Sentences with phrase «about as fine»

This produced dust that was «about as fine as baby powder,» says team member Robert Gammariello.

Not exact matches

«Forget the money, forget the fines, this is about making an institution heel,» Cramer said, adding that the government is using events like the London Whale trading debacle as justification for its actions.

In 2005 the company agreed to pay a $ 1.1 million fine after the EPA alleged that VW had received numerous reports in 1999 and 2000 about a defective exhaust part, which was causing excess carbon monoxide and other dangerous emissions, but failed to report the defect to regulators, as required, until the EPA came across it in a random test.

Let's all just agree to this: if we're talking about an autonomous agent intended to behave and interact and reason, I'm totally fine labeling that as AI.

The polyester is woven into an exceptionally fine thread, for a fabric that feels about as close to silk as you're going to get without paying many, many more dollars.

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

In the name of consumer trust, businesses are wise to be up front and open about the user data they harvest, as opposed to burying this information in fine print.

Talk of using the MBA experience as a place to fine - tune an idea, recruit partners, gain access to seed capital, and finally launch a startup is becoming as ubiquitous as discussions about forthcoming job interviews at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs.

Compared with those, the Mate 9's requires more fine - tuning to get the most out of it, its colors aren't as vivid, and its HDR mode is just about useless.

PayPal does fine on that front too, with 71 % of consumers viewing the online payment service as «trustworthy,» while 64 % feel as good about Amazon.

As of July 1, the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) can slap hefty fines — up to $ 1 - million for individuals and up to $ 10 - million for companies — in response to complaints about commercial emails, texts and social media messages sent to recipients in Canada without their consent.

The Journal said the EU may fine Google as much as 10 percent of its annual revenue, which means the penalty could be as much as about $ 9 billion.

If a stock goes down after he buys it that's fine as long as he is still right about intrinsic value and he has dry powder to invest.

So it is completely fine with them when a gold booster such as Mr. Rickards makes positive comments about, for example, gold Maple Leafs, which he has done.

It also gave investors a ton of confidence about its assets, as the FSA has just been over Barclays» books with a fine comb / bomb detector.

While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach is needed for just about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link is getting journalists, contributors, authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it when writing relevant stories / articles.

For a clear definition of «perfectly fine,» go over to the article about the London Cleric resigning and see haw many perfectly fine people are posting in all caps, touting their personal beliefs as facts, and making fun of us for believing something we believe is factual.

And as long as I'm praising Kirsch, I should let you know that he recently wrote a very richly detailed, fine, and perceptive essay about Susan Sontag, also in the Tablet.

Dionysus While your here, what do you think about jesus and the water into wine thingy and you being an expert was it plonk or a very fine wine, as the song goes?

it's fine to take the moral lessons as general lessons, but those that take it as «Truth»... got ta wonder about the critical thinking skills...

This is the particular temptation of the strong, for as long as one has good health, a congenial and lucrative job, social standing, and a fine family, one is apt not to think much about needing anything from God.

On a fine day it seems as if all 25,000 residents are out and about, strolling the boardwalks and paths, oblivious to car traffic because it's almost nonexistent.

a set of values, beliefs, and structure in a person's life in order to give them direction and a sense of right and wrong is fine, but organized religions are no more than large corporations, and like any large corporation are only focused on their bottom line... trying to control the public and extract as much money as they can from them by any means necessary... promoting fear, uncertainty, hate and a sense that they alone can offer salvation... for a price (although they are very cleaver about getting to this hidden and unspoken cost... after all these hundreds of years they have perfected their craft well!)

Fallows was put at a distance as a «fine young man» who «didn't express these concerns to me» — he left «with no insinuation there were things about which he was disappointed.»

Her description of the science alone would have been fine, but the article is meant to be taken as a whole, and drawing a theological conclusion and describing the proper practice of science as an act of worship takes an article about science and turns it into one about fantasy as those conclusions are baseless and unprovable.

Jesus is a welcome guest at my table and is invited along as a flying companion — I think he does just fine at taking great leaps and isn't too concerned about making sure a rigid flight plan is followed.

Obama is about as far away from being a Christian as a person can get and that's fine cause this country could care less about religion anyway.

This so called Christian is the first to openly accept gay marriage as a political stance, which if you want to not believe what the bible says about it then fine, but this wasn't his stance when running in Chicago against a conservative black candidate.

And they protect my right to speak about Jesus Christ in public without fear of fines or prison, as in other nations.

As a vowed religious, one must be cautious not just about the intoxicating potential of spirits, but also about the cultivation of too fine a palate.

And if you're wondering what that «new natural law» stuff is all about (or why new natural law isn't an oxymoron), there's a panel that serves as a fine introduction to its premises and its faith - based critics.

For example, if a speaker introduces a narrative illustration with such words as «I recall an event in the life of a very fine, genuine, outstanding Christian man», he has already told his hearers what conclusions to reach about the man: he is a fine, genuine, outstanding Christian.

It is fine if this explanation is new to you... It was new to me about 10 years ago as well...

Fine stuff like this, so that Christians deservedly start squirming as we look at the idiocies of their beliefs about their sky fairy:

Fine as far as it goes, but why not go all the way and speak in a forthright, substantive way about «the human being»?

So, as Catherine and Micah pointed out, the passage about women not wearing jewelry and fine clothes can serve as a reminder that we are to avoid materialism and make sure that class distinctions do not get in the way of loving others and sharing the gospel.

Give him a good father and mother, a devoted wife, some fine children and real friends, and see how long he will go on thinking as he did about life's meaninglessness.

Kinda how I took it as well... as if all would have been fine if Benedict has remained Pope... I think this guy was miffed at being called out on it, not that he had some great epiphany about his actions.

They did not know nor did they care about any of it, and they functioned — key word there — as believers just fine.

Hey Winnie, The gram weight depends on the density of the food, I literally use a coffee mug with about a 3 - 3.5 inch diameter, and as long as you use the same cup consistently your recipe should be fine:)!

1 tablespoon chia seeds 3 1⁄4 cups / 325 g gluten - free rolled oats 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon fine sea salt 1 1⁄2 cups / 250 g cooked white beans, such as navy, white kidney, or Great Northern (about one 15 - ounce / 250 g can) 1⁄4 cup / 60 ml coconut oil, melted 1⁄4 cup / 60 ml pure maple syrup or raw honey Grated zest of 1 organic orange 1⁄4 cup / 60 ml unsweetened applesauce 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1⁄3 cup / 60 g chopped unsulphured dried apricots 1⁄4 cup / 30 g raisins 1⁄4 cup / 35 g pumpkin seeds 2 cups / 60 g organic, non-GMO cornflakes (optional)

I had regular, not rapid rise, yeast on hand - it worked just fine however I did not allow the milk and butter to get above about 105 degrees f, as I was concerned about killing the yeast.

So, as a parent myself now for more than 18 years, I've allowed my kids to eat sweets so that they don't feel deprived but talked about limits and the effects of eating too much «less than quality food» — but that a small amount also be fine occasionally in the context of an overall healthy lifestyle.

I was worried about over penetration when I started this process, but it turns out there was little penetration, which is fine as there isn't much penetration when marinating meat either.

Very true about the pectin it is only there for texture and can be easily omitted as long as you are fine with a runnier jam.

Cow's milk would work just fine As for a topping, what about a little drizzle of honey, pure maple syrup, coconut butter, or fresh berry jam!

I think it's totally fine to eat shop bought foods everyday as long as it's a mixture of the two I keep hearing about these dates in smoothies too!

Be sure to dice your onion and red pepper fairly fine, they should be about the same size as the corn kernels.

If you were making this as a first course for a dinner party (which is how I first tried this one myself), that might be fine, but if you are making this for a main course, I would say it serves about 4 people (so each person can have one and half bowls).

Evaporated cane juice such as Florida Crystals will work fine because it has the same ratio of glucose to fructose as granulated white (about 50/50).