Sentences with phrase «then world record»

Grand Theft Auto IV alone made $ 310m on release day, then a world record for any form of entertainment, including movies.

The Real Madrid forward, who spent six trophy - laden seasons at Old Trafford before joining Los Blancos in a then world record # 80 million deal, has been coy on his future amid continued reports of a potential move to Paris Saint - Germain or a return to United.

Pogba, who signed for # 89 million coming from Juventus a year ago, breaking the then world record, which has itself been broken this summer with Neymar heading to Paris Saint - Germain in a $ 222 million payment of the player's buyout clause with former club Barcelona.

Having joined on a then world record fee, Pogba strained to convince in his early days with Manchester United.

After a stellar year in 2013, Bale was picked up by European giants Real Madrid for a then world record fee of $ 100.8 m.

The transfer was completed shortly afterwards for the then world record sum of $ 200,000.

In 2001, Real paid Juventus a then world record fee of # 45.8 m for the midfielder, who had won the World Cup and European Championship.

The main action he will perhaps be remembered for at White Hart Lane was agreeing to sell Gareth Bale for a then world record fee of # 85.3 million in the summer of 2013.

Man United sold Ronaldo to Real Madrid in a then world record # 80m deal and the attacker has of course gone on to mature into one of the best players of his generation.

Since his arrival at Manchester United from Juventus for a then world record fee back in 2016, a lot was expected of young French international Paul Pogba.

As per Sky Sports, Man Utd splashed out a then world record fee of # 89m on Pogba to take him back to Old Trafford in 2016, but now it's reported that he could be on the path to leaving Manchester for a second time.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forWorld War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld's last substantial rain forests.

On a Zero, he was able to ride fast and record almost pure wind noise in a real - world environment (here at Pigeon Point), which in turn allowed the company to isolate the sound of wind and then design firmware that could all but eliminate it from recordings.

Madrid broke the transfer world record when it spent # 85.3 million (then $ 100 million) on the former Tottenham Hotspur player in 2013.

And then there's Tim Don, the world - record holder in the Ironman triathlon who six months ago suffered a broken C2 vertebra when he was riding his bike and a truck turned and struck him side - on.

At Peloton, they would record classes in a yet - to - be-built studio in New York City; classes would then be streamed live or on - demand to Peloton customers around the world for $ 39 per month.

That did not happen: there is no geological record of a world - wide flood, there is not enough diversity to regenerate the population we currently, there is not enough water to cover the earth to the height of Everest, the logistics of retrieving and returning animals to the then - unknown Americas, Australia, etc. were staggeringly difficult, managing the animals on the Ark was impossible — a few humans keeping predators from their prey, cleaning the waste, etc., pretty much all life on earth would have been killed, etc. etc..

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

A middle position sees the biblical record as neither completely divine nor completely human, but as Involving both God and man; its authors conveyed profound insights into the nature Of God, but expressed this religious message in poetic form and in terms of the understanding of the world then current.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

Here is my evil plan — Create a fictional character, have him born into poverty in a part of the world full of strife with no recorded history, cast some doubts on his conception (that will keep them guessing), leave a decade or so gap in his life story, re-introduce him in the middle of nowhere and tell everyone he has all these amazing powers, he confounds and confuses all his followers and tells them not to tell anyone about what he does or where he is going and Oh yeah, they are all prostiitutes and tax cheats and lepers and the really lowlifes of society, deny them the chance to follow him, set him at odds with both the government and the church powers of his time, cast doubts on his seexuality and intelligence, make it so he refuses anyone to come to his aid and kill him in the most horrible way imaginable, then hide his body, make it so nothing he does can be historically proven.

Bale cost a world transfer record fee of # 85m two years ago and should Man United look to win the race to capture the former Tottenham man then one imagines Louis van Gaal would have to sell Angel di Maria to both fund the deal and make room for his arrival.

According to the Sunday Express, Bale, who move to the Spanish giants in 2013 for a then world - record fee, could still make the move to Old Trafford during this summer window, with the winger's long - term future at the club in doubt.

She lowered her personal record in the 100 from 10.96 to 10.86 in the second round of the worlds and then to 10.79 in the final, but still lost by several yards to Jones, who ran 10.70.

Real Madrid paid a then world - record # 80m fee to sign Ronaldo in 2009 and it's fair to say that he has proven a phenomenal purchase.

This may sound a little ridiculous as Real Madrid only paid a world record # 85.3 m fee for Bale in 2013, but the 13 - time Premier League champions were keen to land the Welshman then and have one bargaining tool to convince Los Blancos to sell — David de Gea.

Despite spending what was then a world - record transfer fee to bring Pogba from Juve to United in the summer of 2016, it is claimed that the Red Devils boss first tried to sign Gareth Bale and Antoine Griezmann.

He competed in only two events at Winnipeg; he helped the 400 - yard freestyle relay team win, and then he lowered his world record in the 200 - meter freestyle to 1:56.0.

Since it seems to be the way of the world to treat the transfer market as its own competition — with winners and losers, pace - setters and stragglers — then these moves, the paradigm - shattering, record - breaking, impossible - made - possible ones, are the finishers.

Real Madrid then broke the world transfer record for his services in 2009 when they shelled out # 80m to prize him away from Old Trafford.

Then came the world - record jump.

If counting individual goals is important (as opposed to just mildly interesting), then the world must be prepared when somebody knocks the record over.

He then led the Brazil team that were mauled 7 - 1 by Germany in their World Cup semi-final, and he's since been part of a very mixed start to the season for PSG after his record transfer.

Bale hasn't had the easiest time in Spain since his then world - record move from Spurs in the summer of 2013, as the Welshman has constantly struggled with injuries during his time in the Spanish capital.

Then, paced by Miss Kok, a Dutch team of Coby Buter, Klenie Bimolt and Nel Bos swam to a 440 - yard medley relay world record of 4:38.8.

Fry also equalled the then - world record for the long jump.

Then you have players like Ronaldo and Messi, who already makes the most money in the world — they can focus on records.

He then saw the scoreboard, which bore the news that Gibson had just broken Sandy Koufax's World Series record, and for one brief shining moment, with the Cardinals» 4 - 0 win all but assured, Bob Gibson... well, he did not exactly smile, but, in McCarver's words, «He looked less fierce.»

«I also heard that no - one has ever won the China Open and then gone on to win the World Championship so you could say there are two records.»

AFC fans have been paying through the nose to shatter gate (ticket) fee record in Europe for so many seasons, and this hike in price of ticket is meant to sustain the club and at the same time make us compete with the big clubs and if the fans have being doing it for years then let the club do it (world record fee) for once and knows what the fans are passing through all this while.

If by you never know you mean we have a chance of winning the league then I've got news for you, Wenger is still our manager he doesn't have a great league winning record, he came to Arsenal in 96 we had 10 league titles Man United also had 10 league titles in the 20 years with Wenger we've only added 3 titles to make it 13 while Man United have added 11 to take their tally to 21, Wenger averages a league title in every 6.7 years that's not a great record for a so - called world class manager who earns # 8m pounds annually!

Pogba has failed to impress a fair amount of fans since his then - world record transfer from Juventus to Old Trafford in the summer of 2016.

Meagher's strategy in going after her 200 fly world record of 2:06.37 was to swim four 50 - meter splits that were approximately equal; in setting the record back in July 1980, she had swum a blazing first 50 and then tailed off.

An impressive 800m PB has provided the Scot with a confidence boost following injury as she sets her sights on a British record and then World Champs success

And his then - fiancée Laura was certainly not going to miss out on the fun, defending her team pursuit and omnium crowns, with world records aplenty on the track and her way to two more gold medals.

Pogba joined the Italian giants in 2012 before exiting after four years for a then - world record of # 89.3 m

In 2002 United paid Leeds # 41 m for Rio Ferdinand — a world record fee for a defender then, and most people said that was a crazy sum to pay for a CB.

It's insane Can you imagine the vitriol if Arsenal sold The Jeff and then we wanted to buy him back but could not afford the world record price, all because we could not Play him and develop him in the 1st team so he leaves Just a thought

The women's pole vault saw another world - leading performance and also a Diamond League record as world champion Yarisley Silva cleared 4.84 m to claim victory before twice attempting a PB of 4.92 m and then calling it a day.