Sentences with phrase «hit the headlines early»

Flint, Michigan hit the headlines early this year when President Obama declared a state of emergency after the area's water supply was rendered undrinkable due to lead contamination from old pipes.

He hit the headlines earlier this year when he visited the Charismatic Evangelical Leadership Conference hosted by Kenneth Copeland.

Porn star Alina Henessy hit the headlines earlier this week when she promised to stage a 16 - hour sex session with Dynamo Moscow striker Alexander Kokorin as a reward if he scored five goals before the end of the season.

Andy Murray's fiancee Kim Sears hit the headlines earlier this week after being caught on camera swearing during her man's semi-final win over Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open.

The Brazil international hit the headlines earlier in August after he sealed a world - record $ 222m move from Spanish giants Barcelona.

The 18 - year - old is yet to score a goal for the Addicks but he hit the headlines earlier this month when a clip of Mavididi bursting past several Rochdale players to run the length of the pitch went viral.

The problem hit the headlines earlier this year when the so - called «Saharan smog» settled over London for the best part of a week.

When leaks about what the chassis of the iPhone 7 might look like hit headlines earlier this week, technology columnists and industry analysts jumped on the chance to report that Apple's next device may finally ditch its 3.5 mm audio port altogether.

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BioNTech hit the headlines in July when its experimental personalized cancer vaccine, tailored to the tumors of individual patients, kept disease in check in an early - stage clinical trial.

Just Eat hit the headlines in May 2015 after outlaying $ 855 million for Menulog, which was 55 per cent owned by co-founder Leon Kamenev and 25 per cent owned by online retailer Catch Group, which sold a similar business, EatNow, to Menulog earlier in 2015 in return for an equity stake.

The Tories are hoping despite the fact that candidate Peter Cuthbertson recently hit the headlines for having written some strange things about rape, homosexuality and morality in the early 2000s.

Early in their first headlining date in Milwaukee, The Secret Sisters hit their Tuesday night Turner Hall Ballroom audience with an example of that rarest of country music song forms nowadays: a mu, Concert Reviews

Dixons, in Bradford, faced a challenging time after it hit national headlines when a teacher was stabbed by a pupil, and earlier this month when its founder, former financial director and a former teacher were all found guilty of defrauding the Department for Education out of # 150,000.

Xi had earlier hit the headlines with his graduation piece from Goldsmiths College, when he scattered # 1,200 in a room and let the audience scramble for it in order to show «the greed at the centre of art and the mafia who run it like a market».

The author and campaigner hit national and international headlines earlier this year will his high - profile and vocal disapproval of the Keystone XL Pipeline, the $ 7billion, 1,700 mile oil pipeline planned to run from Canada's tar sands to Texas.

Although, earlier this month before the latest Facebook - CA revelations hit the headlines, Denham told the committee she hoped to be able to publish the report by the end of May.