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The thing that has to be done ? the final nail of the coffin ? is to ban the trade of American pit bull terriers, ... In other words you can't buy one because it is illegal.

Some people decide never to have surgery to save a marriage or a career. They try to live with it in subtle ways: Wearing women's underwear, using clear nail polish or colorless lip gloss.

With the box office dwindling, all this is seen as another nail in the coffin. Theater owners are afraid once you start releasing films this way (simultaneously in other formats), all movies could go this way. That would put their business in jeopardy.

The Government must be completely mad - it's another nail in the coffin.

Now, as a writer, the whole world is your nail polish display, and what's more, you can help yourself. A thrilling, colourful array of gorgeous human peculiarity revolves before your eyes, and you still can't quite believe it's all yours for the taking.

You've got your horse out there, and he pitches his butt off in that situation, it's my job to nail it down. Unfortunately, it provided a little bit of momentum for these guys going into tomorrow.

They still showed a little inconsistencies between dives. They'll really nail one in one contest, and in the next they'll hit a different one. We're still trying to get the whole list to be complete.

People probably think we're crazy, but it's worked really well for us. We'll get the most mileage out of him if we bring him in the latter innings and have him nail the door down.

Right now, we haven't been able to nail anything down, but it's possible that suspect was bringing more marijuana back to this area.

This really was the nail in the coffin for the Aug. 24 meeting, ... I think it implies interest rates will go up faster in the future.

This really was the nail in the coffin for the Aug. 24 meeting. I think it implies interest rates will go up faster in the future.

This is probably more than just the nail in the coffin I would suspect this has buried the coffin,

After the other guys did the job in relief, I was supposed to nail down the shutout for Felix after a great start. You hate to lose that zero, but we did get the win, and that's what it's all about.

If she felt there was a cause worthy of her opinion, she would fight tooth and nail for it.

If Littlejohn's DNA is there, he's nailed. If it's not, they'll have more trouble. They'll have to come up with enough circumstantial evidence in his car and his home to nail him.

If you go into the conference thinking you're just going to nail it in, Mt. SAC will beat us.

If you can have Molly Sims, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and a Budweiser on display, I think that should nail us the 21- to 34-year-old. It's ideal.

If you find an innocent man who has been executed, that's a final nail through that.

I kept saying, 'The guy had white hair,' but they weren't worried about 'the f - - - ing white-haired guy.' They wanted to nail Gibbs.

Tampa, get ready because here we come, ... It's going to be an electric night of boxing, and once and for all we will put the nail in Roy Jones' coffin. May he rest in peace.

The big guys have the capacity where they don't have to make money on this tomorrow. It's much more important that they nail the user experience.

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

Not really since 'The Godfather' had I felt anyone tried to nail the era (so well).

Conditions that we know have genetic contributions but which have been rather difficult to nail down, this set of power tools that the genome project is producing will accelerate this discovery process rather dramatically, and we're going to see the consequences of that in the next three to five years,

It's my job to nail it down. Unfortunately, it provided a little bit of momentum for these guys going into tomorrow.

I want this spot; there's no doubt. I'm trying to stick the nail in the coffin right now.

It's better not to nail it down too precisely. Over the next day or so we'll have a better idea.

They did a lot better job at the free-throw line. In big games at this time, it's going to come down to free throws. We did better at the line than we did yesterday. We shoot free throws a lot. Basketball is mental you have to go up, stay focused and nail it.

It's difficult to nail down commitments. It's tough to get people to stand outside in February for anything.

It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.

In theater, the show must go on, so you train yourself to be able to nail it every single time because that's what the audience deserves, and that's the magic of live theater.

If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail in that coffin.

I don't think Jeremy was sharp. Velocity-wise he was fine, but location he was not. He didn't have it. We got pounded. Honestly, it could have been worse. We scored in three innings and all three times we gave up runs. It's another nail in the coffin for a team that is already kind of fragile. It was not pretty.

He's just amazing, ... When your books are put into any other medium, you don't know what's going to happen to them. But he's a wonderful actor. But more than that, I'm just amazed when I see and hear an actor who can do so many voices with subtle changes that so nail the character and then consistently do it.

These tapes, which the committee will put on display, really nail down the case, ... It comes out of President Clinton's mouth that these funds, this soft money, was used to promote his candidacy. He says that. And now we know positively there's been a violation of the federal election code.

It was a mistake, and this study really confirms that it was the wrong direction to go for nutritional advice. It did do harm. It was a lost opportunity. People were given the idea that it was only fat calories that counted. This should be the nail in the coffin for low-fat diets.

It was kind of a nail biter throughout, ... What you saw here was the result of a lot of work on the part of a lot of people, and it all paid off just perfect.

It was kind of a nail biter throughout. What you saw here was the result of a lot of work on the part of a lot of people, and it all paid off just perfect.

Any campaign with confidence ignores its opponents. The Hillary attack machine is fighting us tooth and nail every day because they are scared.

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

...the hardest hammer can only strike the nail squarely when guided by the softer hand; in other words, the pursuit of truth was most effective when tempered with fairness...

The majority of stocks down today had made mind-boggling moves. They gave a little bit back. We can nail it to profit taking.

The idea is to boil the campaign down to its essence in a single message. One nail can create a lot of impact.

This is more of a final nail in the coffin of the company's past accounting practices. Investors are looking at the company going forward rather than past. They have been doing a lot of things right lately.

It's the jewel in the crown really for rural areas at the moment the health service, and I think if that disappears it is another nail in the coffin for rural communities.

It's one of the gutsiest things I've ever heard an athlete say. He wasn't politically correct, but he hit the nail right on the head. He deserves incredible kudos for doing what he thinks is right and what he believes in.

I toured in Europe first, before I did ANY touring in the US. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

That's the final nail in the last bastion of British cinema. Someone should say stop. If JK Rowling said: 'No, it has to be made in the UK,' surely someone would listen.

There were times last year where he would give us an opportunity in the first couple of innings and we wouldn't capitalize and then he would just nail down. We finally broke through.

It was big. We let them hang around a little bit after being up by a few goals and we gave them a little bit of life. We got a little sloppy but we were able to drive the final nail in the coffin and that was a big turning point for us.

It was for the whole shebang, you know? ... You play every day tooth and nail in order to be in a spot like that.

It seems like every single analyst on the Street is on the 'old economy' bandwagon and determined to drive the last nail in the coffin of highflying techs and arrogant investors.

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.

It's a bizarre position to say the least. He seems to want to put oil wells off of every beach town in America, but is fighting tooth and nail to block wind energy technologies that use no fossil fuels at all.

It's a great accomplishment. That shows how tough this conference is. For any team in a tough conference, when you can go and nail down a win on the road in your opener, that's a statement. I don't care where you are or who you're playing.

We just told each other we can't lose. This is the way (interim head coach Andy Kennedy) put it - someone was going to be a nail and a hammer. Someone was going to have their coffin shut tonight. We couldn't let it be us.

It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.

It's an intense, intense ballgame when you put the United States of America on your chest. You are fighting tooth and nail for your country. Health was a risk, and the risk to the reward didn't seem like it was there for me at this point in my career.

It looks like we'll see a rapid rise in the tides, Wednesday night. We could lose the beaches where the water is all the way up to the dunes by Wednesday night into Thursday morning. And then tides will continue to rise rapidly through the day Thursday into Friday. It's going to be a nail biter.

This is the nail in the coffin for the recession camp.

They're all tough. This is a different situation when your horse is out there and pitches his butt off. My job is to nail it down.

They're just up in your face, man-to-man the whole game. They've got four of the best shooters in the state on one team, and they're guard-like quick. If you play zone, they nail threes in your face.

I'd fight tooth and nail to protect our high academic standards and to ensure sound science is protected in our classrooms.

I don't want you to sketch this cripple, this freak of nature, I want you to slaughter him, crucify him, to nail him to your paper with charcoal!

If I had it to nail down to one thing it would be the seven seniors. We had only one the year before. Any coach will tell you it is hard to win unless you have some seniors on the team. It is capable to do, but when you have seniors, it helps with leadership.

All of the South Division teams have fought tooth and nail this year. I think Mike Harris has provided great leadership for Marion-Franklin throughout the season.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe the horse was lost, For want of a horse the rider was lost, Forwant of a rider the battle was lost, For want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse.

A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost