But efforts to make changes have barely gotten off the ground.
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The talks would never have gotten off the ground without Russian approval.
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But so far, talks do not appear to have gotten off the ground.
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Past proposals to tax remittances have never gotten off the ground in Washington.
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Why it matters: It's remarkable how fast it has gotten off the ground.
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Without that, he says the plan would have never gotten off the ground.
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Last September, a Falcon 9 hadn't even gotten off the ground when it exploded.
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A very high-tech analytics goal-setting mechanism would've never gotten off the ground.
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An online merchant for harder-to-find ingredients has just gotten off the ground.
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"I can't imagine it would have gotten off the ground without him and Lorena," Arkles said.
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"If it wasn't for Hugo that project never would have gotten off the ground," Perry said.
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"Riverkeeper wouldn't have gotten off the ground without Bob Boyle," Professor Humbach said at the time.
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Commercial airships haven't really gotten off the ground as an industry, beyond blimp advertising over football games.
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Though some people are at least now testing the service, MCX has never really gotten off the ground.
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On Ukraine, Special Envoy Kurt Volker's discussions with his Russian counterpart have only just gotten off the ground.
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"The mistake is that deleveraging hasn't gotten off the ground," said CBB, which surveys thousands of firms quarterly.
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The effort never would have gotten off the ground, literally, without huge financial commitments from the U.S. government.
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But without NASA, America's private space industry probably wouldn't have gotten off the ground in the first place.
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Attempts to genetically engineer designer trees—for super fragrance, or bioluminescence, say—have never really gotten off the ground.
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Even fundraising efforts that have gotten off the ground are not moving as fast as EV makers would like.
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My little Cessna was more flyable than some of the planes I'd gotten off the ground as a WASP.
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Now, before his tax bill has even gotten off the ground, Trump and his allies are fueling more dissent.
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The cryptocurrency project from the U.S. tech giant already faces pressure from regulators before it's gotten off the ground.
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If she had tried to do the same thing in the US, it never would have gotten off the ground.
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Bad cycle life is also a big reason why solid-state batteries haven't gotten off the ground here on Earth, either.
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In the past, his bills haven't gotten off the ground—and HB 196 is expected to suffer a similar fate. Rep.
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But Fridsma, who subsequently became the head of the American Medical Informatics Association, said the project hasn't gotten off the ground.
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The Times also published video of a television ad the Bloomberg campaign considered running, if it had only gotten off the ground.
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Trump could use the threat of those tariffs in trade negotiations with the EU, although those talks have barely gotten off the ground.
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Efforts by other municipalities in Texas and California to use "direct potable reuse" haven't always gotten off the ground because of the "ickiness" factor.
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Our sources say the entire cast is willing to make the reboot happen, but negotiations with the network still haven't gotten off the ground.
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Just over a year later, the IPAI has been renamed the Global Partnership on AI, but it still hasn't quite gotten off the ground.
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By focusing on carrying critical medical supplies, Zipline has gotten off the ground faster and in a bigger way than other, more mundane delivery pioneers.
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The end result was a broadband project that still hasn't gotten off the ground but put taxpayers on the hook for a whopping $1.5 billion.
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It's a fittingly optimistic dream for a former moonshot project of Alphabet's X lab that, all these years later, looks like it's finally gotten off the ground.
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But that effort has barely gotten off the ground — less than a dozen of these new products are actually available to patients, and few deliver significant savings.
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Robert Graetz: No. I had been involved already in the civil rights movement, but the movement itself had just barely gotten off the ground at that point.
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Development at Sunnyside Yard has been kicked around for nearly a century, but because of the complexity of any project being built there, has never gotten off the ground.
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Countries under U.S. sanctions such as Iran and Venezuela have floated the idea of using digital currency to trade although no scheme appears to have gotten off the ground.
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United States never would have gotten off the ground, and the entire theory that the Republican Party and the Federalist Society have a superior judicial strategy would seem absurd.
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It's hard not to wonder if a strike against sexual harassment at McDonald's would have gotten off the ground had these men remained central figures in the Fight for $15.
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Blumberg's original pitch to super-investor Chris Sacca was horrible, and if Sacca had not taken pity on Blumberg and given him pointers, Gimlet might never have gotten off the ground.
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Then again, maybe none of these relationships would have gotten off the ground had the franchise not forced them to get serious, fast, trading the casual Tinder swipe for a high-stakes rose ceremony.
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Local officials have called for construction of a seawall — nicknamed the "Ike Dike" after 2008's Hurricane Ike — to protect the region from a major storm, but the project hasn't gotten off the ground.
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For example, the promise to create an innovation hub, in last year's State of the City address, has barely gotten off the ground, and requests for proposals are not expected until later this year.
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While Apple itself has been toying with the idea of making its Apple TV a platform for cord cutters by launching its own streaming video service, those plans have not yet gotten off the ground.
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Mr. Trump announced that he was going to take a version of "The Apprentice" to China to compete with Mr. Lo's show, although Mr. Trump's show there does not appear to have gotten off the ground.
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BoldlyGo is also pursuing two more ambitious projects — a larger space telescope, and a spacecraft to collect samples from the Martian atmosphere and bring them back to Earth — that have not yet gotten off the ground.
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The company had barely gotten off the ground when Twitter approached him with a buyout offer, hoping to use his expertise to fix the shambolic security that had led to repeated hacks of celebrity and journalist accounts.
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Four years after an ambitious expansion was proposed — an attempt to give Sydney an art museum to match its status as the most affluent and populous city in Australia — it still has not gotten off the ground.
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Mr. Trump's deregulatory push — the only part of his agenda that has gotten off the ground — is likely to boost corporate profits while imposing costs on workers in the form of reductions in pay, safety and health.
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Trump's proposals to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fix roads and bridges, airports and schools, have not gotten off the ground, but they've always felt like the greatest opportunity in his agenda for bipartisan agreement.
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Even before it has gotten off the ground, McConnell, the top Republican in Congress, has said there is no chance Trump, his party's leader, will be convicted on charges that he abused his office and obstructed a congressional investigation into his conduct.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - From Bush-era steel duties to the European Union's "bra wars" skirmish with China, global trade wars have often threatened but never quite gotten off the ground and President Donald Trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs will likely play out the same way.
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At the same time, state officials have said that a plan for insurance companies to contribute voluntarily to a fund that would have helped homeowners pay for hugely expensive foundation repairs has not gotten off the ground, because of a lack of interest by insurers.
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They would also ensure that countries that offset their emissions are putting their money toward projects that wouldn't otherwise have gotten off the ground, instead of funding an initiative that was already set to take place with or without the carbon credits it generated.
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It's hard to mourn too much for an internal Google project that never really seems to have gotten off the ground, but given the potential of a dual-booting Chrome OS / Windows 10 device, it's still a bit of a shame that Project Campfire didn't work out.
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ABOUT THE EAGLES (1-1): Wentz (NFL fourth-best 203 yards passing) has re-established chemistry with tight end Zach Ertz (league third-best 190 receiving yards), but Philadelphia's rushing attack hasn't gotten off the ground with the running backs averaging just 3.1 yards per carry.
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While more Republican senators, including Bob Corker of Tennessee, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Ben Sasse of Nebraska, have criticized the White House's tariff policy, the only major legislative effort to check Trump's tariff powers has not really gotten off the ground.
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Even Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, from deep-blue New York, has apparently promised not to touch the filibuster (he even promised to restore it for Supreme Court confirmations) should the Democrats get back in power—and if the filibuster remains intact, the Democrats' legislative agenda has crashed and burned before it's gotten off the ground.
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In 2009, a new professional rugby league competition, the National Rugby League USA (NRLUS), was announced. The new league was to include administrators and talent from the AMNRL, and was intended to begin play in 2010. However, the league had not gotten off the ground. That year officials announced their hopes that play would begin in 2011, citing the late 2000s recession as a factor in the league's lack of progress.
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After finishing his college football career, Beutjer played in the Arena Football League and Canadian Football League. In 2008, he signed on with the All American Football League for Team Michigan. However, as of 2011 the league has not gotten off the ground. He now works as a gym teacher and is the current head football coach at Lyons Township High School in LaGrange, IL and announced on December 9, 2013 that he is expecting his first child.
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Williford was employed as a PR rep for Chrysler and had turned to drag racing (along with Richard Petty) when Chrysler pulled out of NASCAR in 1965. Williford, who had first suggested that David create a stock car publication, was vital in getting the early issues of Stock Car Racing to press. He did much of the writing and legwork necessary to publish the magazine. "There is no way the magazine would have gotten off the ground without him," Jim Davis recalled.
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Official Regal Beast ReverbNation.com retrieved 03-15-12 Four other former-members of Before Braille combined with Jared Woosley of Fivespeed to form Red Means Red, and even demoed a few songs.Red Means Red MySpace retrieved 01-19-12 That project never seems to have gotten off the ground. In January 2010, former members Dave Jensen, Brandon Smith, Braden McCall, and Rajiv Patel were joined on the stage by Bob Hoag, who recorded and produced every Before Braille album, to play one last time at the Sunset Alliance 10-year Anniversary Show.
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The organization is dedicated to improving creek habitats for environmental, flood control, pollution filtration, and beautification reasons. The original five creeks were Cerrito Creek- Middle/Blackberry, Marin Creek, Codornices Creek, Schoolhouse Creek and Marin/Village Creek, however the organization's involvement has expanded to all the creeks in the area including the communities of Berkeley, Albany, El Cerrito, Kensington, Richmond, and the surrounding unincorporated areas. Susan Schwartz, the organization's leader, states that the organization like other "friends of" groups would not have gotten off the ground without help from the Urban Creeks Council.Water warriors / United Creeks Council quietly fights to bring streams to light .
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After an argument with his boss Chuck Portnoy (Sienna Miller) of Dynamic Systems, Dan Trunkman (Vince Vaughn) decides to leave and start his own business. Tim McWinters (Tom Wilkinson) who was fired for being too old and Mike Pancake (Dave Franco) who was there for an interview follow Dan and join his new company. A year later, Dan's business, Apex Select, has barely gotten off the ground. In a Dunkin' Donuts, Dan gets a message to go on a business trip to Portland to meet with investors Jim Spinch (James Marsden) and Bill Whilmsley (Nick Frost), the latter being a friend of Dan's.
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Thus, the difficulty-fraught conservative merger was completed, and Japan's first unified right-wing party, the Liberal Democratic Party, was born. Miki, Hatoyama, Ono, and Taketora Ogata shared the interim presidential committee, and five months later Hatoyama was inaugurated as president of the Liberal Democratic Party. On the future of the Liberal Democratic Party, which had gotten off the ground leaving the most vexatious conflicts unresolved, Miki is well known for his assessment that the party "would be lucky to last two or three years".Kent E. Calder, Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986 (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1988), 59.
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Now, at the trilateral meetingRejewski was later to recount"the first question that ... Dillwyn Knox asked was: 'What are the connections in the entry drum? Knox was mortified to learn how simple the answer was. The Poles' gift, to their western Allies, of Enigma decryption, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, came not a moment too soon. Former Bletchley Park mathematician- cryptologist Gordon Welchman has written: "Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military ... Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use.
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Gordon Welchman, who became head of Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, has written: "Hut 6 Ultra would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military version of the commercial Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use." During the war, British cryptologists decrypted a vast number of messages enciphered on Enigma. The intelligence gleaned from this source, codenamed "Ultra" by the British, was a substantial aid to the Allied war effort.Much of the German cipher traffic was encrypted on the Enigma machine, and the term "Ultra" has often been used almost synonymously with "Enigma decrypts".
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Władysław Kozaczuk, Enigma, p. 64. The Poles' gift, to their British and French allies, of Enigma decryption at Warsaw on 26 July 1939, just five weeks before the outbreak of the war, came not a moment too soon, as it laid the foundations for later British cryptographic breakthroughs that produced the Ultra intelligence that was a key factor during the war. Former Bletchley Park mathematician-cryptologist Gordon Welchman later wrote: "Ultra] would never have gotten off the ground if we had not learned from the Poles, in the nick of time, the details both of the German military... Enigma machine, and of the operating procedures that were in use."Gordon Welchman, The Hut Six Story, p. 289.
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Numerous large shopping malls, community colleges, sports and concert stadiums, and corporate employment centers were purposely built adjacent to the Beltway, and these added greatly to the traffic, as has the passenger growth of regional airports accessed by the Beltway. The formerly more affordable price of housing in Southern Maryland versus Northern Virginia, also led tens of thousands of commuters to live in Southern Maryland and commute on the Beltway to Virginia. The newer Fairfax County Parkway in the 1990s helped ease some traffic on the Virginia beltway; however, various proposals to build another complete outer beltway in the outer suburbs has not gotten off the ground, because local governments in Maryland object to building additional Potomac River crossings as well as destroying protected "open space" and creating sprawl.
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Six-and-a- half years after the initial Polish decryption of Enigma ciphers, French and British intelligence representatives were briefed on Polish achievements at a trilateral conference held at Cipher Bureau facilities in the Kabaty Woods, just south of Warsaw, on July 26, 1939, barely five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. This formed the basis for early Enigma decryption by the British at Bletchley Park, northwest of London. Without the head start provided by Poland, British reading of Enigma encryptions might have been delayed several years, if it would have gotten off the ground at all. Key Polish Cipher Bureau personnel escaped from Poland on September 17, 1939, on the Soviet Union's entry into eastern Poland, and eventually reached France. There, at "PC Bruno" outside Paris, they resumed cracking Enigma ciphers through the "Phony War" (October 1939 – May 1940).
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