Sentences with phrase «year quest by»

According to the Seattle Times, Supreme Court Justice Richard B. Sanders (pictured) wrote the majority opinion in a case that capped a 12 - year quest by Armen Yousoufian to obtain documents from King County about public funding of Qwest Field.

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.

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.

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Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

Two years in the making, Woodle says he created the ballooning hoodie — which takes three seconds to inflate by mouth — as part of a quest to «elevate the small aspects of life,» your weary brainpan included.

Commanding the Tribune completes a long quest for Ferro, who has built his standing in Chicago as a tech investor year by year.

One summer a few years back the quest was sparked by a brief mention in Variety that the flimmaking team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory had selected their next project.

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 14, 2016 When Cuvée Coffee's Black & Blue in nitro cans from Ball Corporation won BevNET's Best of 2015 Award for «Best Packaging Innovation of the Year,» it was the culmination of a multi-year quest by Cuvée Coffee CEO Mike McKim for the perfect packaging for his growing beverage brand.

While Sanchez has had a strong season by a catcher's standpoint with 13 home runs on the year, it is another Yankee who Stanton will need to watch out for in his quest to repeat as Home Run Derby champion.

I started supporting arsenal when i knew nothing about them, i was captivated by the name «Arsenal» knowing what it means and i was introduce to arsenal by a friend who used to listen to BBC sports post-match highlight on radio because we did nt have the opportunity to watch it way back then like we used to now.At first, i supported arsenal because of their «good football or betterstill beautiful football» not «winning football» but my quest for success was increasing each year because i hardly have a say when i'm in the midst of other football fans and i'm extremely hated for backing Arsene wenger and Arsenal knowing that «you don't wash your dirty linen outside».

Disclosure: This post on school supply deals is sponsored by Staples, who were a huge help in my money - saving quest this year!

Two and a half years ago, I had a child applying to college and was told by an admissions officer at one of the University of California campuses that they expected 8 to 13 AP courses for applicants who could expect to be successful in the quest for admission.

This pro-immigrant approach is something of a departure from the usual rhetoric adopted by the Senate Republicans, who have employed a decidedly different — and less inclusive — strategy in recent years in their quest to retain control of the majority.

She did not address the quixotic nature of her quest — an effort a number of similarly unknown and underfunded Republicans have undertaken in recent years, only to be soundly defeated at the polls by Schumer.

Chief Ike Ekweremadu, the Deputy President of the Senate, has advocated six - year single tenure for president, governors, National Assembly and state assembly members «to stop the problem caused by the quest for second term.»

Astronomer Owen Gingerich spent 30 years on a near - obsessive quest to track down copies of De Revolutionibus that were once owned by Galileo, Kepler, and others and proves Koestler wrong.

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.

The steep hills outside the small Bosnian city of Visoko have been climbed, poked, and scraped by a small army of both trained and amateur archaeologists for the past three years in a quest to reveal a 12,000 - year - old secret.

Scientists in recent years have made great strides in the quest to understand the brain by using implanted probes to explore how specific neural circuits work.

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

Tracing the quest for sexual pleasure back to the discovery of a prehistoric, 70,000 - year - old chunk of ocher «lipstick» found lying in a South African cave, Margolis argues that the female orgasm serves an evolutionary purpose: By helping to propel sperm through the cervix, it may increase the chances of conception, and it could also cement parental bonds.

Venter's stunt is nevertheless a fitting symbol for 2007, a year marked by milestones in the quest for personalized medicine.

These students are smart, fierce in their quest for knowledge, independent, and I haven't been disappointed by them in all my years.

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.

The Shaffer Prize recognizes the researcher whose project, funded by a Shaffer Grant in a given year, best exemplifies the pursuit of innovative ideas in the quest to better understand glaucoma.

I began my quest to become a Nutritionist on a mission to change the complicated, processed and obsessive food culture, largely created by industry over the last fifty years.

Inspired by a question put to him on the island of Papua New Guinea more than thirty years ago, Diamond embarks on a world - wide quest to understand the roots of global inequality

I've been on a quest for the perfect self tanner for about 15 years and, by golly, I think this is it!

The Unicorn follows Malory (played by Lauren Lapkus) and Caleb (played by Nick Rutherford), a couple four years into their marriage, who embark on a quest to give threesome dating a try.

The support for BYU athletics have helped contribute to the success enjoyed by the Cougars over the years in the quest for excellence.

As part of the quest motif, a varied band of heroes come together to achieve a goal; in this case, they overcome great odds to rescue the young emperor, Romulus Augustus (Thomas Sangster), who was captured and imprisoned by the Goth king Odoacer (Peter Mullan) and recover Caesar's 450 year old sword which is as good as new.

Soon enough, the central story line kicks in, starting 60 years before the events of Lord of the Rings with a young Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) being recruited by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to go on a quest with a band of dwarves to reclaim their stolen homeland.

Directed by Arrival and Sicario filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after the events of the first film and stars Ryan Gosling as a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, who unearths a secret that leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, which has Harrison Ford reprising the role.

The film, written by Adrian Molina & Matthew Aldrich and co-directed by Molina and Lee Unkrich, follows 12 - year - old aspiring guitarist Miguel (Anthony Gonzalez) on a quest through the afterlife.

Sixty years later, raised under the kind auspices of Prof. Bruttenholm (John Hurt) and a splinter agency involved in suppressing paranormal incursions, Hellboy, aquatic empath Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce), and firestarter Liz (Selma Blair) seek to thwart Rasputin and Kroenen again in their quest to end the world.

In the rugged countryside of Finland, a young thirteen - year - old (Onni Tommila) embarks on a traditional quest to prove himself by spending 24 hours alone in the wild, armed with only a bow and arrow.

This film treats 17 - year - old Simon Spier's quest for love and self - acceptance with the tender, timeless, Hollywood touch of John Hughes: It's a classic story of a first crush made groundbreaking by centering on a closeted gay kid.

The Matador (Unrated) Toreador documentary chronicling David Fandila's three - year quest to become the world's top - ranked matador by besting bulls in rings in Spain and Latin America.

On the surface, «Howl's Moving Castle» is a straightforward quest by a teenage girl to undo a spell that has turned her into a 90 - year - old woman.

Sipping fresh mint tea and accompanied at the Chateau by his loyal 11 - year - old dog Sadie, Rockwell is nothing like his «Three Billboards» character, Jason Dixon, an unapologetically racist small town police officer who becomes an unexpected ally in the quest of divorced mother Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) to bring her late daughter's rapist - murderer to justice.

In last year's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, there was a lot of preparatory business to get out of the way, as the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), was recruited by the wizard, Gandalf (Ian McKellan), to join 13 dwarfs on a quest to reinstate their leader, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage).

If you were struck by the beautiful look of the film and wondered how the characters moved so realistically, there is a reason for that — Pixar rewrote its animation system for the first time in 25 years to portray Merida and her epic quest.

Walter spurred on by the woman he is secretly in love with, Cheryl Melhoff (Kristen Wiig), and his 16 - year friendship with Sean, decides to go on a quest to find the gallivanting photographer and bring back the missing negative.

More New Releases: «Don't Think Twice,» jealousy and doubt amongst members of a New York City improve group after one of its members gets his big break — and the rest realize that they may not get theirs; «Kicks» one fifteen year old's quest through Oakland to retrieve a stolen pair of Air Jordans; «The Devil's Dolls,» a detective's search for his daughter in a city plagued by an ancient curse; and «The Perfect Weapon,» Steven Seagal as the powerful dictator of a totalitarian state and Johnny Messner as his main hitman / enforcer.

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.

Now back in Japan for the start of the school year, Narui continues her quest to fulfill her name's promise and hopes other educators will follow her lead by exploring conditions, both educational and otherwise, in other parts of the world.

And in this quest for a more humanizing pedagogy, one that disrupts the traditional, meritocratic system, it's critical that we turn to asset - and strength - based creative ways to celebrate, honor, bolster, and include students who have been labeled — perhaps for years — by a letter grade that stands for failing as well as by negative, deficit descriptors.

Perfect for kids whose quest for knowledge isn't satisfied by nine months of school, Weissman's latest novel features an appealing 10 - year - old who's more certain of facts and figures than of his worth.

Winn Van Meter has every single stereotypical WASP problem: he is forced to endure hordes of relatives and wedding party members invading his summer home on an island off the coast of Maine because is daughter had the audacity to decide to marry her live - in boyfriend who impregnated her, he is Captain Ahab - like in his quest throughout the book to gain membership to the exclusive Pequod Club, he is beyond irritated that his marriage produced only daughters and no sons, and then one of those daughters (not the same daughter who is pregnant and marrying, this would be the other daughter who got pregnant and is not marrying) had to let the entire Ophidian club at Harvard — of which Winn was a member in his day some forty years ago — learn that she was pregnant by one of their current members.