Sentences with phrase «@edwgillespie across the finish line»

«Let's take @EdWGillespie across the finish line tomorrow!»

So, I guess I'll just wait for my iPhone 7 and hope my iPhone 6 can hobble across the finish line when its successor reaches my doorstep in early October.

LinkedIn facilitates connections, but it doesn't do the work for you, any more than buying a $ 200 pair of running shoes will get you across the finish line of a marathon.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade welcomes today's announcement by the B.C. government to improve our jurisdiction's competitiveness for bringing British Columbia LNG projects across the finish line.

By pinpointing and correcting the process gaps in your buyer's journey through account - based attribution, marketers and salespeople can work hand - in - hand to drive deals across the finish line faster.

He got up and raced as fast as he could, but nevertheless, was not able to beat the slow and steady turtle across the finish line.

I managed» aided by a combination of piteous entreaties, furious threats, and the occasional application of the lash» to drag my refractory attention span across the finish line of Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery, but by that point I had already decided that it is a text whose only interest is, in the vaguest sense, sociological.

The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) nonprofit trade association today updated its projected $ 18.4 million total announced Saturday night, once the final tallies came across the finish line on Sunday.

Keino flashed across the finish line in 4:00.6, three full seconds under the meet and Civic Center record — and the second - fastest mile on a 12 - lap track.

If you understandably don't have time to watch the whole thing, skip to 1:08.05 to see Rast greeted across the finish line by fireworks.

When he flashed across the finish line, the big clock read 58.2 seconds for his run, the crowd roared and clapped, and Ernst Hinterseer, who had been a very good skier for many years but never a great one, looked back over his shoulder, saw the clock and grinned heartily.

The runners had gone one too many laps on the 176 - yard dirt oval because meet officials forgot to extend the string across the finish line at the proper time.

When Olympian Earl Young, competing in his 400 - yard specialty, wobbled across the finish line like a man carrying a piano up a flight of stairs, spectators at the Will Rogers Indoor Games at Fort Worth thought something was peculiar.

During sprintsWelker would sometimes dive across the finish line, just to ensure that he wasfirst.

Most fans will surely be in agreement that Landon Donovan was a huge part of the team's success, finishing as joint - golden boot winner (along with a resurgent Chris Wondolowski) and almost single - handedly dragging his team across the finishing line in their semi-final against Honduras.

Maybe it's the triumph of women, once barred from the race, gliding across the finish line.

In the closing laps six of the 11 cars still running ran out of fuel: Senna, Johansson, Brundle, Warwick, Piquet, and Boutsen — though Boutsen was lucky enough to do so right on the pit straight and was able to push his car across the finish line.

The other boats roar by us, making their way across the finish line and under the bridge.

All three must hoof across the finish line, no easy feat.

He played catch with spectators along the route and slid across the finish line.

Richardson was second across the finish line but was elevated to first when winner Dayron Robles of Cuba (the world - record holder) was disqualified for interfering with third - place Liu Xiang of China (the»04 Olympic champion).

Despite having enough momentum to roll across the finish line he was passed by Dan Wheldon, who took his second (and tragically last) Indy 500 victory.

You've won the race by a mile and so to celebrate, you crank on the handbrake and do a spin turn across the finish line because, well, it looks cool.

On this day in 1959, Jack Brabham won the World Championship by pushing his car across the finish line at Sebring.

Juventus let the team at the bottom of the Serie A standings back in twice before finally stretching across the finish line.

Barcelona dropped out of the CL by aggregate against Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals, and went on to sputter across the finish line with the players doing just enough, and only that, to clinch the league title.

This is a side, that sputtered across the finish line, instead of waltzing past it.

The facility was built in 1962 with its most recent major update in 1982, when its then - outdoor rink was enclosed and heated, Hamilton said, adding that with mechanical issues over the year, the more than 50 - year - old building is «limping across the finish line.»

The first «very important duck» (purchased for $ 50 each) across the finish line will garner a $ 1,000 prize.

Since then, advocates changed their political approach, ceasing to simply support the Democratic conference as a whole in hopes of pushing the issue across the finish line and targeting key «no» voters for ouster.

And we'll do everything we can to help him across the finish line.»

Now we do, and we are hopeful and confident that this is going to get across the finish line in 2015.

The Working Families Party has had a tough time getting many of their key issues, such as paid family and medical leave, across the finish line in the General Assembly but most of the Democrats running for governor this year have come out strongly in favor of those types of progressive policies.

The state's former chief judge Jonathan Lippman, who oversaw a panel that recommended closing Rikers, wrote in an opinion piece in amNewYork in October the timeline could be shorter and that de Blasio's plan «won't get us across the finish line.»

SM: I think the only conflict you would see is if something was wildly underestimated and more commitment in it needs to be made, but right now there's a big commitment from the community that Ed says is enough to get it across the finish line.

Organized labor is hoping it has a defender in Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who owes a significant degree to unions for helping him across the finish line in his close race last fall against Republican Harry Wilson.

Ultimately, some familiar with her campaign argued she relied too much on powerful unions like 32BJ and 1199 SEIU to drag her across the finish line.

Sounding like the nominee - in - waiting that many party leaders consider him to be, Astorino also broadly attacked Cuomo's announced budget as built on «gimmicks» designed to «get across the finish line in November, and then everything can collapse as far as he's concerned.»

In New York, guiliani could, at the top of the ticket, bring a new senator across the finish line.

«The governor clearly wants him to have a race to make him spend his money and maybe, best case, be defeated or worst case, limp across the finish line into 2018,» said a long - time Westchester County politico.

Now, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to push both Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex in Buffalo's Parkside neighborhood and Graycliff, the summer estate built for Isabelle Martin in Derby, across the finish line.

«Congressman Katko is focused on serving our community in Congress, working to address issues that matter most to Central New York families — expanding our economy, enhancing our security, and getting a long awaited transportation bill across the finish line,» O'Connor said.

The dark horse in this race - and the one Cameron has to beat to get across the finishing line with a clear majority - is a hung Parliament.

Before his involvement, Mark - Viverito was counting on support from the 22 - member Progressive bloc, which wasn't enough on its own to get her across the finish line.

Republicans in Gardiner thought they had a shot at unseating incumbent Tracey Bartels after she stumbled across the finish line two years ago.

As the election staggers across the finish line, the question for New Yorkers is what next?

«The incentives we're providing here push them across the finish line,» said Edward Rath, an IDA board member.

Given the narrowness of Trump's margins, could Cambridge Analytica have provided the extra nudge that pushed him across the finish line?

On a Friday morning conference call with reporters before the Senate vote on the tax extenders package, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the industry group was «pretty excited about what's happening here, but we're not across the finish line yet.»