Sentences with phrase «unlikely feats of»

At least the extra length and weight haven't dimmed the driving experience which, for such a large and heavy car with a new emphasis on keeping the boss in the back happy, is capable of unlikely feats of acceleration and A-to-B alacrity when called upon.

His absence against Wolfsburg would be a major blow for Mancini, who won't be able to rely on the Swiss international to accomplish what is shaping up to be an unlikely feat of winning 2 - 0.

His absence against Wolfsburg will be a major blow for Mancini, who won't be able to rely on the Swiss international to accomplish what is shaping up to be an unlikely feat of winning 2 - 0.

The prime minister's spokesman confirmed today that this was Cameron's belief — and in the process achieved the unlikely feat of putting Nigel Farage and Tim Farron on the same page.

The logic behind this project — reconceiving Holmes as a man of action — sounds questionable, but this production pulls off an unlikely feat of being both hip and populist.

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The report adds that the department will be required to get large volumes of Brexit - related legislation through Parliament, a feat which PAC believes is unlikely to be achieved based on current cross-department processes.

However, the likelihood of them repeating the feat Arsenal achieved back in 2003/2004 will depend on how well they perform at such venues like White Hart Lane, where they've not tasted defeat in nearly ten years but are unlikely to be put through their paces more vigorously by anyone else than Harry Redknapp's Tottenham.

That means that if state legislators adopted a plan as early as March 13 that was then signed by Cuomo, it would require Justice Department approval in a matter of days before the beginning of petitioning — an unlikely feat.

This was accomplished by feats of corporate negotiation that likely rivaled the movie's technical work — though, as with the artists and technicians handling the filmmaking, Steven Spielberg, the architect of these unlikely accords, makes it sound perfectly easy.

Even if it's unlikely to be a classic like Ico or Shadow of the Colossus, a feat that Ueda can hardly be blamed for, I'm confident it will be interesting.

As the movie careens from one splashy set piece to the next, its most unlikely feat is that it amplifies our connection to pop icons Luke and Leia and a slew of more recent acquaintances.

After all, no one ever lasted this long on the television game show before, and the producers doubted that this dirt - poor, uneducated orphan from the teeming slums of Mumbai could have achieved his unlikely feat without cheating.

It is in the process of debating a proposal that purports to regulate commercial whaling, with the assumption that whalers would harvest only what was sustainable — a feat never before accomplished and unlikely to happen.

A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward - thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote — making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow.