Sentences with phrase «up to race for»

As well as being a fast driver, Gurney had the mind of an engineer, and so he was signed up to race for Brabham in 1963.

Not exact matches

The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

I didn't know if I would forget how to race, if I would lose what talent I had... and beyond that, I didn't really know if any opportunities would even open up for me.

In the racing event, we can get up to 70 mph, which can be pretty scary because you're bouncing around and vibrating all over the place, and the tires we use, originally built for agriculture purposes, are only rated for 30 miles an hour.

The surge in prices was caused by a simultaneous decrease in ticket inventory and increase in demand as brokers raced to pull down speculative online ticket quotes — what they had believed to be good offer prices for tickets prior to Jeter's retirement announcement — before fast - clicking fans could take them up on old quotes, said Matcovich.

If he does repeat his Boston triumph, it will be less due to how he psyched himself up for this race than how he prepares for every race.

In a race that includes a primary election, that means contributors can give up to $ 2,700 to a candidate for the primary and an additional $ 2,700 to the same candidate for the general election.

So with the final race of the season coming up this weekend at Homestead — and the championship on the line for Jimmie Johnson, Carl Edwards, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch — this seemed like the perfect time to talk to Brian.

T - Mobile had previously struggled to keep up with the two largest wireless companies, Verizon and AT&T, but the merger with Sprint promises to boost T - Mobile's odds in the race for customers and technological innovation.

LG has taken the high - def arms race for entertainment eyeballs up a notch with the world's biggest ultra-definition television to support next - level 4K picture format.

That gives people the opportunity to race at the highest level of the sport, and we don't want to lose that, but when you add new top teams... making sure that you have an equally attractive environment for pro-am independent teams is a challenge we're up to — but it's easier said than done.

Some voters in Jefferson County ended up crossing party lines to cast their ballots for who they thought was the best candidate in each of the races — defying the practice of party line voting in an election that showed a deep red - blue political divide.

It's another busy week in the run up to the first presidential caucus for the 2016 election, as two more candidates joined the race.

But as a race to get the first foldable phone, something that Samsung, Huawei, LG, Oppo, Lenovo, and ZTE all have patents for in addition to Apple, on the market heats up, Apple may no longer be satisfied with relying on its current supply chains.

Adgate admits that Colbert is «going to offer something different» in terms of the show's tone and he will likely score the occasional viral hit online — more so than Letterman, who essentially took a pass on packaging content for the web — but, it will likely, ultimately, be a race for runner - up.

But if you can bear to watch the races long enough, you'll find some interesting lessons for leaders including how to say you're sorry when you screw up — and have a shot at bouncing back.

This is wise advise for so many reasons, but it's also key to avoiding getting caught up in the status rat race, according to Casnocha: «If everyone around you is on the more status, more status, more status track, and straining their necks to check the leaderboard, it'll be hard to resist doing the same.»

He's willing to admit that losing his 2010 lead in the chat race hurt, and that he wants to make up for it.

The ability to work with anyone with an Internet connection has upped the intensity of the race for talent.

It's an odd choice for a site trying to pick non-Harper winners, since those are the very races where a Conservative could squeak up the middle.

This has sparked an expensive arms race between technology giants as they try to outbid each other to stockpile on valuable patent portfolios up for grabs.

The committee convened to draw up the rules for the race will meet Friday at Toronto's Albany Club to hammer out the date of the vote, the nomination deadline, spending limits, the entrance fee and the appeals process.

Cambridge Analytica is the British - based firm that ex-employees allege vacuumed up data from tens of millions of Facebook users to influence the 2016 presidential race for Donald Trump.

The global race for AI chip dominance heats up: We're seeing a Cambrian explosion of applications for artificial intelligence, from recognizing faces in videos for security purposes to detecting diseases in medical images at scale.

Canadian Lawyer Mag - Lawyers Filling up Federal Liberal Leadership Race If you've been called to the bar and succeeded, you're not a far cry from the world of politics, say lawyers vying for the Liberal Party's top job.

In late 2000, after losing out in the race to become chief executive at GE, McNerney jumped to 3M, where he received a pay package worth more than $ 34 million in guaranteed salary, bonus, option grants and restricted stock to make up for what he left behind at GE, according to an analysis by Equilar, a compensation research company in San Mateo.

Oil - industry experts say it will be difficult for the oil giants to spend less because they need to replenish the oil and gas they are pumping — and must keep up with rivals in the world - wide exploration race.

«For TNR to imply that people are able to identify only with those of their race means that no black can be held up as a role model for a white chiFor TNR to imply that people are able to identify only with those of their race means that no black can be held up as a role model for a white chifor a white child.

God could have made the world instantly, but chose to make it in 6 days to set up the calender week and the sabbath rest pattern for the human race.

For much of the human race, the mother has been the one who «parts the veil» for us, and opens us up to any inner life of emotions or soFor much of the human race, the mother has been the one who «parts the veil» for us, and opens us up to any inner life of emotions or sofor us, and opens us up to any inner life of emotions or soul.

He then proceeded to blast Cruz for his campaign's «voter violation» letters — which has stirred up some controversy among Iowa officials — and an email that they sent insinuating that fellow presidential candidate Ben Carson was dropping out of the race.

For he is determined finally and forever to be reconciled with the human race, and the enmity which exists can only be overcome if he takes all wrath — his as well as ours — up into himself.

Obviously it is much more difficult for us to imagine the first appearance of reflective thought at some point in the history of a phylum or race made up of different individuals than at some point in the series of states making up the life of one and the same embryo.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

The human imagination needs to be set free among all ages, all races, all classes, all nations to dream dreams of things that never have been but which could be — dreams so real that they stir up passionate commitment that strives for their embodiment sometime, somewhere, somehow.

Rather, I see a man representing the minority voice, appropriately fatigued from feeling unseen, unheard, misunderstood, misjudged and injured by a world that is set up for some races to thrive and lead and other races to languish and submit.

The image of the pit stop might easily work for church services if one could think only of the gassing up and servicing a car gets at the race track and say that the Christian needs to come every Sunday to get gassed up and serviced — but already we are in deep trouble.

Runners give up food and even friends to maintain rigorous training, all for the joy of winning the race.

For the salvation of the human race, Jesus had to be given up, yet, as St. Paul writes, if the rulers of this world had known him, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

Makes me think of the Rat Race movie where that guy is transporting a live human heart for a transplant and it accidentally gets tossed into some weeds and a dog finally ends up chewing on it... That has got to be the funniest comedy movie of all time!

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

So when people in the south spoke up for freedom and equal rights for the black race... they were inciting the guys who showed up at night to burn their homes because they knew it would upset the bigots?

So I guess you would be fine with a student at a high school graduation getting up to the podium and saying «I would like to take this moment to reflect on how strength of will and character helped all of us to graduate today, and please join with me for a moment of reflection at how amazingly the human race has evolved, to this point of passing on our collective knowledge to each new class, and to hope that we add to it, for if we do not, the future may be very dim.

It is after all rather important to emphasize that in a seventh - century text, predating all reflection on language, wherever that reflection may have occurred, we find this clear statement: the fact of human speech comes from God; but language is made up by the human race, which decides for itself — arbitrarily — the words, the rules, and the syntax.

From having led many groups talking about race and racism, I can tell you a lot of feelings come up for me, and it is important to take a minute and tell myself: «I see you.

It's time for the human race to grow up.

But instead of vengeful invective, over the following minutes, days and years he spoke simple, principled sense, refusing to give up the struggle, armed if necessary, against injustice until Apartheid was dismantled, but articulating a sense of place for all races in South Africa.

A Baptist preacher giving thanks to God for a «smokin» hot wife» in a prayer that opened a NASCAR race last weekend has generated reams of online commentary, with one religion blogger summing up some Christian reaction: «Shocking, I tell you, that a pastor might have a little fun.»

But precisely because it is a movement made up of many races and ethnicities, many worship styles, and many political persuasions, it hasn't taken much for one group of evangelicals to become embarrassed at the unseemly views and behavior of other evangelicals.

And for some Christians, just meeting someone who is of a different race, culture, sexual orientation or socio - economic background is enough to shake up their neat categories.