Sentences with phrase «few seats in»

She has consistently advocated for initiatives that support full merit scholarships for Cooper Union Students and has been an advocate for CUAA projects that benefit current students, such as the end - of year pizza parties, and modifying the CUAA constitution to allow CU Seniors to vote in the CUAA elections.It is her long term goal to get the Cooper Union a few seats in the NYC marathon as a mechanism to promote our wonderful institution and merge her two passions of marathon running and fundraising for her alma mater.

The bottom line, however, is that there are far too few seats in high - quality charter schools to serve every disadvantaged child in Washington, and those left behind at neighborhood public schools continue to be shortchanged.

This is one of the few seats in Scotland outside Edinburgh that Labour won with less than 46 % of the vote.

While Democrats hope to net a few seats in the state, Garamendi is among the incumbents atop the NRCC's target list.

Gordon Brown will be hoping to win a few seats back - particularly from the anti-war Liberal Democrats who rode high then - but Labour's opinion poll rating is now below that of 2004 so the Labour leader might lose a few seats in his nightmare scenario.

and if the Republicans can take a few seats in this election, some of the big time DemocRATS in Westchester better watch out in 2012.

Queens Democrat Paul Vallone has landed the Independence Party line, which could either aid him in the November general election, or help Republicans keep one of their few seats in New York City.

The GOP will probably gain a few seats in the House, possibly have a net loss in the Senate, maybe a small net gain in governorships, and stay a minority party for some time to come.

Well, one of the reason why libertarians have few seats in government is because of district issue.

The first one ask for approval and another ask for few seats in government.

Another could be the ultimate configuration of his district in the reapportionment due in late winter from the state, which must figure in two fewer seats in Congress.

On the negative side the Dreamliner will offer 4 fewer seats in Business Class than the A330 but, on the positive side, the seats in the Dreamliner are considerably better.

«With fewer seats in first class, you're more distant from other passengers.

Not exact matches

If you haven't been in this particular hot seat, this may sound a little overly dramatic, but ask anyone who has been there, and they'll tell you that there are few harder decisions that the CEO has to make.

Add a heavy meal to being restricted to your seat, and you may be in for a few hours of discomfort.

Corporate venture - capital firms that benefit from high cash flows might be willing to spread out their investments over a few similar companies and take a back seat in terms of driving their growth, while a venture - capital firm is typically motivated to take a more focused and hands - on approach for its portfolio companies.

First class contributes more since fewer first - class seats fit in a plane.

That same year, they incorporated the com - pany, raised $ 2 million in capital, hired a team of five employees, and set to work on still more innovations: a radio - controlled toy hang glider, a stadium seat with self - inflating foam, a self - watering planter, a talking lunch box, and a pop - open beach mat, to name just a few.

Within just a few years Polk was a millionaire, had access to the most expensive restaurants in Manhattan, and could get second - row seats at a Knicks game at the drop of a hat.

In some cases, the congressional districts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Democratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republican - leaning seats.

But emboldened by a decisive White House win, an expanded majority in the Senate, and at least a few extra seats in the House, they seem less likely to budge on taxes.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Fewer than one ADP shareholder in four backed the activist's bid for board seats at the payroll processor.

While a few companies in the US technology space have been in the hot seat lately, Jonathan Curtis, vice president and research analyst with Franklin Equity Group, is largely unfazed.

Travelers accustomed to riding in a full - size jet instead find themselves on planes with tighter seating, lower ceilings and fewer amenities for flights as long as four hours.

Black car service is traditionally luxury service, meaning the cars are usually flat black with leather seats and a few other perks in the car itself.

A five and a half minute clip showing a workshop that could have been anywhere, a few close ups of the author sitting in the passenger seat with no details of the car shown.

And in Silicon Valley, Icahn pounded on Yahoo's door a few years ago until the company granted him a seat on the board.

As a straight, white, middle - class, Christian male sitting in the seat of privilege, I've had to swallow quite a few sugarcoated critiques from my brothers and sisters from different ethnic and socio - economic classes.

«Lack of prayer» is from few butts in seats.

«The mayor, whom we had met only a few weeks previously, invited us to sit in the seats that had been reserved for him...»

Not at that moment, but, a few days after his return to Rome, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, issued a statement, explicitly approved by the pope, reaffirming a directive of 2005 that nobody is to be admitted to priestly formation who suffers from deep - seated homosexual tendencies, engages in homosexual acts, or supports the «gay culture.»

In this world «often the selfishness of a few will not permit the weaker ones to benefit fully from resources and other goods, from commerce, scientific discoveries, the benefits of new technology; all this can help to negate the equal right of every people to be seated at the table of the common banquet.»

Only in the case of council representatives have the dissidents put up alternatives in recent years, winning a few seats.

At a state dinner in Washington a few years back, I was seated next to the new economics minister of China, a beautiful woman with a razor - sharp mind.

While some are entirely respectable academically, few are in the first rank, and in some cases academic excellence takes a back seat to theological orthodoxy.

A few months after Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat in the «white» section of the bus, editor Harold Fey traveled to Nashville, Jackson and Tuscaloosa, where he encountered firsthand the emerging White Citizens Councils, and then reached Montgomery, where he provided an account of the bus boycott for Century readers.

About 40 members of Pentecostal churches have held seats in congress in the last few years.

He sat a few seats ahead of me in my literature class and introduced himself to the class by letting us all know he was afraid of aliens.....

This is a somewhat daunting proposition when considering Gastronomy seats a few hundred people as opposed to many from - scratch kitchens, which are much smaller in size, Djordjevic notes.

Seated around a large rectangle of tables in a private room of the North Yoker Hotel in the north - eastern China city of Shenyang, are a few of the 271 billionaires in China, sipping six vintages of one of the greatest and most collectable Bordeaux red wines, Vie...

The front is an all - day to - go counter selling sandwiches, soups, and grain bowls (when the restaurant opens for dinner in a few weeks, it'll be bar seating), while the back dining room is made for airy power lunches.

PRO TIP: There are a few separate areas where you can eat, but if you can swing a seat in the back by the open kitchen, you get to watch all the action.

Yes there were few empty seats but they weren't allocated for non supporters but the likes of AMEX and other ticket agents are begging for more seats at the Emirates, in fact there are holiday companies who are seling visit to London with tickets to see EPL Arsenal

With such an intriguing few matches in prospect it seems extraordinary that there are still tickets available but their are still seats to be had for all five tests including the first test in Brisbane.

The facilities would discredit the average high school: the track is often as hard and baked as a sandlot infield: the locker rooms, built in the 1920s, have been condemned several times; the permanent stands consist of a half dozen rows of splintery, sun - bleached wood, plus a few well - warmed and precarious seats on the tin roof of the locker rooms.

A few seats behind her Elise Etem, the powerful sophomore whose brother had been drafted by the Anaheim Ducks, thought perhaps her cox had lost her mind and brought the tiniest bottle of refreshment in the history of sports.

It used to be different: in some sports games from a few years ago, your seats would get emptier as your team got worse, and it was on you to get better and win them back.

Some atrocious defending last night for sure we could have lost by a big margin ospina kept it together for us and cavani waisted a few Thank God we survived but this should be a wake call a call for tuning: -(analyze the pitfalls rectify and execute solution) we are not seating in mud but we need to adjust our posture so we don't slid into the mud hole.....

There are few things in the motorsport world greater than seeing a single - seater race car being chucked up a hill climb with maximum commitment and flair.