Sentences with phrase «getting to the finish line in»

It's crazy how no matter how we spun it, we're looking to get to the finish line in the same timeframe.

As such, the setup is better than the resolution (the black ops organization elements jar with the small - scale family tension), but there's enough momentum there to get it to the finish line in respectable shape, even after a tonally turbulent last half.

Paula Caballero, Global Director, Climate Program, World Resources Institute: «Climate negotiators kept up a good pace this week, but will be leaving Bonn with a lot more ground to cover to get to the finish line in Poland this December.

Not exact matches

Known in Vancouver as the man who rescued Expo 86 and helped get the 2010 Olympic bid over the finish line, Pattison knows when to cut bait.

«We want to be the thing you do when you've got two minutes standing in line at the grocery store or 10 minutes waiting for your kids to finish soccer practice.

Here are some approaches to get back on track when you're well out of the gate, but the finish line is nowhere in sight.

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.»

Getting to the finish line is nice but the reward in Tough Mudder isn't the finish line, it's the process of overcoming challenges together.

After a successful preliminary health care vote on Tuesday, Senate GOP leaders may have a new plan to get their health legislation over the finish line: pass what, in effect, could amount to a blank legislative check.

Known in Vancouver as the man who rescued Expo 86 and helped get the 2010 Olympic bid over the finish line, Jim Pattison was called upon again in 2015, this time by Metro Vancouver mayors trying to promote a 0.5 % sales tax to pay for road and transit improvements.

Dear Mark, i do believe in entrepreneurs as i am one of them.I curently operate a dental laboratory in California, that needs funding.I am in the procces of attracting business from dentists i work with through direct mail and telemarketing.I'm setting up a small offshore office to do the marketing part since the overhead is to expensive here.But the manufacturing of the finished products will be done in the USA creating jobs through production.A lot of manufacturing work is done offshore but through line production i'd like to keep the most in here.As an immigrant to this country i'd like to suport it to get back in shape financialy for the future of my childrens.I am also copying an idea i have seen at a large company i used to work.I'm in the process of setting up 2 other companies that will compete with my existing one but since they will be providing same products at different prices will atract different type of clients (dentists).

«Will we get to the perfect finish line in one term?

I can tell you without doubt, the teachings in my trading course and my trading strategy and approach, if applied how I teach it, will get you to the finish line a winner.

And if you decide not to run, or cheat... don't complain when you don't get in heaven... passing the finish line.

Used my practiced eye and hands, as well as my taste buds, to get solid to liquid measurements and aromatics (long time cook) right, then did as suggested, putting finished croquettes onto parchment lined cookie sheets in fridge, before frying.

I had plenty of time to pick my ingredients as I waited in line for 10 minutes (and I waited another 10 to get my finished product, which they had to take back because they forgot to add spinach).

Now, with two games remaining in the regular season, the 12 - 2 Patriots are just hoping to get to the finish line.

The same mechanisms are in place that caused Johnny Hoogerland to take a horrific spill in 2011, or Lance Armstrong to be felled by a plastic bag held out by a spectator in 2003, or a bus to get stuck at a finish line last year, sowing confusion and altering times in a general classification that could be won by seconds.

+ How Covington acquits himself defensively against an ultra-elite wing threat (and if he can maintain his hot shooting while expending so much energy on the other end) + Our team defense (especially on the perimeter) + Jah making himself a net - positive vs. Zaza + Our mental toughness response to a patented Golden State Run ™ + TJ's offensive QBing vs. GS's team defense + Dario's composure against a professional irritant + Justin Anderson and his steel pipes finishing with a 1 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 line (that would be one foul and one corresponding turnover when he subs in and immediately knocks Draymond into the second row with a happily illegal screen and gets subsequently ejected.

We have already had the bonus of seeing Alexis Sanchez overcome the knock to his Arsenal and play for Chile and now the news that our creator in chief Ozil is going to be okay to line up against Pep Guardiola's team is a major boost to our hopes of getting back on track and finishing in the top four spots to ensure another Champions League place.

The script Rosen got instead: go through three offensive coordinators in three years, take a beating in year two when the offensive line loses three starters, finish your career throwing beautiful passes in a losing effort to your crosstown rival, and wake up the next day to find out your head coach has been fired on his birthday.

In a slowed - down environment, finishing drives matters even more than normal because you're going to end up with fewer scoring opportunities inside the 40 - yard line, and Alabama is typically even more devastating the closer they (or you) get to the end zone.

33 attempts at goal 75 % possession and lose comfortably it can only happen to arsenal it would be funny if not so tragic and I'm for one not buying the reason we lost is because of De Gea it's as much poor finishing as it is great goal keeping more aggression with the chances and you score I don't care who's in goal just smash it doesn't have to look pretty and I don't have to say very much about the defending it's schoolboy stuff all this talk about koscielny (bosscielny) never got that isn't physical enough to be an Adams or Campbell gets muscled off the ball far too often he's a good player don't get me wrong but he ain't world class and definitely isn't a leader I'd replace that whole back line and drop xhaka and ramsey for new signings yeah ramsey set up a nice goal but that kid can not hit water if he fell out of a boat his shooting is awful always sky's them very frustrating player.

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.

because all this board and kroenke are interested in is lining their pockets, every year we get same comment in 2 years we will be competitive they have been saying this for the past 5 years we have sold our best players and wenger has to take part blame in the dead wood we have in that squad and we are very light if players get injured nobody to fill class boots it is about time wenger woke up and smelt that french cheese and realised there are major problems with this squad and he has been the cause with his cheap buys only three palyers can be classed as good players, but ia m convinced we will not finish top four this year and then the question remains what now?

Bolton lost 1 - 0 out at Peterborough earlier in the season but they are unbeaten in their last four on home soil against them with a W3 D1 record and that could be enough to get them over the finish line.

After all, none of us get to the finish line alone, and significant others should be involved in our journey from the outset.

My kids eat a school lunch every day, they get a balanced, hot meal that even in the 15 minute lunch hour (including standing in line time) they can finish because they are not tracking down their lunch boxes, they are not opening containers and baggies and they are not spending time trying to trade out with their friends, because everyone has the same things....

Getting picked to be an adoptive family in an open adoption is a beautiful gift, but one that comes with much stress, especially as the finish line, the hospital experience, appears.

Tory hopes of a coalition to get them over the finish line will also be hit by a decline in the Lib Dem results, with the party projected to be down five seats to just 14.

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

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.

He's an individual that knows how to get things done and can be a true advocate for Donald Trump in regards to dealing with Washington and getting legislation to the finish line by getting together those 218 votes it will take to get enacted,» Rep. Tom Reed said Monday.

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.»

Mahoney says the idea is for the county to offer money to a project that needs a small boost to get over the finish line, noting the funds could be available at this point in the 2014 budget.

Despite the encouraging poll numbers — Spitzer called them «comforting» — the candidate acknowledged that he and the small army of petitioners (some paid, some volunteers) currently headquartered in his father's real - estate building on Fifth Avenue still had some work to do in the final 24 hours to get over the finish line.

«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.

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.

Legislative meetings in Albany are only part of the push to get GENDA over the finish line — an effort in which ESPA, Housing Works, and the New York Civil Liberties Union play prime roles among a broad coalition of labor, faith, women's, business, and law enforcement leaders.

«In other words, it is the ticking clock, parental expectations, and a stack of bills that spurs students to put in the effort to get through the finish line and secure that first job.&raquIn other words, it is the ticking clock, parental expectations, and a stack of bills that spurs students to put in the effort to get through the finish line and secure that first job.&raquin the effort to get through the finish line and secure that first job.»

(In the past, Ive always just focused on getting my form under control and making it to the finish line).

Then if you're able to get away in a group, you'll try and keep at an anaerobic threshold pace to keep away until the finish line, say 30 minutes (for me around 170 + / - 5 bpm) and then finish with a sprint finish (max HR 180 bpm).

The only other option I see for the sleeves would require putting a hem on the bottom of a sleeve or leaving the side seams until later in the construction (sewing the neckline and sleeves and then turning the lining in first) and then having to finish those seams, so you've probably got the trick for the completely finished lining.

The more interesting aspects of the previous film, namely Dolph Lundgreen's blasé fish - out - of - water observations, are replaced with a rush to get to the finish line, resulting in one of the most predictable, formulaic fantasy films imaginable.

«Finishing School» (1934): Speaking ahead of this pre-Code drama, Wyatt McCrea, grandson of Joel McCrea and the film's star, Frances Dee, saluted the devotion of attendees, many of whom stood in line for hours to make sure they got into the screening: «Thank you for waiting for three hours, my grandmother would be impressed.»

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.

You can't form alliances, set up vendetta races, and, unless you have PSP - owning friends in the area, you're stuck racing against lame - brained computer controlled drivers that actually take their time getting to the finish line, even on the hardest difficulty.

It's dog - eat - dog, as the contestants do everything they can to be the first to cross the finish line, while also trying to avoid getting in trouble from the highway patrol along the way.

The last two major movies I saw in 2017 were Day - Lewis» (and, oh yeah, Paul Thomas Anderson's) Phantom Thread and Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World, and they turned out to be a fine way to get me to the finish line.

Roger Donaldson, who worked with Brosnan before in the mediocre volcano flick, Dante's Peak, has the talent to shoot and hold this film together visually, but his hold on the narrative gets away from him, resulting in a displeasing mish - mash of ideas that unravel until the blow - out right before the finish line.