Legislative efforts in recent years to direct state money to embryonic stem cell research have stalled, and then fizzled.

Though the company has always been strong on technological innovation, its flashiest efforts have sometimes fizzled in the marketplace.

But efforts to arrange such civilized competition among stock markets fizzled.

Israeli efforts to work jointly on variety of programs, including agricultural projects, have usually fizzled and died.

Fiercely, Ticia tried to reconstruct the wall, but each effort fizzled, and it would not stand.

Changhong's previous efforts to maintain growth by expanding sales in the Chinese countryside had fizzled.

Japan's 10-year effort to seize the lead in computer technology is fizzling to a close, having failed to meet many of its goals.

He set the Mars goal for 2019 but the effort soon fizzled when the cost estimates hit $400 billion.

But the effort fizzled under a barrage of legal nitpicking.

Since November they had been close to signing an agreement twice, only to see their efforts fizzle.