Sentences with phrase «over the finish line»

We didn't get a carbon tax over the finish line in 2016, but we moved climate action a heck of a long ways down the field.

Help push this bill over the finish line by urging the governor to sign it into law.

And then celebrated with a sweaty champagne toast over the finish line.

Like stepping over the finish line, you have finally reached a goal that you prepared for on many levels.

But a party scraping over the finish line is not what British politics needs.

They only need five points now to get over the finish line.

While I would love to say we're going to get 20 or 25 high - quality bills over the finish line, that simply isn't realistic in an election year.

But nonetheless, they managed to crawl over the finish line with all three points and restore them back to the top of the table for a few hours at least.

Chelsea won the league some months ago limping over the finish line with 1 - 0 wins here and there.

After the procession comes the coronation as St Mirren got over the finishing line at the second time of asking to claim one of the most convincing Ch...

We will continue to work with the White House and Congress to move patent reform legislation over the finish line as soon as possible.

After a successful preliminary health care vote on Tuesday, Senate GOP leaders may have a new plan to get their health legislation over the finish line: pass what, in effect, could amount to a blank legislative check.

According to ESPN, «it's still unclear if the Sounders will get the deal over the finish line before the close of the summer transfer window on Aug. 9, and that there is still much work to be done.»

The Sounders are also continuing their pursuit of Dynamo Kiev midfielder Derlis Gonzalez, but a source with knowledge of the negotiations said it's still unclear if the Sounders will get the deal over the finish line before the close of the summer transfer window on Aug. 9, and that there is still much work to be done.

I hoped that we would be over the finish line on polio [eradication] by now.

My presentation was about deployment — pushing projects over the finish line and KM projects in particular.

Known in Vancouver as the man who rescued Expo 86 and helped get the 2010 Olympic bid over the finish line, Pattison knows when to cut bait.

Jones could very well drag the team over the finish line by himself.

Speculation had said that PS4 architect Mark Cerny was being brought in to help push the game over its finishing line but that has yet to be confirmed.

Several analysts and business leaders agreed that new U.S. tax policy will help nudge deals already in the works over the finish line and make the hunt for new acquisitions more attractive.

Wenger admitted after beating West Brom on Saturday that our legs had gone at the end, with just determination and the desire to win getting the gunners over the finishing line at the Hawthorns.

... Now it is time to bring these unprecedented planning efforts over the finish line, and ensure certainty for both the sage grouse and western economies for generations to come.»

02/25/2014: LULAC issues call asking membership to contact the House of Representatives and urge them to get immigration reform over the finish line!

Champions are needed to usher any product or service over the finish line.

Passion is the energy that pushes marathon runners over the finish line, that keeps the artist chiseling, or painting, or typing, day after day and night after night.

Same goes for Foot Locker over Finish Line, according to Credit Suisse analysts.

On the EU side, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso must summon the political courage to carry his 28 member states over the finish line.

Like falling over a finish line, we pounded the last few down with little thought and gave our barking verdicts like tired Roman emperors sending slaves to their doom: «Take them away!»

Angi and I set the long - term goal of running the Nike Women's Half Marathon so we can get a Tiffany's necklace over the finish line.

Players communicating with one another and pushing each other over the finishing line when they're the less talented side on paper in terms of pure footballing talent.

Last season, both drivers were able to drag the car over the finish line a few positions behind the points, and qualifying form hit an average of 17th place for both drivers, although poor reliability made it tough to judge.

Jones had to drag them kicking and screaming over the finish line.

The stump screams, and he eases up, but he can see the finish now: Pentagon to the left, the canopy of Army black - and - gold balloons over the finish line, the tiny viewing stand and... wait.

Despite Lindh's fine run, the predominantly European crowd remained eerily quiet, much as it had when Lee - Gartner Hashed over the finish line in first.

Hopefully we can get over the finish line come may would be nice for le prof to finish on a high.

I am highly disappointed with the fact we threw away the lead and I can not accept the fact we did far too many defensive changes and we were hoping to just roll over the finishing line and with the way we defended we were punished.

They were part of the steady scoring attack that got the Knights over the finish line this week.

Alexis Sanchez, our South American fireball, had run himself into the ground and was practically limping over the finish line after carrying the team on his shoulders for much of the season.

The Gunners stuttered over the finish line to take away the full three points today, and a red card threatened to disrupt their hopes of doing just that.

Federico Bernardeschi was given his first cap in two months in the closing minutes to try to change things up, but neither team looked like scoring, and the match finally stumbled over the finish line tied at 1 - 1, leaving Juve with some thinking to do as Sunday's six - pointer looms in the distance.

Sitting in the new Wembley stadium wasn't easy for the travelling Kop as their Mighty Reds edged over the finishing line with a nail - biting penalty shoot - out in which they'd missed their first two penalties!

Even more impressively, the starting XI that took Joyce's squad over the finishing line had an average age of just 19.6, with a number of players thriving outside of their usual positions — good news for Louis van Gaal who has rarely been shackled by conventional expectations of how his team should line - up.

But his presence wasn't enough to push Maffei over the finish line to victory; he lost a tight race to Buerkle.

In this email, which bore the subject line «We've gotten to work — but need your help,» the village of Rhinebeck trustee thanks his backers for «being there for us, supporting us, staying strong with us, and helping to push the campaign over the finish line,» and adds:

The strategy for Democrats this year, at least before the scandal hit, was to rely on strength at the top of the ticket to pull Democratic challengers over the finish line.

However, the Bronx Democratic Party is pulling for Cabrera and a third candidate, Felix Perdomo, is attacking Abreu, which might push Cabrera over the finish line.