Sentences with phrase «by landing the mark»

Medline moved from the forest products industry to Canadian Tire in the early 2000s and made a quick impression by landing the Mark's acquisition.

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Perth - based explorer Goldphyre Resources has entered into an agreement to purchase a large area of potash - prospective land near Kalgoorlie, which is owned by prominent prospector Mark Creasy.

By the time Mark Platshon landed a meeting with celebrated Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr in mid-1999, Platshon and his online digital - photo business, Zing Network Inc., had already been snubbed by a dozen other VCBy the time Mark Platshon landed a meeting with celebrated Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr in mid-1999, Platshon and his online digital - photo business, Zing Network Inc., had already been snubbed by a dozen other VCby a dozen other VCs.

This year marks the completion of an ambitious five - year, $ 380 million revitalization of St. Louis's famed Eero Saarinen - designed Gateway Arch and surrounding parklands, which now includes a subterranean museum and a land bridge that creates a much - needed link between the grounds and the city itself (which was formerly separated by a highway).

It offers a joint degree in environmental engineering with the University of British Columbia, helping UNBC land an overall ranking of eighth, supported by top marks in both required and elective courses dedicated to social or environmental impact management.

Pope Francis has called for peace in a world marked by war and conflict, «beginning with the beloved and long - suffering land of Syria» and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by «hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism».

Most faiths are minority faiths, held by only a small portion of the culture in which they are located, and to proclaim them is usually a case of «singing the Lord's song in a strange land» (Psalm 137), whether «the Lord» is the one described by Mark or by Marx.

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

By extrapolation they wanted to abolish as well the marked distinction between the wealthy, land - owning (Spanish - born) class and the Mexican - born and mestizo peasant classes.

The story of Joseph of Arimathea, found in Mark and followed in the later Gospels, is called by Goguel an «honorable burial», for the motive is no longer simply to prevent the desecration of the land, but to do all that is fitting to the mortal remains of an honorable man.

(Mark 10:23 - 27) Renunciation is the rule for all, (Mark 8:34 - 37; 10:21, 28:31) and the compensations are as simply and absolutely set forth as is the requirement: the good things of this life, such as they are, the blessings of family and of property, will be shared by all within the community, «now in this present time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.»

Let me clarify what I mean by religious experience by quoting from William James» land - mark book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, which was first published in 1902.

In the Jewish religious tradition these purity rules formed a closely interlocking network which clearly marked off the sacred precincts of the Temple, the holy land of Israel, and the covenant people of God (or groups of the «separated» within the people), from the «profane» world peopled by the «demon - ruled nations» outside.

The year before, he landed, among others, Barry Manning and Brent Price, whose brother Mark had been recruited by Felton for Bobby Cremins at Georgia Tech.

Absorbing the shock of landing by means of the classical Tele - mark position (7), he completes the jump.

By bringing a park to the people, instead of requiring them to go to a distant park, we shall mark an historic turning point in the battle to preserve open lands.»

The Paladino campaign is obviously trying to change the subject and re-focus its message after an explosive — and confusing — several days marked by the candidate's on - again / off - again allegations that Andrew Cuomo engaged in extramarital affairs while married to Kerry Kennedy and near - fight the Post's Fred Dicker at the Business Council's annual meeting in Bolton Landing.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has agreed to pay a $ 7,000 fine to settle charges that she violated the city's campaign finance law by accepting free consulting advice from a lobbyist to land her post in 2013.

He, therefore, charged the youths to turn out enmasse on Saturday and use their hands to salvage the Idoma nation and the future of the land by voting for Senator David Mark.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito both landed in San Juan shortly before 8 p.m. Only Mark - Viverito showed up at one of the evening's events which included a cocktail party hosted by City & State Magazine at the Museo de San Juan.

«What they saw during the sit - at - home exercise to mark the 50th anniversary celebration of Biafra declaration by General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu marvelled them irrespective of the promises made to them by their stooges in Biafra land.

Rep. Brian Higgins, marking the formal transfer of 50 acres of land from the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority to the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., said he believes there could be development at Terminals A and B on Buffalo's Outer Harbor by the end of the year or early next year.

'' Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by representatives from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency («ECIDA»), the Empire State Development Corporation («ESD»), the City of Lackawanna, and Tecumseh Redevelopment Inc. along with numerous other officials and agencies to announce Erie County's acquisition of 148 acres of industrial land at the former Bethlehem Steel site in Lackawanna.

BUFFALO — Today, Mayor Byron W. Brown was joined by Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz to applaud Governor Andrew Cuomo and the Empire State Development Corp. for approving a recently filed joint application to form one of the first land banks in New York State.

SAN JUAN, P.R. — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito hadn't even landed in Puerto Rico on Thursday, when a spokesman said she was unhappy to hear that the Somos El Futuro conference would be sponsored by Herbalife.

The amendment, introduced by the Department of City Planning, marks the rezoning plan's first modifications to since it entered the city's months - long land - use review procedure in April.

The amounts increase toward the poles, suggesting that much of the water was implanted by the solar wind (yellow dots mark Apollo landing sites).

Not only do they include physical details about specific regions, but many also illuminate the human geography of the land, including boundaries marked by the Muslim and Christian worlds.

When the mutineers from HMS Bounty landed on Pitcairn Island, they found no people — just a desolate land marked by the relics of a vanished society.

Indeed, the Oligocene - Miocene boundary was marked by numerous tumultuous geological events, including a collision between the land masses that make up Africa and Arabia on one side and Europe and other parts of Asia on the other.

Also evident is a dark scar on the rim of a crater to the northeast of the lander; this dark marking was not present prior to landing, and is believed to have been caused by the impact of Spirit's heatshield.

The culmination of a 10 - year journey, this marks the start of a year - long mission by Rosetta to study Churyumov — Gerasimenko to gain new insights into the early history of the Solar System, as well as the first attempt to land on a comet in November.

Traditionally, Tibetan Yoga has been shrouded in secrecy, explains Baker, and marked by fantastical stories of yogis in the mountains who keep their naked bodies warm through esoteric breathing practices or who can jump, contort midair into shapes like Lotus Pose, and land in seated meditation.

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Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

Unfortunately, Bigelow and «Hurt Locker», «ZD30» screenwriter Mark Boal spend an inordinate amount of time on the quest for stardom of the The Dramatics, whose dream of landing a Motown record contract is derailed by the racial strife in the city.

Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), an orphan, is snatched from her bed late at night by a big - hearted vegetarian giant (Mark Rylance) and is whisked off to a land of oversize cannibals in this adaptation of Roald Dahl's much - cherished 1982 children's story.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (BD)-- Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell Au Revoir Les Enfants [The Criterion Collection](BD)-- Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette Battle of the Warriors (BD)-- Andy Lau, Sung - kee Ahn, Zhiwen Wang Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years (DVD)-- Bob Cudmore, Leer Leary The Fighter (BD / DVD)-- Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams Hemingway's Garden of Eden (DVD)-- Jack Huston, Mena Suvari, Caterina Murino Hereafter (BD / DVD)-- Matt Damon, Cécile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard Interplanetary (DVD)-- Cary Borders, Alison Britt, David Brown A Shine of Rainbows (DVD)-- Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, John Bell The Switch (BD / DVD)-- Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Patrick Wilson Waste Land (DVD)-- Directed by Lucy Walker & Karen Harley The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest (BD / DVD)-- Conrad Anker, Hugh Dancy, Ralph Fiennes Yi Yi [The Criterion Collection](BD)-- Nien - Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata

Mixing wry comedy and unexpected pathos, and featuring music by Mark Knopfler, this stirring ode to Forsyth's native Scotland follows a Texas oil executive (Peter Riegert) whose life is changed when his boss (Burt Lancaster) sends him to a Scottish village to buy up land for a new refinery.

Denzel Washington - Fences Casey Affleck - Manchester by the Sea Ryan Gosling - La La Land Andrew Garfield - Silence Michael Keaton - The Founder Joel Edgerton - Loving Tom Hanks - Sully Chris Pine - Hell or High Water Warren Beatty - Rules Don't Apply Jake Gyllenhaal - Nocturnal Animals Miles Teller - Bleed for This Mark Wahlberg - Patriots Day

The script for the film is being written by Chris Henchy, who also wrote the upcoming Will Ferrell movie Land of the Lost along with a couple episodes of the Mark Wahlberg - produced HBO show Entourage.

The movie marks the sophomore offering from Ms. Kim (In Between Days), who was born in South Korea, but grew up in L.A. Perhaps being raised near Hollywood explains what enabled her to transform Seoul into a magical land of make believe where a couple of cute orphans might manage to survive by their wits.

«Keanu,» by contrast, is one flabby tabby that seems to be overstaying its welcome at the half - hour mark, and leans heavily thereafter on over-the-top violence whenever it's clear the jokes aren't landing.

Carell hooks up with New York native Bennett Miller (whose directorial CV includes 2005's Capote and 2011's Moneyball) along with the incredibly versatile Mark Ruffalo and an ever - more watchable Channing Tatum on the set of the inauspicious Liseter Hall Farm — some 200 acres of land acquired and later expanded upon by the wealthy Du Pont family, a prominent American clan built primarily upon the manufacturing of gunpowder.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

The Happening, starring Zooey Deschanel and Mark Wahlberg, prompted the New Republic to assert,» [A] n astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined,» though Shyamalan's career eventually reached its nadir with the infamous Last Airbender (2010) about a 12 - year - old boy who provides the last hope of restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos.

That the picture is charming in its venality is the mark of Wilde, and surely some credit is due to Barker (in spite of the unnecessary transplant to computer - enhanced Amalfi, justified by a Hunt speech calling it «Land of the Sirens»).

Many Monster Hunter games came before Portable 3rd — namely Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite, which were both released for the PSP — but Portable 3rd earns top marks not only for being the most robust Monster Hunter title to land on the PlayStation Portable, but also for being the highest - selling PSP game of all time: at 4.8 million units sold, Monster Hunter Portable 3rd takes the top spot away from Gran Turismo by 140,000 units, and eventually sold more than Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories combined.

Marking a moment of redemption for the Academy Awards themselves, the award was presented by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, central players in last year's shocking mix - up in which the musical «La La Land» was mistakenly named best picture over the actual winner, «Moonlight.»

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.