run out of steam

Even in seeking to liberalise regional trade and investment in goods and services, Asean seems to have run out of steam.

Other times they simply run out of steam trying to get somewhere, but getting nowhere.

Just as monetary easing has not resulted in any surge in lending, the bears also think the fiscal element will run out of steam.

This sort of stimulus will sooner or later become unaffordable, and growth based on it will run out of steam.

Recent US data have clearly raised the probability that the economy will run out of steam and decline during the next 12 months.

Some observers worry that the economy will run out of steam because coal is increasingly costly and electricity in short supply.

not run out of steam, or nothing, otherwise it will reduce the credibility of the trainer, lose twice and authority of the initiative.

When it ticks up from that low, it completes the bullish divergence and shows that bears have run out of steam and bulls are taking over.

In the wake of the Copenhagen summit, there is a growing acceptance that the effort to avert serious climate change has run out of steam.

If the party kept talking about a change in leadership, people would think the government was paralyzed and had run out of steam.

Back in Victorian England, Marx saw the sys-tem as having already run out of steam.

The Government had run out of steam and was retreating from its commitments.

Resolutions lack a foundation of meaning and personal relevance that makes sure they run out of steam.

Trading volume was half of its 30-day average, suggesting the metal's rally could easily run out of steam.

The timing of when China's growth model will "ultimately" run out of steam is probably the most critical question facing the world economy.

Or when everyone is getting bored and the topic is starting to run out of steam.

Eg. You go on. I'm afraid I can't climb to the top, I've run out of steam.

But even some who see it continuing into next year worry that it could run out of steam before 2010 is over.

Remain calm under any circumstance, and at some point in the course of the argument, your opponent will run out of steam.

American household demand won't pick up when the temporary growth factors run out of steam.

Some foreign businesspeople complain that market-opening measures initiated in the 1990s and early 2000s have run out of steam.

Colleague: Oh, yes, indeed. I've run out of steam. To be honest, I want to be in a different environment.

No that's alright , I've just suddenly run out of steam on Sweden.

By 2005 Mr Khatami's reforming presidency had after all run out of steam.

Back then we could go D and as long as we kept MS up and didn't die, the other team would eventually run out of steam.

France's Nicolas Sarkozy may finally run out of steam, find a new paramour, or perhaps both.