Sentences with phrase «good bit of history»

I met some community leaders and have learned a good bit of history of the area.

Maybe nothing of interest to Nintendo fans, but it's a good bit of history.

Not exact matches

Marvel has a pretty well - established history of remixing and streamlining the best and most iconic of the many looks each of its characters have sported over the years for their big - screen adaptations (in a funny bit of symmetry, the movie designs usually end up influencing how a character will look in the comics afterward).

Eli Finkel: We have arrived at a moment in history where the best marriages are better than the best marriages of earlier eras, while at the same time, the average marriages are getting a little bit worse.

A bit of history: when the famous Leduc No. 1 well near Edmonton blew in 1947, launching Canada's modern oil and gas industry, the gusher pushing skyward was said to be light and pure enough to pour into your gas tank.

Snap Inc appears set to make a splash next week with the biggest tech stock debut since Facebook, but history suggests investors shut out of the initial public offering would be better off waiting a bit to chase this unicorn on the open market.

Hatch finds their leaders — previously unfamiliar men like Leland, Francis Asbury, and Lorenzo Dow — every bit as important in the history of nineteenth - century Protestantism as the better known ministers Lyman Beecher, Horace Bushnell, and Timothy Dwight.

Not to demean the genre of intellectual history, but Carter's Revolt Against Destiny is a good bit more engaging than much that passes under that banner.

Tradition and aother biblical writings were given great weight as well, and the bible was not something that was seen as literal or without error... God inspired meant God was the muse or concept that moved people to write about their experiences, as well as a history and a bit of a rule book.

I want to share a bit of a All Sports Series history before I say good bye to Team Graham for 2013 — There have been plenty of Teams throughout the Years that were near or at the bottom (some who did not even qualify for the Playoffs) who turned it around and made runs to the Final 4 the very next year.

Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build up wins we need to win cups then league than we go and win the champion league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on

Hes a jedi but i agree we need cazorla back or player like him or rosicky or song and coquin wasnt song who can still play with the passing of the other players in the team xhaka is usually good on ball but so bad off of it hes been a bust so far we almost need the french connection again they have quality players we could use but honestly i think auba will be more effective on flank pnce we get laca back it takes alot of strength to play up front in the premier league it takes two years to rebuild in pl at least bit we have had two rough years and not nearly as rough as chelseas or man u or Liverpool or well this is as big as totteham will be before we make them drop down again and oh do nt forget man city either lets remember our history

winning the champions league for the first time in the club's history would be ecstatic... though a good trophy, we sometimes overate the FA a bit... the feeling of winning the league or cl is nowhere near winning the FA....

Am never one to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a club which demands trophies and high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are better in small clubs with limited expectations and very neat to no pressure... that is why history is littered with stories of good players who went to big clubs and flopped only to go down a few levels and find their form again....

I thought trump was off his rocker but at least he keeps his ramblings to one hundres and forty characters... Luck fate history absent Frenchmen plus a slightly recent setback and a bit of half baked Hegelian philosophy thrown in for good measure... Hilarious stuff but you might want to go back in to hibernation

Well it wasn't looking like a great night for Wales as they lost 2 - 0 in Bosnia on the weekend, but it turned out to be a terrific one, despite the result, as Israel lost at home against Cyprus to create a bit of history for the Welsh as they reach their first ever European Championships.

I had a lot of history there and I think the way I left was maybe a bit dodgy, but the lack of respect they showed me as well.

For a lot of women if they've had antibiotic history even just stress in their life where their good bacteria can be compromised then the yeast just gets a little bit out of control.

My kids especially love that each year contains work in each of the science disciplines (many classical - approach history programs do biology one year, chemistry the next, etc.) The format is not step - by - step, so this curriculum requires a bit more planning than some others, but it's well worth the effort.

«Let me give you a little bit of history, best I know it,» Joe Lhota said before launching into a convoluted explanation of the ownership structure of the subways, and why it is that Mayor Bill de Blasio should leap to their rescue.

The Gordon Brown memorial pledge, which could just as well have come from the last Prime Minister's lips — the «We are the first Government in history to do X» being a formula of which he was fond — and the first bit of real red kidney - bean stew tossed to Liberal Democrat activists.

Then Barrow works through a lively history of mathematical concepts, which never ducks the hard bits — including equations — but locates them so well within the narrative that it is impossible to be more frightened than fascinated.

A bit of «wan na be» is good when you can draw a line between your experience and what you are capable of for an employer, but I recommend that you keep most of your summary to your history and major skills.

You don't need to use much imagination to reconstruct it; if you just squint your eyes a bit, you could almost believe it was sleeping... It will go down in science history as one of the most beautiful and best preserved dinosaur specimens — the Mona Lisa of dinosaurs.»

Well, I wanted to talk about cortisol a little bit, too, because stress is a huge part that can contribute to leaky gut and, you know, if you go back far enough in a — in a client's history and you find that they did start doing like a CrossFit exercise or they had a significant job change or they went through a divorce or something like that, some type of huge stressor whether it's emotional, chemical, physical, they seem to derail themselves.

Registered dietitians and nutrition scientists have a somewhat complicated history of being a bit... well... critical of the food you may (or may not) be eating.

Today, our friend and dapper man about town, Ryan shares a little bit of his own style history, as well as his tips and tricks for creating a wardrobe that's packed with personality.

Rather take good amount of time, add a bit of history involving why that particular thing is so vital and how it manifests your life.

The plot is well structured, but like I said, it should have been done a bit better because this trial was one of the biggest, most important trials in the history of the 20th century.

A riotous combination of rah - rah American patriotism and overwrought special effects nonsense, this cheeky bit of fantasy history is rather good fun.

On the video side, where everything is encoded in HD, we start with «It's Never Just a Movie: Chris Rock and Top Five» (20:08) considers the star - filmmaker's parallels to his character and his history in comedy, with looks at his comedy bits and home movies, as well as interviews of other influential figures, from over the years.

««Free State of Jones» is a well - intentioned slog through a potentially fascinating bit of Civil War history, brought to life only by Matthew McConaughey «s performance, and then only occasionally.

A little bit of history was made today as two - time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe won Best Supporting Actor from LAFCA for «The Florida Project.»

Best bit: The lead - up to the Psycho Mantis fight (along with the fight itself) is one of the greatest moments in video game history David Roberts

Although not as buzzworthy as some of the streaming service's flagship programs, «Narcos» is a fascinating and well - acted drama about the history of the Medellin cocaine cartel (and in particular, its leader Pablo Escobar) that's every bit deserving of its high praise.

Well - written and informative from beginning to end, African American History in the United States of America is an engaging read which proves to be every bit as entertaining as it is a worthwhile educational tool.

Pirate Radio is neither historically accurate enough (it can't even stick to its year of 1966 to provide its tunes, some of which came out a little after («Jumpin» Jack Flash» is from 1968, as is «So Long, Marianne» by Leonard Cohen, to name but two) to provide interest in a bit of pop culture history, nor is it consistent enough to sustain its good cheer without collapsing from the weight of its own cutesy manipulations in its characters for laughs, It's not so much a story as it is a collection of sitcom moments meant to induce laughter and mirth, mixing it with all of the best rock tunes of its era.

A little bit of history on NYFCC: Last year was the first time since 2006 that their Best Picture winner did not go on to an Oscar nomination.

Well, dear readers, let me give you a bit of a personal history lesson.

For an introduction, the actor uses a humorous bit of production history to frame the film as a profound work of alternative mythmaking as well as a prescient vision of a privatized future.

If you're interested in a bit of that history, well, read on my friends.

Miketendo64: For the purposes of this interview, I actually did a bit of digging to so as to know your history better than I already did.

Featuring an innovative racing duel system that worked a bit like a 2D fighting game, TXR provided one of the best single player campaigns in racing game history.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

On top of all that, you can uncover secret areas, collect bits of history, and even discover a well hidden Golden Axe (I wonder what that's a reference to).

In terms of the extras, the making - of featurette is a bit too short on heavier production history, but this is a well - produced disc that should be in the collection of every Flynn fan.

And in a wonderful and timely bit of irony, the College Board's forthcoming renovation of the SAT tests — markedly more influential than the AP (and perhaps the Common Core itself) in shaping what kids have to learn in school if they want to go to a good college — includes enough attention to the seminal documents of American history and the ideas they embody to give pause to Chinese authorities who really don't want their kids learning about democracy and freedom while preparing to seek entry to a U.S. university.

Paul Hardiman looks into the convoluted history of this car, which has recently been re-created in its final, Brooklands racing form in Arms Race / In SS Seduction, John Warburton discovers the appeal of the Jaguar SS100 when he meets a man who has restored one from a pile of bits / Stefan Marjoram visits the 75th Goodwood Members» Meeting / In Arrivederci, Fuoriserie, Douglas Blain ponders the lost years of automobile body design in Italy, as documented in two new books, and renews his friendship with well known stylist Tom Tjaarda in Turin / For this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a rare 1909 Briton 10hp which was laid up for more than 40 years

However, a 35 - year - old soft - top has a little bit of history no matter how good it looks.

There's some art history chatter here, and the writing is well done, but this erotic thriller delivers sex without even the slightest bit of sentiment.