Sentences with phrase «much like a race»

In some respects, the race for coveted three - letter abbreviations is much like the race for domain names during the dot - com boom.

At first, this division is difficult to see — the pair of beautiful 1930s 8C roadsters look much like their racing counterparts a few storeys below, but Alfa's road car progression is wonderfully illustrated through the 6Cs aimed at wealthy owners, to the 1900s, Giuliettas and Giulias that gave the brand a more mass - market appeal.

One wonders if so much frontal - inlet area is necessary, but these front - quarter grilles allow a central nacelle much like racing cars of yore, before ugly wings became necessary.

In this case, though, I really have never heard a production car sound this much like a race car in both tone and volume.

By constructing cars on an entirely digital basis, much like a racing sim such as Forza would, its cloud - based software is some way ahead of cumbersome traditional configurators, which rely on hundreds of real photos and are limited when it comes to aspect and, crucially, customisation.

The 4C is so much like a race car that you'll have to compromise if you plan to use it for anything but fun.

A credit score is a construct, much like race.

The cars don't take any visible damage and as you're driving you'll notice the environments just sorta get drawn in, very much like racing games from the 32 - bit era.

Of course, taking time to learn and practice the nuances of a modern hockey game rewards players with a level of depth and realism that makes the game seem like a sport itself, but much like a race in Burnout can be more exhilarating than one in Gran Turismo, sometimes we simply want to pretend we're an elite hockey player within seconds of picking up a controller.

Away from the story the game offers a couple of other modes which are mostly enjoyable, much like the racing missions in the story, the ones that exist outside are a whole lot of fun.

In some respects, the race for coveted three - letter abbreviations is much like the race for domain names during the dot - com boom.

Not exact matches

Doing so creates an aura of «inauthenticity» about the machine, he says, much like putting racing stripes on a Toyota Yaris.

«Apple and Samsung are very much running away with the smartphone race globally, and it's especially true in a developed market like Canada,» says IDC analyst Kevin Restivo.

«We are looking at investment and research as leading indicators of who is going to win that disruptive race, much like investing in the early days of internet technology would have led you to companies like Amazon,» he said.

In today's «derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting on a horse race — except that «fixing» the financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.

Unlike many on the racing track, their mission is very much simple like their process motto — «Keep it simple.»

An argument over the truth of string theory isn't much like an argument over race, class, or gender — not to mention sex.

I think a lot of things could be glossed over in this story... what was the real relationship like between John and James, did Lucas» other church reject him or did Lucas do the rejecting, and how much shame from the parents had to do with that decision, the issue of race, the issue of disability... I'm a pessimist so I think of these things.

If you can dismiss me because I didn't go to Yale or Fuller, because I'm a non-American woman, because I'm a lady - preacher, because I'm charismatic, because I still love the local church, because you don't like my tone or my face or my age or my race, because I'm too much into All That Grace Stuff, then I'm not worthy.

It sounds to me like Steve follows a Christ who is willing to love, forgive and accept me even though he knows I'm just as much to blame for the mess we're in (as a race AND a church) as anybody else.

He was trying to breed a master race, much like someone would breed a poodle for the show ring, which is completely contrary to evolution.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

I have read the Genesis race and chariots of the gods also, both are interesting and have as much possibility as being correct as any religious tale i have ever heard, but like religion it has no evidence, its all speculation.

In each race city, Walk - On's parking lots will be turned into block parties, much like the LSU parking lot during home football games.

Schemes like the Red Bull programme and its Mercedes / Ferrari counterparts pretty much cover all the costs of a race season, meaning that in the championships that followed such as Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2 Gasly didn't need to find money or a good seat, because Red Bull was helping to sort it all out for him.

Ferrari: Race to Immortality takes a close look at the early days of the Scuderia in F1 when it was much less of a powerhouse than it was now and when Enzo Ferrari was just trying to establish himself like any other team owner.

Honda does seem to have been getting on top of things in recent races, so it'll hopefully give us an idea of just how much this upgrade improves the cars performance at a power circuit like Spa.

Though it wasn't even for the lead, title rivals Jolyon Palmer and Felipe Nasr fought like mad for much of the race, going wheel to wheel on multiple occasions.

Firstly, he looks like a driver ready to fight for a championship and secondly, the future of the Red Bull Racing team is very much built around keeping Verstappen happy.

The Le Mans 24 - hour auto race has» a nasty way of chewing up strong men and big machines and spitting them out like so much tobacco juice.

JC didn't so much CUT on people as he won the acceleration and braking battles like a racing car, with peppier motor and stickier tires.

Arsenal have had a difficult start to the Premier League campaign, despite successive 1 - 0 victories over West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, leaving them a long way adrift of rivals Chelsea and Manchester City in the battle for top spot in the English top flight, which already looks like very much being a two horse race.

The hardest leg to cap the sweep is obviously the Cup main event, which doesn't afford Busch much slack to overcome mistakes like he committed in the Xfinity and Truck Series races.

The UCI World Tour is composed of 37 events, including the three three - week grand tours, but also 20 one - day races that are attended by the best riders and receive much greater attention in places like, say, Belgium and the Netherlands, where winning on the famed and treacherous Paris - Roubaix cobblestones can make you a national hero.

But for some pilots, like «FlyingBear», the total immersion and higher stakes makes the races that much more fun: «If I'm racing, it's a completely different mindset.

Some Friday contenders dropped off precipitously on Saturday, like Matt Kuchar, who was just two strokes off Mickelson but shot a +4 and now sits seven strokes behind and pretty much out of the race.

We've got a chance to course - correct with 2021, looks like, but we need to do that now because I think Formula 1 will be much more entertaining and therefore more valuable to all of us if we have four, five, six teams winning races, that have a chance at a championship.»

So The Hambletonian looks like a much better horse race than it did earlier, and it may even be an excellent one.

Ferrari's qualifying pace may make the race look like a foregone conclusion, but the top four on the grid will actually start the race on the slower, more durable soft tyre, on which the pace this weekend has looked much closer.

The Cincinnati Bengals looked like a shoo - in to win the AFC North and still own the tiebreakers to make catching them very difficult for the Steelers, but a win was much needed for the Steelers to stay in the middle of the AFC Wild Card race.

With strategy being something of an unknown during the Bahrain GP, pretty much every team and driver looked like they might be in with a shout of some points over the course of the race - well, everyone except for Williams.

He was a contender for much of the race too, and with five laps to go he took the lead from Helio Castroneves and in very un-Sato like fashion, he kept a cool head and held on to take an immensely popular win.

The old LMP2 rules seemed pretty much perfect but because this is motor racing the «powers that be» like to fix things that aren't broken, so LMP2 has had an overhaul for 2017 in the name of cutting costs.

The complication is that the inspection process beyond what occurs at the track post-race takes time — often too much time — creating scenarios like what unfolded last week where the winner is heavily penalized three days after the race had concluded.

Amateur race, car collector and Monaco resident Claudio Roddario likes them so much that in 2016, he decided to buy chassis 037 - the last 917 ever built - and convert it for road use.

He can go on as much as he likes about how the whole thing is a learning experience, but as he comes to terms with the nitty - gritty of sportscar racing, his attention is going to turn to getting the best result possible.

Knicks fans were less than thrilled with the performance — much like Lakers fans last week — since it leaves New York with just a half game advantage over the Timberwolves (who play later Saturday night) in the race for the worst record in the league.

Living abroad much of the time, he has raced horses successfully in France and England — winners like Indiana, Romulus and Ribocco — and invested $ 6 million in the sport in six years.

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