Sentences with phrase «is a long shot in»

However in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017, those teams have not only built cars that were capable of winning multiple races, but arguably of challenging for the championship, too (OK, so that's a long shot in the case of 2012 and 2013).

But state Sen. Carl Marcellino (R - LI) said that's a long shot in this legislative session, which ends on June 17.

After all, Tea Party candidate Rick Barber is a long shot in his July runoff race for the Republican nomination for an Alabama congressional seat.

Mr. Felder does have a primary challenger, Blake Morris, but his campaign would seem to be a long shot in a district in which Mr. Felder runs on multiple party lines, and won unopposed in 2016.

Online matchmaking sites have been around in India for quite some time, like Shaadi.com or Bharatmatrimony.com, but they are long shot in a country of a billion - plus people.

Mudbound is nominated four times, but they're a long shot in Adapted Screenplay and Supporting actor, and we're all agreed on rooting for Roger Deakins in Best Cinematography (though a win for Mudbound «s Rachel Morrison there would mean the first win by a woman in that category ever, so rooting interests abound), so it's Mary in Best Original Song as Netflix's great narrative hope.

Oscar - winning screenwriter - turned - director Aaron Sorkin («The Social Network») is not to be underestimated; he adapted Molly Bloom's truth - is - stranger - than - fiction gambling thriller starring twice - nominated Jessica Chastain («The Help,» «Zero Dark Thirty») as a brilliant skier - turned - high - stakes - poker - wrangler — she's a long shot in this year's overcrowded Actress category.

Not exact matches

Money is not the only thing that motivates great employees by a long shot, but compensating your staff well is still important in order to hold onto them.

Not long after, in 2007, 24 - year - old Maurice Pulley was gunned down after testifying against a man who had shot him in the face earlier that year.

You're better going short, since the majority of your shots in a golf game are made with your wedge and putter: «Everyone likes a long drive, and it's exciting, but to really lower your handicap, chipping and putting will do it a lot faster.»

Indeed, the once thriving labour - sponsored funds sector seems to be teetering on the verge of oblivion — a good thing, in the eyes of critics who claim it puts unsophisticated investors at risk and skews Canada's venture capital market toward technology sector long shots with little chance of payoff.

Now the Missouri native has switched to the Republican Party and is making a long - shot bid in his home state to unseat incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat.

Trump was referring to the long - debunked myth that Army Gen. John Joseph «Black Jack» Pershing, who was the governor of the Philippines after the Spanish - American war, quelled Muslim insurgents there by shooting them with bullets that had been dipped in pig's blood.

It's not surprising that the largest city in Hawaii is on this list — Hawaii is the most expensive state to live in by a long shot.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership is on life support, and as President Barack Obama readies a long - shot push to get the free - trade deal through Congress this fall, he may be virtually the last elected official in Washington who hasn't given it up for dead.

The worst injury was suffered by Ryan Berntt, a teenager who was shot in the head with a rubber bullet by police, leaving him in a month - long coma and with permanent brain damage.

The drones themselves were just a foot long and weighed eight ounces, but thanks to Intel's Shooting Star service, which controls the drones in unison, more than a thousand can take to the sky to create visual experiences.

He's already played a thunderous trailer for Halo 4, the forthcoming instalment of Microsoft's bestselling alien shoot -»em - up, and now dims the lights again for another preview, this time for Splinter Cell: Blacklist, the next title in the long - running super-spy series.

You may have heard that Toronto is putting up more skyscrapers than any other North American city — by a long shot, in fact.

The center of the cord is gray matter — essentially an extension of the brain, like a tail — that is sheathed in fibrous white matter, with long, thin nerve fibers called axons shooting out at intervals to wire every part of the body.

Sony's PlayStation 4 is in a strong position: Over 70 million consoles have been sold, putting Sony in first place by a long shot, and a relatively new PS4 console is on sale for the other 6.93 billion people who don't own one yet.

But despite widespread unhappiness in the party over Trump's tariffs, passage of such legislation would be a long shot - especially since a two - thirds super-majority would be needed for passage over a likely presidential veto.

Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

As Twitter rants go, Stewart Butterfield's was epic: a 19 - tweet barrage of comments about racial injustice, the Charleston shooting and a «preposterous» Wall Street Journal editorial that declared institutionalized racism «no longer exists» in the United States.

It's a very long shot, but his performance in «Get Out» will stay with general audiences longer than Oldman's as Churchill.

Rarely have we done projects where a shot is less than a minute, which is super long in traditional cinema.

But Eric Sussman, the lead prosecutor in USA v. Black et al (he's now in private practice) said that was a «long shot.»

But he'd be a long shot given that a county jury recently recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate who went without water for seven days.

He was seen as a long shot in the general election until the night he beat Hillary Clinton in the voting booths.

«In the beginning, when you're trying to build the business, you really do want to save on your expenses to make whatever money you have last longer and to give your business more of a shot,» says Jamila White, co-founder of The Bootstrap Babes, a blog full of ideas and money - saving advice for entrepreneurs.

The concept — a survival course for adults where skills like siphoning gas, hotwiring cars and shooting guns are taught — has been percolating in his mind long before 52business» inception.

«He is a long - shot,» says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research, in Washington, D.C..

In 2014, two leading freelance networks, Elance and oDesk, merged to form Upwork, which is now the largest network for freelancers by a long shot.

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- While authorities investigate what set off a deadly shooting at an electronic music festival event, residents said it came amid a growing and increasingly open drug scene in this resort town that has long been spared the violence of Mexico's cartel wars.

If Chen Guangbiao is to be believed, his arrival in New York this week to pursue a long shot acquisition of The New York Times won't be the last time a wealthy Chinese entrepreneur makes a move on a U.S. media property.

Furthermore, while the company does have another potentially significant growth opportunity on the horizon in its CA$ 20 billion ($ 15 billion) Frontier oil sands mining project, it appears to be a long shot of moving forward considering where crude is these days.

In an uncertain world, committing long - term capital in exchange for an illiquidity premium and a predictable return that — while not shooting out the lights — should at least be highly respectable, has a lot to be said for iIn an uncertain world, committing long - term capital in exchange for an illiquidity premium and a predictable return that — while not shooting out the lights — should at least be highly respectable, has a lot to be said for iin exchange for an illiquidity premium and a predictable return that — while not shooting out the lights — should at least be highly respectable, has a lot to be said for it.

OTTAWA — Ten years after a suicide bomber took the life of diplomat Glyn Berry, newly released documents depict a frustrating — and fruitless — search for justice in what proved to be the first shot in Canada's long, bloody combat mission in Kandahar.

Even countries as far away as the U.K. have expressed interest though it is a much longer shot to join in the near term.

So Amexit might not be such a long shot after a wild and unpredictable lead - up to U.S. election in November.

No matter which one you believe has a better shot at replacing government backed money in the long run as a payment method and / or as a store of value, it may be prudent to have some amount of both in your overall portfolio.

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Despite the day's developments, there was deep skepticism in Washington that anything would change because of the long history of inaction by state and federal politicians after similar mass shootings.

While UBI is still seen as a long shot on a national scale, the recent move signals that it's entering the political mainstream in California.

They've gotten a lot of play in the media because mass shootings have long been a major television news topic and because high school students getting involved in political activism is a noteworthy story.

All these thieving, lying, woman - hating, life - negating, childhood - ruining vermin should have been shot in the head and tossed in the Mediterranean long ago.

It isn't all good quality, by a long shot, but then again, there is no reason to believe that in oral cultures all stories were created equal and for the ages.

Not long ago we heard about the shooting in an Amish community — Christians are not immune to this as well.

I no longer wonder why god would allow the random deaths of innocent children in floods and shootings, because I now understand that the universe is largely indifferent to us.

It's a long shot, but it explains the production involvement of Martin Scorsese in the movie.