Sentences with phrase «across the finish line at»

The runners had gone one too many laps on the 176 - yard dirt oval because meet officials forgot to extend the string across the finish line at the proper time.

On this day in 1959, Jack Brabham won the World Championship by pushing his car across the finish line at Sebring.

Sadly, these admittedly impressive technical and performance pieces aren't enough to carry Menashe across the finish line at feature length.

Such a chimera, however, carries with it the burden of some late sentimentality and The In - Laws, for all the energy of its first two - thirds, stumbles across the finish line at the end, trailing some redemptive falderal about being a good father like a drag anchor.

SALT LAKE CITY — A classroom technology grant proposal is one step closer to making it across the finish line at the Utah Legislature.

Are you like me, full of energy before the project starts and then crawling across the finish line at the end?!?

Not exact matches

Frankie Perez never felt at home in Mexico, so immediately after finishing his secondary education in Aguascalientes he returned to the U.S. Without any particular intent or design, Raul and Maria had given birth to a profoundly binational family — a family, like millions of others, with relationships stretched irreversibly across the line.

When Olympian Earl Young, competing in his 400 - yard specialty, wobbled across the finish line like a man carrying a piano up a flight of stairs, spectators at the Will Rogers Indoor Games at Fort Worth thought something was peculiar.

Despite that rather melodramatic beginning, marathon running developed into a comparatively low - risk event, or at least it was until England's Chris Stewart, the third - place finisher in both the 1976 and»77 New York Marathons, turned the ancient Greek legend on its head and began running relief supplies across sniper - infested battle lines and into the broken heart of Croatia and Bosnia - Herzegovinia.

Juventus let the team at the bottom of the Serie A standings back in twice before finally stretching across the finish line.

In New York, guiliani could, at the top of the ticket, bring a new senator across the finish line.

Republicans in Gardiner thought they had a shot at unseating incumbent Tracey Bartels after she stumbled across the finish line two years ago.

The folks at Lelo, the sex toy retailer, did the hard work of polling 2,200 people across 21 countries about their big Os, asking questions such as how often they reach the pleasure peak, the position that makes it easiest to do so, and how loud they are when they pass the finish line.

Fill in the triangle and go over the line so it's smooth, starting thin then thickening across the lashlines and finishing at a slender point.

At the end of the day there just wasn't enough focused passion behind «The Town» to get it across the finish line with nominations for Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay.

Even at an anaemic eighty - five minutes, the film drags somehow, limping across the finish line with an ass rimshot that isn't funny at the beginning of the picture with Hank Azaria and hasn't gotten any funnier by the end of it with Ben Stiller.

Thankfully, Governor Abbott added the issue of school finance to the agenda giving us a second bite at the apple at getting our number one priority, facilities funding, across the finish line.

Speaking at the car's launch, John Hennessy, CEO said «We expect the Venom F5, named for the most powerful tornado speed winds on the Fujita scale, to be the first road car capable of achieving more than 300mph and have worked closely with Pennzoil to get us across the finish line».

Mr. Porsche piloted his EV Auto across the finish line 18 min ahead of the 2nd place finisher and more importantly where more than half of the contestants failed to finish at all due to technical problems according to the museum history telling.

We limped across the finish line, and celebrated the end of the year with forty friends and clients, collaborators and competitors in our annual Christmas lunch at the Groucho Club.

Also big thanks to foster dad Scott (who loved Ella enough to keep all of us hopeful), foster mom (who put up with being growled at), foster mom Molly (who continued Mitch's work and put Ella across the finish line), and foster Mom Lydia (who took Ella to «test» if her training would stick through a transition and helped introduce Ella to her new family).

Start line is located across from the Kaanapali Beach Hotel, at the marathon finish grounds.

Start your engines and get ready for the ride of a lifetime with team Sonic and a cast of legendary SEGA heroes across land, sea, and air in amazing transformable vehicles as they battle for first place at the finish line.

After playing the game, I can tell you that the final product has the feel of something that had a chance at the start of the race but was only able to barely limp across the finish line in the end.

Race as Sonic and a host of legendary SEGA All - Stars across land, sea and air in amazing transformable vehicles as they battle for first place at the finish line.

Greg Wetstone, senior director of governmental and public affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement, «We salute Members of Congress in both parties who fought under difficult conditions to keep the renewable energy production tax credit and small turbine investment tax credit on the agenda until the very end, and then pushed them across the finish line.»

The Moto X4 also has antenna lines at the top and bottom, cutting through the frame though thankfully, they stay away from the rear for a seamless finish across the back.

Make sure that each element of text finishes at least half way across the width of the page; leaving single words hanging on a new line is simply a waste of space.

At this point you effectively become the transaction engineer and do everything within your power to make sure this deal makes it across the finish line in, or in this case closing table.

It's a bit like the Marie Celeste at my place... a half - finished game of Monopoly lies on the dining room table; dirty dishes languish in the sink; a gingerbread maker sits open on the kitchen bench — yes, such things exist in the shops and I ALWAYS FIND THEM — with tubes of writing icing scattered around it; days - ago clothes still hang on the washing line; dust tumbleweeds drift across the lounge room floor...