Sentences with phrase «push across the finish line»

«The incentives we're providing here push them across the finish line,» said Edward Rath, an IDA board member.

Given the narrowness of Trump's margins, could Cambridge Analytica have provided the extra nudge that pushed him across the finish line?

When working on some tough deals, this is the sort of information that can help push it across the finish line (or kill it appropriately).

Greg Wetstone, senior director of governmental and public affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement, «We salute Members of Congress in both parties who fought under difficult conditions to keep the renewable energy production tax credit and small turbine investment tax credit on the agenda until the very end, and then pushed them across the finish line.»

Assuming that they will be the ones to call you back might be assigning too much initiative to a person — especially one who may be in a vulnerable position and needs a little push across the finish line.

Not exact matches

With the finish line in sight he got out of his Lotus and pushed his car across the line before collapsing from exhaustion.

In the closing laps six of the 11 cars still running ran out of fuel: Senna, Johansson, Brundle, Warwick, Piquet, and Boutsen — though Boutsen was lucky enough to do so right on the pit straight and was able to push his car across the finish line.

He had to push his car across the line though as he'd run out of fuel, so if you really wanted to you could say his car didn't reach the finish of any races that year!

Bruce McLaren won it, but all eyes were on Jack Brabham, who ran out of fuel on the last lap but pushed his car across the line to finish fourth and take the first of his three world championships.

On this day in 1959, Jack Brabham won the World Championship by pushing his car across the finish line at Sebring.

Since then, advocates changed their political approach, ceasing to simply support the Democratic conference as a whole in hopes of pushing the issue across the finish line and targeting key «no» voters for ouster.

Now, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to push both Frank Lloyd Wright's Martin House Complex in Buffalo's Parkside neighborhood and Graycliff, the summer estate built for Isabelle Martin in Derby, across the finish line.

In the end, though, it was Venter's goading that pushed the teams across the finish line together.

Across the country, Sierra Club activists have been raising their voices about a «free trade» scheme that would do more environmental harm than help if it's pushed through the finish line as - is.