Sentences with phrase «only major hits»

Others include Blixa Bargeld, a former guitarist with his band the Bad Seeds, and the Australian pop star Kylie Minogue, with whom he had his only major hit, «Where the Wild Roses Grow,» from his «Murder Ballads» album in the mid -»90s.

Not exact matches

The racy Grand Theft Auto IV isn't the only major game coming out this spring — Capcom's Devil May Cry 4 was released in February; Sony's Gran Turismo 4 Prologue hit shelves in April; and God of War: Chains of Olympus in March, the same month as Nintendo's Super Smash Bros..

There is only one major country that puts out economic targets and then successfully hits them.

Second, while he's had modest successes, he scored his first major hit only recently, when California giant Salesforce.com bought his two - year - old startup GoInstant for $ 70 million in June.

To avoid the crunch, only start a Series A fundraising process after you've hit major milestones.

We should also see a significant pick up in the number of stocks hitting new 52 - week highs versus stocks falling to new 52 - week lows... If anything, the only point of concern we have with the current buy signal is that the major averages (S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow) are still trading below their 50 - day moving averages.»

Tatts took a $ 137.8 million revenue hit from only having 31 major jackpots of $ 15 million or more in 2017 compared with 45 in the previous year.

They are the only father - son duo in major league history to each hit 50 home runs in a season, Cecil with 51 homers in 1990 and Prince with 50 on the nose in 2007.

Nava became only the fourth player in major league history to hit a grand slam in his first at bat and the second to do it on the first pitch.

Even if a player avoids major injury, there are only so many hits they can take at the college and NFL level (though that number varies from person to person, obviously) before they start wearing down.

Harrah hit only 13 homers in his first three major league seasons, but as he grew more confident, more aggressive and stronger, bulking up from 160 to 180 pounds, he began pulling the ball.

Finally, the only person between Rose and Joe DiMaggio and his «unbreakable» major league standard of 56 in 1941 was Willie Keeler, who established the alltime National League record in 1897 by hitting»em where they weren't in 44 straight games.

Last year Mike Kelly hit three homers for the Reds in the first week of the exhibition season, prompting Ray Knight to anoint him as the Opening Day centerfielder, even though Kelly was a career.220 hitter with only 214 major league at bats.

But it's going to take 100 victories to win the NL West, and the Astros, 81 - 81 last year, aren't that good yet — not with a shortstop (Andujar Cedeno) who spent half of last season in the minors, a leftfielder (Luis Gonzalez) who hit only.243 and a catcher (Eddie Taubensee) who has played in just 130 major league games.

With a two - run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning to put Chicago up 5 - 1 over the Braves, Bryant became the only player in franchise history to hit at least 25 home runs in his first three seasons in the major leagues.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

«Football is the only major sport where on every single play, the objective is to violently hit the competition,» said Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, whose measure would bar youth football leagues from allowing anyone 13 or younger to tackle.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

«Although there is a sort of sandblasting going on in space all of the time, both from man - made and natural debris, we've only had two operational spacecraft ever hit by man - made debris (that we know of) that sustained any major damage.»

If an asteroid hits a major city, only 3 per cent of the casualties will be from the crater it forms — most will be from overheated air and high winds

She then goes on to describe something called «high - intensity, slow - motion strength training», in which you would do something like, say, a machine leg press, but you'd only do one single set, and you would take a very long, drawn out, all - the - muscles - in - my - body - burning time to perform that set (e.g. nine reps over three minutes), You'd then hit every other major muscle group, from upper body to core, with just one single, hard, teeth - gritting super slow set and... voila.

Jeter is only the 28th player in Major League Baseball history to accumulate 3000 hits.

Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game and Nightcrawler continue their dominance as the only films to have hit every major guild so far.

Both are over 40 now (yes, Heather Graham hit that milestone this year) and in Hollywood, the list of over-40 women allowed to carry major movies on their own is only maybe six deep.

Of course the soundtrack, as always, was a major part selling point, although Kid Galahad offered no hits, reaching only # 30 on the Billboard Hot 100.

At only 800MSP and 117 MB the game packs in a lot without a major hit to your wallet or your storage.

Once he has gotten all that he needs from Perry to begin writing, though, he abandons him for a year to write his book in Spain with his partner Jack Dunphy (Bruce Greenwood), only to return when he has hit a major block — primarily, the ending to his story.

However, it's the only film that hit all of the major categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.

But more details are likely to be revealed soon as «The Search» is expected to hit major film markets soon looking for distribution, and we can only imagine it will be a presence at the American Film Market next month.

It's only been five months since EA scored a major hit with the debut of FIFA 2010 World Cup South Africa.

This could be not only a major award player but a box office hit, too.

And that's why indie writers are making more money in the field than major publishers, because not only are they offering more books that hit more specific tastes, but Internet - savvy writers also charge far less.

The Motorola Xoom has been a major hit at CES, and to go along the the tablets» 3G / 4G capabilities, there is a rumored Wi - Fi only version to be released in April.

I'd travel around the world — at my publisher» expense, of course — and hit the major bookstores, where I'd do readings and signings for standing - room - only audiences,» says Jackie Morse Kessler, the author of a four - book YA... [Read more...]

Not only was the iPad the first major tablet on the scene in April 2010, the combination of the Apple brand and the pre-installed with iOS — already popular with existing iPhone users — made the device a hit.

She has over 20 books published in multiple genres, and has not only hit the number 1 spot in major categories on Amazon, but held them.

Not only is pyrethrin / pyrethroid toxicity a dangerous and distressing situation for your cat, it's also a major hit to your heart and wallet.

But if you want to pay zip each time you hit the ATM or when you pay with plastic, then switch over to Capital One, the only major bank in the world that has this deal.

The game has its moments, but never really becomes more than a short burst of time filling between major games, at the best of times it just works, other times it can get glitchy, sure it's easy to control the bike, but for one reason or another the AI can't do it to save their lives, it doesn't help that their as light as a small child and have about as much physical tolerance as one too, one hit can be all you need to dethrone your competition only for them to get back up and get stuck in a wall, or to the back of a parked car.

Dark Day Interactive - is a small indie Development company, based in Australia and the United Kingdom, with past experience in the video game market, with the current release of Once Bitten, Twice Dead on PC, and iOS hits like Sky Island, the team has taken there past skills and knowledge from other projects and combined them into one tight company, answering to no major publishers, only making games they love, for the community and helped shape by the community.

Alright granted that might be a rarity in people the bottom line is that you're are only getting 3 maps for $ 10 and unfortunately It can not be blamed solely on the developers because we are just seeing a major price hike in big hit games like the Call of Duty franchise as well as the Halo games.

Its only major drawback is that if you take a hit you lose your power - ups and have to collect them again.

Considering the past several outings for the auction houses in London and New York, where only a handful of buyers were reportedly keeping the market afloat, this week's sales hit a different note entirely, with ample phone bids that saw one major auction record fall with Constantin Brancusi's La Muse Endormie demolishing expectations at over $ 57 million, and marquee lots performing quite well over the course of the evening.

But he hit on something — a parade of brightly - colored, edge - to - edge stripes — that not only made his name and changed his career, it put him at the forefront at the only major art movement to emanate from the nation's capital, the Washington Color School.

This example raises an interesting point, which is that the uncertainty regarding a major hurricane hitting New Orleans was only in the timing and our society still decided it had other priorities for the money.

A major internet search engine shows more than 29 million hits on «green economy», which is considerable for a phrase that only came into regular use five years ago.

But unlike the arenas where the other material was presented (Gore's movie encountered a UK lawsuit), the opportunity to inflict a major hit against the video existed via the UK's communications regulator (Ofcom), but only if you called in the cavalry to do so.

California is leading the way with inventive ways to deploy solar technology, as not only will San Francisco's bus stops be lit up with solar lanterns, but the HERO program has hit another major milestone, making energy savings equivalent to closing two coal power plants for a year.

The major 7 reactor 8.2 GW Kashiwazaki - Kariwa complex in central Japan, was hit by a Richter scale 6.8 earthquake in July 2007, which fortunately only led to a relatively small (1200 litre, 90 k becquerel) radioactive leak into the sea.

One would expect a major hit to the ocean ecosystem when it presumably got cut off from the Sun by a thick layer of ice, but only relatively small extinctions have been found.