A blowout could easily be predicted, with one team flashy and the other fizzling.

The fizzling of the international business boom early in this decade hit hard at Coral Gables.

The fizzling of the stock market bubble, starting in early 2000, raised some of the first fears that consumers would put away their credit cards.

The fizzling of the igniting match seemed strangely loud in the sudden silence of the room.

But even by that standard, the fizzling of the N.S.A. scandal is remarkable.

A perceived lack of candor may have contributed to the fizzling of his campaign in the final days before the New Hampshire primary.

The first element in this calm was the rapid fizzling of the N.S.A. scandal.

The fizzling of the Fifth Generation project, even after an investment of $250 million, is insignificant in the context of Japan's larger strategy.

Like Jayson Blair's tell-all, sell-little memoir, "Burning Down My Master's House," the fizzling of lad lit demonstrates that press coverage doesn't always translate into cash receipts.

Explanations for the fizzling of these public outbursts mostly center around demoralization of the population, whether from the intimidation of all the enemy troops and tanks or from being abandoned by their leaders.

But when Jeff Kent followed Bonilla's at-bat with a harmless fly ball (after Rico Brogna had moved to third on Bonilla's fly), the fizzling of a rally was in motion.

Under pressure from Washington and the fizzling of protests against President Slobodan Milosevic, the weakened democratic opposition in Serbia united today in demanding early elections under the watchful eye of foreign monitors.

With the fizzling of a nearly monthlong general strike this week, the diplomats suggest that uncertainty represents one of the few levers the league holds over the military, since the authorities need the league's participation for credible elections.

On the eve of his first Knicks-Nets game in November 2001, Kidd stoked the fizzling, lopsided rivalry by proclaiming that the Nets would not be No. 2 in the metropolitan area for much longer.

The Communist Party's summons to Karl Marx's class struggle has long sounded tinny and archaic; the party's decline has been accompanied by a weakening of trade union allegiances and the fizzling of grandly trumpeted strikes.

First came the fizzling of a long-threatened impeachment drive headed by his Communist-led opposition, followed a few days later by the easy approval of his new Prime Minister, Sergei V. Stepashin, in the Communist-dominated Duma.

The fizzling of Alex Rodriguez, perhaps the only player in any sport whose contract ($252 million over 10 years) is even roughly comparable to Mr. Beckham's, has been a source of ire and bitterness for many a Yankee fan, both here and abroad.

The basic idea was to use the heat of a fission bomb to ignite a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium to a fusion burn, but under theoretical analysis, Mr. Teller's variations had repeatedly failed because of inadequate ignition or fizzling of the burn.

With a nationwide protest movement of the unemployed fizzling, the bond and stock markets rising in recent days, and the Bush administration apparently warming to the idea of a new International Monetary Fund relief plan, Mr. de la Rúa was keen to argue that his government was finally turning the corner.

New York City's days of simultaneously cutting taxes, spending more and still managing to have billions of dollars left over at the end of each year have come to an abrupt halt, a victim of the recession, the fizzling of the Wall Street boom and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

They were both disappointed, and the campaign had been a fizzle.

The end result may be a fizzle instead of a bang.

After all the buildup, would the fight to the death end in a fizzle?

But some lawmakers say the expected fight could be more of a fizzle.

"One hundred twenty miles per hour is a pretty good fizzle."

The impact of the millennium was beginning to look very much like a fizzle.

The voice of the ship came out as a rattling fizzle sound.

She felt the spark of a possible understanding fizzle and die.

Even a reactor fizzle released a large amount of energy.

This could indicate that the test resulted in a fizzle.

The Jets are not willing to give up on last year's famous fizzle.

What made one first-place team fly and the other fizzle?

Jill told herself that, as an adventure, this was a fizzle.

The fizzle had just ended when the first radiation reached the police officer.

"In fact, the symposium was just a bit of a fizzle.

I started this picture with a brush and it was rapidly working itself into a fizzle.

"How can a major investigation fizzle when it reaches the county courthouse?"

I began to think he was just a fizzle and that I myself would have to get in there.

The thrill may be torture to her, but it sure fizzles for the audience.

"Though I don't believe there'll be a fizzle this time."

"In any case, every attempt he made to bother us turned out a fizzle.

What should have been a big win for both companies ended with a fizzle due to the outage.

These were both described as fizzles, or test failures.

Two days later, the drill hit ice, and the "big blow" was only a fizzle.

"The owner said that the bald man bought several bottles of Fizzle!"

Even on good days, her energy level may fizzle early.

She fizzled into being on the other side of the table.

The business started to take off but the marriage fizzled.

Come on, the time to fizzle out was then, certainly not now.

The issue, however, seemed to have fizzled out over time and nothing ever came of it.

Are you going to let it fizzle out into nothing, like that?

But then you've got to bring him back down again, I think, show us how it fizzled out.

If my idea fizzled out, there would still be time for that in a last stand.

Her career fizzled after that film, and never really took off again.

Things fizzled out; you could not hope to change Africa.

I followed that one up a little, but it fizzled out.

The game just fizzled out from our perspective after that.

The relationship fizzled out, and she has since had several affairs.

After that the interview sort of fizzled out and I left.

The game has fizzled out, but City need to remember 2010-11 for these last moments.

Summer may have fizzled early, but the year's fireworks are far from over.

They started hot, running to a 10-4 lead, but fizzled fast.

There were No comments from our side, and the story fizzled.

The result is that an array of issues could fizzle.

American Girls originally started as a film project, which fizzled.

Two years later it fizzled out in an economic downturn.

I started the year poorly, played great in the middle, then fizzled out again.

In general, protests over the Americans' role have fizzled across the nation this week.

But as things often go in high school, our relationship fizzled out, without another little liaison.

Then after about a week it fizzles out with some sort of drama.