The final nail in the coffin was the lack of a built-in optical drive.
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It is the final nail in the coffin and it is a horrible feeling.
The sending off of Guthrie turned out to be the final nail in the coffin for Hughton's side.
Mr Bush's visit to both ends of the state last weekend put the final nail in Mr Chandler's coffin.
You can't even install Microsoft's own Silverlight browser plugin, which should be the final nail in that platform's coffin.
But the recent rise of DVDs seems to have put the final nail in the coffin for Betamax home players.
Hopefully, it will put a final nail in the unregulated trading of derivative contracts with the use of borrowed money.
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The final nail in the coffin may have been dealt to the idea that neutrino particles can travel faster than light.
"One big lie, " says Armstrong, putting the final nail into his myth.
Although the company name lives on, this was the day the final nail went into the coffin of shipbuilding on the Tyne.
The Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie described the first minister's statement as "the final nail in the coffin" for Mr Salmond's political credibility.
As a final nail in the coffin of his once-clean image, Oakley dropped Mr. Armstrong immediately upon hearing the news from the International Cycling Union.
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It was envisaged that both would remain within the union, but an attempt in 1918 to extend conscription to Ireland proved the final nail in the coffin.
And, having demolished these three pillars of the so-called mid-life crisis, we can see the final nail in its coffin comes when people are asked if they have experienced such a crisis.
The final nail in Malawi's coffin came two minutes from the end, when Mayo - who could have claimed his hat-trick - instead unselfishly laid the ball square to Kauleza.
The lively Johnson all but put the final nail in the coffin when he doubled the home side's lead with a low strike from the right-hand edge of the box.
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Whether that'll happen remains to be seen, but either way, this is the final nail in the Zune's coffin -- not just as a device, but as a thing in the world.
This would not only do untold damage to the prospects of success for Obamacare, it could prove to be the final nail in the coffin for a union movement already hanging on by a thread.
With the game coming to an end, they were unable to get the score which would have got them back into the game, and saw Castres wing Laurent Arbo put the final nail in their coffin.
When the move was announced, private operators like Mr Price said it would be "the final nail in the coffin" for many businesses - particularly those struggling to recover from the effects of the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis.
And Harrison, who has now lost four times in his 27-fight career, including a points defeat to previous Prizefighter champion Martin Rogan last December, knows that anything other than victory will be the final nail in his coffin.
Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria's former anti-corruption chief and leader of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) party, said the pardon was the "the final nail" in the coffin for fighting corruption in the country, Associated Press news agency reports.
The euro crisis has created a never ending stream of negative press and has been the final nail in the reputation of the benefits of being in the EU. There was significant euro skepticism before the current situation but after years of negative news flow, the euro crisis public opinion is now strongly anti-Europe.
The 2007 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies should lay to rest one of the great myths of modern baseball: that a dominant "closer"--a high-priced pitching ace who enters a game in the final inning to nail down a victory--is a must-have for success.
Too often it's like playing nine-ball and effortlessly sinking the first seven, only for your opponent to nail the final two.
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The Englishman played a gruelling 30 holes in the weather-affected tournament, co-sanctioned by the European and Asian Tours, before prevailing after a nail-biting final day.
That said, the stats also perhaps indicate that disproportionately low spending on players' wages is probably not a sustainable strategy - since in the season just ended, as stress-wrecked Wolves fans will know, the club only avoided relegation by a whisker, on that nail-biting final match day.
The chief judge grilled Sir Christopher about Mr Fok's timing, in particular whether the deal or the bonuses came first in the nail-biting two days of final talks that ended on 2 February 2000.
Its issues of historical accuracy aside (and conceded from the start by Affleck and others), the movie's a crisp little nail-biter that easily sells itself to the international marketplace, which remains the final frontier for American commercial cinema.
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