Sentence examples for this plan fizzled from inspiring English sources

Russia's president hoped at one point to nip up to Riga to upstage the NATO summit and mark the birthday of his French counterpart and friend, Jacques Chirac but this plan fizzled out.That Mr Putin should be so anxious to strengthen Russia's weakening ties with its "near abroad", and with his few remaining Western allies, is understandable.

A producer was interested in developing a "This Is My Milwaukee" television series, but, after a year of talks, the plan fizzled.

But the plan fizzled with the onset of the Depression.

Return he did, on June 14 , 1864 but Lincoln elected not to arrest him and the plan fizzled.

Ultimately, however, the plan fizzled: providing subsistence levels of welfare, with all sorts of strings attached, was one thing, but giving the poor unconditional grants to elevate them above the poverty line was seen as going too far.

But the plan fizzled, as did an earlier one, organized by former Mayor Edward I. Koch in 1988, after ticket prices climbed to $7 from $6. Reacting yesterday to the latest price rise, Mr. Vallone described it as "insulting and fundamentally unfair," but he stopped short of calling for a boycott.

That plan fizzled, and the share price fell further.

The club plan fizzled in the face of community opposition.

The plan fizzled, however, thanks in part to pressure from a surprising source: big investors.

That plan fizzled, but they still wound up unloading a player who was simply identified as "Nomah" throughout New England.

That plan fizzled in the dot-com bust.