Japan has been criticized for pursuing a Big Bang that sometimes seems more like a whimper.
Japan's efforts to tackle these problems have resembled a big whimper (see article).
Why did a phenomenon that began with a bang end with a whimper 300 years later?
We didn't go down with a whimper and the lads can be very proud of their efforts.
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Don't be sad knowing that the floppy's story ends with a whimper, rather than a bang.
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On Friday, when Gramm rose to block the measure, it was more with a whimper than a bang.
And instead, it basically came along with a whimper, not a bang, and no one paid any attention.
Obama will close a long and glorious chapter in world history, not with a bang but a whimper.
"He is the same as a son to me, " the woman sobbed, her voice fading to a cracked whimper.
All the talk, all the posturing around the Best Buy leveraged buyout just ended with barely a whimper.
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In other words, if America ever abandons the death penalty, it is likelier to be with a whimper than a bang.
The annual auctions of tobacco, which provides more than 30% of the country's foreign-exchange earnings, opened last week with a whimper.
Katie's eyes opened wide with surprise, but she didn't let out so much as a whimper or whine, much less a cry.
His tactics raised barely a whimper of protest from his African neighbours.
S. Eliot, instead you will die with a whimper, " U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said, borrowing a line from Eliot's "The Hollow Men.
From there, the Middlesex lower order surrendered with barely a whimper.
Liberal Democrat AM Eleanor Parrott called for domain names to be launched with a "bang not a whimper" to encourage businesses to use the new names.
And the response of the national elite, the people Paul Krugman refers to as "very smart people" or I like to call the "chin-scratchers, " was a barely audible whimper.
Instead the frustration belonged to Burton, who have had a successful first season in the Football League but are ending the campaign on a whimper after seven games without victory.
We all hope it is solved by a whimper not a bang, but if there is a crash there will be no end of amazing buying opportunities for the investor.
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Copenhagen ended last December with a whimper, these new proposals in Bonn unabashedly call for the U.N. to be the main revenue raiser to fight climate change.
Brown was himself replaced with Willo Flood as Celtic ended the season with one win in their last four games and relinquished their title with a whimper instead of the expected bang on Helicopter Sunday.
Yes, it might just be me, but I think I hear the roar of venture capital, the promotional bravado of start-ups, the buzz of technology, the pensive sigh of clinicians and the whimper of big pharma.
The German-born millionaire, womanizer, photographer, art collector and man-about-globe had followed the fast-living course of his life to its end: Better to go out with a bang than with a whimper (Sachs was believed to have Alzheimer's disease).
With what would favorably be described as a handful of titles and a launch shipment of only 10, 000 players, HD-DVD is coming in with more of a whimper than a bang, but at least its finally here, ICT and all.
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