Sentences with phrase «prozone boffin»

It's pointless to seek a more profound truth here, as media boffins will insist on doing.

There was a time when the festival was cringingly self - congratulatory, a bacchanalia where overfed creative boffins went to collect trophies and escalate salaries.

So far the company has done jack shit for business, aside from drum up a deal with Juno Therapeutics which gave them $ 25 million shekels for the boffins to run around and figure some shit out.

Many mutual funds are «Actively Managed» by those boffins mentioned above.

none of these boffins really knows which stock will perform best, they have there quantitative and qualitative analysis; but it comes down to a gamble, «you pays your money, you takes your chances».

He failed, in part, because of the inferiority of some of his aircraft and the technological breakthrough made by Britain's «boffins,» the scientists who invented radar in the 1930s.

But the stats boffins at Who.Scored reckon that NINE centre - backs have been better than Alderweireld this season.

I'm willing to bet if the stat boffins looked at all those 46 cards an inordinate amount would be due to «cynical» fouls after a turnover in play.

Our stats boffins have analysed the alias» of every team from the Premier League right down to the Ryman Isthmian South Division to reveal the country's favourite nickname...

The boffins at Bloomberg Sports have released their annual list of the planet's finest performers

Sure, the grizzled old pro in a touchline windcheater, pulling into Newport Pagnell service station at 2 in the morning on his way back from Underhill still exists, but so do the Prozone boffin huddled over a computer and the budget airline fanatic.

Our dedicated Pollemma tech boffins have been working tirelessly all weekend on their hi tech machines to come up with...

Many boys agreed, saying it is OK to do well occasionally, but a boy who consistently earns high marks risks being called a «boffin,» a derisive word for studious.

The solution isn't to try to turn the clock back; it's to call on the ingenuity of the boffins at GCHQ.»

IT boffin next to me is trying to retrieve my last few answers...»

Full marks to the Treasury boffin who brought it into play.

Alastair Campbell rather patronisingly nicknamed him «Brains» after the nerdy Thunderbirds puppet; an echo of the boffin remark of that university contemporary.

For today the wise boffins of the LSE and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published Towards a More Equal Society?

Boffins raise five - week - old fetal human brain in the lab for experimentation.

«People envision scientists as boffins in white coats with fluffy white cats.

They envision us as boffins in white coats, stroking fluffy white cats and laughing maniacally.

Contrary to popular media opinion, scientists are not all identikit spec - wearing boffins with crazy hair.

And occasionally, she even approves of her «boffin» parents, such as when she came home from school one day, proudly having found me on the Internet during Information Technology class.

No wonder the poor old boffin had all these calculations to do.

James Harkin recounts how «bumbling British boffins» have become a standing Russian joke (23/30 December 2017, p 53).

Orchid boffins are baffled by the new data.

Being called a «boffin» is the tip of the iceberg.

Do you know of any?I'm also afraid that no matter how I present myself, I'll be labelled as a «boffin» — even my own family refer to me as this (much to my irritation!)

Maybe the maths boffins could do some calculations for us?

Signing up and creating your profile is really easy, and you don't need to be a computer boffin, to be able to understand this site.

INDY LIFE «Men should date women half their age plus seven»: The strange dating rule that dates back to 1901 Boffins in Australia have come up with a quirky equation they say will predict the best age to get engaged with the promise of a long and happy marriage.

Before your first search you're informed that your profile will be reviewed over a 24 hour period in order to get the full recommended match treatment from the site boffins.

But intertextuality forms the backbone of this body of work, with each refresh paying homage to a new wave of classical horror tropes via cinematography, music and familiar dialogue from the vaults of Hollywood horror — much to the delight of genre boffins everywhere.

Long story short, Lena gets herself recruited to the intrepid all - girl band of boffins making a fresh bid to get to the bottom of the Shimmer enigma.

At first, the actor looks like he's in different territory to his now legendary Euro - trashing revenge flick: Dr Martin Harris (Neeson) is in Berlin for a conference with his wife, Elizabeth (Jones), and is a mild - mannered, well - dressed boffin.

Instead, what writer / director Mike Cahill (Another Earth) gives us is a tale about young ambitious boffins uncovering replication in the seemingly unique patterns of the human iris.

Rival British boffin biopic The Theory of Everything trailed with four nominations (including those for its leading actor, Eddie Redmayne and actress Felicity Jones), level pegging with David Fincher's Gone Girl, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Martin Luther King drama Selma.

With the encouragement of Tommy Lee Jones's wry colonel and Hayley Atwell's curvaceous British agent, he marches off to battle the Boche, specifically Hugo Weaving, one of those villains who keeps shooting his own men, and Toby Jones, his boffin sidekick.

From this source text, Drew Goddard (Buffy, Cabin in the Woods, Daredevil) fashioned one of the year's best screenplays, brilliantly balancing the day - to - day mundanity of Watney's solitary Martian existence, with the managerie of boffins dealing with the PR disaster back home, and the remainder of Watney's crew caught halfway between a red rock and a hard place.

David is turning from his role in Doctor Who to play another boffin, Arthur Eddington.

Nichols is served superbly by Dunst, Edgerton, Shannon and a winning Driver, who was surely born to play sympathetically bemused boffins.

In «Godzilla» (1998), a boffin eventually defeats the giant iguana that has rampaged through New York City's highrise — but the fact that the lizard's mutation was a product of exposure to Pacific nuclear testing hinted that humankind was just reaping what it (or at least what the French) had sown.

In director Roland Emmerich's «Independence Day» (1996), a boffin eventually defeats the space aliens that have wrought explosive havoc all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world)-- without provocation.

After a pre-credits sequence (featuring Tim Roth), the film begins as Henry wakes up in a lab, unable to speak, being soothed by Haley Bennett's boffin as his severed arm and leg are replaced by mechanical limbs.

And now in «The Day After Tomorrow», there is yet more disaster and destruction on a truly massive scale all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world), only this time the enemy is global warming, the starring boffin is unable to do anything to defeat it, and the blame is placed squarely on the shoulders of Western consumerism and blinkered US governance.

But keeping in line with the lengths I must achieve with my present piece, let me put forward theories and thoughts that do not belong to me, and that would perhaps authenticate my present synopsis.Were you to ask a boffin about the reasons why learners respond better to teachers using humor in the class, I am sure (s) he would tell you that, «Humor in educational settings serves a variety of positive functions beyond simply making people laugh.

#gasp Don't worry — I'm not claiming to be a scientist, chemistry boffin or pharmacist.

Besides the new name — the supercar is now called the SLS AMG GT — the boffins at AMG have also seen fit to boost the power rating of the flagship Mercedes.

We're told that the audio boffin in charge of the 1300W, 18 - speaker sound system spent five months with installation, and as a result, when the music includes words, you can actually understand what is being said.

It now has Bottle Green architectural glass, and it has been repainted from its original National Forest Service - style drab green with what the paint color boffins at Fiat Chrysler call Mintage Green.