Sentences with phrase «race a week ago»

Corbett is a little hobbled after a 100 - mile race a week ago blistered the pads of her near bulletproof feet (she has an especially gruesome story about her big toe exploding after she trimmed the nail).

Rivera backers had tried to talk Padernacht into quitting the race weeks ago, noting a poll commissioned by New Roosevelt had show Espada had a good chance of winning the primary if the vote was split three ways.

Not exact matches

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

Of course it helps that several weeks ago, Kyle won the XFINITY race at Dover in a ParkerStore sponsored car.

Amazon set off a national race two weeks ago when it invited metro areas to apply to be the Seattle - based company's second home.

«The White House doesn't take kindly to being told they have a gender problem on their economic team,» the Washington Post «s Ezra Klein noted a few weeks ago writing about the race to succeed Ben Bernanke as the new chair of the Federal Reserve.

Christian Post: Iowa Evangelical Leaders Call on Santorum or Bachmann to Exit GOP Race «If you can't beat»em, then join»em,» seems to be the strategy of an Iowa pastor who only weeks ago asked former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to withdraw from the Republican presidential primary before deciding later to endorse his candidacy.

A couple of weeks ago, Pastor Bryan Loritts contacted me about moderating a panel on race and the church, following the events that have taken place over the last couple of weeks and months.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

Mr Clarke, who became Treasury's sixth chief executive in four years after arriving from the United Kingdom just seven weeks ago, is in a race against time as United States - based KKR seeks to capitalise on shareholder discontent with the Treasury board and a string of operational disasters to swoop on Australia's most famous wine brands.

Just a few weeks ago the side were very close behind Manchester City in the title race.

After what had been a reasonably sedate race in Marrakesh three weeks ago, Formula E was back to its frantic best at the new circuit at Santiago in Chile.

Each has had great participation, including a whole host of Novice crews racing for the first time since starting rowing, just 7 weeks ago.

Could the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway have the same fate as the Martinsville race just 3 weeks ago and be pushed to Monday?

The defending Cup champion won two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway, the final race before the Easter holiday break.

One driver who disagrees with Keselowski and strongly supports NASCAR's new policy is Dale Earnhardt Jr., who a year ago suffered two concussions within a span of six weeks and sat out two races.

NASCAR's Winston Cup championship, which only two weeks ago looked as if it had been locked up by Dale Jarrett, has turned into a crapshoot with 10 races left in the season.

It was only a week or so ago that some Arsenal fans were wringing their hands with despair and predicting a collapse of form and results that would see Arsenal slide out of the Premier League title race, exit the EFL cup and suffer the usual fate of being runners up in our Champions League group which would see us knocked out in the first knockout stage.

A couple of weeks ago the WEC announced that the next season would be a «super season», running for 15 months across 2018 and 2019 as the series seeks to re-align its calendar so that the Le Mans 24 Hours can be the last race of the championship.

Busch was a guest this week on Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s popular podcast where the two rehashed the dissolving of their once - friendship along with an incident between them 10 years ago where Busch spun Earnhardt out of the lead during the spring race at Richmond Raceway.

Thanks also to the Cardioligist and surgeon who fixed my serious heart issue 2 weeks ago and gave me confidence to race.

A couple weeks ago, a Belgian cyclist riding in one of the «Monument» races in cycling, Paris - Roubaix, just fell over and crashed...... dead.

Last week gave us a strange sort of Indy qualifying, with teams vying for spots in a race in which the pole position, if not the victor, had been determined long ago.

Willy Sagnol's side are chasing European qualification, but were stunned two weeks ago when they were handed a 2 - 1 defeat by neighbours and rivals Toulouse - one of Lens» key rivals in the race to remain in the division.

Monger suffered a horrific accident in a British Formula 4 race at Donington Park a few weeks ago after hitting a rival car.

Two years ago a fan somehow managed to wander onto the track during the race and spent six weeks in prison for the pleasure.

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It was only a matter of weeks ago that Spurs considered themselves very much in the title race, however after only taking four points out of their last possible 12, things don't seem so rosy for the North London club.

The club defender Walter Samuel revealed a few weeks ago that Milito has been asking him to join Racing club of Argentina.

A few weeks ago, we were laughing at the sheer assumption that Spurs could even be title contenders, now we're laughing at those too stubborn to even count them in this race for the 2010/2011 crown, a race more open than its ever been before.

Let your child show up to the big race without the car that was supposed to be finished two weeks ago.

Eric's seen the last - minute scramble for votes up close, since he handled search advertising for McCain's presidential race, and Rena's with AOL's political advertising section, covered here only weeks ago.

The deal as fleshed out by state Democrats several weeks ago hinges on the party filling two coming vacancies in the Senate, including a Westchester County race to fill the seat being vacated by George Latimer, the county executive - elect.

«Microtargeting» was the buzzword, but data was the result: weeks ago hard numbers made the campaign «cautiously confident» that the race was trending in their favor, based on what they knew about the voters who had yet to make up their minds.

A source with deep knowledge of the race claims that Mercer created NY Wins, the PAC that has been supporting Faso on the air «in January 16 by putting 500k in it and he dumped in another 350k a couple weeks ago.»

«The race for attorney general was tight two weeks ago, and now it can't get any tighter,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement announcing the results.

Faulkner had been a mayoral candidate competing against Massey, but announced a switch to the comptroller's race just over a week ago.

The DCCC designation is a coup for Perez Williams, who entered the race only two weeks ago in a last - minute attempt to make it onto the ballot and force a Democratic primary on June 26.

Cuomo largely stayed out of the race with public appearances on Latimer's behalf, but did endorse him several weeks ago.

A Siena College / Syracuse Post-Standard poll conducted nearly a week ago showed Katko with a 10 - point lead in the race, and national political analysts have declared the race between Katko and Maffei a toss - up.

A spokesman for the Corbyn campaign said: «Polls rise and fall but this is a great start - Jeremy has only been in the race just over a week and already created a terrific platform to lift off from - higher than anyone predicted 10 days ago.

Rep. - elect Anthony Brown, who lost a governor's race in Maryland two years ago, walks down the House steps for the 115th Congress freshman class group photo during the first week of orientation on Nov. 15.

Trump and Ryan met in Washington more than two weeks ago to discuss their differences and try to find common ground to unite Republicans in the 2016 presidential race.

The race was somewhat static two weeks ago, with various candidates touting themselves as frontrunners based on straw polls (Nelson, Cobb) as well as their fundraising prowess, including Boyajian, who has been the top fundraiser in two consecutive quarters.

Markey beat fellow Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch, while Gomez won a three - way primary in a race largely overshadowed by the Boston Marathon bombings that took place a little more than two weeks ago.

It's Miliband's decision to withdraw from the race for the European foreign minister's job two weeks ago that has catapulted the question of his leadership back into the frame.

Killian, who ran two years ago against Latimer for the same Senate seat, jumped into the race less than two weeks ago after the other two announced Republican candidates, Sarmad Khojestah and Dan Schorr, didn't excite Republicans here in Westchester or in Albany.

Spitzer, who resigned as governor in 2008 after revelations he spent thousands of dollars on prostitutes, jumped into the race for New York City comptroller just over a week ago.

Lanza squeaked out a primary win three weeks ago, and his race is key to retaining Republican control of the State Senate in November.

Just two weeks ago, Schneiderman was leading Donovan by seven points in the polls, but by the time New Yorkers went to vote Tuesday morning, many pundits had expected a race that would go down to the wire, especially with some heavy hitters turning out to stump for the Republican.