Sentences with phrase «gets lead billing»

Meryl Streep got lead billing over Anne Hathaway for Devil Wears Prada Denzel Washington had lead billing over Ethan Hawke for Training Day Ian McKellan got lead billing over Brendan Fraser in Gods and Monsters despite the fact that Fraser's character had the most screen time and the story was about him.

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A race promoter named Bill France got involved, eventually leading to a meeting in Daytona, Florida, where NASCAR was born.

That led me to do more things along those lines, and when I got the Cup level I saw drivers like Bill Elliott, Richard Petty, and Dale Earnhardt doing great things for charity.

The failure of Trump to get a health - care reform bill approved in the House led many to doubt he would be able to enact tax cuts and infrastructure investment projects in due course.

Flint, Michigan, which has endured a two - and - a-half-year struggle with lead - contaminated drinking water, would get access to a $ 170 million fund for infrastructure improvements and lead poisoning prevention under the bill.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

Top Silicon Valley investors and leading companies like Airbnb and Uber are beginning to mobilize against the U.S. Senate's tax reform bill, fearing a provision that would change how employees get taxed on any shares they receive as part of their compensation.

In his healthcare role, he received Marketer of the Year recognition and Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer stated it was the model for how MSFT should target vertical markets due to the dominance it achieved in getting the leading 3rd party ISVs to bet their platform on MSFT.

Time of Death: Things got bad for Buffalo when they blew a fourth quarter lead to the Falcons and worse then the Bills fumbled on the second play of overtime, giving Atlanta a short field to kick the game - winning field goal.

Think about what has gone down since then: Bledsoe suffered a sheared blood vessel in a game last September and was rushed to the hospital, where family members prayed for his survival; he lost his job to Brady, the second - year quarterback who led the Patriots to their first Super Bowl crown; and now, thanks to the first - round pick in the 2003 draft that the Bills sent to their AFC East rivals to acquire him, Buffalo Drew gets to face his old team twice a season.

Says the Tottenham Hotspur manager, Bill Nicholson: «If we get a one - nil lead we try to make it a two - nil lead as soon as we get the ball again.

I was beginning to get worried that Nathan Peterman would lead the Bills to a miraculous victory and have to start this week against the Patriots.

This huge outpouring of grassroots support bolstered efforts in Congress — led by Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D - CT) and Chellie Pingree (D - ME)-- to get language into the 2015 omnibus spending bill keeping Chinese - processed chicken out of school food and other child nutrition programs.

The organization has also championed — endorsing and raising money for — the handful of Assembly Republicans who joined the Democrats in voting «yes» to pass the marriage bill on the other side of the Capitol, protecting these lawmakers on a potentially difficult issue (and one that, as it turned out, didn't lead to anyone's ouster, but did contribute to Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava getting pushed out of the NY - 23 special election by conservatives who argued she was too moderate).

But a bill legalizing the combat sport was passed Wednesday by the State Senate, thanks in part to the efforts of lead sponsor State Sen. Kevin Parker, who has been known for getting into a few altercations of his own over the years.

Bill Lipton, who leads the Working Families Party, told me that the WFP has gotten 10,000 registered voters in IDC districts to pledge not to vote for the incumbents.

Sikora, an organizer for the Communication Workers of America who worked on NYPIRG's successful effort to pass lead paint legislation, received the endorsement of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said Sikora «cares about diverse, inclusive and affordable Brooklyn neighborhoods, and has a record of getting results.»

She has been the lead and the inspiration, tirelessly campaigning to get Lib Dem MPs to do the right thing and kill part two of the justice and security bill — the provision for secret courts in civil cases relating to national security.

Some Lib Dem sources have suggested that a large defeat on the timetable motion could lead to the government pulling the bill now - on the grounds that it would face no prospect of being able to get it through the Commons.

«David Cameron's failure to get a grip of the chaos within the Department for Work and Pensions has led to huge distress and hardship for hundreds of thousands of people and threatens to land taxpayers with a huge bill.»

SEIU 32BJ is continuing its campaign to get the Assembly to follow the Senate's lead and pass a bill that would close a so - called loophole and extend a prevailing - wage law to apply to public utilities.

That led to a lawsuit from a local lesbian couple who did not appreciate the fact that they needed to wait to get a license after the gay marriage bill signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo became law in late July.

Daniel O'Donnell, the lead sponsor of the marriage equality bill in the Empire State and the first out gay New York Assemblyman (and brother of Rosie), and Rent actor Anthony Rapp are the latest public figures to speak out in the «Mitt Gets... Read

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration was pushing to get language into the state budget that would provide the city with new tools and resources to hire MWBEs as the state budget deadline approached, an effort led by Deputy Mayor of Strategic Initiatives Richard Buery, the city's MWBE director.

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BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord who left tenants without heat in the winter and exposed kids as young as 6 to toxic amounts of lead dust to get residents out of his 14 - unit apartment building so he could charge more is proof the city's rent laws need to be strengthened, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.

Democratic lawmakers said it's on the closely divided state Senate, led by Republicans, to get the bill over the finish line.

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

Madison, Wisconsin (CNN)- Wisconsin's Republican - led state Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's proposed restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees Wednesday, getting around a Democratic walkout by stripping financial provisions from the bill.

One of the leading proponents of the marriage - equality bill that is currently lingering just off the floor of the New York State Senate, Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, says he's still optimistic about getting it passed — even with Republicans now seemingly in charge and the end of session rapidly approaching.

She added, «Bill de Blasio's benign neglect of the black community in NYC has led not only to Pantaleo bonuses, but also to the killer cop that murdered Ramarly Graham getting increased pay as well.

But, President Barack Obama's recent guidance on how schools must treat transgender students is under a fierce legal assault in federal courts and a comprehensive federal LGBT rights bill, the Equality Act, can not get a hearing in the Republican - led Congress.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried unsuccessfully last year to get the bills through the state Senate, where Republicans, led by Sen. John Flanagan, and breakaway Democrats, led by Sen. Jeff Klein, form a ruling coalition.

Unlike the SNP - led Scottish government, the Labour - led Welsh government does think the EU withdrawal bill should get legislative consent.

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Councilwoman Margaret Chin, a lead proponent of the measure who has been working with the state Legislature to pass the bill, said the DOT needs to resolve any reservations it has to get the law implemented as soon as possible.

The mayor's people say Cuomo had led Bloomberg to believe he would support the bill if the city could get Skelos on board.

The iPhone did get a clean bill of health from Greenpeace in several areas: no cadmium (a carcinogen) or mercury (a toxin known to cause nerve and organ damage) was detected, and lead and chromium (toxic if ingested or inhaled) were detected in a small proportion of samples and at relatively low concentrations.

Those who were led to believe that the man skipped out on the bill because he had gotten an emergency phone call recalled the bill as actually being slightly less than what they had originally been told.

There's a young ballerina Misty Copeland twirling around, a little Hillary Clinton signing bills and getting sh*t done, a small Amy Schumer doppelgänger trying to contour hilariously with makeup, a tiny Ruth Bader Ginsberg eating wedding cake with a same - sex couple, a pint - size version of Jen Welter, the NFL's first female coach, leading the boys to victory, a teeny Viola Davis inspiring women — particularly those of color — to dream big, and a mini Nicki and Beyonce reenacting the «Feeling Myself» video.

Amazingly, pretty soon the tea cart business was not only paying the bills, but getting so much attention that it eventually led to a national deal with a huge grocery store.

The Big Bang Theory is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the series, along The five leading stars of CBS's «The Big Bang Theory» are apparently taking pay cuts so that two of their longtime castmates can get

Bill gets the message, and soon hes leading the boys and Hozir on the antic - filled playful adventures!

For starters, Streep is definitely a lead performance, landing both top billing and the majority of the trailer's attentions - so the Best Actress race just got definitively more crowded.

So it makes perfect sense that, in a movie featuring the likes of Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Luke Wilson, Christian Slater, Ed Harris and a host of other well - known leading men among its cast, the ever - expressionless Dylster gets top billing.

Tim Conway gets top billing and more laughs than any other cast member, but John Amos holds the most screen time and performs admirably as Disney's first African - American leading man since Uncle Remus.

He gets help from a scruffy canine team led by Rex (Edward Norton), along with Boss (Bill Murray), King (Bob Balaban) and Duke (Jeff Goldblum).

When the gang, led by «Curly Bill» Brocious (Powers Boothe), is able to get away with harassing townspeople and causing general mayhem, the Earp brothers are forced to step up and take the law into their own hands.

«I think legislators who are thinking we don't need to drastically change things in Milwaukee and we're still going to get «Race to the Top» dollars are greatly mistaken,» said Colón, who will be the lead Assembly author of the MPS governance change bill.

LAUSD's school Board President Steve Zimmer led the board in March to make a controversial — and largely symbolic — vote in favor of one of the more noxious school - union - backed bills to get a hearing in the state Capitol.