Iowa State (7-7) finished a once-promising season at .500.    From Wordnik.com.  [NCAA Division I College Football - Iowa State vs. Boise State] Reference

The sound of a once-promising writer going down the toilet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pieces of Lou, part 1] Reference

Knee injury is yet another setback in once-promising career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantasy owners shouldn't panic over sluggish sluggers] Reference

Angolans and reduced the once-promising economy to a shambles.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Her once-promising career as a journalist has ground to a halt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 23, 2005 - January 29, 2005 Archives] Reference

Some once-promising entries have to undergo a black mark, while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference

Carolina wrapped up a once-promising season-opening homestand at.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Hockey League - Maple Leafs vs. Hurricanes] Reference

It was a disappointing finish to a once-promising season for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

The A's are sitting home, and their once-promising season is over.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Oakland's latest early exit 'hard to swallow'] Reference

The once-promising concept of inhaled insulin is now all but dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exubera Runs Into More Woes] Reference

"Only if you want to destroy what's left of my once-promising career.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Girl Blue]

His once-promising political career has already vanished down this black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [California's Dilemma] Reference

A doctor pronounced the once-promising honors student dead nine minutes later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rev. Chuck Freeman: If St. Paul Had Been a Texan, Our 'Christian' Officials Would Have Executed Him] Reference

The once-promising PSP is getting whomped by both the DS and Apple's surging iPhone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Console Wars: Who Won 2008?] Reference

This once-promising line of business has diminished as the credit crisis has deepened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Banks Slip on Physical Crude] Reference

WASHINGTON (Ticker) -- Brian Moehler's once-promising career appears to be back on track.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Hummer joins Saturn in being a once-promising brand that has become a carpocalypse casualty.    From Wordnik.com.  [End of the trail: GM to close Hummer] Reference

In Houston, Chicago, St. Louis, and even San Francisco, once-promising projects are in trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speedlinking 9/27/07] Reference

That once-promising state could have provided the 10th GOP win needed to take the Senate majority.    From Wordnik.com.  [As Democrats' Message Lags, GOP Awaits Huge Wins] Reference

But after losing three of its last four, Iowa State's once-promising season is quickly turning sour.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - College Football - Nebraska vs. Iowa St.] Reference

Help me think of other books so complete in their awfulness that they scotch a once-promising career.    From Wordnik.com.  [What people will be reading] Reference

Mr. Prior, whose once-promising career was derailed by injuries, hasn't pitched in the majors since 2006.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giants' Smith to Have Season-Ending Surgery] Reference

SUTTON PRETTY: Hal Sutton's once-promising career nose-dived after he played in his second Ryder Cup in 1987.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ryder Cup notebook] Reference

Such is life right now with the New York Jets, whose once-promising season has taken a dark and unusual turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jets Go From Brash to Beaten Down] Reference

Minor leaguer Geraldo Padua was among the missing last season, a once-promising career seemingly in a shambles.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Answering some old questions] Reference

I for one have thoroughly enjoyed your analysis of this once-promising show that unravelled into a bloody mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [VARIANTS: WELCOME] Reference

Benes, whose once-promising career has been derailed by injuries, has spent most of this season at Class AAA Memphis.    From Wordnik.com.  [National League Baseball - Dodgers vs. Cardinals] Reference

That, though, seems a far off notion as the Hokies come to terms with how quickly a once-promising season has crumbled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginia Tech Hokies still in shock over loss to the James Madison] Reference

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (Ticker) -- Tennessee's once-promising season ended with a whimper as it fell at home to Georgetown.    From Wordnik.com.  [NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball - Georgetown vs. Tennessee] Reference

It missed, ending a once-promising season for the Jayhawks (23-7) and keeping alive an improbable one for the Bisons (23-9).    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

But his seven shutouts innings against Detroit indicate the once-promising starter could be past his own series of ailments.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Penny worth a lot to Marlins] Reference

That section doesn't mention the once-promising Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application, which has stagnated in recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mozilla offers details on Firefox and its finances in 'State of Mozilla' report] Reference

(AP) - California's once-promising season hung on the brink, and Joe Ayoob seemed headed for another week of criticism on campus.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Scores] Reference

Paul Smith scored on a pair of 1-yard keepers for Tulsa (8-5), which finished a once-promising season with its fourth loss in five games.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference