Sentences with phrase «miles world for»

What was once the gold standard in the points and miles world for everyday spend has now been overtaken by other options including the Amex Blue Business Plus which offers 2x Membership Rewards points on every purchase.

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From horse - drawn carriages to decadent cakes and wedding dresses whose trains seem to billow for miles, here are stunning photos from royal wedding celebrations around the world.

To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

Legendary motivational speaker and business consultant Zig Ziglar died yesterday, after a 40 - year speaking career that saw him travel more than five million miles, consult for Fortune 500 companies and consort with American presidents and other world leaders.

Nike - endorsed elite runner Eliud Kipchoge has run the world's fastest marathon time but missed finishing under the two - hour mark by only 26 seconds — a gap of just one second per mile for the distance of the race.

Many airlines around the world feed into this need for prestige by offering arcane top tiers, the best known of which is United's Global Services, which is said to be based not on miles flown but how much you paid for your tickets.

It continues, «As more real - world miles accumulate and the software logic accounts for increasingly rare events, the probability of injury will keep decreasing.

This is one of the few places in the world where you can walk for miles on an uncrowded beach within the city limits.

For example, the Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card and the Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard both offer double miles on all purchases, and each mile is worth one cent as statement credits toward travel reservations.

Besides miles and miles of storage lockers of various sizes, all running along corridors named for nearby Etobicoke streets, it will feature a world - class wine - storage centre with an on - site sommelier, as well as sharp - looking lounge spaces for tasting parties — «a kind of country - club set - up,» Creighton says.

As more real - world miles accumulate and the software logic accounts for increasingly rare events, the probability of injury will keep decreasing.

The electric SUV zoomed through a quarter mile in 11.4 seconds, setting a new world record for the fastest SUV over that distance.

However, if don't want to worry about getting the most value from your rewards the Arrival Premier ® World Elite Mastercard ® is the better choice, as you can recoup the same mile value when redeemed for any travel spending.

After skewering the proposed system («one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world»), Musk issued an open - source design challenge: a 28 - passenger solar - powered pod capable of levitating through a system of tubes almost at the speed of sound, with a one - way ticket price of $ 20 and a total building cost estimated at $ 6 billion, less than a tenth of the budget for California's high - speed rail project.

Think of the beliefs of the past — the Earth is the center of the solar system, the world is flat, you can't break the sound barrier, you can't run the mile in under four minutes, and there's no need for a computer in the home.

Earn and use Mileage Plan miles for travel with our Alaska Global Partners to over 900 destinations around the world.

With other rewards programs such as Delta, American and United, major international carriers, the value of a mile can fluctuate drastically across the world, and can be very low for domestic flights.

For example, the Barclays Arrival Plus ® World Elite Mastercard ® — another top - tier rewards card — is only worthwhile if you exchange miles for a travel statement credFor example, the Barclays Arrival Plus ® World Elite Mastercard ® — another top - tier rewards card — is only worthwhile if you exchange miles for a travel statement credfor a travel statement credit.

Humanity needs to do the world a favor and dig a hole the size of Lake Eerie for a thousand square miles and flood the entire region with the ocean.

Barack Obama is, for better or worse, an empathetic man who has tried for years to see the world through Republican eyes even as he has pleaded for Republicans to walk a few miles in Democratic shoes.

Tens of thousands of Catholics in Poland gathered at locations along the country's 2,000 - mile border on Saturday to pray for the salvation of the country and the rest of the world.

Just a couple of miles from the family farm, Jones started the Culinary Vegetable Institute, which provides a place for the world's most innovative chefs to share knowledge, experiment and discover techniques for growing and preparing flavorful varieties of vegetables.

And what better way than hitting the road for 15 miles on the bike, and ice bath, and Spice World and a glass of wine.

Be forewarned, this is the kind of book that encourages one to quit their job, cash in their miles for a one - way plane ticket, max out the credit cards, and set off to see the world with their own eyes.

In very few places in the world will the beekeeper knows the provenance of the land for a 5 mile radius around the hives.

Kona «the area of the Big Island that grows the finest Kona cherries in the world» is a delightful drive along Hualalai's high mountainous backdrop narrow winding Cliff side passages dressed with breathtaking tropical blooms that cascade for 30 miles down the valley's of our beautiful ocean coastline.

With Nova University, the Miami Dolphins training facility and a large number of new residential developments within just a few miles of our restaurant, there is a growing need for this type of concept that is designed around today's fast - paced world.

The $ 400 million budgeted for the 15 - mile project is slated to cover basic infrastructure needs; the San Antonio River Foundation's role is to augment public funds with donations from corporations, foundations and individuals to fund the enhancements and additional amenities that will make this linear park world - class.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Oilman Travis Kerr's moneymaker fought off stretch bids by Manassas and Noureddin to set world record of 1:53 2/5 for 13/16 mile on turf, picked up $ 75,750 to boost alltime earnings to whopping $ 1,541,889.

HARNESS RACING — SILK STOCKINGS ($ 3.00), driven by Preston Burris Jr., set a world record for fillies and mares with a 1:57 [3/5] clocking over the half - mile Monticello Raceway.

How much longer do we have to put up with Wenger I for one am tired of seeing Arsenal hang on to someone who has passed his prime we are 6th for crying out loud we haven't challenged for the title in a very long time we are miles behind the big teams which is why the Southhamptons, West Hams of this world are on the same level as us come on now enough is enough

Five thousand protesters marched from the Rambla, in the city center, for nearly two miles over Joan Miro's famous mosaic and under the tree - lined boulevard and Gaudi - sculpted lamps, past Barcelona's most beautiful fountains, the opera house, and world famous flower and caged bird markets until they reached the bullring.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

• Hungary «sslender Sandor Iharos provided latest flurry in prodigal year for track «sdistance men, stepped off 5,000 meters in 13 minutes 40.6 seconds at Budapest, 6.2 seconds faster than briefly held world mark of Russia's Vladimir Kuc, lowered Chris Chataway's three - mile record by nine seconds to 13:14.2 in samerace.

CHRIS SHEA PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. Chris, 17, a senior at Port Washington High, set a high school girls» record for the one - mile walk with a 7:10.8, the second - fastest in the world for women.

It's obvious for me that arsenal need 4 players to become a world class team like bayern and real madrid i couldn't dare mention barcelona because they have unbelievable front three and they maybe the best attack in history of football we are lacking quality in the ST as well as the RW of course giroud and campvell are very good players but in my opinion they are less in quality than the rest of the team so we need to improve the quality in these positins About the DM it's a number issue and i think the position is covered with flamini doing good job and elneny coming which can be deployed there About the fourth signing we need is a center back I don't think i saw till now enough minutes for gabriel to tell if he can make the position his own or not But what makes me doubt him that wenger didn't choose him till now over per which means he is not miles ahead of him so i think we need a new better CB This team can go and fight for every thing even the champions leafue....

He's also wary because the world has been coming at him at 10,000 miles per hour, which is how fast his brain moves when ideas and thoughts compete for attention.

I am not prepared or equipped, as Dr. Quigley was, to argue that the one - mile - brick - pull or duck - on - a-rock will make the world safe for democracy.

This mixture has been used for some of the finest tracks in the world: the one at Oxford on which Roger Bannister ran the first four - minute mile, the 1956 Olympic track at Melbourne, the Dublin track where Herb Elliott ran his world record mile in 1958, and even the track which the Sheik of Kuwait built for his university on the Persian Gulf (no records are likely to be set there, however, because of the tendency of the temperature to climb up to the neighborhood of 140 °).

Here one can start the day with a «coretto» for courage (a heady mixture of coffee and grappa), then try such slopes as the Forcella del Sasso Lungo — where you can see the world spread out in wide screen — or the Val de Mesdi, so steep at the top (a 4,000 - foot drop in two miles) that you jump right out of your socks to make a turn.

Rodriguez had made his bid for inclusion in The Guinness Book of World Records by riding the Hurricane for 173 consecutive hours — good for a total of 2,624 miles, or the distance from Haines City to San Francisco.

This still leaves us in the worst of two worlds; miles from seriously challenging for the title but just good enough to fool the «we are always the best team / club the world has ever seen» brigade.

For even though he is gray - haired and a bit paunchy now, with rimless spectacles and the dignified mien one might expect of a retired engineer from New York, Bowers was once a member of the University of Chicago's world - record two - mile - relay team that was coached by Amos Alonzo Stagg.

MOTOR SPORTS — Aussie JACK BRABHAM, three - time winner of the world driving championship, drew within nine points of leader Denis Hulme of New Zealand for the 1967 title when he drove his self - designed Brabham - Repco to a 1:01 win over runner - up Hulme in the 220 - mile Canadian Grand Prix in Mosport, Ont., Can.

Sleep for the new heavyweight champion of the world was still a few thousand miles, three cities and a football game away.

«I think the ego of someone who even conceives of setting the world record in the mile doesn't allow for a sober look at things,» says Masback.

A reigning Tour champion has often been seen using the Giro for some race miles, but rarely has one set aside his desire to repeat success on the biggest stage for a shot at glory in the world's # 2 race.

Everyone keeps praising the likes of hazard, coutinho and firmino as world class and these players are valued at nothing less than # 70m whereas SANCHEZ is mile ahead of these player and I hear Man City wants to pay # 45m - # 50m for him..

In a secluded spot on the magnificent beach at Siasconset (for instance), looking out to Spain over 3,000 miles of unbroken ocean, a man is about as far away as he may hope to get from things in this shrunken world.