Sentences with phrase «grail on»

Kevin's picks on DVD this week: Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Blu - ray, The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, The Lion King 1 1/2, Footloose, Immortals and The Skin I Live In

Mr. Stringer's plan earned plaudits on Monday from transit advocates like Gene Russianoff, who described a new commuter tax as «the holy grail on the revenue side.»

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MasterCard is offering banks a holy grail: The company isn't charging them anything to use its system beyond the small cut of each credit card transaction that it's always been getting and it's letting the banks splash their own branding on the apps.

• Grail, a life sciences company focused on early cancer detection that operates as a subsidiary of Illumina Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN), raised more than $ 900 million in Series B funding.

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

«We look forward to a day in the not too distant future where there would be a simple blood test for every form of cancer,» Dr. Richard Klausner, former director of the National Cancer Institute and a board member of Grail, said on a press call on Sunday.

«The holy grail is to target a piece of the virus by antibody or t cell,» Tom Evans, the CEO of a company called Vaccitech that is working on a universal vaccine they hope can be used to treat all strains of influenza A, told National Geographic.

Data on users and their preferences and behavior is the Holy Grail for most advertisers, and the reality is that Google and Facebook have orders of magnitude more data than their nearest competitors, and more ways to slice and dice it.

Ivy league schools like Harvard and Yale are the holy grail for young, idealistic students on their way into the real world.

For businesses, this is the Holy Grail and the highest stamp of approval: a word - of - mouth recommendation on Facebook, a creative meme that goes viral on Twitter, a thumbs up from a trusted Influencer.

But with great minds on board and over $ 100 million in backing, Grail might present the best chance at getting closer to a cure.

• GRAIL, Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif. - based life sciences company, has agreed to combine with Cirina, Ltd., a Hong Kong. - based company focused on early detection of cancer.

The Holy Grail for online income doesn't reside in doing services on sites like Upwork or gigs on sites like Fiverr.

He's also a swashbuckling archaeologist, and goes missing on the hunt for the Holy Grail.

Apple's custom silicon has already had a massive impact on CPU, GPU, and wireless performance, but battery life is still the holy grail.

There was the callout on his 2013 album Magna Carta Holy Grail, where he rapped, «I'm just trying to find common ground / Before Mr. Belafonte come and chop a nigga down / Mr Day - O, major fail.»

This was a yearlong spat in which Belafonte suggested that Bruce Springsteen is blacker than Jay and Beyonce, a diss that Jay answered on «Nickles And Dimes» from Magna Carta Holy Grail: «I'm just trying to find common ground / before Mr. Belafonte come and chop a nigga down.»

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Focusing on keywords that have a decent amount of popularity and search volume, but a lower number of competitors is the holy grail of SEO.

Now I am not claiming I have the «Holy - Grail» here to show you how to print money, but I can confidently say I have «Genuine Knowledge and Real World Trading Strategies» to teach my students, which will not only save them many years of «searching» for strategies, but if applied correctly will likely produce high - probability trades on a consistent basis.

It is harder to convince would be traders to spend a couple of hundreds $ on education that sell them the holy grail robot for $ 500.

But rather than seek the elusive holy grail of trading, we simply focus on mastering the nuances of the most basic, yet highly reliable and profitable chart patterns.

my favorite for the movies is the holy grail but life of brian is a very very close second... the meaning of life was off and on funny, but still good... my favorite part of the meaning of life is when death shows up and the American says now, just you wait one minute here... how is it that we all die?

Rohr, who has also written «Quest for the Grail,» a book on mythology, says people have learned these hard lessons for centuries through myth.

At this point I hope that the Holy Grail temptation will yield to visions of the new service that secular administration and financing can bring — without losing sight of the need to have a dimension of ministry involved on the team.

Secular causes have certainly taken advantage of the new Scottish Parliament, and the Scottish Secular Society said on its website that «a Yes vote is the holy grail of secularism».

«Secular causes have taken advantage of the new Scottish Parliament, and the Scottish Secular Society said on its website that «a Yes vote is the holy grail of secularism»»

The youngster had been taken on the trip, which was financed by the Grail Trust, where Robinson was a director at the time.

The image of Tupperware rarely evokes philosophy, spirituality, or ethics, much less salvation, yet Marion Montgomery addresses all of these as he explores Walker Percy's sardonic comment on the plight of the believing Christian writer, who at the end of his artistic quest is more likely to find himself at a Tupperware party than in the presence of the Holy Grail.

Among the ridiculous claims Brown forwards is that «the Church» — by which he means the «sinister» forces of Opus Dei and the Vatican — is bent on destroying the «Sangreal documents» by any means, including violence, because they allegedly reveal the secret truths about Jesus» marriage to Mary Magdalene and disclose the grail's true identity.

This reminds me of the scene in «Monty Python and the Holy Grail» where they're trying to read the inscription on the cave wall.

There has never been anything half as lovely written about waterfowl of the family Anatidae as Lancelot's words about seeing «geese on the islands — long smoke lines of them singing like hounds in the cold streak of morning» as he sails to the Grail island.

The «holy grail» of recipe development is creating something that is easy to make, easy on the budget, can be made in 30 minutes, and is drop dead delicious.

I soon gave up, and my husband went back to brand surfing in search of his Holy Grail: a gluten - free bread that can be sliced, left on the counter and used to make a sandwich that doesn't require heating to improve the texture.

Man City learnt making changes and rotating doesn't always work, a focus on the champions league, the holy grail may damper there chances of winning the EPL.

The Jay - Z UK tour announcement follows the release of the latest Jay - Z album Magna Carta... Holy Grail, which topped the UK album chart on Sunday.

That left making eagle on the reachable par - five ninth (Thomas started on the back nine) as his final opportunity to reach golf's Holy Grail number.

Fourth place has always been his holy grail, but if he doesn't reignite some spark into the players, he might lose the only thing he's been holding on to.

Ever since, I have been on a part - time quest for the grail of the perfect shoe: something at once so comfortable and light and durable and magical that it would confer the speed of a Tommie Smith and the endurance of a Ron Clarke on an ordinary runner.

This provides a rare opportunity to bet on «The Holy Grail» of sports betting — the correlated parlay.

High on the list of strategy refinements this football season was the realization that I found a football handicapping Holy Grail about a quarter of a century ago yet let it slip through my fingertips.

He looks to be on the way to the holy grail of football management of getting a team to perform in a manner that is greater than the sum of its parts.

The Champions League for decades have been Arsenal and Wenger's holy grail having reached the final once in their illustrious history and to make matters worse losing 2 - 1 on that cold night in Paris to a Ronaldinho inspired Barcelona under Frank Rjikaard in 2006.

-- I have an Italian mom, which means dark, hereditary circles and hollows — I just turned 50 on July 20 — and though I try to take good care of myself and am told that I look younger than my age, these eyes are showin'the signs... — I have a 12 year old boy with special needs and sleep is something that we do not get much of around here, which impacts my eyes (no replacement for sleep, I know)-- I have tried many, many, many creams (drug store brands, Estee Lauder, Lancome Genifique, Clinique, Origins, Clarins, Chanel, am trying ProX / olay right now, many others) and I have still not yet found my holy grail eye cream, nor have I ventured into trying the Perricone brand (though I've always wondered if it was worth it)

Now, I'm not sure that I have my grubby little hands on the Holy Grail of cloth, but it -LSB-...]

With Leo being my first baby I did A LOT of reading on introducing solid food as he approached the holy grail of the 6 month mark.

Even after POAS and the surprise of positives on three tests (one a digital, the holy grail of test sticks) I didn't quite believe it.

Breastmilk is the holy grail of nutrient rich beverages, but people don't necessarily want to down a bottle of it on a regular...

For me, the bright, shiny «Holy Grail» advice was to get the kids on a schedule, and to train them to sleep in the same room.

Getting found on search engines is usually vital if you want to have any kind of online prominence, and search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the Holy Grails of online marketing (and marketing is what we're doing here: we're selling ideas, right?).