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I flopped down on my bed and cracked it open.
Its supposedly innovative streaming device, the Nexus Q, flopped dramatically.
But too many foreign takeovers by British firms have flopped.
Google Glass flopped with consumers and pivoted to the enterprise.
Why does the world's manufacturing upswing appear to have flopped?
They thought he flopped at the first debate in Miami.
It also flopped at the 2017 Western Australia state election.
But attempts to go any further have so far flopped.
This September, a planned Free Speech Week at Berkeley flopped .
Perfect flopped at the box office, losing over $8 million.
Systematic strategies haven't exactly flopped and still attracted significant assets.
His body, wasted by cancer, flopped like a rag doll.
An attempt to advertise the clinic on Facebook Live flopped.
She even flopped once to try to win a penalty.
Snap's Spectacles Flopped Farhad: Finally, there was news about Snap.
When I finally tried to sell it, it completely flopped.
Some efforts to expand in countries like Japan have flopped.
A boy in a soiled tracksuit flopped to the ground.
When the film was released the next year, it flopped.
Because if the movie flopped, it would have two effects.
Attempts to go any further have so far flopped, however.
When it came to viewership, Insatiable excelled and Dietland flopped.
Trump has flip-flopped on his stance on keeping DACA alive.
I flopped on the bed and pulled out a memo pad.
His first book of photographs, The English at Home (1936), flopped.
Following her departure, Herrera's collection flopped and the house lost business.
What do you say to people who say the XR flopped?
It flashed and flopped all over the bottom of the boat.
Yes, but: Plenty of previous Silicon Valley campaign efforts have flopped.
It flopped but, when quartz got cheaper, its progeny took off.
Trump has flip-flopped on the issue throughout his public life.
When their follow-up record flopped, they were dropped by Interscope.
That effort flopped, which advocates hope will assuage DC doctors' worries.
The prime minister's deal has flopped and her authority is shot.
It doesn't help that US has flip-flopped on immigration policy.
I flopped down on the couch, plate of food in hand.
Despite the hype that greeted Hope's creation, however, the party flopped.
The Bondy "Tosca" may have flopped, but its intent was laudable.
With Ma$e unable to promote the album, Double Up flopped.
While this first attempt as cofounders flopped, they were not deterred.
Chinese companies' efforts in earlier generations of wireless technology mostly flopped.
If my business flopped, I could break even and walk away.
The Nationals flopped in Bryce Harper's final season before free agency.
Pittsburgh's JuJu Smith-Schuster flopped to the ground after a touchdown.
The guy rocked sideways and then flopped forward on his face.
An initial effort, an ecologically themed musical called "Mother Earth," flopped.
Yes, but Democrats flopped in Congress, governor races and state legislatures.
Blue Apron and Snap did IPOs this year that largely flopped.
"Mission to Mars" and "Mars Needs Moms" both flopped this decade.
But soon her strength was sapped, and she flopped back down.
Green stalked away in disbelief, fully convinced that James had flopped.
Several high-profile initial public stock offerings, for instance, flopped spectacularly.
Flappy Bird flapped its last and quickly flopped out of existence.
There were gasps and nervous titters as the prosthesis flopped out.
But initially, The Outsiders was marketed to adults, and it flopped.
The project, however, flopped and the city remains abandoned until today.
Watch the video above to see why 7-Eleven in Indonesia flopped.
Highlight flopped, but there was a germ of an idea in there.
Instant Articles, news stories that were hosted and monetized by Facebook, flopped.
Peace talks have flopped, in large part because of Mr Assad's intransigence.
After the project flopped commercially, a Chinese state-owned firm took control.
But Jagger's solo albums flopped, and he returned to his old partner.
But despite the flashy diamond-covered Golden Eagle theme, book sales flopped.
Other games flopped (one was a Bond-villain simulator called Evil Genius).
Their collection of raw and unproven arms has flopped so far, again.
Its Illum follow-up camera, aimed at more serious photographers, also flopped.
It may all sound simple, yet some off-price chains have flopped.
She had a deal that fell through because the buyer's ICO flopped.
So why is the Switch doing well while the Wii U flopped?
She was hunched over, legs flopped on either side, face in hands.
Four shows flopped this spring at a total loss to their investors.
It's hard to overstate just how embarrassingly Bloomberg's theory of victory flopped.
Both films flopped on release, and Valray "gave up cinema," Bromberg said.
The idea came over a coffee, after earlier endeavors with furniture flopped.
Tina met her end when she flopped onto a pair of walkers.
Mr. Green tossed down his gun and belly-flopped onto the grass.
In the last week, YouTube has also flip-flopped on content decisions.
Expensive signings have flopped, and the club is laboring under considerable debt.
By the time I flopped into bed, I was flush with possibility.
When they presented it to Eames Demetrios, the famed designers' grandson, it flopped.
It was meant to be a blockbuster moment, and it pretty much flopped.
Video But perhaps feeling complacent after beating Germany in the semifinals, France flopped.
When that venture flopped after making only one flight, Cummings' political career began.
A rough year for unicorns: Some of 2019's flashiest IPOs have flopped.
After interrupting play, the dog flopped down to receive coveted scratches from players.
But as a solo act on the national stage, Biden flopped in 2008.
Even over the last few weeks, Trump has flip-flopped on key issues.
But the 2012 GOP nominee has flip-flopped on Trump too -- in reverse.
In addition, his latest film projects have largely flopped at the box office.
With nine years of hindsight, factors central to why it flopped are clear.
But the seemingly arbitrary color assignments have actually flip-flopped over the years.
Google was early to launch a prototype for AR glasses, but they flopped.
But several big initial public offerings, notably of ride-hailing giants, have flopped.
We've seen similar promises of the "connected mobile PC" before, and they've flopped.
TC: Have you been flopped out on a coach since selling to Netmarble?
And he has flip-flopped on health care numerous times this month alone.
The CMAs have flip-flopped a second time ... reposting some of the items.
Other foreign acquisitions also seem to have flopped and no others are planned.
She said that Trump initially supported the invasion but has since flip-flopped.
And, as is true every season, a vast majority of new productions flopped.
If Republicans hadn't felt betrayed by their leaders, Trump would likely have flopped.
Instead, Bradley didn't even have adjustments prepared for when the plan (predictably) flopped.
But he flopped on Wednesday while being grilled by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Trump has flip-flopped on the accuracy of polls since he became president.
Google flopped in efforts to popularize games on virtual reality headsets and televisions.
Trump's space policy — particularly on going back to the moon — has flip-flopped.
Bad day for SoftBank: SoftBank's blockbuster IPO has flopped in its market debut.
Hong Kong (CNN Business)SoftBank's blockbuster IPO has flopped in its market debut.
He is flopped in a corner, tail wagging, nose resting on his paws.
The S&P 500 flip-flopped between gains and losses for the year.
In rehearsals, my body is being flipped, flopped and turned every which way.
While Microsoft's own chatbot launch flopped, its platform is still a big deal.
The Fire Phone flopped, but by this point, Bezos was worth $30.5 billion.
Speaking of, Conway flip-flopped about whether Trump would release his tax returns.
Reaching up, she tweaked one of her rabbit ears so it flopped downward.
But another personal favorite, an automatic vote tabulator for legislative bodies, flopped badly.
The previous attempt to lift the restrictions of cars without human controls flopped.
Legislative efforts to establish such a bank flopped in 2009, 2014, and 2017.
So Tillis flip-flopped — which drew widespread ridicule without winning back his base.
Sure, the Dow flopped 665 points Friday and nearly 20163,100 for the week.
The company tried to launch its own smartphone in 2014, but it flopped.
Despite positive reviews, both musicals flopped at the box office and closed early.
Then slowly, I increased my walks to jogs, even if everything jiggled and flopped.
Slowly, she pulled her fingers back from Chrisanne's pussy and flopped onto her back.
They flopped in the grass spine-to-spine, a pair of inside-out parentheses.
But right after the debate, he flip-flopped again -- a flippty floppity flip, perhaps.
Following a flopped IPO in 2012, Facebook desperately brainstormed new ways to earn money.
Champions such as Amazon and Goldman Sachs have either flopped or been largely excluded.
While Google Glass flopped among consumers, but saw more success as an enterprise device.
Major acquisitions like Tumblr have flopped while internal efforts have yielded few big wins.
His first few projects, a deep-fried pot pie and the McChicken sandwich, flopped.
Other efforts from Facebook to court younger users, like its Lifestage app, have flopped.
The bill was endorsed by the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus but ultimately flopped.
The Allswell online mattress brand initially flopped because its price point was too high.
A string of critically panned movies have flopped at the box office this year.
I flopped around trying to find the balance between looking comfortable and being comfortable.
Against Jacare, Belfort flopped to guard, was quickly mounted, and was brutally pounded out.
They set off to launch a furniture rental startup called Fonzy but that flopped.
His résumé also included the infamous musical "Carrie," which flopped on Broadway in 1988.
Trump flip-flopped and called on Republican senators to repeal Obamacare without a replacement.
He's been struggling since May, and he flopped at the first debate in Miami.
Using a pillow, she propped up his head, but it flopped to the side.
Quarterback Johnny Manziel dropped to No. 22 in 2014; he flopped with the Browns.
Things changed for me when Gary Johnson flip-flopped on the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Kindle e-readers are popular, but the company's attempt at a smartphone flopped hard.
But their quarterback — Baker Mayfield (Rated Number 31) — flopped, and so did the Browns.
His lenders — who gave him $210 million — insisted on 18% interest, and it flopped.
Trump flip-flopped all over the place, and it didn't seem to hurt him.
Records and public statements show that Team Becks flip-flopped in a pretty callous manner.
Though the first Green Lantern flopped, it's where Reynolds met his now-wife, Blake Lively.
There is hope: a similar ploy flopped last year in the neighbouring state of Bihar.
The Fire phone flopped (sorry to bring it up again), so Amazon doesn't have phones.
Hillary Clinton has flip-flopped on the important issues to college students, including gay marriage.
POLLACK: To tell you, he flip-flopped a lot, if you read through the confession.
On foreign policy, he has flipped and flopped without any major diplomatic or military breakthroughs.
Many films — Scream (1996) and Cruel Intentions (1999) notwithstanding — featuring a Hollywood power couple flopped.
"I am very pleased that he flip-flopped on the immunity legislation," Clinton told Tapper.
For what it's worth, I, too, have an opinion on why Tinashe's career has flopped.
I remember as the train moved forward for the first time, my heart flip-flopped.
Schumer said that Republicans have flip-flopped on the standard they insisted on for Kagan.
We know what he's said, we know where he's flip-flopped, where he's made mistakes.
The service initially flopped, and was relaunched as an iOS and Android app in 2016.
Legendary has been bruised at the global box office; "Warcraft" and "The Great Wall" flopped.
He showed me a picture of himself at Hussong's, flopped over, head on the table.
Even after WeWork&aposs IPO flopped, Yacktman did not consider the saga to be over.
And it flopped hard in China, where the franchise has struggled to build an audience.
Trump has flip-flopped on his support for a background check bill in recent weeks.
Sadly, it flopped in the US. The uninspiring name The American Baking Competition didn't help.
"Shelton has flip-flopped on too many issues to be confirmed," said Ohio Democratic Sen.
But hours later, they flip-flopped and withdrew the motion, following a swift backlash online.
And Google Glass (which doesn't even totally count as augmented reality) flopped badly immediately upon release.
Michelle Obama's numbers in that category were dramatically flip-flopped with 78% women and 13% men.
However, Surefire Intelligence's attempt to prove the allegations flopped and the alleged accuser never came forward.
When I returned, I found Max sitting downstairs and flopped next to him on the couch.
Windows RT flopped spectacularly, with a confusing message to customers, and weak support from PC makers.
He pushed hard to execute an innovative idea and it flopped for a number of reasons.
As they flopped it into the truck, the man came out to claim, indignantly, his bungees.
Donnie Darko famously flopped during its initial theatrical run, which concluded in the spring of 2002.
Nintendo has released only one new console in the iPhone era, the Wii U. It flopped.
On the film side, "Steve Jobs," which flopped at the box office, was a repeat winner.
My first dot-com business flopped, but then I worked at a series of other companies.
Pizza Hut had already tried a gourmet "Flavor of Now" menu revamp in 2014, which flopped.
After the Galaxy S5 flopped in 2014, Samsung made a push toward improving its industrial design.
But when she came back with a "Yeah, you should do that," my stomach flip-flopped.
The Cubs have mostly been bad since, and when they were good, they flopped in October.
When he left, Elias flopped morosely into a massage chair and looked out his balcony window.
A previous endeavor by the UN in 2004 flopped when Greek Cypriots rejected the reunification blueprint.
Keep reading to see which funds soared, which ones flopped and which ones were in between. 
Then he flopped against the base of a honeysuckle tree and closed his eyes to rest.
A counter-concert organized by Maduro's people flopped, as most of the performers pulled out beforehand.
In other fields, including flat-panel displays and cars, the country's industrial policy has flopped repeatedly.
"They are now doing a complete about-face and have flip-flopped on this," Schiff said.
But Uber (UBER) and fellow ridesharing unicorn Lyft (LYFT) both flopped in their Wall Street debuts.
The Trump Library had flopped; he could think of only one book to put in it.
There were some obvious reasons it flopped: lack of star power, confusing narrative about cannibalistic megacities.
They secured early funding from the investment group Band of Angels, but the company soon flopped.
The beer maker's public debut comes at a time when other highly anticipated IPOs have flopped.
Facebook's virtual assistant M may have flopped, but it continues to invest heavily in chatbot research.
Stocks slipped in opened modestly lower Monday, and flip-flopped positive at stages in early trading.
Yet, when it arrived in theaters earlier this month, it flopped hard at the box office.
In 2000, the Baha Men released "Who Let the Dogs Out," and at first, it flopped.
Later, two players flopped on their stomachs inside one of the goals for a posed shot.
"Remember when she flip-flopped on the border wall?" read a statement from the Arizona Republican Party.
I saw a woman approaching me, so I just flopped it on, you know, I was leaving.
So in 2011, it created an all-in-one toothpaste and mouthwash, but the product initially flopped.
And that hair of theirs, it was a perfectly chaotic nest of curls that gracefully flopped around.
Sometimes you're not always right, you get the ones you think you flopped in, and vice versa.
And your family doesn't care if you've messed up or you flopped or if your song tanked.
Idiocracy has also seen its reputation improve since it flopped at the box office back in 2006.
Failure there will mean that Mrs May's strategy has flopped and that her future is in doubt.
In my family we've all flopped pretty badly over the years at times, and that's always okay.
Four years later, when the boys hit the big screen, the film flopped at the box office.
She starred in two TV shows that flopped almost immediately, followed by the largely panned movie Unforgettable.
Moderate Tories, meanwhile, point out that their party embraced cultural conservatism in the 2017 election, and flopped.
Facebook cut back on glitzy launch events following one it threw for Facebook Home, which immediately flopped.
An insertable rubber cup, from a startup in the 1960s, flopped, in part because of these hurdles.
After Zuck declared "Carthage must be destroyed", Google+ flopped and its messaging apps became a fragmented mess.
Despite an attempt to revive sales the following year with a "queenly purple" paintjob, La Femme flopped.
I thought about all the stares I would receive as I jiggled and flopped around the track.
She neither flopped into obscurity nor did she develop from cute comedy girl into grande dame thesp.
ESPN picked Brad Nessler, best known for his bland college football and basketball work, but he flopped.
But some of those movies that dramatically flopped are finding a modicum of new life through digital.
As his colleagues looked on surprised, Mr. Kara-Murza's sweat-covered head flopped down onto a table.
That in and of itself was something of a triumph, because the WWE's guest hosts often flopped.
Lundqvist twirled and lunged and flopped to make saves, shaking his head when a shot went in.
Mr. Marchionne's strategy of reintroducing Fiat and Alfa Romeo cars in the United States has largely flopped.
Olmsted's attempt at farming flopped financially, but his time on Staten Island paid off in other ways.
Op-Ed Contributor WASHINGTON — President Trump has flip-flopped many times during his first months in office.
A decade ago early attempts at game streaming flopped precisely because of high prices and iffy technology.
Although his first attempts had flopped—the "emerald" looked like a nub of coal—Shah wasn't discouraged.
As it has played out, to the surprise of nearly everyone, the Times' anointing has flopped spectacularly.
In his remarks on Tuesday, Mr. Trump flip-flopped again on taking responsibility for the government shutdown.
What's weird is how FromSoftware has flipped and flopped over this specific design choice across various games.
The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon, flopped at the American box office, way below its producers' expectations.
President Trump himself has flip-flopped on more than one occasion about his interest in running for president.
Not to mention all the on-demand dry-cleaning, car-valet and meal-delivery startups that have flopped.
As the motorcycle flopped into the California desert sand, a lanky, bespectacled engineer flapped his arms in distress.
In both instances — first with Poke, then with Slingshot — Facebook's attempt to create a legitimate Snapchat competitor flopped.
The flap of flesh flopped over the side of my head, and the blood gushed into my eyes.
His flip-flopped, perfectly pedicured toes — complete with toe rings — were actually just an unusual pair of socks.
But the single's gently massaging messaging flopped; it debuted at No. 13 but lacked her usual staying power.
Two American-led trade deals, known as TPP and TTIP, that gave protection to intellectual property, have flopped.
The Breitbart editor and former adviser to President Donald Trump came out in force for Moore — and flopped.
I made my way back to my bedroom, where I removed my fur, and flopped on my bed.
Trump has flip-flopped on abortion, and seems to have adopted a rather extreme stance on the issue.
Trump has flip-flopped on whether or how he plans to ring-fence his business from his presidency.
Firms found that local competitors were more capable than expected and that large investments and takeovers often flopped.
I mean, he flip-flopped with his decision there at the end there, so he was obviously struggling.
While Shadow Puppet flopped with consumers, some teachers and students loved using it for showing off class projects.
Both movie stars, Blanche is now a glamorous fixture of Hollywood, whereas all of Jane's films have flopped.
Doubly ironic is the fact that Magic Recs was a bot that actually worked when some have flopped.
The scripts range from Sabrina the Teenage Witch to King of Queens to a flopped Jenji Kohan series.
His jungle thriller Ghost in the Darkness (1996) flopped but has gradually become considered an underrated cult classic.
But the "Schulz effect" failed to deliver in Saarland, where his party flopped in a March state poll.
Even QR codes, which have largely flopped in the U.S., are used everywhere in China to buy goods.
For this reason, Tim Burton's mostly faithful 2001 remake of the original Planet of the Apes flopped critically.
Hopeful hits like "Dark Phoenix" and "Men in Black: International" flopped hard over the summer of lousy sequels.
President Donald Trump has flip-flopped on Iran repeatedly in recent months, but especially over the past week.
But after Google Glass flopped and fizzled out of the limelight, Samsung's own smart glasses project fell silent.
Then she flopped away from me because she also tended to overheat when she drank a lot. 5.
Multiple generations co-existing in appreciation, as iconic hit belly flopped onto iconic hit, for hour after hour.
He spent time developing iPhone apps that flopped and products that not too many people really interacted with.
Remember when Barack Obama ran for president opposing an individual mandate and then flip-flopped and supported one?
AT&T is expected to also claim Mr. Delrahim has flip-flopped on his views of the deal.
The kids dried off and flopped on the bed to play video games while I straightened the room.
The governorship of Puerto Rico has historically flip-flopped between supporters of statehood and supporters of commonwealth status.
It flopped in the way of a slouch brim, falling over one eye, giving Hicks a mysterious aspect.
Mr. Johnson divides opinion, flopped as foreign secretary and has been described as Britain's answer to President Trump.
Even as Mr Trump has flip-flopped, Americans' views of the war have not wavered during his presidency.
In 2018, the $112 million effort "Asura" was pulled from cinemas after it comprehensively flopped amid scathing reviews.
Giu­lianotti's grasper lost its grip on the gallbladder, and the organ flopped back down, blocking the camera's view.
Equally, attempts to earn a return from its $133 billion of risk-weighted assets there have repeatedly flopped.
"1917" comes at a time when Universal needs a win after "Cats" flopped hard at the box office.
It's been a long time coming after an electric luxury sedan from the company flopped several years ago.
But I wish I hadn't spent The Corcoran Group's first big profit on a marketing campaign that flopped.
In the past, Trump has flip-flopped when asked how he will deal with the North Korean regime.
They reportedly netted nearly $20,000 for their work with Traf-o-Data, but the data-gathering project ultimately flopped.
Saltalamacchia flopped in Miami, lasting just one year and one month into a three-year, $21 million guaranteed contract.
Washington (CNN)On Wednesday night, the onetime king of 2020 buzz -- Beto O'Rourke -- flopped on the national debate stage.
Inoue became critical of Asahara later and testified as a trial witness for prosecutors, though his statements flip-flopped.
Other cashed-up behemoths failed to take into account local tastes, got wrangled in legal issues, or simply flopped.
An oft-cited example of China's supposedly predatory approach involves Hambantota, a Sri Lankan port which has flopped commercially.
Amazon may have flopped with the Fire Phone, but don't count it out of the telephony game just yet.
A subsequent attempt to take Whitehaven private flopped and he eventually had to surrender his Whitehaven stake to creditors.
Instead of desperately fighting off takedown attempts he flopped to guard and began playing a double overhooks butterfly game.
This weekend last year "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" flopped, but still led the domestic box office with $35 million.
He flopped around the ring on rubber legs, but appeared to be playing possum, perhaps to frustrate Frazier further.
He was thrilled to finally catch a fish, which flopped and shimmered in the well of their little boat.
Even after Google first passed Microsoft in 2012, the companies flip-flopped several times over the next few years.
Economic output has flip-flopped between expansion and contraction; deflation — a corrosive decline in consumer prices — remains stubbornly entrenched.
When you feel anxious, your memory kicks in — flooding you with memories of moments where you failed or flopped.
In September 2001, the three flopped in their pay-per-view debut because they did not buy enough airtime.
Its skin cancer treatment Zelboraf flopped, the company said on Monday, while similar drugs from Novartis achieved their goals.
Dialogue is flipped, characters are flopped, but the story is told successfully with good jokings and fine, fine drawings.
This week's weather has flip-flopped between soggy and sunny, with similar uncertainty expected for the next few days.
Zinc's previous bull narrative flip-flopped almost as soon as the price started closing in on those decade-highs.
The campaign for the game — called Hello Neighbor — flopped, earning less than $2000,25 of its $2003,2200 fund-raising goal.
Girard thought he was fouled by Goodwin but officials deemed he flopped on the play and the game ended.
But the US position has since flip-flopped with the administration requiring that agriculture be part of the negotiations.
The docu-series "Losers" looks back at moments when athletes flopped spectacularly, and asks how — or if — they've recovered.
Will a film studio's New York sets help a contemporary art fair soar after the city's other fairs flopped?
The idea isn't far from what former Facebook president Sean Parker tried with the relaunch of his flopped startup Airtime.
"He flopped down with his bag in the hall with this bag and his most prized possession — a full orange."
Republican-backed efforts to stop Donald Trump from claiming the party's presidential nomination have flopped over the last four months.
A few years ago, Lionsgate's The Expendables 3 leaked prior to its release and subsequently flopped at the box office.
And after last year's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, he flip-flopped to become a prominent voice for gun control.
Even if some innovations flopped—cheerleaders were quietly scrapped—the new league heralded an age of transformation in English football.
As Google flip-flopped on its decision, other ad blockers makers remained more or less untouched by the shifting policy.
If all this hints at a new readiness to get tough, it is in part because other tactics have flopped.
Investment has flopped thanks to chaotic policymaking and rising costs: electricity tariffs have risen nearly fivefold over the past decade.
However, in 2018 Pruitt flip-flopped and announced the protections would stay in place as the EPA gathered more information.
Why they flopped: Uber and Lyft both had highly-anticipated IPOs — and they both turned out to be duds. Why?
Cruzin' for a bruisin': The Ted released a five-minute video to remind voters that Trump flip-flopped on abortion.
After marrying in 2007, Baldwin and Basinger starred in this 22011 crime caper, which promptly flopped at the box office.
The actor also struck out with "Suburbicon" and "The Great Wall," both of which opened during and flopped in 2017.
But several big-budget Chinese films have flopped while more modest productions have done well, highlighting the challenges China faces.
Then the president flip-flopped last Friday, tweeting that he will chair a "Security Council meeting on Iran" after all.
Economic output has flip-flopped between expansion and contraction, and deflation — a corrosive decline in consumer prices — remains stubbornly entrenched.
Even as the fantasy movie flopped, another unexpected film with a budget reportedly of around $15 million struck a chord.
Instead of explaining how free trade saves hundreds of millions of Americans thousands of dollars annually, Clinton has flip-flopped.
One end tunneled under the skin and then fed into the vein; the other end flopped around on the surface.
Atlante last month took over another regional bank Popolare di Vicenza after its 1.5 billion euro initial public offering flopped.
Then, as the years moved on, those flopped so now I'm somebody who writes book and then occasionally does journalism.
"Terminator: Dark Fate" flopped over the weekend, both in the US and China, with $29 million and $28 million, respectively.
These moves, and "Joanne," too, serve as an overcorrection to the garish eccentricity of "Artpop," her last album, which flopped.
The Jets, whose mistakes to that point included a blocked field goal and a critical fumble by Robby Anderson, flopped.
They traded Travis Shaw to Milwaukee last winter and hoped for improvement from Pablo Sandoval, who flopped and was released.
By his account, Mr. Metzger had been reluctant to direct more explicitly pornographic films until his 1974 movie, "Score," flopped.
The film received five Oscar nominations, including best picture, but flopped at the box office when it was first released.
Then I took a nice one of him flopped on the kitchen floor, bloodshot eyes staring balefully at the camera.
WeWork's pitch ultimately flopped, forcing it to ditch its IPO and seek a capital injection from existing backer SoftBank instead.
It flopped during the late 2000s and went through a period of sales declines during the recession and its aftermath.
The original satellites launched two decades ago at a cost of $5 billion, but Iridium flopped, declaring bankruptcy in 1999.
Since clinching the nomination, Trump has flip-flopped, on issues such as tax cuts, tax returns and the minimum wage.
Tall and lanky with hair that flopped over the front of his glasses, he had shown up with a friend.
But after taking years to negotiate deals with the major record labels, the extremely late $9.99 SoundCloud Go+ subscription service flopped.
Rubio still seems like the establishment candidate, but he flopped in New Hampshire and went full drunk-dad spinning his loss.
They are why the BBC is planning a new TV adaptation even after The Golden Compass flopped at the box office.
The Global Road release, also starring Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista and Charlie Day, flopped with $3.2 million in 2,3.23 theaters.
The Four Feathers, the prestige follow-up to Almost Famous costarring Heath Ledger, flopped in 103, grossing just $18 million domestically.
And when it became clear he had little idea what to do with the job he had so coveted, he flopped.
The UBS model suggests that the blockbuster growth of late 2017 and early 2018 has indeed flopped in more recent months.
They combined low-voltage Celeron and Pentium M chips with Windows Vista, and like everything else touched by Vista, they flopped.
Arnold: The Movie flopped at the box office in 2002, the series fizzled out over the course of the following season.
Since neither Oculus nor HTC Vive have revealed user numbers, what real indications do we have that VR hasn't already flopped?
But Einhorn's pitch flopped with debt rating agencies and proxy advisers and he failed to rally other shareholders to his cause.
Peace initiatives have flopped before, most spectacularly in 2004, when Greek Cypriots rejected a United Nations reunification blueprint in a referendum.
That's a lot of Android on BlackBerry, especially considering the company's first Android phone, the Priv, completely flopped this past year.
Clinton has flip-flopped on gay marriage, support for TPP, campaign funding, gun control, and the list goes on and on.
I grimaced as it flopped around, taking its last breaths, in the net used to scoop it out of the water.
An online courseI launched one last month and it flopped — and I wrote about it, as it was 100% my fault.
"Steyer and Clinton may be a good fit, though, given both have flip-flopped on energy over the years," it said.
Ethics aside, Albany flopped on many other issues, too, with Mayor Bill de Blasio usually coming out on the short end.
But a close look at about 60 ventures started or promoted by him showed that two-thirds flopped or had problems.
Some Amazon-branded products have already flopped, including its Amazon Element diapers, which were pulled for design flaws shortly after launch.
While many initial coin offerings have flopped, cryptocurrency developers continue working on new use cases and M&A has remained strong.
The speaker went on to become something of a surprise hit for Amazon, whose prior mobile hardware forays had badly flopped.
The Scottish Football Association reviewed video of the incident, decided there had been no contact and that Walker had indeed flopped.
The culmination of that, "Justice League," flopped hard both with audiences and critics, and the studio has pivoted toward standalone stories.
It needs the win after the Wii U, its last home console, flopped and the 23DS, its last handheld console, disappointed.
Also notable: "Rough Night" (Sony), an R-rated comedy led by a female ensemble, flopped with $8.1 million in ticket sales.
Casper Sleep, which billed itself as the "Nike of sleep" by selling mattresses online, flopped when it went public this month.
President Trump has railed repeatedly against the Senate filibuster as a major reason that many of his policy priorities have flopped.
Some flopped about all day and then drank all night; we were polite to each other but I didn't join them.
The film flopped at the box office and even star Taron Egerton said that he wasn't a fan of the movie. 
I flopped into the driver's seat of my tin can of a green Land Rover, slammed the door and sat silently.
Germany's MediaMrkt and America's Best Buy, big electronics retailers, and Home Depot, an American home-improvement giant, all flopped in China.
The White House flip-flopped on promises to raise the minimum age to purchase rifles and to enforce universal background checks.
He flopped in his previous role, but he has star quality and is seen as capable of winning back party supporters.
Hill was supposed to bat sixth and C Sandy Leon eighth, but manager John Farrell flip-flopped Holt (eighth) and Leon (sixth).
And there's something else the three shows above have in common — they all quickly flopped, the fate of so many Friends clones.
Windows Phone as a platform may have flopped, but its design really pushed Apple and Google to make better mobile operating systems.
Instagram isn't paying any creators directly for IGTV videos either, like Facebook did to jump-start its flopped Facebook Watch video hub.
While Trump's voter fraud commission flopped, and one member turned over documents refuting the premise of mass voter fraud, Sessions made headway.
High profile IPOs of luxury car maker Aston Martin and crowd funding platform Funding Circle flopped in the first days of trading.
As well as changes in member states' positions and in the composition of the European Parliament, industry lobbyists have also flip-flopped.
REPUBLICANS presented their efforts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, which flopped this week, as a necessary response to a failing law.
When Microsoft tried to turn your phone into a desktop PC with Continuum, it ultimately failed because, well, Windows 10 Mobile flopped.
Although the jelly sandals from your childhood tried to make a comeback, it flopped — a lucky thing for the environment, said Marci.
Kirsten Gillibrand took a not-so-subtle swipe at Joe Biden by mentioning the Hyde Amendment, on which he has flip-flopped.
GOP leaders shake their heads, prepare to choose Trump bristled, accusing Cruz of having flip-flopped on ethanol subsidies for political expediency.
When the alarm sounded, Moleza bumped fists with his opponent, snatched up his arm, and then he unceremoniously flopped onto his back.
Microsoft made a similar attempt a couple of years ago with Windows Phone 10 and a feature called "Continuum" that ultimately flopped.
Sugar & Spice flopped, but we're here today to champion this comedy about a pregnant teen who turns to a life of crime.
A Brazilian conductor flopped, and Toscanini, at the age of nineteen, took over a performance of "Aida," leading the opera from memory.
He immediately flopped down, his chest almost touching his knees and his hands lying flat on the floor in front of him.
SNES games on the New 23.7DS feels like a flopped marketing move, to shift consoles to a market that has them already.
But Mr. Rubio's campaign, like the legislation, flopped; so, with a comparable strategy, did that of the onetime front-runner, Jeb Bush.
McDonald's introduced the first McChicken sandwich in 1980, then abandoned it, and then brought it back, and has flip-flopped ever since.
Oh. The Chargers flopped at home Saturday night against the surging Baltimore Ravens, who lost to the Chiefs a few weeks back.
In the race's final days, he flip-flopped on sanctuary cities and made other blunders that cast him as unsteady and uncertain.
However, in January 2018, Pruitt flip-flopped and announced that the protections would stay in place as the EPA gathered more information.
Their free-agent additions — Matt Harvey and Trevor Cahill — flopped, and the staff was so unstable that nobody reached even 20 starts.
But he's coming under fire from Democrats both in Ohio and Washington, D.C., who suggest that he's flip-flopped on the issue.
Behold her, flopped against a wall, murmuring on the hotline to a hostile head of state, with glittering confetti in her hair.
And before that, it was reliever David Carpenter, who flopped and was released by the Yankees two months into the 2015 season.
Augmented reality efforts have flopped in the past, including Google's much-promoted attempt around spectacles with the technology, known as Google Glass.
His production company's first big film, Kill the Messenger (20053) — starring Renner — flopped at the box office, grossing just under $2.5 million.
David Dilbeck in the 1996 film "Striptease," which flopped at the box office but earned him widespread praise for his comedic prowess.
After a few days in,  he refused to do his work, flopped over in his chair, and yelled out a few times.
Unable to defend himself against McLean's barrage of one-twos, Shaw flopped about like a mad cow and sunk to the canvas.
The Galaxy line of smartphones had been reliable hits until a disastrous 2014 when the highly-anticipated Galaxy S5 flopped with consumers.
Notably, Google Glass, which flopped in the quest to attract consumers, and also raised a raft of privacy concerns (especially in men's restrooms).
This is especially so since South Africa's efforts to foment a mass withdrawal of African countries from the ICC appears to have flopped.
When Divergent's Allegiant installment flopped at the box office last year, many in Hollywood began questioning whether young-adult adaptations could remain popular.
Studios weren't able to make games that stood up against native iOS and Android games, and the platform quickly flopped and was scrapped.
These less capricious businesses have been surprisingly stable even as market-making revenue has fallen and Goldman's own investment bets have flopped around.
He now realizes this approach has flopped, and feels baffled and paralyzed by how to fix it, numerous friends and advisers tell us.
After the film flopped, however, Universal quietly repositioned The Mummy as the start of the Dark Universe, erasing Dracula Untold from that continuity.
" And CNN noted that Trump had flip-flopped on Assange since 2010, when he suggested Assange should face "the death penalty or something.
Poke, Slingshot, Bolt, and Flash all flopped as standalone apps, while baking Snapchat's best features deep inside Facebook seemed to have little effect.
Greece's prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said he would call a snap election after his left-wing Syriza party flopped in the Euro polls.
But the relocation scheme has flopped too: many countries want nothing to do with refugees, and refugees have no interest in most countries.
Not sure what upcoming movie he'd be best in -- our guy flopped trying to think of one -- but the bottom line ... Tony's ready.
Accusations in the Fox News debate that he has flip-flopped underscore an impression that he tailors his remarks to suit the audience.
Ritchie's King Arthur flopped at the box office, and some have suggested that's because there's nothing for today's audiences in the Arthurian legend.
In both cases, the films flopped spectacularly, calling into question just how much influence Comic-Con buzz actually had on a film's opening.
SoftBank was forced last month to spend more than $2108.9500 billion to bail out the office-sharing startup after its IPO attempt flopped.
SoftBank was forced last month to spend more than $21 billion to bail out the office-sharing startup after its IPO attempt flopped.
My attempt ended in an untidy swirl of line that tangled in the air and flopped onto the water, where it floated limply.
SoftBank was forced last month to spend more than $10 billion to bail out the office-sharing startup after its IPO attempt flopped.
He flopped down on the couch in his office and tried to post a picture on 88rising's Instagram account, but it wasn't working.
If it's not a "Grown Ups" sequel or an animated picture, Mr. Sandler's movies for theatrical distribution have largely flopped in recent years.
On a recent Saturday afternoon, a bit overtaxed from the morning's pancake making and the previous evening's socializing, I flopped into my hammock.
The Green New Deal already flopped as an idea in Germany, argues Liz Peek, a former partner of Wall Street firm Wertheim & Company.
The album—the soundtrack to a campy film of the same name, starring Carey—had flopped after its release, on September 11, 2001.
Warren told journalist Bill Moyers in a 2004 interview that Clinton flip-flopped on key bankruptcy legislation after winning election to the Senate.
Stocks have reacted wildly to reports on the trade talks, which have flip-flopped between pessimism and optimism over the past 17 months.
While the two moguls have flip-flopped from time to time, Bezos is currently holding steady as the richest person in modern history.
Another SoftBank portfolio company's IPO flopped in December (not a good month for SoftBank), this time a Chinese finance technology company named OneConnect.
But when the 2015 team flopped, Preller pivoted quickly, dealing away some of the newcomers and letting others leave for draft-pick compensation.
Shawshank flopped when it opened in theaters in 1994, but it was nominated for seven Academy Awards — more than any other King adaptation.
Nearly 10 years after the feminist horror comedy Jennifer's Body premiered, flopped, and was declared dead on arrival, it's beginning to live again.
No. This exchange ended with Bush and Rubio sounding like preschoolers in the back seat, sneering, "You flip-flopped too!" at each other.
Other winners included the flopped Holmes & Watson, the summer's raunchy puppet adventure The Happytime Murders, and even two performances from Oscar nominee Melissa McCarthy.
NGOs allege that ExxonMobil has a poor record of promoting human rights in countries where it operates, and has flip-flopped on climate change.
It was also critically savaged, and the one-and-a-half-star review by the late Roger Ebert explained exactly why the movie flopped.
"But seriously I tripped over my flip-flop," Dunham captioned the shot of herself looking pretty peeved and, well, flopped on a hospital bed.
Finally, a few more beats, and we see Donnie's dead body ejected through the windshield, his corpse flopped onto the hood of the car.
He's one of two successful Bachelors, the other being Jason Mesnick, who flip-flopped on his season winner and proposed to his runner-up.
Launched in 2013 with Kinect at the forefront of its UI and games lineup, the platform flopped next to the smaller, faster, cheaper PS4.
"Truthfully, over the last few years, Morgan Stanley has flip-flopped" on its fixed income business, said Michael Wong, a bank analyst at Morningstar.
More recently, it introduced a paid, on-demand streaming service meant to compete with Apple Music and Spotify — SoundCloud Go — that has apparently flopped.
It has a niche virtual reality business with Oculus VR. And, it partnered with HTC in 2013 to launch a phone that ultimately flopped.
For a period in his life, he failed repeatedly, and, after creating nine shows in a row that flopped, he felt like giving up.
" In the past, Trump has repeatedly flip-flopped on DACA, calling the program "very, very rough" and promising to "deal with DACA with heart.
Mr Tsipras's gambit flopped because the euro zone could not allow the precedent of a debtor state unilaterally changing the terms of its loans.
Not every Netflix series makes it big, Amazon had a few years of flopped pilots before it found Transparent, and Hulu still has nothing.
After a rough patch in which Amazon's sales fell short of expectations and new products like the Fire Phone flopped, the company is flourishing.
The poll results show council members have flip-flopped on their No. 2 choice for the job – but they have consistently chosen a man.
Those false figures were used to secure a loan for a major campus expansion that flopped and led to the college's closing in 2016.
Earlier, monthly job gains flip-flopped, plummeting to 254,288 in May and swelling to more than 10 times that number in June and July.
Atlante spent 1.5 billion euros to buy a 99 percent stake in Banca Popolare di Vicenza after the regional bank's initial share offering flopped.
After their original queso launch flopped, Chipotle is releasing a brand new queso made with two types of cheese and three types of pepper.
"There isn't a single Republican who cares about sanctuary cities who, after Northam flip-flopped, is now going to vote for him," he insisted.
Allman was mostly living in Los Angeles—and dating Cher—during the sessions for 1975's Win, Lose, or Draw and the album flopped.
When Obama returned to the plane, he flopped down in a seat, a look of disbelief on his face as he recounted the conversation.
Driving the news: This year, in two more conservative states, Trump tried a similar feat — Kentucky earlier this month, and Louisiana yesterday — and flopped.
Atlante, backed by mostly private Italian financial institutions, acquired Popolare di Vicenza in may after the bank's 1.5 billion euro initial share offering flopped.
When the company's Fire Phone flopped, it doubled down on hardware and found success in the Echo personal assistant and Fire TV streaming products.
It succeeded in a year that plenty of other sequels, from "Dark Phoenix" to "Terminator: Dark Fate," have flopped hard at the box office.
That product flopped, so buying a Nintendo system today is a risk compared with buying a Sony PlayStation 13 or a Microsoft Xbox One.
Two weeks ago, The Goldfinch — the new movie based on Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2013 novel — arrived in theaters and immediately, catastrophically, flopped.
Fox Searchlight may be hesitant to write big checks after its last two Sundance acquisitions, "The Birth of a Nation" and "Patti Cake$," flopped.
Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia, likewise, flip-flopped on the BCRA after changes were made that were totally irrelevant to her stated concerns.
The fact that Rotten Tomatoes says it is only 34% fresh, which is only 8% higher than March's flopped Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Don't miss: Brazil's Rafaela Silva rose from the city's favelas to become a national judo hero but flopped in London and suffered racial abuse online.
Who is he: Memphis Depay is a Cristiano Ronaldo-esque player who flopped at Manchester United, but has rebuilt his career — in style — at Lyon.
"Banana Shpeel," flopped in 2010 at the Beacon Theatre and "Zarkana" failed to launch after taking over Radio City Music Hall in 20153 and 2012.
Richard Sylla of New York University's Stern School of Business notes that America's first public offering in 1781, of the Bank of North America, flopped.
But Rand Paul's 2016 presidential campaign flopped, and libertarians, like the rest of the right's subgroups, were swallowed almost whole by the Donald Trump phenomenon.
Despite the recent series of high-profile flopped mergers between the biggest companies, the data show that they are being conducted at a normal rate.
An attempt to freshen up the cabinet in January flopped, when Mrs May proved too weak to force some dud ministers out of their jobs.
As we lay flopped on a bed, I attempted to ask my boyfriend all the questions I had for him swirling around in my head.
The EU plan largely flopped, with only a handful of countries taking in their share: France took 635, the Associated Press reported, citing EU figures.
The startup flopped, so Oyerinde moved on to build with his college roommate and twin brother Uniroulette, a Chatroulette clone but limited to people with .
It's a hell of a lot of money, more even than the $50M round the company raised to develop its original consumer camera — which flopped.
But she flopped at the 2012 Olympics and was bombarded with racist abuse by some Brazilians on social media after coming up short in London.
The Irish likely would have beaten Texas had they not flip-flopped between Kizer and Malik Zaire, despite Kizer being clearly superior in that game.
After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried and failed to buy the company in late 2012, Facebook twice launched ephemeral messaging apps, both of which flopped.
Trump's policies on Obamacare and protectionism may have flip-flopped throughout the campaign, but his views on Muslims and other marginalized groups remained remarkably consistent.
The cat, clearly annoyed, eventually moved two feet away and flopped down on the kitchen floor again — only to be tackled by the turtle again.
The first W.W.E. Trump-based story was a bout between wrestlers dressed up as "Trump" and "Rosie," a one-time experiment that flopped with fans.
AbbVie had a $1.8 billion net loss in Q4 because it had to book a $4 billion impairment charge for a drug acquisition that flopped.
He flopped into a pink love seat of two scoop-like concave chairs made for Veuve Clicquot, reputedly from the casting of a woman's breasts.
Meanwhile, Uber's IPO basically flopped, and the company has traded below its peak private-market valuation for periods since hitting the New York Stock Exchange.
Trump eventually flip-flopped on his insistence that an executive order wouldn't solve the family separation crisis but, even then, legal and logistical questions remained.
The president spurred confusion when he flip-flopped on whether he was considering payroll tax cuts to boost the economy amid fears of a recession.
His administration has flip-flopped between negotiating with Iran to threatening all-out war — giving US allies and Iran ample reason to doubt his words.
The few who tried flopped, the exception being Boris Becker and Michael Stich, who were accomplished doubles players when they won gold together in 1992.
He joined the Capitals in a deal with St. Louis, the Western Conference version of Washington — a regular-season stalwart that flopped in the playoffs.
It flopped at the box office and was filled with fairies and pixies and a bunch of other magical creatures that looked kind of creepy.
Conversely, had it flopped, it could have given those same decision-makers an excuse to insist that people won't go see a female superhero movie.
Mr. Huisman's hair, which a stylist had recently fluffed, flopped into his bedroom-y eyes, as his paddle flashed black-red, black-red, black-red.
On Page 32, he cites a "crop" of high-profile biblical epics that "flopped" — and then names only two ("Noah" and "Exodus: Gods and Kings").
The show flopped, but the documentary, produced by Ms. Ryden and directed by D. A. Pennebaker, became a classic of fly-on-the-wall filmmaking.
While our first whack at the connected home kitchen was interesting and occasionally even fun, for the most part it has flopped like a soufflé.
Certainly high-profile tech I.P.O.s flopped this year and people in Silicon Valley didn't get quite as rich as they expected (cue the small violin).
A successful capital raising would be welcome news for Italy's battered banking system after last month's flopped initial share offering at Banca Popolare di Vicenza.
We put every burrito on Taco Bell&aposs menu to the test in order to discover which burrito reigns supreme and which ones simply flopped.
"Terminator: Dark Fate" flopped despite the return of original stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, and the most positive reviews in the franchise in years.
Priebus also seemed confused about the overall implication of the ban, and flip-flopped on whether it affected legal permanent U.S. residents from those countries.
Dressed in a mostly white jumpsuit and crash helmet, Super Dave attempted perilous stunts that invariably flopped and appeared to cause him great bodily harm.
He looked like a girl, with sharp cheekbones, a soft brow and a red Afro that he let grow so big that it flopped down.
The beverage company rebooted New Coke because the new season takes place during the summer of 1985 — when Coca-Cola debuted the new recipe that flopped.
After his goal made it 3-1, Ehlers flopped to the ice, looked up to the rafters and raised his hands in the air to celebrate.
That may be wise, as it's historically been terrible at social products like the flopped Google+, Buzz and Wave, plus its mess of fragmented messaging apps.
Amazon's Kindle Fire line has been a rare success story, though Amazon also flopped pretty spectacularly with its Fire phone, which lacked Google's apps and store.
Instead, he got cast in two bloated film wrecks — John Carter and Battleship — both of which were released in 2000 and both of which massively flopped.
Plus, the airlines know no one is going to hire a lawyer to sue just because another passenger's ponytail flopped into their 28-inch personal space.
Worse, the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) flip-flopped between appointing veteran coaches with proven track records and hiring former players with little or no coaching experience.
For anxious investors, Google X was also shorthand for the company's freewheeling spending — money sunk into initiatives that are unproven or that flopped, like Google Glass.
His blunt pitch has mostly flopped during a post-convention run that has seen his poll numbers plummet amid a series of controversies and damaging feuds.
If you don't remember that movie, you are in good company: It was supposed to kick off the next big YA franchise, but it flopped instead.
And after liberal radio hosts flopped on Air America -- remember them -- well, some democrats thought to revive the fairness doctrine to snuff out conservative talk radio.
Throughout Veep's run, it's been simultaneously sad and hilarious to watch, even as she accidentally stumbled into the presidency, then belly-flopped back out of it.
The succeeding Wii U, on the other hand, flopped as third-party developers baulked at its complexity, leading to a shortage of titles and sluggish earnings.
Trump – While Trump has flip-flopped on this, his opinions generally coalesce under the belief that the climate is changing, but not because of human activity.
He has starred in countless Food Network shows, but most have flopped, aside from his mainstays like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives and Guy's Big Bite.
After the statement, stocks and bonds flip-flopped before settling into a pattern, where both markets were bid higher on the prospect of a rate cut.
History has been unkind to single-purpose gadgets, many of which have flopped, like Cisco's Flip camcorder, or have struggled, like the action camera from GoPro.
The Atlante fund, backed by dozens of mostly private Italian financial institutions, bought Popolare di Vicenza two months ago when the bank's initial public offering flopped.
Trump has said he would "cancel" the climate deal if elected and starkly flip-flopped in his campaign from a past stance calling for such action.
The State Department had been funding police officer training courses, but efforts to get cops to know community members and to engender trust between them flopped.
Part of the reason why WeWork's first attempt at going public flopped was because of Neumann's role at the company and his personal deals with it.
In comparison, the survey found that average-income teens flip-flopped between spending more on food and spending more on clothing in the same time period.
Coming off a bye, after trading for the former Pro Bowl receiver Golden Tate, and having had two weeks to strategize for Dallas, the Eagles flopped.
Mr. Krasinksi, whose two previous efforts as a director flopped in theaters, this time pushed Steven Spielberg into second place at the weekend box office derby.
Finally the case flopped onto the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in October and will issue a ruling before next August.
After she divorced Lachey in 2006, Simpson's follow-up album A Public Affair flopped — partly, she claims in the book, because of fallout from the divorce.
That movie was poorly-recieved by critics — and flopped at the box office, making $320,000 on a budget of $27 million, according to Box Office Mojo.
Clinton has so far stayed away from arguing that Trump has flip-flopped, instead pressing the idea that he is simply an unacceptable choice as president.
So asking a politician, "Haven't you flip-flopped when you used to say you were anti-amnesty?" is a gotcha question nine times out of 10.
There was a huge effort more than a decade ago to send internet over power lines that largely flopped due to slow speeds and high deployment costs.
Popular U.K. series Skins flopped when it received an American version for MTV — the show lost its edge when it was plucked from its original Bristol setting.
In the past, other first-timers have flopped on stage such as "The Jersey Shore" Star Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino at the 2011 roast of Donald Trump.
And, yes, those jaw-droppingly tight pants were a deliberate choice, as Froud explains in the video below: Though the movie initially flopped, critics praised Bowie's performance.
Meanwhile, as YouTube flip-flopped on policy, some Google employees expressed their frustration internally, and discussed potential protests of the decision to allow Crowder's content to remain.
One reason for these purchases is that Tencent's earlier efforts to promote WeChat abroad (including a splashy advertising campaign in Europe featuring Lionel Messi, a footballer) flopped.
Budweiser's alcohol-and-caffeine drink BE was a hit in the United States in the early to mid-aughts but flopped immediately when tested overseas in 2006.
Trump has expressed his disdain for over-regulation which suggests he could be more friendly to mergers and acquisitions, though he has flip-flopped on the issue.
Project Ara is the most ambitious modular phone failure, but even modular phones from LG and Motorola have totally flopped and failed to take on with audiences.
Michael Flynn, who is being vetted by Donald Trump's campaign as a potential vice presidential candidate, flip-flopped his position on abortion in the last two days.
As we filed into the event hall for his rally Friday night, we were still nowhere closer to understanding why Trump had suddenly flip-flopped on birtherism.
Cellphones are rectangles of glass these days because all of the innovation has been flopped on top of what used to be a jungle of variegated systems.
"Blasé" is not that great of a song, and seemed to become the default hit from Ty Dolla $ign's Free TC album after every other single flopped.
This is one reason why Eddie Murphy's homophobic jokes age so badly, or why this year's Oscars' gag involving Asian-American child actors and child labor flopped.
Chris Crocker gained fame after his fanatic youtube video went viral of himself defending Britney Spears after her MTV Music Video Awards performance flopped backed in 2007.
Others flopped: Ms Mayer, for example, bought Tumblr, a social-networking platform, for $1.1 billion in 2013, even though it was about to run out of money.
He signed with United Talent Agency in 2013 and has appeared in a couple of minor roles, including a comedy film that flopped at the box office.
Heller's campaign was defined by his awkward dance with President Donald Trump, someone that the senator flip-flopped on throughout the President's first two years in office.
He lay there and flopped and muttered on the couch until the darkness again fell on Dromord Hill and the extent of the night shamelessly presented itself.
Trump flip-flopped a day later, stating that he still believes "both sides" are to blame for the violence in a wild press conference at Trump Tower.
They've also flopped out of the playoffs every time, which means pressure is mounting to make an AFC title challenge before all their young talent gets old.
Zakharova said the United States had in the past waged a similar disinformation campaign about Syrian President Bashar-al Assad, another close Russian ally, which had flopped.
YouTube also flip-flopped last week when it removed then quickly reinstated the channels of two Europe-based, far-right YouTube creators who espouse white nationalist views.
"We got a little overconfident," said Margret McBride, a literary agent who invested in "Jersey Boys" with her husband, Nevins, and then in a play that flopped.
Even Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall", thought to be China's best shot in recent years at making a global blockbuster, mostly flopped at box offices outside China.
The museum will showcase products that flopped, like the Rejuvenique mask, above, which was marketed as a facial toning system — all to prove that innovation requires failure.
Smith famously passed on starring in 1999's mega-blockbuster The Matrix in favor of Wild Wild West, which flopped with critics and the at box office.
Robinson, the rookie Knicks center, absorbed contact under the basket from Orlando's Melvin Frazier and flopped to the court, hoping for a foul that was never called.
Successive U.S. administrations have flip-flopped between rescinding and reinstating it along partisan lines since it was created by the Republican administration of Ronald Reagan in 1984.
He's a lifelong, long-distance swimmer, and he … I watched him basically dive off one of the ferry slips to Governors Island, and my stomach flip-flopped.
Immigration Gillibrand has flip-flopped on immigration, now advocating for defunding private holding facilities for undocumented migrants and rebuking Trump for the treatment of migrants crossing the border.
Skype Qik was an attempt to take over mobile video messaging that flopped, and Microsoft has been tweaking its Skype mobile interface for years to better improve messaging.
But there's also a long list of companies that totally flopped on their public market debuts only to have the long, last laugh over the next few years.
Universal Windows Apps were supposed to be the future of Windows across multiple devices, but they've largely flopped without a widely used mobile operating system to run on.
Here's hoping Thursday night's debate moderators bring it up, especially since former Vice President Joe Biden, who has flip-flopped on the issue, will be front-and-center.
In one of his strongest moments of the evening, Rubio listed a string of issues on which he said Cruz had flip-flopped, including immigration and ethanol subsidies.
Atlante spent 1.5 billion euros ($1.70 billion) to buy a 99 percent stake in Banca Popolare di Vicenza last month after the regional lender's initial share offering flopped.
Even so, it was a shame, because Ms. Streep's Garbo act denied the press corps a chance to ask an obvious question: Have you ever flopped at anything?
The drug, called dimebon, showed some promise against Alzheimer's in an early study in Russia, but once Pfizer licensed it and conducted larger clinical trials the drug flopped.
However, amidst his successes, Mosseri also oversaw Facebook Home, the flopped mobile operating system, and was the officer on duty when fake news and Russian election attackers proliferated.
The Yankees got nothing this season from the injured Greg Bird, and Luis Severino flopped in the rotation, going 0-8 with an 20153 E.R.A. in 10 starts.
Interactive Entertainment is now big enough to pick up the slack when sibling divisions underperform, as happened last year when Warner movies like "Pan" and "Jupiter Ascending" flopped.
The girls went upstairs to Samara's room, where they flopped onto her bed and cuddled a 6-week-old puppy that Samantha's parents had bought after the shooting.
Neon's "The Beach Bum," the latest comedy from the director Harmony Korine which stars Matthew McConaughey as a Florida pothead, flopped with just $1.8 million in domestic sales.
The golden age of the blockbuster seems to have ended here in the US; not long ago, the abysmal Independence Day: Resurgence flopped at the domestic box office.
Does anyone doubt that if "Wonder Woman" had flopped, Hollywood chieftains would have drawn sweeping and cynical conclusions about the potency of female superheroes, female directors, female everything?
The southern hemisphere predominates — South America, Africa and Australia — and the sometimes flopped orientations map a new, fuller modernism in which Europe need not sit at the center.
Atlante, which has already taken on regional bank Banca Popolare di Vicenza following a flopped initial public offering, committed last month to backstop also Veneto Banca's share issue.
Facebook has already released a TikTok clone, called Lasso, which flopped, and the app researcher Jane Manchun Wong recently discovered that Instagram has been testing TikTok-like features.
Some signings have flopped, like Trevor Rosenthal, and so have some trade acquisitions like Hunter Strickland, who was dropped from the playoff roster after a shaky division series.
Olea lit a fire and flopped down on one of them, while Scott served lunch, which came from a vegan delivery service (the only thing in his fridge).
In a stunning disappointment to environmentalists, a bid to cut the European Union's greenhouse gas emissions to nearly zero by 2050 flopped at a key summit in Brussels.
Each time United States authorities were close to apprehending him, someone would tip Mr. Philippe off; a 2007 mission launched from Guantánamo Bay involving Black Hawk helicopters flopped.
Hong Kong (CNN Business)China's biggest online movie-ticketing platform flopped in its stock market debut in Hong Kong, becoming the latest disappointing tech listing in the city.
"The bottom line is, Ms. Shelton has too many alarming ideas and has flipped-flopped on too many important issues to be confirmed for this job," said Sen.
This excerpt from a Daily Kos piece nicely summarizes a lot of what I found sifting his statements: Rubio has flip-flopped dramatically on climate change over the years.
Parrot is downsizing its drone division, 3D Robotics got out of the consumer business after its Solo drone flopped, and GoPro has struggled to make a dent with Karma.
Katy Perry, who, like Swift, found big success by collaborating with famed Top 21 producer Max Martin, has also been struggling; her last album, 2100's Witness, famously flopped.
Privatization flopped in Congress, but during Obama's presidency, Paul Ryan leaned hard on the idea of Medicare privatization and steep cuts in Medicaid spending via a block granting scheme.
Intel gracelessly flopped in its repeated attempts to cram x86 — the competing instruction set to ARM — chips into connected mobile devices, and now ARM is in a comfortable monopoly.
Though Trump has flip-flopped in some fashion on many major policy issues, the new website is as close to an agenda for the Trump administration as we've seen.
The Democrats' main talent reservoir is in big-city mayoralties, but those politicians often specialise in the sort of coalition of businessmen and minorities that flopped for Mrs Clinton.
Ben Stiller's heavily hyped "Zoolander 2" (Paramount Pictures) flopped in fourth place, taking in about $15.6 million, or roughly 24 percent less than the original, after adjusting for inflation.
While Amazon's foray into smartphones flopped, it staged a coup with the introduction of Alexa, vaulting to the front of the pack when it comes to smart home gadgets.
Just about every attempted blockbuster is a reboot, a sequel, or whatever you want to call that awful Men in Black spinoff, and most of them have flopped horribly.
Without rest or pause — while those frumious jaws Went savagely snapping around —He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped, Till fainting he fell to the ground.
But since then, SoundCloud has hammered out deals with the major record labels to stop mass take-downs of its content, and its SoundCloud Go $9.99 subscription service flopped.
But his venture flopped after Israel passed a law in 2012 defining the crocodile as a protected animal, and banning raising the animals for sale as meat or merchandise.
For now, her aides appear to be throwing ideas against a wall to see what sticks, including trying out different monikers after the Democratic National Committee's "Dangerous Donald" flopped.
The bank requested government support - in the form of a precautionary recapitalisation by the state - last week after its plan to raise 5 billion euros from private investors flopped.
I dove deeper into absurdity when the "proof" never showed, and flip-flopped into thinking that pregnancy would actually be a great excuse for not having a bikini body.
The senator also unambiguously supports the abolition of the private insurance industry, a contrast to most of his opponents who have either flopped or remained ambiguous on the issue.
The company, led by founder Stewart Butterfield, grew out of a gaming startup called Tiny Speck that flopped — but with some money in the bank before it totally combusted.
That could change, however, in the coming days — particularly as several lawmakers who had backed away form Trump this weekend flip-flopped and said they'd vote for their nominee.
All the attempts to do it on phones have basically flopped — some so much so (Ara!) that it has poisoned consumers on the whole idea, which is a shame.
In December 2019, as the decade drew to a close, thousands of 10-inch-long penis fish flopped ashore at Drakes Beach, about 50 miles north of San Francisco.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four months ago, Alexander Zverev arrived at the French Open as an outside hope for the title and promptly flopped, going out in the first round.
Atlante, hastily set up last year to rescue the two Veneto lenders after their attempt to raise capital on the market flopped, has already pumped in 3.4 billion euros.
And that's too bad, because there's something else the shows listed above have in common: They flopped, many of them almost immediately, the fate of so many Friends wannabes.
Since then, their status — white or Hispanic — has flip-flopped several more times, all depending largely on whatever the current thinking was about their role in labor or immigration.
When I was at my ugliest—lips flopped open, head lolling, eyelids drooping over eyeballs that rolled around like pinballs in their sockets—I wished you would hold me.
Lanvin, one-time fairy tale of French fashion, has flipped and flopped (more often flopped) so many times since Alber Elbaz, the creative director who gave it modern meaning, was fired in 2015, that it has lost almost all identity: going romantically cool under Bouchra Jarrar; weirdly 1980s under Olivier Lapidus; and then silent while a new owner, management team and designer — Bruno Sialelli, an unknown barely into his 30s — got settled.
I want to be optimistic, but everything else Google has done to try to resolve the update problem has pretty much flopped, so there's plenty of reason to be skeptical.
Charles said his ex-wife would be an excellent choice but added that he doesn't put much stock in anything Trump says, "based on the way he has flip-flopped."
After all, Facebook famously flopped in its first few months as a public company and is now — despite its current problems — one of the most valuable firms on Wall Street.
But many of those commercials flopped with viewers, who sometimes simply did not warm to "polarizing" endorsers like Kim Kardashian, who appeared in an ad for T-Mobile last year.
It's also a risky opportunity, as the last notable time all four carriers got together in a joint venture was to create a payments system (originally called ISIS) that flopped.
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Despite the network's crowing about its record online streaming viewership numbers, the stark reality is that its television coverage -- which accounted for an estimated 98% of its audience -- completely flopped.
In April, he flip-flopped, signing on as a co-sponsor of the legislation — and told a town hall audience of more than 500 that Walters had changed his opinion.
I had that problem a lot throughout the season, as people flip-flopped on what they wanted and cared about, in order to keep the story moving in specific directions.
But after a raft of security breaches and technical problems, the effort flopped as badly as many had predicted it would, and each company was left to its own devices.
Animal Ambition wasn't much of a hit and in a 2014 article titled, "9 Albums That Flopped in 2014 (Or Did They?)," Billboard reported that it only sold 124,000 copies.
Trump has flip-flopped on key issues, backtracked on others, even flat out changed his mind on some, but those are pesky details his supporters don't seem to care about.
Why it matters: Facebook is notorious for building copycat apps and features in an attempt to stifle up-and-coming social media services, though its standalone apps have largely flopped.
Directed by Danny Boyle, Steve Jobs took some heat from those who knew Jobs for its less-than-flattering portrayal of him, and it largely flopped at the box office.
In 2004, Actelion shares plunged by a third when a heart failure drug flopped, a crisis Jean-Paul said prompted some board members to urge him to unload the company.
Even though US President Trump said regulating cannabis should be left to the individual states during his election campaign, the White House seems to have flip-flopped on the issue.
It's a stance the feds have flip-flopped on repeatedly, as the politics of the NLRB tend to shift with the partisanship of the person living in the White House.
A massive campaign to vaccinate against the 1976 swine flu flopped when the disease turned out to be mild, but hundreds of people suffered a rare nerve disorder after vaccination.
But the band's next single, "He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss)," an unsettling song about infidelity and domestic violence written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, flopped.
The real aesthetic crime is not so much your pants flopped over a chair as it is you exposing your nonupstairs-going skinny legs as you swan around your house.
As Vox's Chavie Lieber noted, however, the warning flip-flopped on the product's original minimum weight requirement of 25 pounds — the weight of a baby much older than 3 months.
Trump, being an unprincipled opportunist, had criticized the Fed for keeping rates too low under Obama, but has now flip-flopped and become an advocate of lower rates as president.
Directed by Danny Boyle, "Steve Jobs" took some heat from those who knew Jobs for its less-than-flattering portrayal of him, and it largely flopped at the box office.
Google's attempts to build a social network to rival Facebook have largely flopped, so fake Google+ accounts reach a limited audience — making it unpopular among both users and foreign manipulators.
In Houston, at another of these nodes, called data centers, Hurricane Harvey pushed waters so high that a live fish flopped in a loading dock, but the physical defenses held.
Therein is probably a lesson about the pitfalls of cashing in on diversity for the sake of diversity, but there have also been many legacy heroes' books that have flopped.
She'd traveled from Los Angeles with her mother, her best friend and her pit bull, Daisy, who flopped down on the floor atop one of Claire's ever-present oxygen tubes.
MI Italy's stock exchange said on Friday a recently created bank bailout fund will take over mid-tier lender Veneto Banca after its 1 billion euro initial public offering flopped.
Last year Sara Bareilles took a turn as the lead in "Waitress" and in 2014, Sting did the same when he hopped aboard "The Last Ship," a musical that flopped.
You know, she may have flip-flopped in this campaign many times on many things, but, you know, then suddenly those issues fade from--you know, they fade from view.
"Flip or Flop" stars Tarek and Christina El Moussa's marriage hasn't totally flopped just yet -- we're told they're still trying to work things out for the sake of their family.
He also flip-flopped on his plan to cut taxes for the wealthy, saying he expects taxes on the rich to "go up a little bit" if he becomes president.
" However, during a performance days earlier in Chicago (West's hometown), Drake switched up the lyrics to his 2015 single "Know Yourself" — changing the lyrics "Then Kanye dropped" to "Then Kanye flopped.
Asian shares flip-flopped on Wednesday with markets cautious ahead of what is expected to be the Federal Reserve's first rate hike in a year, with comments on the outlook key.
After a poor second shot left his ball in a tough spot in the rough, he flopped a delicate recovery shot to 12 feet and sank the putt to save par.
When Frank quit her job as an assistant in December 2015, she was pretty sure that if her business flopped, she would be able to get another job in her field.
Sterling , which has flip-flopped over the past two-and-a-half years on different signals about the course of Brexit, rose slightly to around $1.29 on hopes of a compromise.
Hotaru flopped backed into the snuggly confines of the hammock, dozing, staring up into the comforting reticulum of oak boughs above her, the rays of early afternoon sun streaming between them.
The $70 million film flopped at the box office, and with 116 negative reviews, it holds the sad distinction of being the worst reviewed film on Rotten Tomatoes of all time.
When that movie flopped, he was brought to Pixar thanks to a college friendship with John Lasseter (who has recently been pushed out of the company after accusations of sexual misconduct).
With this update, Facebook hopes to differentiate itself by allowing you to organize more than just photos in albums, drawing on its vibrant social network that Google lacks since G+ flopped.
A tall, white man with brown hair that flopped over his forehead said he was from Concord Village, a complex that should have fallen on the 307 side of the line.
Trump has called allegations that his campaign colluded with Russia a "hoax" and "fake news" and has flip-flopped on whether he believes Russia attempted to influence the election at all.
"When we realized we won our medal, we just all flopped on top of each other like a pile of puppies in a kennel or something," forward Mary Anne O'Connor said.
Signal, Down to Lunch, Foursquare's Swarm and other apps in the space have flopped because not all your friends are on them, and there isn't a reason to open them frequently.
"State of Siege," which flopped at its Paris debut, can be read as a peculiar companion piece to Camus's 1947 novel "The Plague," about a pandemic that overtakes an Algerian town.
Perched in the westernmost county in New York, within heckling distance of Ohio, Jamestown has been leaking population for years as many of its furniture factories flopped and textile mills tanked.
A later port for the 22X add-on, Virtua Racing Deluxe, fared better and received excellent reviews—but the 20063X flopped so not many people got the chance to play it.
This week, he flip-flopped again, telling lawmakers at a White House reception that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote because millions of immigrants in the country illegally voted for her.
But on Election Day, it flopped: Democrats were energized and, even though six in ten voters thought Confederate monuments shouldn't be removed, they apparently cared a lot more about health care.
And "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage" (Paramount) may have flopped in North America, but it arrived to huge success in China over the weekend, selling about $61 million in tickets.
It worked well enough for a few hours of nighttime trekking before its hinge failed and the lamp flopped completely forward, shining directly into my eyes instead of onto the trail.
Russia's seizure of Crimea came just months after Obama flip-flopped on responding to a chemical attack in Syria, something he had previous called a red line not to be crossed.
Previous attempts to vote on a bill have flopped, largely due to quorum hitches where MPs have failed to be present, and there is a fear that this could happen again.
The deal is likely to end the four-year reign of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive who flopped in her attempts to turn around the Sunnyvale, California, company.
That was when Neymar, a Brazilian forward, flopped to the turf in the match against Costa Rica, and the VAR ruled that there had not been enough contact to justify the penalty.
"Zootopia" was followed by Legendary Entertainment's "Warcraft," a video game adaptation that flopped in the United States and Canada but scored $221 million in China, more than half of its worldwide total.
Wulfsohn gave Acosta the "benefit of the doubt" that sexism isn't a factor in the reporter's flip-flopped views on celebrities using their star power in an attempt to impact prison reform.
He wore a black shirt, black sneakers, and black Air Jordan shorts, and his face was framed by a fresh fade, with a jolt of black hair that flopped to one side.
Prior to that, during the game between Brazil and Serbia, he flopped to the ground and rolled round after being knocked off his feet while going out of bounds, Sports Illustrated reports.
A few minutes after Steve Lacy arrived at a dingy, weed-clouded recording studio in Burbank, the 18-year-old musician flopped down in a plush leather chair in the control room.
And the latter is our first action blockbuster since Ben Hur flopped a month ago, and its ensemble cast — featuring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke — can certainly draw a crowd.
For a sign of how much the movie flopped, experts are projecting that it's going to make somewhere around $200 million less globally than Justice League, which itself didn't exactly do great.
Ms. Venturini's buoyant cheekiness does sometimes lead her into the realms of the frankly absurd, as when a boy in a bright-green fur flopped with his fellow bathers down the runway.
But even as Trump swerves from one tactic to another, the facts on the ground remain: very little has changed in the nearly seven months since the first GOP repeal effort flopped.
The price doesn't look quite as steep now; not after the Knicks flopped in free agency despite the team owner James L. Dolan's hints at major signings in a March radio interview.
Why it's a big deal: Because this is a major market validation test for an online lending market whose last two VC-backed "unicorns" — LendingClub and OnDeck Capital — have flopped post-IPO.
Amazon bought it for $13 million, but it flopped at the box office, bringing in $11.7 million in North America, despite playing in more than 2,000 theaters in the past three weeks.
It would release the movie into a tiny amount of theaters, and then you don't get hired again because your last opening flopped because it opened in a tiny amount of theaters.
He created a nonprofit group, the Progressive Agenda Committee, to support his cause but that group went defunct after his efforts to play a significant role in the 2016 presidential campaign flopped.
Josh Trank, the director of the 23 "Fantastic Four" movie that flopped at the box office and was critically panned, reviewed the movie on Friday on the film-centric social platform Letterboxd.
The Fox movie received a 9% Rotten Tomatoes critic score and flopped at the box office with just $56 million domestically and $167 million worldwide off of a $120 million production budget.
Though it opened to positive reviews at the Phoenix Theater in 1954, and was the first Off Broadway musical ever to transfer to Broadway, it flopped almost as soon as it arrived.
Sure, some may remember how shares in Facebook (FB) also flopped in the first few months after its IPO in 2012 — it has since surged because of strong sales and profit growth.
First, she flopped to the snow after the finish line on Wednesday and skidded partway under the wall of plastic banners that separates racers from the officials, news media personnel and fans.
There are plenty of social conservatives in the NeverTrump world; Trump is, after all, a serial philanderer who flip-flopped on abortion and seems pretty comfortable with gay and even trans rights.
And although the first version of the Google Glass headset flopped, if Google figures out how to revamp the device, it will have a vehicle to extend Android into the AR realm.
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Flash forward to the final shot of Killing Eve season 2, and you'll see a resemblance between the way Hugo flopped onto the ground and the way Eve collapses after Villanelle shoots her.
In January, ministers flip-flopped on Malaysia's decision about the ECRL - the centerpiece of China's infrastructure push in Southeast Asia - first saying it was canceled and then announcing that talks were still ongoing.
Italy raised 6.75 billion euros ($7.5 billion) with its latest inflation-linked bond aimed at small savers, meeting stronger demand compared with a year ago, when the previous issue flopped amid political turmoil.
He's flip-flopped on many issues already, and we don't know yet who will be appointed to head key agencies like the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, and the NPS.
Louis Van Gaal did the flop at Mike Dean, Arsenal flopped collectively, and over in the League Cup there was a Wembley penalty shootout that neither Leicester nor Tottenham could conspire to overshadow.
Apple and Google actually flip-flopped multiple times between 2008 and early 323, before Apple went on a historic tear, jumping from $180 billion in value to over $650 billion in September 2012.
Apple and Google actually flip-flopped multiple times between 2008 and early 323, before Apple went on a historic tear, jumping from $180 billion in value to over $650 billion in September 2012.
The pup -- named Barclay, or Barc for short -- showed off his speed AND his stick-handling skills ... all while his ears flopped in the chill and his big paws tore up the ice.
Why it matters: Amazon flopped in its effort to tackle the smartphone effort with Fire phone, but has been working hard to make sure it doesn't miss another big category of consumer hardware.
Because the game was reacting to unpredictable sweeps instead of simple button presses, the team couldn't prepare detailed counter-attacks when enemies got hit — they just flopped back and tried to attack again.
But Tsang has flip-flopped on Beijing's framework for political reform, and his U.S. education and former post as the last British governor's private secretary have raised concerns among some pro-establishment figures.
Over the past decade, three experimental drugs known as CETP inhibitors from Pfizer, Roche and Eli Lilly have flopped in tests, leaving Merck's anacetrapib as the only one remaining in late-stage studies.
He and his allies argue that Strickland flip-flopped on his previous opposition to strong regulation of emissions while he worked for the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, in Washington.
On the flip side, it can be argued that results for "Star Trek Beyond," especially during a summer in which multiple big-budget sequels have flopped, reflect a job well done by Paramount.
Two years ago today, Arjen Robben did what Arjen Robben does and theatrically flopped his way into a penalty kick during stoppage time that ousted Mexico from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
We previously reported that Cigna had a lot of cash to spend and made it clear it would be on the prowl for some kind of deal after its merger with Anthem flopped.
I remember in one dream his neck just kept growing and growing and it didn't stop and his ugly head flopped on the floor but his neck kept just spiralling out of control.
But none of that matters either, because Halloween 6 was widely hated, it flopped at the box office, and then its dumb plot was also totally ignored by every other film to follow.
Guns are the older technology of the two and virtually every attempt to make them higher tech has flopped, with smart gun tech struggling in recent years to gain political or consumer traction.
"Nick & Nora," a highly anticipated musical based on the sophisticated 1930s "Thin Man" characters, flopped in 1991 despite major buzz, big stars (Joanna Gleason and Barry Bostwick) and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Neymar, Brazil's $236 million star, even had a penalty revoked during the second half after the referee looked at a video replay and realized Neymar had flopped in the area to win it.
Facebook's effort to launch a co-branded smartphone with HTC back in 2013 ultimately flopped, but its original vision was something much larger: a Facebook phone built entirely by the company from scratch.
So there could be multiple reasons why some of them have flopped, but perhaps a straightforward explanation is that we&aposre simply not ready to be served by robots in lieu of humans.
And putting its video-calling app in the Galaxy S20's phone app by default could help Google gain more traction with Duo, especially after some of its other messaging products have flopped.
"The Rise of Skywalker" flopped in the region and, to put it in perspective, each movie before that made less money combined in China than what "Avengers: Endgame" made there in a week.
Groups of families flopped to picnic happily on the rolling greensward of the new 87-acre waterfront park that runs like an Edenic oasis from the Brooklyn Bridge north to the Williamsburg Bridge.
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When he and Krakow have their showdown at the power table, it's a cruder form of warfare: two men shoving chips around with excellent made hands, top two-pair versus a flopped set.
Some Cuban stars have flopped, like Rusney Castillo and Hector Olivera, but if Gurriel had left years ago, perhaps he would be an established All-Star by now, like Abreu and Yoenis Cespedes.
The mysterious self-funded candidacy of doctor Herbert Lee, which some suspected was a plot to split the Democratic vote so two Republicans could advance, also flopped ($1 million, ninth place, 503 percent).
The whole city smelled like the basement apartment I rented in college, where the walls were constantly peeling apart and one day the entire stretch of kitchen cabinets just flopped down to the floor.
"Spinning Around" is an outrageously good pop song with an earworm of a chorus, which is exactly what Kylie needed after her previous album Impossible Angel had flopped critically and commercially three years before.
And yet, despite massive institutional support (Jepsen previously shared a manager, Scooter Braun, with Justin Bieber and Grande), a music video featuring Tom Hanks, and widespread critical adoration, Emotion flopped by traditional pop metrics.
He argued that a candidate truly dedicated to progressive causes wouldn't have taken big donations from Wall Street, flip-flopped on the Keystone XL pipeline or voted for the Iraq War as Clinton did.
As he embarks on a press tour for this month's Suburbicon, which flopped this weekend, and December's Downsizing, he may finally be forced to grapple with the ways in which his politics seem incomplete.
But the succeeding Wii U flopped due to a dearth of popular game titles and a consumer migration to smartphone games, pushing the company into a loss for three consecutive years through March 2014.
But as opposition to new taxes and the removal of popular deductions strengthened, the party has flip-flopped: the current plan is expected to raise deficits by as much as $1.5trn over ten years.
He's already using his old man vulnerability to his advantage, as evidenced by the play yesterday when he flopped to the ground only to clamber to his feet and throw a 35-yard pass.
The Atlante fund, backed by dozens of mostly private Italian financial institutions, bought Popolare di Vicenza two months ago when the bank's initial public offering flopped and now owns 99 percent of the lender.
Less than a day after it emerged that Amazon is quietly dropping device encryption support for its Fire OS devices, the U.S. firm has flip-flopped and said that it will restore the feature.
Italian officials talk about the fund as a "game-changer"—partly because it has already pulled off a rescue of Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BPVi), a regional bank whose initial public offering (IPO) flopped.
President Donald Trump flip-flopped on the idea of raising the federal minimum wage during the 2016 presidential campaign, but his National Economic Council director, Larry Kudlow, recently came out strongly against increasing it.
But her performance in Detroit was much more muddled and mixed, and she sustained cutting attacks over her record as attorney general in California and questions about whether she's flip-flopped on key issues.
Steve Stivers (R-OH), the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the official campaign arm for House Republicans, issued a statement questioning why Trump has flip-flopped on the issue so many times.
Armed with the conflicting views of his closest advisers, the president has regularly flip-flopped between lavishing praise on China and its leader, Xi Jinping, and lashing out at the country over trade practices.
Lounging alone, catching your breath and pausing, still wearing one's coat, flopped on the couch, legs bent at 90 degrees, bag cross-bodied and buckling you in, is the best part of the day.
He charmed everyone as Noah, the biblical patriarch of a family struggling to save the animals before the great flood and, while the musical ultimately flopped, 10-year-old me was thrilled beyond words.
But the movie flopped, and Ms. Lavi accepted a new career path as scantily clad femmes fatales in a number of parodies that sprung up after the initial success of the James Bond films.
I was disappointed to discover that on August 22019th, after writing the original draft of my editorial, Senator Kaine flip-flopped, suddenly declaring his opposition to the right-to-work principles he previously supported.
Microsoft had originally attempted to launch the idea of tablet PCs back in 210, with a Windows XP Tablet PC Edition derivative, and even special ultra-mobile PCs in 22020 — but both initiatives flopped.
The album, on which Ms. Nicks sang and Mr. Buckingham sang and played guitar, flopped, but, as many accounts have it, Mr. Olsen played one of the songs for Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac's drummer.
The Outsiders flopped when Viking tried to sell it to grown-ups, but it sold like hotcakes when teens got their hands on it, because teens understood The Outsiders and The Outsiders understood teens.
Though it was a more robust and complex experience compared to his first game, and took the pair two and a half years to complete, the result was much the same: Hero Bash completely flopped.
Previous attempts by Republicans to do that met with humiliating failure in July, when an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill flopped in the Senate, triggering a barrage of hectoring tweets from Trump against party leaders.
Oh, and The Bachelor Winter Games — ABC's Tuesday and Thursday filler during the Olympics — pretty much flopped, as cannon fodder against the Olympics is likely to do (though CBS's Big Brother: Celebrity Edition did fine).
But its efforts to convince carmakers to produce electric vehicles have flopped mainly because of no clear policy to incentivize local manufacturing and sales, lack of public charging infrastructure and a high cost of batteries.
Christie, once a Common Core supporter, flip-flopped on the standards as he entered the Republican race: "We must reject federal control of our education and return it to parents and teachers," he said then.
It was a perfectly serviceable banger, highlighting Aguilera's 's love of rock-tinged growling (not unlike "Fighter") in the chorus, but it was an unremarkable album opener, and Lotus flopped even more spectacularly than Bionic.
In the 15 years since Donnie Darko debuted in theaters, flopped, and was resurrected as one of the last true midnight movies for weirdos, Richard Kelly has never made another movie that anyone cares about.
My opponent did not support women's abortion rights until he ran for Senate, and he ran a poll that showed he could not win if he had that position, and then he just flip-flopped.
Trump has flip-flopped on what to do about DREAMers—those who arrived in the US illegally before they were 16 and are protected from deportation under Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
"One of my biggest differences has been on guns, and I'm very pleased that he flip-flopped on the immunity legislation," she said, referring to Sanders's position to repeal legislation granting gun manufactures legal immunity.
Richard Nephew, the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team that negotiated the nuclear deal, cautioned against drawing conclusions, noting that Trump has flip-flopped after appearing to announce a policy decision in the past.
Those antics have led to the inevitable comparisons to Manziel, who was selected by the Browns in the first round in 2014 and flopped on the field while partying his way out of the league.
It flopped, despite its spirited rock 'n' roll score and early memorable performances from Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and especially Tim Curry, who originated and defined the role of the lascivious, irresistible Frank.
With medical marijuana laws on the books in 23 states and recreational pot use legal in a few more, it's fair to say American society's perception of weed has flip-flopped in the new millennium.
Bob Corker (R-TN) also stands to personally benefit from this provision, leading to early speculation that it's the reason he flip-flopped and decided to back a bill whose deficit impact he'd earlier deplored.
If McConnell bows to Collins and brings this bill to the floor, it is likely to pass with the votes of Democrats and the six Republicans who have already flip-flopped on the ObamaCare issue.
At one particular leg from Elko to Reno, the plane hit rough turbulence as it flew into a mountain-trimmed valley and everyone clung feverishly onto their seats as the vessel flopped through the air.
Here come the augmented reality platform wars Yet since HTML5 web games couldn't draw on the phone's computing power the same way as a native app, Facebook's "Project Spartan" flopped while the Apple App Store thrived.
SHANGHAI, July 4 (Reuters) - China's yuan rose sharply against the dollar on Wednesday and stocks flip-flopped a day after the People's Bank of China governor assured markets the central bank would keep the currency stable.
The 1975 singer, his hair in the mohawk version of whatever goes on on top of Robert Smith's head, took drags from his cigarette during saxophone breaks and flopped around like a startlingly confident deflating balloon.
Then I flopped over to the Final Fantasy series of games, most of which are available for iOS (except, mystifyingly, the one I know best, VIII), but generally spendier than the average offering, port or otherwise.
In 2013, after British swimmers had flopped at the London Games and that year's world championships, head coach Bill Furniss suggested Sheffield's Ponds Forge Olympic standard pool was hampering their development because it was too fast.
Miramax and TWC entered into complicated development agreements, but little of significance has come from them thus far ("Bad Santa 2" was made, and flopped on its release last year, failing to earn back its budget).
Persuaded by Mr Kerry, who had his ear bent by Mr Zarif, not to rise to the bait, Barack Obama flip-flopped over slapping on new sanctions, first indicating he would, but then withdrawing the threat.
After buzzy new shows like Minority Report flopped despite aggressive publicity tours, many networks shifted to a strategy of quietly cutting shows' episode orders and then simply declining to order more — all without officially canceling them.
When Skins attempted to make the leap to the U.S., it flopped, mostly because diehard fans felt something sacred about the show was lost by bringing it to a mainstream audience, and therefore never tuned in.
When that flopped, Clinton helped dream up and get Congress to pass the Children's Health Insurance Program, which gave millions of American children from families who were ineligible for Medicaid access to low-cost health care.
The President flip-flopped on his stance on the matter, having said last year he believed Russia was behind the interference, but back-pedaling Monday to claim he believed Putin's account that Russia was not involved.
In an effort to appeal to ultra-conservatives, Rubio has flip-flopped on the immigration reform he once supported, but what is even more disappointing is that he has adopted the same degrading rhetoric as Trump.
Facebook desperately tried to build an HTML5 game platform called Project Spartan in 2011, but it flopped because the mobile web standard wasn't powerful enough to build games that could compete with flashy, downloadable native apps.
The House seat had flopped from blue to red many times, and beginning in 2007, the district had been represented by Heath Shuler, a former N.F.L. quarterback who was a classic split-the-difference moderate Democrat.
Nelson flopped hard in his audition as Arizona's No. 210 receiver a few weeks ago, but John Brown left Sunday's loss with a pulled hamstring and if history is any indication, his absence will be protracted.
It was, I imagine, a much creepier song when those women were alive (as three-quarters of them were when this show, then titled "So Long, 73th Street," opened on Broadway in 1976, and quickly flopped).
The upshot: "Aquaman," starring Jason Momoa as the DC Comics superhero and directed by James Wan, could have easily flopped in China, which would have left a stink on the movie ahead of its global rollout.
Consensus has also formed around the wedge salad, which is clearly not a wedge, but is still a very fine salad, with blue cheese and a thick, Lugeresque bacon slice flopped over individual leaves of romaine.
Executives at the studio have defended their choices in private conversations, noting that they reduced risk on the seven movies that flopped by taking on financing partners and selling off overseas rights for "Shaft" to Netflix.
Also, Volkswagen's troubled mass-market brand is pushing upmarket again with a new flagship model a year after ceasing the flopped Phaeton luxury saloon in a bid to lift margins and revive its post-dieselgate image.
As we walked around Adam Rigg's intricate doll house of a set, ropes and pulleys and bits of black tape flopped into view, and some of the people in my group started talking about holiday plans.
Flip phones that seemed cutting-edge in 2010 were quickly upstaged in the smartphone era, experimental forms of gaming flopped, and old devices were replaced by faster and sleeker versions with more speed, storage, and features.
Trump's "second thoughts" on China came after a week in which the president quickly flip-flopped on other policy issues including gun restrictions, new tax cuts to fight a potential recession and purchasing Greenland from Denmark.
Two decades ago a project to modernise the museum with funds from the World Bank flopped, reportedly because the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, which houses it, refused to turn the museum into an independent trust.
She has also flip-flopped on interest rate policy, decrying rates as too low during the aftermath of the financial crisis in the Obama era, then calling them too high recently, tracking with Trump's own movable standard.
Italian bank shares fell heavily for a second day in a row on Tuesday, bringing their overall loss to 33 percent, after Popolare di Vicenza's cash call flopped and new government measures on bad loans disappointed investors.
The Mummy is actually Universal's second attempt to get this particular world up and running: 2014's Dracula Untold was originally intended to launch the Dark Universe, but those particular plans were shelved when the movie flopped.
While there were moments I thought I would collapse (I may have actually flopped onto the floor once or twice, if we're being honest), Brooke was super encouraging and kept her workout space free of negative energy.
The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are its two best smartphones ever, the Gear S2 received rave reviews after Samsung's previous smartwatches flopped, and the Gear VR is arguably the best mobile VR experience on the market.
Trump has already flip-flopped on this issue, describing the military alliance last year as "obsolete" -- then claiming that since he criticized it, that money has been "pouring in" from other allies making it no longer obsolete.
But while at Facebook, Flynn and Hamlin worked on the massively succesful 2014 redesign of Messenger, and the standalone Snapchat competitor Slingshot that flopped but pioneered creative tools like variable brush sizes that Facebook later integrated elsewhere.
Rand Paul said on CNN that bullets were flying everywhere and that a congressional staffer climbed a 20-foot fence in three seconds and flopped down beside him near a big oak tree behind a batting cage.
Still, Rubio's Harris said Cruz had flip-flopped on the trade bill "There is a culture of dishonesty from top-to-bottom in the Ted Cruz campaign," he said, adding the "completely invented photo" is further evidence.
And the animated "Ratchet & Clank," released by Focus Features on its Gramercy label, flopped with $4.8 million in ticket sales, becoming the latest example of a popular video game that failed to translate on the big screen.
Mr. Trump, having flip-flopped on a primary promise to shun wealthy donors, now seems only too happy to accept a pledge by Mr. Adelson and others to raise as much as $1 billion for his campaign.
After doing away with its unlimited model just two weeks ago in favor of a limited four-movie-per-month plan for new users, MoviePass has flip-flopped back to its old one-movie-per-day plan.
But the timing of the shift -- shortly after she was appointed to the Senate in 22008 to succeed Hillary Clinton -- has opened her up to criticism that she flip-flopped on a key issue for political reasons.
"This is like the first time — and I'm not going to say names — but the biggest pop artists have put out records and a lot of them flopped in the last year or two," Mr. Blanco said.
You see this known-quantities tendency in politics, too, with not-quite-ready-for-prime-time candidates like Scott Walker and should-be-sure-thing candidates like Jeb Bush, whose campaigns were essentially franchise extensions that flopped.
A message of someone who likes his porridge neither too hot nor too cold has already flopped for several candidates (Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper) and hardly fits with the disruptive mood driving politics in both parties.
After her first album flopped — compared to the other teen pop queens — Mottola tried to remake Simpson into a mix of Spears and his former protégé Mariah Carey, and she had to "contort" herself into a dancer.
Although the studio has remarkably avoided a major box-office misfire -- as even Lucasfilm experienced with "Solo: A Star Wars Story" -- ABC's "The Inhumans" flopped, and an attempt to spin off "Agents of SHIELD" died in development.
Mexico, on the other hand, has flip-flopped in its relationship with Cuba, with former President Vicente Fox famously snubbing Fidel Castro at a summit, a move that pleased the United States but damaged Mexico's regional influence.
While most of the flip-flopped Midwesterners held it together through the weather, the rain, in conjunction with a lot of mellow AF music, kept the collective energy level at a low simmer well into the evening.
I can't prove that Ja Rule intended this song to be a reference to Donnie Darko, but it was released in the fall of 2002, almost exactly one year after Donnie Darko premiered in theaters and flopped abysmally.
Gold was up a shade on Thursday after the dollar flip-flopped in the wake of mixed U.S. data and as skepticism grew over whether OPEC members would be able to implement production cuts that could fuel inflation.
After we hastily scrambled between a concrete wall and the front of an 18-wheeler and pulled our pants down just enough, I flopped forwards onto the hood of the truck, grabbing the side mirror to brace myself.
Its success will be crucial as Nintendo still considers console gaming to be the center of its business, even as casual gaming has moved to smartphones and tablets and as it last console, the Wii U, flopped badly.
The Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, which flopped earlier in 2017, would have reduced Medicaid spending by 35% by 2036 (Medicaid spending is the biggest slice of the federal budget that is dedicated to the poor).
Why it matters: NATO has already accommodated Trump's administration by changing the date of an earlier NATO meeting to get Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to attend, even after Trump called NATO obsolete and flip-flopped on that.
Mate, all I ever see you wear are black jeans, slightly off-white T-shirt, the most fucked up All Stars I've ever seen and, occasionally, a grey hoodie where all the hems have flopped open on it.
While the second Republican debate attracted 2628 million viewers, a hair down from the record-setting 28500 million who tuned in for the first one, the Democrats' second debate flopped with just over 6900 million Americans tuning in.
Both Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had promised not to pursue it; even if Trump had flip-flopped, the current Congress is certainly not more likely to approve a trade deal than the old Congress was.
Though Ray may not have been disabused of the use of blackface as a potentially racist trope, there is a contested elation in the absurdity of presenting a flip-flopped order to our perceptions of chromatic orthodox reality.
I got the feeling midway through this movie that I sometimes get when I read a bad op-ed or a half-baked review: that it started out as a good idea and then belly-flopped on delivery.
"Merrily We Roll Along," a Stephen Sondheim musical that abruptly flopped on Broadway in 1981 but has become a much-loved show in the decades since, will be revived Off Broadway next winter by the Roundabout Theater Company.
Iger acknowledged as such on Tuesday, when he said that the problem with the movies overseas in places like China, where "Star Wars" movies have flopped under Disney, is that viewers there didn't grow up with the movies.
The Swiss drugmaker struck a pact with China's Yuyuan BioScience Technology to develop and commercialize the fertility drug nolasiban, it said on Monday as it seeks to inject new life into a medicine that had flopped a trial.
In a collection that offers insight into the "risky business of innovation," the Museum of Failure will showcase products that flopped, such as Harley-Davidson fragrance, Bic pens for women, and Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-inspired drink.
After his bizarre news conference last Saturday, where he flip-flopped on whether he was in the racist yearbook photo but admitted to dressing in blackface at another time, Northam huddled with top aides in Virginia's executive mansion.
Not every show will be the next Game of Thrones or Mandalorian — take Apple TV Plus' See, which had a weekly release, huge budget, and star-studded cast but still flopped by virtue of not being very good.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, is facing the challenge of explaining why God seems to have dramatically flip-flopped on his stance regarding the inclusion of LGBT families.
It probably helped that on day one, while flopped on the grounds of Ohio City Masonic Arts Center, a five-minute drive from Quicken Loans Arena, bottles of champagne did hide behind the sleek tresses to loosen tongues.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis's heart failure drug serelaxin flopped in a late-stage trial by not cutting cardiovascular death or slowing disease progression, marking the likely demise of a drug hopeful the Swiss firm had promoted as a potential blockbuster.
The deal, sources told Reuters on Tuesday, takes SoftBank's total investment in WeWork, which is scrambling for cash following a flopped IPO attempt, to more than $19 billion, with the money-losing startup now valued at just $8 billion.
In a 2014 email from Perlmutter released during the 2015 Sony email leak, the executive disparaged the idea of "female movies," as he listed off a series of female superhero movies based on comic book characters that ultimately flopped.
Candidates Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and Elizabeth Warren have already co-sponsored a Senate bill that seeks to mostly oust private insurers, though Booker flopped on the issue by saying private insurance should still exist.
Because Trump has flip-flopped on the topic in the past, it's uncertain whether he'll heed the advice of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others to allow more foreign-born computer scientists and software engineers to fill US jobs.
"Given how much President Trump has flip-flopped on the defense budget issue just in the past few weeks, this is far from settled," cautioned Todd Harrison, a defense budget expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Apple has repeatedly flip-flopped on whether to allow the app — it initially rejected the app earlier this month, then made it available for download a few days later, before ultimately removing it from the app store on Thursday.
Philip Morris and R. J. Reynolds have reportedly invested billions in creating so-called heat-not-burn products, which generate smoke from tobacco at lower temperatures than cigarettes do—but early versions of these, released in the eighties, flopped.
While Denver fell to 0-6 since its bye with last Sunday's 240-241 setback against Cincinnati, the Raiders also flopped after their week off as they were trounced 2500-2535 in Mexico City last week by New England.
The Graham-Cassidy measure has revived a fight that many in Washington thought was over when an Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill flopped in the Senate in July, humiliating Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump.
While a classic to kids of a certain generation in the West, 1998's Mulan flopped in China, released a year late after Disney was effectively banned for releasing the film Kundun, a film sympathetic to the Dalai Lama.
Of course, the president can also be pressed to do the wrong thing, as when, at the behest of the gun lobby and its congressional defenders, he has repeatedly flip-flopped on plans to pursue popular gun safety measures.
" Ohio's Sherrod Brown, the leading Democrat on the panel, was even more direct: "The bottom line is, Ms. Shelton has too many alarming ideas and has flipped-flopped on too many important issues to be confirmed for this job.
But he flopped in the wild-card game last season against Minnesota, getting only one out before he was lifted, and he has largely lost his groove since early July, with a 6.83 earned run average over 11 starts.
His last four films have flopped at the North American box office, taking in a cumulative $26.9 million — roughly half of which goes to theater owners — while carrying a collective $85 million in estimated production costs, not including marketing.
Many high profile IPOs have flopped YCharts analyzed the top 25 IPOs by market cap for each year during the past decade, and found that over the long haul, only 38% of them have actually outperformed the S&P 500.
He would not say whether Trump personally ordered the use of the largest non-nuclear bomb ever dropped today in Afghanistan, or explain why the president had flip-flopped on labeling China a currency manipulator and supporting the Export/Import Bank.
It was my modernized and gender flip-flopped version of the dynamic I remembered fondly from childhood: my dad sitting at the kitchen table drinking a beer and reading the daily paper, while my mom cooked and the kids ran around.
Moderate Texans dislike how Mr Cruz played a key role in the federal government's brief shutdown in 2013, flip-flopped on whether Mr Trump should be loathed or loved and has done little to champion Texan interests in the Senate.
The populist UK Independence Party was jubilant after achieving its defining ambition of Brexit last summer, and was billed by some as a future rival to Labour in many parts of England; but it has since flopped in by-elections.
MODEL SCRUTINISED Disarray at WeWork, which is scrambling for cash following a flopped IPO attempt, comes as SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son struggles to raise money for a successor to his $100 billion Vision Fund, sources told Reuters this month.
While Spielberg has continued to thrive in the industry, Cimino famously wrote and directed "Heaven's Gate," a film that flopped so badly at the box office it caused Transamerica to shutter its film production and sell its studio to MGM.
Within a year, Facebook Home was also dead (in truth, Facebook stopped caring about it the moment the HTC First flopped), and Facebook moved on from trying to dominate the home screen into all the ways it could copy Snapchat.
One Chinese official told Reuters it was not the first time Trump had "flip-flopped", and that though the time between the talks being declared constructive and Trump's threat of new tariffs was short, officials in Beijing were already prepared.
Having told everyone that China would transition away from its old fixed-asset-investment model, Beijing flip-flopped in the face of slowing growth and did exactly what it had done in the past, namely pump money into infrastructure and construction.
Franken's decision to skip Friday's show comes just days after he flip-flopped on attending a July event with comedian Kathy Griffin, requesting she not attend the event after she posed with a fake decapitated head that resembled President Trump.
In the eighties, bamboo was replaced by plastic breakaway poles, with a hinge at the base of each, so that you could knock it out of your way; it flopped to the snow and snapped back into place after you'd passed.
Forbes says the Newton PDA flopped for a number of reasons: Its price started at $700, it was 8 inches tall and 4.5 inches wide, and its handwriting recognition was so bad that a classic "Simpsons" episode made fun of it.
She also noted that Trump had said in passing the idea of invading Iraq made sense and flip-flopped on Libya, good points when looking to temperament and decisiveness, but clearly a move away from squarely defending her own record.
And then she kicked off a fairly intense interrogation of Mr. Trump over 40 minutes, during which she questioned him about his stance on immigration, a Trump University lawsuit and whether he flip-flopped on statements he made about Syrian refugees.
The Frenchman left Roma two years ago in search of championships and his choosing to return to Italy with Juventus is reminiscent of Inter inking another former Roma defensive stalwart, Walter Samuel, a decade ago, after he flopped at Real Madrid.
Over the next two and half years, Mr. Davidson mounted 22002 productions, most notably a 1966 resuscitation of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide," which had flopped on Broadway a decade earlier but returned to glorious life in the hands of Mr. Davidson.
She won a talent contest award when she was 8, moved to New York a decade later and was nurtured by the vaudeville star Sophie Tucker after Miss Sawyer had flopped at Grossinger's hotel in the Catskills and fled the stage.
Jasmin wore a Minnie Mouse shirt and drank Fiji Water, a look that matches Albert's new style—Albert was in an off-white hat that flopped over her head and flaunted a green mood ring on one glove-covered finger.
Mr. Bird's most recent film, "Iron Giant," had flopped financially, and when he pitched his idea for a new movie to Pixar, he was told it would never work: It would take 10 years and cost $500 million to animate.
"Of the five FAANG stocks that have reported, two have flopped along with a few other high growth/high momentum names and this group is coming under pressure," Jefferies equity strategist Steven DeSanctis said in a note to clients Monday.
This year also saw the release of Google's Stadia console, which basically flopped right out of the gate, and then there was Apple Arcade, a subscription-based service that launched with so many amazing little games from all kinds of developers.
The series, which starred actors Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon as cosmetic surgeons who began every meeting with the phrase, "Tell us what you don't like about yourself," was Murphy's second stab at showrunning after his first effort, Popular, flopped.
"The reason it failed in Vermont and Colorado was taxes," Professor Blendon said, referring to recent efforts to move to a near-universal health care system in those states, which flopped resoundingly because they would have required major tax increases.
"The Last Jedi" also flopped in China (it was pulled from theaters after a week), and Rian Johnson&aposs movie — even though it grossed $2.23 billion worldwide — showed relatively weak legs at the box office, while proving divisive among "Star Wars" die-hards.
Its shares have slumped in the run-up to the issue, down nearly 70 percent this year, but its call for cash has roused more interest than seen in the flopped capital raising by two smaller banks over the past five weeks.
The film is designed to be the start of a new trilogy, but that's also been said of 2009's Terminator: Salvation and 2015's Terminator: Genisys, both of which saw those ambitious plans dropped after they flopped at the box office.
Walkout organizers again questioned the company's public branding this week when YouTube flip-flopped its enforcement of anti-harassment policies for a far-right user who regularly featured homophobic and racial slurs, all while claiming to support LGBTQ employees for Gay Pride Month.
And criticisms that he's flip-flopped on health care, abortion, taxes, and whether he likes Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have done apparently nothing to stop his campaign's enormous momentum and major victories in three of four Republican primary elections so far.
Sticking firmly to script, Elaine Quijano loses the debate Both have flip-flopped on the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- ditching their support for the 12-nation trade deal to embrace Trump and Clinton's opposition to it, without ever offering detailed explanations for their reversals.
The flopped merger plan forces Oi's strategic planning back to square one, as the company struggles with about 10 billion reais ($218 billion) in debt maturing this year, less available cash to invest and slipping revenue as a result of Brazil's deep recession.
" During a tour stop in Chicago — it was not lost on the rapper, or the crowd, that it's West's hometown — Drake changed the original line from, "Then Kanye dropped, it was polos and backpacks," to, "Then Kanye flopped, it was polos and backpacks.
But so much of what we were getting at [will] still be viable, Where we left things in season 4, Lindsay was becoming the Republican candidate arguing to put up this wall; even though she fought against it, she had completely flip-flopped.
India's army, for instance, has been seeking a new standard assault rifle since 1982; torn between demands for local production and the temptation of fancy imports, and between doctrines calling for heavier firepower or more versatility, it has flip-flopped ever since.
The two British cycling greats, who briefly fell out when they flopped as favorites for the 200-lap event at the 2008 Beijing Games, came from nowhere to carve their way to victory and give the hosts a table-topping fifth gold medal.
Against the unheralded 8-6 Aziz Karaoglu, Khalidov was awkward on the feet, ate unnecessary punches, and flopped to the floor time and time again, pursuing a grappling match with someone he was reckoned to be leagues ahead of on the feet.
A previous Cirque attempt at narrative theater, "Banana Shpeel," disastrously flopped at the Beacon Theater in 2010; a more traditional (for Cirque) acrobatic show with multiyear aspirations, "Zarkana," quietly faded away after productions at Radio City Music Hall in 2011 and 228.
Somewhat like in the 1980s when the Coca-Cola Co reintroduced its original soda as "Coca-Cola Classic" after a change in its flavor flopped, the old blockchain became known as "ethereum classic," while the new blockchain took on the name ethereum.
His ventures to expand his influence beyond New York City have mostly flopped: An effort to organize a presidential forum in Iowa collapsed; his nonprofit to pursue a national progressive agenda is in mothballs; he's been passed over for prominent national speaking roles.
Mr Biden began his campaign with a flip-flop on whether the federal government should pay for abortions (no, then yes, apparently), and Ms Harris flip-flop-flip-flopped on whether private health insurance should be abolished (no, yes, no, yes, apparently).
Other than Moments, which largely flopped, and the move to the algorithmic feed ranking, Twitter sure didn't seem to be doing too much and was already being criticized for slow product evolution as it tried to avoid disturbing its most hardcore users.
Hungry City 9 Photos View Slide Show ' Here is the soul of New York, manifested as breakfast: an egg, over easy, the white cratered with a copper frill and the yolk a veiled pulse at the center, flopped over bacon and oozing cheese.
Both shows flopped badly, but for years, Stritch, as she came to appreciate the full scope of Sondheim's genius, agonized that she'd chosen the wrong flop — eventually making the rousing "Everybody Says Don't" from "Anyone Can Whistle" one of her signature tunes.
The movie flopped in a very limited box office run, but by that point, Robbie had already been cast as Will Smith's con artist sidekick/love interest in Focus (2015), a half-baked film that coasts, just barely, on its stars' charisma.
Where Star Wars bombs: One after another, "Star Wars" movies have flopped in China, defying efforts to bring one of the most successful franchises in history into a market that has printed money for the heroes, monsters and robots of other films.
The movie had the wry humor of François Truffaut, one of Mr. Demme's idols, and an interconnected group story that echoed Robert Altman's "Nashville," but it flopped at the box office (both immediately and later, when it was rereleased as "Handle With Care").
Among the workouts that belly-flopped was a "Star Wars" one in which the Rebels ended up helping the Imperials because neither side could bear the thought of being responsible for the other having to do 30 extra push-ups for losing.
Year: 2006, at the 48th Grammy AwardsWhat beat it: "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" by U2"The Emancipation of Mimi" is often cited as Mariah Carey's comeback album, after a decade of unprecedented pop dominance and then two albums that flopped.
McConnell's staff pushed back Friday on the idea that he had flip-flopped, blasting out an email to reporters titled "Setting the record straight on election security" that detailed previous steps taken by the Senate and federal agencies to secure elections since 2016.
Mr. Trump's method, friends and allies say, matches the reputation he built first in New York and then on reality television — less as a traditional corporate executive, like Mr. Romney, than as an eager impresario who experimented freely, welcomed conflict and flopped repeatedly.
In only 24 hours, they created reVIVE, a virtual-reality app that tests children for signs of A.D.H.D. After the students were handed their winnings onstage — a trophy-size check for $5,000 — they flopped into chairs in a nearby room to recuperate.
Since Gateway Casinos' IPO flopped in 2012, Catalyst has continually raised the valuation of its controlling stake — to levels that yield an imputed value for the gaming company as a whole of as much as US$1.95 billion, according to the Feb.
Her resentment of the Nazis can be felt in the chilling intimacy of "The Bürgermeister's daughter, Town Hall, Leipzig, Germany, 1945," in which Regina Lisso, the daughter of the City Treasurer of Leipzig, lies dead, flopped over an armchair after committing suicide with her parents.
The president's first speeches to intelligence community and military audiences flopped — in part because he treated the audiences as political allies, insulting their apolitical professionalism, and in part because he used those speeches as platforms to attack the press or other institutions of American democracy.
For more click Newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag reported Leonteq founder and CEO Jan Schoch's online bank for millionaires, Flynt, might have flopped before it ever got started, with its two main proponents having jumped ship, the launch date postponed and licensing challenges with FINMA.
Subscription service Pandora Plus launched and arguably flopped; the company spurned a buyout from SiriusXM and is now in talks with several leading private firms to raise money; advertising has slowed; and, on top of everything, it's actually lost 500,103 users since December 2015.
Teachers and a few underemployed volunteer parents carpooled us back to school, where I immediately flopped onto a beanbag chair for Sustained Silent Reading, a time of day that only years later did I realize was as much for the teachers' benefit as the students'.
As 2100 wrapped up, there was an ongoing conversation about the bleak landscape of mainstream pop and female pop stars specifically, as everyone from Lady Gaga to Katy Perry flopped on the radio, and the suddenly divisive Taylor Swift had to play to her base.
Toby Kebbell filled those shoes in the 2015 reboot of the franchise, which flopped at the box office and tanked any prospect of an ongoing film series starring those versions of the characters (played by Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell and Miles Teller).
Yet hopes that the fund would jumpstart public NPL securitisation faded when Atlante spent 2.5bn taking over two regional lenders after their IPOs flopped, blowing the bulk of its firepower before it could even put a dent into the country's 360bn bad-debt burden.
The linearity on the runway was echoed by the linearity of the office buildings all around, and together it made a lot of sense (well, apart from some weird dangly bits at the waist of dresses that floated with movement but flopped when still).

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