Sentences with phrase «first big opportunity»

His first big opportunity came in January 1957, when Jerry Lewis signed to produce a special for the NBC Color Carnival series but refused to fill more than the first 60 minutes of the 90 - minute slot.

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And don't forget that at the level of racing where we compete, our team is often the first time where young drivers get an opportunity to race in front of the big teams on the big tracks.
He was very early into the Internet, saying the opportunity was too big to worry about profits, that instead they have to worry about scale first, and profits will come.
«The first thing is to fix the store,» he said at the time, though he added, «It doesn't mean online isn't an equally big opportunity
It may allow Phillips its first opportunity to prove its LNG processing technology in Asia, a move which is said to have big repercussions in the market.
The first two buckets are the ones where you find the biggest opportunities for growth.
Hindsight used to be 20/20; now the future is, too For the first time, you'll be able to visually project the impact of any changes you might make to your campaigns, so you can see exactly where your biggest opportunities lie.
Unlike the scrappy dropouts and malcontents of yore, however, these new entrepreneurs are unwilling to pursue business opportunities without raising big money first.
In both cases, first with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) and more recently with The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), his tweets have sent asset prices lower for a short period, before they have recovered, opening up big opportunities for investors.
Buying oil stocks in 2000 was his first big splash, and now he sees even greater opportunities in the resource arena,...
In fact, announcements or big news or opportunities will hit email subscribers first.
The decline in Woolworths dragged the broader sharemarket lower, as the nation's biggest supermarket chain also missed an opportunity to beat rival Coles for the first time in five years in terms of quarterly sales growth in their food and liquor arms.
That's quite a big challenge but I'm ready to enjoy first of all and, as happened at Indianapolis, if you feel the opportunity, if you feel competitive, you go for it.»
He's also resisted handing out big contract extensions at the first opportunity like in the past.
It shows that the youngster is not big headed about his potential like some can be and can later become frustrated with a lack of first team opportunities.
I don't really blame any of those players at all, first mistake from Wenger was his team selection and secondly wrong players in a wrong position,, its quite sad with all their mouths and boasting of starting the season strongly and aiming for the league just a waste of energy and wishful thinking, am putting the whole blame on Wenger, where is Belerin, why Ozil, Cazorla played out of positions, you should know their weaknesses and strength as a coach, why must we pass and pass to score a goal, many opportunities came from shooting distance but the players will always be looking for the next person to pass the ball to, its quite unfortunate that a big club like arsenal is relying on a scrappy Giroud to lead an attack of a team aiming to win the league.
«If we want to be close to the top of the table after two defeats then we have to win the big games and this is the first opportunity for us to do so.»
With squad sizes getting ever bigger and the competition for honours always increasing, however, first team opportunities are harder to come by — meaning that a number of these youngsters will find themselves loaned out over the course of the season.
Biggest 2017 game: The trip to Ohio State (Oct. 28) is enormous for national title reasons, but watch out for the trip to Iowa (Sept. 23), the first of many revenge opportunities for opponents.
Of course, being on the books of one of the «Big Six» is no guarantee of progression to the first team, and with Arsenal usually pushing for multiple trophies every season, the opportunities for younger players to show what they can do in the first team are often limited.
It was also an opportunity for reserve big man Earl Clark to show his talents for the first time, well, ever, with an impressive line of 22 points on 9 - of - 12 shooting and 13 rebounds.
The reported Arsenal target Alexandre Lacazette has opened the door towards a potential move to the Emirates after claiming that a switch to the Premier League would be «interesting» and that a lack of Champions League football would not be a dealbreaker in making the decision, insisting that the biggest factor would regular first - team football and the opportunity of being the main striker at his new club.
It's been tweaked and improved in the first quarter of this year, but this is an opportunity to go big with every top player in the game in attendance at the Tour's home ballpark.
From the first contact I had with them, the will to have me here was very big and for me to have that opportunity to help the club achieve their goals was very important.»
Since then, Rovers have thrown away two priceless opportunities to enhance their stance in the top - flight further, losing away to Bolton 2 - 1, despite boasting a numerical advantage for most of the second half, as well as throwing two invaluable points away last weekend when drawing 1 - 1 with bottom of the league West Ham, Kean's very first game in charge and it was a game where Blackburn produced one of their poorest performances of the season, certainly at home, where Rovers were previously a force to be reckoned with under» Big Sam».
The champions of England, «biggest club in the World» with 11 men behind the ball for the whole first half at the «Theatre of Dreams» Hoofing the ball at every opportunity.
This is a good opportunity to rest the big names and give those who are desperate for some first team action a piece of the limelight.
I'm of the opinion that Juventus need to be almost flawlessly clinical against Real in the final, and that certainly wasn't the case on Tuesday night: Gonzalo Higuain missed a golden opportunity in the first half, and then completely flubbed a volley attempt in the second half; right before the Dani Alves goal, Paulo Dybala had a chance to put the icing on the cake and failed; Mario Mandžukić, before he stuffed in his own rebound — which I don't want to take away from, because the window of space with which he had to work was not very big, and he tapped it home with a fair bit of dexterity — missed a golden opportunity, with credit to the keeper.
I don't see players that don't care just a team very low on confidence, I thought they kept huffing and puffing the result is horrible but as Moyes said it shouldn't have been a 4 0 game its individual mistakes that are killing us, he has to find players that won't make them or alternatively go big in the transfer market and buy them, we need a ball winning central midfielder, Everton had Gueye and Davies and they killed us in midfield, where against Leicester we were hungry against Everton we just never got out of the blocks in the first half, in the second half we created a lot of good opportunities we should have scored more goals the penalty, Cresswell was very unlucky and we created three clear opportunities where the ball was cut back to far, Moyes should have started Sakho.
Provided the Conservatives can indeed win the biggest share of seats (and they'll probably lose a few — but only a few — to UKIP, so will get a bit less than they might otherwise), then they'll get the first opportunity to put together a coalition, or at least a working minority government.
Because in the twenty - first century, the companies and countries that will succeed will be those who can exploit the huge opportunities the new digital age and the era of big data are bringing — in high - value manufacturing, digital media, education and medical technology.
The First Lady took the opportunity to remind donors that though the fundraising is necessitated by construction of maternity unit for KATH, there is a bigger intention for the event saying «we are not only building a maternity unit for Komfo Anokye, but we intend to improve other health facilities across the country.
The first is that it's not as if big business is short of opportunities to have its voice heard by politicians: in fact it seems to be the only voice the current government (Lib Dems and all) listens to.
And compared with research universities, community colleges offer smaller classes on average — especially in the big survey courses that dominate the first 2 years of a college education — and provide more opportunities for individual attention from professors.
Big data is, after all, mainly a First World opportunity.
Haemophilia, a hereditary condition affecting more than 100,000 people in markets where specialty drugmakers typically operate, promises to be the first really big commercial opportunity.
I also had the opportunity to break out my old wedding shoes for the first time since the big day.
The biggest mistake you can make is to view the first date as merely an opportunity to see if you're chemically drawn to each other.
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When a European director makes his or her first movie in the United States, you can pretty much rely on two things: the camera's awe at the wide - open spaces and big skies, and a downbeat story of how the Land of Opportunity so often lets its most helpless citizens fall between the cracks.
While I wasn't a huge fan of the first film (I thought it was decent), I'm excited to see what a guy like Foy does with such a massive property, as this will be a big opportunity to show the horror community what he's made of.
Reed Morano was an accomplished cinematographer and indie director, but getting the opportunity to come aboard «The Handmaid's Tale» as an executive producer and director of the first three episodes was both a big break and new experience.
First Big - Budget Movie: Indeed he was even offered the opportunity to direct «Return of the Jedi» by George Lucas, but turned that down in favor of taking up the mantle, much to Alejandro Jodorowsky's dismay (you really should check out «Jodorowsky's Dune» if you haven't already), of adapting Frank Herbert's epic «Dune» for producer Dino De Laurentiis.
Finding its way to the DVD format just a couple of weeks before another haunted house flick (Cold Creek Manor) debuts on the big screen, veteran television director Dan Curtis's horror quickie is one of those comfortable relics that doesn't scare so much as mildly chill, offering countless opportunities to shout at the screen without any sort of discernible payoff — until the end, that is, but even that shocker of a conclusion has been telegraphed since at least the midway point of the first act, muffling its surprise.
Armenia hosts one of Russia's biggest foreign military bases, offsetting a longstanding OSCE arms embargo against it, yet during President Sargsyan's first term he also strengthened his country's ties with NATO and for the most part upheld international sanctions against neighboring Iran, despite the extensive opportunity costs to the Armenian economy.
In particular, Smith says she has one big goal: for every student — but particularly low - income, minority, and first - generation college students — to have adequate preparation in high school for college, and for them all to have the opportunity to go to four - year colleges without incurring significant debt, if that is what they desire.
And, finally, given that Minnesota enacted the first charter law twenty years ago, why has it taken this long for scholars to start to dig into the big questions about how and why charters are (or aren't) seizing opportunities to rethink industrial era cost structures and staffing routines?
In other news, acting U.S. Secretary of Education John King delivered his first big speech in his new role and used the opportunity to emphasize the need for equity in education.
The first Opportunity Culture schools in Charlotte - Mecklenburg and Nashville, Tenn., have been joined so far by many more Charlotte schools, the schools in Syracuse and Big Spring, and schools in Cabarrus County, N.C., and Indianapolis, Ind..
Now that I have a big platform, and I've rewarded my fans with free books already, I'll give them the opportunity to support me first — I may save my free days to two months after launch).
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