Sentences with phrase «years to the day former»

Almost 40 years to the day former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the Rockefeller Drug Laws, an effort is underway to change what some people view as the failed «War on Drugs.»

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In the former year, it agreed to «forgive» a $ 3 million loan to Trump — for money he'd spent developing the riverboat casino — if sometime over the next two years, the stock price exceeded $ 25 for ten of 15 trading days.

While «Jurassic Park» was able to sucessfully pull off a sequel 20 years later with Chris Pratt, «Independence Day» couldn't do the same without a big star and its former leading man Will Smith.

Two former Fancy employees estimate that one - third of the company was cut that day, scaling a team of 45 US employees last year down to about 15 or 20 now.

Earlier this year when Spanx CEO Jan Singer, a former Nike executive, left to run Victoria's Secret, Blakely returned to run the day - to - day operations of her company.

Favetta — a former military dog handler who'd worked at PetSmart for 18 months — didn't want his 3 - year - old Belgian Malinois, Gizmo, to be home alone all day and night.

News of her firing comes on the same day that Zimbabwe's 93 year - old Robert Mugabe, the last of the generation of African leaders to take over from colonial rule, has had his hold on power broken by army units loyal to his former bodyguard Emmerson Mnangagwa.

And yet our entire medical system is designed with the former goal in mind — No, not to have us live forever, but to extend life no matter what the quality of those extra days, weeks, or years might be.

Earlier this year, The Post reported that former content boss Josh Tyrangiel told staffers that the magazine needed to shape up within 60 days — or else.

Former bandmate Tony Rivers wrote on Facebook: «It has been absolutely depressing for Sir Cliff, two years of hell, with the totally unsubstantiated accusations he's had to live with, other problems and just when the BBC / Police stuff was dropped, he has lost his close family member Donna (his sister) who passed away a day or so ago.

One year the Protestants invited a notorious former Catholic priest, Emmett McLoughlin, to speak at the union service on Reformation Day.

But one can not expect in a day or a week to have his roots as deep as they were in the former community after years.

Driving about today's Budapest, one is constantly reminded of what are still felt to be this former imperial city's greatest days in the modern period» what the French call La Belle Epoque» the decades about one hundred years ago, when Budapest was the fastest growing city in Europe, and one of the largest and richest cities in the world.

Founders» session - superstar All Day IPA launched the flavor - driven, lower - alcohol trend, while Barrel - Aged beauties such as the iconic Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS), and this year's reDANKulous, DKML and Doom are by nature more limited, always experimental, and aged to perfection in a former gypsum mine.

whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch

Perhaps the most stacked group features Rickie Fowler, Henrik Stenson, and Jason Day starting at 8:16 a.m.. All three men are former winners at The Players, with Day looking to repeat as champion after taking home the top prize last year.

Holmes, the former heavyweight champion (1978 to» 85) who's now a 46 - year - old grandfather, announced his most recent retirement, his eighth by our count, on Father's Day (Scorecard, June 3), right after an eighth - round knockout of Anthony Willis in Bay St. Louis, Miss..

Arshavin forced his way out of Zenit two years ago when the Gunners forked out # 15million on transfer deadline day, but the Russian champions are happy to forget the past and welcome back their former captain.

Highschool Cruz is a definite possbility but modern day Cruz is the guy who shows up at the 20 year reunon wearing a way - too - big crucifix allmost like its a vampire block against former classmates who want to come up and talk to him about the time they took a dump through the Vice Principals sunroof in front of his super christian wife.

I am going to miss the day - to - day contact with my friends and co-workers at SI, but having spent the 17 years prior to my move here as a member of the TIME magazine staff, I'm looking forward to rejoining many of my former associates.

A former limited partner, Tokyo Development Corp. (TDC), sued the franchise last year for failing to repay a 30 - day, $ 1 million emergency loan from 1994 and won a $ 1.5 million judgment.

A day after the start of free agency, they added another passing threat to the roster by signing former New York Jets tight end Austin Seferian - Jenkins to a two - year deal worth $ 10 million.

\ it is something that the Arsenal fans have become used to over the years and so I was not really surprised to hear the former Man United, Everton and England midfielder Phil Neville come out with his daft comments about Tomas Rosicky on last night's Match of the Day.

It may be just a coincidence that Arsenal put on the best away performance in a really big game for years on the same day that our former striker, record goal scorer and all round legend Thierry Henry was in the TV studio for the first time to give his verdict.

Pundits from the journalism world, as well as former Referee Howard Webb, have previously stated that Arsenal have lost their aggression under Wenger in recent years, but perhaps now things are slowly changing back to the ways they were in the old days.

There is no real answer to the question you have posed because this club has once again hedged their bets on doing the bare minimum then hoping for the best... if they were serious about changing the stagnant culture that has permeated the club since our move from the Highbury, we would have immediately released and / or moved several players in the early days of the window... this would have demonstrated to the fans that they were serious about addressing our obvious inadequacies... likewise this would have forced them to bring in replacements because they couldn't have used the lame excuse Wenger is presently spewing about having too many players... we functionally have the same amount of players as we did when the window first opened but he didn't say jack about it then... he simply waited until the inevitable happened then pulled out his excuse Rolodex, closed his eyes and randomly drew the «too many players» card... the more he opens his mouth, the more I understand his «god» complex when it relates to all things Arsenal... what other manager could continually do the same dumb shit, not address obvious concerns for years, speak to the fans in such a condescending manner, face enormous criticism from many of his former star players and be the architect of so many failed player signings yet be one of the highest paid managers with the longest tenure in Europe... maybe Kroenke is colourblind and instead of seeing all the red flags he can only see the GREEN ones ($ $ $)

Before completing a move to the Hammers on deadline day, the former Arsenal man had been demanding that the North London club pay him the remaining # 5 million that he is owed for the last year of his contract before leaving.

The 44 - year - old former AC Milan, Juventus, Lazio and Celtic striker had been incensed earlier this month after the club's best player Matt Ritchie was sold to promotion rivals Bournemouth for # 500,000 on transfer deadline day.

Next day before the game Musial visited in the clubhouse with Erv Dusak, former major - leaguer and now an insurance salesman, who 22 years before, almost to the day, had been called up by the Cardinals, along with Musial, from Rochester.

The decision to sell Sigurdsson three years ago still puzzles me to this day, and Mauricio Pochettino praising the former Spurs man last season in a press conference confuses the matter even more as Sigurdsson was sold when Pochettino was the head coach at Tottenham.

The former Bayern Munich manager saw his side travel to Hull on Boxing Day, before making the trip to Anfield on New Year's Eve to face Liverpool, and finishing up on 2nd January to face Burnley at home.

Another that same year had the former Manchester United, Everton and England defender appearing to say: «Morning men couple of hours cricket be4 (before) work sets me up nicely for the day.»

The «parasite» the home fans were referring to is Antonio Donnarumma, the 27 - year - old brother of Gianluigi and former Piacenza and Bari goalkeeper — as well as Milan youth product — who was signed from Greek side Asteras Tripoli on an eyebrow - raising four - year - deal with a reported salary of one million euros the day after the younger Donnarumma signed his renewal.

The inch - perfect out - swinging cross from the left flank by Ben Davies was spookily similar to the one supplied by our former midfielder Nabil Bentaleb almost three years ago to the day, when Harry nodded home in the closing minutes to register a 2 - 1 win at White Hart Lane.

The actual players, however, can not afford to be dumbstruck by their celebrity visitors as defeat at Molineux really would send out the wrong message heading into a fresh New Year, a year which has already began in uninspiring fashion with defeat away at former struggler's West Ham on New Year's Year, a year which has already began in uninspiring fashion with defeat away at former struggler's West Ham on New Year's year which has already began in uninspiring fashion with defeat away at former struggler's West Ham on New Year's Year's day.

Birth Day Presence — which 38 - year - old former dancer Jada Shapiro (no relation to the author) founded in 2002 — is the oldest birth - related collective in the city.

Back in the days when both houses of the Legislature had leaders with a number of years under their belts — namely, former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno — two - way deals to jam the governor were not out of the question.

That was the unhelpful but not unreasonable question posed by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith the other day as she likened Tian Tian's lengthy but unproductive pregnancy to the Labour leader's failure to produce a single policy of note despite a three year gestation.

Five years ago when the former Tory leader and Prime Minister David Cameron had promised an In / Out referendum it seemed unlikely that Britain's membership of the EU was in serious danger but a whole series of events gradually led to this enormous day in Britain's history.

A former aide to Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE criticized Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandOvernight Health Care — Sponsored by PCMA — Trump hits federally funded clinics with new abortion restrictions Dem senators ask drug companies to list prices in ads Gillibrand to publish children's book about suffragists MORE on Thursday after the New York Democrat became the first of many senators to join a successful push to force the resignation of Sen. Al FrankenAlan (Al) Stuart Franken100 days after House passage, Gillibrand calls on Senate to act on sexual harassment reform Eric Schneiderman and #MeToo pose challenges for both parties Senate confirms Trump judicial pick over objections of home - state senator MORE (D - Minn.).

One day short of a year later, he was appointed again to his former role of Shadow Secretary of State for Health, and held the role until 2015.

A Brooklyn federal judge last week sentenced former state Sen. Shirley Huntley to a year and one day in prison for stealing taxpayer dollars,?

Votes cast on Election Day favored former Thurman Town Clerk Cynthia Hyde 306 to 260 over incumbent town board member Susan Shepler for a three - year seat.

It hasn't been announced who is doing Hein's press releases these days since former mouthpiece J.J. Hanson was promoted to budget officer last year, but this missive was a scorcher.

On Thursday, a federal judge on Thursday sentenced former Sen. Shirley Huntley, who is African - American, to a year and a day in prison, and her attorney suggested the lawmaker had seen senators carrying suitcases of cash in the state Capitol.

Former state Sen. Shirley Huntley — sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in prison — has turned New York state government into a giant game of Clue.

The former governor was sentenced to two years in prison, his wife to a year and a day.

The former Joan Giger Walker and I decided the best way to avoid the silliness this year was to get out of town for Election Day.

Cuomo did call off his traditional New Year's Day executive mansion open house to attend New York City Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio's public inauguration yesterday in Manhattan along with Democratic luminaries like former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Remember that last year, Cuomo combined these speeches due to the death of his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, on the same day he was sworn in for his second two - year term in the job his father used to hold.