Sentences with phrase «across the finish line of»

LinkedIn facilitates connections, but it doesn't do the work for you, any more than buying a $ 200 pair of running shoes will get you across the finish line of a marathon.

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.

It is as if the baton is passed to the higher order of beings saying we got you so far, can you take us all the way home across the finish line of evolution.

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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.»

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade welcomes today's announcement by the B.C. government to improve our jurisdiction's competitiveness for bringing British Columbia LNG projects across the finish line.

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.

Now it's time to get creative with your toppings — we suggest a swirl of guacamole across each sausage using a spoon, then add your grated «cheese» of choice, next crush up the nachos on top and finally finish with a line of 4 jalapeños.

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.

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.

Maybe it's the triumph of women, once barred from the race, gliding across the finish line.

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.

He had to push his car across the line though as he'd run out of fuel, so if you really wanted to you could say his car didn't reach the finish of any races that year!

Richardson was second across the finish line but was elevated to first when winner Dayron Robles of Cuba (the world - record holder) was disqualified for interfering with third - place Liu Xiang of China (the»04 Olympic champion).

Bruce McLaren won it, but all eyes were on Jack Brabham, who ran out of fuel on the last lap but pushed his car across the line to finish fourth and take the first of his three world championships.

As it turned out, it ended up being one of the most spectacular ways to finish a race ever as his car came back down on its wheels and rolled across the line to finish eighth.

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.

This is a side, that sputtered across the finish line, instead of waltzing past it.

Gayle was on hand again, only this time his finish was more of a bundle across the line than a composed finish.

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 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.

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

Given the narrowness of Trump's margins, could Cambridge Analytica have provided the extra nudge that pushed him across the finish line?

On a Friday morning conference call with reporters before the Senate vote on the tax extenders package, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said the industry group was «pretty excited about what's happening here, but we're not across the finish line yet.»

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.

Six hours and thirty minutes later, I stumbled across the finish line after one of the most painful and uncomfortable races of my life, complete with gastrointestinal distress, vomiting, the inability to «keep food down», and most importantly, that distinct frustration that accompanies these problems and is the bane of marathoners, cyclists, triathletes and anyone else who needs to simultaneously eat and perform.

Over 8000 people ran a 3 mile race through the streets of NYC and across the actual NYC Marathon finish line.

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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.

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.

However, as with other literary to cinematic conversions the Hunger Games anthology is prey to the unfortunate pitfall of not knowing when to stop and the final 20 minutes languish on, pacing becomes an issue, and the veritable cinematic marathon finishes on fumes, barely enough to get across the finish line.

Peter Yates's feel - good sports drama says a lot about the allure of competitive biking, but this is really a movie about relying on your teammates — the friends who'll always get you across the finish line.

For instance, the titular role is played by Charlie Hunnam («The Lost City of Z,» but who cut his teeth on the «Sons of Anarchy» TV series), a handsome, appropriately hunky Brit, who can not carry the part of a man robbed of his birthright across the finish line.

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.

It's time for all of us to act like grownups and help get a recognizable version of the Alexander - Murray bill across the finish line.

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.

«What we're saying is that it matters that every one of those kids will get across the finish line because they're our kids,» said Johnston, a freshman lawmaker who spearheaded the change.

So the bills still have a long path ahead and limited time to make it across the finish line before the end of the legislative session.

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».

The BMW of Dirk Mueller and Joey Hand was first across the line, the race finishing under yellow caution flags, and the Corvette was followed home by the Risi Ferrari.

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.

Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner labored long and hard on the Labor Day weekend to bring the No. 4 Compuware Corvette C6.R across the finish line second, 2.2 seconds behind the winning No. 17 Porsche of Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler.

He came across the nose of my car as we were exiting Turn 10, nowhere near the start - finish line.

Adding to the appeal of the SUV are Luminous Red graphic lines with Bright White borders and Black Mica matte finish details on the tailgate that run across the lower portion of the SUV.

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.