Sentences with phrase «familiar names taking»

There will be a lot of familiar names taking the hardwood when Olympic basketball tips off on Saturday.

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Imagine your father was a household name, a beloved comedian familiar on movie and TV screens who inexplicably chose to take his own life.

The private equity angle — a familiar name in the recent flurries of LBOs that collapsed into bankruptcies, including iHeartMedia, Toys «R» Us, Gymboree: Bain Capital acquired Guitar Center in an LBO during the boom in 2007, whereby the acquired company took on a large amount of debt to fund its own acquisition, and then took on more debt to expand further.

The diverse wine program features more than 250 familiar names and rare, small - batch varietals for guests to purchase at a retail price, either to enjoy with their meal for a minimal corkage fee or to take to go.

While many, if not all of them, will be familiar names, they will be hoping to take their influence to the next level this year with all five set to emerge as important pieces for their club.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The UEFA Youth League finals are set to take place opposite UEFA's headquarters, with some familiar names targeting the Lennart Johansson Trophy.

Unfortunately, almost all the quantities in between such familiar numbers can't be named or described, because it would take an unbounded amount of effort just to refer to them.

For example, when Watson took part in a practice round last year — which it won — the quizmaster asked: «You got ta know when to hold»em, know when to fold»em,» on July 28 1984, this Texas Ranger with a familiar name did.»

Lean on Pete takes its name from a rundown racehorse that, at first, looks like it will provide a familiar emotional foil for a 15 - year - old boy as his life falls apart in rural Oregon.

Most audiences probably aren't familiar with her name or her production company, but the film industry has quickly taken notice to producer Megan Ellison...

But perhaps because he's rarely, if ever, worked outside his native Canada, he's yet to be a familiar name among cinephiles around the world, something that will hopefully change thanks to his superb work on Sarah Polley «s «Take This Waltz.»

He'll be a more familiar name soon throughout the Academy, as his English - language career takes off: Since «A Fantastic Woman,» he has also premiered the lesbian - themed drama «Disobedience,» with Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, and is in production on a Julianne Moore - starring remake of his own «Gloria.»

While Damien Chazelle «s film (based on a short of the same name), pits aspiring drummer Miles Teller against near - psychotic teacher J.K. Simmons, might sound familiar on the surface, it manages «a deeply and richly different take on that journey — not only examining the cost of struggle but the reward of it.»

Weird Al Yankovic might have made the parody popular but his name will probably not be familiar to your pupils; however, the songs and illustrations in Alan Katz's Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs will certainly...

The details of these accelerative programs are true in all respects, and they are being undertaken by Australian students as we speak, but I've taken the liberty of changing the children» names and replacing them with names with which you'll become well familiar over the next few days (the keynote speakers at this conference).

The car's name may seem familiar, but the GTI Clubsport S actually takes things a few steps further than the GTI Clubsport that debuted last year.

I was taken aback at the setting at first because it does not have many of the places and names that I'm familiar with, but in the end of the book, after the novel, it has his explanation of why, and it is fabulous.

If you're wondering why the name sounds so familiar, it is because back in 2014 Kobo launched a similarly named e-reader, so basically this model is a slightly newer take on the original, with the main difference being that it is smaller and cheaper than its predecessor.

Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development at RIM took the time to explain a portion of why, when questioned by a familiar name to CrackBerry members — @...

When you take the dog to the park to play, inevitably you'll start running into faces that become familiar and you start to put names to them.

We're all familiar with the Jack Russell terrier, but the Parson Russell terrier, a similar breed with longer legs, also takes its name from Russell and is recognized as a separate breed.

There are many familiar names on the list based on the other award shows that have already taken place for the year 2012.

If you pay attention to the world of games at all, Double Fine's Broken Age will be a familiar name — the modern take on the point and click adventure genre was funded through Kickstarter a few years back — at the time, one of Kickstarter's first massive successes, and one that served as a gateway for many into the crowd - funding service itself.

They're the kind of big name developers who Nintendo tasks on taking measured risks with familiar franchises and doing what will sell.

This week we learnt two more names that will be taking part in this latest entry in the franchise and they will be familiar to fans of the series, Ivy and Zasalamel.

You've got terribly reimagined ports of classics like Mega Man X [$ 4.99], wonderful ports of underappreciated games like Ghost Trick [Free], ports that are maybe a bit too perfect like Street Fighter II Collection [$ 3.99] or the dearly departed Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, and games that take familiar names and series and go in strange directions like Ghosts»n Goblins Gold Knights [$ 0.99].

Starring the aptly named Red and Blue teams stationed at Blood Gulch, the series managed to create it's own lore loosely set in the universe of Halo taking familiar elements of the series and twisting them to enhance the humor (and later on dramatic elements) of the series.

In the 10 hours or so it will take you to finish The Lost Legacy's campaign, you will guide the familiar faces of Chloe Frazier and Nadine Ross on a journey through the Western Ghats as they attempt to retrieve an ancient tusk from a warlord named Asav.

It was the first time an artist took the top spot, but familiar names like David Zwirner, Massimiliano Gioni, and Leon Black filled out the ranks Read more

Urban Spree brought familiar names like Andrea Wan, Charlie Anderson, Jan Kálab, Jim Avignon, Johannes Mundinger, Kid Cash, Klone, Mafia Tabak, Michal Škapa, Rylsee and Various & Gould, who occupy one half the exhibition space at Kraftwerk, while a solo show of Hendrik Czakainski took over the other.

TreeHugger took the opportunity to ask him some questions about the proposed law.For those who are not familiar with the company, Seventh Generation takes their name from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy: «In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.»

Already, dozens of cases in Ontario alone have been stayed under the Jordan framework, with the public becoming particularly familiar with the name when an Ottawa judge threw out a first - degree murder charge against ex-soldier Adam Picard, who was accused of killing 28 - year - old Fouad Nayel, after it took four years to bring his case to trial.

(For a completely different take on the same, or similar, lyrics, listen to the more familiar Led Zeppelin song of the same name.)

When you take your certificate to the court they will almost certainly be familiar with the name printed on the top.

Insiders familiar with the matter report that Google re-branded the gadgets, taking away the traditional «Nexus» names, but we might be looking at a new design approach as well.

If you find that a number of job listings require you to be familiar with a certain technology you've never heard of, try to fill these skill gaps by doing some online research and then taking a free or low - cost course on the subject from sites like Skillshare, Coursera, Lynda, or edX, to name a few.