Sentences with phrase «across the finish line in»

Keino flashed across the finish line in 4:00.6, three full seconds under the meet and Civic Center record — and the second - fastest mile on a 12 - lap track.

Most fans will surely be in agreement that Landon Donovan was a huge part of the team's success, finishing as joint - golden boot winner (along with a resurgent Chris Wondolowski) and almost single - handedly dragging his team across the finishing line in their semi-final against Honduras.

Now we do, and we are hopeful and confident that this is going to get across the finish line in 2015.

The Working Families Party has had a tough time getting many of their key issues, such as paid family and medical leave, across the finish line in the General Assembly but most of the Democrats running for governor this year have come out strongly in favor of those types of progressive policies.

Organized labor is hoping it has a defender in Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, who owes a significant degree to unions for helping him across the finish line in his close race last fall against Republican Harry Wilson.

Sounding like the nominee - in - waiting that many party leaders consider him to be, Astorino also broadly attacked Cuomo's announced budget as built on «gimmicks» designed to «get across the finish line in November, and then everything can collapse as far as he's concerned.»

There's just no way for Babbit and Peterson to get the film across the finish line in the eighty - five minutes so they grab what they can and wrap it up quick.

Peugeot's No. 3 car, driven by Geoff Brabham, Christophe Bouchut and Eric Helary, went 375 laps over the 8.5 - mile course, a distance of 3,187 miles.Peugeot's No. 1, driven by Yannick Dalmas - a member of last year's winning team - Thierry Boutsen and Teo Fabi, rolled across the finish line in second as the winning team was showered with champagne.

A seasoned competitor will dash towards you and slide across the Finish Line in a Sit - Stay.

As a new employee in the Aperture Science test lab, it's your job to build bridges, ramps, slides, and other constructions in 60 test chambers and get the Bendies safely across the finish line in their vehicles.

Contestants race to be the 1st across the finish line in a made - for - TV city built for destruction, with the ultimate goal of becoming the season champion.

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.

Place your bets and find out if your horse will be the first one across the finish line in this racing simulation game.

President George W. Bush got a tax cut across the finish line in June of his first year but didn't sign the biggest policy victory of his first Congress, the No Child Left Behind law, until January of the following year.

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.

Not exact matches

So, I guess I'll just wait for my iPhone 7 and hope my iPhone 6 can hobble across the finish line when its successor reaches my doorstep in early October.

Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

By pinpointing and correcting the process gaps in your buyer's journey through account - based attribution, marketers and salespeople can work hand - in - hand to drive deals across the finish line faster.

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.

I managed» aided by a combination of piteous entreaties, furious threats, and the occasional application of the lash» to drag my refractory attention span across the finish line of Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery, but by that point I had already decided that it is a text whose only interest is, in the vaguest sense, sociological.

With the finish line in sight he got out of his Lotus and pushed his car across the line before collapsing from exhaustion.

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.

In the closing laps six of the 11 cars still running ran out of fuel: Senna, Johansson, Brundle, Warwick, Piquet, and Boutsen — though Boutsen was lucky enough to do so right on the pit straight and was able to push his car across the finish line.

It was a great move finished by a tap in from Giroud with Bellerin getting the assist after a burst down the right and ball across the 6yd line.

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

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

McLaren Fernando Alonso 8 — Stoffel Vandoorne 1 Jenson Button 1 - Stoffel Vandoorne 0 Race: Alonso Stoffel Vandoorne finally got the better of Fernando Alonso in qualifying, despite Alonso's heroics of finishing quickest in Q1 and getting across the start / finish line to beat the chequered flag by millimetres.

Barcelona dropped out of the CL by aggregate against Atletico Madrid in the quarterfinals, and went on to sputter across the finish line with the players doing just enough, and only that, to clinch the league title.

The facility was built in 1962 with its most recent major update in 1982, when its then - outdoor rink was enclosed and heated, Hamilton said, adding that with mechanical issues over the year, the more than 50 - year - old building is «limping across the finish line.»

Since then, advocates changed their political approach, ceasing to simply support the Democratic conference as a whole in hopes of pushing the issue across the finish line and targeting key «no» voters for ouster.

The state's former chief judge Jonathan Lippman, who oversaw a panel that recommended closing Rikers, wrote in an opinion piece in amNewYork in October the timeline could be shorter and that de Blasio's plan «won't get us across the finish line.»

SM: I think the only conflict you would see is if something was wildly underestimated and more commitment in it needs to be made, but right now there's a big commitment from the community that Ed says is enough to get it across the finish line.

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

Now, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to push both Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex in Buffalo's Parkside neighborhood and Graycliff, the summer estate built for Isabelle Martin in Derby, across the finish line.

«Congressman Katko is focused on serving our community in Congress, working to address issues that matter most to Central New York families — expanding our economy, enhancing our security, and getting a long awaited transportation bill across the finish line,» O'Connor said.

The dark horse in this race - and the one Cameron has to beat to get across the finishing line with a clear majority - is a hung Parliament.

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

In the end, though, it was Venter's goading that pushed the teams across the finish line together.

But in the end, Obama carried Minnesota by 360,000 votes, and it was enough to take on the recall to bring Franken across the finish line.

Brave dreary weather with style and sensibility thanks to these rubber rain boots from Hunter Whether walking to work heading across the college campus or facing rain on a trip these boots brighten up the day in a multitude of colors including glossy finishes Waterproofed rubber with a textile lining and

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.

Annette Bening (Films Stars Don't Die in Liverpool) and Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes), meanwhile, just might not have enough steam to get them across the finish line.

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.

Otherwise... Movies that it beat that you should watch instead: It's crazy that DeMille won for The Greatest Show on Earth in ’52 and yet couldn't carry The Ten Commandments across the finish line instead for a more resonant Best Picture winner this year.

In this off - road racing game you can choose one of ten characters and use mines and rockets to take out your oppenents and be the first across the finish line.

Open Windows thrills and chills, and then roars across the finish line with the checkered flag waving in victory.

In Congress, meanwhile, lawmakers saw the need for a rewrite, but were unable to bring a bill across the finish line.

He should also provide real leadership in getting an ESEA revamp across the finish line by embracing the bill that the Senate already passed in overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion.

In short, ECAA has entered the home stretch, and senators must hear from educators to get this bill across the finish line.