Sentences with phrase «u.s. racing history»

He said he had talked about fixing races with Angel Cordero Jr., Jorge Velasquez, Braulio Baeza and Jacinto Vasquez, four of the six top money - winning jockeys in U.S. racing history.

The top betting year in U.S. racing history saw the major award go to Nashua for a sensational record in a season of many other distinguished performances

Not exact matches

When Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced he will run against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson Monday, he set off a race that experts say will likely become one of the most expensive campaigns in U.S. history

It was at the time the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history with total spending of more than $ 121 million.

Throughout U.S. history, the Supreme Court has played nearly as important a role as the presidency on the race question, and a more important role than the U.S. Congress.

Such absolutisms included a heroic myth about U.S. history interpreted as the rise of «the successful male white Protestant, whose features were turned into ideals for the entire human race.»

«It took some air out of me,» says injured U.S. sprinter Tyson Gay, the second - fastest man in history, who was sitting in the stands for the race.

It was at the time the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history with total spending of more than $ 121 million.»

«Any time the President visits Connecticut, it's a big deal, particularly at this momentous time in history in the midst of some very highly contested U.S. Senatorial races that are hanging in the balance.»

While exceptionalism once was a source of strength, it may now spell decline, as unique features of U.S. history, politics, law, culture, religion, and race relations foster grave conflicts.

Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.

From the Studio: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African - American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history.

The haters have done little to curb excitement for the Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Bosman - led flick, though: «Black Panther» just raced to the biggest 4 - day opening in box office history, raking in $ 242 million in the U.S.

Its revisionist history suggests that the space race between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the Sixties was inspired by the crash on the dark side of the moon of an alien aircraft from the planet Cybertron, the home of the Transformers.

Coming on the heels of a year that brought us «12 Years a Slave,» «Lee Daniels» The Butler» and «Fruitvale Station,» all fact - based dramas that confronted the challenges of being an underprivileged black person at different moments in U.S. history, «Dear White People» takes satirical aim at a more rarefied sphere of African - American experience, unfolding on a fictitious Ivy League campus that becomes a sort of elite microcosm of present - day race relations — the hallowed - halls answer to the all - black Mission College in «School Daze.»

«A United Kingdom» starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike premiered earlier this year in the U.S.. Both films deal with race and interracial relationships during fragile times in history for these subject matters to be playing out.

2017 was a big year for education news in Los Angeles, drawing national attention to the most expensive school board race in U.S. history, the looming fiscal cliff exacerbated by declining enrollment, and a new state accountability system that has sparked sharp criticism from parent groups across the state and education advocates across the nation.

2017 saw the most expensive school board race in U.S. history, new graduation highs, and soaring employee benefit costs.

Black History Month provides a wonderful opportunity for educators to teach their students about the pivotal role black Americans have played in U.S. history, and to help students recognize the importance of social, political, and economic equality as it applies tHistory Month provides a wonderful opportunity for educators to teach their students about the pivotal role black Americans have played in U.S. history, and to help students recognize the importance of social, political, and economic equality as it applies thistory, and to help students recognize the importance of social, political, and economic equality as it applies to race.

The stakes grew much higher in July when Duncan announced that states with such «firewalls» would be barred from vying for a share of the $ 4 - billion federal «Race to the Top» fund, the largest competitive education fund in U.S. history, unless they changed their laws.

Dania has taught courses in the economics of education, the history of the education of blacks in the U.S., and contemporary issues of race and education.

Backed by billionaire charter interests and fiercely opposed by teachers unions, the two winners of last month's bruising election — said to be the most expensive school board race in U.S. history — will take office in July.

That's the view of several charter advocates and close observers of the district, as well as one of the victorious candidates in last week's runoff election, the most expensive school board race in U.S. history.

Remember, this year's Los Angeles School Board race was the most expensive school board election in U.S. history, as the powerful charter lobby ran candidates in an ultimately successful effort to gain a pro-charter majority on the board in this city that is desperately fighting against charter expansion and the subsequent financial strangling of Los Angeles Unified School District.

The 340/375 MM would carry on a prominent racing history with three World Champions at the helm before being imported to the U.S. in 1954.

With a racing history of its own across the world, the 250 Testa Rossa would eventually go on to compete in numerous SCCA events here in the U.S. following its sale to Alan Connell of Forth Worth, Texas.

The future of U.S. sports car racing was on display with, for the first time in history, the Grand - Am Series and the American Le Mans Series sharing the same track on the same weekend.

An iconic American brand, Corvette's racing history is tied to the 24 Hours of Le Mans and there could be no more appropriate a manufacturer to carry the names of all the U.S. drivers who have distinguished themselves at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.»

This SS - 100, which wears the automaker's first use of the «Jaguar» name, is a special one with racing history and some unique features that provide clues to its life before being brought to the U.S., Larson said.

Drawing on two years of research, including interviews with two elderly women — one black, the other white — Swarns presents the complicated story of race in the U.S. through the prism of Michelle Obama's family history.

While federal law does not specifically prohibit discrimination based on criminal convictions or arrests, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a policy statement indicating that an employer's use of criminal history information in making employment decisions may violate the federal prohibition against discrimination based on race or national origin.