But too many foreign takeovers by British firms have flopped.
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Why does the world's manufacturing upswing appear to have flopped?
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Some efforts to expand in countries like Japan have flopped.
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Yes, but: Plenty of previous Silicon Valley campaign efforts have flopped.
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The Bondy "Tosca" may have flopped, but its intent was laudable.
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Peace talks have flopped, in large part because of Mr Assad's intransigence.
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It may all sound simple, yet some off-price chains have flopped.
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Expensive signings have flopped, and the club is laboring under considerable debt.
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A rough year for unicorns: Some of 2019's flashiest IPOs have flopped.
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But several big initial public offerings, notably of ride-hailing giants, have flopped.
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Other foreign acquisitions also seem to have flopped and no others are planned.
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If Republicans hadn't felt betrayed by their leaders, Trump would likely have flopped.
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Major acquisitions like Tumblr have flopped while internal efforts have yielded few big wins.
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Other efforts from Facebook to court younger users, like its Lifestage app, have flopped.
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A string of critically panned movies have flopped at the box office this year.
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The beer maker's public debut comes at a time when other highly anticipated IPOs have flopped.
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Facebook's virtual assistant M may have flopped, but it continues to invest heavily in chatbot research.
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Not to mention all the on-demand dry-cleaning, car-valet and meal-delivery startups that have flopped.
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Two American-led trade deals, known as TPP and TTIP, that gave protection to intellectual property, have flopped.
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Both movie stars, Blanche is now a glamorous fixture of Hollywood, whereas all of Jane's films have flopped.
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Doubly ironic is the fact that Magic Recs was a bot that actually worked when some have flopped.
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Amazon may have flopped with the Fire Phone, but don't count it out of the telephony game just yet.
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Republican-backed efforts to stop Donald Trump from claiming the party's presidential nomination have flopped over the last four months.
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If all this hints at a new readiness to get tough, it is in part because other tactics have flopped.
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But several big-budget Chinese films have flopped while more modest productions have done well, highlighting the challenges China faces.
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Peace initiatives have flopped before, most spectacularly in 2004, when Greek Cypriots rejected a United Nations reunification blueprint in a referendum.
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While many initial coin offerings have flopped, cryptocurrency developers continue working on new use cases and M&A has remained strong.
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President Trump has railed repeatedly against the Senate filibuster as a major reason that many of his policy priorities have flopped.
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Windows Phone as a platform may have flopped, but its design really pushed Apple and Google to make better mobile operating systems.
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Augmented reality efforts have flopped in the past, including Google's much-promoted attempt around spectacles with the technology, known as Google Glass.
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This is especially so since South Africa's efforts to foment a mass withdrawal of African countries from the ICC appears to have flopped.
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These less capricious businesses have been surprisingly stable even as market-making revenue has fallen and Goldman's own investment bets have flopped around.
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It succeeded in a year that plenty of other sequels, from "Dark Phoenix" to "Terminator: Dark Fate," have flopped hard at the box office.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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Finally, it has become increasingly evident that cryptocurrencies have no inherent value, for they have flopped as an efficient way to make payments, except for illicit purposes, while their price volatility — mostly down — had undermined any assertion that they are a reliable store of value.
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Mane scored his second of the night early in extra time to make it 2-1, before Chelsea midfielder Jorginho made it two-a-piece four minutes later when he converted a controversial penalty won by Tammy Abraham, who was perceived to have flopped without much contact.
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Over the last 10 years, major automakers have introduced some two dozen electric cars in the United States, and almost all have flopped, mainly because they were aimed at helping manufacturers meet fuel-economy and emissions regulations as easily and inexpensively as possible — hence the term compliance cars.
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Some of their picks have flopped, including "Gigi" and "Allegiance," but they love supporting the art form and getting to know the players, and they were among the early producers of one of this season's most acclaimed new musicals, "Dear Evan Hansen," which is shaping up to be a hit.
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The film was poorly reviewed and seems to have flopped at the box office. The Astrolat Film Company announced plans to make another movie, Whose Baby? but it appears never to have been shot. Star Thora Galli later sued Astrolat for £200 in unpaid wages.
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New York magazine called the film "a critical flop and a box-office bomb", and a report by NewsMax Media characterized it among "miserable box-office flops". An article in The Daily Telegraph discussed the film among a "slew of new movies" that "have flopped at the box office". The Associated Press called the film a "box-office clunker". The film ultimately grossed $63 million worldwide, which included $15 million for its domestic gross and $48 million internationally.
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Both defenses forced key turnovers in a game that no passing touchdowns were thrown. In the waning seconds of the 4th quarter as Baltimore trailed, Flacco threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to Steve Smith that seemingly won the game. However, Smith was controversially called for offensive pass interference on Bengals safety George Iloka, who looked to have flopped, that negated the touchdown. The Ravens ended up losing 27–24 and being swept by the Bengals for the first time since 2009.
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Philip and Claire's latest efforts at breaking onto Broadway have flopped, but their efforts have not gone unnoticed by Gilbert's employer, Tommy Parker. Tommy is a gofer for billionaire Boyd Larkin, who wants to insert a spy into the household of his arch-rival billionaire, Peter Champion. Peter's wife, Elsa, is seeking to launch a singing career and needs just the right songwriting team. Gilbert, on the other hand, is hoping that helping Parker and Larkin pull off their scheme will advance his own chances at snagging the world's wealthiest sugar daddy.
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Late November 2012 brought the news that MTV had decided not to go forward with a second season of the series. MTV said to The Wrap, "While we won't be moving forward with another season of The Inbetweeners, we enjoyed working with the show's creators and such a talented, funny cast." The American version is extremely unpopular with viewers from the UK, with many newspapers reporting that it had 'flopped'. It was listed by Metro as one of the 'Top 10 English comedies whose US remakes have flopped'.
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The appearance of the plant fossil is a holdfast on the bottom, with a stem-like stipe between there and the fronds which are about to . In life, the fronds would have hung vertically whenever the plant was submerged during high tide, and would have flopped over the stipe when the plant was exposed during low tide in a habitus similar to that of the living sea palm. Other specimens from this deposit collected and described by Massalongo in 1855 were actually trace fossils, and they remain assigned to Zoophycos; only the specimens of Z. caput-medusae have been assigned to Postelsiopsis, as those are fossils of the original plant, and not trace fossils.
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