Sentences with phrase «racing efforts at»

Campbell added: «Thanks to the Corvette and Chevrolet owners who supported the Corvette Racing efforts at Le Mans or followed the racing action this weekend from around the world.»

CORVETTE RACING AT SEBRING: Sustained Excellence at a Familiar Place Team searching for 11th class win in historic 12 - hour race Corvette Racing seeking third straight GTLM victory at Sebring Gavin, Milner, Fässler enter as defending GTLM winners Garcia, Magnussen, Rockenfeller led Corvette Racing effort at Rolex 24 DETROIT (March 14, 2017)-- Corvette Racing returns this weekend to a track where it has made many memories and scored some of its most glorious achievements.

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These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

What I'm really going to do is to rid the gene pool of its 10,000 worst contributors, in an effort to speed up the evolution of the human race (yes: I made the system automatic, so that I didn't have to bother diddling with it at every moment: Darwin was right, but the process turned out slower than I expected, and I got bored, hence the urge to speed things up a tad).

At the hub of a concerned effort among Protestant churches for revitalization is the struggle for a just peace among the nations, It is the false use of money that continues to make the nuclear arms race possible, now again under the new nuclear doctrine.

Her relationship with her husband consists of him watching as she races in or out of the house, and tolerating, at least for the moment, her barbed criticism of his domestic efforts.

Now, a gritty effort accompanied by some timely fortune keeps him eligible to race for a second championship at Homestead.

Knebelkamp, at the weary end of months of effort to make the Derby a splendid spectacle and a truly run race, responded to one more laudatory comment.

While it may take a few races for Montoya to get re-acclimated to open - wheel racing, Penske has stacked the deck in his efforts to both return to Victory Lane at Indianapolis and pick up the team's first championship since 2006 (Sam Hornish Jr..)

«While we wanted to show the technology and expertise that go into building these machines, we also wanted to show the passion, commitment and effort of the hundreds of people at the McLaren Technology Centre whose efforts take us racing every season.

But this season has brought a concentrated effort to move outside his preferred lane, as he did during the Xfinity Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway where Larson, implored by his team, stayed on the bottom, which carried over to the following day's Cup main event where he started his current streak.

Obviously Liverpool are on a great run themselves in the League and are closing in on Man United and Arsenal in the race for the Top Four, but with the confidence Arsenal have shown in their efforts to defend their trophy means we could be in for a classic feast at Wembley in May whoever our opponents are in the Final!

Knowing that the Series Overall would be decided at this race was extra motivation as well and I was so excited to come away with it after being last in points all season.It's a team effort at every race so I want to thank my family, friends, sponsors, and of coarse everyone behind the SoCal League who make it happen!

«The London Marathon has been at the forefront of efforts to develop elite marathon events for wheelchair athletes for more than 30 years and this year's fields prove that they are still going from strength to strength,» said Virgin Money London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher.

Schumer spent his re-election airing region - focused TV ads and, at the same time, seeded key Senate races nationally in an effort for Democrats to gain control of the chamber.

A proposed three - story luxury viewing facility at the Saratoga Race Course embodies the effort by NYRA to strengthen its non-gambling revenues and protect the long - term future of thoroughbred racing in New York.

At the same time, this is one of the more formalized and concerted efforts by Cuomo, harnessing the state committee that he controls, to aid Democrats who are running in down - ballot local races as he seeks another term later this year.

It's not much skin off Libous's nose, but generally speaking, there's been little effort to display establishment endorsements in Republican primaries this cycle — other than major statewide names like Rudy Giuliani or George Pataki — given the tea party activism at play in the races.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is looking at Cambridge Analytica's work for President Donald Trump's campaign as part of its investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 race, according to sources familiar with the probe.

«Sex and the City» star Cynthia Nixon is the latest prominent (at least in some circles) New Yorker to appear in a video pushing Row E (AKA the Working Families Party) as part of the labor - backed party's effort to attract 50,000 votes in the governor's race and retain its official ballot status.

Academics, however, tend to look at the fundamental factors underlying political races, usually putting more weight on basic economic facts and core trends in public opinion than on the transient efforts of campaigns themselves.

Although Dietl remains in the race as an independent candidate on a self - created line his effort at getting a Wilson - Pakula and running in the Republican primary failed, with Queens the only county to support his effort.

The departures come at the end of a heated election season, during which the firm, which is headed by Scott Levenson, worked for a host of campaigns, including the «Anybody But Quinn» effort on behalf of New Yorkers for Clean Livable And Safe Streets and other donors, which has been credited with helping to bring down former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the mayor's race.

The attorney recalled the legislator talking with him ahead of a 2012 meeting with Mr. Ross and Mr. Beal at Porter House Restaurant on Columbus Circle — a meeting where the three were to discuss key races and the effort to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign finance reform proposals — where Mr. Skelos impressed upon him his son's urgent financial needs.

In a lawsuit over his administration's effort to shut down a vendor at Saratoga Race Course whose name — Wandering Dago — some found offensive, one of the governor's own aides testified that he was «aghast» to learn emails relevant to the case had been purged.

The party will not only focus on the governor's race, but also on Cuomo's announced effort to target at least six state congressional Republicans in the effort to reclaim the House for the Democrats.

Mr. Cuomo's aides defended his efforts on behalf of the marriage bill last year, and explained that they were reluctant to involve themselves in a campaign that was largely led by Mr. Paterson, at the time a potential rival in the governor's race.

Following Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.'s endorsement of challenger Gustavo Rivera in the 33rd District Senate race earlier today, incumbent Pedro Espada Jr. stood in front of the Kingsbridge Armory and railed against Diaz's efforts to block the creation of a shopping mall at the long - vacant former military building.

With the absence of any candidate of color in the AG's race, Schneiderman has been trying to position himself as the clear choice for Latino and black voters, stressing in particular his efforts on behalf of Rockefeller Drug Law reform and sponsorship of a controversial measure that will count prisoners at their last address for the purposes of legislative redistricting and not whever they're incarcerated.

Called «Younger than McCain», the website is being run by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director at the AFL - CIO and executive director of America Coming Together, a massive soft money effort organized around the 2004 presidential race.

One candidate has come up with a plan to deal with this, and it could become a model for how to, at least, raise awareness of the effort by Big Money to effectively buy congressional races.

On the stand, the mayor — who narrowly won the 2009 race against then - city Comptroller Bill Thompson, who is black — said he believed the ballot security effort was meant to ensure that voters didn't encounter problems at the polls, and paying for it through the party was simply standard procedure.

Dylan Ratigan, a former MSNBC host who entered the race last week, wove comments about the «soul of the country» into his remarks, citing his work with Helical Holdings to help returning combat veterans — including the homeless — and how he attempted to reconcile those efforts with his mounting displeasure with the banking industry, which he said supports concentrating wealth at the top, not helping the country's most vulnerable citizens.

Pedicab drivers, for their part, held a protest at City Hall accusing de Blasio of sacrificing them and their jobs as a concession to carriage drivers in his effort to deliver on a campaign promise to a group that helped bankroll an attack campaign against one of his rivals in the mayoral race.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- A lawyer for Mayor Bill de Blasio is firing back at the state Board of Elections for seeking a criminal probe in connection with a scathing report on the mayor's efforts to influence the 2014 Senate races.

The DCCC also bought $ 524,400 on cable and broadcast in the San Diego media market, which will be aimed at one of the leading Republican candidates running for retiring GOP Rep. Darrell IssaDarrell Edward IssaDems step up efforts to avoid California primary shutouts House Dems boost spending in key California races NC Republican pressed on Trump in primary showdown MORE's district.

The LLC loophole has become a major flashpoint in the battle for campaign finance reform because other efforts at reform failed in this year's budget negotiations and a pilot public financing program for last year's comptroller race never got off the ground.

«This paper is a transparent effort to take the focus off the actual scientific debate and instead engage in race baiting, class baiting and other sociological devices to win a science argument,» said James Taylor, senior fellow for environment policy at the Chicago - based Heartland Institute.

That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Gary Orfield, professor of education, law, political science, and urban planning at UCLA, said opponents of the UT admission policy claim there are nonracial alternatives that do the job just as well, including the 10 % plan that UT now uses as its first phase for admission; approaches using socioeconomic status rather than race as a factor; and special outreach and recruitment efforts.

The high court had just ruled that race is a legitimate factor in admissions policies aimed at fostering campus diversity (Science, 27 June, p. 2012), a stance that many took as a vote of confidence in their efforts, too.

«Overall, our results suggest a connection between opioid and heroin use and heroin - related adverse outcomes at the population level, implying that frequent nonmedical users of prescription opioids, regardless of race or ethnicity, should be the focus of public health efforts to prevent and mitigate the harms of heroin use.»

Races run at 100 percent of your maximum effort accomplish this goal quite well, as do sprints or maximum - weight lifts in the gym.

In addition, he spent four years at Spartan Race where he led US and international email marketing efforts.

On this week's Little Gold Men podcast, Katey Rich, Richard Lawson, Mike Hogan, and Joanna Robinson take a look at the films that are working to stay in the race, from the aforementioned Get Out to smaller efforts like The Lost City of Z or even the summer indie success story The Big Sick.

The European Film Awards — that distant continent's annual effort to best the Oscars in the race for «Film Award Statue That Most Resembles A Marital Aid» — were held today, with Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino and performers Michael Caine and Charlotte Rampling all winning big at the Berlin - based bash.

A significant technical effort went into camera placement on cars and at strategic locations around the racing circuit in order to caption the elements of excitement, tension, and danger.

In the absence of race - based constraints, some reform efforts that aim to improve school quality, such as charter schools, open enrollment, magnet schools, and vouchers, may intensify segregation by income, race, or achievement (see «A Closer Look at Charter Schools and Segregation,» check the facts, Summer 2010).

The intense debate around teacher evaluation has been fueled in recent years by the federal government's efforts to spur the creation of more sophisticated evaluation systems at the state level, in large part through incentives embedded in the Race to the Top grant competition and No Child Left Behind waiver process.