the play on words, "Brextinct" and that "May's deal is as dead as a Dodo.
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But as new technology continues to breathe life into once-forgotten findings, perhaps it might be time to rethink the old saying, "dead as a dodo."
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"This will never get through ... it is as dead as a dodo," Conservative lawmaker Mark Francois said, adding he agreed with the Sun newspaper's verdict that the deal was "a surrender".
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Mike Penning, a former minister who backed May's campaign for the party leadership in 2016, said in an interview published on Thursday that the Prime Minister's Brexit plan, known as Chequers, was "dead as a dodo".
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After working in film and television for over a decade as writer-director-producer, she re-located to Goa. She is now the author of seven published books, including Dead As A Dodo, which won The Hindu/Good Reads award for best fiction for children 2016.
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Structural functionalism reached the peak of its influence in the 1940s and 1950s, and by the 1960s was in rapid decline. By the 1980s, its place was taken in Europe by more conflict-oriented approaches, and more recently by structuralism. While some of the critical approaches also gained popularity in the United States, the mainstream of the discipline has instead shifted to a myriad of empirically-oriented middle-range theories with no overarching theoretical orientation. To most sociologists, functionalism is now "as dead as a dodo".
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She attempts to do this in the finale of Series 3 and is responsible for the death of the so-called "First Family". She briefly confronts Danny in the Pliocene, stating that when humanity is gone, other species will be able to develop in peace with no war or pollution. Helen is killed by a raptor before she can complete her mission. Her presence is still felt strongly in the fourth series, as the ARC team speculate her fate; when Danny returns in the finale, he confirms that Helen is dead "as a dodo" to Lester, who responds happily: "Excellent".
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He defies Burton's plan to kill the creatures in the ARC's menagerie, by blackmailing him with the fact that when the anomalies inevitably go public he will expose Burton as "the dinosaur killer" in sympathy for an upset Abby. In episode 4.5 he helps Matt Anderson (Ciarán McMenamin) locate Victorian-era woman Emily Merchant (Ruth Bradley), and in the next episode is informed of the Ethan Dobrowski (Jonathan Byrne) situation before he marries Jenny and her fiancé with special power from the Prime Minister. In the series finale he couldn't been more happier when Danny returned with the news that Helen was "as dead as a dodo". Although he has previously been occasionally referred to in the credits as "Sir" James Lester, it is made clear in the first episode of Series 5 (when he thinks he is in line for one) that he does not actually have a knighthood.
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John Tenniel's 1865 illustration of Alice and the Dodo, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The dodo's significance as one of the best-known extinct animals and its singular appearance led to its use in literature and popular culture as a symbol of an outdated concept or object, as in the expression "dead as a dodo," which has come to mean unquestionably dead or obsolete. Similarly, the phrase "to go the way of the dodo" means to become extinct or obsolete, to fall out of common usage or practice, or to become a thing of the past. "Dodo" is also a slang term for a stupid, dull-witted person, as it was said to be stupid and easily caught. The dodo appears frequently in works of popular fiction, and even before its extinction, it was featured in European literature, as symbol for exotic lands, and of gluttony, due to its apparent fatness. In 1865, the same year that George Clark started to publish reports about excavated dodo fossils, the newly vindicated bird was featured as a character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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