Sentences with phrase «as a consolation»

SUNY Poly's proposal was seen as a consolation prize for the city not securing the Capital Region's casino license, which went to Schenectady.

The million, and it might be more, as announced by County Executive Mike Hein in his state - of - the - county address in January, comes as consolation prize from the state after the regional casino was sited in neighboring Sullivan County and not at the nearby Nevele.

This may come as some consolation on the heels of the G7 Summit in Taormina, Italy last week.

Perhaps now that another season is over with Tottenham or Leicester likely to win the league / finish above us and not even the FA cup as a consolation prize, people will wake and speak up?!

Their leader Agamemnon, forced to assent to their consensus, takes as his consolation prize Achilles's concubine, thus precipitating Achilles's withdrawal from the war.

(Walgreens is however in the process of buying and converting about 1,320 Rite Aid stores as a consolation prize.)

Arsenal suffered one of their worst seasons of the Frenchman's reign last term as they missed out on a top four spot for the first time, though they did beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final as a consolation.

Personally, I still prefer The Lego Batman Movie and not even just as a consolation for The Lego Movie's head - scratching snub from the category back in 2014.

Mr. Rodriguez called on Mr. Linares late last year not to run for Mr. Rangel's soon - to - be-vacant post, and to instead seek Mr. Espaillat's State Senate seat as a consolation prize — a suggestion Mr. Linares rejected.

I guess as a consolation prize we get the dCi 175 which is a little «fresher».

But this fixture may quickly turn into one where goals are merely celebrated as consolations by the vibrant home faithful.

Samuel Kalu of AS Trencin helped his team take a shock 2 - 0 lead when he scored in the 6th minute with Blessing Eleke strike in the 89th minute ending as a consolation as Trencin ran out 3 - 4 winners.

Days of marbles and rituals and giggles and fairies that visit in the night, leaving behind sweet rewards as consolation for the pieces of my baby they take while she sleeps.

Every single person who enters will receive gift code for $ 25 as consolation which is to be used in JORD site.

However, as a consolation there is an ad - hoc multiplayer mode that has a small lobby and allows you to trade friend cards with nearby opponents.

One woman bought the dog as a consolation gift for the other after having insisted that she get rid of her cat.

It is necessary as the consolation of human beings in this bad world, to make the perverted world tolerable and to justify it.

Consider this pairing as consolation on a night when the only action you'll see is cheese on cheese.

As he says, sometimes the game does come down to an individual piece of brilliance but now we are making sure our whole team works as a unit so that when we do pull off the piece of magic it wins us the game instead of acting as a consolation.

Either way, there's bound to be plenty of movement between these three clubs this summer — and while United may miss out on Griezmann, his move to Real would surely help them at least land Bale as a consolation prize.

No UCL, at least there is some scudettos and coppas as consolation

That said, if all the QBs are off the board at # 5 I'd be pretty happy taking Saquon as a consolation prize.

The good news is that they got Kiko Alonso as a consolation prize by trading down from their original # 8 slot.

Köln's unexpected and hard - won point perhaps comes as some consolation when set against the general perfection of the Bayern experience: all it takes is a little defensive laxity, some wasteful finishing, and one of the best goalkeepers in the world ends up contorted like a pretzel, watching the ball and the result sail past just out of reach.

If we get Lacazette then we can give Spuds Sanogo as a consolation prize lol

Sebastian Coates and Andre the other scorers for the Lisbon outfit while Bruno Gomes struck two late goals as consolation for Estoril

Olivier Giroud's late goal barely counted as consolation for Arsenal and the match ended with a stylish 3 - 1 victory in favour of Chelsea.

The club went celebrating titles, to being happy making it into the UCL, to accepting a constant top 4 finish as a consolation price, to just being glad that it finished above the Spurs.

Thanks to dumb and arbitrary rules that are only now being changed because they are dumb and arbitrary, Aubameyang is unfortunately cup tied to Dortmund who, like CSKA Moscow, were bounced from the group stage of the Champion's League and were given a berth in the Europa League knockout stages as a consolation prize.

For these MPs, unlikely to achieve ministerial office, a committee chair seems to function as a consolation prize.

The Boston Red Sox aren't in baseball's Fall Classic this year, so as a consolation prize New York City is sending them a lifelong New York Mets fan — he'll live at a federal prison in Ayer, Massachusetts, an hour drive from Boston.

Granting Paladino rights to the parcel in Erie Basin Marina was widely perceived in development and political circles as a consolation prize that kept him neutral in the mayor's race, aside from a $ 100 donation he made to Brown.

Then along comes Bush Jr.'s fantasy of going back unnecessarily to the moon, created by NASA and other folks as a consolation for the Columbia disaster.

But you may get one 20 - minute meditation period a day as a consolation.

That said, he gave me the vast majority of the walk - in closet in our bedroom as consolation.

That is why I spotlighted the decision to assign Blomkamp this movie as a consolation for the other one that fell through.

• Which brings me to perhaps my favorite element of the film: the CIA higher - ups played by David Rasche (as Cox's former boss, Palmer Smith) and the great J.K. Simmons (who, if there is any justice, received this role as consolation for his appearance in The Ladykillers).

At least it comes with a digital copy as consolation.

It will likely earn only Best Song as a consolation prize, which is pretty awful in a lot of ways.

, collects the usual suspects (the always - delightful Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, the always - fallible author / historian Bill Krohn, the always - quick - to - Rich Little Peter Bogdanovich) as a series of talking - heads discussing Suspicion's inferior source material, the difficulties Hitchcock had with RKO, and the fact that Fontaine won an Oscar for her work here likely as consolation for her un-awarded work in the astonishing Rebecca.