Sentences with phrase «in a close second though»

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Though Smith won the user vote, the top five finishers in this category were all very close: Smith came in first, Hoffman second, and Bill George and Hank Paulson tied for third.

TORONTO, August 30, 2016 - Soaring housing prices in Vancouver and Toronto continued to squeeze housing affordability at the national level in the second quarter, even though affordability was close to historical norms in most other Canadian markets, according to the Housing Trends and Affordability Report issued today by RBC Economics Research.

Though the stock had been down about 13 % since mid-April, things have changed in the wake of Apple's announcement late Tuesday of a record second quarter during which it sold 35 million iPhones and close to 12 million iPads.

Though the first scenario is closest to the status quo, current trends may indicate that the second scenario is possible in the near term, which may lay the groundwork for the seemingly more distant scenarios.

Most importantly, though, is the fact that his shift in the second sentence betrays a knowledge on his part that there is some amount of damaging information which is rising dangerously close to the surface, hence his refusal to offer details despite taking the trouble to appear on this thread.

The second is from Mark 3:1 - 6 (though you will note that Matthew has removed the reference to Jesus» anger), and Luke's version in 6:6 - 11 is very close to Matthew.

The latest global findings from the Pew Research Center, released two days before Religious Freedom Day in the United States, show that overall restrictions on religion in nearly 200 countries and territories have reached a six - year high, and Christians are harassed in more countries than any other religious group (though Muslims are a close second).

All their hard work in the first half was undone within seconds of kick off in the second 45 though, with Kevin Gameiro able to tap in from close range after some poor defending from Alberto Moreno.

Unfortunately for the Ligue 1 champions though, according to Manchester Evening News, he is closing in on a move to Old Trafford this summer where he would become the second major summer signing for the Red Devils after Victor Lindelof, as mentioned in the report.

I think we area wry close to where most fans wants us to bee, challenging for the PL, sign Schneidelin experience and quality 25m Sign Stones a good upcoming CB and home grown 20m Sign Lacazette as a second striker who will mature 25m We will be sorted for years to come Will be hard to replace Corzola though in a couple of years

Though she closed with a 3 - under 69, the tourney marked Ko's first sub-top-15 result in seven starts this season that include two wins, two seconds and a third.

Andros Townsend scored his second penalty in the space of a week to put his side ahead and it looked like the North Londoners were on course for a comfortable win despite their inability to add a second; though Paulinho and Lamela both came close.

Liverpool, though, were within a whisker of doubling their lead in the closing seconds of the half when Lovren powered a header goalwards from a corner but saw it go fractionally wide.

David Luiz, though, misses out for Chelsea with a knee injury whilst Juanfran is a doubt for Atletico KEY FACT: Atletico need to win and hope Roma do not to finish second MATCH ODDS: Chelsea 6/5 Draw 12/5 Atletico 5/2 ANDY SAYS: Close game for sure, can see it ending in a draw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think Atletico need the win here and might just sneak it... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Don't see much in this, be close and hard fought, goal-less too... 0 - 0 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Draw half time, Chelsea full time @ 4/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Antoine Griezmann has dropped out the top ten and is just oveClose game for sure, can see it ending in a draw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think Atletico need the win here and might just sneak it... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Don't see much in this, be close and hard fought, goal-less too... 0 - 0 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Draw half time, Chelsea full time @ 4/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Antoine Griezmann has dropped out the top ten and is just oveclose and hard fought, goal-less too... 0 - 0 BOYLESPORTS PICK: Draw half time, Chelsea full time @ 4/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Antoine Griezmann has dropped out the top ten and is just over # 4

Kids in NYC are headed back to school today, though many districts upstate are closed for a second day.

GM says the Equinox will accelerate from standstill to 60 miles per hour in 12 seconds, closer to sluggish than speedy, though brisk enough to suit moderate drivers.

The patent red heels paired with blue handbag comes in at a close second though.

The new episodes don't represent another radical leap forward in style or quality the way season two was, but whatever's lost from the shock of the new (nothing here is quite as weird or surprising as the cavewoman prologue or «International Assassin,» though a joke in the second episode and a party sequence in the fifth come close) is gained in how much more we know all the characters at this point, and how aware they are of their proximity to their story's end.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Though it peaked at a modest 826 theaters, this Roadside Attractions - distributed Amazon Studios acquisition still managed to gross $ 14 million, a close second to Roadside's Hello, My Name Is Doris among 2016 releases in fewer than 1,000 theaters.

Perhaps no actor gave a more simultaneously topical and timeless performance than Cate Blanchett as a woman who sees her fortune disappear in Woody Allen's «Blue Jasmine» (though Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy's third go - round as Jesse and Céline in «Before Midnight» are close seconds).

, and though it did middling against its $ 22 million budget by opening in second place with an estimated $ 11.4 million, it could not come close to taking the crown from Kung Fu Panda 3.

So glad you pinpointed the camera being too close — and better yet, why that's a problem in the second half (though we do get more two and three shorts later on).

The film is still first and foremost Cruise's vehicle, though, and despite Abrams» persistence in bringing the series back to basics with the reimplementation of a team (something the second film got away from), there's still plenty of solo play for Cruise to fuel his ego with, not to mention several gratuitous close - ups of the actor.

Only the film's tacked - on bad guy, the town bully (Kieron Moore), kills the momentum, though Connery's singing comes in a close second.

In fact, only the discontinued D40 Nissan Navara ST - X 550 comes close, with 170kW and 550Nm, though the Amarok stretches to 180kW courtesy of an overboost function that comes on for up to 10 seconds at a time when the accelerator is depressed more than 70 per cent.

A second volume of Black Sun, released as a one - shot with a very open end by 801Media, is not currently being worked on by the artist so no way of saying if a second volume will ever actually exist for release though in more positive news, the second book of Close the Last Door by Yugi Yamada should see publication in late 2010.

The iPad Air 2 is the heaviest of the bunch at 954 g when paired with a full - featured keyboard (though lighter ones are available), with the Pixel C in a close second at 916 g — the Surface 3 is surprisingly just 887 g in total, though a vast majority of that weight is the tablet itself.

Not to mention that at this point it is a solid bet there will be no major 3rd party games to get released this year, last year still saw a handful of releases even though they were few and far between this year is a wasteland in that area so new sales riding on a yarn - based game starring a second rate character and a Kirby that while does look good does not look anywhere close to mainstream.

A close second would be during my PlayStation days (the second console I ever owned) which were spent playing Dance Dance Revolution when they released the dance mat home edition, and also competing in Street Fighter Turbo Puzzle Fighter (I was the reigning champ amongst my peers — not sure if I can hold that title anymore though!)

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

With the release of its second quarter 2017 after market close today, Tesla confirmed that they finally started installing their solar roof tiles in homes — though those homes are owned by their executives and employees.

Recently it feels like I've been writing «world's first» quite frequently, though «world's largest» might come in a close second.

The second most important», in her view, «is the ability to understand the internal client's need and to advise with a solution - oriented mind - set; this requires business acumen, being close to the business and — though this is often underestimated — empathy».

Should the music streaming service finally go public after a decade in the business, it would likely be the subject of the second largest tech IPO in 2018, surpassed only by Xiaomi that's said to be seeking a valuation of no less than $ 50 billion and may also opt for the NYSE, though it's presently understood to be much closer to filing for an IPO with the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

Xiaomi is still the number one smartphone manufacturer in their homeland, though Huawei is close second at this point.

Even though the firm's brokers closed just $ 2 billion in transactions at mid-year, Welch is boldly predicting a comeback in the second half due to a pipeline that has climbed to $ 8 billion.

Though I have found a close second here in Louisville I want.

i have knitted just once in my life, a blanket for my first grandson because that's what grandmas are supposed to do right lmao, i used a loom and knit it so tight it weighs a ton and for the life of me and 67 videos later could not figure out how to finish off the last corner, even though it was wonky my daughter and son in law received it with the proper ohhs and ahhs and my poor grandson had to suffer having it put on him and them it was passed to my second grandson and he had to endure it also, so i went to maggie's site to look at video and was lost with the first stitch, so maybe i will just get back to painting the walls in the kitchen so i can at least get something finished in this dang house lol xx p.s. you are not going to believe this but i hate the newspaper in my bathroom when i close the door the walls come in and make the room smaller than it is already and because i am a reader of all things i have read and reread all of the articles so many times so there it sits not finished while i try to come up with something, maybe crashing out all of the drywall and starting over oh lord xx