Sentences with phrase «as amateurs for»

Whether doing these sports as amateurs for fun, or training for competitions, each person showed the same qualities - enthusiasm, passion for their activity and a huge sense of camaraderie amongst the blind and VI sport community.

He was picking up # 70 a month — an amount he now earns in the time it takes him to tie his boot laces — playing as an amateur for Kolubara in the third division in his native Serbia when an agent offered him the chance to move to another club.

All that nasty brown stuff, comes from astronomer Brown, who as far as I can see has done little or no research into the BoM and yet describes Jennifer, who definitely has, as an amateur for doing so, despite her qualifications and strong environmental leanings.

Not exact matches

And yet, for all his professional accolades, Shannon was comfortable being something that we too often take for granted: an amateur.Shannon was «an amateur unicyclist» and «an amateur juggler,» and could often be found tinkering away at his home, building things from scratch such as a robotic mouse that could navigate a maze.

As YouTube's following has expanded and revenues ballooned, the opportunities for amateur videographers has also grown.

The second phase of this fever dream is that the world immediately reaches out to these amateur auteurs and fervently demands more of the same as well as offering princely sums for the privilege.

The IRS sees a nonprofit as charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering amateur sports, or preventing cruelty to children or animals.

The information wasn't as abundant either for amateur geeks (like myself), so you could bring a circuit board with burnt out component and get help finding replacement.

In other words, «manufacturing hell,» as CEO Elon Musk had so elegantly put it last year, will continue to reign, which is not a good thing for an amateur manufacturer in a world full of pros.»

I think the issue here is whether any amateur fund manager (which I think is what we all are — including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios using trackers and bond funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and control against downside risk (in equities or bonds) as well as a good active management group like Invesco perpetual or M&G.

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has even argued that a scientist who uses evolution as the grounds for atheism is speaking as an amateur theologian, not as a professional scientist.

But just as we strive to produce amateurs who are experts and experts who are still amateurs, we also strive to produce this combination of reverence and duty for education in every student.

Recently, three outstanding crime novelists have turned directly to the church for inspiration, presenting amateur detectives who are, in vocation as well as in spirit, priests.

A game is played, a picture is painted, or a garden is cultivated, and each activity is regarded by the amateur as a complete experience, rounded out within minutes, hours, or months, as the case may be, while for the worker — in the parallel cases of professional player, artist, or farmer — these achievements are but incidents within a continuous career.

Coming as it does from one who considers himself an outsider and an amateur in regard to process thought, his essay nevertheless, or precisely for that reason, provides those of us working on «process hermeneutics» with illuminating analysis and criticism.

I still have a passion and love for healthy food and recipes, but there's other things I love just as much like DIYs and (amateur) event planning.

It also provides an expert solution to all amateur chefs looking for authentic Mexican food recipes, as well as Mexican cookbooks in both English and Spanish.

They finished with 11 points to 10 for the U.S. Russia's score was reduced to zero by the International Amateur Basketball Federation as penalty for defaulting.

Grimm is an amateur poker player — which means he plays poker for money but not for a living — and an amateur would have as much chance in the big poker game at the Horseshoe as Cadillac Jack would have of bringing in a wildcat oil well through the floor of the First National Bank building in Abilene, Texas, where the Grimm Oil Company is located.

HONORED — Patricia McCormick, formful national and Olympic diving champion; among six selected for Helms World Trophy Awards as world's foremost amateur athletes for 1955, at Los Angeles.

Inevitably, part of the credit for Buchan's triumph must go to his father, an amateur boat builder and designer with as large and tough a pair of hands as ever handled a spinnaker.

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympics.

He won the 2007 English Amateur, contributed three points for the British and Irish at the»07 Walker Cup and somehow wound up as the world's top - ranked amateur before turning pro in&raqAmateur, contributed three points for the British and Irish at the»07 Walker Cup and somehow wound up as the world's top - ranked amateur before turning pro in&raqamateur before turning pro in» 08.

Whenever I go out for an exhibition or a show, I insist that I do everything that I did as an amateur — the triple Axels and triple flips — everything.

«As for the Amateur, we've finally decided that stroke play is the best and most conclusive way to determine a golf champion.»

• After a dismal fling at professional boxing, Shotputter Bill Nieder has applied to the AAU for reinstatement as an amateur athlete and hopes to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.

The owners want a draft as a way to control the costs of a burgeoning international landscape, while the players association can use international amateurs as a bargaining chip to negotiate for other things in the CBA that might help current MLBPA members, the players on 40 - man major league rosters.

The new odor, a commingling of the vapors of turpentine, rotten eggs and old oysters, comes from dimethyl sulfoxide, better known as DMSO, the controversial and often illegally used drug hailed by a growing legion of amateur and professional athletes who view it as a panacea for many ills ranging from sprained ankles to tendinitis and ripped muscles.

He has provided financial assistanceto aspiring Olympians, and before the Athens Games in the summer of 2004, hesponsored a training camp in South Florida for the U.S. Olympic wrestling team.The Florida Amateur Wrestling Association website even lists Raich (who did notreturn repeated messages seeking comment) as the contact for the Wrestling Clubof the Palm Beaches.

The amateurs from Great Britain and Ireland trounced the Americans 13 - 5 to win the Cup for the first time in 30 years, and Mochrie and Ammaccapane bickered their way to an 0 - 2 record as partners in the foursomes matches.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

Not as a basketball player, and not because he made me realize my severe limitations as an amateur talent scout (dude was so promising for a while, I swear), but because he was a huge part of an NBA trade in 2013.

It is all of these failures, rank bad amateur failures, at top PREM LEVEL plus the foolishness of those who have not been calling for his head, as I and many thousands of Gooners have.

As amateurs well know, that's always a bit of an awkward play and it's tough to get the putter blade through the thick stuff and then squarely on the ball for a nice stroke.

USA Synchro was established as a nonprofit organization in 1977, and is the United States national governing body for the sport, recognized by the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and FINA (Federation Internationale de Natation Amateur)-- the international governing federation.

12 - 15 points is what Terry says he's worth, but I think he'll be worth around 6 - 8 points a season for us, seeing as Ospina and Szczesny are already very good goalkeepers as opposed to mid-table amateurs.

Next week, at the Northland Country Club in Duluth, the pros, joined by such outstanding amateurs as Wiffi Smith, will be meeting for their 11th annual Open championship, the fourth held under the auspices of the USGA.

Eighty - one juniors are paired with 81 champions tour players and 162 amateurs as they compete for the pro-junior title at Pebble Beach Golf Links and Poppy Hills Golf Course.

I got to talking with Bob Spagnola, who'd been an amateur fighter and was working as an accountant for Pennzoil, and he said, «You seem to know what you're looking at.»

Meanwhile, Hector Bellerin has apologised to the supporters for their capitulation against Bayern, as despite a spirited first half, the Gunners crumbled after the hour mark and were made to look like amateurs in defence.

The latter proclamation was immediately interpreted by some as a sign that the U.S. Open would go to Cherry Hills in the following decade, since in the recent past the USGA has used the Amateur as a dress rehearsal for hosting the Open.

In any case, Nomura began the final round with a two - shot lead over Kerr, Inbee Park, and amateur Eun Jeong Seong, and made the turn at even - par for her outgoing nine as wind - blown balls caused scores to skyrocket.

For instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.&raqFor instance, the judge granted summary judgment against the NCAA on its argument that scholarship rules «improve [e] the quality of the collegiate experience for student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.&raqfor student - athletes, other students, and alumni by maintaining the unique heritage and traditions of college athletics and preserving amateurism as a foundational principle, thereby distinguishing amateur college athletics from professional sports, allowing the former to exist as a distinct form of athletic rivalry and as an essential component of a comprehensive college education.»

# 1 Arthur Ashe RICHMOND Winner of 33 pro titles; won the U.S. Open in 1968 as an amateur; winner of»70 Australian Open and Wimbledon in» 75; ranked in world's Top 10 for 12 years.

Magazine editors, however, are less likely to be thus inhibited, particularly when the girls begin to gather for an event such as the 59th USGA Women's Amateur Championship, which will begin next week at the Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C. To honor those who will staunchly reaffirm the rightness of women's presence on the links, a gallery of pretty and highly competent girl players has been assembled on the following color pages.

His inaugural turn as a pro came at Hilton Head, a week after finishing in a tie for 21st and claiming low - amateur honors at the Masters.

When Pedro Almenez finally called it a day after twenty - two years between the sticks for Spanish amateur club Espira he was presented with a parting gift of one of the club's goals, complete with netting, which he set up in his garden as a hammock!

George Marks only played twice for Arsenal, thanks in part to the Second World War, but his second appearance against Brentford proved to a memorable one as the game was recorded and used the film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, a murder whodunnit from 1939 involving a fictitious amateur side called The Trojans who draw Arsenal in the FA Cup.

Though NBC broadcasters felt compelled — as always — to apologize to those who had never heard the word before, the 2007 Irish Amateur champion and the winner of the 2009 Irish Open as an amateur refused to make amends for making some of your tender earsAmateur champion and the winner of the 2009 Irish Open as an amateur refused to make amends for making some of your tender earsamateur refused to make amends for making some of your tender ears bleed.

After the war he played 73 games for the club as an amateur before retiring at the end of the 1923 - 24 season to concentrate on the medical practice he shared with his brother - in - law, John Scott, who was also the club's doctor.