Sentences with phrase «competitions of the previous year»

This year's bag was no different, and featured a tasty selection of award winning snacks from various competitions of the previous year.

Not exact matches

A former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, the 64 - year - old has no previous experience as a diplomat but nonetheless has had deep exposure to dealing with foreign leaders in countries with interests opposed to or in competition with those of the United States.

Switcheo is one of the first batch projects that emerged as a result of the First city of Zion dApp competition back in the previous year's September.

Mesut Ozil has revealed that the 5 - 1 beating at the hands of Bayern Munich that sent the Gunners crashing out of Europe's elite club competition at the same stage as the previous six years was among the most painful and humbling parts of his football career, which is hardly surprising to be frank.

After exits from the competition at this stage in their previous four seasons against the likes of Barcelona, AC Milan and Bayern Munich and with the disadvantage of playing away in the second leg the pressure is on the London club to make it to the quarter - finals for the first time in five years.

Further, places in the draw for the group stage are allocated not on the basis of whether a club happens to have won a title the previous season, but on their UEFA coefficient, a rolling points average based on a team's performance in all European competitions over the last five years.

The German international celebrated his first ever competitive hat - trick last week, in the 6 - 0 demolition of Ludogorets, which brought his tally for the term up to six in all competitions at this early point in the season, two under his tally of the previous year.

Woods, who has not prevailed in a tour event since 2013 (so is not in this week's annual opener of the previous year's winners) made his long - awaited return from multiple back surgeries to competition at last month's Hero World Challenge.

Having shown his quality with Colombia and in previous spells with Monaco and Porto, the 25 - year - old can offer so much more as he's shown what he's capable of with 11 goals and 13 assists in 31 games in all competitions and limited playing time this season.

Unlike the previous games in the competition, we will have more live streams for the final of this year's tournament.

The Humphry has unfortunately often seemed like a one - sided competition in previous years, but thanks to the efforts of our Match Rifle Captain, Katherine Lightbown, and the hard work of our match rifle shooters, the competition is now a much fairer fight.

Stevenage said that the move is «not an uncommon occurrence at the club» and that previous members of management had played in the competition as well — including 56 - year - old goalkeeping coach Dave Beasant last season.

However, they have been triumphant in each of their two previous knockout ties, defeating Rapid Wien in the third round of the 1997/98 UEFA Cup (3 - 0 aggregate) and Sturm Graz at the same stage of the same competition five years later (3 - 2 agg).

But having scored 25 goals in their last eight games in all competitions, Liverpool are playing with as much verve and confidence as in any previous phase of manager Jurgen Klopp's two - year tenure.

It's the fourth year of the competition with it having been won by Reading, Southampton and West Ham in the three previous years, but this season will see the competition played to a new format.

Sociedad crashed out of the secondary European competition at the round of 32 stage despite the 22 - year - old scoring in the first leg the previous week, a 2 - 2 draw with former United winger Adnan Januzaj also scoring in the match.

Here's a number that won't shock anyone who's been buying Facebook Ads consistently for the past year or two: Facebook's cost - per - click jumped 22 % in the second quarter of 2011, after a 40 % rise in the previous quarter, increases that ad platform Efficient Frontier attributes to heightened competition for ad space.

A 38 - year - old female professional / elite triathlete (and medical doctor) of 13 years presented with decreased performances in the Ironman triathlon, alongside a number of physiological ailments during training and competition over the previous several years.

When the 75th Quarter Quell Hunger Games are announced, pitting the champions of previous years against one another, Katniss and Peeta are thrust back into a desperate competition for survival where they must fight to the death against the most skilled warriors in all of Panem.

Of course, as with previous years, competition standouts could well emerge from names not mentioned here, though based on previous experience, I feel safe making at least two predictions: that at least half the Italian film quota will be dismal, and that the annual «surprise film» will be among the most grueling surprises of your lifOf course, as with previous years, competition standouts could well emerge from names not mentioned here, though based on previous experience, I feel safe making at least two predictions: that at least half the Italian film quota will be dismal, and that the annual «surprise film» will be among the most grueling surprises of your lifof your life.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the opposite phenomenon occurred: students switching from traditional public to charter schools appear to have been above - average performers compared with the other students in their school.

However, simple tests we conducted, based on changes in the average previous - year test scores of students in schools affected and unaffected by charter - school competition, suggest that, if anything, the

Stump continued: `' Having completed similar competitions in previous years with «Skips for Schools» and «Recycle.Bots», the prequel to this initiative, we recognised this was a good method for getting children to engage with the world of waste.

The scope of this year's competition is notably smaller than i3's first round, which awarded $ 650 million to 49 districts and nonprofits, but the department is still able to fund about half the number of awards as the previous year because so many applicants are receiving the smaller $ 3 million development grants slated for promising but unstudied activities.

The previous Interior of the Year competition essentially achieved the same goal, but the format required vehicle winners in various categories, such as sports cars and trucks.

Walker's previous runs include time behind the wheel of the 2013 Scion FR - S Evasive Motorsports Time Attack car, which debuted at the 2012 SEMA show and has seen competition in national and international time - attack events (you can check out HD in - car footage of last year's run in the above video, which shows Walker's 10 - minute, 37.791 - second blast up the hill in the Evasive Motorsports FR - S, a 22 - second improvement over 2013).

The competition offers a total prize money of 500,000 rand ($ 57,000) in three categories for books published in Afrikaans the previous year: literary fiction, non-fiction and book with most film potential, with the latter being won by Zirk's novel.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.

One tip I often cite for any authors thinking of entering competitions is to check out the list of the previous year's winners and see whether you'd be proud to see your book listed among them.

Submit AKC records for the previous year of competition or $ 8 per dog to the Annual Performance Awards Chairman by May 1st.

The term LE refers to those breeds whose entries at conformation shows fall below a threshold of 3,500 dogs in competition from the previous year's events.

This event is intended to provide a unique experience for breeders, exhibitors, spectators and judges by offering an exceptional opportunity to evaluate those Chinese Shar - Pei, which by virtue of breed competition during the previous year, have been deemed to be the Best 25 dogs of our breed.

For us backpackers and budget vacationers, it's more accessible compared to previous years thanks to competition and the growing number of affordable tours in El Nido to choose from.

In collaboration with eSports platform Faceit, this new addition to the X games line - up is designed to drag virtual competition into the limelight a little, and is not the first time an eSport has featured on the roster: previous years have seen entries from everything from Halo to Call of Duty.

Xbox One is doing better now than it's ever done in previous years and it's still falling short of its competition Goes to show XO's best isn't good enough

This year's IGF Mobile marks a record number of entries with 170 titles submitted for the competition, up nearly 65 percent from last year's total, which itself was double over the previous year.

Forza Motorsport 7 should hit digital and physical stores in September if previous installments are any indication, but it will face serious competition this year in the racing genre against the likes of Dirt 4, GT Sport and Project CARS 2.

Skylanders has sold over 250 million toys and while the most recent iteration in the series — Skylanders SuperChargers — hasn't performed as well as previous titles (thanks to increased competition in the category from Disney and Nintendo), 2016 is set to be a big year for the franchise with a new TV series called Skylanders Academy, and a sixth game in the series slated for launch at the end of the year should revitalise the series.

«We're outselling our previous year and we're outselling our competition,» James Pitaro, president of Disney's interactive division, said in a telephone interview.

Students selected for the Rovner Program (based on grade point average and previous intramural competitions) become members of the Moot Court Honor Society and start off by enrolling in Appellate Advocacy, generally in the fall semester of their second year.

In typical Sony fashion, the design is an evolution of previous Xperia phones consisting of two slabs of glass, a rectangular shape with slightly rounded edges, and a flat top and bottom, with bezels that are larger than what we expect to see in this year's competition.