Sentence examples for let it wither from inspiring English sources

Others simply let it wither quietly.

To let it wither so close to fruition is unimaginable.

The chancellor has too much political capital invested in his devolution agenda to let it wither away.

Future governments will let it wither away, conscious that too much time and capital was expended on a tiny number of schools.

Now Mulvaney is doing just that, using the levers he has available to him to essentially starve the C.F.P.B. of resources and let it wither.

Europe's governments like to think of themselves as the world's greenest; but if they nurture a carbon market only to let it wither and die, they will do their cause more harm than if they had never tried.

If there are no domains (school, travel, grandparents) where only one of the two languages will do, "children are very good at judging whether it is worth maintaining a language or letting it wither away".

Undoubtedly, the tactical goal of many in the North shifted from containing slavery (and letting it wither or be killed gradually through, say, compensated manumission) to ending it abruptly by military force.

They just let it sit and wither.

And he backed up that prediction by revealing that his company would no longer make capital investments in its coal hauling business – no more locomotives designed to haul coal, no more investments in additional trackage – CSX is just going to let its coal business gradually wither.

Kodak would restructure, he said, letting its film business wither while re-investing the cashflow in new digital technologies.