Sentences with phrase «thrown open the race»

Republican Sen. Jeff Flake's surprise announcement that he won't run for re-election has thrown open the race to succeed him, igniting divisions in both major parties.

Not exact matches

Grillo's surge in the final weeks of the campaign threw the race open, with hundreds of thousands turning up at his rallies to hear him lay into targets ranging from corrupt politicians and bankers to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

B) Alexis Sanchez is world class Shearer finally admits after Swansea masterclass Rule Arsenal out of the title race at your peril ~ Goal Arsenal win show they're genuine title contenders Title race thrown wide open after impressive Arsenal win

Opening races of seasons are always exciting and often throw up unusual, interesting moments.

The track often throws up unusual weather and exciting racing too, so it made the perfect season - opening venue (and a great finale location too).

Austin Cindric had dominated the race and led at the restart, but when he was speared off the track by Cole Custer at turn one the race was thrown wide open.

Brendon Hartley was way, way out in the lead of the opening race of 2016, but threw it all away for him, his team and his teammates with this massive accident whilst lapping a GT car.

1997 was looking ominous when Jacques Villeneuve plonked his Williams on pole for the first race in Melbourne by a massive 1.7 seconds, but when he was taken out by Eddie Irvine at the first corner, the race was thrown wide open.

Barcelona suffered a shock 3 - 2 defeat at home to Valencia last night, and threw the La Liga title race wide open.

Chelsea could virtually put the title race to bed, or Liverpool could throw it wide open, when the two sides meet in Tuesday's eagerly - anticipated clash at Anfield.

(CNN)- Populist darling Elizabeth Warren, along with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, threw their support Thursday behind Bruce Braley in the race for an open U.S. Senate seat in Iowa.

INWOOD — Two former Borough Presidents threw their support behind opposing candidates in the State Senate District 31 race this week — opening up old wounds in a longstanding political battle.

Aside from backing zero Senate Republicans, CSEA has thrown its support to Democratic candidates in two races for open seats — Ricardo Montano, who is running against GOP Assemblyman Phil Boyle for the seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Owen Johnson; and Ted O'Brien, who's facing off against Assemblyman Sean Hanna for retiring Sen. Jim Alesi's seat.

The general election race was thrown wide open today as polls showed that Nick Clegg's mould - breaking performance in the first of the televised leaders» debates had dramatically boosted his party's support, prompting the two major parties to vow to train their guns on its «eccentric, surprising» policies.

You know, a proper warm - up consists of several surges that take you up in the race pace that cause your body to begin producing its lactic acid buffering enzymes and cause you to begin you know, increase in the elasticity of the lungs and really opening up the blood vessels and a lot of people do like a light jog, light bike ride, light swim, whatever and you actually have to throw in some real hard race pace efforts — 20, 30, sometimes up to 60 seconds long — to really get your body into that state that it needs to be in to be ready to push hard when the gun goes off so to speak.

An open world racer the size of FUEL seems a bit daunting, throw in extreme weather elements and tons of offroading and one wonders why anyone would want to race around the game world in anything but a heavily fortified Hummer.