Sentences with phrase «as his racing career»

Taylor's Bahamian venture at Lyford Cay promises to be every bit as successful as his racing career.

As his racing career started gaining steam, he began to be recognized nationally and internationally.

Not exact matches

What do you consider the highlight of your racing career as a driver?

For Michelle Westby, working as a promotional model in motorsports led to a successful career as a stunt driver and a drift racing driver.

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

Numbers, however, don't capture the frustration that many black executives feel as they try to thrive and compete in a realm where race is often seen as an asterisk on their résumés and an unspoken subtext in conversations about career advancement.

On the surface, the reason for his career switch seems obvious enough: if you're going to be sleep deprived, it might as well be because you're romping through the wilderness, not racing to complete another medical product.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, a career Republican pollster, has continued as a principal Trump spokesperson even after being accused of violating the Hatch Act for partisan political activities last year in the Senate race in Alabama.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

MILEPOSTS — DIED: JEAN BEHRA, 38, of France, one of the world's most brilliant race drivers (winner of Grand Prix de Pau, Nurburgring, Bari, co-winner with Juan Fangio in 1957 Sebring), who started career as motorcyclist, switched to racing autos in 1951, of a fractured skull when his Porsche skidded during preliminary for Grand Prix of Germany (see page 31).

In the opinion of theSouth Americans, Lebón was finished as a racehorse, but his record (he won thefirst three starts of his career) might have appeared good enough to anAmerican unfamiliar with Uruguayan racing — a Jack Morgan.

Backup Michael Julian is also gone, leaving junior Mitch Guadagni (76 career rushing yards, 1 - for - 6 career passing) and sophomore Caleb Martin as the favorites in the race.

Laverne Fator, Hailey, Idaho rider who won more than 1,000 races in a 14 - year career as jockey, received posthumous tribute as writers and broadcasters elected him to National Jockeys Hall of Fame, Pimlico.

It was the final win of his career, and as well as making him the oldest winner of an IndyCar race at 53 - years - old, it also meant he'd won IndyCar races in four different decades.

The whole race weekend (6 - 7 April) will be a celebration of that last victory, with many of the drivers who competed in the race in attendance, as well as other events celebrating his incredible career.

As you might expect in a race like this it was Prost who crossed the line to win, but after the race his car was found to be underweight and he was disqualified, handing Elio de Angelis the second and final victory of his career.

And as the No. 48 team demonstrated last year, when it struggled for much of the regular season with Johnson going through a career - long 24 - race winless streak before embarking on a title run, there is still ample time to correct any issues before the playoffs begin.

Their most famous horse, Old Man, never lost a race in his career and is still regarded as the Argentine equivalent of Man o» War.

But as the laps wound down and it became apparent Stenhouse was in contention for his first career win, Patrick's attention shifted to watching the race.

The angel was on Longden's shoulder as he won 6,032 races, among those the 1943 Triple Crown aboard Count Fleet, in a career that spanned five decades.

Among the likely medal winners besides Eric is his mite of a sister, Beth, 20, who has been almost as triumphant as Eric in her racing career.

Pretty much any racing driver can enter the Indy 500 or Le Mans as a one - off, but these days the only chance anyone has of winning at Monaco is by having an entire F1 career, drastically reducing the pool of people who can realistically go after the Triple Crown, let alone win it.

Last year, in the only pennant race of his career, Langston went 3 - 6 the last two months, as the Expos crumbled.

He started his career at Racing Santander and was seen as one of the hottest prospects in Spanish football when he moved to Real Madrid in 2010.

Now, we are 100 % out of the race for 4th for the first time in Wenger's career and as supporters we are faced with the unenviable «players have one foot in Ibiza» end of season run - in.

«As well as giving one of Britain's Paralympic legends the chance to say goodbye to his legions of fans, this will be a testimonial race to celebrate David's remarkable career, and I'm sure it will be a truly memorable spectacle.&raquAs well as giving one of Britain's Paralympic legends the chance to say goodbye to his legions of fans, this will be a testimonial race to celebrate David's remarkable career, and I'm sure it will be a truly memorable spectacle.&raquas giving one of Britain's Paralympic legends the chance to say goodbye to his legions of fans, this will be a testimonial race to celebrate David's remarkable career, and I'm sure it will be a truly memorable spectacle.»

Mercado, who started his career with Racing Club before joining Estudiantes and then River, operates primarily as a right - back.

As Michael Phelps was racing for the final gold medal of his career, the Arlington Heights Park District was hosting a competition featuring the lifeguard staff.

Spitzer's entry into the race comes as two other politicians seek redemption after their careers were halted by scandal.

Ms. Briccetti's notable career achievements include serving as assistant counsel to the New York State Senate majority, as a legislative aide and counsel to the New York State Assembly majority committee on Racing and Wagering, and special counsel in the New York State Attorney General's office.

Character does matter in this race... but it is not my character that is at issue in this election; it is Mr. Fidler's record of highly questionable, unethical behavior as a career politician, a City Councilman and a power broker whose the product of the corrupt Brooklyn Democrat political machine.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei says his days as a political candidate are over, following a seesaw career in which he won two and lost three out of the last five races for Congress in the Syracuse area.

The 42 - year - old Molinaro, whose political career began at the age of 18 upon winning election as mayor of the Village of Tivoli, admitted the outpouring of support led him to reconsider and then enter the race.

Former Rep. Dan Maffei says his days as a political candidate are over, following a seesaw career in which he won two and lost three out of the last five races for Congress in the Syracuse area.

He has spent most of his career as a political operative, working on Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania and leading Syracuse Common Councilor Joe Carni's successful race last year.

The governor explained that Nigeria's present political structure was seriously affecting the efficiency of both State and Local governments, submitting that for States to give optimal service to their citizens, the principle of inclusion as being practiced in Lagos where anybody irrespective of race or creed can rise to the pinnacle of their chosen career, first needs to be applied to the division of power between the Federal and State governments.

«I made the decision to get into this race because I could not stand idly by while I witnessed career politicians drive us to perilous debt levels that threaten our future as a nation.

Just a few weeks after conceding the race, Murkowski announced that she would mount a write - in campaign, following an outpouring of support that gave her a «moment of pause from her previous plans to wrap up her career as a senator,» a Murkowski spokesman told CNN.

His opponent, State Sen. Eric Schneiderman entered the race as a career politician with an ultra liberal record and rhetoric to match.

He was captivated as a child by the race to the moon, prompted in part by his father's career as an aeronautical engineer.

This latest research has focused on the genetics of durability — or how sound a horse is — including factors such as career length and number of races.

But increasingly, people outside of NASCAR are realizing that the skills gained working in a racing environment are also useful in other contexts, and as a result, NASCAR engineers are finding their careers advancing after they've spent a few years with a racing team.

question lies at the base of all these questions as there is not particularly good data on how many post-docs there are in the U.S., their makeup (in terms of nationality, gender, race, etc), or their career outcomes.

The mountains captured my imagination, and I decided to pursue a career in skiing as an adult despite having no formal training or background in racing or freestyle.

Less than a year earlier, I'd been racing ultramarathons while juggling a career as magazine editor and a family (my husband and I were raising a rambunctious toddler).

The last few years of moto gp games have not been the best 2015 was ok but not great but this yrs has gotten a bit better but still has alot to do to be as strong as f1 2016 graphics are good the bikes sound great but the lack of commentary during races sort of makes the last corner over take less fun the main selling point of the game is reliveing rossi's career in the challenge mode its fun to see the video of him talking about it before you try recreate it but its easily cleared in less then an hr and theres some great races left off the list overall it has many different modes now the drift and rally are nice the dirt bike section is fun and the career is your character going through the vr46 riding team to moto gp its fun and id advise fans of motogp to buy it

Twice as many vehicles, a more sophisticated career mode, additional race environments, double the number of tracks, twice as many mini-games along with brand new and much requested online multiplayer modes are just some of the exhaustive features that are included in FlatOut 2.

Full race weekend available, good career mode progression, lots of fun to play as a fan of F1.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

The news just came in that Biutiful, starring Javier Bardem in a career - best performance - co-written and directed Alejandro Gonz √ ° lez I √ ± √ ° rritu, was just chosen as Mexico's official entry to the foreign language Oscar race.