Mr Bush's signature domestic reform, Social Security, is turning into a damp squib.
Even a climactic showdown in Chernobyl, a potentially fascinating location for any movie, proves a damp squib.
Whatever his exact intentions, Mr Arroyo and his squib are not going to reignite the Habsburg-Valois wars.
It is not surprising, come to think about it, that the birthday bash was rather a damp squib.
In the event, however, the protest was a bit of a damp squib.
The interesting part is why a three year series of complaints and investigations has led to such a damp squib.
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This is a bit of a damp squib, the news from Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank today.
They maintain that the big bang legislation promised by Labour in every manifesto since 1974 has turned into a damp squib.
And the miscue garnered even more significance when Buffalo's Dave Rayner misfired on his squib kickoff attempt, which went only 16 yards.
Meanwhile, Congress's own fiscal efforts have produced one damp squib after another.
Nothing very radical is likely to come of that and Lib Dem activists regarded it all as a bit of a damp squib.
Some investors have been reaching for pharmaceutical stocks like Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Bristol-Myers Squib (NYSE:BMY), and Abbot Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) that pay close to 5 percent dividend.
After the damp squib of Lisbon, further big treaties look unlikely.
Secretary of State for Education Michael Gove said the strike would not be successful, while Prime Minister David Cameron has described it as a "damp squib".
If the public-private partnership proves to be a damp squib, Mr Geithner can expect to face a barrage of complaints that he took the wrong course.
Of course there have been disappointments: George Bush did not choose him as vice-president, and his campaign for the 1996 presidential nomination was a damp squib.
Some have been buying pharmaceutical stocks like Merck (NYSE:MRK), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Bristol-Myers Squib (NYSE:BMY), and Abbot Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) that pay close to 5 percent dividend.
Plaid Cymru housing spokesperson Llyr Huws Gruffydd was critical of the announcement describing it as a "damp squib" and a statement that "doesn't really say anything that we didn't already know".
After the enormous success of the Olympics - boldly dubbed "the warm-up" by Channel 4 in its "Superhumans" ad campaign - there was a danger that the Paralympics could have been a damp squib if the media had not embraced the Games so warmly.
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