If this was a marathon race, we're not even at the starting line yet.
I'm standing at the starting line of the girls' 100-meter dash, watching my 12-year-old crouch for the start.
Those companies that are flawed in one of the prior categories may find themselves stuck at the starting line.
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Kind of like standing at the starting line with Olympic athletes, then not even hearing the starting gun go off.
Only participating runners about 8, 000 will be allowed at the starting line of the marathon, near Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and shorter races scheduled throughout the weekend, he said.
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The more serious candidates, those who do stand a chance of still being at the starting line when the voters get involved early next year, need to raise money lots of it and fast.
The more-than-11, 000 runners expected at the starting line, at Monmouth Park in the Borough of Oceanport, will have to put their belongings in clear plastic bags provided by the marathon's organizers, said Michael Mahon, the borough's mayor.
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It was a way of separating sentiment from success, of triaging those whose campaigns could survive a long and often brutal political battle, of betting on horses not at the starting line, but as they pass each quarter-mile marker.
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Lack of specialist equipment and top-class competition are almost insurmountable barriers to even the most physically gifted athlete such as Niyonshuti, but by finishing fourth in last year's African Mountain Bike Championships he booked his place on the starting line at Hadleigh Farm.
Cole will take over at tight-head from Bath's David Wilson, while the other change to the starting line-up sees Riki Flutey return at inside centre.
It was well known that Collins was considering offers from other clubs as he felt it was going to be difficult to oust Warriors' skipper Pat Sanderson from the starting line-up at Sixways.
Wayne Rooney, surprisingly left out of the United starting line up, also hooked a chance over, but at the other end fellow substitute Kaka rattled the home woodwork.
"We will beat you at the starting gate and beat you at the finish line, " says Schering-Plough cardiologist Enrico Veltri.
The tide turned back to the Bruins' favor just before the midway point in the period, starting with a partial breakaway after New York turned over the puck at the Boston blue line.
Cooper was unhappy with the side's defending in last Saturday's 3-2 defeat at Coventry and has hinted Gabby Zakuani might return to the starting line-up.
At the Windows launch in New York, at the Windows Phone event in San Francisco, and again at the Build event on Redmond campus, I was struck that while externally many people look at these events as the finish line, they really represent the starting line of a new era.
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"With the problems that we have got they will be considered but at this stage it's unlikely that they will be in the starting line-up, " he said.
Dixon had returned to United's starting line-up, taking the place of Barry Douglas at left-back.
Redknapp said his positive approach at Eastlands - starting with two strikers and the likes of Aaron Lennon in the starting line-up - had paid rich dividends, with Peter Crouch grabbing a deserved winner on 82 minutes.
With next week's Challenge Cup final in mind, the Giants left out 11 regulars from the starting line-up but still managed to lead 10-4 at half-time.
The versatile Pugh, who can play every position on the line, is expected to challenge David Diehl for the starting job at right tackle.
Shearer's first decision as the new manager at St James' Park was to name injury-plagued Owen to his starting line-up for his first match in charge at home to title-chasing Chelsea on Saturday.
Since starting the patient navigator program at Mason General, Trout has helped hundreds of women cross that finish line.
McCarthy - back in the Rovers starting line-up after a four-game absence - turned and fired straight at Price, before Cruz again thought he had put his team ahead.
Many of the 270 NYU-Poly cybersecurity students are already starting to line up jobs earning lucrative salaries at private cybersecurity consulting firms or big banks in need of people able to identify and correct vulnerabilities in their networks.
Holroyd was dropped from the starting line-up in place of ex-Weymouth man Phillips for Monday's draw at Histon.
The Leicester fly-half is part of Johnson's 32-man England elite squad and will be in line to play in the side's four November internationals, starting against the Pacific Islands at Twickenham on 8 November.
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