Sentences with phrase «around as a contender»

Wonderboy is a real tough opponent and hopefully Till gives a good account of himself out there since he's been pretty entertaining in the lead up to this fight and I'd like to see him stick around as a contender.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, and written by Wentworth Miller (yes, of «Prison Break» fame), the film is one that is being batted around as a contender for Cannes and is one of the most anticipated films of the year, in any event.

Earlier in the year when the prestige pictures were vying for the early awards buzz, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken was kicked around as a contender.

First Leonardo DiCaprio was vaguely attached, and then Christian Bale looked more serious until he dropped out, and now another big name is being tossed around as a contender to play Steve Jobs.

Not exact matches

New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.

As a kid in Missouri, I was a Baptist, and that identity said not only that I belonged to an important church but that I was on the right side of the great eternal divide, ready to defend my salvation against the other contenders around me.

And all three of the title contenders are involved in games against them around the replay date of April 13th, as a Sky Sports report explains.

As is often the case, the contenders had to play around the craters and shell holes of past battles among themselves.

His final competition was lackluster, too: Collin Klein, who was the effective leader of an effective Kansas State team, lost his inside track at the Troy Smith Memorial Vote for being the public face of an undefeated title contender, and Manti Te'o had to overcome decades of bias against defenders... and tackle totals that dropped in his senior season as the defense around him made it easier for him to do his job and easier for Notre Dame to win.

As Labour's non-Corbyistas continue to cast around for a helmsman to steer them into power by 2020, it seems unlikely that Phillips, with just over six months on the clock, will be a contender this time around.

While Mr. Espaillat also used Red Horse two years ago when he came just shy of unseating veteran Congressman Charlie Rangel, people close to Mr. Espaillat and Red Horse believe the firm's addition to his growing team will help vault the uptown lawmaker past Mr. Rangel, as well as new contender Pastor Mike Walrond, this time around.

But as Sanders begins to recede from the presidential stage, Teachout is re-emerging as a Democratic political contender — though on a smaller scale this time around.

The cool variation comes in the form of his drug - addled brother who believes the film crew that's following him around is documenting his big comeback — when they're really making a documentary on the effects of drug addiction and using his name as former contender to add impact.

Still, there's no denying this handsome period pageant ticks all the right boxes, the Four Feathers director building a suitably imposing epic around his radiant leading lady who, off the back of this and Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There, is sure to enter the awards season as a leading contender.

So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.

It's going to stick around as an awards contender all year long.

Oscar campaigning is officially underway as there were several events this weekend in Hollywood, featuring many expected award season contenders trying to build as much awareness around their projects and performances before the holiday break.

Just as likely if the movie is a true Oscar contender is Best Adapted Screenplay, where Reitman could try to make up for his loss last time around.

The last could go to BAFTA nominee «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool,» Writers Guild nominee «Logan,» Critics» Choice nominee «Wonder,» dark horse contender «Wonder Woman,» or even surprise University of Southern California Scripter Awards finalist «The Lost City of Z.» There's also «Victoria & Abdul» lingering around as a possibility, just harmless enough to register with older members.

On sale at dealers now, that pricing puts it on a par with other sporty crossovers like Mercedes» $ 55,825 GLC43 and Porsche's $ 56,450 Macan S. I can't say which one of the trio I would end up choosing without driving all three back to back, but I can say that the Audi is a strong contender, as it's a solid all - around piece that provides both comfort and also a lot of fun.

When this Association was» formed in 1924 there were few Springers in the United States and no field trials for the breed, Since that time, under the wise and benevolent leadership of the Parent Association there are now many thousands of Springers used as gun dogs each autumn and there were in 1946 some twenty» two trials herd for the breed where championship points were awarded, Thus the Springer Spaniel, youngest of all gun dog breeds in this country, has made rapid strides and established itself as a leading contender for the title of all around gun dog, under the leadership of the Parent Association, This first National Field Trial meeting for English Springer Spaniels is ~ a sincere attempt to establish by equitable and sporting means the National Chaffi..

, as the game was both a huge step up from the previous game and a contender for the best character kart racer around.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.

Merger rumors involving Foley have swirled around the legal blogosphere for some time, and as we went to press the latest contender for a possible tie - up was New York boutique Friedman Kaplan.

While Qualcomm Ventures cast the first QPrize as a competitive program among wireless industry startups from around the world, Kashyap says «competition» was conjuring the wrong implications for too many contenders.

As to the devices themselves, the Honor 7X is a strong 5.93 - inch contender in the lower - middle Android price spectrum — at around $ 200 — with a screen resolution of 2160 x 1080 and relatively tiny bezels.