Sentences with phrase «past as contenders»

A couple names that have come up in the past as contenders for Grimm's seat include Assemblyman Joe Borelli (R - South Shore) and former Assemblyman Matthew Mirones.

And her name has been mentioned in the past as a contender, however when approached by Indy Politics earlier this year she said she focusing on her re-election bid.

Not exact matches

As the well - connected head of the country's largest bank for the past 11 years, Gord Nixon is naturally a top contender for any list of Canadian movers and shakers.

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Frost's best argument sits almost 500 miles northeast of Lincoln, where defending Big Ten West champion Wisconsin has five top - 10 finishes in the past 12 years and enters the fall as a legitimate playoff contender.

The only risks that could be consider would be Lucas and Dembele for sceptical ones among us; but Lucas is hungry, he was as consider as Neymar contender in Brazil, he has anger to fullfil his incredible talen't's full potential, his talent not to be questioned and only 25 with 2 past season not happy Dembele is same somehow, nager to prove he is the best in his generation at this position... he is 21 and just that, ahead.

If we continue getting the favourable draws we could just reach the final.Once there anything is possible in a one - off game.I doubt our Manager has the tactical nous to get us past Atletico Madrid despite us having the players.The annoying thing is we are not considered as serious contenders because of our form and results.We SHOULD have been looking to win this trophy AND improve on last seasons pathetic 5th place finish.To not win the EL and finish outside the Top 4 will surely be the end for this Manager.Surely even he will know that his time is JP and he either walks or is sacked

I do nt see why we cant compete in the CL as real contenders... Yes we have been knocked out by teams like Bayern and Barca in the recent past but most of that was by 1 goal or on away goals rule..

Prior to their meeting with Liverpool at Anfield, many were raving about them being serious title contenders as they blitzed past teams with their powerful displays and clinical finishing.

The Eagles and Panthers have also established themselves as contenders and have made notable jumps over the past two weeks.

While Jesuit has traditionally dominated the local scene in the past, new programs have emerged as national contenders, including Salaber's Dixon High team which will represent Northern California this year at the USA National Championship Tournament in May.

As is often the case, the contenders had to play around the craters and shell holes of past battles among themselves.

At rain - spattered Le Mans a Ford GT40 with an English accent (above, moving into the turn past the pits) took the lead after four hours and rolled to victory as supposedly unbreakable German contenders fell ill

If true, it means are club is being run as a business venture, not as contenders for any major trophy, it means that Kroenke is not as «hands off» as he likes to make out, although there has been evidence to support that in the past as well, and it shows what a huge mistake it was for Danny Fiszman / Nina Bracewell - Smith to sell their shares to him, as he appears to be using the Glazer model as his template.

In fact with a vision-less and passion-less board as ours, Wenger as arrogant and as past it as he might is the only semblance of sanity, I don't support Wenger I believe he is currently doing a marvelous job, I support him because I can see a couple of moves ahead already, if Wenger leaves and the board stays the same, we are massively effed, Newcastle will be child's play, Kroenke's other teams are mid table contenders, he will simply look at another money making model for Arsenal, even Usamanov believes Arsene needs backing, if Usmanov came in today, he will not fire Wenger, he will seek to work with him, give him a clear mandate, back him up without pointing at the balance sheeets and if he still does not deliver, looks like a guy who would fire Wenger mid s - season, legacy or not.

This splendid redundancy was all that past performance charts had to say about the last three races of Venezuela's Canonero II, who made America's classic contenders look like Percherons as he rounded a jampacked field to score a stunning upset in the Kentucky Derby

Political analysts noted that the two running mates aren't as well known as past V.P. contenders like Biden.

Mr. de Blasio's brand is not as strong in the moderate to right - leaning district and Brooklyn - born contenders have struggled to win the Staten Island - based congressional district in the past.

While Mr. Espaillat also used Red Horse two years ago when he came just shy of unseating veteran Congressman Charlie Rangel, people close to Mr. Espaillat and Red Horse believe the firm's addition to his growing team will help vault the uptown lawmaker past Mr. Rangel, as well as new contender Pastor Mike Walrond, this time around.

There is a general expectation of this sort of squeeze as the election approaches — the nature of First Past the Post is that votes for smaller parties don't stand much chance of being translated into MPs unless they are geographically concentrated and as the election approaches the media coverage almost inevitably focuses ever more upon the main contenders (though more on that later).

As with past winners (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, von Trier), four - time Competition contender Audiard finally got what he wanted and perhaps felt entitled to.

Like the Oscars, they only allow a certain number of contenders from each country (2 or 3 in their case as opposed to Oscar's 1 film per country rule) but their long list includes a lot of Oscar submissions from the past season.

In writer / director Rod Lurie's The Contender (2000), Joan Allen starred as Ohio Democratic Senator Laine Hanson, the assailed VP appointee of President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges), who faced sexist scandal - mongering (about her past) during her political selection process, mostly from Illinois Republican Congressman Sheldon «Shelly» Runyon (Gary Oldman).

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I've been covering this year's Oscar race pretty extensively over the past few months, running down the ebbs and flows of the various categories as 2014's awards contenders came into focus.

Following its wildly successful Toronto Film Festival screening that solidified its status as a serious Best Picture contender, Silver Linings Playbook had pundits weighing the possibility of past nominee Jacki Weaver landing a nomination for her work in the film.

Only three of the guild's Adapted Screenplay contenders — Before Midnight, Captain Phillips, and The Wolf of Wall Street — made it onto Oscar's shortlist, and even if one of them triumphs, breezing past Tracy Letts's opus about familial dysfunction, August: Osage County, and Peter Berg's bizarrely recognized soldiers - as - mincemeat shit show Lone Survivor, there's still the seemingly impassable hurdle of John Ridley's script for 12 Years a Slave, which, though ineligible for WGA honors (you can get those exclusion deets here), looks like Oscar's indisputable frontrunner.

Renault Lodgy Competition: The MPV segment hasn't seen any new contenders in the recent past and the Lodgy continues to compete against established rivals such as the Maruti Suzuki Ertiga, the Mahindra Xylo and the Toyota Innova Crysta.

What has recently come up as a major contender with the AMEX Platinum is Chase's Sapphire Reserve card which was debut this past summer.

Picking the number one entry was difficult because while there was plenty of games that I enjoyed there wasn't really anything that stood out as the immediate contender, whereas in past years there has almost always been a title or three vying for the top spot.

It means nothing that they have been able to fit the models to past data other than that would be a minimum requirement of a model that could even be considered as a possible contender.

This also explains why, as you point out, CO2 levels have in the past been high during an ice age (although never at 5000ppm — the late - Ordovician would have been a contender but this recent paper — ttp: / / geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/10/951.abstract — demonstrates that CO2 consumption increased during the mid-Ordovician as a result of continental weathering, however levels were held up by volcanic outgassing.

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Orlando was the winner in November, as October's fourth - ranked contender jumped past Jacksonville and Las Vegas.