Sentences with phrase «last home stretch»

Dogs love to run, so you've got a running buddy there to help pull you forward in that last home stretch... where the food is.

As we come to the last home stretch of 2016, I'm asking myself these questions.

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published a patent filed by the mega-retailer for a «delivery management system» that aims to improve upon last mile shipping — the final stretch extending to consumers» homes — by using robotics, sensors, and yes, blockchains, also often referred to as distributed ledgers.

Despite legislative reforms that have occurred since the last housing crisis, it's still possible to take on a home loan that stretches your budget to the max.

A horse runs with a new rhythmic vitality when he turns the last curve and straightens out on the home stretch.

We're down to the home stretch, the last few weeks of summer, so I'm packing in as many seasonal salads as I can!

While the Spurs play 16 of their last 24 games at home, they'll have to endure four back - to - backs in the latter stretch of the season (though three of their four opponents on the second of those back - to - back games are the Lakers, Timberwolves, and Kings).

The Colts are the last unbeaten team, and unless they stumble two or three times down the stretch against a relatively easy schedule, they could end up playing all their postseason games indoors: AFC divisional and championship games at home, and Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit.

But after a rough four - week stretch, Patrick has reason to be happy as she was the highest - finishing driver for Stewart - Haas Racing with Stewart coming home 17th and Ryan Newman — last year's winner of this race — being scored in 31st.

- season opener and season finale with the Bengals; - an early (week 2 - 4 game with the Browns, probably in the Bank - BYE somewhere in the middle of the schedule, weeks 8 - 10 - A SNF game with the steelers - a road MNF game (dwindling attendance in the Bank in 2017 plus the rather pedestrian ratings of our home MNF game last season — I see no way we get another chance for a home SNF / MNF game in a while)- a home TNF game (1 of last 7 TNF games on the road)- a brutal stretch of at least 3, possibly 4 - 5 games

Last Super Bowl Sunday, in the basement of his Columbus, Ohio, home, Terry Glenn was doing the same thing as millions of other people — stretching out on a sofa and settling in for kickoff with a bunch of buddies.

But if you just count straight up consecutive road losses, whether or not there are home games in between, then last year we had a stretch where we lost 6 in a row on the road, plus two more stretches where we lost 5 in a row.

Although the Clarets lost 1 - 0 to Swansea on this season's opening day, that is actually there only home defeat in the last 17 League games, stretching back to before Xmas.

Last week, the Cleveland Cavaliers -LRB--285) actually had better odds of winning their conference than the Warriors -LRB--270), but that all changed when Cleveland opted to rest their starters down the stretch and lost home - court throughout the playoffs.

One tornado had hewed tightly to Highway 21, and as Jackson negotiated the last stretch of road from Sylacauga, the landscape looked more and more ravaged: cracked - back trees, clotheslined street signs, a family of four, bewildered, stooping to pick through the wreckage of their home.

He held the lead at The Players last year on Sunday and nearly took home the first prize in that $ 10 million purse, but stumbled down the stretch and had to settle for a fourth - place finish and $ 440,000.

He was Player of the Week in the National League last week, thanks to a six - game stretch batting.455 with five home runs and 13 RBI.

The chestnut colt, one of the fastest 3 - year - olds in America, had raced to the lead at the drop of the flag, relaxed through a modest half mile in 47 [2/5] seconds, then hung on tenaciously when Snow Chief pounced on him at the far turn and stretched his neck like a bowstring on the last bend for home.

Thugwane, the 5» 2», 99 - pound maintenance worker from the Koornfontein coal mines whose inspired stretch drive in the Atlanta marathon made him South Africa's first black Olympic gold medalist, returned home last month to find himself the target of a rumored murder plot.

But with the match seemingly set to enter 30 minutes of extra time, Neill's men made one last attack through Brady and latching onto a superb Graham Rix cross, Alan Sunderland stretched to volley home the winning goal in a match that would later be affectionately dubbed «the five minute final.»

The apex of this run was a three - game stretch in which Otto: poured in 33 points in a double - figure win at Syracuse; capped a dramatic comeback with a last - second, game - winning lay - up in double - overtime at Connecticut; and broke open an ugly home win over Rutgers with a dominant performance at both ends of the floor.

Arsenal have won their last 16 home matches against Stoke in all competitions, a run stretching back to August 1981.

The Tractor Boys have drawn five of their last six home games in the Championship (W1) so they are at least on a good stretch of unbeaten form at Portman Road.

Chelsea were pummeled by Burnley in a shock 3 - 2 home loss last weekend and with the loss of key players through suspension and injury they are not going to be at their strongest by any stretch of the imagination.

The Eagles have lost only one of their last nine home games in a great stretch of form from them.

The Blues are at home in six of their last ten, while City have five home and five away games in the final stretch of the season.

Preston are currently running on an eight - match undefeated stretch of games away from home and they have scored in each of their last four.

Saturday's 1 - 1 draw with free - falling Blackpool at home stretched their winless run to four in the league, having won just one of their last nine Premiership matches in a destructive sequence which has destroyed any hope they had of competing in the Champions League for a second consecutive season.

However, the Potters have lacked a bit of consistency in recent weeks, with their 3 - 0 reverse at Upton Park against West Ham — a match the Potters were completely out - played in — stretching their winless to three games, although, once again we're straight back to their imperious record at home, having gone their last six matches unbeaten inside what has become fortress Brittania, recording five wins and two draws.

Last week's 1 - 0 loss at home to Manchester United stretched Villa's barren run in front of goal to three games − a little over six hours in total since their last Premier League gLast week's 1 - 0 loss at home to Manchester United stretched Villa's barren run in front of goal to three games − a little over six hours in total since their last Premier League glast Premier League goal.

Away from home, however, their drought stretches that little bit further as the Gunners» last away win in the Premier League was back at the beginning of March.

A 1 - 0 home reverse to Man City on Monday stretched Blackburn's barren run in the league without winning to ten games — their last victory coming back on 23 January.

• That victory over Crvena zvezda is the only one the Russian side have managed in their last seven home matches in springtime European competition (D3 L3); they have scored four goals over that stretch while conceding six.

This is every increasing run of not wining at home is Sunderland's longest since late April last year but another failed attempt at home to Bolton would stretch their win less home run to 4 games, what would be their longest home run without a win in nearly four years.

City have been an unpredictable sort on the road so far, winning just one of their opening three away fixtures in the league: Tottenham Hotspur (0 - 0), Sunderland (1 - 0L) and Wigan Athletic (0 - 2W), while they were dumped out of the League Cup by West Brom at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their unbeaten run to five games so long as they get a result away at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up till now.

Advocates pushing for the street's reopening, who discussed the issue with U.S. DOT Secretary Ray LaHood at meeting in Chinatown last month, have cited the inconveniences posed by the stretch's closure, including the negative impact on area businesses and the fact that residents have to show identification when traveling to and from their homes.

I knew from reading that once transition started, it normally didn't last more than about 2 hours at the most, so I knew I was on the home stretch.

I milk my own Jersey, eat my own eggs and meat beef, chicken goat; grow many of my own veggies year round, eat lots of cream and butter, the fat on my meat, bone broth; within the last year have given up vegetable oils except olive; gluten free for 2 years; very little organic cane sugar say less than 2 - 3 T. daily, many days none; wine and cheese of my own making, mostly my own and daily; milk and / or water kefir daily; work at home is my exercise along with stretching; 90 % organix in everything.

The tail end of rush hour traffic was just on their last stretch before they got home.

I stopped to do some push - ups and squats then sprinted the last stretch home.

Even as I'm getting down to the last few weeks of this pregnancy (or, you know, at least the home stretch), I'm finding I feel my best on the days that I take just a little bit of that extra time for myself.

We're really in the home stretch of the Democratic primaries now, as the last few territories and the last eight states will all be voting in the upcoming Hippies definition, a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal

In the last stretch of the film, Laura is led into the unknown in the same way she used to lead others, and Glazer flips her circumstances step - by - step, as she ventures into darkness, she crosses water, she comes to an ordinary - looking home, and so on.

Who do you think will take home top honors — and gain momentum in the last stretch to the Oscars?

«Now we're in the home stretch,» the mayor said, «and we have built a movement over these last months, and now this movement, it's time for it to crescendo.

coming home from canada last year we were stuck in some bad traffic as both nearby borders were on major delays... long story short, some asshat didn't stay off my bumper far enough and was trying to get around me, in bumper - to - bumper traffic, moving less than 2 miles per hour on average for about a mile stretch.

Even though a large down payment can help you afford more, by no means should home buyers use their last dollar to stretch their down payment level.

Stop at the HMAS Sydney Memorial in Geraldton before the last stretch to Kalbarri, our home for the next four nights.

We will stop to stretch our legs and enjoy a picnic lunch on a remote beach before paddling the last stretch towards your home for the first night.

Nothing is worse than closing in on the home stretch, only to be blasted by a Blue Shell, then hit by lightning, then bumped off the track by other racers, and ending up going past the finish line in last place when you've been solid in 1st the entirety of the race.