Sentences with phrase «still been in the race»

If we had taken maximum in one of those patches we would've been still been in the race and much closer.

Not exact matches

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

After being deflected by investors during a previous company's fundraise, they realized just how much race still plays a role in America — particularly in matters of high finance.

Would they be off to the races or still in the pit lane?

Still, «B.C. is very much in the race,» TD economist Leslie Preston told Canadian Business.

«No Country for Old Men» faced some serious competition in the race for best picture («There Will Be Blood,» «Juno,» «Atonement,» «Michael Clayton»), but it still managed to triumph.

Still, the real race is in revenue.

While reaching pay equity is a huge accomplishment, the tech giant admitted that it still has a long way to go to create a workforce that's more balanced in terms of gender and race.

Still, in the race to become the king of sustainable salads, Sweetgreen is facing mounting competition from other fast - casual startups, including Dig Inn and Tender Greens (another Meyer - backed salad chain).

While Diller doesn't know if Snap can grab the third place spot in the race for online ad dollars (behind Facebook and Google), he said it's still among the top companies out there.

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

«Why are so many U.S. Republican presidential candidates still in the race despite single - digit poll numbers?»

Still, there's plenty of competition in the race to offer the fastest and most efficient machine learning platform.

Cal Jillson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, said a lot of national groups «are still assessing» the Alabama Senate race on whether to get involved or not.

While Bannon dismissed his would - be allies in the alt - right or ethnonationalist right, he still argued for the importance of focusing politics around race: «The Democrats, the longer they talk about identity politics, I got»em.

As of Tuesday night, Democrats agreed with Jones's pitch but were still weighing whether it was worth investing in his race.

«The start - up investment sector in Kuwait is still far behind in the race with its GCC rivals.»

Ohio Gov. John Kasich still harbors hopes of emerging as a consensus candidate after multiple ballots but he lacks stature with national Republicans annoyed that he is still in the race, and he is deeply distrusted by ideological conservatives.

And no matter how much Cruz says it will never happen, it's still quite possible the eventual GOP nominee is not even in the race right now.

Back in 2015, when Schultz was still CEO, Starbucks had a short - lived «RaceTogether» campaign in which it tried to get people to discuss race relations.

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Amazon announced its list of 20 finalists in the race for HQ2 and Toronto is the only Canadian city still in the running but does it stand a chance?

House Republican tax writers are still holing up in Room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building, racing to finish their work on a sprawling rewrite of the tax code.

In the future, Bitcoin could massively gain popularity, pile on millions more transactions, and still be unsustainable due to the arms race between miners.

There's a broader issue magnified by the intensity of reactions to the Parkland shooting: When it comes to gun violence, race and the unique needs of communities of color are still being overlooked in the national conversation.

«If you persevere, you are still in the race — you might be in the wrong race with the wrong strategy, but it is perseverance that will help you to get the right race plan.»

Mormons are also counseled to marry within their own race... that rule is still in effect!

Only in America is their still a question concerning the equal rights of someone due to their color race or creed.

I was trying to be open minded, still am, but this over-the-top flip, clearly on the basis of race, is sending me in a different direction.

It still needs this and the current Pope was «elected» simply on his race and the hopes of keeping the Hispanics happy at least since they represent the most faithful in numbers.

Although they are the only racial group to have experienced a decline in longevity — other races enjoyed steep increases — there are still enough whites in the United States that this meant longevity fell for the country as a whole.

Faith and Politics are one no matter how secular the country looks, there are still some plans that are built and made on the grounds of Survival or Prosperity of Faiths, Races both as over other Faiths, Races whether Nationally or Internationally, Such kind of those are found in every Land, Race, Faith & Nation.

Even if one chooses to completely ignore the historical foundations of inequitable opportunities in America and tries to eliminate any discussion of race, we are still faced with the fact that millions of kids have grown up and are growing up in places where the economic incentives and social supports don't favor stable work and families.

At least three of those people are still living in the state, all still engaged in race related causes.

Even late in the 20th Century, fundamentalist inst / itutions still opposed miscegenation «Although there is no verse in the Bible that dogmatically says that races should not intermarry, the whole plan of God as He has dealt with the races down through the ages indicates that interracial marriage is not best for man.»

I commend the pastor for his moral conviction but the majority of blacks are incapable of voting on any other issue but race... its genetic... Obama could say he is an ax murderer and they still will find a way to justify their vote for him... another words Obama sees the black vote as in the bag and he is right... most of them are incapable of critical thinkng

I believe if Trayvon had been of a different race, Zimmerman would have still defended himself in the same way.

Latin is an ancient language still in use but is not in any way an ethnicity or a race.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

121:8.14 — While I, with the collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless, the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time of this undertaking.

We see this in sports, where Roger Bannister's comment about his world - record race (he was the first to run the mile in under four minutes) has often been repeated by other runners: «The world seemed to stand still, or did not exist... «17 And certainly this can be true of the play world of art, which, according to Gerardus Van der Leeuw, is a new «creation, a second world, with its own power.

My final say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?

Seemingly, despite progress made against discrimination / prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some of those historical examples you cited.

In After Strange Gods he hinted darkly at the kind of oppression his society might lead to: «What is still more important [than homogeneity of culture] is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of freethinking Jews undesirable.»

«The religious habits of the race are still very strong, in all places, at all times, and for all people.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

Just imagine — If the human race is still around in a thousand years and we were somehow able to listen in on a discussion regarding what we now think is true in all of these areas, I'm guessing there would be lots of chuckling about our «primitive» ideas.

But racism is strong in every nation and every race still now.

Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

Less shallow because it recognizes at least that the individual is not master of his fate and can not live for himself alone, but still shallow in supposing that the human group — class, race or species — can do so.