#qualify

I hope the BWF (Badminton World Federation) will seriously do something about the Olympic qualifying format or risk getting badminton dropped from the Games. ↗

— Taufik Hidayat

#badminton #dropped #federation #format #games

It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#championship #countries #cup #cup finals #drew

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#cases #food #food stamps #hires #little

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it's the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic 'newsworthy' events. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#dramatic #even #events #gradual #granted

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#less #life #man #more #occupations

Out of the tens of thousands of prosthetic legs they've made, there's never been any 400-meter athletes run under 50 seconds. So, if this was such a technologically advanced prosthetic leg, then how come not everyone's qualifying, or coming close to the qualification time, then? ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#any #athletes #been #close #come

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home. ↗

— Bobby Rahal

#anybody #better #bring #car #corner

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables. ↗

— Tony Snow

#does #gives #id #involving #measurable

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. ↗

— Michel Patini

#competition #entire #european #every #finals

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#first #go #i #i think #make