Sentences with phrase «small number of races»

But political analysts tracking the races say that only a relatively small number of races — fewer than 50 House seats and just a handful of Senate races — are truly competitive.

The enterprise began to produce petrol engines but after the success of a small number of race cars built on contract by Wilhelm Maybach for Emil Jellinek, it began to produce the Mercedes model of 1902.

Not exact matches

Cordray, most recently the director of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was up 28 % -13 % after the previous poll showed a smaller 23 % -16 % Cordray lead, although a huge number of undecideds means the race could break in unexpected ways at the end.

Despite plenty of punctures, spins and even a couple of small fires, the number of caution periods this year was incredibly low, which, combined with the reasonably high attrition rate, meant that it wasn't the most exciting race.

Before you pull on you SJW uniform and climb onto your high horses, remember that racism is no isolated incident and only a small number of educated people the world over seem to have any sort of perspective on the issue and are genuinely open to people of varied races, while most put up a show to just seem politically correct.

New York's 3rd Congressional District's Republican primary had the second smallest margin of victory of any race in the 2014 primary season and the least number of votes separating the primary winner from the loser.

«This is not a race to compile the biggest number of small donors.

A third prominent candidate, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley, is also in the race, and has announced the support of a number of smaller unions, especially in trades.

A small number of these legacy Republicans are alleged to be aiding and abating her campaign for a quick buck and a political capital windfall should she win the Mayoral race.

«The Stimulus included a relatively small piece of money that became the «Race to the Top» fund, $ 4.35 billion, and the Obama administration said the way we're going to use this money is we're going to say, «If you want to compete for part of this money, you must adopt standards that are common to a number of states and you get the most points if a majority of states have adopted those standards,»» said McClusky.

The race to be the city's chief fiscal officer has, like the public advocate contest, been a sleepy one, with the incumbent Democrat holding major financial and other advantages, and heavily favored, as the higher profile mayoral race has sucked up the attention of most of whatever small number of voters is paying attention to the municipal elections.

Operatives say the number of truly competitive House races will be relatively small — maybe just a couple of dozen.

Today, the benefits of the system are even clearer: the number of small donors to political candidates has grown, and elections field more competitive races.

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a...

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

He recently vindicated this bit of common sense by giving a number of people either a mouse, a touchscreen, a joystick or a gaze interface to use and then racing them against each other to find and select a small target.

However these studies only analysed the winning time of a small number of middle and long distance elite races and did not take factors such as ground softness into account.

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

The smaller sample was drawn from the Southwest Baltimore site of the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities (EHDIC) study, an ongoing study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions of race disparities within communities where approximately equal numbers of both African Americans and non-Hispanic whites live and where median incomes are similar.

The Cambridge, Mass., school system has joined a small but growing number of districts seeking to integrate schools on the basis of income rather than race — helping to expand what some experts see as a coming trend in American education.

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

They're among a small but growing number of young adults who think it's nothing less than bizarre to live in an incredibly diverse city — yet see many of their children's schools almost entirely segregated by race and class.

McKenzie cars — The history of this small Birmingham manufacturer by Ian McKenzie / Sunny Silverstone — Tom Threfall's report on the VSCC race meeting / Rescue of a 30/98 Vauxhall — The story of «the lady of the lake» by Dennis Harrison / Nesseldorfer to Tatra — Michael Worthington - Willaims recounts the history of a remarkable series of car from Czechoslovakia / 1937 A.C. 16/70 — The editor enjoys his excursion no. 2 in this sports tourer with a pedigree / Commercial London - Brighton Run — The annual pilgrimage for historic commercials / About registration numbers — David Hales explains their origins and diversity / Mille Miglia 1989 — Toby Ross describes the «fantastic atmosphere» of this unique event.

So since 2012 the company has sold small numbers of these drag - racing optimized cars (usually 69 of them, to honor 1969 as the first year of the COPO Camaro option).

Bill Thomas Race Cars would end up doing just a small number of 1967 Camaro big - block conversions under the arrangement with Nickey.

Controversial during its only season of American Le Mans competition, the M3 GTR was built to a set of rules that ultimately existed for only one season and allowed a manufacturer to compete with a purpose - built racing engine as long as a (small) number of road cars were produced.

A large number of retired racing greyhounds are likely «cat - tolerant» and live in foster homes with cats or other small pets.

Gates open at 8:30 a.m. Sunday for the Osceola Canine Training Association Fun Day, which includes a wheelbarrow race with dog owners running the race while their family pooches are perched in wheelbarrows, water and land retrieve retrieving competitions and an obstacle course.Canine competitors are divided into large - dog and small - dog classes except for the obstacle course, toss and catch (with the winners catching an object or food the greatest number of times)

Since 2004 he has worked as an artist / designer with various small to mid-size studios on a number of turn - based strategy, racing, and action - adventure games.

Even in a regular race, there will often be special challenges that have you maintaining a certain speed in a zone, or a number of other small objectives, that will reward you with additional stars beyond just the race results.

However, according to 34BigThings, the smaller online lobbies will translate in an increased number of available races, keeping the community even more engaged than it would otherwise be.

This development is perhaps most pronounced in the mining sector where an industrial arms race to assemble computing power has resulted in a relatively small number of participants in this process, at least compared to the network's early days when anyone with a home computer could mine bitcoins.

About Blog Race Ohio MX began with a small group of us (Scott Plessinger, John Walters and Rick Landis) seeing the increasing number of riders wanting to ride and or race in southern ORace Ohio MX began with a small group of us (Scott Plessinger, John Walters and Rick Landis) seeing the increasing number of riders wanting to ride and or race in southern Orace in southern Ohio.