Sentences with phrase «jockey with»

The lower annual fee puts it in a class of its own, leaving the other three luxury cards to jockey with one another for second place in value.

Shouldn't they be free to open where they choose and jockey with each other for students?

Terence Stamp is given a brief opportunity to philosophize about the limitations of science, Val Kilmer is convincing as a competent space jockey with a mechanical and scientific background, and Carrie Anne - Moss, whose character Bowman is a nod to Dave Bowman from «2001: A Space Odyssey,» is convincing as a no - nonsense pilot.

For Del and the other adults around the track, including Chloë Sevigny as a jockey with her own wounds to heal, the animal is future dog food, nothing more.

In the midst of the Great Depression, a businessman (Jeff Bridges) coping with the tragic death of his son, a jockey with a history of brutal injuries (Tobey Maguire) and a down - and - out horse trainer (Chris Cooper) team up to help Seabiscuit, a temperamental, undersized racehorse.

Buscemi is the least grass - fed of actors, meant for the rat - run of city streets, and, if I didn't quite believe in him as a country guy, I believed even less in Chloë Sevigny as a cynical jockey with a set of broken bones.

While a high - level athlete training twice a day would need adequate glycogen replenishment, a desk - jockey with man boobs or a stress - ball with a muffin - top would best leave the bananas for the monkeys.

But it's a lot if you want to make a horse lose a race, you put a jockey with one or two kilos more on the back, and the horse is quite big.

What is one to make of a space jockey with a wide, self - satisfied grin, long blond hair and a name like Captain Good?

After some contentious jockeying with leadership, Ackman pulled renowned rail industry veteran Hunter Harrison out of retirement and installed him as CEO.

The government economists use that data to determine how much the economy would produce if most hot dog stands had busy vendors, most cubicle setups had software jockeys with clients to please and most drill presses had drill - press operators and a full list of orders.

She had been jockeying with Ken Schrader when she overdrove the corner and locked up her brakes.

Executed over 60 minutes, with all the key personnel intact, that attack is a scary proposition for the teams jockeying with Indianapolis for a playoff spot, and Luck makes it all run at peak efficiency.

Kearney made a pointed reference to her «years of political journalism» in a statement about her new position suggesting she could be jockeying with Nick Robinson to replace Humphrys as the main interviewer on Today.

He's currently jockeying with Quinn, former New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson and Comptroller John Liu for one of two spots in an almost - certain Democratic primary run - off.

«One of the fundamental shifts in state government over the past few years is we're not warring with the business community, we're not jockeying with the business community, we're working partnership with the business community,» Cuomo told reporters after the endorsement event.

Mr. Heastie, who would be the first nonwhite and Bronxite to be elected speaker, is jockeying with Assemblyman Joseph Morelle, the majority leader, and potentially Assemblymen Keith Wright and Joseph Lentol.

And it's too easy, he said, to shrug and say that books have always «jockeyed with TV and movies and magazines and newspapers for people's time.

Parking will be at a premium and with a shorter time line to visit the fair (plus jockeying with media on Friday), it's likely parking will become a blood sport among the valets.

Take the four as a unit, and they prophesy the career, particularly the jockeying with Minimalism and Conceptualism that links Hirst to so many disparate artists of his generation and the one preceding it.

Canadian Lawyer returns to Quebec this year for our latest regional firm survey, to find the province's full - service outfits jockeying with local and national rivals alike for a position on Plan Nord, the multibillion - dollar project for the development of Quebec's north.

It's a hive of activity, where you'll find locals jockeying with tourists for the fish monger's attention, overhear spirited conversations, and see buskers playing their hearts out.

Launched just four months ago, DirectTV Now seems to be jockeying with Sling TV as the best one - stop shop for sports streaming.

Your writing style seems to me to mirror «Candace», «Alberta Legal», «Shane» and a couple of other pseudonym jockeys with seemingly nasty personalities who have «contributed» herein over the years with opinions without back - up rationale.

Not exact matches

The unlimited time off policy takes away the need to bank days off along with all the wasted effort of having to «jockey» for vacation time.

Then, as stock jockeys grappled with reality, shares plunged.

The «confined, ritualistic nature of the White House beat makes it a difficult slog for even the most adversarial reporter,» he says, and with dozens of journalists jockeying for the same stories, very little unique coverage emerges.

Three biopharma giants jockey for market share in psoriatic arthritis with new data.

Their tactics, coupled with fighting between groups jockeying for access to the racket, have led to a surge of violence in cities like Salamanca, home to a third of the fuel taps discovered in Mexico in 2016.

And retailers have been jockeying to nab those bargain hunters, with stores such as Walmart, Toys «R Us, and Gap open on Thanksgiving, and Macy's, Kohl's and Target planning to open at the stroke of midnight.

Currently one of the frontrunners, with 8 - 1 odds to win the Run for the Roses, the horse and his jockey will now be dressed in Amazon's Audible signage.

The biotech has been jockeying against main rivals Novartis and Juno to secure a first - to - market advantage with the groundbreaking new medical tech, which turns patients» immune cells into souped - up, re-engineered cancer killers that are then reintroduced into the body.

And I haven't even mentioned internal partner dynamics where a firm feels 1 — 2 partners have more shitty deals than others and therefore each partner might be jockeying to get his or her deals saved and with scarce resources some will get what they want and some won't.

Faced with wary shoppers and a shorter holiday season, retailers are piling on deals as they jockey for market share during the most important sales period of the year.

The one with the 100 - pound jockey or the 300 - pound jockey?

This feedback from the general public gave some indication about the specific issues that would shape the campaign, as the parties jockeyed to garner favour with potential voters.

The wall - street testosterone pumped jockey hangs around with glassy nerds, looked upon by flashy artists with the swindlers all around.

The crowdfunding industry is exploding with entrepreneurs, investors, portal operators, third party service providers and experts from around the world who are all jockeying for position to take advantage of a promising and brand new fundraising channel for SMEs and creative or social projects.

jimtanker Don't forget the NEXT war, where the Jeebus freaks shall follow the zionists into war with the camel jockeys.

We see it with politicians trying to jockey the seat in the White House as POTUS.

This vagueness in the ideational superstructure paid off at the organizational level too, for it meant, among other things, that men and women with new angles of interpretation were able to jockey for dominance and rise to the top.

What concerns me is that it isn't just a jockeying for power, but also clear ideological alignments with all kinds of injustices.

«Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will among men, and that is just what they did except there were so many of them that there was a fair amount of crowding and jockeying for position, with the result that one particular angel, a girl about nine years old who was smaller than most of them, ended up so far out on the fringes of things that not even by craning her neck and standing on tiptoe could she see what was going on.

We jockeyed for position at the hand crank knowing the prize for our hard work would be an ice cream cone piled high with the most glorious, creamy confection.

Striding glumly back to the jockeys» quarters accompanied by Trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Eddie Arcaro was leveling with anybody within earshot.

Along with John W. Hanes and Christopher T. Chenery, he was one of the three original members of The Jockey Club picked to reestablish first - class racing facilities in New York (SI, Sept. 27,» 54).

With the coveralls: Capezio's short jockey boots in red or black leather ($ 21.95) and Geomet, Inc. jewelry made of color anodized aluminum nuts and bolts, cotter pins and pipe filters.

As we ge to the bottom half of the Rankings there's a lot more intrigue come Playoff Seeding — up top, while they are still jockeying for position they all know they are winding up with a top seed..

MOTOR SPORTS — WALT HANSGEN, West - field, N.J. throttle jockey, roared Briggs Cunningham's new Lister Jaguar up to 120 mph on straightaway, drove front - running race to win 80 - mile President's Cup feature with 75 - mph average at Upper Marlboro, Md..

Jockey Manuel Ycaza, who has acquired fascinating and rewarding habit of winning big ones, tried his able hands for first time with Sword Dancer, plucky little 3 - year - old, in $ 81,250 Travers Stakes at Saratoga.