Sentence examples for flagging franchise from inspiring English sources

The show could help sell tickets for a flagging franchise.

But he also turned around a flagging franchise, attracting star players and helping to bring the Mavericks to the brink of an N.B.A. championship in 2006.

This film, the fourth in a series that made its improbable and profitable leap from the theme park to the multiplex eight summers ago, represents an attempt to rejuvenate a flagging franchise.

But the Mets, with the encouragement of Commissioner Bud Selig, are looking to Alderson to drastically alter the course of the flagging franchise, which has seen ticket sales plummet over the past year while fan frustration mounted over a team many saw as riddled with indifferent and overpaid players.

With sales of music games dropping at alarming rates, the savvy game designers at Harmonix (or more likely, the desperate marketers) have decided that in order to revive their flagging franchise, they needed something truly mind-blowing.

It is possible that Rubio, had he signed with the Timberwolves, would have shattered all of the doubts, become an instant star and revived a flagging franchise.

Both beard-owners are frontmen for similarly flagging franchises: 9m votes meant an embarrassing defeat for the Labour party in this year's election; 9 million viewers spelled the lowest X Factor finale ratings in 10 years last December.

One of ABC's biggest problems is that it had to introduce new programming to bolster flagging franchises like The Drew Carey Show, Dharma and Greg and Millionaire during a fall season colored by Sept. 11 a period during which viewers were more reluctant than ever to try new shows.

Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is one of the biggest movie stars on the planet both physically and financially, earning him the nickname "franchise Viagra" for his uncanny ability to appear in sequels and provide a burst of energy and enthusiasm to revitalize flagging franchises.

Kennywood's owners rejected offers by larger companies to purchase the group, such as one in 1997 by Premier Parks, the company that acquired the Six Flags franchise a year later.

Warner Bros.' flag-planting franchise starter "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" was either the most anticipated movie of the year or one of the most dreaded.