Sentences with phrase «remarkable feat in»

While the voyage to the 100 + islands is remarkable feat in its own right, the arrival upon their shores is another treasure worth opening.

In 2011, I cautioned, «Common Core advocates accomplished a remarkable feat in getting 40 - odd states to adopt the new standards... [But if advocates] believe that early success means they can stop making the case for what they're doing, I think they're making a huge mistake.»

Common Core advocates accomplished a remarkable feat in getting 40 - odd states to adopt the new standards.

The stories surrounding the film, and its enigmatic and eccentric writer / director are legion; not least of which the reported $ 6m budget that Wiseau apparently spent on the picture — a remarkable feat in so much as The Room resembles a movie made for about 0.5 % of that cost.

The Beavers won 49 games and lost only four this season, a remarkable feat in a hard - fought Pac - 12.

Now they play small ball — with Francis, Mobley and jump - shooting power forward Maurice Taylor as the primary options — yet still match their opponents on the boards, a remarkable feat in the West.

Now Ian Holloway has it all to do if he's to mastermind what would be one of the most remarkable feats in Premier League history, but his formidable task doesn't get any easier any time soon.

Eight years later, on July 20, 1969, Apollo commander Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar module and made a giant leap for mankind - a step that symbolized one of the most remarkable feats in human history.

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Yet, the B.C. Liberals just pulled off the remarkable feat, with February's budget promising $ 327 million in new taxes for 2013 - 14 and a further $ 585 million - worth in 2014 - 15.

That stellar performance was a remarkable feat considering the government - sponsored mortgage company was still repaying its federal bailout from the recession, only settling its tab in 2014 — and the stock's rise was mostly due to the fact that the shares had begun 2013 trading for mere pennies.

All members will be among an elite organisation of business leaders that have demonstrated drive, passion, and dedication to achieving outstanding growth in revenue across Europe — a remarkable feat by any measure.

And there was the steady decline in the bitcoin market price, which accomplished the remarkable feat of making it an even worse investment than the Russian ruble last year.

R. R. Reno has written eloquently: «By clarifying what God has done in the person of Mary, the Church raises our eyes toward the highest goals, teaching the faithful that human flesh is capable of remarkable feats of holiness — even to the point of sinless perfection and fellowship with God in our flesh.»

I do recollect the first, and, as it turned out, the last game of our reign, however, for in the course of it there occurred what may have been the most remarkable athletic feat I have ever witnessed.

Pretty remarkable feat by the Chiefs in sweeping the formidable AFC West.

So he was, to a certain extent, says Richard Henderson in Dangerous Voyages of Captain William Andrews (Abercrombie & Fitch, $ 12.50), but he performed two great feats of seamanship, and he left two remarkable books, A Daring Voyage and Columbus Outdone, long out of print and unobtainable.

It is a remarkable feat and has only been done four times in the history of European club football, with Pirlo, Laudrup and Baggio joining Cantona.

With 15 strikes to his name, Ronaldo has registered more goals in the opening eight rounds of the season than any other player in La Liga history, a feat all the more remarkable for the fact that he missed one of those games — a 4 - 2 defeat against Real Sociedad.

«Yes, it has happened to me before, but I didn't think it would happen again,» Nicklaus said after finishing second in the Open for the fourth time, in a major for the 18th, a remarkable feat all by itself, the more so when you reflect on the 19 majors he has won.

Only Aston Villa have scored fewer goals in this Premier League campaign, and though Poyet was able to secure their survival last season with a remarkable last few results, there was little to show that he might be able to repeat the feat this time around.

After doing my research, shown above (which I pretend support my claim, even though I said «this does not support my claim»), I see that cement production is not in the very top of CO2 emission causes (in comparison to others named above), but is in fact already one of the top in regards to manufacturing, materials, and minerals — which, while not as detrimental as I had believed, is still a pretty remarkable feat, especially whenever you look at the increase in effects in recent years and take in the knowledge that it's only going to get worse.

It was also a remarkable feat, even for the.378, for there are several hundred pounds of bone, a good deal of it 16 or 18 inches thick, sometimes more, in the head of an elephant, and this is covered with tough hide that is an inch thick itself.

Quite a remarkable feat when you consider he only became a goalkeeper in 1897 at the relatively late age of 23, after a successful junior career as a half - back.

He has now scored in every single one of Real's Champions League games this season, which is a remarkable feat.

The remarkable feat was a personal triumph for Leicester's highly likeable and much - travelled Italian manager Claudio Ranieri who secured his own first league title in a 30 - year career that has taken him across Europe and beyond.

Four individual awards in a year is a remarkable feat, to say the least.

Until the FC Barcelona star achieves the same feat, despite all his remarkable accomplishments and records in European club football, the biggest prize in football still eludes him.

Attributing the achievements of President Mahama to his commitment to get things done even in difficult situations; Kofi Adams said the remarkable feat the president has chalked within just three years in office will certainly result in victory in this year's polls.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In the November 2012 election, Democrats won a majority of the seats in the New York State Senate, which is something of a remarkable feaIn the November 2012 election, Democrats won a majority of the seats in the New York State Senate, which is something of a remarkable feain the New York State Senate, which is something of a remarkable feat.

This remarkable feat is chronicled in the series First Peoples, which begins airing on PBS June 24.

The remarkable feat also poses a new puzzle: In two cases, million - degree «hot spots» on the stars» surfaces turn out to be much larger than expected, indicating that popular models of neutron stars are wrong.

Read about some of those design challenges — and some of the remarkable feats that JWST should be capable of — in a slide show of images from the telescope's construction.

Science doi: 10.1126 / science.1197258; 2010), performs a remarkable feat by surviving high concentrations of arsenic in California's Mono Lake and in the laboratory.

Seashells lined with iridescent mother - of - pearl are more than just pretty — they're a remarkable feat of microengineering, said study co-author François Barthelat, a mechanical engineer at McGill University in Quebec, Canada.

IN THE LATE 1950s, RICHARD FEYNMAN FAMOUSLY IMAGINED a science where researchers and engineers could achieve remarkable feats by manipulating matter and creating structures all the way down to the level of individual atoms.

At a molecular level, the interactions of DNA, RNA and proteins of the auditory system orchestrate a remarkable feat that is summarized in our ability to hear.

A daily increase of a more than a thousand visitors is no mean feat in this edge of the line competition of sugar daddy dating apps and Sudy has achieved that with remarkable ease.

Robin Campillo's latest film, BPM, unfairly left out of the Foreign Oscar race, is an ensemble film that never reduces its characters to clichés — a feat most remarkable in the leads, Nathan (Arnaud Valois) and Sean (Nahuel Perez Biscayart).

It's a gift of a part for an actress of such extraordinary range as Toussaint and she makes it her own, pulling off the remarkable feat of being a standout in a show absolutely brimming over with cherishable, note - perfect powerhouse performances.

And sate it does, at least from a technical standpoint: The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer * is the finest for one of the film's theatrical cuts — a remarkable feat considering it's the longest instalment of the trilogy (and thus harder to squeeze onto a single - sided, dual - layered platter), though perhaps not so astonishing in light of two years having passed since The Fellowship of the Ring debuted on the format.

When Nintendo showed The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild off to the public at E3 in 2016, it was clear they were on to a winner and that winner has only gone and pulled off a remarkable feat.

His ability to imagine and create the impossible in ways truly shocking, without compromise — a remarkable feat, given the commercial demands informing so much of cinema — is what binds the Cronenberg-esque to the Burroughsian.

Just three years ago, Joss Whedon pulled off a remarkable feat by giving us a film that featured a cast of some of the biggest superheroes in the Marvel universe, known collectively as «The Avengers,» and delivering just the kind of action - packed adventure that fans ha...

Just three years ago, Joss Whedon pulled off a remarkable feat by giving us a film that featured a cast of some of the biggest superheroes in the Marvel universe, known collectively as «The Avengers,» and delivering just the kind of action - packed adventure tha...

Ultimately, Black Panther is a remarkable accomplishment in or out of the comic - book superhero genre, a feat that seemingly runs counter to homogenized, corporate product, especially from the Disney - owned Marvel Studios, but credit to über - producer Kevin Feige for giving Coogler the virtual green light to deliver the Black Panther moviegoers didn't know they needed, let alone wanted.

In Man On Wire, director James Marsh documented a remarkable feat of skyscraping balance.

While playing a high - strung, drug - addled white trash girl might seem like a walk in the park for Murphy, she does a good job in keeping the viewer invested in Krista — an all the more remarkable feat seeing as how we know from the opening scene that she will not survive her own storyline.

Often included as the token comic book adaptation by and about women in numerous internet lists on the subject, it is one of the most remarkable feats of adaptation.

As much as I've been critical of various implementation details of LCFF and whether the base was sufficient, I have to hand Brown an enormous amount of credit for changing the school funding formula to benefit low income and underresourced schools and for the remarkable political feat of getting it done in an eyeblink.

As you can imagine, the technology for collecting and analyzing data back in 1964 - 65 was very different from what we have today, so it was a remarkable feat, and has a lasting legacy to this day.