Sentences with phrase «in racing to the finish»

Picking windows got compacted in a race to the finish.

In the end it was Liverpool who took all three points in what could prove to be a pivotal game in the race to finish in the top four.

Mourinho, who later Sunday tackles Arsenal in a pivotal match in the race to finish in the Premier League top four and earn Champions League qualification, spoke to the newspaper as part of the 20th anniversary of Robson coaching Barcelona to a Cup Winners Cup victory over holders Paris Saint - Germain.

Liverpool have the attacking talent to open up this leaky Leicester defence and pick up three points in their race to finish in the top four this season.

Chelsea remain in the race to finish among the top four on the table thanks to a somewhat happy victory which they achieved in the last round against Wigan 2 - 1, where Juan Mata scored in compensation time, and secured a win for Blues.

NEW CITY — The Rockland County community joined the New City firefighters in a race to the finish line to raise money for a firefighter recovering from a severe flu infection.

With the primary less than two weeks away, all the campaigns were expected to pull out all the stops in the race to the finish line.

If approved by the FDA in October for the treatment of refractory melanoma, pembrolizumab would be the first PD - 1 checkpoint inhibitor approved in its class, beating out BMS's nivolumab in the race to the finish line — or starting line, really, since both drugs will likely have multiple future uses.

Today, Frogmind have released a new video showcasing the game's local multiplayer mode which features up to four players each utilizing a corner of an iPad screen in a race to the finish line.

Merzon picked up three positions in the race to finish 11th and more importantly was turning competitive lap times in his first TCR weekend.

(Nashville, Tenn.)-- April 25, 2018 — Retired NASCAR driver and NBC Sports» newest on - air contributor, Dale Earnhardt Jr., announces his first book and reveals the cover on NASCAR America «Wednesdays with Dale Jr.» The fifteen - time most popular driver writes candidly about his recent experiences in Racing To The Finish: My Story (ISBN # 9780785221609) which -LSB-...]

Survival mode pits the players against each other in a race to the finish where only the strong survive.

When you play Runbow, you run, jump, and punch your way through dozens of frantic platforming levels in a race to the finish.

As soon as you solve the puzzle in your head, you can be sure that an equally - matched player has too, so in that race to finish, many rounds come down to a split second — because you knew you were so close to the win, you naturally want to play again (and again, and again).

Bernd Geier, co-head of Dentons» Europe Financial Institutions sector group, said: «The MiFID II deadline of 3 January 2018 is fast approaching, and financial institutions, funds, as well as corporations are in a race to the finish to implement the complex technical requirements on time.

Those who may be skilled but are unable to provide information of their abilities and competencies fall back in the race to the finish.

I am not in a race to finish this house or to impress anyone with my skill in whipping this place together in record time.

Not exact matches

Gilmour went on to create the packaging for some of the company's most successful brands — including Luna, Builder's, Mojo, and Shot, which shows an athlete poised in the running blocks before a race, instead of the traditional imagery that shows someone crossing the finish line.

He goes into every race with a tiered list of goals: to win, to finish in the top three, to set a personal best, and so on.

Keirin cyclists compete in two - kilometer track races; they start by following a pacer, then sprint to the finish line.

«The Mark Webber team was telling him to try and take care of the engine a few laps before the finish because they could see from the data that the engine was in danger of breaking down and two laps before the finish it exploded,» he added, referring to the F1 race driver.

In the 15 kilometer (9.3 mi) individual race, competitors ski, stop and and shoot at targets, ski some more, stop to shoot at more targets, ski, shoot, ski, shoot, and then ski to the finish line.

For retailers and small and medium sized business (SMB) owners, the winter holiday months are the last lap in a long race to finish out the year on a high note.

When American Pharoah crossed the finish line at the Kentucky Derby, he earned more than the most coveted title in horse racing, he earned another couple million to his name.

Audi's Super Bowl ad features a young girl blazing to a first - place finish in a go - cart race while her father, standing on the sidelines, wonders how he can explain to his daughter why it is that men are paid more than women.

Most important, adventure racing is a team sport: all the members have to finish in order for a team to win.

Tipping his hat to Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss, who came up with the concept of the race to $ 1 trillion in a recent research note on Microsoft, Cramer decided to look at all four contenders and speculate on which one might cross the «finish line» first.

After routing Clinton in New Hampshire and finishing a strong second in Iowa, states with nearly all - white populations, Nevada's Democratic caucuses gave Sanders his first chance to prove he can win over black and Hispanic voters and compete nationally as the race moves to states with more diverse populations.

After our education plan finished first in the «Race to the Top» federal funding competition for its capacity to improve student performance, we continue to move forward.

More than half of the 17 million American race finishers in 2015 were women, and Nike has projected that sales of its women's products will double by 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

House Republican tax writers are still holing up in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building, racing to finish their work on a sprawling rewrite of the tax code.

In Alberta, it would be hard to finish third in a two - way racIn Alberta, it would be hard to finish third in a two - way racin a two - way race.

From start to finish it is not that different from the evolution tree where some branches get cut off to where at some point in time a pure «race» remains standing.

The world tells us to go and experience all of the pleasures that can be found in our youth, but the book of Acts teaches us to go and consider our lives nothing to us, and only aim to finish the race and complete the task God has given us — to share His grace.

Our main aim should be to «keep the faith» as we finish the race rather than simply fading into the background or spending our final years playing golf in Acapulco.

But who could deny that all of us that are Christians run or should run the race LOOKING UNTO (having as vision) Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, seeking the city, looking for the city to come, the New Jerusalem, and pressing towards the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus?

I don't want anything else in life to move me from this task, but I want to finish my race, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

I am part of a triathlon training team at my YMCA and am really working hard to get in 6 days a week of running, biking and swimming so that I will be able to actually finish the race in one piece!!

Kanaan recovered to finish second whilst Simon Pagenaud took third in an attritional race which saw only nine cars still going at the end.

1991 saw an attritional race in which the majority of the top runners failed to finish.

The Red Devils currently sit in fifth place in the Premier League table with three games remaining, as they trail rivals Manchester City by four points in the race to secure a top - four finish.

Wenger said it is not easy to finish top4, but what he didn't say was that ten or fifteen years ago there was really only two or three teams in the race now its five or six.

Saturday hasn't been a good day for favorites to start with Lady Aurelia finishing a distant 10th out of 12 horses in the race of 3 - year - olds.

He quickly raced out to a share of the lead on Thursday morning, and then finished up with a 4 - under 68 that has him in prime position for another weekend of contention.

Bar of Gold rallied from the back of the pack, overcoming 60 - 1 odds to beat out favorites Unique Bella and Ami's Mesa in a photo finish to win the 7 - furlong race.

A 28 - second gap covered them in this race last year; Red Bull seems to have made the most gains and is much closer to the two teams that finished above it in 2017.

I think to myself if Fernando was in that car today he would have finished a decent race and got points for Red Bull.

Laffite needed to finish in the top two with both Piquet and Reutemann having duff races to win the title, and though that's exactly what happened, Laffite himself could only manage sixth.

Although Emanuele Pirro couldn't escape pre-qualifying this time, his Scuderia Italia teammate JJ Lehto did - and went on to finish third in the race!