pull the plug

It would be better to pull the plug on him than to keep his life in such a torture.

Having lost three times in a row, Noel was ready to pull the plug on his running career.

Internet gambling's explosive growth has made it the Web's killer app. Now critics are trying to pull the plug.

Will the children of the rich really "pull the plug on grandma" , as Barack Obama put it (in an admittedly different context)?

What looked to be a quiet Friday in Asia was disrupted by an S&P downgrade of Spain which helped to pull the plug on risk.

"As long as the demand exists, Chinese manufacturers can hardly pull the plug on the production line, " he said.

All but one design use some form of grippers , fingers, or other mechanism to pull the plug form the tray and insert it into the tray.

Pull the plug on items that you only use occasionally and for bonus points, unplug your chargers (cell, PDA and the like) when not in use.

Pundits and media organizations insisted that the biggest risk facing America was the threat that investors would pull the plug on U.

Today, I found that my cats somehow managed to pull the plug of my fridge out of the socket. Several days ago.

"Let's pull the plug and see who calls" is not just a joke.

Due to some recent indiscretions, Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to pull the plug on his resurrected acting career.

It is important to have the courage to pull the plug on a goal that is no longer aligned with your true self.

Such a backdoor deal would presumably pull the plug on the rallies.

At home, many household items give off enough residual heat to pull the plug a few minutes early.

Questions about when to pull the plug are among the most wrenching any doctor and family member can face.

You basically run the program and during the operation pull the plug on the system.

The best thing Best Buy can do? Pull the plug right now and let the bad Music Cloud program blow over.

Subsequently, he has become a pet guru of Silicon Valley, precisely by preaching apostasy in the land of shiny gadgets: just pull the plug.

When I saw that the majority of my co-workers did pull allnighters and worked over 80 hours many weeks, I knew it was time to pull the plug.

For the IMF to pull the plug would risk the wrath of the entire eurozone and its banks.

If I ever come to that just pull the plug.

Disconnect, the anti-clockwise rotating plug shell, pull out the right position, that is able to pull the plug.

Managers delay new products, leave factories unbuilt , pull the plug on loss-making divisions, and cut costs and jobs.

If the ratings don't go up soon, they are going to pull the plug on this show.

Please do not pull the plug cable at full tilt.

Given the chance, some officials would pull the plug on the Fed's second round of quantitative easing right now.

Pioneer therefore had little choice but to pull the plug, and become the latest TV brand to pass into history.

For grain prices to fall, Mr Currie argues, either governments must pull the plug on biofuels programmes, or the oil price must fall.

Any time that Internet activity begins to threaten grades, jobs or relationships, ifs time to log off and pull the plug.

But that doesn't help traders forced to pull the plug much earlier as they sustained losses.

"Both sides know that the coalition does not work, but neither wants to pull the plug, " says a foreign diplomat.

Our client airlines have invested heavily in our kiosk hardware and infrastructure. They won't just pull the plug.

President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.

You can't just pull the plug on us, like some underperforming hairdressing salon.

This needn't pull the plug on passion, but it'll make you more aware so you don't go looking for trouble.

Drazen threatens to pull the plug, but gives Gaines thirty more minutes to find Jack.

His injuries were too serious. His family decided to pull the plug.

If sceptical Germans want an excuse to pull the plug on Greece's rescue, they will surely find it.

For now at least, real governments still have some aces; they can simply pull the plug on the service.

I reckon we should pull the plug. Let them go, with a degree of dignity . . .

Pull the plug before you try to fix the vacuum.

Pull the plug from power jack instead pullout the cable.

I just talked with the venture capitalists. If we don't follow Zina's timeline, they'll pull the plug.

Her advice to middle-class families: Pull the plug.

The chances are that the Chinese government, like Richard Nixon's in 1972, will say "job done" and pull the plug on the whole shebang.

Few think the fund will pull the plug if its eurozone partners want to keep disbursing.

A normal person would pull the plug.

Pull the plug on the TV.

We can pull the plug on a lot of this stuff if we shift our philosophy.

I like knowing that if something happens to me, he'll be the one to decide if it's time to pull the plug.

When is it time to pull the plug and seek treatment?

Wounded is the deer that leaps highest And my wound it cuts so deep Turn off the light and let me pull the plug

Principle is to pull the plug the interface position, the air column inside the bamboo growth, relatively lower overall pitch a little bit;

Turning off lights, switch, pull the plug; do not take the elevator or climb the stairs to save people's power, for their own health;

Turn off the light and let me pull the plug

pull the plug out of the bath

Boeing to pull the plug on onboard internet service

Beijing Should Pull the Plug on Pyongyang

Know when to pull the plug

Now I'm gonna pull the plug