Sentences with phrase «'s standing start»

Even when I was 9 or 10 and other people were doing lemonade stands I started a baked clay jewelry company.

But we are not at a standing start, and the tax system today can't be so easily divorced from the past.

Raising $ 5 million from a standing start is nothing to be ashamed of.

From a standing start, its revenues have more or less doubled every year, surpassing $ 100 million last year.

«From a standing start, we're producing the highest - quality solar panels in this hemisphere,» enthuses Craig Muhlhauser, the company's president and CEO, tapping a table forcefully for emphasis.

«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers.»

«From a standing start 240 years ago — a span of time less than triple my days on earth — Americans have combined human ingenuity, a market system, a tide of talented and ambitious immigrants, and the rule of law to deliver abundance beyond any dreams of our forefathers -LSB-...]

From a standing start last year, the Society now has almost 400 members, 80 percent of whom hold a doctorate in the natural sciences, the rest being primarily graduate students.

Week 2 helps provide some clarity and with the second set of Games in the books the Standings start to spread out a bit as well..

On the final test run one train had covered its mile from a standing start in 120 seconds, the other in 119.

Blowing down the Ocean Boulevard straightaway from a standing start, Italy's Vittorio Brambilla and Argentina's Carlos Reutemann bumped in Turn One, for the day's first shunt.

Everything about the rollout of standing starts felt knee - jerk and not very thought out.

Like the F1 race, the IndyCar event will feature a standing start but the course will be slightly different than the one used by Ferrari, McLaren and their contemporaries as the new circuit will be extended to 2.434 miles and have several alterations to enhance the racing product.

She can easily palm the ball and can touch the backboard nearly eight inches above the rim from a standing start.

Romain Grosjean has said he has safety concerns over the new standing start rule being introduced to Formula 1 this season.

A head - to - head race for the endurance athletes, the individual pursuit sees riders begin from a standing start in pairs on opposite sides of the track, who literally «pursue» each other for 4000 metres (3000 metres for women).

A pure standing start effort against the clock, the time trial is 500 metres for the women and a kilometre for the men.

Sissoko's ability to shrug off opponents and accelerate away from a standing start is highly undervalued.

Unlike the Yes campaign, who can rely on the war chests of the Electoral Reform Society and Joseph Rowntree, we have had to raise funds from a standing start to fight this referendum.

But Corwin seems like a good candidate and will be able to muster the support of the pre-built organizations of the regular party apparatus in a run from a standing start.

The prime minister said: «When we set off down this track and I said we would renegotiate our membership from a standing start, people said you will never hold that renegotiation, you'll never hold that referendum, you will never get people to agree to the things we want.

Normally, to achieve such a rapid evolutionary shift, a species needs to start with an alternative version of a gene already in circulation, giving natural selection more to work with, but in deer mice the new version of Agouti spread rapidly from a standing start.

The award - winning executive has driven the expansion of Condé Nast's media properties in India from a standing start.

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Performance is mega from a standing start — but the ML really gets into its stride as speeds rise, blasting into three figures with ease.

The Stinger posts respectable benchmark performance figures: it can crack 62mph in 7.6 seconds from a standing start and sail onto a 143mph top speed.

I haven't been interested in standing starts from a red light for many years.

Harvey Keitel delivers an exuberant standing start in one of the best - balanced mid-engined cars of the era, leaving a nonplussed Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta literally standing in his dust.

The driving experience itself is pure Mini; the car feels quick, especially from a standing start and the handling is very close to that of the petrol Mini.

It is one of the most fun cars I've ever figured, partly because it feels mechanically happy repeating full - bore standing starts time after time and partly because of the dramatic way it gets off the line.

The later peaks of the dotted line is sluggish from a standing start but becomes progressively more exciting as revs increase.

But it isn't just standing start acceleration that defines this Panamera's performance.

Some straight - line stats: with a 0 - 60mph time of 4.7 sec and 100mph dispatched barely five seconds later, the XFR is every bit as accelerative as an M5 from a standing start and, once rolling, its overtaking ability is little short of devastating, its claimed 1.9 sec 50 - 70mph time taking just under a second out of the RS6.

It stormed to 60 mph from a standing start in just 3.2 seconds, to 120 mph in 9.2 seconds.

There's a delay in accelerator response from a standing start that I found slightly annoying, but I assume it helps prevent wheelspin and spares everyday drivers from whiplash.

The hardtop version takes a mere 5.7 seconds to beam itself from a standing start to 100 mph, and it will hit the 300 kph mark (188 mph) after only 25.4 seconds.

Due to the nature of electric motors, the Leaf has robust torque from a standing start — enough to spin the tires before the traction control intervenes, especially when turning after a traffic signal turns green.

The latter's fitted with a launch control function to aid standing starts.

A 911 Carrera S could easily keep up from a stand still, & any German 4wd supersaloon would easily make mincemeat of it not only from a standing start but on a winding track also.

The drivetrain has launch control for aggressive standing starts, and in manual - shift mode, the transmission won't override the driver's intentions — even if he or she is banging off the rev limiter.

How It Drives Though the base Cruze LS is equipped with an uninspiring 1.8 - liter, four - cylinder gasoline engine, the other gas trim levels have a turbocharged 1.4 - liter that provides better acceleration after initial hesitation from a standing start.

I can't think of a single rational reason to build a 555 - horsepower, 5300 - pound SUV that rockets off a standing start in a manner that would make Wernher von Braun proud.

Once the Cruze gets rolling a few miles an hour from a standing start, the engine starts pulling, giving you good acceleration at low engine speeds where you need it most.

The Panamera's electric motor produces over 90bhp, but the next - gen unit will put out closer to 130bhp, as well as 300 lb ft of torque from a standing start.

Bust the limit a touch and they slap down a fine; get caught rolling at a rate this puppy could hit in twelve seconds from a standing start and they'll confiscate your wheels.

Those standing start figures are deceptive.

According to Porsche, the Carrera GT will scream from a standing start to 62 mph in 3.9 seconds and reach a top speed of 205 mph.

We see how close the new Audi RS6, and much smaller and lighter RS4, can come to the mighty Nissan GT - R from a standing start over 1000m.

There's variable traction control, too, as well as launch control to optimise the car's acceleration from a standing start.

As with the 599 we tested in issue 101, to execute a standing start with the aim of nailing the best time rather than the most drama, you won't be needing the launch control button (the one marked LC) on the centre console.