Sentences with phrase «of a prodigy in»

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Nike has built its success on celebrity and athlete - endorsement deals, starting with running prodigy Steve Prefontaine in 1973 and continuing with one of the most successful shoe marketers of all time in Michael Jordan.

During that time, they had used a now - defunct online service called Prodigy to keep in touch with family members — meaning they weren't fearful of new technologies.

They work much, much harder... Even Mozart — the greatest musical prodigy of all time — couldn't hit his stride until he had his ten thousand hours in.

When the MacArthur Foundation handed Griffith one of its famous «genius grants» in 2007, it called him a «prodigy of invention in service of the world community.»

A programming prodigy and classics geek (he is known to quote the Iliad in ancient Greek), he is also a canny businessman who foresaw the enormous potential of his work before anyone else.

Nike has built its success on celebrity and athlete endorsement deals, starting with running prodigy Steve Prefontaine in 1973 and continuing with one of the most successful shoe marketers of all time in Michael Jordan, whom Nike signed to a five - year endorsement deal in 1984 worth roughly $ 500,000 per year.

Its network includes global prodigy mentors and investors with specialization in the fields of IoT, Sensor Technology, big data, robotics, med - tech, education, mobile and payments and are working in collaboration with the Indo - US corridor.

Capital sent me a pre-release of Jordan's Sister — her debut record — and for two weeks I listened and fell in love with the voice and music of an 18 - year - old, a prodigy whom I believed was destined to be a star.

Mozart was divinely destined to die young, an impossible prodigy appearing and vanishing like a flash of lightning crossing the heavens, while it was ordained from everlasting that Haydn should enjoy a serene longevity in which to unfold his genius; Keats grown old would have been a drastic error of taste on the part of providence, while it was absolutely necessary that Wordsworth begin as a «lyrical» radical but end up a withered Tory sage penning sonorous banalities.

Hume was a prodigy and published his system of philosophy while in his mid-twenties in the form of A Treatise of Human Nature.

Disney had an amazing year in terms of box office, but that doesn't exclude some of their smaller hits, including this film about a chess prodigy in Uganda who tries to balance her success with responsibility to her family.

The German scholar Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 — 1900) was an intellectual prodigy whose career in teaching and writing was foreshortened by the severe onset of mental illness, the cause of which has been debated ever since.

He makes exactly the same movements as the other knight, infinitely renounces claim to the love which is the content of his life, he is reconciled in pain; but then occurs the prodigy, he makes still another movement more wonderful than all, for he says, «I believe nevertheless that I shall get her, in virtue, that is, of the absurd, in virtue of the fact that with God all things are possible.»

But the story of Mary Lou Williams, from child prodigy to world - class artist, is not just about jazz.Born in Atlanta in 1910, Mary Lou's family suffered from....

I am not a universalist in the sense that I believe all go to heaven — but I am one in the sense that I believe Christ died for all, raised all, and has made us all new creations to then choice to live or die by our own choosing — not because, as the prodigy of Adam, we had no choice.

It's in Gnostic writings like the Infancy Gospel of Thomas where the child Jesus is a supernatural prodigy, incapable of error though prone to fits of vengeance against adults and other children.

I ordered a similar soup at one of my favorite Japanese restaurants in northern Illinois after attending an exciting piano recital by the Russian prodigy, Evgeny Kissin.

Growing up in Michigan, Currie was a bit of a prodigy.

A true chocolate prodigy, Jonathan began his chocolatier career in his teens, and took the helm of established chocolate shop Compartés when he was just 21.

Arsenal fans will be expecting changes in the transfer window this summer, notably by bringing in top quality players with a wealth of experience, but I'd say that Iwobi is almost certain to have a relatively big involvement in Arsenal first duties next season and we can expect to see good things from our newest prodigy.

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we are a football club first and a business second... or should be... this is how all dictatorships end... the colonel of the EPL lost his marbles 5 seasons ago on my estimate... he has become a character from a gabriel garcia marquez short story... or is that just some teenage midfield prodigy he is trying to bring in from the Mexican third division...

Benfica prodigy Sanches, 18, is widely regarded as one of the best teenagers in European football, while 21 - year - old AS Monaco playmaker Silva could bring some much needed creativity to United's midfield.

The first child prodigy of U.S. snowboarding competed in his first competition, the U.S. Open, in 1989, at age nine.

He has the same forward - thinking, program - building strengths that P.J. Fleck and Tom Herman have brought to the college game, and that's in addition to being a prodigy of offensive football.

Gotze was considered a prodigy at Dortmund before being snapped by Bayern Munich, but has never been able to force himself into the first team since Pep Guardiola arrived at the club, and he only played 9 full games in the whole of this season.

i have stop thinking about who will be selected as the new forward or CB, i am more pissed off on some players who have took arsenal for granted, a manager who had put too much fate in them over the last years, a manager who have left the team short of quality in certain areas, in the hope that his prodigies will fill in nicely, which on the contrary does not happen and leave us wanting in the last months of the season.

The Express confirmed yesterday that Arsenal have paid Ipswich Town 100,000 Pounds for their 15 year - old prodigy Harry Clarke, who has recently become a Youtube sensation for scoring a goal for the Tractor Boys» academy side in a team goal worthy of the seior Arsenal side!

His struggles were relative — 24 and 10 is only a down year in the world in which Davis lives — but they were magnified by the rise of the next generation of prodigies.

The onetime Hacky Sack prodigy, who graduated in 1988 from the University of Oregon with a degree in advertising, even married a fellow footbagger.

And to top off a great week, Chuba Akpom found the net on his England U21 debut, and our young prodigy Serge Gnabry scored for the Germany U21s in a 6 - 0 rout of the Faroe Islands.

Football Manager experts should be familiar with the name of this Gambian - born prodigy who, by 2005, had represented in England at every youth level up to the under - 20 side.

On a day that young prodigy Serge Gnabry has revealed exactly why it was so important that he moved on from Arsenal, it seems that another young player may have intentions of doing the same, in the not too distant future.

The ex-Arsenal prodigy Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain moved to Liverpool under controversial circumstances after playing rubbish for Arsenal in our meeting at the Emirates in the early stages of the season.

While Spurs would be delighted to acquire Osimhen, one of the most exciting U-17 players in the game, they may well be wary about their experiences with former Ivorian prodigy Coulibaly.

mikel, chamakh, squillaccy, giroud, podolski, park, n that guy who played for just five minutes of FA cup etc... No. 4 next season, an early exit in champions league, crappy defeats (at home to Swansea) no cup n of cos a NEW and IMPROVED CONTRACT for Mr WENGER up to 2030 are just but a few things i expect... n not forgetting a 1 yr old prodigy (next bergkamp)....

Meanwhile, Tiger prodigy Jason Day, who withdrew from the pro-am with a bad back earlier in the week, had the round of the day, firing an 8 - under 64 to get to 7 - under for the week and rocket up the leaderboard into a tie for fifth.

Even though Arsenal have been one of the clubs mentioned the most by the football media in connection with the possible transfer of the French forward prodigy Kylian Mbappe, because of the massive amount of money involved and with some of the biggest and most successful clubs in the world involved, we have come to accept that he will not be signing for Arsenal.

Much the same kind of effect was created in the 1850s when Paul Morphy, a New Orleans chess prodigy then recognized as the world champion, returned in triumph from Europe and soon simply stopped playing.

The signing of left - back Sead Kolasinac has been all but confirmed on a free transfer and The Gunners are also rumoured to be closing in on the signing of young Nigerian prodigy, Henry Onyekuru.

During a summer in which France's current midfield prodigy seeks to step into the boots of one of his country's greatest sporting icons, Paul Pogba could be lining himself to try and achieve the same feat at club level with a move to join Zinedine Zidane's Real Madrid.

That report states that former Arsenal midfielders Patrick Vieira (in charge of MLS side New York City FC) and Mikel Arteta (a Manchester City assistant) are also being considered, alongside Schalke supremo Domenico Tedesco and 30 - year - old prodigy Julian Nagelsmann of Hoffenheim.

He was snatched from right under our noses, but Arsenal have got their own little Spanish prodigy now, in the form of Santi Cazorla, whose vision, awareness and trickery has delighted fans.

Their scouting system in Brazil didn't try to unearth hidden gems, but rather focused on the most talented prodigies who starred for the youth national teams,» Oleksandr Tkach, former editor - in - chief of Tribuna.com told ESPN FC.

The Italy boss is the frontrunner for the job and widely expected to replace Guus Hiddink in the Stamford Bridge dugout ahead of the 2016/17 campaign, with his relationship with Pogba perhaps giving the Blues a chance of landing the former Le Havre academy prodigy.

The youngest ever player to captain a side in the Champions League, it's quite evident that Rúben Neves has been groomed to be something of a prodigy since he first made his way through the Porto academy, debuting at the tender age of 17 and becoming the youngest ever goalscorer for the club he holds dearest to his heart.

At the young age of 20, former Manchester United midfielder, Luiz de Abreu Oliveira had the whole soccer world at his feet after being awarded the Golden Boy award, with all indication that the Brazilian prodigy would end up becoming a big star in world football

A child prodigy, he made his professional debut at just 15 years of age for Independiente in the Argentina top flight, breaking the record of future father in law Diego Maradona, and made a big money move to Spain in 2006.

Manchester United in vying for the signature of Palmeiras's Brazilian prodigy Gabriel Jesus with three other European heavyweights — but AS claim that Real Madrid are the frontrunners.

- Brazil prodigy Gabriel Jesus will receive admonishment from his mother for missing a chance to score in the Selecao's 2 - 0 defeat of Venezuela in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday.