Sentences with phrase «short of winning»

I finished in 8th place in a field of ten vying for six seats; I was 1,600 votes short of winning a seat.

Short of winning the lottery, your best bets for accelerating loan payoff are prepayment (or paying more than the minimum) and lowering interest rate, the latter of which can be only be done through refinancing.

Short of winning the lottery, what can you do?

If Lincoln falls short of winning the sales race in 1999, it'll reload for 2000.

While Audi was successful, it fell short of winning the championship that year because it missed the endurance races held in Sebring and Daytona at the beginning of the season.

Jordan made his debut in the GRAND - AM Rolex Sports Car Series in 2009 and he and his co-driver piloted the Autohaus Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro to a runner - up finish in the 2011 Rolex GT championship, falling just two points short of winning the title.

While he fell short of winning for «The Florida Project,» Dafoe might be back in contention again.

Third party votes (short of winning a constituency) have tended to produce pro-Conservative biases, while third party wins have tended to help Labour.

And so the more votes the Lib Dems gained (short of winning), the bigger the bias in favour of the Conservatives.

Such a result in these Labour / Conservative marginals would leave the Tories short of winning the 117 seats they need to take from the governing party in order to have an overall majority.

Tottenham surpassed expectations in the 2016/17 season, but they still fell short of winning silverware, something that for all of the positives Pochettino has brought, he is yet to deliver.

After losing to out - of - form Southampton, injury troubles and a manager that won't buy in January, will Arsenal again fall short of the winning the Premier League?

After once again falling short of winning the Premier League title, Arsene Wenger is looking to reinforce all the key departments for next season.

Richard Kruse fell agonisingly short of winning Team GB's first medal at 2016 and Britain's first fencing medal for 52 years as he narrowly lost out in the battle for bronze in the men's individual foil.

It seems like years that I have been listening to Arsenal fans saying that Arsene Wenger's team is just two players short of winning the title.

Arsenal need a few Quality Players but Wenger will keep his hand in his pocket and Arsenal will fall short of winning the Premiership.

thus they would be fit.New signings don't guarantee injury free trophy laden seasons but they guarantee squad depth that goes a long way in determining success.Correct me if I'm wrong but whenever we fail short of winning the league, wenger's first excuse is always injuries, so why not build a squad big enough to cope with the injuries like mancity who are coping just fine without silva and aguero?

i cant imagine anyone else sitting on a pot of 200M when we always come up a bit short of winning PL.

Same old same old top 4 again this season for us and we are 3 players short of winning the league in my opinion.

Needs to be emphasized all the time that we are a FEW world class players short of winning major trophies.

She finally rose to the top of the women's ranks only to fall just short of winning the championship again and again.

The one - way deal is prorated for the remainder of the season and gives Gionta a chance to go out with a Stanley Cup after falling short of winning an Olympic medal.

This is the driver who once tweeted a video of a rampaging bull to signify his mood entering the playoffs and whose résumé is filled with triumphs in races where anything short of winning resulted in playoff elimination.

Further, having fallen agonisingly short of winning major trophies again last season, reinforcements are needed and according to The Daily Mail, Pochettino wants to start seeing some movement.

Short of winning the freaking WS, I'd consider a single win over UF the next most satisfying thing.

A member of Chelsea's first - ever Premier League lineup, Wise won several major cups but fell short of winning the league title.

But not to worry, I have so much hate that there isn't anything short of winning the superbowl for us that would make me like him.

So frustrating, we are 2 players (DM, CB) short of winning the EPL.

If both guys remain «viable,» then Romney will consistently come up well short of winning a majority of the delegates.

«One of the most valuable experiences in participating in the Edison Awards is knowing that if your design falls short of winning you will have an opportunity to be debriefed by the Edison team to learn how the jurors viewed your application, both its strengths & weaknesses.

4) «Embrace the target» After getting to the National League Championship Series in 2015, the Cubs» goal for 2016 was nothing short of winning the World Series.

Remember, your job is to pick which team is the best bet to exceed or fall short of these win - loss totals:

Although they fell just a few points short of the win, Team Bartlett is the not the type to get down from one L..

Anything short of a win Sunday would've only intensified the chatter that Harvick won at Atlanta and Las Vegas not solely because he is a great driver with a superior team, but because crew chief Rodney Childers had somehow sneaked a tricked - up, illegal car through NASCAR technical inspection.

Team Fallows brought everything they had Monday Night but fell just short of a win against Team Cohen.

I totally agree, we definitely need nothing short of a win against Galatasaray and lets hope Anderlecht will keep Dortmund at bay and hold them.

Not exact matches

On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award - winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short films, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Fast - casual chain Chipotle Mexican Grill added some spice to its long - running «Food With Integrity» sustainable farming campaign by teaming with Academy Award - winning design firm Moonbot Studios for The Scarecrow, an animated short film and accompanying mobile game created to increase consumer awareness of animal confinement, synthetic growth hormones, toxic pesticides and other fixtures of industrial food production.

One of my early students, Adam McKay [who went on to direct the Oscar - winning movie The Big Short] was sleeping on my couch for six months, because he wasn't making enough money to continue performing.

As they won wage increases higher than the current rate of inflation they would, for a short time, gain real wage increases.

This collection of short stories by a National Book award - winning writer, «feature telepathic zoo animals, a zealous toy collector and an eavesdropping Abraham Lincoln,» reports the FT.. Other commentators agree it's a whole lot of fun, while still managing to be moving and insightful.

Winning $ 20,000 in grant money from the competition funded the Danehys production of Fair Harbor's first collection of board shorts and swim trunks made exclusively of recycled plastic bottles.

Notably, The Big Short won best adapted screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards and also took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, which has predicted the Academy's Best Picture choice 8 out of the past 10 years.

Ford's father was a travelling salesman, the Pulitzer - winning American novelist tells us in the introduction to this collection of short fiction, and he kept that job through the Depression, the Second World War, and the entire 1950s, a time when your job was in some ways synonymous with your character.

Netflix was also shut out in the award show's film categories, with the streaming service's original feature film Mudbound failing to win either of its two nominations, while the Cambodian Civil War drama First They Killed My Father also fell short in the foreign film category.

Elena Delle Donne's third season was the best of her short career, as she led the league in scoring with over 23 points per game on 46 % shooting, to go with over eight rebounds, a steal, and two blocks per game en route to winning MVP.

The soda machine maker said it isn't winning over enough new customers and reported preliminary sales that fell short of expectations.

While fundamentally the consolidation of power could cut Turkey's structural growth potential, cyclically the destructive focus on short - term votes to win the referendum should give way to a more pragmatic focus on returning to growth,» the bank said.

Under Armour (uaa) is getting in the game with «athlete recovery sleepwear,» a collection of $ 80 shorts and $ 100 Henley shirts endorsed by Super Bowl - winning quarterback Tom Brady.

Families can participate by thinking up a fun invention idea, creating a simple drawing and short explanation of it and uploading both to MyDreamvention.com by April 24 for a chance to win.