Sentences with phrase «taken first honors»

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First, you can honor the sale, and take a financial loss on the items while keeping those few lucky customers happy.

Mack, who leads the NFL in total sacks over the last two seasons, took home his first Defensive Player of the Year honors last season and there's no doubt he can do it again.

This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

First of all, the Pope was honoring the pedophile priest's request to be removed from the clergy, and it took him a year to do it.

Then God raised up a man of sanctity, genius, and deep pastoral experience, a man of the Council who had led an extensive implementation of Vatican II in his own diocese under extremely difficult circumstances, as John XXIII's third successor: Karol Wojtyla of Cracow, who took the name John Paul II, thus honoring John XXIII's first two successors.

And so, after a long afternoon's journey into night, butting our heads against first one goalpost, then the other, we had to admit that the opponent wanted the game more than we did, that in fact they had more guts, and as the sensible team we were, we began to take ourselves out of the chaotic field «with honor.»

notes: 1) after first rise you can punch down and then braid, and then let rise again for at least 1 hr) 2) the word challah actually doesn't mean the BREAD — it's a piece you take out of the dough, burn and then bless — in honor of people who can't afford to get a meal... at least that is what I learned growing up!

Mervin Hyman, who takes over Honor's post, was a member of the writing and research team on the first issue of this magazine.

He's seen first - hand what it takes to earn the world's highest basketball honor.

Ferns took his gesture one step further by playing fullback on the play for Thompson, paving the way for him to score his first career touchdown to honor his father.

It pains me to say it, but if he hadn't been suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season, he probably would have taken the honor instead of Matt Ryan.

Unrelenting media coverage did him no favors among critics who took issue with his shoot - first - ask - questions - later style, and Young ultimately was overtaken in the race for the NPOY honors that he seemed on the verge of locking up at one point.

Costello took the Best in Show, Best Bred by Exhibitor and Viewers Choice honors; it's the first time the same contestant has won all three titles at the nation's only all - invitational dog show.

After finishing one stroke out of first at the NCS Tournament of Champions with a 1 - under 71, Scavo took top honors at the CIF / NCGA Northern Regional Tournament.

Earlier this week, Laskin shot a season - best 66 at Wildhawk Golf Club in Sacramento to earn individual medalist for the second time in as many Delta League Tournaments, helping the Marauders take top team honors after Davis won the first league tourney at El Macero.

This week, The Happy Bite takes on the issue of sugary school breakfasts and I was honored to be the podcast's very first guest!

Contestants who took first prize honors in the individual categories will be awarded $ 100 gift cards they can redeem at a Mass Audubon shop or a wildlife sanctuary.

In honor of Turkey Day, I'm taking my first real break from blogging since starting The Lunch Tray (over 130,000 words ago - wow!).

(Felder said «Here» when the acting president took attendance on the first day; Sorvino corrected the pronunciation of his wife's name when he was honored by the New York Conference of Italian - American Legislators).

Ruiz said it was not difficult to convince the Harlem native who served as the city's first — and only — African - American mayor to take part in honoring Mandela's legacy.

In an email being sent to all agency employees, Martens says it has been an «honor, an education and a gift» to head the DEC since 2011 — the first year Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office.

It took a couple months, but we finally were able to honor him properly at our first meeting in June.

They took top honors 3 years running in the FIRST Lego League in Oman, an international competition in which elementary and middle school students build a LEGO Mindstorm robot.

Did you know that the first parade held to honor St. Patrick's Day took place not in Ireland but in New York City in 1762?

In honor of that first post I thought I'd share a different take on the same idea.

We usually get a new personalized ornament from the mall each year, but this year my sweet friend Gloria had given us this ornament at a wedding shower to celebrate our first married Christmas so that took the spot of honor at the front of our tree.

Most of my photo shoots take place over the weekends and while I was putting my outfit together I figured since it was our anniversary, the day when my husband and I first met, why not do something fun in honor of our first encounter.

She knows the guilt associated with walking away from «the perfect» anything, but she also teaches her clients — much as she taught herself — that honoring and nourishing the relationship with yourself is always the first step you should take.

You can take her out in a reputed restaurant for the first date but always mind that honor and pride are the most important things for her.

So, in honor of the 30th anniversary of their second feature film, Raising Arizona, we thought the time was right to take a close look at their first effort in the dark comedy genre, an area of film that would undoubtedly become their hallmark.

Last Year «Äôs Big Winners: «ÄúSlumdog Millionaire «Äù took its first major best picture award of the season here, as well as honors for adapted screenplay and breakthrough actor Dev Patel.

Take on the role of a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2, the follow up to Arkane Studio's first - person action blockbuster that earned more than 100 «Game of the Year» honors.

All the major critics groups took note and awarded him supporting actor honors and he got his first Oscar nomination, a rave review from Pauline Kael, and a career.

Peele, helming his first feature, took home the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award and best screenplay honor.

GREEN LANTERN: In honor of Deadpool 2, we break the Sammy Ain't Seen Shit rules by taking on a 7 year old film and Ryan Reynold's first attempt at being a superhero with the DC flop «Green Lantern!»

Of the inscription at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Helen Morales, a classicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told the Times,» If we take into account its original context, the quotation is more applicable to the aggressors in the 9/11 tragedy than those honored by the memorial... So my first reaction is that the quotation is shockingly inappropriate for the U.S. victims of the 9/11 attack.

While its cast, from its talented young leads to a never - better Ben Kingsley as Méliès, was regrettably snubbed, the film vied for Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay honors and likely wound up the runner - up in the first two of those categories to The Artist, a kindred French production which took its love for early cinema in a drastically different direction (full - on emulation) to nonetheless comparably delightful results.

Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent took the honor for best first film for her «The Babadook,» the just - released horror thriller about a widow, her young son and a children's book monster.

But 2017 may finally be the time when that crowning honor is most widely acknowledged, first and foremost because it gave us what has become the highest - grossing horror title of all time — Andy Muschietti's It, so far earning almost $ 700 million across the globe — but also an overall genre gross of one - billion - plus dollars worldwide, accounting for nearly 15 percent of 2017's entire take.

Wechsler's other producing credits are a distinctive and award - winning mix of independent and studio films including «The Road,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «The Time Traveler's Wife,» «We Own the Night,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «The Fountain,» a Venice Film Festival Golden Lion selection; «North Country,» for which Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand earned Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations; «Requiem for a Dream,» which earned an Independent Spirit Award Best Picture nomination and an Oscar nomination for star Ellen Burstyn; «The Yards,» a Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or selection; «Quills» a Best Picture winner from the National Board of Review; «Eve's Bayou,» an Independent Spirit Award winner for Best First Feature; «Love Jones,» a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award winner for Best Film; «Little Odessa,» which won the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award; «The Player,» a Golden Globe Award winner for Best Motion Picture, Comedy; and «Drugstore Cowboy,» which took Best Film honors from the National Society of Film Critics.

A Look Back At Human Space Flight Honoring the 50th anniversary of the first human in space, EducationWorld takes a look at the history of manned space flight.

I was honored today to take part in the first «Tea with Teachers» round table discussion of 2016 focused around teacher retention.

Since Governor Malloy announced that 2012 was the year of education reform and Achievement First and ConnCAN (both founded by Jonathan Sackler) are some of the most important advocates for reform, reporters could have taken note that Governor Malloy's speech was at an event honoring Sackler and decided whether to pursue or not pursue any possible connection between the event and Malloy's education reform plans.

These school districts have taken the despicable step of telling children who have been opted out of the SBAC testing by their parents that they must first sign - in (log - in) to the SBAC test program before the school will honor their parent's directive that they are not to take the SBAC test.

So when first lady Michelle Obama and I started Joining Forces, our initiative to encourage all Americans to take action to find ways to honor and support our service men and women, veterans and military families, I knew part of what I would focus on was raising awareness about the military child experience in the classroom.

As it had done in both 1989 and 1990, BMW commissioned two Art Cars in 1991 — but while Penck was busy lending his take on the Z1, South African artist Esther Mahlangu was given the honor of painting a 5 Series, and becoming the first female artist to craft a BMW Art Car.

First and foremost, Subaru's decision to retire the WRX's time - honored Impreza moniker is a clear way of saying this distinguished sports sedan has officially taken on an identity all its own.

But the beauty that really got me excited was the first completely customized Aventador Roadster... once again Mansory beat the competition by a Mile, although it must be said DMC took the honors with their matte blue Aventador Roadster Molto Veloce a few weeks earlier... but the DMC LP900 Molto Veloce is a bolt on kit consisting of a front spoiler lip, side skirts, rear diffuser and rear wing... beautiful as it is, this Mansory Roadster creation caters to a different kind of customer.

At the moment there are only 3D digital renders available for this wide body Gallardo kit, and while it surely isn't the first «wide» Gallardo version (IMSA took that honor with their Gallardo GTV and Hamann created the Gallardo Victory and Victory II) this LB Works Gallardo is one of the most aggressive looking, especially with that massive race inspired rear wing.

In 2009, the Hyundai Genesis won North American car of the year — a historic first victory for a Korean automaker — and the Ford F - 150 took top honors in the truck category.