| The ending is a bit abrupt, not making enough effort to tie the loose ends together. |
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| The screenplay was so carefully written that everything is explained, loose ends are tied up. |
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| Last week was hectic, but, between trips to Switzerland to tie up loose ends, he did keep up with domestic news. |
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| The weather's turned cold, and I've been racing around trying to get lots of loose ends tied up before Christmas. |
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| It had been a few hours since he had awoke that morning and the first thing that crossed his mind was to tie up loose ends. |
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| As Daphne departs on Sunday with the two children, Seamus is remaining on to tie up loose ends and follow on later. |
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| She then intends to write a book to tie up the loose ends and reveal what happens to her characters. |
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| All the fans want, really, is a tidy procedure that neatly resolves the loose ends. |
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| So are the producers tying up the loose ends, by putting a Hollywood ending onto our beloved sitcom. |
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| I said I wanted to leave them with one thought which I hoped would tie up any loose ends. |
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| The plot does not follow a straight path whereby all the loose ends are tied up and everything finally starts to make sense. |
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| Are all loose ends, storylines and subplots seamlessly tied up in the conclusion? |
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| On Saturday morning, despite not all the loose ends being tied up, we were allowed into the building. |
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| It is time to complete professional projects and tie up loose ends in any aspect today. |
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| I know working together with you and your family would be beneficial, but I had to tie up some loose ends first. |
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| There is so much work to be done, a few loose ends need tying up before I can move on. |
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| We have a few loose ends to tie up first, much of which will happen over the next 7 to 10 days. |
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| Jonny has just returned from a trip to Florida, successfully tying up the loose ends on the purchase of his latest acquisition. |
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| The source said the deal was supposed to be finalised last week but the two parties are still working on tying up loose ends. |
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| Here, no one gets to wear the white hat, no one rides contentedly into the sunset, and the loose ends are left satisfyingly unknotted. |
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| A small number have been kept on to tie up loose ends before it permanently closes its doors next month. |
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| In fact, the narrative is full of loose ends and red herrings, and the episodic writing frequently loses momentum. |
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| Distin is understood to have already undergone a medical and has only the loose ends of a deal to tie up. |
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| But Mezrich's book has the ring of truth about it, not least because it stops short of incredible claims and leaves some loose ends untied. |
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| Those who like their loose ends tied should probably give it a miss, but if you're prepared to go with the flow, this is thrilling stuff. |
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| I'll be back, either later today or first thing tomorrow, to tie up a few loose ends and thank a few people. |
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| Most of my hair was up but some loose ends fell into my face and down onto my shoulders. |
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| Beth nodded, and unceremoniously snipped the loose ends with a pair of kitchen shears. |
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| All loose ends are tied up satisfactorily without feeling forced or phoney. |
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| These loose ends include matters of security of the documents, of access and of ownership. |
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| These true stories of dark doings, loose ends, and unexplained terror keep us up at night, defy all reason, and scare the living daylights out of us. |
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| This late flurry of activity means that I'll just have some loose ends to tie up on Monday, and that's my little project done and dusted and almost on schedule. |
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| Extrapolate missing data, find missing details, be overt rather than secretive, tie loose ends, cut dead ends. |
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| However, following the new law banning the exploitation of these mines in the region, many young persons are without work and at loose ends. |
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| At loose ends and trusting in their newfound powers, Nina and Sabine begin boldly to experiment with the force-field of human relationships. |
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| But it's a clean mess, if that makes sense, one that at least shows the courtesy of cauterizing most of its loose ends as it goes. |
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| Cliffhangers don't have to tie up loose ends so much as dangle new material. |
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| The proper function of the Camp David summit should have been to tie up loose ends. |
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| It used to be customary, in a book of this magnitude, to explain unanswered questions and tie up loose ends. |
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| We had no warning, no time to tie up loose ends, to clean up misunderstandings, to say I love you one last time. |
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| They invest themselves in the visitor's mission because they understand its importance. They also tie up loose ends, as the second example shows. |
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| However for Mr Mesic there was an element of tying up loose ends in Kosovo. |
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| Those two countries must now concentrate on tying up loose ends in order to meet the accession date. |
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| I was invited for a further meeting to discuss the proposal and to establish if there were any loose ends. |
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| They were very proactive and practical in guiding us through the process and didn't leave us with any loose ends. |
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| We have to make sure that DFO is a true partner in this and that there are no loose ends. |
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| Or use it to organize receipts, business cards or other loose ends in your everyday travels around town. |
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| Pad the tree trunk and branches with burlap and tie all loose ends with soft rope or twine. |
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| The persistence of some loose ends is intended to challenge the reader and stimulate analysis. |
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| Take the loose ends of the strap through the loop and gently pull the ends. |
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| If there are a few loose ends to be tidied up on that front, it is nothing compared to the financial mess in which he is embroiled with one of his former clubs. |
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| There are many loose ends surrounding the crime and the bickering, even though somewhat abated, will undoubtedly flare again. |
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| Round and round in circles, no loose ends left over, and it all made for a comforting sense of completeness. |
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| The sbu appears to be covering tracks, getting rid of evidence, tying up loose ends. |
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| It is time to complete professional projects and tie up loose ends today. |
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| He had been at loose ends ever since his forced retirement from the police force and then almost immediately afterwards his wife had died in an accident, leaving him alone. |
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| So make haste this week to tie up loose ends, especially the busy work of returning calls and emails. |
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| I understand that loose ends had to be left for sequels, but the film seemed to pretend that said ends were tied up, making for a confusing conclusion to the movie. |
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| The bulk of the loose ends are tied up in a kind of satisfying way. |
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| String the thread ends back through some beads and cut of any loose ends. |
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| Wrap tape around the loose ends of the wire to hold it in shape. |
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| The committee tied up a few loose ends this year with respect to our updated communications materials, such as a redesigned cover for our Parliamentary Perspectives papers. |
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| Devolution involves a wide range of complex issues and, while the transition on April 1, 2003, went smoothly, certain loose ends remain to be tied up. |
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| In 1994, Prime Minister Harper complained about a previous Liberal government's omnibus bill that stuffed different bits of government business into one piece of overstuffed legislation, in an effort to tie up loose ends. |
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| Benjamin Black makes pointed asides about the dullness of Agatha Christie, and about the patness of mystery stories that resolve their loose ends too tidily. |
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| Buckling down to tie-up loose ends is key to lightening your mental load. |
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| Removing her name from the mailing list was her way of tying up loose ends. |
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| In no matter what convulsive scene you may be living, you need to assign proportions and priorities as far as possible so that no loose ends are left dangling. |
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| We need to tighten up the loose ends in current surveillance practice and be ready to quickly close any remaining gaps by rapid market intervention. |
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| What happened was that a piece of legislation that was supposed to be housekeeping legislation, just a matter of tying a few loose ends together, became legislation because the government has a huge majority and a huge ego. |
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| Sapong molded an undone chignon using TIGI Catwalk Session Series Work It hair spray, the loose ends of the upswept hairdo dusted with Transforming Dry Shampoo. |
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| You may have structural weaknesses, loose ends, stilted scenes, characters who shouldn't be there and some that are missing, thematic inconsistencies or problems you can't even identify but which stop you from moving forward. |
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| So, the rest of the day was spent tying up these loose ends. |
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| Take the loose ends of the diamond wires and hold tight to adjust to the same length, using the turnbuckle adjuster which is located on the lower section of one of the wires. |
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| Like all generalizations, those of the televised news skim over the ambiguities, paradoxes, and loose ends that make real life so hard to view with certainty. |
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| The building block of the Caltech neural network is double-stranded DNA molecules with loose ends. |
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| What followed was a lot of work for the canned laughter guy as loose ends from the last series were loosened further with little or no comedy. |
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| This is a debate, however, between those who think that, except for a few loose ends, Romania is ready, and those, myself included, who think that it is not, and see that as a reason why we cannot give the go-ahead right now. |
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| A beautiful, beguiling 23 year old with a history of drug abuse, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. |
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| Between 2003 and joining the Groupama team in March 2006, far from being at loose ends, Loïc sails with Thomas Coville, Lalou Roucayrol and Frédéric Le Peutrec. |
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| Suddenly, Ms. Thorpe found herself at loose ends. |
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| I would have liked to stay later and tie up some of the loose ends. |
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| Congress evidently saw the wisdom of this and dealt with the matter in the Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960, which took care of various postadmission loose ends. |
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| A peace treaty with Japan was signed in 1951 to formally tie up any loose ends such as compensation to be paid to Allied prisoners of war who had been victims of atrocities. |
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| Vic and Rodney get a place of their own, leaving Deb at loose ends. |
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