Sentences with phrase «first major name»

GalleyCat is not the first major name in the publishing industry to close its doors in recent weeks.

Kiprotich is the first major name confirmed for the 2014 Bupa Great North Run, with last year's event won by Ethiopian long - distance great Kenenisa Bekele from double world and Olympic track champion Mo Farah, with Haile Gebrselassie a gallant third.

Not exact matches

The Carnegie Report, so named for industrialist Sir Roderick Carnegie's role as inquiry head, was the first major piece of economic advice the newly elected Court Government received.

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

Penot and Roschi's four - bottles - a-day sales goal for the first store drew the biggest laughs of all: A bottle of Le Labo — a name that the execs deemed «unpronounceable» — carries a $ 200 price tag, about double what the major brands charge.

The sometime DJ and artist (he has collaborated with Takashi Murakami and will have a show of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago in 2019) is the first finalist for the LVMH Young Designers Prize to be named for a major design role within one of the conglomerate's brands.

It starts with a major marketing push for Hershey's Gold, the first new bar branded with the company name in 22 years and the first Hershey's bar ever without chocolate.

First, they divide the restaurant universe into full - service and quick - service names with an intended 30/70 allocation between the two, which is a major difference from the current situation in American restaurants where quick - service names have 80 % of the sales.

This isn't the first time a major name in the fin - tech sectors has blasted cryptocurrencies and this certainly won't be the last time.

Making matters worse, The Wall Street Journal reported last week that unit sales of consumer packaged goods in the U.S. fell 2.5 % in the first quarter, according to Nielsen data, with the major brand names encountering severe headwinds.

As earnings season ramps into full gear, the performance of some of the biggest names could determine future of the tech boomAs large tech companies report first - quarter earnings in a flood of results during the next two weeks, they face a major test: Will they continue to post huge growth, and fuel further overall gains for the market, or settle into a more mild adulthood?

While he declined to disclose companies that he says are on board for the new seal, Allen say that «major names that people will recognize will be among the first to go forward with this.»

The first major renovation in the history of Robert Mondavi Winery commences, creating a new state - of - the - art red winemaking and visitor program facility that would later come to be named the To Kalon Cellar.

As if the big names and the money were not sufficient, the promoters went after the Buck Rogers fans by announcing plans to use the Electronic Line Judge «on a full - court basis for the first time during a major tennis tournament.»

The coincidence of the first black major league player and the first black major league manager sharing a family name is not meaningful to him.

This is the first time in 12 trophy less years that the fans are reacting to our failure to win any major trophies and since this isn't what the club would want in the near future to happen, they will at least bring in one or two big name players to satisfy us.

Simply being named the head coach could've been the crowning achievement for Spoelstra considering he became the first Asian / Filipino - American head coach in any of the four major sports when he earned his new job title.

Rose has one major championship to his name, a U.S. Open, while Garcia is still striving for his first one.

And since he chose Alabama (not a big name school in basketball) because they showed him the first high - major interest (he's loyal), he'll be a player that's much easier to keep around.

Hiram Bithorn Stadium is Puerto Rico's most famous baseball field, named after the first Puerto Rican player to play in Major League Baseball, and as good a symbol as any of the island's storied baseball tradition.

A day after being named as a possible future Arsenal boss by Gunners legend Charlie Nicholas, the Celtic chief secured the first major title of his managerial career.

Ive felt bitter about all of the big names that have left but they have all gone on and won medals for winning major competitions the first year of signing for there new club.That really says it all.

United spent big during the summer on huge names such as Angel Di Maria and Radamel Falcao, and it now looks as though Louis van Gaal could continue to make major changes to the first - team squad at Old Trafford as he targets these two Leverkusen stars.

The first round of the final major championship of the season is in the books and the names we expected near the top of the leaderboard are there.

Burke became the first woman to be named a full - time national color commentator this season, and she'll go into the playoffs as a major analyst for ESPN.

Fifty years ago this week a would - be Cincinnati chanteuse named Kitty Burke dug her high heels into the dirt of the Crosley Field batter's box and became the first and only woman to bat — albeit unofficially — during a major league game.

«This is normal, he's a young guy and for the first time he is seeing his name linked with major European clubs.

If there was one major positive to the reign of Louis van Gaal as manager of Manchester United it was the Dutchman's liberal use of youngsters, plucked from the club's youth set - up, that regularly filled his first - team selections with new and exciting names.

Which was the first major domestic trophy won by the club for 26 years that would forever write the name Roberto Di Matteo into folklore.

Ibrahimovic has played 127 minutes since he arrived in Los Angeles, and he's got three goals to his name, and more importantly the Galaxy have won six points from the mercurial Swede's first three games in Major League Soccer.

Naming your baby is the first major decision that you make as parents.

One of the first major decisions parents make when they find out they're expecting is picking a name.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

Granted, Cuomo has found ways in his first four years to win major victories outside of the budget: Same - sex marriage, gun control, tax reform, a new pension tier and previous ethics victories just to name a few.

While David (yeah, I'm going with first names) was around, this was a major problem.

The library named for former first lady Barbara Bush will reopen in May after sustaining major damage during Hurricane Harvey.

We know how important you think you are, but even Katie Couric would be smarter than to refer to a candidate for major public office by their first name.

Hill, 53, who first made his name as political secretary to John Major in Downing Street in the 1990s, is a calm and thoughful politician who attempted to explain the former prime minister's thinking in a book, Too Close to Call, in 1995.

The new Tappan Zee bridge — the largest current infrastructure project in the country and the first new major bridge built in New York in decades — will be named the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after the governor's late father, former three - term Gov. Mario Cuomo.

Boyland was first elected in 2002 to represent Brownsville and East New York, a neighborhood where one of the major thoroughfares is named after his uncle Thomas Boyland, who once held the same seat in the Assembly.

Gary Johnson in 2012 was the first presidential candidate in U.S. history to be kept off the November ballot as a minor party nominee, on the grounds that his name had appeared on a major party presidential primary ballot.

Hurricane Dennis was the fourth named storm, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.

«My name is Sean and I am a first year biology major with an emphasis in wildlife biology.

I would greatly appreciate your insights into this topic AND you'll be just about the first major nutrition name to address it (Sorry, haven't considered Dr. oz to be one in years).

The original Elizabeth was notable mainly as the first major film vehicle for a startlingly pale, prodigiously gifted creature named Cate Blanchett.

Armie Hammer and his co-star Timothée Chalamet were instructed to «passionately make out» upon their first encounter before shooting Call Me by Your Name, which is receiving major Oscar buzz.

But there are so many excellent performances that you're carried along: Lucas Hedges as her sweet first boyfriend, whose grandmother lives in Christine's dream house on the right side of the tracks (class and money are major themes, though always in a minor key); Timothée Chalamet (star of Call Me By Your Name) as her super-cool, careless second one (pictured above).

Fittingly, the quality of the craft is more than apparent in his first major leading role, Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

Deadpool 2 brings a number of popular X-Men characters to the big screen for the first time, but one major name was originally going to have a much larger part than what ended up on screen.