Sentences with phrase «into race week»

«A successful test like this gives everyone confidence, especially the drivers, and that's a good feeling going into race week.

Brooklyn Councilwoman Inez Barron, who jumped into the race a week before the vote, voted for herself.

After nearly five months of failing to raise competitive quantities of money or gain a foothold in the polls, Avella acknowledged the same reality that Republican billionaire John Catsimatidis said made him decide against getting into the race this week: beating an incumbent mayor is really hard.

Then a 24 - year - old mother of three, she dropped out of the race after admitting she cheated on her husband but stepped back into the race a week later.

The field for Queens borough president is growing larger after state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside) decided to throw his hat into the race this week, but at least one of his competitors is not sweating the extra competition.

Gipson, in addition to comedian and activist Randy Credico, had been the sole challengers to Cuomo in the primary before Nixon's headline - grabbing entrance into the race this week.

Not exact matches

She talks fast, racing to pack a week's worth of outrage into one high - voltage half hour.

ESPN announced a deal this week that will bring competitive drone racing to the network starting in August in hopes of tapping into the sport's small but growing following.

Grillo's surge in the final weeks of the campaign threw the race open, with hundreds of thousands turning up at his rallies to hear him lay into targets ranging from corrupt politicians and bankers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Now, two weeks before Iowa caucuses, Rubio is looking to eat into Cruz's lead, recognizing there may only be room for one senator in the race if the nominating fight is prolonged.

The data, which covers the week ending Thursday, Jan. 25, also showed that $ 5.4 billion raced into international equity ETFs.

Cincinnati faced an uphill climb to get back into the AFC North race, but it'll be even harder to pull off if Green is sidelined against the Tennessee Titans in Week 10 or potentially beyond.

It's going to be a race over the last few weeks for who can slot into that 4th spot.

Having raced into a 3 - 0 lead in the opening 30 minutes, Liverpool have now put themselves in a great position to progress, but it remains to be seen whether or not City can pull off what would be an incredible turnaround at the Etihad next week.

Man United have seen a meteoric rise up the table in the past few weeks since their slow start under new boss van Gaal, but will go to Villa Park knowing a victory may well thrust them back into the title race.

Stewart didn't share in that belief during portions of the summer — he said at one point that his team would just be taking up a spot in the Chase if they made it — but he regained his confidence in the final weeks leading into the 10 - race playoff.

Cash pours into 300 windows, at $ 25,000 per minute, between harness races at Yonkers Raceway where, last week, a world - record one - night handle off $ 2,531,060 was set.

The 2012 Iditarod race is now well into the first week, and the leaders are getting close to the halfway point.

That is how the NASCAR world turns heading into the AAA Texas 500 Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway (2:15 p.m. ET, NBCSN), the second of three semifinal races that will determine the four drivers who will vie for the championship in two weeks at Homestead - Miami Speedway.

NASCAR's Winston Cup championship, which only two weeks ago looked as if it had been locked up by Dale Jarrett, has turned into a crapshoot with 10 races left in the season.

Jan 04,2016... The New York Yankees lost eight games in a week and once again changed a runaway into a pennant race...

Martin went into Sunday's race only 73 points behind leader Jimmie Johnson, having taken a whopping 107 - point chunk out of Johnson's margin the week before at Texas, when the three - time defending champion crashed on the third lap and finished 38th.

Most weeks, as many as 200 drivers turn up in 200 gleaming cars, and they race 400 or 600 or 800 times till they've shaken themselves into hierarchies of velocity and control.

I'd prefer if they were heavy favorites coming into it rather than this wide open race we have at the start of this week.

He'll get his first proper taste of the GT500 machinery in a test at Suzuka later next week - though unfortunately for Jenson he's not exactly jumping into a race - winning car.

Baseball 1960 will be remembered as the year Ted Williams retired with a Frank Merriwell flourish and Stan Musial didn't; the year the Pittsburgh Pirates won a pennant and made the oldtimers happy by hitting behind the runner; the year the New York Yankees took a.001 lead into the second week of September then vigorously won the race with 15 straight and a record number of home runs (193); and the year nice guys Warren Spahn, Pete Runnels and Dick Groat finished first.

The 20 - year - old has been in fine form in recent weeks as he has taken his goalscoring tally to 11 for the season and is playing a pivotal role in getting Spurs back into the Premier League title race.

It seems like every time Chelsea hand Manchester City a way back into the title race, they fail to take full advantage, and it is the same again this week.

3The Bloomington League had Hoops for the first time since Week 1 and not only did Wednesday Night provide a nice barometer for how Teams have improved since Week 1, it signified that the Playoffs are racing into view..

With Dalvin Cook tearing his ACL and no other rookie consistently putting up great performances, it may indeed be a two - horse race just four weeks into the season.

There is no doubt that Arsenal have given themselves a mountain to climb to get back into the title race, especially with next week's North London Derby now massively important to our season.

Martin Truex Jr. was the regular season points leader and his win last week at Chicagoland in the first race of the playoffs ensured him a spot into the Round of 12.

«I feel good coming into the next couple of weeks, every race I'm getting better and I'm always working on something.

Juventus defeated Napoli last week to get back into the title race and although they are not as strong as they have been in the last few years, they can still show up in big games.

Amid widespread consensus that his campaign is rudderless (at best) and in complete chaos (at worst), Carl Paladino has added bulked up his staff in hopes of righting the ship heading into the final weeks of the governor's race, a source familiar with the new additions confirmed.

Two weeks later, I read this piece in Salon about the race to succeed Duke Cunningham in California: seeing a deficit in absentee voters, «Republican activists «poured» into the district and searched a Republican Party database that could tell them everything about voters from their personal hobbies and professional interests to the brand of toothpaste they're likely to use.

With the presidential circus having left their backyard, New Hampshire's Senate candidates lost little time this week digging into each other's commitment to limiting spending in what's expected to be one of the most competitive and expensive Senate races in the country.

We had just sort of gotten used to that when Eliot Spitzer jumped into the city comptroller race this week.

For an example, let's take a quick look at the front page of yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer: «After weeks of blogging about the Philadelphia mayor's race, Sam Katz has taken a step toward jumping into it.»

Rivera backers had tried to talk Padernacht into quitting the race weeks ago, noting a poll commissioned by New Roosevelt had show Espada had a good chance of winning the primary if the vote was split three ways.

A blast of fresh air blew into the local congressional race last week in the person of independent candidate Diane Neal of Hurley, a familiar face for constituents who watch primetime police procedurals.

Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island is wading into the city's mayoral race, launching a campaign committee last week as she makes a final decision about a run.

Last week, in her first television interview since she jumped into the mayoral race, Malliotakis falsly claimed that rape in the city had risen 33 percent under Mayor Bill de Blasio, when in fact the increase was only about 4 percent between 2013, the last year of Mayor Bloomberg's final term, and 2016, de Blasio's third year as mayor.

Mr. de Blasio has, at times, stumbled in prior attempts to make himself into a national figure championing liberal policies, but his appearances this week have made it clear that on matters of race, he speaks from a firmer, more familiar ground.

A spurned candidate, cross-endorsements, appointment speculation... We're five weeks away from the election and things are finally coming into focus in the races for town supervisor and town board.

«More than half a million (dollars) is coming into this race in the last two weeks of the campaign,» said campaign spokesman Kris Thompson.

It's Miliband's decision to withdraw from the race for the European foreign minister's job two weeks ago that has catapulted the question of his leadership back into the frame.

A blast of fresh air blew into the local congressional race last week in the person of independent candidate Diane Neal of Hurley.

Killian, who ran two years ago against Latimer for the same Senate seat, jumped into the race less than two weeks ago after the other two announced Republican candidates, Sarmad Khojestah and Dan Schorr, didn't excite Republicans here in Westchester or in Albany.

Spitzer, who resigned as governor in 2008 after revelations he spent thousands of dollars on prostitutes, jumped into the race for New York City comptroller just over a week ago.