Sentences with phrase «up to the race in»

This turned out to be worse than the B2 had been, only scoring three points all year and being so bad that Ferrari couldn't be bothered to turn up to some races in the middle of the season.

However the win came under a bit of a shadow as many suspected the team of heavily sandbagging in the run - up to the race in order to avoid being slowed down by the balance of performance (BOP) adjustments which are in place to keep the GT category close.

Not exact matches

Inclusion is not about color, race and culture; it is about embracing the uniqueness of all individuals, eradicating oppression of all forms and inspiring a workforce that lines up at the door because they want to belong to an organization that believes in them.

And if that's not enough, in 2010 C.J. founded CJ Wilson Racing, a sports car race team that recently announced its move up to the IMSA GTD class, one of the premier sports car classes in the world.

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.

Once the U.S. had beaten the Soviet Union's cosmonauts to the moon and funding dried up, Young pushed NASA to return to the moon or venture to Mars, to provide the human race with a backup home in the event of Earth's destruction.

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.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, dubbed the «Last Great Race on Earth,» kicks off in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 5 when thousands of people will line the streets to watch teams of 12 to 16 dogs embark on the 10 - to 17 - day adventure that will take them up to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.

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.

The changes — both announced in the last 48 hours — are only the latest in what is shaping up to be an arms race among tech companies seeking to prove themselves the most accommodating workplaces to build not just a career, but a family.

Big smartphone brands, special materials start - ups and university researchers are locked in a race to discover unbreakable glass — or something like it.

As a result, many entrepreneurs find themselves in a race to the bottom, as they begin to focus on using revenues to keep up with expenses, instead of produce profits.

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.

I did 14 pull - ups and ran a 40 - yard dash, then raced to the church, drenched in sweat.

«My whole racing career,» Kyle says, «we've grown up with sponsors and at an early age you know you need to both perform and in public represent your sponsors well.

The winner, who receives newly - minted Bitcoin as their reward, wins the race by providing the answer to a mathematical problem that is deliberately designed to use up a lot of computing power, in order to maintain stability in the speed at which these blocks are «found.»

In the thick of my start - up journey, there were countless nights when my mind was racing with to do lists and project plans.

«Last year, we realized that the arms race had taken off to such an extent in the U.S that we really needed to up the platform of our high - end product,» he said.

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.

Those teams have incredible real - time analytics, not just at the race venue, but also real - time, big data beamed from a car driving at up to 200mph on a race track on one side of the globe to the race team's headquarters in England.

This often leads to many entrepreneurs getting caught up in the rat race.

In the early 1900s, it was a race to come up with the automobile that would transform transportation forever.

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.

Obama referenced America's race to one - up the Russians in space exploration during the 50s and 60s: «We built a space program almost overnight,» he said, «and twelve years later, we were walking on the moon.»

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.

LONDON, March 27 - Global oil traders Vitol and Glencore are in talks to financially back Nigerian firms racing to buy assets owned by Brazil's Petrobras valued at up to $ 2 billion, several sources familiar with the matter said.

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.

In the past year, content marketing has become a race to post more content, often in order to up the chances that customers find a certain brand firsIn the past year, content marketing has become a race to post more content, often in order to up the chances that customers find a certain brand firsin order to up the chances that customers find a certain brand first.

The race to claim stakes in the melting Arctic is heating up.

Frankly, many venture investors who see a race to lock up market share as a first mover in your space may want you incurring big losses in the near term to sign up as many customers as possible today before a competitor does.

Local retailers started contacting her about stocking Kombuchick in coffee shops and organic markets, and she raced to keep up with demand.

The reality of the numbers was that Elizabeth would have to be in two places at one time to catch up to Bush and Steve Forbes, each of whom had spent about $ 19 million by the time she dropped out of the race.

In his new book The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, Wadhwa — himself an immigrant success story — notes that in 2005 immigrants started a massive 52 % of all start - ups in Silicon ValleIn his new book The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, Wadhwa — himself an immigrant success story — notes that in 2005 immigrants started a massive 52 % of all start - ups in Silicon Vallein 2005 immigrants started a massive 52 % of all start - ups in Silicon Vallein Silicon Valley.

Taking America out of the running in the global race to clean up our cars can only lead to the next wave of bankruptcies and bailouts.

While CIPA accredits only members that meet certain protocols like requiring prescriptions, adhering to provincial regulations and selling only approved medication, the industry remains caught up in a credibility arms race.

Tipping his hat to Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss, who came up with the concept of the race to $ 1 trillion in a recent research note on Microsoft, Cramer decided to look at all four contenders and speculate on which one might cross the «finish line» first.

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

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

«If I had the top five Republican minds in politics and we spent three months attempting to conceive of a way to lose an Alabama Senate race, I'm not sure that we could come up with it,» that former chief of staff, Josh Holmes, told The Washington Post.

Behind them, Republican candidates Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Ben Carson could be vying in South Carolina to keep their campaigns alive before the presidential race rapidly picks up steam in March when dozens of states hold nominating contests.

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.

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.»

In the arms race run - up to this year's conference both released new versions of their iPhone apps and Gowalla launched an Android app while Foursquare brushed their existing one up.

Amazon is up 30 percent this year while Alibaba's stock has nearly doubled as both companies race to a $ 500 billion in value.

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

However, as companies race to mix and match cloud - services delivered by the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, unforeseen gaps in classic network security systems are turning up.

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.

Mr. Oppel grew up in the South and in Michigan, went to high school and college in North Carolina (where, as an 11 - year - old, he sold newspapers at Nascar races.)

Some of the largest banks already involved in blockchain development are now in a race to snatch up patents from the technology,...