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But he remains the longest of long shots for now.
And what happens with long shots is they usually lose.
Yet Trump's consistent success thus far makes both long shots.
And his clients acknowledge that the efforts are long shots.
O'Rourke's candidacy was once viewed as the longest of long shots.
They also know escape will be the longest of long shots.
But it's either long shots or climate disaster at this point.
More tempting still, Mr. Trump loves big risks and long shots.
Mr. Trump currently has three Republican challengers — all extreme long shots.
Extreme long shots dwarf nameless workers under sooty mountains of coal.
Such a scenario, however, seems to be the longest of long shots.
Favorites, long shots, sure things and no hopers, all at Santa Anita.
Long shots: Gunnevera was third in the Florida Derby as the favorite.
Already, his unpopularity is luring candidates into races once considered long shots.
Here's a compilation of long shots by David Fincher from Jacob T. Swinney.
The Canadian team, on the other hand, is made up of long shots.
Will Hurd and a couple of other long shots that are at least plausible.
Although they appeared to be long shots in New York, Mr. Cruz and Gov.
Only two cameras were present: one for long shots and one for close-ups.
But as the IPCC has made clear, long shots are the only shots left.
Laura Kelly (D), face longer odds, though none of those three are considered long shots.
Most of the candidates now riding her wave of national attention are considered long shots.
A fastidious filmmaker, Loznitsa spends a great deal of time composing and editing long shots.
It probably isn't too shocking to see the Orioles and the Marlins as long shots.
There is still time for seeming long shots to make it into the playoff, though.
I went for the long shots and both Steve and Arthur said 'yes, let's record.
Both Armando and LaToya are running in deep-red districts, and their campaigns are long shots.
He favors long shots with camera movements pulling the viewer through interiors where threats might lurk.
There's rhythms, there's reasons we fall back sometimes, or sometimes we purposely do very long shots.
In the first quarter, Miami hit some long shots early and jumped in front 793-12.
The standard bearer Lamborghini has a proven track record when it comes to long shots, though.
"I like to take long shots," Stone told a Washington Post reporter back in a 1986 profile.
Although the activist campaigns are long shots, they can benefit from drawing on disaffected constituents to help.
It also has more than one of the greatest long shots in the history of the game.
The set design is elaborate and both films favor long shots, showing this scenery in full detail.
Galloway helped the Pistons keep the lead above 20 with two long shots later in the quarter.
Moreover, other states once viewed as long-shots are tough but winnable, like Missouri and North Carolina.
Meanwhile, the Patriots were considered long shots to win the championship, especially considering how their season began.
There's a clear favorite, a handful of teams with a puncher's chance, and some serious long shots.
The spatial presentation has the variety of a camera moving between close-ups, long shots, traveling sequences.
He spends "Endless" in long shots and a few close-ups, toiling alongside those clones of himself.
Sherman-Palladino not only relishes complex dialogue but long shots that span eight to 10 script pages.
By contrast, Silicon Valley moguls seem to favor spending money on improbable but impressive-sounding long shots.
The film is replete with long shots of severe but beautiful landscapes and strange, near-phantasmagoric episodes.
It's critical that some of the long shots in the presidential primary consider the Senate this year.
Both candidates announced their presidential campaigns in May and are relative long shots in the 2020 field.
Here are 36 potential candidates, from top contenders to long shots, who could run in 16253: Sen.
You're broke because you chase big-money long shots while turning down less exciting but real opportunities.
He endorsed Donald J. Trump back when Mr. Trump's candidacy seemed like the longest of long shots.
The State House campaigns she had adopted, always long shots, were falling short, in some cases badly.
At times, the long shots create meaning, giving you information and giving you room and time to breathe, to look around and appreciate the very large animal dwarfing a man who seems to have shrunk inside himself; at other times, the long shots feel close to art-film mannerisms.
Practically, it's about very attractive long shots of Greenland, with the loose understanding that something bad is happening.
To illustrate the point, Robertson mentioned one of the 2020 field's long shots, former Colorado governor John Hickenlooper.
But it does mean that Cramer recommends using some discretionary money to bet on high-risk long shots.
Lots of long shots from far away, dancing, and a whole lot of cool from the dynamic duo.
Observers generally view such lawsuits as legal long shots, even though they attract attention when they are filed.
Investors in companies that Mr. Seiden is pursuing to recover money acknowledge that the efforts are long shots.
Yet his long shots of the men, motionless and alone, express a melancholy and isolation that's oddly touching.
"Both are long shots," said Jonathan H. Adler, who teaches at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
Legal experts say that these lawsuits are long shots and test the limits of what existing jurisprudence covers.
There's a reason long shots like this aren't often attempted in Hollywood: they're a giant pain to get right.
They were a bunch of green newcomers and long shots and spare parts, and they often played like it.
But both challenges appear to be long shots because the appeals court ruled overwhelmingly to affirm, legal experts say.
The long shots of beautiful, naked bodies speak to me of the erotic, as opposed to the hyper-sexual.
Instead, we'll look at the teams and athletes who came out of nowhere, the longest of the long shots.
When I got started, I found one thing in the baseball futures markets, where long shots were priced incorrectly.
She is the team's best three-point shooter, hitting more than 40 percent of her long shots this season.
Long shots that were worth only 2 because the 3-point line wasn't yet part of the college game.
He acknowledged that boxing matches with Mayweather, who is retired, and Pacquiao, who is still active, remain long shots.
Time and again, women candidates have been met with derision or dismissed as "long shots" — in many cases, both.
Nehlen, however, is the longest of long shots, and it's almost certain many House Republicans won't take his bid seriously.
Now that we know miracles happen, are there other long shots on the horizon that might rival Leicester's improbable win?
Some of these Democrats are long shots, and neither party has a particularly impressive record with black candidates for governor.
Women like Ms. Sherrill and Ms. Davids had started as long shots, but their victories seemed assured by Election Day.
Antoine Griezmann has taken a few long shots, but hasn't been nearly as dangerous as he was in previous games.
Foster Friess, a wealthy investor and major funder of conservative candidates and causes, has been known to pick long shots.
This, as much as anything else, defines the Democratic way in Texas: persistently believing in, and acting on, long shots.
The scene, which is composed of two long shots, has been praised for being an unconventional way of representing grief.
Even the vast majority of Steinberger's long shots exclude human life, framing these tents as isolated and intentionally avoided places.
The Democrats themselves may have inadvertently invited attention to lesser-known long-shots such as Yang with their new debate rules.
De Blasio is a deep long shot in a primary race already filled with long shots, including two other current mayors.
The teams will be separated into three categories—"Growing long shots", "The fatalistic upper-middle class", and "(Maybe) one player away".
It was also a victory for genre shows, which had at one time been considered long shots for award show trophies.
Still, there can be as many as 10 nominees on the best picture list, so there's some room for long shots.
West Virginia and Louisiana are on this list because Democrats have recently won statewide races in them, but they're long shots.
Ted Cruz has strong finishes in Missouri, Illinois and North Carolina, the strategies to stop Trump are long shots at best.
So far, the 28503-year-old former president has had formal meetings with long shots for the nomination like Montana Gov.
Traders respond to the restrictions and fees by over-wagering on long shots, slightly distorting the prices from the underlying values.
All of these candidates, along with a few others in the crowded race, are decided long shots to win the nomination.
Detroit had flipped a 373-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead early in the second period on two long shots.
Those two are long shots, but other teams are positioned to disrupt the league's reigning duopoly as early as next season.
His percentages show he has the ability, but he takes far fewer long shots than players who can't match his skill.
The lesson of the last year has been that Republican health plans can quickly change from long shots to near passage.
Even Trump must know that the often-described "deal of the century" is one of the biggest long shots in history.
But their 101-92 loss might well have been reversed had they simply sunk a few more of those long shots.
Here's how to watch, and a list of the favorites and the long shots (including a one-eyed horse named Patch).
Onscreen, static long shots capture the lonelier side of Manhattan — wide, empty streets and crowded subway cars filled with casually indifferent commuters.
Poignant vignettes and interviews are swamped by long shots of the Mediterranean and of migrants trekking into the forests of northern Greece.
Of the others, about a half-dozen are either long shots to crack that top group or are adding to the debate.
Ranked-choice voting, which several states have adopted in some form, allows long shots to emerge without similar front-runners being hurt.
Ranked-choice voting, which several states have adopted in some form, allows long shots to emerge without similar front-runners being hurt.
Perhaps more than any other American political leader, Mr. Trump knows that long shots, like his own presidential bid, sometimes pay off.
"It's not like journalists single out the long shots and say, 'Tell me how it feels to be losing,'" Mr. Quenqua said.
Others followed Cameroon out, but 15 of the 20 still have a chance of making it, even if some are long shots.
You grasp the enormous scale of this project from the long shots that the director Nikolaus Geyrhalter ("Our Daily Bread") liberally uses.
The Patrick and Bloomberg campaigns are not mere long shots, or attempts to harm Sanders or Warren on behalf of the moderates.
Key to The Witch's success is the way Eggers lets scenes unfold naturally, in long shots that take up lots of time.
Write-in campaigns are always long shots at best, though, and the plain fact is that Fliedner doesn't have any institutional support.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter and Rocky (or Sylvester Stallone) were parallel long shots, coming from nowhere to score near-simultaneous feel-good triumphs.
He could offer Blake Griffin, Gordon Hayward, or Paul Millsap a max deal—all of which would be long shots to say "yes".
Perhaps the longest of the long shots among the 78 qualifiers is Naegel, the long-thwarted pro from Wildwood, Mo., near St. Louis.
After roughly 10,000 years of long shots of jail inmates walking down hallways and hushed arguments between lawyers, the trial is finally happening.
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In the past, the draft-and-stash was limited to European players who were long shots to ever make it over to America.
But it does mean using some discretionary money to bet on high-risk long shots or smaller, lesser-known companies with massive upside potential.
Some of the arguments in the Oregon lawsuit surprised legal experts, and cases that extend rights in innovative ways tend to be long shots.
But it does mean using some discretionary money to bet on high-risk long shots, or smaller, lesser-known companies with massive upside potential.
The three who are competing Sunday in the New York City Marathon — Stephanie Bruce, Scott Fauble and Scott Smith — are long shots to win.
Mr. McDonald, of the University of Florida, said opponents of the map have two potential legal avenues, although he described both as long shots.
" There are also roving, lyrical long shots of Queens streets that, in their grit and dazzle, recall the boyhood Bronx of Don DeLillo's "Underworld.
The recent lawsuit against DACA repeal filed by 16 blue states makes several creative arguments, but all seem like long shots, at least so far.
Hosts Russia at 21/222 and Sweden at 21/1 are seen as the long shots to lift the World Cup trophy on July 15.
Forward Majority believes the party could see a wave this fall, but only if it competes hard, even in districts that seem like long shots.
At 4-6, the Browns remain playoff long shots, but they've unveiled perhaps the league's most important schematic wrinkle in the past two weeks. 1.
Both Buttigieg and Gabbard are currently long shots to win the Democratic nomination, though, so it's unlikely they'd get the chance to fulfill their promise.
A student at the private Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, Mr. Oks is now planning that longest of political long shots: a write-in campaign.
Every race has its own dynamics, and two of the three women running in Massachusetts remain long shots to win their primaries on Sept. 4.
In Mr. Bataillon's sensitive camerawork, the screen alternates, excitingly and musically, between long shots showing the full company and full-length views of leading dancers.
Good Samaritan, who had never raced on dirt, beat Giuseppe the Great by four-and-three-quarters lengths as two long shots finished in front.
According to the bookies—and if you're betting on synchornized swimming, please reconsider your life choices—all three North American teams are long shots to medal.
Start with the long shots, such as Khaled Ali, a liberal lawyer and activist, who hopes to save Egypt from what he calls its "dark destiny".
The first is that in the model's calculation, punters tend to over-value all elite or well-known players, while under-estimating those of long-shots.
If you're into making bets on impossible long shots, you can join me in getting your hopes up for a reboot of the Touch Wheel iPod.
John Hickenlooper might have dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, but at least one of his fellow long shots, businessman and former Rep.
His newest video, Fractals of Incidence, sees his signature slow-moving, cinematic long-shots of animated fractals in a deep blue landscape of melting, morphing ice.
Both are extreme long shots to make a postseason impact, but they might the Cavs' only hope if opponents continue to punish them in the paint.
But there have never been more proposals on regulating large web platforms circulating around Washington than there are right now — even if they are long shots.
New York City, with a score of 104.7, and San Francisco (104.5) are two of the most expensive cities in the country, making them long shots.
India," Mr. Kapur "didn't know whether to take close-ups of her face to capture those incredible expressions or long shots to capture her dance moves.
Cameroon created few chances in the first half, taking mostly long shots, but the team intensified in the second half and began to exert some control.
When people are seeking big winnings from long shots, Zweig writes, they get a rush of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with excitement and, potentially, with addiction.
His long shots, edited together to look like one long take, are a feat, a new spectacular achievement to add to the canon of war movies.
What Lin understands intuitively is that action sequences require long shots that establish geography, so we have a better idea of what's happening to whom, and when.
"The guy does have a lot of ambition, and he is somebody who is willing to take long shots," said Mapes, who has covered Merkley for years.
His long shots in that bout were the kind that turn into nothing more than knee slides against opponents who maintain a distance as significant as Machida.
For those betting the tournament though, the real value lies in the long shots, with plenty of former winners and perennial contenders offering great odds for bettors.
None of the actual music from "Homecoming" was honored, which would make sense for any other artist; live albums are typically considered long shots at the Grammys.
Entering the season as 5000/1 long shots to lift the trophy, Leicester simply refused to lose, finishing their campaign with a record of 23-12-3.
At the time, the Blues looked lost, sitting among the dregs of the NHL standings as 2000-2100 long shots to win the Stanley Cup at Paris.
Beyond this leading pack, while Chris Christie and John Kasich have each picked up important newspaper endorsements, the markets rank them essentially as 100-to-1 long shots.
Although the Tennessee Titans, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the San Francisco 49ers are all long shots, no victor would apparently be more surprising than the Cleveland Browns.
That scene on the bridge has some beautiful long shots of Janine, a lone red figure standing on the edge of the world surrounded by an icy stillness.
Also in the race are New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Raymond Buckley and South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Jaime Harrison, who are considered long shots at this point.
So many scenes of Axe are punctuated by long shots of face as he realizes how screwed he is, how sad he is, how much he messed up.
Former San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro was the biggest winner among the long shots Wednesday night, pivoting off of immigration to announce his presence in the Democratic primary.
Johnson did not tire in that bout against a very accomplished wrestler because the wrestler dived after long shots and was kept out at distance, afraid to engage.
And it showed what a debate looks like when the top-tier candidates are allowed to explain themselves without having to contend with too many thirsty long shots.
Mr. Wilders and Ms. Le Pen, the French far-right leader, are running strong in polls, though both are considered long shots to win control of their governments.
And though they're long shots, Apple could also tease the rumored "rOS" (reality operating system) for its rumored AR glasses and perhaps open HomePod to third-party music services.
Instead, we're forced to look at long shots of Fred penetrating June, whose huge pregnancy stomach leaves her looking even more vulnerable, from above, behind, and from the side.
The one-time contestant on Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" could ask the entire 7th Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case, but both are long shots.
They also know that even if their case is the longest of long shots, it's worth their while to write to as many lawyers and news organizations as possible.
We watch long shots of Conrad's body — flowing hair down his back, bright silk jackets, headbands, green frog-eye sunglasses — as it walks the streets of Philadelphia with defiance.
But such long shots have not dampened the optimism of Jackson, who will — hopefully, maybe — have a playoff team next season, but certainly not a contender for anything more.
His negotiating method appears to be to join the conversation late and pressure Congress via his beloved Twitter account, with references to campaign promises that were always long shots.
For example, the movie shows long shots of carefully paved streets — which were imposed by the police in order to stop student protesters from tearing up stones in attacks.
We spoke to two men yesterday — Pete Buttigieg and former Representative John Delaney — who are definitely long shots but are hoping to have their moment on the national stage.
I've already looked at the long shots and two teams already in the NBA's upper-middle class with a decent enough chance to overthrow Golden State and Cleveland next season.
Wet track conditions threw a wild card into this year's Kentucky Derby, circumstances that typically help long-shots have more of a chance against horses with better odds of winning.
Those long shots can reveal the isolation of his characters and can also provide a unique view that lets us take a breath as we're absorbing everything that's going on.
Not only that, he could force Democrats to spend heavily on their effort to retain Nelson's seat -- which could limit the party's ability to go after long shots like Tennessee.
The Pelicans are probably long-shots to make the playoffs, but they should be fun and competitive, and they have the assets to make more big deals to improve quickly.
But if escapism is what academy members want, both of the docs (admittedly awards long shots) might be hurt by the cold, hard, if necessary, truths that they drive home.
The many long shots among them weren't dissuaded by their odds, because Trump took an unconventional route to a victory that stunned him as much as it did anybody else.
Common Sense Among Amazon's 20 finalist cities for its coveted second headquarters are several that would have to be called long shots: Columbus, Ohio, Nashville and Miami, to name three.
And it promises its investors, as a hedge against climate change, that it will invest in CCS and algae biofuels — both of which are long shots, to put it charitably.
Whether it is gassing or panic that gets the better of him, leaning for long swings and diving for long shots has consistently been a problem for him in recent fights.
Killy is as quiet and solemn as ever, and there are plenty of long shots that show the impossibly huge scale of the city and its myriad levels of vast emptiness.
All those races are long shots for the challengers — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Adem Bunkeddeko, and Suraj Patel, respectively — but if any of them pull it off, there will be major reverberations.
And while they remain long shots, or underdogs at best, Democrats have nominated potentially strong candidates in Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee and South Carolina, some of the reddest states in the country.
Mr. Castro knows that he is the longest of long shots, but he is nothing if not a product of his hometown, San Antonio — an often underestimated, predominantly Hispanic, American microcosm.
They even invoke the 1976 run by Jimmy Carter, the patron saint of Democratic presidential long shots, whose retail politicking across Iowa propelled him on the way to the White House.
And his directorial style — which favors long shots and camera movement over jump cuts — gets under your skin far more effectively than horror films that go in for more frenetic editing.
That might leave all 20 delivering brief, introductory versions of their stump speeches, or provoke long shots to seek attention by assailing better-known rivals such as Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren.
But the other six Republican seats up next year have long seemed like long shots — meaning it was difficult to envision where Democrats could pick up that elusive third GOP-controlled seat.
But this year, the four governors likely to enter the race for president in the coming days and weeks begin as distinct long shots against rising rock stars already in the race.
With teams like the 103-win Cubs, the Nationals, the Rangers and the Red Sox resting and waiting, this year's wild-card winners may seem like long shots to win it all.
" Long shots against the President Walsh had previously called for a Republican to challenge the President, and earlier this month called Trump an "unfit con man" who is "bad for the country.
Attempts to bypass lower courts are generally considered long-shots, as the court only takes up such requests when the case is deemed to be of "imperative public importance" warranting immediate review.
What would change his fortunes -- an important diplomatic success and an improved relationship with a President who would not just listen to but take his advice -- seem like long shots at best.
Pelosi, who has served in Congress for more than three decades, is facing three primary challengers in California's 85033th Congressional District, though all are believed to be long shots for the nomination.
To be sure, French did seem like the longest of long-shots, an obscure National Review writer whose main distinguishing feature from other C-grade right-wing columnists was his anti-trans obsession.
Kitasan Black and Satono Crown are likely to be sent off as the betting favorites, and it bodes well for their chances, as the race is not known for featuring huge long shots.
Both are long shots, well behind State Treasurer Walker Stapleton, 43 — he's the Bush relative — and Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, 56, who was recently divorced from the endangered Republican congressman I mentioned earlier.
Ms. Ferreras-Copeland was also making the rounds, as were others who are seen more as long shots: Jimmy Van Bramer and Donovan Richards Jr. of Queens and Ydanis Rodriguez, of Upper Manhattan.
There are times in the film when the comedian is offscreen, long-shots and audience reactions, and in those moments, the installation goes pitch black, no image at all, just a dark room.
Such lawsuits can be long shots, but they're shots worth taking — as in Wisconsin, where Planned Parenthood is suing to repeal several anti-abortion laws enacted under the Republican former governor Scott Walker.
Both are rated long shots by bookmakers, but the John O'Shea-trained Hartnell has shown encouraging form in the lead-up, coming second behind Winx in the 2,400m Cox Plate at Moonee Valley last week.
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang and self-help guru Marianne Williamson, two long shots who nonetheless qualified for the first debate, had the highest burn rates, each spending more than 80% of the cash they brought in.
Keep in mind that when opposing defenders do manage to get close enough to Curry to prevent these long shots, he makes great use of the extra space left between the defender and the basket.
At times, it is a guilty relief to re-enter flashbacks, because Clapin trades the feverish intimacy of the hand's adventures for the calmer scenes of Naoufel, who is seen in comparably serene long shots.
Meanwhile, the Santa Barbara setting, with its lush landscape, natural light and long shots of Jamie riding his skateboard down wide, sloping streets — streets Mr. Mills skated on — helps evoke an only-in-California nostalgia.
Long shots have often raced away with the prize, including Prince of Penzance which defied 100-1 odds in the 2015 running and made jockey Michelle Payne the first woman to ride a Cup winner.
While some were considered sure bets based on previous Emmy success, like How to Get Away With Murder's Viola Davis, plenty were considered long shots but still managed to squeeze in, like Fargo's Bokeem Woodbine.
Either the 202(c) route or the wartime powers claim could fairly be called long shots, and come after multiple failed attempts by the administration to force electrical grid managers to rely more on coal generators.
First up, the long shots: two young teams that are on the right track, and could leapfrog teams in front of them as early as next season if they make a few creative moves this summer.
Mr. Brady, the former Illinois Republican Party leader, suggested that Mr. Uihlein was an easy mark for political operatives; he also criticized Mr. Proft and his associates for spending Mr. Uihlein's money wildly on long shots.
The cases, which have generally been considered long shots, rely on the area of public nuisance under state common law, which allows courts to hold parties responsible for actions that interfere with the use of property.
But it's possible that the massive field of contenders and the chaotic nature of the race could keep many long shots in, with the hope that anything could happen for those left standing when votes are cast.
Bottom line: Both of these efforts are long shots given Congress is not in the mood for creating wholly new tax subsidies, whose price tags will be into the billions (though likely less than the December proposals).
The DCCC and House Majority PAC, Democrats' main House super PAC, have now hit the airwaves with independent-expenditure ads in at least 32 Republican-held districts, including a number that seemed like long shots months ago.
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The expert consensus, however, is that dozens of players could win a wide-open Open, much like in 2010, when then-37th ranked Graeme McDowell triumphed, one stroke ahead of the longest of long-shots in Gregory Havret.
Rubio, Bush and Kasich are likely to continue to divide their smaller slice of the pie as they start punching harder at each other, leaving all of them long-shots in the Palmetto State and down the line.
From giggly humor to scenes of people toking to long shots and trippy visuals, it doesn't take much intuition to identify a stoner movie when you see it—you don't even have to be high to do so.
Both quarterbacks are the predictably heavy favorites, but the Rams and Patriots are both so stocked with potential breakout players that some interesting long shots emerge if you think the game might wind up getting a bit weird.
Instead of American Pharoah's historic stretch drive with a capacity crowd on hand to witness, about half as many people cheered on three gray horses, all of them long shots, as they raced home in a photo finish.
Artemi Panarin scored for the Blue Jackets on a controversial play, and Sergei Bobrovsky, who has been spectacular in the postseason, made 41 saves but was beaten on long shots by Pastrnak and Bergeron in the first period.
And three long shots broke out of obscurity to give themselves new life, which could help with fundraising and give them a sliver of a chance that no one thought they had as of 8:58 pm Eastern Wednesday.
It was a dumb shot taken at the worst/best possible time that went in for no reason except the whims of luck and the fact that Curry has an unparalleled, unprecedented, honestly kind of unsettling ability to drill long shots.
As evangelical voters go for Cruz and Carson, Iowa could be where we say goodbye to long-shots such as 2012 caucuses winner Rick Santorum and 2008 victor Mike Huckabee, who were unable to build support there this time around.
Both candidates were seen as long shots against brand name rivals like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton a few months ago, but have seen their popularity surge as the election race starts in earnest with the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.
Democratic strategists involved in House and Senate races said they envisioned Mr. Trump's collapse precipitating a broad shift in the political landscape, with tossup races moving firmly into their hands, and campaigns that were once long shots suddenly becoming competitive.
Now, you could be forgiven if you flipped to Fox News during the march and you thought it sounded like any other network — reporters on the streets talking to protesters, long shots of the crowds, and occasional cuts to the speakers.
Nonetheless, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old community organizer who has never held political office, is trying to leverage her fame to promote other progressive candidates — many female, and almost all viewed, as Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was, as long shots.
With one day to go until five states are set to vote in tomorrow's Super Tuesday contests, Bernie Sanders seems to be picking up support across several states that just a week ago were considered long shots for his campaign.
Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas Jockey: Jon Court Odds: 30-1 Drape: Over a storied Hall of Fame career, Lukas has won plenty of races he should not have with what, at least on paper, appeared to be hopeless long shots.
Sensitive to any perception of party meddling from on high, the D.N.C. does not plan to place front-runners and long shots on separate debate stages, opting against the so-called undercard debate format used for low-polling Republicans in 2016.
The battle for Iowa took center stage at the Democratic debate in Los Angeles on Thursday night as top-tier candidates collided and the long shots made their moves with only 2023 days until the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
As someone who was born in Newark, lived in Pittsburgh, taught at Carnegie Mellon for nearly 20 years, and spends part of the winter in Miami, I'm pulling for one of my "hometowns," even if they are all long shots.
"A lot of people involved in speculative investments -- going for long shots -- don't fall into high income brackets," Cribari said, referring to numerous studies about how casinos, lotteries and other forms of gambling are often considered taxes on the poor.
VICE Sports predicted winner: North Carolina Favorites: Oklahoma (7-2), West Virginia (7-63), Kansas (6-3) Still in it: Baylor (6-3), Texas (6-3), Iowa State (5-4) Long shots: None It's been a strange year in the Big 12.
Both long shots for the title upon arrival, they are now the last women left in singles in this increasingly prestigious event here at Indian Wells, which many players rank behind only the Grand Slam tournaments and the year-end tour finals.
LAS VEGAS — As the Vegas Golden Knights morph from 500-1 long shots to chic pick to hoist the Stanley Cup, Art Manteris is preparing for an emotional roller coaster unlike any he has encountered in three decades as a professional oddsmaker.
Written off as playoff long shots early on, the Blue Jackets (50-24-8, 108 points, +54) ran off a 73-game win streak early on and never really looked back on their way to one of the more stunning seasons in recent memory.
During Fernando's travels, he's waylaid (and hogtied) by pilgrims; takes a tumble with a goatherd; and exchanges gazes with the locals, notably the birds who look down upon him in long shots that, in movies, are known as bird's-eye or God's-eye views.
And after energized Democrats ran two surprisingly competitive but eventually unsuccessful congressional races — in Kansas in April and in Montana this past week — what was once viewed as the longest of long shots here has turned into the most expensive House race in history.
O. S.) DIAMOND ISLAND Dreamily recalling the work of Wong Kar-wai (disaffected youth pursuing romance on motorbikes) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (long shots of rural vegetation and urban architecture), Davy Chou's first fictional feature takes place largely on a construction site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
In three minutes, Mr. Baillie suggests the arc of an entire life with an elegant mixture of trenchant close-ups (sturdy hands, worn boots, a weathered face) and equally elegiac long shots that evoke the minimalist landscapes in certain classical Asian paintings (trees, clouds, peaks, isolated figures).
Lillard is apt to take absurdly long shots against any opponent, but his striving demeanor makes it seem as if he has been shooting those DMZ triples at Steph Curry in this series, even in contests where the MVP has been on the bench in a blazer.
If Oklahoma wins, as is expected, the long shots become no-shots and the two teams who need help immediately are competing for only one open slot alongside the Sooners and the SEC winner (Auburn or Georgia) and the Atlantic Coast Conference champ (Clemson or Miami).
And the evidence lately indicates that the national race is remarkably stable, that Iowa might be the best and only chance for long shots to shake things up, and that both Biden and Bernie are well positioned to use the caucus to validate their front-runnership instead.
The specter of a bunch of amateur-hour pundits and online organizers ginning up enthusiasm for a handful of lovable long shots and firebrands with weak teams and poor district fit, only to walk away when the whole thing crashes and burns, makes party insiders nervous with good reason.
That means supporting candidates who may not have run for office before, may not have a lot of infrastructure when they begin, and might be long shots—candidates like Jon Ossoff of Georgia, a 30-year-old who has a real chance at victory in an election this month.
During the many wordless stretches of the film, stretches in which one hears car horns and the sound of bulldozers and the laughter of unseen children, and the long shots when the camera rests on Ershadi's face, Romi felt aware of herself watching, and the others also watching.
Four top-tier potential Democratic Senate candidates — John Hickenlooper in Colorado, Stacey Abrams in Georgia, Beto O'Rourke in Texas and Mr. Bullock — are seriously exploring presidential campaigns, forsaking statewide campaigns within their grasp, at least for now, for a national one that would be the longest of long shots.
However, there was bad news for those long-shots, too: Most people said they had narrowed their lists to a few candidates to consider -- most like at least a couple of the top-polling candidates in the race -- and said there are simply too many Democrats running for president.
The Russell movie is in black and white and set mostly in the airport, using an interplay of long shots, close-ups, playful hand-held stuff and lots of famous people, among them Allison Williams, John Krasinski and Paula Patton, who I haven't seen anywhere in three years.
Seymour Alpha (Tim Seymour) Oz Knows (Oz Pearlman) The way to win the Stock Draft is to find long shots that are currently out of favor, simply because those are the names with the most upside if they ever get traction – that's why Tim Seymour has a great chance at winning.
The greatest gift this season could possibly deliver — greater even than more aspirational long shots of war veteran Jubilee's magnificent under-butt — would be if the producers rented Huey for the whole season so Chris Harrison could romance him all alone in the foyer at the end of each episode.
But if things work out the way SoftBank hopes — using ARM's chip design chops as a springboard to make it a leader in the Internet of Things — its flamboyant, controversial founder and CEO Masayoshi Son will be able to add another big name to his list of successful long shots.
It is the first Final Four for both Auburn and Texas Tech — similar to the favorites-heavy tournament of two years ago, which also featured two first-timers, South Carolina and Gonzaga, which were emphatically not long shots of the Loyola-Chicago (or Butler, or George Mason, or Virginia Commonwealth) variety.
The Town Car sent by the hotel had a flat-screen for his entertainment on the 22019-minute drive into D.C. The channel once snidely referred to as "state TV" now delighted in showing long shots through the White House railings of men in uniforms removing boxes of incriminating paperwork.
Time has run out for low-polling candidates Democratic long-shots in a field that once topped 20 candidates for months have leaned on the late-breaking history of presidential nominating battles as a rhetorical crutch: 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry trailed Howard Dean into late 2007, they point out.
Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 85033 The Memo: Pelosi-Trump trade deal provokes debate on left MORE (I-Vt.), some outsider or a late entry are more than real long shots.
A direct US-Iran conflict, or a shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, remain "long shots" due to Iran's fear of US military action and the US administration's aversion to foreign entanglements, Paul Sheldon, chief geopolitical advisor at S&P Global Platts Analytics, wrote in a note emailed to CNN Business on Thursday.
VICE Sports predicted winner: Oklahoma Favorites: Villanova (9-1), Xavier (8-2) Still in it: Providence (6-4) Long shots: Seton Hall (6-4), Georgetown (6-53) Now that Providence has dipped—somehow losing to DePaul—the Big East appears to be a two-team race between favored Villanova and upstart Xavier.
As Philippe Mather notes in his book, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Kubrick's photography techniques — such as freeze framing, inset photographs, the zoom, long shots in which human figures are dwarfed by their surroundings, symmetrical compositions, frames within frames, deep space, and available light — would all come into play and inform his movies.
The guild's choices come as Hollywood is still dusting itself off from the shock of Sunday night's Golden Globe awards, which saw long shots Kate Winslet and Aaron Sorkin walking away with awards for "Steve Jobs," along with medium shots "The Revenant" and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, while perceived favorites like "Spotlight" left empty-handed.
VICE Sports predicted winner: Villanova Favorites: Iowa (9-1), Indiana (9-1), Maryland (9-2) Still in it: Michigan State (6-43), Purdue (7-3), Michigan (7-22) Long shots: Wisconsin (26-23) The Big Ten has turned into yet another three-team race, crashed by a school that nobody expected just two months ago.
VICE Sports predicted winner: Iowa Favorites: Oregon (26-23) Still in it: Washington (25-53), USC (25-24), Utah (21-3), Arizona (6-4), Colorado (6-4) Long shots: None Earlier this year, we wrote about how the Pac-12 was cannibalizing itself, with a number of "pretty good" teams but no elite standouts.
At the time he was very interested in film noir and things like that, so there's a lot of the dramatic lighting you would see in some of his early films, and also interesting camera angles and everything from very close up shots to deep long shots that you would see in something like 2001.
The phone includes a main rear camera with 24 megapixel resolution and autofocus, a telephoto lens with 2x optical zoom for detailed close-ups and long shots, an ultra-wide lens with scene optimization and artificial intelligence-powered scene recognition, and a depth lens aimed at letting users manage a photo's depth of field and focus.
Showtime's "Twin Peaks" revival didn't make the cut -- producing bellyaching from its critical admirers -- and while TNT's "The Alienist" and National Geographic Channel's second installment of "Genius," about Pablo Picasso, look like long shots against those heavyweights, they reflect the rising ambition exhibited by other networks in their bid to make a mark with scripted programming.
It's fine, as these things go — lots of long shots of corpses belonging to characters both known to us and anonymous; a speech by Jon; the flicker of flames — but it's not nearly as good as the long, drunken scene that follows, with the survivors hoisting their mugs to all they've lost and all they stand to gain.
So-called unicorn lenders — including Prosper, which has raised $355 million from investors and was valued at $1.9 billion as of April 2015; SoFi, which has raised roughly $1.4 billion altogether at an implied valuation of between $3 billion and $5 billion; and Avant, which has raised $654 million at a valuation north of $1 billion — suddenly look like long shots as upcoming IPO candidates.
Spoilers ahead for the second episode of The Night Of. Almost nothing happens in the second episode of The Night Of. Prestige cable has trained viewers to appreciate the joys of slowly moving TV shows—Don Draper smoking and thinking at his desk, True Detective's long shots of landscapes—but even by those standards, HBO's gripping criminal justice drama comes at the viewer in a slow drip.
John DelaneyJohn Kevin Delaney2020 primary debate guide: Everything you need to know ahead of the November forum Poll: Biden holds 20-point lead in South Carolina Deval Patrick: a short runway, but potential to get airborne MORE of Maryland, to name a few — are most definitely long shots for the nomination, there seems to be a clear set of front runners galvanizing the party's faithful.
VICE Sports predicted winner: Oregon, we guess Favorites: Texas A&M (7-2), LSU (7-2), Kentucky (6-3) Still in it: Florida (6-3) Long shots: Georgia (5-4), Vanderbilt (5-4) Just when it looked like Texas A&M was going to run away with the SEC, the otherwise consistent Aggies stumbled, losing their last two league games to Arkansas and Vanderbilt.
As J. Hoberman has already pointed out, there's still plenty for the Snow super-fan to latch onto here due to plenty of long shots (such as Wavelength and La Région Centrale); an incorporation of his own Walking Women series; a quick artifact-filled rewind, à la <—> (Back and Forth); a focus on the medium itself like To Lavoisier (1991); and, of course, his own animation at the very end.
Favorites: North Carolina (63-1), Louisville (7-2), Virginia (7-3) Still in it: Clemson (7-3), Pitt (6-3), Miami (33-3) Long shots: Notre Dame (6-4), Duke (5-4) After losing at Northern Iowa way back in November, North Carolina has gotten somewhat lost in the national shuffle: sure, the Tar Heels are still ranked in the top five, but they haven't gotten the attention of the top Big 12 teams.
Mr. Hunter, emails show, reached out to Mr. Samia, a onetime Army sniper, who lived near Mr. Stillwell, a firearms instructor, in the small town of Roxboro, N.C. Flight records indicate that Mr. Samia, 43, and Mr. Stillwell, 50, flew to Manila in January 2011, where, Mr. Le Roux recalled, he supplied the men with a rifle (for long shots), a pistol (for close-range shots) and an MP5 submachine gun from a weapons warehouse he maintained.
Michael BennetMichael Farrand BennetThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (D-Colo.) got his start in politics as chief of staff to then-Denver Mayor John HickenlooperJohn Wright HickenlooperPoll: Trump trails three Democrats by 10 points in Colorado The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE, both of whom are running as long shots for the Democratic presidential nomination.
" Booker noted that candidates like Jimmy CarterJimmy CarterJimmy Carter: 'It would be a disaster to have four more years of Trump' The Hill's Morning Report - Trump eyes narrowly focused response to Iran attacks Jimmy Carter: 'I hope there's an age limit' on presidency MORE, Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonMost voters say there is too much turnover in Trump administration RNC spokeswoman on 2020 GOP primary cancellations: 'This is not abnormal' Booker dismisses early surveys: 'If you're polling ahead right now, you should worry' MORE and Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaMost voters say there is too much turnover in Trump administration Trump's 'soldier of fortune' foreign policy Warren picks up key endorsement from Iowa state treasurer MORE were all initially "considered long shots.

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