Sentences with phrase «couple of the contenders»

There are a couple of contenders that initially surprised us: Alex Turner, Chung's ex-boyfriend and Arctic Monkeys frontman, is present, as is One Direction heartthrob Harry Styles.

He catches the eye of a couple of contenders and, much like Balboa way back when, finds his career given an unexpected boost and fighting men much more experienced than him.

A couple of the contenders have demonstrated beta - test versions of their models at industry events, but none of the systems are yet in full use.

Here's a couple of the contenders.

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A couple of the top contenders for my SRC post were General Tso's Chicken and Easy Khorma.

I agree that despite everything Arsenal are only a couple of defensive players and an improved injury record away from being contenders.

Even now, we are still a couple of quality players away from genuinely being title contenders / title winners.

Either way, there's a chance that the surprise contender will be a deeper, stronger team in a couple of months, even if the trade that helped it get there was short - sighted and ill - advised.

There are a couple of rebuilding teams included, and there's one ostensible contender, so the term underrated doesn't have to mean teams that are on their way up or on their way down.

I feel the current squad is the best in years but we are still a couple of players away from being genuine title contenders and for this reason I think wengers time is up as he has failed to address the same positions for years!!

What's truly sad is that Arsenal are IMHO only a couple of really good players away from being genuine title contenders, regardless of how much the Superpowers spend yet puppet master Wenger and the mustached Mercenary Kroenke will never spend the necessary money.

If we were are real title contenders Newcastle should be no prob as they will prob finish the seasons a couple of points of rellagation places

Man city with players like aguero, silva and Toure they will always be title contenders but they seem to have moved backwards slightly in the last couple of seasons.

The Broncos will have a chance to strengthen their case as a contender in a couple of weeks when they host Oakland.

Minnesota is favored to win only one of its final four games, so the Gophers are not a legitimate contender despite being only a couple of games back.

With Devin Mesoraco and Todd Frazier having a chance to hit 30 homers, that would give the Reds the kind of offense that made them World Series contenders just a couple seasons ago.

However, they have some road blocks in their way over the next couple of weeks which Include Top 2 Contender Team Rhum (Dr. Jacob DDS) who still have their sights on that bye to the Elite 8.

In fact with a vision-less and passion-less board as ours, Wenger as arrogant and as past it as he might is the only semblance of sanity, I don't support Wenger I believe he is currently doing a marvelous job, I support him because I can see a couple of moves ahead already, if Wenger leaves and the board stays the same, we are massively effed, Newcastle will be child's play, Kroenke's other teams are mid table contenders, he will simply look at another money making model for Arsenal, even Usamanov believes Arsene needs backing, if Usmanov came in today, he will not fire Wenger, he will seek to work with him, give him a clear mandate, back him up without pointing at the balance sheeets and if he still does not deliver, looks like a guy who would fire Wenger mid s - season, legacy or not.

The move makes sense on a couple of levels, even if the Phillies still lost 96 games last year and aren't exactly thought of as contenders.

We had to do with sub-par replacements (Chamakh etc) and although they weren't as good Arsene was able to keep us in the top four and earning money worthy of champions league contenders (albeit while making an extra couple playoff matches revenue).

He's within our price range (30 mill or so), we can offer him champs league football, prem contenders and a couple of German mates.

With your national title favorite, two other contenders, and depth it hasn't been able to boast for a couple of years, 2017's SEC will likely come pretty close to living up to its self - made hype.

There are some spectacular efforts this month including a couple of acrobatic efforts that will be contenders for Goal of the Season.

I did say a couple of months ago, when we were true titel contenders that last summer is going to cost us dearly.

Playing the second night of a back - to - back on the road against a non-playoff contender with the postseason looming a couple of weeks away — especially for a team that has made it to three straight NBA Finals — is pretty much...

Failed leadership contender Liz Kendall lashed out at «new party members who have been in our party for a couple of months and think they can tell us what to do».

The former Labour leadership contender only revealed his relationship with the 31 - year - old just a couple of days before he announced his candidacy.

Chematica is one of several new contenders that have popped up in the last couple of years.

While this is a disturbing trend for online dating sites like Cupid — which haven't really taken off like other paid sites Match.com and eHarmony — it could weed out many contenders in the online dating market over the next couple of years.

But one member of the panel told TheWrap that deliberations were contentious, as a couple of panelists — among them Canadian actress - director Sarah Polley — fought to keep the American contenders, which included the Coen brothers» «No Country for Old Men» and David Fincher's «Zodiac,» from winning anything.

This year's slate of contenders has been rock - solid, with only a couple of turkeys.

In a couple of weeks, I'll start exploring each of the technical categories, one at a time, examining the potential contenders.

The Contenders (Unrated) Dark comedy about the bizarre reaction of guests gathered for a celebration at the lakefront vacation home of a couple of friends (Anna Gutto and Nick Stevenson) when the birthday girl mysteriously dies.

Talking to academy members the past couple of weeks, I heard an earful about all the problems they had with various best picture contenders — «Why'd she have to... that fish?»

Though aside from Inception (where I found the score too loud and obtrusive, even drowning out dialogue a couple of times), I would have no complaints about the contenders mentioned here that I've seen.

Amidst the increasingly stale Oscar race, where the nominations have been announced and all but a couple races have been set, the Sundance Film Festival has often been a welcome look into the potential contenders of the coming Oscar race.

In 2010, two Oscar contenders — Blue Valentine and Black Swan — were in the middle of a firestorm after the former received an NC - 17 for sexuality while the latter received an R. Blue Valentine shows consensual sex between a soon - to - be married heterosexual couple; in one sequence there is an oral - sex scene without anything covering the participants.

The last couple of slots in the Best Supporting Actress category are pretty shaky and I'd say Spencer is one of the more vulnerable candidates, but she's certainly a serious contender for a nomination.

Not included are Oscar contenders «Live by Night» (directed by Ben Affleck), «Silence» (Martin Scorsese) and the Boston Marathon bombing drama «Patriots Day» — all of which will screen in a couple of big cities in December, then open wide in January.

Still, the Globes» picks solidify the three - way race that has been brewing between La La Land, Moonlight, and Manchester, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association only made a couple of surprising choices, including selecting Tom Ford as one of their five Best Director contenders for Nocturnal Animals.

Of the dramatic films that I saw, and, like everybody else, I missed a slew of likely contenders, the best was probably Nicole Holofcener's «Please Give,» a pleasant enough comedy about a married Manhattan couple, played by Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt, who resell estate - sale furniturOf the dramatic films that I saw, and, like everybody else, I missed a slew of likely contenders, the best was probably Nicole Holofcener's «Please Give,» a pleasant enough comedy about a married Manhattan couple, played by Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt, who resell estate - sale furniturof likely contenders, the best was probably Nicole Holofcener's «Please Give,» a pleasant enough comedy about a married Manhattan couple, played by Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt, who resell estate - sale furniture.

It finished with a domestic gross of $ 18.6 million, generating a healthy profit on the very reasonable $ 5 million budget and actually outperforming a couple of more extensive Oscar contenders from the same distributor, Sony Pictures Classics (Whiplash and Foxcatcher).

This year's race poses a couple of potential «too tough for the Academy» contenders, but one — if given the shot — has a chance to do very well.

The two couples separate and find unfulfilling love in the arms of joke paramours because real contenders for affection and respect are complicated to write and resolve; and in the end, all these people we've decided we don't like, much less identify with, end up back together so as to breed adorable, Annie Hall - dressed, poop - obsessed moppets.

Monday morning brought a full - fledged Oscar contender, writer - director Jeff Nichols» racial drama «Loving,» a sincere, restrained portrait of a biracial Virginia couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Australian Joel Edgerton and half - Irish actress Ruth Negga) who were arrested under miscegenation laws in 1962 after marrying in Washington, D.C..

As I've been mentioning to you all over the past couple of weeks, with the festival season well underway / now nearing completion and just about all of the major contenders for the Academy Awards having screened or about to screen, now seems like as good a time as any to -LSB-...]

LOS ANGELES Bill Paxton has an Oscar contender and a giant gorilla movie coming out within a couple of weeks of each other, and that's the story of his career.

I stumbled upon a couple of medal contenders on Saturday afternoon.

A starting MSRP of $ 23,995 and a fuel economy rating of 22 mpg city / 31 highway, coupled with a six - speed automatic transmission, 2.5 - liter four - cylinder engine, and front - wheel drivetrain as standard equipment make the ’14 Escape a contender.

With the Touch Edition, Sony has given us one of the best designed readers on the market and with the touch screen marrying perfectly with the new user interface, we have a couple features which really make this one of the most desirable ebook readers around, and should be a serious contender if you're looking to upgrade or be buying an eReader for the first time.