Sentences with phrase «getting across the finish line»

LinkedIn facilitates connections, but it doesn't do the work for you, any more than buying a $ 200 pair of running shoes will get you across the finish line of a marathon.

Now we do, and we are hopeful and confident that this is going to get across the finish line in 2015.

The state's former chief judge Jonathan Lippman, who oversaw a panel that recommended closing Rikers, wrote in an opinion piece in amNewYork in October the timeline could be shorter and that de Blasio's plan «won't get us across the finish line.»

SM: I think the only conflict you would see is if something was wildly underestimated and more commitment in it needs to be made, but right now there's a big commitment from the community that Ed says is enough to get it across the finish line.

Sounding like the nominee - in - waiting that many party leaders consider him to be, Astorino also broadly attacked Cuomo's announced budget as built on «gimmicks» designed to «get across the finish line in November, and then everything can collapse as far as he's concerned.»

The dark horse in this race - and the one Cameron has to beat to get across the finishing line with a clear majority - is a hung Parliament.

Before his involvement, Mark - Viverito was counting on support from the 22 - member Progressive bloc, which wasn't enough on its own to get her across the finish line.

Annette Bening (Films Stars Don't Die in Liverpool) and Emma Stone (Battle of the Sexes), meanwhile, just might not have enough steam to get them across the finish line.

At the end of the day there just wasn't enough focused passion behind «The Town» to get it across the finish line with nominations for Best Picture or Best Adapted Screenplay.

However, as with other literary to cinematic conversions the Hunger Games anthology is prey to the unfortunate pitfall of not knowing when to stop and the final 20 minutes languish on, pacing becomes an issue, and the veritable cinematic marathon finishes on fumes, barely enough to get across the finish line.

Peter Yates's feel - good sports drama says a lot about the allure of competitive biking, but this is really a movie about relying on your teammates — the friends who'll always get you across the finish line.

Helping those poor students get across the finish line is absolutely a worthy item on the higher education reform to - do list.

Higher education reformers might find such students and do all they can to get them across the finish line.

Instead, «we provide services to make sure our students who have fallen down get across the finish line.»

«What we're saying is that it matters that every one of those kids will get across the finish line because they're our kids,» said Johnston, a freshman lawmaker who spearheaded the change.

They put the best teachers into the worst schools to make sure that almost everyone gets across the finishing line.

When you see this event, it's almost like... it's almost like you have to remind yourself that the whole night has been about academics and the character that got them across the finish line.

Speaking at the car's launch, John Hennessy, CEO said «We expect the Venom F5, named for the most powerful tornado speed winds on the Fujita scale, to be the first road car capable of achieving more than 300mph and have worked closely with Pennzoil to get us across the finish line».

Many editors offer outline or synopsis reviews, story critiques, paid beta reading services, hourly coaching, and other services that'll get you across the finish line with as polished a manuscript as your budget permits.

Also some big news, we decided to bring on a bit of programming help to get us across the finish line faster!

Smith, who represented the Bendetson family pro bono, comments, «I thought our firm could contribute to getting it across the finish line.»

The company's executives are convinced their powertrain and propulsion technology will get them across the finish line.

The last mile could be the one that gets you across the finish line.

You've got the attention of a hiring manager, now your profile must be effective enough to get you across the finish line.

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Sales and marketing writer Preston Clark explored this notion in a great piece, «The Rise of the Silent Sales Floor,» in which he discussed how the «soundless» sales floor makes CEOs nervous because: «They aren't hearing the confrontation, the tension, the hard conversations that literally must happen in order to get the biggest, baddest deals across the finish line... The really big, complex, disruptive deals... those aren't closing on the silent floor.»

He got up and raced as fast as he could, but nevertheless, was not able to beat the slow and steady turtle across the finish line.

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With the finish line in sight he got out of his Lotus and pushed his car across the line before collapsing from exhaustion.

It was a great move finished by a tap in from Giroud with Bellerin getting the assist after a burst down the right and ball across the 6yd line.

McLaren Fernando Alonso 8 — Stoffel Vandoorne 1 Jenson Button 1 - Stoffel Vandoorne 0 Race: Alonso Stoffel Vandoorne finally got the better of Fernando Alonso in qualifying, despite Alonso's heroics of finishing quickest in Q1 and getting across the start / finish line to beat the chequered flag by millimetres.

The Working Families Party has had a tough time getting many of their key issues, such as paid family and medical leave, across the finish line in the General Assembly but most of the Democrats running for governor this year have come out strongly in favor of those types of progressive policies.

State Sen. John McKinney, R - Fairfield, also had trouble getting across the campaign fundraising finish line, so he joined with Bridgeport Republican David Walker to form a ticket for governor and lieutenant governor.

«Congressman Katko is focused on serving our community in Congress, working to address issues that matter most to Central New York families — expanding our economy, enhancing our security, and getting a long awaited transportation bill across the finish line,» O'Connor said.

It is as if the baton is passed to the higher order of beings saying we got you so far, can you take us all the way home across the finish line of evolution.

As depicted here, NASCAR isn't so much a race as a high - speed destruction derby, where the object isn't seeing who can get to the finish line the fastest, but who can be the last car able to be driven across the finish line.

Even at an anaemic eighty - five minutes, the film drags somehow, limping across the finish line with an ass rimshot that isn't funny at the beginning of the picture with Hank Azaria and hasn't gotten any funnier by the end of it with Ben Stiller.

There's just no way for Babbit and Peterson to get the film across the finish line in the eighty - five minutes so they grab what they can and wrap it up quick.

The objective is not only to get first across the finish line, but to eliminate your opponents as well.

If Democrats want to get something across the finish line, they are going to have to accept something that looks a lot more like Alexander - Burr than Harkin - Enzi.

It's time for all of us to act like grownups and help get a recognizable version of the Alexander - Murray bill across the finish line.

He should also provide real leadership in getting an ESEA revamp across the finish line by embracing the bill that the Senate already passed in overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion.

But spending on smaller class sizes and academic support like tutoring did more to get students across the finish line and graduate.

Our unique ability to connect technical, practical, and policy knowledge allows us to help states and districts get their assessment and accountability designs «across the finish line.»

Thankfully, Governor Abbott added the issue of school finance to the agenda giving us a second bite at the apple at getting our number one priority, facilities funding, across the finish line.

In short, ECAA has entered the home stretch, and senators must hear from educators to get this bill across the finish line.

As a new employee in the Aperture Science test lab, it's your job to build bridges, ramps, slides, and other constructions in 60 test chambers and get the Bendies safely across the finish line in their vehicles.

As we are a brand new Indie studio, barely a few weeks old, we need your support to get Fable Fortune across the finish line.

Start your engines and get ready for the ride of a lifetime with team Sonic and a cast of legendary SEGA heroes across land, sea, and air in amazing transformable vehicles as they battle for first place at the finish line.

«If I was engaging with a firm and all I saw was white men across the table, I would certainly notice it, but in the same breath I have to say, especially in the mining world and throughout my professional life I've been blinded to it — I focus on doing the best job I can and I forget I'm a woman and we're just focused on getting to the finish line and getting that success.»

President George W. Bush got a tax cut across the finish line in June of his first year but didn't sign the biggest policy victory of his first Congress, the No Child Left Behind law, until January of the following year.