Sentences with phrase «on as a close second»

The top pick here is Michelle Williams for me, with Charlize Theron coming on as a close second.

Not exact matches

Since then, Binary's future has looked in jeopardy as it reportedly paused on closing its second $ 75 million (# 58.2 million) fund in the wake of the scandal.

So part of my consulting role was to teach micromanagement of the service provider's appointment book to make the most of their available seconds while keeping their schedule as close to on time as possible.

As they closed in on a second round of financing — $ 16 million in venture capital — the Slavets» enthusiasm for Guru.com was so infectious, it made you want to jump into the game too.

The closest Harford gets to bullet points is coining three «Palchinsky principles» that underpin Adapt's argument: «First, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along.»

The board also turned against Patrick Soon - Shiong — who even as he closes on the L.A. Times sale still remains Tronc's second - largest shareholder, with something less than a quarter of the company.

Second, Navy Federal is one of several lenders that will finance the VA funding fee, which otherwise requires you to pay an additional percentage on your loan as part of the mortgage closing costs.

The second reason why FHA loan closings are up is the new FHA policy on FHA mortgage insurance premiums (FHA MIP), the insurance payment FHA - backed homeowners pay as part of their monthly mortgage.

As I argued when the second quarter GDP numbers confirmed the recession, the big issue is not whether GDP growth is slightly positive or slightly negative. The big issue is why it has been so close to zero in the first place. The July GDP numbers do not change that analysis. And they do not change the empirical fact that the Harper government's overall economic record — even before this year's downturn — is uniquely weak, on both historical and international criteria.

A closer reflection on reception as an important occurrence in the life of the Church began with the Second Vatican Council, both within the Roman Catholic Church and in the ecumenical movement.

Finally, the most absurd feature of your scenario is the idea that any extraterrestrial creature would just happen to have, first, DNA as it's basic molecule of biological information storage, second, cellular machinery anywhere remotely similar to what animals on Earth have, and finally, would just happen to be close enough genetically to be able to mix their DNA with the DNA of any terrestrial being, and come out with a viable result.

(2) On the other hand, the notion that there was a single written source to be designated as Q is also untenable, first because of the argument just advanced, and second because sometimes the resemblances are very close and at other times they are rather remote.

But as I got a little closer, I saw the word VEGAN on the label, and naturally it was in my shopping cart within 5 seconds.

It's the «healthier» carrot cake I spent months perfecting for Baby A's first birthday, but as there are a billion gluten free carrot cake recipes on the web, in a close second is the labour of love that is my gluten free «malt» loaf.

Even though we are Penguins fans at heart (don't hate on me Colorado folk) we will be Avalanche fans as a close second tonight.

For the taste film — which focuses on perhaps the most intimate of the senses — it was imperative that we bring the viewer as close to Chang and his creative process as possible — only inches, or seconds away from digging in.»

As they took the lead from Team Sternberg late in the 2nd half and held on in the closing seconds..

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal could take the club's spending over the # 100m mark for the second summer in a row as the club close in on a move to sign Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke.

The matador must confront it every day, every second, and each moment of their working life, struggling in the past, present and future of a perversely insular world as death looms close enough to feel its breath on the cheek.

The seven minutes of injury time were notable for their utter lack of anything remotely resembling real quality as the match petered out leaving Stuttgart facing another week closer to the inevitability of relegation though the visitors also suffered the ignominy of a red card for Schulz after picking up his second caution after a foul on Tim Leibold.

In the second half, Morehead State (4 - 11, 0 - 4) battled back to get as close as the final score on an A.J. Hicks 3 - pointer with four seconds left.

As the session drew to a close it was Power who found the pace to put it on provisional pole, but at the last second Canadian rookie Wickens shot to the top of the timesheets to snatch P1 by just 0.07 seconds.

They had the stronger start, they pushed us on our back foot from the start when they scored the first goal and I must say I was concerned after that as I thought they were close to scoring a second one and it would have made it difficult.

Arsenal winger Lukas Podoslki, who has spent the second half of the season on loan at Inter Milan, is closing in on a transfer to Galatasaray and could be unveiled as early as next week, according to reports from Italy.

As the Twins came closer to clinch the second Wild Card spot, it was already looking bleak for Texas the door is officially shut on any shot they had.

but if you compare the same amount of games and «Tuchel's second half with Stöger's» (as you said) you'll find that Stöger was actually closer to Tuchel when it comes to points earned per match than he has been on the whole.

The Arsenal bench is very strong as well, including the likes of Wilshere, Walcott and Gibbs al hoping to get on to the pitch so as long as the Gunners go into this game with the right attitude and barring any major disaster, Arsenal should be celebrating the extension of our great current run and getting closer to securing a top three finish and strengthening our chances of coming second.

The young centre - back was a close second to his defensive partner in the running for the monthly award, which will come as a huge boost to the 20 year - old who had suffered a 4 - 3 loss on his competitive debut only weeks ago.

Unfortunately for the Ligue 1 champions though, according to Manchester Evening News, he is closing in on a move to Old Trafford this summer where he would become the second major summer signing for the Red Devils after Victor Lindelof, as mentioned in the report.

I think we must close this topic as there is no sense in it, We must now concentrate on the Chelsea Game as it is of huge huge importance not just of second place but also to our title challenge next season, players we can buy in summer, our confidence will be sky high if we win it.

if you watch that match again you will notice ozil tracking back often pressuring the ball, this is not the ozil of last year, to me he was excellent today, give chelsea credit, the have a strong back 4, if you only need a point, its pretty close to certain, terry's interview was revealing, he said they played way to open in the 1st half, just decided to shut it down the second half, he praised arsenal as a very good squad on the ball, was a decent result, tired of loosing to them,

The second half started with a bit more urgency from Arsenal after Wenger's half - time talk, but Forest soaked it up, and on the hour mark Forest came back into it and came very close to their third goal, but it didn't matter as two minutes later Holding brought down Bereton down in the box and Forest had a penalty, and Wenger couldn't even complain to the referee from the stand.

In Germany Fisichella was battling Berger for the win but got a puncture, and Hill's heartbreaking car problem in the closing laps of the Hungarian Grand Prix saw his 30 second lead disappear in just a few laps as Villeneuve snatched victory on the last lap.

The Blues failed to close the gap on second - place AS Roma, remaining level with Lazio on 46 points in fourth - place, and the defeat could have delivered a huge dent to their Champions League hopes next season.

He closed the gap right down again in the closing laps, finishing just a second behind Jones, whilst third - placed Clay Regazzoni (in the other Williams) was well over a minute behind, as well as being the only other car on the lead lap.

A Tom Brady incompletion on first down, followed by a three - yard run by BenJarvus Green Ellis on second down and an incomplete deep ball on third down led to Zoltan Mesko's second punt of the night, a 38 - yarder to pin the Broncos on their 11, more difficult starting position for Tim Tebow and the boys as they try to rally and close the 21 - 7 deficit with less than five minutes on the clock

That chambers recked my head far to many mistakes today and to be fair he wasn't at fault for all the goals because the goals came from the runners running into the box you have to have people picking these runners When I am on the pitch playing I get annoyed because defenders are very close to me so i seat back and wait for that moment to run into the space with a goal no one would even see me but that is on the local field and not on professional level come on seriously I can except cotinou free kick but elanas goal and cotinou second even mane the way he ran in for goal as if he was a hot knife cutting through butter unacceptable these mistakes are school errors 3 errors on the same match to much to digest

Making his third appearance as the backup since being recalled from Binghamton of the AHL on Feb. 4, Lack made a terrific glove save on Brayden Point's in - close shot midway through the second.

Chelsea had two of their Spanish stars to thank this evening, as the Blues beat minnows Brighton 2 - 0 to close the gap on second place Man United in the Premier League table.

The France winger was on target with his second a minute before half - time as he tapped in from close range for his 12th goal of the season.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

And it was virtually all Flyers for this four - on - four period, as they got set up in the offensive zone and it was more of the same: generating a handful of chances through this and their 15 second power play, but weren't able to close on them.

The Seagulls came so close to automatic promotion last season missing a place by the cruellest of margins as Middlesbrough took out the second automatic promotion spot on goal difference.

His strength on the ball while maintaining close control really shone through in the second half, as did his mature decision making.

Dries Mertens scored twice as Napoli held on to beat Roma 2 - 1 in the Derby del Sole at the Stadio Olimpico and close the gap on second place in Serie A.

This has been under threat over the last few weeks, as Lazio have closed the gap on the second spot.

Then with City closing in on the title, United came roaring back in the second period thanks to a brace from Paul Pogba and Chris Smalling's winner, leading to wild celebrations from the away end as the visitors came back to win 3 - 2.

Wolfsburg are their closest pursuers back in second but they are three points behind United and face a tough and awkward trip to a bitter cold Russia as they take on CSKA Moscow.

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Liverpool have gone 12 games unbeaten in the Premier League as they close in on a top - four spot which would secure Champions League qualification for the second successive year after almost ending the club's 24 - year wait for the title last season.