Sentences with phrase «famously went years»

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The 21 - year - old McDermott famously went to Manhattan in a $ 99 suit, traveling from his home in Amityville, Long Island to an interview at Xerox.

A couple of years ago, Benioff famously went to bat against several state laws that would allow business to refuse service to people based on sexual orientation under the umbrella of religious freedom.

Last year I thought the dollar was going to lower with Trump, especially with the industrialists, Mark Fields, who was the CEO of Ford at the time when he famously said in February of 2017 that immigration is the mother of all trade barriers.

To consider why this is so, let us go back to the very beginning, the institution of the Eucharist... Approximately two thousand years ago, Jesus had a roller - coaster Holy Week ride, which ultimately saw Him, through God's power, famously defeat sin and death, thereby providing us with the possibility of eternal life.

It is a risk of course, as is Arsene Wenger telling the world his tactical thoughts ahead of the game, because the home side are fairly competent going forward as well, but I think the reason the boss has gone for this game plan rather than try to be defensive as we did there famously a few years ago, is because of the return to fitness of Sead Kolasinac.

James famously passed Michael Jordan this year, who had gone 866 games scoring double figures.

Madrid have slipped up on occasion in the Copa in recent years, most famously when going out to neighbours Alcorcon in 2009, but the two - leg format means they have the security of the second leg at the Bernabeu in late November.

And Leslie Mann, famously known for her throw up scene in «The 40 Year Old Virgin,» gets in a few dramatic scenes to go along with her soon to be famous Thai food toilet scene.

In 2015 the PGA Award went to The Big Short while the Oscar went to Spotlight and last year the PGA went to La La Land and the Oscar famously went to Moonlight.

Alex Wolff plays Derf in the haunting true depiction of that centers on the notorious murderer's teenage years and how Dahmer (Ross Lynch) tried to navigate through high school and the struggles he faced to fit in — before he went on to famously mutilate, murder and devour 17 young men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Rather than going out during intermissions, Taylor and I were content to stand near our seats speaking with our neighboring seatmates including Samuel Jackson, Sony Pictures Classics studio co-president, Michael Barker (whom Cate Blanchett thanked when she won), director Steve McQueen and screenwriter John Ridley, who won for adapting the screenplay for «12 Years a Slave,» producer Megan Ellison who financed «Her», all of the people associated with the movie «Nebraska,» including producers Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa (whom you once famously mistook for David Lynch), and on and on.

Next year will mark the golden jubilee of Automobili Lamborghini, and 50 years after Ferruccio famously became dissatisfied with his Ferrari's clutch and the subsequent response he received from Enzo when he challenged him on it, there's going to be a party.

The famously reclusive Lee was ushered back into the spotlight in July 2015 after the controversial announcement that, after 55 years of literary hiatus, Lee would be publishing Go Set a Watchman, an early draft of To Kill a Mockingbird that had been rediscovered by Lee's lawyer in 2014.

Apple has a reputation for avoiding markets where it can't keep the product's standards in line with its brand image — famously avoiding netbooks for years before launching the higher - end Air range — so it's reasonable to assume that any 7 - inch iPad is going to be an attractive product with some aluminum involved.

Apple famously held out from doing either for years under Steve Jobs, and only in the last few years started doing both - a large dividend and a share buy - back which increases the value of remaining shares (as EPS then goes up with fewer shares out there).

The war lasted six long years and the story goes that the liberation by the Americans in 1944 famously involved the American actor Mr. Douglas Fairbanks Jr, who captained a US naval ship.

Imagine that happening to Nintendo, which famously tries to avoid letting employees go even in down years.

Eight years ago, the artist Shepard Fairey designed the famously controversial Obama «Hope» poster that went viral.

Though Tuttle's work is now canonical, it was met with fierce criticism early in his career: the artist's 1975 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art was received terribly by many prominent critics, most famously by Hilton Kramer of the New York Times, and curator Marcia Tucker — who went on to found the New Museum of Contemporary Art later that year — was fired from the museum, allegedly because of the controversy surrounding the show.

In 1956 Hubbert famously predicted that US oil production would peak within 15 years and go into terminal decline.