Sentences with word «blueblood»

Let's be candid; Whaleclub's management team does not have the kind of blueblood Wall Street or establishment pedigree that we would like to see backing a fairly risky unregulated trading platform.

In short, it is likely going to be easier for a non blueblood program to get a shot at a title, but tougher to actually win once it gets there.

Kathryn is a British blueblood who was married to ruthless media magnate Max.

The College Football Playoff National Championship pairs an old - money blueblood against a program that really did start from the bottom.

Maybe if Nova simultaneously took on old - time UCLA, Kentucky, UNC, Louisville, UConn, Indiana, Duke, and Kansas in a single title game (and won by 27 points, blind-folded), then I might consider possibly thinking of it as the newest blueblood.

They (republicans) were mainly bluebloods, big business, or financiers.

The next step in the grooming of a Boston blueblood is, of course, Harvard — the inevitable way station on the road to a house with purple windows in Louisburg Square.

The season that saw barbarians like Boston College, Cal, Kansas, and USF reach No. 2 saw bluebloods falling all year long.

The football bluebloods view things like hurry - up offenses as risks.

Still, seeing two of the sport's bluest of bluebloods take the field is a lovely thing.

Major talent is still attracted to blueblood UCLA.

But if you're talking all - time bluebloods, UCLA must be included.

Villanova became a college basketball blueblood on its own terms by speaking its bond into existence

That stands in stark contrast to how bluebloods typically do business, where most recruits come with the intention of being a one - and - done.

Kansas is a certified blueblood facing off against a Villanova team that's looking to win its second title in three years.

It will abolish the absurd «byelections» among hereditary peers — under which as one blueblood dies his fellow aristocrats get to choose which hereditary takes his place — so that this most exclusive of franchises will no longer be able to renew itself in perpetuity.

powerplants is devoting some resources to engine compartment design, along with other blueblood competitors such as BMW AG and Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus division.

The G90 is that good, and it stickers for thousands (even tens of thousands) less than the established bluebloods.

From seemingly out of nowhere has come a Korean sports - hatch that, right out of the gate, in many ways is already beating the big - name bluebloods at their own performance game.

Had the city's bluebloods curtailed their party circuit — as was the case in London — do you think Dahl and the rest of The Irregulars would have been as effective?

Any kind of cat, not just bluebloods, can participate in cat agility contests.

This fellow is a Scottish blueblood and is as feisty as they come.

A Virginia blueblood, Godwin has been living and working in the Village since 1953, when her parents dropped her off at the Barbizon Hotel, a genteel residence for young ladies, from which she promptly absented herself in favor of the bohemian life downtown.

It wasn't just New York bluebloods that got roughed up in the financial industry melee.

Yet Nebraska, with its relatively small in - state population and distance from traditional recruiting hubs, is most often cited as the program that has been left behind in the modern era in which almost every FBS program is on national TV every week, not just the handful of bluebloods that enjoyed that exposure in the»70s and»80s.

NASCAR's version of March Madness didn't involve a buzzer - beater and a small school few recognized toppling one of college basketball's blueblood programs.

Go with what you know, and bluebloods who contended for Playoff spots last season are as good a bet as any.

Kansas is a threat to get here every year as a true blueblood and college basketball's most consistent regular season winner.

From ultimate underdog to old - money blueblood, Villanova completed a generational transformation with a national title rout at Michigan's expense.

She returned to her home among Boston's bluebloods, too shocked to sleep, but with a fierce determination to pour whatever strength she had into a fight to correct this evil.

European and Hollywood royalty alike, along with captains of industry and bluebloods, all crossed paths at the Condado Vanderbilt, creating a rarefied atmosphere of luxury.

The 1970s were the decade of the bluebloods, and this game may have been the pinnacle.

And once you're a blueblood, you don't take risks.

But I'm just one of those kids really, really am a blueblood Kentucky guy at heart.

And the Ohio State example is mostly fine except that all bluebloods get some of that media benefit but if you think it's not disproportionately tilted towards the SEC you're out of your gourd.

In addition to everything else, this was a moment when spread offense allowed an undersized, outmanned, but wonderfully athletic team to go toe - to - toe with a blueblood.

Only 14 FBS programs can top that; most are bluebloods, and all have far more history and revenue.

There are no real surprises; it's all bluebloods.

That allows second - tier programs like Oklahoma State, TCU, and West Virginia to succeed in roles befitting their abilities, as opposed to trying to fill the shoes of the bluebloods.

When he committed to hometown Oklahoma over a host of bluebloods, it was celebrated as the Sooners» biggest recruiting win in a decade.

But Jackson is roughly as tested as those blueblood QBs despite Louisville ranking a tier or two below in team talent.

The first tier are the bluebloods: Kansas, Kentucky, UNC, Duke, UCLA The second tier are what I call the redbloods: Indiana and Louisville (Indiana is usually considered a blueblood, but they've slid back in my mind) Then there's the third tier, it includes Villanova, Arizona, Michigan State and Maryland.

At the top of the caste are the Moroi, the bluebloods of this world.

Cheap thrills for the future's bluebloods, the outfit is called «Time Safari,» and it's owned by an evil capitalist, Hatton (Ben Kingsley), who, in trying to appease future - Chicago's strict time - travel regulatory agency, warns his clients to stay on the path and keep their hands to themselves lest the shockwaves of fucking with prehistory change the course of evolution.

Class is oversimplified in Curly Sue, with Grey under the impression that a tramp becomes a blueblood through a good scrubbing and a change of clothes and Bill surrendering anti-climactically to her idealism.

After my dream garage was duly loaded with a sports car for each day of the week, I'd make room for a CTS, the Cadillac with an itch to smite the bluebloods.

Bob Richards is one of the bluebloods, and he comes across on the page as a Bostonian Bertie Wooster.