Sentences with phrase «striking distance from»

For anyone crazy enough to brave the a) weather, b) crowds and c) truly awful traffic to attempt their Christmas shopping in the west end — sorry Boris, but it's getting beyond a joke — then the ICA is easy striking distance from the madding crowds at Selfridges, or the super-luxe canyon of Bond Street.

Humansdorp is a 15 minute drive from both St Francis Bay, Oyster and Jeffreys Bay, within striking distance from your favourite holiday destination.

Within easy striking distance from many of the Balis hotspots as, The Living Room, Huu Bar, Potato Head and Kudeta, this holiday rental villa will be your home away from home that has been designed to ensure a perfect stay for families, friends and couples.

In an interview last year, Jamie Hodari, co-founder and CEO of Industrious, stated that «In the future, it's almost inevitable that there will be a WeWork in striking distance from most operators.

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The Ranger deployment was followed soon after by a contingent of US Marines from the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine regiment, which left their ships to establish a combat outpost inside Syria that is apparently within striking distance of Raqqa.

This balance should help you achieve greater distance on shots from the rough, where you may be striking the ball higher up on the club face, according to the Golfalot review.

With five minutes left, San Francisco was in striking distance, but the Rams were just a few first downs away from ending the game.

Only a few hours remain to snag the # 2 spot from The Coolest Cooler, but we are within striking distance!

Last week the 10 - year broke out from its month long slumber and narrow consolidation band to extended its 4 - month downmove to a 0.618 retracement of the 2.5 year upmove and is within striking distance of its 2.5 year Bull trend line.

As for the «spiritual wife,» all I can say is that it all strikes me as a repeat of the very thing the movement was trying distance itself from.

Each flower, each leaf, every greeting from a friend, every letter from a distance, every poem and every song strikes with double impact, as if we were sensing them for the first and for the last time.

To anyone familiar with the history of Western biographies of the Prophet, with its long tale of vituperation and certainly of totally reckless distance from the attitudes of Muslims as a community of persons, it is particularly striking to have a scholar write explicitly in the awareness that he is writing also for a Muslim audience, and take pains to write in a way that they can accept.

Christian Erikson uncorked a lucky strike from distance to score the winning goal.

Scott Piercy and Zach Johnson are also within striking distance of victory, two strokes back from Matteson.

The other Arsenal goal was a brilliant strike from distance by the excellent Oxlade - Chamberlain who produced one of his best displays in an Arsenal shirt.

Liverpool took a first - half lead against Manchester City at Anfield on Wednesday night, with Adam Lallana striking from distance to break the deadlock.

I wonder if Hexy decided in the beginning of the year that it was more important to showcase Weise and / or Lehtera in hopes of them playing well enough to entice a GM somewhere to give up something to take one of them off our hands than to have a slightly better player in Meat on the roster but now that we are within striking distance of actually making the playoffs, Meat is getting the playing time while Weise is appropriately relegated to watching from afar and Lehtera would be if it weren't for Raffl getting hurt.

Sammy Ameobi has doubled Newcastle's lead at Hull City, firing in a thunderous strike from distance.

However, a balanced Auburn attack and some big plays from the Tigers» passing game helped Gus Malzahn's team stay within striking distance.

The centre - back fired home from distance on 43, the strike leaving Lens keeper Rudy Riou no chance after a wicked deflection to give PSG a 1 - 0 lead.

This will be helped even further today if Southampton (a team we can't beat) can take three points from Leicester (a team that can't beat us) later on to move us to withing striking distance of the top of the table.

The action got sloppy for a couple minute stretch after the Rockets went up by 11 on a Parsons three, and the Blazers stayed within striking distance thanks to some strong play from Aldridge.

Higuain is better than Welbeck in three areas: Holding the ball, finishing, striking the ball from short and long distance

Hazard had given us the lead with a superb strike from distance inside the opening two minutes.

Xhaka does however have a tendency to shoot from distance, so when he does score, it is often as impressive as this strike against Slovenia:

Wesley Hoedt fires in a well - struck, left - footed shot from distance, but Petr Čech is again equal to it, flying to his right to push the ball wide.

And «immediately» is barely an exaggeration — in their first move forward after the restart, Arsenal took it right to Preston, and Aaron Ramsey did what Aaron Ramsey does, striking a sublime shot from distance under pressure right inside the post to level the score.

Additionally, his ability to unleash powerful left - footed strikes from distance made it reasonable to believe he could hit the back of the net regularly enough under the proper guidance.

Dunk then strode forward into space and let fly from distance, only to see his tame strike saved by Petr Cech.

The second is to strike from distance.

However, on his return to the starting XI, Marchetti could have done better with Nainggolan's strike from distance.

He has taken four shots per game so far in the Europa League, as he enjoys a strike from distance, whether it is a shot cutting inside from the right or a free kick.

Simon Mignolet — 5.5 Poor with his kicking as usual, and had little to do other than pick Aguero's strike out of the net when he was beaten (by an excellent shot) from distance.

It's a stadium that holds good recent memories for Christian after his superb strike from distance proved the difference in a 1 - 0 win last season.

Three from three in the holiday period, and within striking distance of their rivals.

The last meeting with fewer than two goals came in April 2012 when Arsenal won 1 - 0 courtesy of a long distance strike from Mikel Arteta.

Atletico first threatened after 15 minutes but a Adrian's strike from distance was tipped round the post by Antonio Tono, who then palmed over from a Diego Godin header as the visitors continued to threaten.

A long - distance strike from Ramsey and a second - half chance, which fell to Oxlade - Chamberlain, was as good as it got for them.

Doubtless that will change the further we get from June's political car crash, but the key question is whether that average can be pushed up by the six per cent necessary to breach the psychological threshold of 30 per cent, above which Labour politicians can console themselves that they are within striking distance of the Tories.

Observers from both parties have said all along that internal polling showed Howard leading the race, but that Tolbert was staying within striking distance.

Just as the recently retired conservative Georgia Democrat made it tough for his party to get the most from a close Senate margin in 2001, the vindicated Lieberman will return to exact some payback when the Dems take five seats and get within striking distance of actually having a voice in the chamber.

The move strikes a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and distances America from its closest allies.

Still, despite strong opposition to the compromise from Republicans, supporters are within striking distance of rounding up the votes they need to pass it in the Senate by the end of this week.

A statement from Maloney's campaign, which crows that today's poll shows the Democrat «within striking distance» of Hayworth, includes the following quote from WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor:

As its distance from the sun increases and less sunlight strikes its surface, A / 2017 U1's brightness will plummet.

When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Subsequent lab tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.

The islands are notable for their distance from the Ecuadoran mainland and for their arid volcanic terrain, which produced the Galápagos's most striking and fortuitous distinction: the relative absence of people (and other predators).

Although the ID debate was not an issue in most congressional races, voters may have punished Santorum because the once - vocal ID supporter tried to distance himself from the movement after a federal judge struck down an attempt last year by the Dover, Pennsylvania, school board to insert ID into the curriculum.

New research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) exploring the impact of House Bill 2 (HB 2)-- the restrictive Texas abortion law that was struck down by the Supreme Court — found that increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.

The way they use those long chelicerae to strike from a distance, earned them another name: assassin spiders.