Sentences with phrase «last hurtle»

But there's one last hurtle to jump.

Plus, the craft will collect data during its last hurtle into the gas giant's atmosphere.

Not exact matches

The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a «Brexit» - a British exit from the European Union.

I wanted to make some thankyou cookies for a colleague who had been helping me out on a major project I have been working on over the last few months, and as we're hurtling towards Christmas I thought it was only appropriate that I made him some spicy, delicious, ginger flavoured treats.

The horses hurtle as one around the last turn and into the stretch, with Woolf finally asking The Biscuit for all he has left and then turning to yell at Kurtsinger as he pulls away, «So long, Charley!»

The fastest pass is one in which the outgoing sprinter uses almost all the 20 - meter zone to build speed, and the incoming runner leans and stretches to get the stick into his hurtling teammate's hand at the last instant.

As a landmark gay marriage bill hurtled toward an uncertain vote last year, New York's Democratic leaders scrambled to corral support.

As Albany hurtles toward the Friday state budget deadline, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has launched a last - minute push to get language into the spending plan that would furnish the city with new tools and resources to hire firms belonging to women and nonwhites, the Observer has learned.

Last January a military telescope detected a bizarre object hurtling around the asteroid belt, leaving a long tail of dust.

After a brush with death last month, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is back on track for an encounter with a hurtling hunk of space rock.

DEBRIS thrown up when Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 hurtled into Jupiter last July now forms a clearly visible dark band in the planet's southern hemisphere, say astronomers who spotted it last month.

Over the last decade, the solar plasma around Voyager 1 has thinned as the spacecraft hurtles toward the edge of the bubble at more than 60,000 kilometers per hour.

A spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice.

As the invalids quickly becomes enraged aggressors, Cherry and Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night, hurtling towards a destiny that will leave millions infected, countless dead, and a lucky few struggling to find the last safe corner of Planet Terror.

Whether it's hurtling you through space, or taking you to a desolate island on a faraway planet, there's no denying that The Last Jedi is one of the most remarkable - looking additions to the Star Wars franchise to date.

This last factoid is of particular interest to us at the moment, because my co-driver and I happen to be hurtling past the same roadsides these deer find so enticing at 60 mph.

Meanwhile he continues to be preoccupied with finishing their collaborative projects: a show of drawings opened last week at the Menil Collection in Houston, and he is now on his way to Oslo to install their final public sculpture, «Tumbling Tacks,» four 18 - foot - wide thumbtacks that appear to be hurtling down a hillside.

In the second of a two - part special (click here for part one), Friederike Heine and Alex Novarese chart the last days of ailing US giant Dewey & LeBoeuf as the firm hurtles towards its collapse

In a research report released Wednesday, Kerrisdale Capital alleges Kodak's blockchain effort isn't genuine, going so far as to call it «a last - ditch stock promotion gambit for a company hurtling towards bankruptcy.»

Last week, my carriage hurtled into one of the dips and got stuck.