Sentences with phrase «more years of false starts»

Lee meant not only the six hours sitting at the school board meeting to hear his application was approved, but the four years of struggle he was involved in before that, and two more years of false starts before he even got there to turn around the high school in the northeast San Fernando Valley.

Not exact matches

if the Ox was played to either showcase his skills or to increase any potential bids because of his perceived importance to our starting 11, this was an incredibly risky move that could have cost us dearly... imagine if he was injured or played poorly, like he did, and this negatively impacted our ability to get the best available deal... more importantly, why was Wenger willing to play someone who obviously wants out in such an important game under false pretenses... this kind of behaviour might be less offensive in April, when things are done and dusted, but to do this following a loss against a supposed main rival that pipped us for fourth by a point last year, could be considered at best inappropriate and at worst treasonous... we can't afford to let this coach make business decisions on game day, which has gone on for far too long

His prominent Hollywood debut in Robert Redford's «Lions for Lambs» was a bit of a false start; perhaps he'll have more luck opposite Keira Knightley and fellow Next Big Thing Carey Mulligan in next year's «Never Let Me Go.»

I started writing for my children, because they were now old enough to read, and over the course of a couple of years of false starts, created Vulcan's Kittens, a YA novel (and a bunch of short stories, but more about those later).

More importantly, after years of false starts, it finally feels like Sony has something it can build on.