Sentences with phrase «crossing the finish line does»

While Crossing the Finish Line doesn't provide strong evidence on what will work to increase college graduation rates, it points to four areas that will very likely have to be part of the equation:

Perhaps my favourite thing about all of these is that crossing the finish line doesn't pull you out of the game and drop you to a waiting screen as the other remaining competitors cross the line, but in fact lets you keep on driving.

Not exact matches

So, at the end of the day, are companies simply flocking to disease areas like oncology, and rare diseases — which have low chances of approval from phase one trials due to their complexities but carry high margins and high rewards if they do cross the regulatory finish line — at the expense of other conditions?

Don't let your competitors cross the finish line before you've even started the race.

But what does this mean on your journey to crossing the FIRE finish line?

They didn't stop until well after the boat had crossed the finish line.

I don't see a need to keep anything in the tank when we have a chance to cross the finish line now.

Lean into your stride, keep pushing forward and don't let up until you cross the finish line.

The glory of the 10k is that you don't have to be a 5 time Olympic champion to complete the challenge, whether you walk, jog or sprint the 10k (I'll happily give anyone a tenner who can sprint the whole 10k) As long as you cross the finish line we've all completed the same challenge.

Conversely, there is the concern that they have again failed to convert promise into silverware and that they simply do not have the wherewithal to cross the finishing line as victors.

Will the kids need to meet a specific goal, such as earning a certain amount of items for game play to end, or does the first person to cross the finish line win?

I draw on the work of many analysts, including Melissa Roderick at the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research and the authors of the book «Crossing the Finish Line,» to suggest that doing a better job of developing non-cognitive skills in students could be a particularly fruitful way to increase college - graduation rates.

«We have a few moments to cross the finish line, the race will soon end and when we are able to endure, we are going to be crowned but if we don't exercise a little more patience, our long wait would be in vain», she added.

Plus running the actual race with all the excitement of the cheering crowds, the healthy bit of competition, seeing fellow runners doing what they love, and the pride you'll feel once you cross the finish line can also help avoid a rut.

Since then, I've done 8 half marathons and am now training for my first full marathon, but I'll always remember the feeling of accomplishment I had crossing the finish line at the Army Ten Miler for the first time and seeing «10» pop up on my watch.

The greatest feeling of all was not just crossing the finish line but the anticipation of doing it again.

We have you covered with tips on what to do from the minute you cross the finish line to the weeks after!

So, once you've crossed the finish line, what's the best thing to do for your body?

Just because you've crossed the finish line, doesn't mean you should stray away from the structure of a training plan.

«As I continue to treat more and more complex cases, I do get some challenging cases where we can't quite cross the finish line and considered them cured,» Dr. Gluvic says.

Do you ever feel like the finish line is in sight but you are running out of gas as you try to cross it?

In the climate of budget conscious studios hesitant to gamble money on anything that doesn't have a «2» in the title, more and more ambitious projects are having trouble crossing the finish line.

Although it does run a little longer than the subject matter warrants, The Love Bug still crosses the finish line well enough to be declared a winner.

It's dog - eat - dog, as the contestants do everything they can to be the first to cross the finish line, while also trying to avoid getting in trouble from the highway patrol along the way.

Still, even with the cuts, Virgin runs a long time before it crosses its eventual finish line at almost two hours in length, and while it does seem to sputter as it begins to develop a conclusion, at least it finishes with a bang (no pun intended).

Running just shy of two hours, this fast paced story is slowly measured and does feel a bit long crossing the finish line; still, this action / drama manages to serve as a crash course and inside scoop on U.S. politics for the period, unbelievable but sadly real.

What if encouraging students to take a shot at the college track — despite very long odds of crossing its finish line — does them more harm than good?

An example from our own lives came when a group of friends joined Marcus as he crossed the finish line of a half - marathon — they threw their arms up just as he did, mimicking his stance.

Those who do cross the finish line often aren't ready for the next step.

The Jag finished dead last, but it did cross the line, and should be fighting fit by the start of next season.

The video doesn't actually give us that race though, as the camera cuts away at crucial moments, only to show up at the finish line when the M35h predictably crosses in first - place.

Once again Ron and I did what we had to do to cross the finish line first.»

I don't think that authors should «outsource» marketing of their books — but should try to bring a marketer onto their team, define the goal, and figure out what crossing the finish line looks like — and this is important: together hand - in - hand with the marketer.

Prothero's point, aided by cogent summaries of the world's major diaspora religions, is that while there is some overlap about goodness and an ideal world, there are specific reasons why religions emerged the way they did for very different purposes (his sports analogy is a good one — most sports have a score - keeping system, but runs are very different than goals or crossing a finish line), obscuring the real and often hostile fissures between them.

And if I'm tired of working on my book but want to get it done, do I have the budget to hire a developmental editor to help me cross the finish line?

But what does this mean on your journey to crossing the FIRE finish line?

You'll no longer have to do that once you cross the hypothetical finish line, which means if you're saving 15 % now, you could easily live on 85 % of your income without adjusting expenses.

(laughs) But now that we've safely crossed the finish line, I'm glad I didn't.

Once you've done eight standard events you'll get an invite to complete in a special race that nets you big prize money and a free bike should you be first to cross the finish line.

Still, performing a «Proud Hero» pose as you cross a track's finish line makes for a great rub - it - in - your - friends - faces replay, and as a smug human being I'm glad for the option to do so.

At the racetrack, it doesn't matter what people think: at the end of the race, one horse crosses the finish line first.

Those who cross the finish line may collectively have the same speed distribution as the full set that departed (as it departed) since the slower runners didn't ever make it and thus the distribution of the «winners» gets skewed back up to where it was when they started (as part of the larger set).

As the camera zooms in on the winner crossing the finish line what do you expect to see?

«The Senate Judiciary Committee has made significant progress on drafting bipartisan, patent reform legislation, but there is still a lot of work to get done before crossing the finish line.

Now, don't slack off just yet - it's time to summon a second wind and cross that finish line with a powerful closing statement.

How do you clear this next hurdle and stand out from your competitors to cross the finish line and land the job offer of your dreams?

According to Levitt and Dubner the three hardest words for you and I to say are also the reason many American's fail to accomplish certain important tasks and goals in life; and why the results they do achieve when they cross the finish line is mediocrity.

As I stumble wearily towards my Christmas break, I'm not entirely sure how much blogging I'll be doing after I cross the December 21 finish line.