Examples:

• The EU should not run out of steam now that the euro is to be introduced.
• In a more open world than that of 1929, any national action will quickly run out of steam.
• Without growth, however, the boldest structural measures run out of steam.
• Without social progress, economic progress will run out of steam sooner or later.
• Johan is very slow to anger, so I run out of steam.
• We've run out of steam.
• We cannot allow the reform effort to be derailed or to run out of steam.
• This, therefore, is not the time to run out of steam or to throw in the towel.
• Its diameter is three times that of Earth, and it doesn't seem to run out of steam
• I am asking you to understand, at last, that the current model of European integration has run out of steam.