Some deride the stripped-down H20 as "dead water" because its natural minerals have been eliminated along with the chemicals.
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"I think in this Enron economy, this proposal is dead in the water, " said Sen.
By morphing into an explicit political instrument, its long term impact is dead in the water.
We will be dead in the water in a world in which powerboats are speeding past us.
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So, by month end, Symbian phones are dead in the water as far as Twitter is concerned.
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He is dead in the water because of the way the Republican Party is going to treat him.
As it stands now, though, this whale tale looks dead in the water.
Its social media strategy seems to be dead in the water and its reputation management has gone from great to poor.
The tax break that employer plans get is so huge that individual or family non-group plans are dead in the water.
Indeed, perestroika, at least as currently configured, is dead in the water.
Rogan Taylor, from Liverpool fans' group Share Liverpool FC, told BBC Sport ground-sharing as a scheme was now dead in the water.
With their league title chances also dead in the water, Arsenal only remaining chance of glory this term is in the Champions League.
"If people lose confidence in banking secrecy in Liechtenstein, then Liechtenstein is dead in the water, " said Richard Murphy of Tax Research, a British-based consultancy.
The BrunelSunergy crew decided that if they took a route closer to the coast "we were going to be dead in the water", Quarrie said.
Defence analysts in Moscow say the Start II treaty has been dead in the water for some time and that Russia's announcement is a mere formality.
For 14 hours the sub was dead in the water while Higgins and his crew worked to stop the leaks and bring the reactor back online.
Blatter's stance effectively leave the proposals, for a round of games to take place in five different host cities from January 2011, dead in the water.
"If there were no regulatory barriers, there is no doubt in my mind that the New York Stock Exchange would be dead in the water, " he says.
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Five years ago I grew frustrated with our dependance on computers that must operate without fail or we were dead in the water until they were repaired.
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Friends of the Earth Cymru says the falling cost of wind and solar energy will soon leave the business case for the barrage "dead in the water".
It is a courageous move at a time when cultlike group-think dictates that the pledge must be signed or your political career is dead in the water.
One union leader called the deal "dead in the water".
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For practical reasons I think it's dead in the water.
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Blumenauer was a key early supporter of Kerry, sticking with the Massachusetts Senator through the dark days of 2003 when Kerry's campaign appeared to be dead in the water.
"Since the Revenue started demanding that all such schemes be reported to them the vast majority have effectively become dead in the water - they have huge risks, " he said.
U. presidency at the end of June, is likely to want to declare the constitution dead in the water to get off the hook of its own referendum, due in 2006.
The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's "Plan A" for the Health Service appears to be, as Jon Sopel put it on last Sunday's Politics Show (8 May, BBC One), "dead in the water".
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