Sentences with phrase «longest of long shots»

At this point, Mudbound, so deserving of many category nominations from Best Picture to Screenplay to Supporting Actor and Actress to Song, seems like the longest of long shots.

Weird things can happen in this category at BAFTA — absolutely nobody saw «The Station Agent» coming in 2003 — but even so, it's safe to say surprise nominee Straczynski hasn't a prayer here, while Claudel is the longest of long shots.

Hayao Miyazaki) Japanese animé master Hayao Miyazaki's latest girl's fable is the magnificent Spirited Away, easily the best animated and foreign film of this year and, without question, the longest of long shots to even be nominated for either category come Oscar time.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Former New York Gov. George Pataki has been described as the longest of long shots in a crowded field of 16 Republicans seeking the party's nomination for president.

The eleventh - hour attempt by Republicans in the U.S. Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act once seemed like the longest of long shots, but now appears to have a chance — albeit slim — at passage, even though it has been deemed the most «radical» of all the Obamacare reform efforts the GOP has debated thus far.

In fact, a 300 - 1 longest of long shots to win the green jacket in his Masters debut, his is a moniker unknown to virtually all casual golf fans before he made a charge late on Saturday, coming in with three birdies in his final six holes.

If James were to emerge as the longest of long shots, he would add style and wit to the show.

Not exact matches

The company joins a long list of businesses that have cut ties with the National Rifle Association or sought to clarify their relationship with the industry since a deadly shooting in Florida last month.

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.

That's why it was the biggest car story of 2017, by a long shot.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

I think it a long - shot, sort of ballsy acquisition.»

If you want to up your game, shoot 60 seconds (no longer) of video to give the investor more background on you and the business.

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.

But watching many, many long shots has a way of making a person cynical.

While cost of living may make this a longer shot, Washington, D.C. is not to be ignored as a legitimate contender.

Having steered largely clear of partisan politics for most of her career, Winfrey became an enthusiastic backer of Obama when he looked a long shot to beat Hillary Clinton to the 2008 nomination.

But recovering the rest of the plane is still a long shot — former National Transportation Safety Board official Tom Haueter told ABC News that the wreckage was unlikely to lead investigators to the rest of the aircraft because it had been floating around the ocean for more than a year.

«I think this [crypto] is going to be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes by a long shot,» the former Fortress hedge fund manager said at a CoinDesk bitcoin conference.

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.

From their mission statement: «March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.»

The two - time Defensive Player of the Year and MVP candidate is no longer just a stopper on the wing, but an offensive force capable of creating his own shot and dishing to others.

On the other side, the manufacturers risked being publicly vilified, as well as the long - shot possibility that a sympathetic jury would ignore the lack of scientific evidence.

How does Elon Musk, leader of some of the world's most long - shot ventures, deal with risk?

The NRA reportedly continued to use long - running ads after the shooting, most of them aimed at increasing memberships.

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.

If Adele's album sales stay on track to reach 2.5 million, 25 would become this year's best - selling album by a long shot, surpassing Taylor Swift's 1989, sales of which stood at 1.74 million as of Nov. 12, according to Billboard.

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.

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 seemed a long shot — the Supreme Court hears only a small fraction of the cases brought before it.

She talked to his parents, neighbors, and old school teachers, people who had known him long before the Beltway shootings, reconstructing a history of abandonment and neglect that would form a cornerstone of his defense.

The prospect of additional funding, combined with a new plan from management, offered Shop.ca not just a chance to survive for a while longer, but a shot at turning an actual profit.

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.

It will be Darwinian, but those that can survive the heightened scrutiny will have a better shot of making it for the long haul.»

Star Wars fans have longed for the day their beloved universe would fall into the hands of a new master, freed from the dark overload who tricked them into loving him before showing his Special Edition, Greedo - shooting - first true face.

It was filmed using a custom - built drone equipped with seven GoPro cameras and operated by a licensed drone pilot due to the complicated nature of the shoot, which included dropping 30 feet into a field of sharp agave; long, continuous shots; and stabilization against the wind.

Ken Pilip, CEO of the Consulting Engineers of Alberta, says meeting that target is not such a long shot.

«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.

Start Small is a charity focused on underserved communities, and its first focus will be Ferguson, Missouri — now infamous for the racial unrest that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown and a long pattern of prejudicial police treatment of minorities — and is located outside Dorsey's hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

Pinker's extensively researched thesis is that global violence has decreased throughout human history, as wrong as that may feel given the 24 - hour news cycle that came into being not long after two world wars and matured during an age of regular terrorist attacks and mass shootings.

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

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.

Woods opened in August 2017 as a 100/1 long - shot to take the green jacket at the Masters, but after a month of solid play during which viewers have seen flashes of the Tiger of old, Woods» odds have fallen all the way down to 16/1, the seventh best odds in the field.

The five - month shoot will just a bit longer than the filming of «Silence,» which took place in Taiwan from January 30 to May 15, 2015.

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.

As the U.S. businessman has gone from long - shot Republican presidential candidate to the party's nominee for the White House, fears that Mr. Trump will act on some of his campaign statements — like renegotiating the North American free - trade agreement and pulling the United States out of the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement — have spooked some Canadian small - business owners with U.S. interests.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooting victim Anthony Borges keeps improving, but still has a long healing process ahead of him, his attorney said Monday.

Palm Beach County schools have sped up several long - planned safety precautions since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings forced new scrutiny of school security.

I have little doubt that this estimate was obtained by some version of the dividend discount model: Price = D / (k - g), where Ed Kershner decided to pick a long - term return on stocks k really, really close to the long term growth rate of dividends g. Gee, why didn't he just go ahead and set them equal and shoot for thrills?