Sentences with phrase «across the finish line on»

The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) nonprofit trade association today updated its projected $ 18.4 million total announced Saturday night, once the final tallies came across the finish line on Sunday.

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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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

You've won the race by a mile and so to celebrate, you crank on the handbrake and do a spin turn across the finish line because, well, it looks cool.

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.

The draw has the longest odds on the 3 - way moneyline but there's been reverse - line movement on the draw across the market, and I think that's where this game finishes.

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.

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

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.

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

Ultimately, some familiar with her campaign argued she relied too much on powerful unions like 32BJ and 1199 SEIU to drag her across the finish line.

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.»

«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.

Before his involvement, Mark - Viverito was counting on support from the 22 - member Progressive bloc, which wasn't enough on its own to get her 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.&raquOn 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.&raquon 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.»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Helping those poor students get across the finish line is absolutely a worthy item on the higher education reform to - do list.

But spending on smaller class sizes and academic support like tutoring did more to get students across the finish line and graduate.

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 race continued on without incident, and O'Connell took the # 3 Corvette across the finish line with Oliver Gavin in the # 4 Corvette behind him.

Sebastian Vettel has drove his Red Bull Renault first across the finish line once again, thus earning another 25 points on 2013 FORMULA 1 SHELL BELGIAN GRAND PRIX.

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.

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.

Self - publishing, with AuthorHouse or on your own, can help you take it across the finish line to your ultimate goal: putting your book into the hands of your readers.

«This is shaping up to be another competitive home shopping season for buyers, who may have to linger on the market until they find the right home but then sprint across the finish line once they do.

When working on some tough deals, this is the sort of information that can help push it across the finish line (or kill it appropriately).

Now live on Google Play for Android Devices, Sonic & SEGA All - Stars lets you take control of your favorite character in their own unique vehicle, as you blast across 16 courses in a frantic race to the finish line.

Also some big news, we decided to bring on a bit of programming help to get us across the finish line faster!

Those with an eye on the indie scene probably know it's been years in development, and we're happy to provide its talented developer, Alexander Bruce, with finishing funds to help the game across 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 presenting sponsorship by Alaska Airlines and passionate support from Mayor Murray put bike share across the finish line and guaranteed that we will put 500 bikes on the street in September 2014.»

«If I was engaging with a firm and all I saw was white men across the table, I would certainly notice it, but in the same breath I have to say, especially in the mining world and throughout my professional life I've been blinded to it — I focus on doing the best job I can and I forget I'm a woman and we're just focused on getting to the finish line and getting that success.»

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The legislation is called «The Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act» and it came close to passing last year but it never made it across the finish line.

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...