Sentences with phrase «first of his string»

Horner said the Percoco case is the first of a string of corruption trials that will play out over the next several months, keeping the issue in the spotlight.

Horner says the Percoco case is the first of a string of corruption trials that will play out over the next several months, keeping the issue in the spotlight.

That this odd - couple pair beats the career - minded duo to the altar is but the first of a string of hindrances for Tom and Violet.

Announcing during what's said ot be the first of a string of video events titled «Disney Infinity Next,» Disney's Senior VP and General Manager of the game, John Blackburn, said that fan feedback led them to their upcoming releases.

The team won the first of its string of titles that very year.

That was only the first of his string of successful businesses.

The shark was the first of a string of controversial works by Hirst and one of many animals in formaldehyde he has created.

In mid-2009, HTC revealed the Hero, arguably the first of a string of hits from the company, and the first to include HTC Sense, a customized user interface that replaced the default Android UI.

Not exact matches

Another parent named JH wrote: «We've tried a couple of different brands, but this is the best... First, the string is pretty strong and doesn't usually break.

Participants were apt to complete a tedious task (entering 10 - character strings of code) faster when they could tackle quicker segments first, with their motivation increasing as they got closer to completing the task.

(The string of Christmas tree lights with letters under each bulb were an important part of the plot in the show's first season.)

Starks first joined St. Jude in 1996 as part of the firm's purchase of another corporation, took over as CEO and president in 2004, and has acquired a string of smaller companies since.

The first time we did it, we gave away six million cups of coffee for free, no strings attached, over a two - week period of time.

ASU's Carey School of Business became the first school to make its full - time MBA program completely free, no strings attached.

World stocks are on track to rise this month for the first time since January, lifted by positive earnings from U.S. technology firms and a string of high - profile M&A deals.

First reported on by the CBC, the letter contained a string of major — and unsubstantiated — allegations, including that the company had been used to funnel money through shell companies to the Gadhafi family.

He is the first truly shameless president, the first porn president, and that is why it is Stormy Daniels — more than the FBI or the IRS or the string of women who have claimed sexual harassment or abuse by him — who just might take him down.

A market first, three - phase string inverter shipments overtook those of central inverters.

Meanwhile, the first hearing has been set in the string of lawsuits that have been filed to kill the rule, and the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2017 funding bill seeks to torpedo it.

The first oral arguments in the string of lawsuits filed against DOL's fiduciary rule were heard on Aug. 25 by Judge Randolph Moss, U.S. District judge for the District of Columbia, in the case brought by the National Association for Fixed Annuities.

In the 1970's, Sir James Goldsmith initiated the first of what would be a string LBO's.

As was already pointed out by Edward Feser in the June / July issue of First Things, even if one grants that string theory is true, Krauss has already conceded the very medieval axiom he thought he was dispatching, since, after all, a «brane» (assuming it exists) is something.

Hailing from Louisiana, hard rockers As Cities Burn first garnered a grassroots following through a string of independent releases which showcased their combinations of blistering guitars, intense vocals and grinding compositions.

With the first bars of the prelude» an insistent, agitated gesture in the lower strings» the planks dissolve into a single image of storm clouds.

The aid that supposedly helps the growth of the Third World is always with «strings» attached, and used as a tool for continuing the First World dominance over the economic growth of the Third World.

I see it more as criticism of acting out the theology of first shaming and chopping people down and then offering a program with strings attached to bring them back up (and all the fear baggage that entails).

While the first clutch of episodes mainly focused on aristocratic social issues, the second series features a string of shocking plot twists, including the surprise deaths of several major characters.

While we must still admit that nature reveals to us only the answers to questions selectively focused by our interpretive structures, we may reaffirm that we are still in her leading strings, to reverse Kant's point, because reality is the first motive for the natural process of thinking as well as the final measure of its results.

It is one thing to go to your commanding officer first thing in the morning and have a string of commands barked at you.

In discussing his results, Herman states that they demonstrate the ability of dolphins to respond correctly to semantically reversible sentences, offering «the first substantial evidence of syntactic processing of a string of lexical items by animals» (CSBD 199) 12 Evidence for such syntactic processing is found in the dolphins» correct responses to sentences having modifiers to direct and / or indirect objects: reversal errors were extremely rare.

Had the Crusaders» remaining force at the end of the First Crusading march been a little more numerous, had they taken Damascus and a string of towns on the fringe of the desert, the whole history of the world would have been changed.

You pull at the heart strings of the weak minded and convince them that God first created gays and then condemned them.

Laid out as a string of facts, accruing weight through conjunctions — 12 «ands» dot the text — the piece claims first of all to be a history.

CNN: Survey: Protestants are no longer majority in U.S.. Following a string of recent developments that suggest waning Protestant power — like the first Supreme Court with no Protestant justices, and a Protestant - free Republican presidential ticket — a new Pew survey finds that Protestants are no longer the majority in the United States.

Had the Crusaders» remaining force at the end of the First Crusading march been a little more numerous, had they taken Damascus and a string of towns on the fringe of the desert, the whole...

Cause who couldn't use a little nip after climbing up and down a ladder putting up your Christmas lights for the second time in a week because after you put them up the first time one of the strings died and you didn't have a replacement string that matched so you had to go out to buy all new lights and then take the first set down so you could put the new strings up... Ho ho ho.

So, fast - forward to the present moment: my mental wherewithal mostly in tact after the first 12 months of motherhood, and the desire to be involved in some kind of holiday tradition tugging at my heart strings.

Last week saw a string of communications about food price rises: first warnings were aired about wheat, then meat, then dairy.

I recommend cutting it in thin coins first to avoid any strings from the fibers that run the length of the potato.

The first step is to tie clusters of three pods together with the cotton string.

The introduction of the Multi-Step Micro-Filtration process, linked to an aseptic filling and packaging system, is the latest in a remarkable string of beverage industry «firsts» introduced by Harmless Harvest:

Whether you're at the game or cheering from home, kick off your tailgating party with our first - string collection of snacks, spreads, and dips.

The first years were characterized by a string of products aimed at improving the consistency of espresso and milk foam.

First, the genius packaging: little wedges of foil - wrapped noms protected from overzealous unwrapping by a red string that tears the foil in just the right places.

Wenger has mostly used the second string squad at the start of any season to great effect, most teams aren't at full strength or match fit and he plays that Wengerball numbers game, throwing in squad players who are fit and raring to go whilst the first team get ready, we'll win 2 of our 3 opening games and he'd rather that than splash 100m on 3 players and get the same amount of points.

In that game, Hoyt lost for the first time since May 15, breaking his string of 11 straight victories.

This will come as a big blow for Arsenal, who have made Monreal first choice at left - back this season after a string of fine performances to make that position his own against Kieran Gibbs.

The Univ. of Michigan Alumni have been stringing together wins now and are up to the third spot in the Standings as we wrap up the first half of the Summer.

The first of the three games of their string took an incredible 26 minutes to complete, typifying the intensity of the Varsity Match.

If we want to be taken seriously as title contenders we need to put together a string of more reliable performances, and playing like that will not get us our first title in over a decade.