Sentences with phrase «year veteran when»

Andrew Parker is almost a twenty year veteran when it comes to film criticism.

Romo was an 11 year veteran when Linehan arrived.

Not exact matches

At a Veterans» Day event this morning, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore again denied claims that he had been sexually involved with a 14 - year - old girl when he was in his early thirties, and reiterated that he will not step down from his Alabama race against Democrat Doug Jones.

When Obama left office, the State Department had five career ambassadors, but with the departure of Tom Shannon, a 34 - year State Department veteran, earlier this month, just one remains.

When most people think of Go Daddy, they're more likely to think of its racy Super Bowl ads (which actually won't happen this year) than its commitment to U.S. military veterans.

It was initially structured as a two - year pilot program that limited when and where veterans could choose to see private doctors.

I made a similar argument several years ago, when CNN producer and veteran reporter Octavia Nasr was fired for expressing an opinion in a tweet.

«When I started flying for the second time, 10 years ago, I qualified for food stamps,» Madeleine Doyle, a 20 - year veteran flight attendant who has served two 10 - year stints traveling both international and domestic routes, tells Thrillist.

The accumulation of expertise and financial wherewithal along the way has allowed Lululemon to shrug off things like the departure of CEO Robert Meers (the one - time Reebok International president was replaced by Day, a 20 - year veteran of Starbucks and doubtless a better representative of the company's core customer) and the seaweed scandal of 2007, when clothing touted for its supposedly skin - friendly properties was found to contain none of the marine ingredient.

Wechter, 37, will officially take the job in June, when Murray, a 20 - year veteran of the bank, is set to leave.

«Morale is not too good when you see these cuts,» said Tom Midgley, a 30 - year veteran of IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, plant.

Cashin, a 50 - year Wall Street veteran, drew more laughs from the audience in his first five minutes than all the other speakers combined, recalling how he got his start after his father died when he was a high school senior.

(The same explanation was used when the nation recently released a detained 85 - year - old American veteran of the Korean War.)

The 90 - year - old said his experiences as a veteran of World War II, when the United States was fighting Japan, have given him insight over the years into the need to combat «invidious prejudice.»

«Now everyone is riled up because it's a crisis,» said Tiara Shaya, the niece of military veteran Nahidh Shaou who came to the US when he was five years old.

The veteran brewer, who worked for SABMiller for almost 20 years before joining CCA in 2008, was originally planning to stay in the role until April 31, when new Australian Beverages managing director Peter West is due to start.

Veteran Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf showed that despite his ageing legs at 37 - years - old he still knows how to turn on the style and stun the crowd when he wants to.

Professional bicycle racing was at its peak in the United States when Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor, one of eight children of a Negro Civil War veteran, won the 1899 world championship and the U.S. title a year later.

The 34 - year old veteran finished with a 16 - 3 record and a 2.86 ERA, but the team fared poorly when Lohse did not factor in the decision.

«When you get in the big leagues, people see that you have money, you're famous, they read about you,» says 14 - year NBA veteran Michael Cage, now of the New Jersey Nets.

Another sophomore starter, Mel Nowell, will enjoy the benefit of veteran guidance when he lines up next to one of the best guards in the conference, Larry Siegfried, who led the team in scoring last year.

Fielding Gem When the Kansas City Royals» George Brett hit his 300th career home run last week against the Indians in Cleveland, the ball was retrieved in the rightfield bleachers by Ralph Gay, a 55 - year - old fan on an outing from a nearby veterans» hospital.

Another Movember veteran, also called Phil, has been told that when sporting a «tache he has an uncanny resemblance to Ali G. With this in mind, this year Phil's going for a good old handlebar and goatee combo.

«I watched my mother workin a coal mine [in Big Stone Gap, Va.] when I was growing up, and I saw myfather drive two hours to work every day,» Jones, a seven - year veteran, says.

When Keselowski was moving up through the ranks a few years ago he had some well - publicized encounters with some veteran drivers including Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards.

UGA will be without tailback Nick Chubb as well as 15 - year veteran Mark Richt when they return to the field for their bowl game this December.

He was 32 years old, a veteran, husband and father, when he returned to the Deep South in 1950 to assume his first head coaching job.

The last time it happened was late in the Packers» 33 — 27 win over the Vikings in the venerable Metrodome on Oct. 23, when Rodgers hit 13 - year veteran Donald Driver for a six - yard gain on second - and - 12, the 711th catch of Driver's career.

Although they haven't excelled on the court this season, the Los Angeles Lakers produced one of the best feel - good stories of the year on Monday when they signed 32 - year - old G League veteran Andre Ingram for the rest of the season.

When you combine that with his late - season on - field success after Carson Palmer's torn ACL in 2014, it's clear that no one has mastered the balance between constant readiness and sideline levity that the position demands quite like the 10 - year veteran out of Michigan State.

But with power and endurance almost at their saturation point — it's hard for a young hotshot to blow a veteran off the court when he barely holds a physical advantage (19 - year old Bernard Tomic and 21 - year old Milos Raonic are attempting to prove this theory wrong)-- the best players in the game these days are also rather experienced.

Sessions was hailed as the answer to the Lakers» point guard problems when he came over in a deal from the Cleveland Cavaliers before the trade deadline last year, leading the team to jettison veteran Derek Fisher, who wound up on the Oklahoma City Thunder.

His best years are likely behind him, like when «Ross the Merciless» hit 21 home runs in 2006 on the Cincinnati Reds, but he's a veteran presence and, unlike most backup catchers, not a liability with the bat.

As a reverse case in point, last year's Green Bay Packers — plagued bythe lack of a sound kicker until midseason when AFL veteran Mike Mercer showedup — lost much of their momentum, not to mention games.

When O'Neal is double - teamed, the best passing center in the league will create open shots for the Heat's remaining complement of veterans, who are more than good enough to help O'Neal avoid the first losing season of his 15 - year career.

You have no QB, the QB you signed was magnified by the kick - ass team that he was on last year and will be exposed this year, your star WRs are over the hill, your running game is mediocre and the veteran you signed last year wishes he never did, your defense isn't what it used to be, you lost Talib, your star LB let his fame get to his head and became soft and unaggressive, your head coach is atrocious, the DC genius who designed your defense in 2015 is in LA, and your GM is a Nucky Thompson looking schmuck coasting on what he did on the field when Clinton was President.

I do fear for a few years in the future though, when the current reserves and U18s age and we have to let them or the veterans go.

Unicorns and candy - floss buildings aside, the realist in me constantly wonders what the long term consequences of Henry's (possibly successful) loan spell are and why the Gunners had to rely on a 34 year old veteran when being faced by a pedestrian opposition that would have been annihilated by any other team in the running for a Champions league spot.....

16) «We go once a year when they give free coffee to veterans, and my husband gets his free cup of coffee» ~ shared by frugal friend Carol!

Charles Tiedje, 37, a 13 - year veteran of the Arlington Heights Police Department, was on routine patrol when the accident occurred about 11 a.m. at Windsor Drive and Palatine Road.

With 29 years in the industry, Bell is a veteran of tough assignments, such as when he flew in to lead Fleishman - Hillard's support for the Zimbabwe opposition in their campaign to expose the Mugabe regime's election rigging last year.

Another woman has come forward to accuse veteran NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw of making an unwanted advance toward her when she was a young reporter many years ago.

A 23 - year veteran, Salzone was at his girlfriend's home in Bayside when he fired four shots, at least two striking him in the stomach.

Nash, a five - year NYPD veteran, was responding to a 911 call at Stuyvesant High School near Chambers and West streets when he learned of Sayfullo Saipov's attack, police said.

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Earlier this year the region's state Senate race also promised to be quite spirited when Democrats nominated New Suffolk resident Regina Calcaterra, an energetic corporate lawyer, to take on veteran GOP incumbent Kenneth LaValle, who ran unopposed two years ago.

Twice before, the state Legislature has passed a bill that would allow all veterans to get a three - year service credit in the state's pension system, regardless of when and where they served.

«The problem, of course, becomes what happens eight years from now when none of us are in public office anymore, and the next mayor says veterans are not a priority?»

No Republican had even stepped forward to challenge him this year until May 1, when Jay Townsend, a veteran Republican strategist from Cornwall - on - Hudson, loaded his slingshot and jumped in the race.

One of those was veteran Sen. Efrain Gonzalez, who had been facing his own federal corruption charges for more than two years when Espada defeated him in a 2008 primary.