Sentences with phrase «most of us amateur»

They're there to help you, they know far more about how to figure out how to look thing up than most of us amateur blog commenters.

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This was mainly because it was easier for most journalists of the early 1990s to envision and get personally excited about the potential of educational software, or of managing their personal finances, or organizing their recipes in the «digital» kitchen, or imagining how amateur architects could design funky homes right on their home computers.

And with the wealth of media add - ons, apps and content widgets that are available on most platforms, the options available to both amateur and professional web designers is nearly endless.

They are heading to alternative platforms to find people like Brodie Smith, the world's most famous ultimate - frisbee player; or the Bryan brothers, golfers who do trick shots on Instragram; or Dude Perfect, a crew of athletic, goofy amateurs that perform sports stunts.

I started out as a nervous amateur cook who knew little about what it takes to run a business to a savvy owner and seasoned chef who created one of the most recognized tacos in NYC.

The most popular railroad shares were called «fancy stocks,» trading at huge multiples of their earnings and with enormous volatility that often wiped out amateur speculators.

I fail to see the point of becoming a stock picker — most professional investors (e.g. mutual fund managers) fail to beat market indexes, what chance does the amateur starter investor have of doing better?

Most of us enjoy stories about naïve amateurs who make bizarre mistakes.

Allen came out a poor second in some polite verbal jousting — most likely a case of an amateur agnostic pitted against a professional religionist.

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

Most started playing professionally on one of the thousands of semi-pro clubs and company teams scattered across the country: steel mills and ice creameries offered $ 40 a month plus a job for good arms and hot bats, and every small town in the Midwest seemed to have its own amateur squad.

Big Play Tiger Woods blew a chance at victory at his own tournament because of a handsy hook, but most amateurs could learn from his miscue

The summer before his senior year, Thomas led Flight to the BCI championship in Phoenix, one of the most prestigious amateur tournaments in the country, and was named its MVP.

Most recently of Fulham in 2013, ex-Tottenham Hotspur and Wales winger Simon Davies is now with amateur Pembrokeshire League Division Two club Solva AFC.

Hospitable old Havana opened its heart to the fighters in town for the first world amateur championships — feted them, fed them well, and then the Cubans danced off with most of the gold medals, cha - cha - cha

Even as Simon spoke, the IX Pan Am Games were proceeding apace in Caracas amid the turmoil of one of the broadest, most heavily publicized drug scandals ever to hit amateur sports.

And most of the country has never seen amateur wrestling on TV or in person either.

After Bobby Jones, he was the most accomplished American amateur in history, winner of the British and two U.S. Amateurs, and a three - time Walker Cup player.

Perhaps his most notable moment of the week came in an amateur hole - in - one contest organized by Jim Nantz at the seventh.

To be able to play in an event that I used to come to as an amateur, as a junior and now as the tournament host, that is on one of the most historic sites in all of golf, it's a dream come true.»

I have worked with and developed some of the Strongest, Fastest most Well - Conditioned athletes in 25 plus sports from Youth, Amateur, National, Olympic and Professional from Canada to the US.

When she was finally tagged in it was a flurry of activity, using her strikes, amateur wrestling and judo to put on a show in the ring and look like the most dangerous person in WWE.

Oxford University Rugby Football Club (OURFC) has a long and illustrious history of sporting distinction and remains one of the world's leading and most renowned amateur rugby clubs.

The zone read is one of the most popular plays in amateur football.

In the years since, the Australian presence on Tour has grown to 19 players, the most of any nation other than the U.S. And these Aussies are better trained than their predecessors, thanks in part to the free coaching and facilities made available to amateurs since 1993 by the Australian Institute of Sport.

Polly Riley One of the most competent performers in women's golf, Miss Riley, from Fort Worth, has been on six Curtis Cup teams, reached finals of the 1953 Amateur championship.

In New Jersey, amateur Chris Crawford was one of the most improbable of six players to make it to Oakmont.

The Cambridge University Amateur Boxing Club (CUABC) is one of the toughest and most prestigious sports teams in Cambridge.

The appointment of one of the most prominent figures in football thrust Albion into the spotlight — which was awkward as they lost 4 - 0 at home to amateurs Walton & Hersham in the FA Cup and then 8 - 2 to Bristol Rovers!

Even though she is 91 years old, an age when most people don't move around so comfortably, she competes at amateur gymnastics, and this video of Quaas» latest gymnastics routine has astonished the entire Internet.

«Regardless of whether the athlete is a professional, an amateur, an Olympian or a young recreational athlete, the number of sports injuries is increasing — but the escalation of injuries in kids is the most alarming,» said Dr. James Andrews, former president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) and STOP Sports Injuries Co-Campaign Chair.

But perhaps for most of us (well, certainly for me) who know we are only amateur league musicians, the happiest and most profound musical experiences come from listening.

Social Media professionals and amateur activists will discuss and learn what are the most effective uses of the latest communication technology trends.

Most people I have spoken to at HQ seemed to be just enthusiastic amateurs and when it comes to being interviewed and public appearances many of the Shadow Cabinet just do not cut it like the many previous Conservative Cabinets that held office.

«Most physicists are amateur metaphysicists,» adds Nicholas Saunders, a theologian who reviewed Polkinghorne's arguments for scientific evidence of divine action at the July meeting.

The Moon is the most obvious celestial object in the night sky, of course, and a favorite for amateur astrophotographers.

«In Japan, many important vertebrate fossils have been discovered by amateurs because most of the land is covered with vegetation, and there are few exposures of fossil - bearing Cretaceous rocks.

How an amateur fossil hound unearthed dinosaur remains in a most unlikely place and rocked the world of paleontology

«Ten Most Influential People in the World of Science» recognizes the operators who control so much of the agenda for science, often from behind the scenes; «10 Amateur Scientists Who Might Cure Cancer — From Their Basements» takes an opposite approach, uncovering the vital role of researchers who operate in nontraditional settings.

I have been involved in all of these situations and, in most instances, have included the amateur / technician / student as a coauthor.

Conservation often seems to work most satisfyingly when professionals and amateurs cooperate, the necessary scholarship and experimentation of science being augmented by the enthusiasm, time, money and (often) very considerable accomplishment of the hobbyist.

Amateur mycologist Rodham Tulloss has one of the world's largest and most diverse collections of amanitas — the group of fungi that includes death caps, destroying angels and the polka - dotted mushrooms of Super Mario renown — in his garage.

European butterflies have traditionally been one of the most studied groups of insects by professionals and amateurs.

This is the most famous of the two clusters because it has a compact core of galaxies scattered across two degrees of the sky which makes it a popular target for amateur astronomers.

On August 12, 1990, amateur paleontologist Susan Hendrickson unearthed the first three fossilized bones of what would turn out to be the largest, oldest, and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered.

The third element of risk is bioterrorism, which presents the most dangerous potential consequence of biology experiments performed by amateurs.

But as a sports journalist and an amateur - elite cyclist and triathlete, I was anything but «well» — and neither were most of the elite racers around me.

Of her recent, and widely praised, speech attacking Trump, the New York Times wrote, «Speaking in a steady, modulated tone but lobbing some of the most fiery lines of her presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton painted Mr. Trump as a reckless, childish and uninformed amateur who was playing at the game of global statecraft.&raquOf her recent, and widely praised, speech attacking Trump, the New York Times wrote, «Speaking in a steady, modulated tone but lobbing some of the most fiery lines of her presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton painted Mr. Trump as a reckless, childish and uninformed amateur who was playing at the game of global statecraft.&raquof the most fiery lines of her presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton painted Mr. Trump as a reckless, childish and uninformed amateur who was playing at the game of global statecraft.&raquof her presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton painted Mr. Trump as a reckless, childish and uninformed amateur who was playing at the game of global statecraft.&raquof global statecraft.»

But when it comes to training most amateurs will blast their biceps with countless sets of different types of curls and expect their arms to grow without even knowing the anatomy of the arms.

How else would he be effective at «coaching» high level amateur and professional athletes, most of whom use performance enhancing drugs during at least part of the year?