Sentences with phrase «cabrera over the finish line»

«Mr. President, thank you for getting us over the finish line, thank you for getting us where we are.»

Known in Vancouver as the man who rescued Expo 86 and helped get the 2010 Olympic bid over the finish line, Pattison knows when to cut bait.

Champions are needed to usher any product or service over the finish line.

After a successful preliminary health care vote on Tuesday, Senate GOP leaders may have a new plan to get their health legislation over the finish line: pass what, in effect, could amount to a blank legislative check.

Known in Vancouver as the man who rescued Expo 86 and helped get the 2010 Olympic bid over the finish line, Jim Pattison was called upon again in 2015, this time by Metro Vancouver mayors trying to promote a 0.5 % sales tax to pay for road and transit improvements.

On the EU side, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso must summon the political courage to carry his 28 member states over the finish line.

CETA is Stephen Harper's legacy, no less so because it was the Trudeau government that got it over the finish line.

I considered it a little longer to be sure that I wasn't allowing momentum, contemplative fatigue, or my great regard for him to push me over the finish line.

Like falling over a finish line, we pounded the last few down with little thought and gave our barking verdicts like tired Roman emperors sending slaves to their doom: «Take them away!»

I'm determined to finish it, even if it's limping over the finish line and eating solid food which some would consider cheating, I'm sure.

After swimming, biking and running a total of 140.6 miles, Julie Moss collapsed and had to crawl over the finish line, thereby losing the women's title.

Players communicating with one another and pushing each other over the finishing line when they're the less talented side on paper in terms of pure footballing talent.

Over the finish line they flashed, maybe inches apart, while the stands rocked with hysteria.

Jones could very well drag the team over the finish line by himself.

Jones had to drag them kicking and screaming over the finish line.

The stump screams, and he eases up, but he can see the finish now: Pentagon to the left, the canopy of Army black - and - gold balloons over the finish line, the tiny viewing stand and... wait.

Wenger admitted after beating West Brom on Saturday that our legs had gone at the end, with just determination and the desire to win getting the gunners over the finishing line at the Hawthorns.

Despite Lindh's fine run, the predominantly European crowd remained eerily quiet, much as it had when Lee - Gartner Hashed over the finish line in first.

They only need five points now to get over the finish line.

But nonetheless, they managed to crawl over the finish line with all three points and restore them back to the top of the table for a few hours at least.

If we go out of the CL soon we may just have the bare bones about us to crawl over the finishing lines as champions although I have to say City will get stronger and fear Man U will too.

And only great wins you titles, only great separates you from getting over the finishing line or missing out, the small details.

After dropping off to Monaco in the CL and going out of the title race on week 10, we made a good spell which leaves us limping over the finish line in 3rd place.

I am highly disappointed with the fact we threw away the lead and I can not accept the fact we did far too many defensive changes and we were hoping to just roll over the finishing line and with the way we defended we were punished.

We could do with a couple of additions here and there but there is no real reason to spend for the sake of spending, unless of course we lose a player like Roman Pavlyuchenko who offers us great back up and whose form really helped us over the finishing line in the top four race.

Alexis Sanchez, our South American fireball, had run himself into the ground and was practically limping over the finish line after carrying the team on his shoulders for much of the season.

Could go some way to just pushing us over that finishing line.

Volume 12 takes us over the finish line, starting with goal 940.

Federico Bernardeschi was given his first cap in two months in the closing minutes to try to change things up, but neither team looked like scoring, and the match finally stumbled over the finish line tied at 1 - 1, leaving Juve with some thinking to do as Sunday's six - pointer looms in the distance.

Even top assisters Paul Anderson and Teddy Bishop haven't contributed since February and December respectively, so it'll be a real team effort getting them over the finishing line.

Think of past come - backs, and how even in the direst of circumstances, it was our captains that pulled the team up by the scruff of its neck, and dragged them over the finish line.

The Lions still need to keep their epic form going to get over the finish line.

According to ESPN, «it's still unclear if the Sounders will get the deal over the finish line before the close of the summer transfer window on Aug. 9, and that there is still much work to be done.»

Bolton lost 1 - 0 out at Peterborough earlier in the season but they are unbeaten in their last four on home soil against them with a W3 D1 record and that could be enough to get them over the finish line.

After the procession comes the coronation as St Mirren got over the finishing line at the second time of asking to claim one of the most convincing Ch...

Back at Turf Moor though, Burnley should enjoy more of the play at home, in front of what's expected to be another capacity crowd as the fans look into driving their team over the finish line, with their finish line being safety.

Like stepping over the finish line, you have finally reached a goal that you prepared for on many levels.

But his presence wasn't enough to push Maffei over the finish line to victory; he lost a tight race to Buerkle.

The strategy for Democrats this year, at least before the scandal hit, was to rely on strength at the top of the ticket to pull Democratic challengers over the finish line.

However, the Bronx Democratic Party is pulling for Cabrera and a third candidate, Felix Perdomo, is attacking Abreu, which might push Cabrera over the finish line.

Tory hopes of a coalition to get them over the finish line will also be hit by a decline in the Lib Dem results, with the party projected to be down five seats to just 14.

Election campaigns are gruelling marathons rather than swift sprints and 2015 promises to be an uncertain battle of attrition all the way to May 7 when somebody will stumble over the finishing line into Downing Street.

What would happen in the event that Cameron crawled over the finishing line as prime minister with no majority, or a very slim one?

Should Labour be within, say, 5 - 15 seats of an overall majority then it could plausibly make a deal with the minor parties: the SDLP from Northern Ireland already take the Labour whip, and Brown would hope to be able to win over Plaid Cymru or the SNP to get him over the finishing line.

He needs countless other political hacks to maybe - possibly - cross-your-fingers drag his portly ass over the finish line.

Labour's fortunes rest on very thin lines - Lib Dem switchers were quite possibly a key factor in pushing the party's candidate, Liz McInnes, over the finishing line in Heywood and Middleton.

It's not so much that the winner has half the electorate behind them, more that because of a weird counting system, they have crawled over the finishing line.

Cuomo is going the more traditional route, relying on the well - oiled GOTV machines of unions like SEIU 1199 and HTC and the traditional Democratic Party apparatus to push him and Hochul over the finish line to victory.

«I need you to help me get over the finish line, and to keep this party together, to keep this city together, and to keep us all on the same page,» Perez Williams said.

Mahoney says the idea is for the county to offer money to a project that needs a small boost to get over the finish line, noting the funds could be available at this point in the 2014 budget.