Sentences with phrase «to race against someone»

During the boom years, those companies were brought to market too soon and scattered their resources in a race against one another, she says.

The race against the clock was on.

Officials in London and Brussels are racing against a two - year deadline to make sure Britain has an orderly exit, but tensions are running high.

Avoid racing against the clock.

If Jokowi prevails in the neck - and - neck race against his opponent, former military general Prabowo Subianto, he'll be leading the fourth largest nation on Earth.

At a Veterans» Day event this morning, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore again denied claims that he had been sexually involved with a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his early thirties, and reiterated that he will not step down from his Alabama race against Democrat Doug Jones.

Airlines were racing against the clock to clear as many customers as possible from the likely Florida path of Hurricane Irma.

Billionaire business mogul Mark Cuban would be competitive in a prospective presidential race against President Donald Trump, according to a new poll.

Some sports comparisons baffled me, though, such as «starting a business is like running a race against time.»

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 - U.S. lawmakers raced against the clock to avert a federal government shutdown on Friday but it was not clear if hectic negotiations would bring a deal before a midnight deadline.

The team is in a race against time to hook people, so Stolen ends up more like Candy Crush Saga than Yo.

In the case of «Toad Rally,» you race against the «ghost» of another player's run through a level.

Luxury car sales had an especially strong year in 2013, with Mercedes setting a sales record to win the race against BMW and Toyota's Lexus for the top - selling brand.

Wing is part of X, formerly known as Google X, which is the company's R&D unit working on far - out «moonshot» projects, racing against Amazon and drone makers like DJI to usher in what may one day be a massive new market, delivering everything from food to medicine straight to people's doorsteps.

In an interview, he's asked if he thinks he's in a race against a financial crisis.

«I don't think it's interesting whether I think we're in a race against a financial crisis.

Criminals will turn their sights to healthcare and it's going to be an arms race against digital crime.

One of the biggest names in high - frequency trading wants to erect a communications tower in rural Kent as high as The Shard as it steps up the millisecond arms race against rivals.

And so, Tesla is in a race against time to break - even.

He is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year, and knows he will have to appeal to voters beyond his own party in a race against the incumbent Democrat, Bill Nelson.

The address was a not very subtle rebuke of Trumpism and an alternate vision for how the party could approach a race against likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the fall.

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Building wealth is actually a race against the clock to get it done before you're too old to enjoy it and time taken to recover from serious falls is LOST time.

In a race against the school bell, ceramist Phyllis Robbins arrived early at Tamarac Elementary School's cafeteria and began unpacking her art supply cart.

In an episode of The Simpsons, «The D'oh - cial Network», Patty and Selma take part in the Olympic rowing, and race against the Winklevoss twins, who are voiced by Armie Hammer.

-- Former Progressive Conservative MLA Matt Jeneroux was chosen as the Conservative candidate in a race against relator Sandy Pon and past Wildrose candidate Ian Crawford.

From Deadline: «It becomes a race against time as the scientist [Carell] struggles for a cure, even as he feels himself growing dumber»...

Bigger Thomas stands on a Chicago street corner watching airplanes flown by white men racing against the sun and «Goddamn» he says, the bitterness bubbling up like blood, remembering a million indignities, the terrible, rat - infested house, the humiliation of home - relief, the intense, aimless, ugly bickering, hating it; hatred smolders through these pages like sulphur fire.

To establish modern republican democracy the way our Founders did means to enter into a perpetual race against the triumph of crude, but home - grown, democratic mindsets (see Republic book VIII, or Tocqueville's discussions of a «desire for equality» throughout Democracy in America), and a perpetual multi-sided persuasion - battle against a host of more sophisticated but nonetheless errant democratic mindsets built upon the cruder ones.

The super power military organizations are deadly locked into the fierce arms race against each other in the name of the security and survival.

and no personcan use a pathetic attempt of using race against me.

In Indiana, Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock lost his race against Democrat Joe Donnelly after saying last month that pregnancies resulting from rape are «something that God intended to happen.»

For women, these fears are only heightened by a race against the clock, an arbitrary expiration date that all good Christian women should be wed by or lose the possibility of starting a family altogether.

Drawing on decades of hard work and experience, and working through scores of not - quite - right combinations, Apel eventually wins the race against his peers and goes on to produce one of the most successful men's fragrances ever.

I'm not a GOPer Ok, you are probably right as an atheist that I race against gets really ticked at me when I suggest his belief in nothingness is a belief.

Gemal has been in Rome seeking refugee status since March 1988, but is racing against a cutoff date because he did not arrive in Rome by January 1.

I followed the recipe, making a few adjustments: I cut the dough into small square biscuits because I felt like it; I didn't brush the tops with milk because I didn't have any; and they weren't as flakey as they could have been because my refrigerator died and it was a race against time to use already - warming butter.

I made best friends with the farmers at my local markets, got my hands on the best and freshest produce, chased perfectly sunny afternoons for photo shoots and raced against the sunset everysingleday.

Mr Clarke, who became Treasury's sixth chief executive in four years after arriving from the United Kingdom just seven weeks ago, is in a race against time as United States - based KKR seeks to capitalise on shareholder discontent with the Treasury board and a string of operational disasters to swoop on Australia's most famous wine brands.

And although it's lovely (and cost - effective) to grow from seeds like he does, at one point every summer it's a race against the clock to use all the vegetables without them going bad.

This dish was a race against the sunset and, unfortunately, the sun won.

Plus, the process of making pancakes becomes a race against the clock.

Shaw has recovered from injury but faces a race against time for full match fitness in time for the clash against rivals Liverpool over the weekend.

Nacho Monreal [back] is still missing and faces a race against time to feature in the Europa League in Milan on Thursday.

By Sunday he was good enough to win an informal race against competition that included Gene Walet, twice the Mallory Cup winner and up to this point again the favorite.

Try racing against literally hundreds of cars, all driven by complete amateurs and none of which cost more than 500 bucks.

«If nothing changes - if there is no cost cap and the costs stay the same - then we can not go back because it's impossible to race against the big teams.

Harry Kane and Harry Winks have been forced to withdraw from the England squad for the upcoming friendlies against Germany and Brazil, and will be in a race against time to be fit to play against Arsenal in next weekend.

Oxford University Ski and Snowboard Club (OUSSC) achieved an overall victory on the slopes of Tignes in the 2013 Varsity races against Cambridge!