Sentences with phrase «dicketts of the parachute»

Many said that Bristol, with its patent cliff looming, was cutting the strings of its parachute.

Although strong bipartisan support has been voiced for the JOBS Act amendments, Aguilar's negative sentiment echoes that of Senator Carl Levin (D - MI) who said, «It's as if the SEC is jumping out of an airplane today, and then proposing to check the safety of its parachute on the way down.»

A believer in God contributed to the development of the parachute.

There are slender women wearing number 9 in tight - fitting pink and gigantic men wearing number 9 in the size of parachutes.

Because of the parachute payments we become one of the most desirable clubs.

Next year's with the lack of parachute payments, almost non existent TV money and reduced match day income, along with an inflated wage bill will be hyster...

My mum was so resourceful and always well dressed at such an austere time; she even made herself cami - knickers out of parachute silk!

Lift the parachute up high again, cue your adult helpers, and say, «Under, under, under,» then have everyone rush under the dome of the parachute or sheet.

Yes, it is ironic that the voting system favoured by John Harris and Neal Lawson - AV + - would allow a greater number of parachuted candidates through the top - up route as well as the constituency route.

Less of the parachuting more of real people coming into politics, less America and more f*cking British politics, less leaders thinking we can make money out of backing the USA.

«We've done everything you could possibly do short of calling the military with some sort of parachuting ability,» he said.

The Marine who died was Joseph David Windall and the army fatality was Lance Corporal Oliver Simon Dicketts of the Parachute Regiment.

The Tories are most guilty of parachuting candidates in constituencies they never lived or worked in.

We've got a hat - trick of parachute MPs whereby London re-hears it's own voice and not ours.

I think we all know now that the practice of parachuting favoured members of a party into «safe seats» has been a cause of the rot.

It's made of parachute nylon which is why it's both lightweight and durable.

On Earth, listening stations picked up the signal and tracked Schiaparelli's descent to Mars — even seeing a fluctuation likely due to the lander's successful deployment of its parachutes.

At the same time, the drag coefficient of the parachute is quadruple that of a low - porosity one.

«In our work, we uncover the flight mechanism of a parachuting dandelion fruit, and reveal a new type of vortex, responsible for its flight capacity,» Cummins said.

An fMRI brain scan of a volunteer sniffing the sweat of a parachute jumper shows high activity, in yellow, in the left amygdala.

Gliding is a modified form of parachuting.

Closer examinations of the lander's transmitted telemetry then revealed that the ejection of the parachute and a heat shield occurred earlier than expected, followed by a too - brief firing of rocket thrusters meant to slow the spacecraft's descent.

Although the images are relatively low - resolution at just 6 meters per pixel, they reveal a bright object thought to be Schiaparelli's parachute, as well as a 15 - by -40-meter dark patch roughly one kilometer to the north of the parachute.

Imagery released on 21 October from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows the bright, reflective surface of a parachute, and 1 kilometer north of it, a dark patch on the ground where before there had been nothing.

The flight was intended to test a new type of parachute and an inflatable Kevlar ring, both intended to slow an object's descent.

In January 2015, NASA's high - resolution Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the Beagle 2 lander, its rear cover and possible signs of a parachute on the Martian surface.

It is very similar to the current, unmanned Dragon resupply spacecraft, but with the new ability to soft «land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter,» rather than the normal method of parachuting from the atmosphere into the ocean.

The seven Descent Imaging Cameras will provide the spacecraft with four views including look - up cameras from the descent stage which will record images and video of a parachute deploying and inflating on another planet for the first time.

And they begin inferring which areas may be more structurally loaded or stressed than other areas of the parachute.

I picked this dress up at the thrift store last year, and though it isn't something I would normally gravitate to, as it is made out of some kind of parachute material and knitted polyester, it is a surprisingly versatile dress to have.

Those leather crop tops with the spaghetti straps remind me of something I used to wear back in the 90s, except of course instead of leather it was made out of a parachute fluro type material.

2/21/2017, By: Ray Vann — The small town of Parachute, CO, has just come up with a new way to get their customers elevated, signing off on a license for a drive through pot shop which is set to open up next month.

This time, we don't get much set up at all, but are flung right into an extremely odd situation as we find Adrien Brody falling from the sky, pounding on the alien - looking ripcord mechanism of a parachute.

This is the classic extreme sports series that preceded all others, Desert motorcycle racer; Larry Rosler; Smoke jumpers; are fire fighters and front line troops that have the initial attack mission of parachuting into burning forests and containing these fires until back - up comes.

You can get skills like usage of parachute while jumping from helicopter or chopper planes.

Each panel of the parachute represents a character expectation.

Students carry out two activities: they measure acceleration of a marble due to gravity and they explore the link between impact forces and surface area of a parachute.

As Dr. Kristin Cuilla, Senior Director of Partnerships and Communication at the NTN shared, instead of parachuting teachers in, the NTN works actively with people who have roots in the community, paving the way for innovative practices to be sustained over time.

Seeing the value of self - publishing, it was seeded with his love of parachuting and cats.

Even if they get replaced by angry shareholders, the management typically gets some sort of parachute if the company survives, and far less in bankruptcy.

This could be a bigger faux pas than stealing your dad's old pair of parachute pants.

✅ ADVANCED QUALITY: Travel money belt is made of parachute nylon fabric, which is the most durable form of nylon.

experiencing the physical freedom and exhilaration of freefall, then the absolute peace of the parachute ride down — the views are amazing — the horizon in the distance, the spectacular coastal scenery, take over the steering yourself before returning control to your tandem master to land you both on the soft sand on one of the Sunshine Coasts spectacular beaches.

Float in the sky above the ocean with the help of a parachute while you're pulled along Guam's beautiful coastlines by a speedboat.

Parasailing is the best bit of parachuting without the aeroplane!

Its a teaser that the city could be fully destructible maybe and that instead of Parachute, he is gliding now: D

Fans of Skyward Sword will be pleased to see a return of the parachute, and if the size of the world Link will be running about in is anything to go by, then so will other players.

Vendors are preparing for the opening of Parachute Market, which opens this weekend for a two day run (Saturday, March 22 — Sunday, March 23).

The problem persists in a lower key in other works of the period, including pictures made in 1953, while Diebenkorn was teaching in Illinois: the Urbana series, like the Albuquerque paintings, often gives the viewer the illusion of looking down at a distant landscape, as though from the harness of a parachute, rather than across at the matter on the canvas.

These genres were discussed in some of the earliest volumes of Parachute.