Sentences with phrase «when race week»

Not exact matches

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

Amazon set off a national race two weeks ago when it invited metro areas to apply to be the Seattle - based company's second home.

It sets distressing signals about race and protest, the same week as police moved in again on a peaceful Indigenous - led standoff against a North Dakota pipeline — and as Donald Trump rhetoric riles up believers in Second Amendment «remedies» when an election doesn't go their way.

When Ted Cruz and John Kasich pulled out of the presidential race this week, they left voters one «yuge» step closer to having to choose between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton this fall.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

We can not know when or whether one thoroughbred colt will win all three of the toughest three - year - old races, in only five weeks, finishing with the brutal mile - and - a-half at Belmont Park.

Or rather, everyone who follows racing is on the same team — at least for a few weeks in the late spring, when the three races are run that make up the Triple Crown.

When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a child • kill gays, children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad

«I don't want to go there — yet,» Smith said last week when asked if he would continue to stage IRL races with open - wheel cars.

when I signed up, it was billed as a «5k» (with obstacles and such), a few weeks before the race they were calling it «about 5k», the week of the race they were saying «3 to 5 miles».

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

He'll be back in a race car this week though when he takes part in Formula E's official pre-season test at Valencia.

Realistically the race was over a few weeks back when City dropped further off the pace and we've been gone for ages.

Things went quiet for a little while, but a couple of weeks later da Costa (who won in 2012) was confirmed for the race, and that's when things ramped up.

Martin went into Sunday's race only 73 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson, having taken a whopping 107 - point chunk out of Johnson's margin the week before at Texas, when the three - time defending champion crashed on the third lap and finished 38th.

Smashups have been frequent and brutal all season, and last week the rather grim mood of it all was further emphasized when a promising French teen - ager, Michel Bozon, was killed in a fall in a downhill race at Meg √ ® ve.

He'll be hoping to add to that trophy haul when he makes his comeback, with Atleti chasing down Barcelona in the La Liga title race while they'll hope to still be involved in the Champions League in the second half of the campaign as they face a crucial week with a win over Chelsea perhaps not even enough depending on Roma's result.

When all was said and done in the final week of the Games, the U.S. men had won eight of the nine medals in the 100, 200 and 400 meters; Dwight Phillips had held off U.S. teammate John Moffitt for a one - two in the long jump; and in the dying sunlight on Sunday, Mebrahtom Keflezighi of the U.S. took silver in the marathon, running the race of his life.

The Great American Race had Jimmie Johnson's number — until Sunday, when he capped off a controversial week with a late charge that put him in Victory Lane

Our «title race» will come to an end to EVERYONE when we visit Stamford Bridge in few weeks.

«When you're racing every week on a factory team,» he says, «you take for granted what you've got, and you forget about how hard it was to get to where you're at.

Even in those rare periods when Petty can't drive — such as the six weeks following his crash at Darlington — he will show up at races and sign hundreds of autographs, devoting to each a good 15 seconds worth of looping, swirling penmanship.

America's biggest equine event, The National Horse Show, which opens its annual eight - day stand next week (Nov. 2 - 9) in Madison Square Garden, had no more class than a six - day bike race when it was first held in a car barn in 1883.

Twins second baseman Orlando Hudson sparked something of a brouhaha last week when he suggested to a Yahoo! Sports reporter that Dye's race — both Hudson and Dye are black — had something to do with it.

Having learned from that experience, Logano acted much differently when in a similar situation this week and didn't hesitate to call Kyle Busch, whom Logano spun out on the final lap of last Sunday's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

For Boutin the weeks leading up to the Prix Omnium had not been without controversy, and at one point he got caught in a media cross fire about the tender subject of Arazi's knees when he was quoted in a British racing paper, the Racing Post, as saying, «Personally, I don't think that his knees are any better now than they were bracing paper, the Racing Post, as saying, «Personally, I don't think that his knees are any better now than they were bRacing Post, as saying, «Personally, I don't think that his knees are any better now than they were before.

Willy Sagnol's side are chasing European qualification, but were stunned two weeks ago when they were handed a 2 - 1 defeat by neighbours and rivals Toulouse - one of Lens» key rivals in the race to remain in the division.

You can not underestimate the role psychology plays in a title race, we regained a two point lead less than a week when City were supposed to cruise on ahead.

He insists all has been going to plan, even suggesting earlier this week that he will match the likes of race favourites Eliud Kipchoge and Kenenisa Bekele when they push the pace in their anticipated pursuit of Dennis Kimetto's world record of 2:02:57.

As soon as I was healed from my drug - free delivery, I started walking and running again, and I competed in my first race when my baby was only seven weeks old.

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Even if this latest peace deal between Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and IDC Leader Jeff Klein holds when lawmakers return to Albany after the Easter / Passover break next week, and even if the Democrats win both the April 24 special elections (the Westchester County race is really the deciding factor there, since the Bronx seat seems a safe bet), the Republicans will still have control of the chamber as long as Felder, a conservative Democrat, continues to caucus with them.

We had just sort of gotten used to that when Eliot Spitzer jumped into the city comptroller race this week.

The slugfest between congressional candidates Tim Bishop and Randy Altschuler is making the most noise on the East End, but that race is just one part of the crowded ballot voters will face when they head to the polls in next week's elections.

Molinaro won support from the leaders of several large county Republican organizations when he told party officials last week that he was re-entering the race for governor.

The NYC Board of Elections acknowledged that a week after the primaries, it still does not know when it would be able to release official results of the mayor's race.

Former Senate Minority Leader Marty Connor, who is part of the team of election attorneys handling the recount fight for the Democrats in the Thompson race, said the whole mess could take weeks — or maybe even months — which means there might be empty seats in the chamber when the Legislature returns to Albany in early January.

The race clarified last week when former Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Dan Sullivan won the Republican primary.

On WAMC's Capitol Connection program this week, Astorino says he faced similar long odds when he won the county executive race in the heavily Democratic Westchester County.

McCall was leading in the polls when Cuomo dropped out of the Democratic primary race one week before voting day.

The race to fill two upcoming vacancies on the Woodstock Town Board gained a fourth entrant this week when Howard

Last week, in her first television interview since she jumped into the mayoral race, Malliotakis falsly claimed that rape in the city had risen 33 percent under Mayor Bill de Blasio, when in fact the increase was only about 4 percent between 2013, the last year of Mayor Bloomberg's final term, and 2016, de Blasio's third year as mayor.

His opponents spent the final weeks of the primary race unleashing everything they had against de Blasio, from his association with slumlords that he had gone after as public advocate, to his support for overturning term limits when he wanted to be the City Council speaker in 2005.

When New York tore down the old dirt track at the state fairgrounds as part of the facility's $ 50 million renovation, fans were promised the Super DIRT Week races would remain in central New York.

But with races in three of the city's nine wards well within the margin of being flipped after absentee ballots are opened, the actual makeup of next year's council will remain in doubt until next week when the final votes are counted.

The race for the legislative seat was roiled last week when the Ulster Town Board voted to honor Freedom of Information Act requests filed over the summer by the Kingston Times and local talk - radio host Richard Cahill Jr. seeking access to dashcam video of a May 24 incident involving Berky and Town of Ulster Police Officer Gary Short.

Stringer has sought to make an issue of Bernard Spitzer's largesse from (sorry, can't help it) Day One when the ex-governor entered the race last week.

Republicans were buoyed this week when two polls on Long Island races — Croci versus Democrat Adrienne Esposito and incumbent Republican Jack Martins against Democrat Adam Haber — showed the GOP candidates with double - digit leads.

Eight weeks ago, when the Times reported YouGov's first survey showing Jeremy Corbyn ahead in the race for Labour's leadership, with 43 % support, reactions ranged from shock to incredulity.

Expanding on the brief statement the Canandaigua Republican issued on Friday, Kolb told WXXI News on Sunday that during the last couple of weeks he has been thinking about getting out of the race for the GOP nomination, but he says it really hit him last Friday when he told his wife he would be on the road for a while.