Sentences with phrase «year quest»

Jim Furyk's late charge had his home state buzzing, but for the second consecutive year his quest for the title came up a shot short

The awarding of a license to the Lago Resort & Casino in the Finger Lakes Region capped a 25 - year quest by developer Thomas Wilmot, who has spent millions of dollars, formed multiple alliances with Native American tribes and at one point learned Spanish in his effort to cash in on gambling.

I just returned to the USA after a two - year quest overseas, and because I now have a wide reference map to compare and contrast societies, I can easily attest to the glorification of sex in our culture.

Chanzit's seven - year quest included putting out feelers to curators, galleries, storerooms and artists» estates for works dating between the mid-1940s and -1960 s.

It has been a six year quest for Mitt Romney to secure the Republican Party's nomination for president.

U.S. - based AquaBounty Technologies has finally completed its 25 - year quest to sell genetically modified salmon.

Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman has been on a nearly three - year quest to bring down the $ 5 billion - in - revenue nutrition giant.

That would offer an ironic denouement to the Republicans» seven - year quest to vanquish the ACA — which, as the world knows, sputtered out after three failed Senate bills in about as many days and a dramatic late - night vote, the culmination of a battle that exposed enormous intraparty disagreement and highlighted the unexpected unpopularity of repeal.

Thus began a four - year quest to free victims of sex trafficking.

Nassau Community College trustees will again return to their presidential - search applicant pool and also will consider more candidates in the nearly four - year quest for a permanent leader for the school.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's nearly four - year quest to build a Manhattan football stadium that could spark the redevelopment of the West Side and lure the Olympic Games to New York was defeated yesterday when two of Albany's leaders refused to approve the $ 2.2 billion project.

At stake is the nearly 100 - year quest to unify the well - tested theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics into a supertheory of quantum gravity.

Lemonick provides a behind - the - scenes look at an eight - year quest by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team to produce the first all - sky map of the early universe.

Functioning with 473 genes, the cell is a milestone in his team's 20 - year quest to reduce life to its bare essentials and, by extension, to design life from scratch.

«Then,» Snyder says, speaking slowly for emphasis, «I asked the question that put me on a 10 - year quest.»

If researchers can complete their 50 - year quest to induce immune tolerance safely and selectively, the prospects for hundreds of thousands of transplant recipients would be greatly improved, and so, too, might the prospects for controlling autoimmune diseases.

Thus began a 15 - year quest to create a viable network of coral nurseries.

It fulfilled a prediction made 100 years ago by Albert Einstein and capped a 40 - year quest to spot the infinitesimal ripples.

He is a recipient of the Dallas Safari Club Africa Big Game Award for his collection of African elephants, buffalo, lions and leopards, and the Outstanding Hunting Achievement Award for his 30 - year quest to collect of all 30 North American «big game» animals, of which 15 are «records class» (very big).

Black Hole Blues provides a lively, if not wholly satisfying, account of the 40 - year quest to build LIGO.

«I didn't think it would be a 10 - or 12 - year quest,» Stern says wryly.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

The ultra-stable properties of the proteins that allow deep - diving whales to remain active while holding their breath for up to two hours could help Rice Univ. biochemist John Olson and his colleagues finish a 20 - year quest to create lifesaving synthetic blood for human trauma patients.

These findings, described today in the journal Nature, open a new chapter in the 30 - year quest to develop superconductors that operate at room temperature, which could revolutionize society by making virtually everything that runs on electricity much more efficient.

The first direct detections of gravitational waves in late 2015 were made possible by a dedicated forty year quest to design, build, and operate LIGO, the Laser... Read more»

The first direct detections of gravitational waves in late 2015 were made possible by a dedicated forty year quest to design, build, and operate LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory.

First Major Gene Mutation for Hereditary Prostate Cancer Found After a 20 - year quest to find a genetic driver for prostate cancer that strikes men at younger ages and runs in families, researchers have identified a rare, inherited mutation linked to a significantly higher risk of the disease.

It was this test that set me on a 6 - year quest to figure out how to naturally increase my testosterone levels, not just to «acceptable levels» but to the highest levels a human male could possibly naturally create.

Mary Kay Finn's journey to becoming a natural health practitioner is the result of a 15 - year quest to resolve her own chronic fatigue.

Now that the Valentine's weekend festivities are over, and the pressure is off, we need to remember that Love is a 365 day a year quest and start checking our Inbox on our favorite cyber-dating sites.

The death of his mother at the hands of a vampire launches Abraham Lincoln on a 45 - year quest to avenge her and eliminate the undead scourge from the world.

It is 1868 and Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) is an ex-Confederate soldier with an intense hatred for Comanches who, after his family is slaughtered by a Comanche raiding party, goes on a five year quest to rescue his eldest niece whom the Indians took captive.

On Saturday, Nov. 11, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris will be honored with a tribute following a 3 p.m. screening of «Wormwood,» about one man's 60 - year quest to illuminate the circumstances of his father's mysterious death.

With unprecedented access, the audience will share in the experience as snowboarder Travis Rice, along with a cast of the best riders in the world, complete a two - year quest to redefine what's possible on a snowboard.

So in 2011 Hill set out on a two - year quest to find out why so many of these students weren't making it through college, personally visiting many of them on campus.

After a 10 - year quest for better ways to educate teachers, the Holmes Group has acknowledged that higher education can't do the job all by itself.

After an 18 - year quest, the state teachers» union was finally successful this session in getting the legislation passed.

After enlisting fellow ’68 Charger enthusiast and owner Mike Musto (host of «The House of Muscle» on Motor Trend on Demand), the two embarked on a two - year quest to find her ideal black - on - red steed.

Salamon never met Rowe, but the picture of him she assembles from court documents, letters, journals and interviews is of an intelligent, charming and ambitious man whose belief that he was not responsible for the lives he took led to an eight - year quest to regain his law license.

A 50 - year quest to open the Canadian Arctic to large - scale mining is finally showing signs of success.

In 2013, Chris completed a ten - year quest to visit every country in the world.

Home to five different species of salmon, the river is most prolific in summer when thousands of salmon complete a four year quest, returning from the ocean to swim upstream against the current, returning to their spawning grounds.

This period coincided with the blossoming of the abstract expressionist movement and the pinnacle of Still's 20 - year quest to redefine painting in which «space and figure,» the artist wrote, «had been resolved into a total psychic entity.»

The artist talks about how he hoped his recent exhibition, Suspicion, would answer his 20 - year quest...

With his quixotic lived fictions — a four year quest for an Essex - based French concrete poet, and shredding his entire life's work in a Leipzig council flat — Vonna - Michell feels the most human of the four; an appearance that could, of course, be deceptive.

Directed by Academy Award - winning filmmaker Fisher Stevens and presented by National Geographic, it features DiCaprio in his current role as a U.N. Messenger of Peace, on a three - year quest to learn about climate change and emphasize the need for urgent, widespread solutions.