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race and build
Davros expresses a desire to build a new and improved race of Daleks.
Furthermore, Anglo – German relations cooled as Germany aggressively tried to build a new empire and engaged in a naval race with Britain ; London refused to agree to the formal alliance that Germany sought.
The Sontarans are a race of humanoids with a stocky build, greenish brown skin, and a distinctive dome-shaped head.
The race was on to see which railroad company could build the longest section of track and receive the most land and government bonds.
# To build a national community based on equal citizenship, respect for different traditions and cultures and the equal worth of all individuals, whatever their race, nationality, gender, colour, creed, sexuality, age, ability or social background ;
While it is not really possible to build a race car for the £ 250 quoted in the title of the book by Ron Champion, it is probably the least expensive form of motor sport available in the UK.
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Pickering commentated on a race involving Cuban double-gold medallist Alberto Juantorena, whose muscular build and nine-foot stride contributed to his nickname El Caballo ( the horse ).
This semi-arboreal race of vegetarians build large cities in Darkover's tall trees.
But the race to build the canal was lost in 1826 when the federal government made a large grant to build the Louisville and Portland Canal.
Outhouse race participants build outhouses of their own design mounted on skis.
The Rotary Club organizes the Seneca River Days festival ( formerly the John McHarrie Day festival ) occurs in July ; it features an anything that floats race, which encourages entrants to build a floating vehicle without spending more than a set amount ( currently $ 50 ).
Once all six batons were out and placed in the player's pedestal, each player had to run to the Krypton Mountain, where they first had to build a four-piece ladder, which they ascended before making a vertical climb up the Krypton Mountain, completing the race by grabbing a letter K of their colour at the top of the Krypton Mountain.
Discovery of silver and lead near Leadville in 1877 prompted a race to build rail access to the area.
Twelve years later, Rockefeller would build upon Remmel's race and win the governorship for the Republican Party.
Arkansas Republicans were eager to work with Wintrhop Rockefeller on another race for governor if he could be led to run as a true Republican to help build the party in the state.
Rolls commissioned them to build him a large balloon to compete in the 1906 Gordon Bennett balloon race.
Oldfield and Miller joined forces to build a race car that incorporated a roll cage inside a streamlined driver's compartment that completely enclosed the driver ( called the " Golden Submarine ").
When an arms race broke out between Germany and Britain to build larger navies, the German Kaiser commented, ' I admire Fisher, I say nothing against him.
The Europa was based on a prototype built to compete for Henry Ford II's contract to build a Le Mans race car in the early 1960s.
Russell played Aileen Crowley, a mother who tries to build a normal home life for her sick children while her husband, John ( Fraser ), and an unconventional scientist ( Ford ) race against time to find a cure.
Over the decade, the school has developed a niche for producing Formula 1 design and race engineers, who go on to build championship winning cars, participating in the FIA Formula 1 Championships.
The British and the Germans also started a race to build up a stronger navy, sparked by the German enactment of the Second Naval Law.
But Emma was sick several times over those two seasons, and the Poirées decided she should remain at home during the build up to the Olympic games in Torino, and only travel with them every third race weekend.

race and fastest
The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.
Such games can also favor speed over quantity, in which players race to drink a case of beer the fastest.
He holds many of the formula's driver records, including most championships, race victories, fastest laps, pole positions, points scored and most races won in a single season – 13 in 2004.
The goal of the game is to either finish a race ahead of other racers, who are controlled by the computer and other players, or complete a circuit in the fastest time.
In time trial mode, players race against the clock through the same tracks that are present in Mario Kart GP mode, attempting to set the fastest possible.
The two riders start at the same time and set off to complete the race distance in the fastest time.
However they can continue to ride the rest of the race distance in order to set the fastest time in a qualifying race or a record in a final.
The Women's version of the event is held over 500 m. Other than the race distance this is the same as the men's Kilo event, with the fastest rider over the distance declared the winner.
Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.
Racing involves making fast turns around gates in an attempt to attain the fastest overall time down one or two runs of a race course by having the tightest line possible.
A week before the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, ( even though he was the fastest driver on that circuit at the time ) Lauda tried to boycott the race, largely due to the 23 kilometer circuit's safety arrangements.
Two of the remaining cars qualified fastest and second fastest, but all three retired from the race.
* The fastest time to finish the 1⅛ mile race is 1: 48. 64 set in 2003 by Bird Town.
The fastest time for the 1½ mile race is 2: 39 by the horses Felicia set in 1877, tied by Belle of Nelson in 1878 and tied again Katie Creel in 1882.
Andrew Beyer has said General Assembly's speed figure in that race was one of the fastest in history.
Had Devon Loch completed the race he may have set a new record for the fastest finishing time, which E. S. B.
In the race he set fifth fastest lap and finished 11th after being delayed for two laps by a faulty temperature gauge.
* His 3: 58. 3 to win the mile at the 1965 Kansas High School State Meet is still the record for the fastest time ever in a race that includes only high school competitors.
* Today he still holds five of the six fastest mile times in U. S. high school history ( all sub-four minute ), with Alan Webb ’ s record race holding the other spot.
Often, the world-record holder in this race is considered " the world's fastest man / woman.
It was to decide who of the two, was really the ' fastest man on earth ' ( see Bailey-Johnson 150-metre race ).
In 1884 the Island Park Association leased the race course, Island Park, directly north of Pleasure Island, it was considered one of the fastest and safest in the nation.
After a pit stop midway through that race, Hawthorn accelerated back through the field to gain an extra point for fastest lap.

0.567 seconds.