run into the sand

But around 1979 Sykes’s television career began to run into the sands.

But it is an open secret that their negotiations have run into the sand.

He ran into the sand trap and retired from the race.

After all, last year’s appeal notably ran into the sand.

The recovery has run into the sand but it’s not clear the economy is contracting.

But a comprehensive strategy for the bloc’s governance seems to have run into the sand.

"Any infusion of capital would just run into the sand," he said.

By last night, the plot appeared to have run into the sand, as it deserved to.

In that event, we would literally have allowed hundreds of millions to run into the sand.

It would be calamitous if the development round ran into the sand.

All attempts at structural reform seem meanwhile to have run into the sand.

Meanwhile, efforts by southern African leaders to resolve the crisis are again running into the sand.

Already the political hope of the Palestinian uprising, getting no response, had begun to run into the sand.

Cameron's hard work around a modernity agenda ran into the sand.

Until lately, received wisdom said that reform of the banking system was running into the sand.

Property, the engine of Dubai’s growth that at its peak last year accounted for more than half the economy, has run into the sand.

We will be vigilant in ensuring that equality policy does not run into the sand.

This is going to run into the sand.

All our efforts are running into the sand.

But this admirable initiative in greater transparency appears to have run into the sand.

But in the 1970s and 1980s the undisciplined growth of government caused the reforms to run into the sands.

The central question is whether this might run into the sands if full membership becomes a hopeless quest.

In the grip of a policy set in Washington that has run into the sand, we have no energy alternatives.

The Coalition started with a lot of good intentions on tax simplification and reform, but it all seems to have run into the sand.

They say government initiatives, such as creating anti-kidnapping units and a new national police force, only run into the sand.