Sentence examples for career stone from inspiring English sources

All it took was one movie to kill his career stone dead.

Richards's rant against two black audience members at his standup show in 2006 killed his comedy career stone dead.

"At the end of his career, Stone was doing buildings that were highly controversial repudiations of the orthodoxies of modernism, and they were dismissed as superficial," Mr. Stern said.

Long active in attempts to unionize stage performers, early in his career Stone was blacklisted from vaudeville for his leadership role in the White Rats of America, a forerunner of Actors Equity Associationn, and he served for a time as president of National Vaudeville Artists.

It was a lie, that war, and as Goebbels I think said, the bigger the lie, the more they will believe it.' However much you think that phrase could happily sum up the director's career, Stone is one of the few Americans prepared, eager, to say that the reaction to 11 September was 'disproportionate and hysterical'.

The manner in which a player who threatened to kill his career stone dead by accepting a move into Manchester City's reserves from Swansea City took Villa's second - composed, clinical, assured - suggests he is reaping the benefit of Sherwood's influence.

In addition to his 50-year public relations career, Mr. Stone was a passionate supporter of firefighters.

Pickover says her ultimate goal is to become an assistant headteacher, but SLE status has more reward than just as a career stepping stone.

Two years after that, he almost sealed his fate by playing the bad guy in vampire thriller Blade; it killed his career almost stone dead, and for a full decade – in which the only high point was a berserk John Waters comedy, Cecil B Demented – it seemed he'd never get a serious role again.

"Kansas City was a career stepping stone for him," she said.

His Whisky a Go Go in west Hollywood served as a career stepping-stone for many of southern California's most influential rock acts, including the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Doors and Love, as well as providing platforms for second-wave British invasion groups the Animals, the Hollies, the Nice, Terry Reid and Traffic.