Sentences with phrase «across time and distance»

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982) The story of two sisters — one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South — who stay connected across time and distance.

Turning transfer inside out: The affordances of virtual worlds and mobile devices in real world contexts for teaching about causality across time and distance in ecosystems.

Not exact matches

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.

«17 Therefore, a past system can exercise its influence across space and time from a distance, non-contiguously with its effects.

We have expanded our ability to «see» across the electromagnetic spectrum, audio range, etc., look back in time and across vast distances and to the microscopic world.

(particles communicating via telepathy, moving instantaneously across great distances, changing state when observed, taking every available path possible to a destination at the same time, etc) Tools of normal search are actually a detriment and can lead to false conclusions.

Our «science» is simply a way for us to explain the world around us... nobody has ever seen a graviton but we know it warps space / time and that it interacts across vast distances but in a much smaller way than the strong nuclear force for example (which again is a made up force on our part to just understand our universe)

Planetary cues, such as magnetic inclination and moon phase, guide northern elephant seals and other large vertebrates over long distances and across time.

Across several studies, the authors looked at the extent to which a country's overall power distance — the extent to which a society expects and accepts inequality in power or wealth — impacts prosocial behaviors like donating money, volunteering time, or helping a stranger.

The first cells extend projections into a distance tens of times their own length and connect across a wide gulf of the injury.

At the same time, we use a lot of energy to move and treat water, sometimes across vast distances.

This is one of the first times that scientists have found simple, genetically similar organisms that communicate across long distances — yeast and slime mold, in contrast, require direct contact.

By the time they travel enormous distances across space and reach Earth, however, the disturbances are only about one - thousandth the width of the smallest atomic nucleus, making them fiendishly difficult to detect.

After traveling for nine and a half years across nearly 5 billion kilometers — roughly the distance to the moon and back 6,700 times — New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, just 12,500 kilometers from its surface, close enough to see features the size of New York's Central Park.

They had to march long distances across muddy fields and must have been exhausted by the time they met the English archers.

«It was strange to think during that time MESSENGER had already impacted, but we could not confirm it immediately due to the vast distance across space between Mercury and Earth.»

In order to illustrate how relative similarities of responses in each brain region varied as a function of social distance, inter-subject time series similarities (i.e., Pearson correlation coefficients between preprocessed fMRI response time series) were normalized (i.e., z - scored across dyads for each region) prior to averaging across dyads for each brain region and overlaying results on an inflated model of the cortical surface for each social distance category.

This feeling was roused ever - so - slightly by a Gotham Awards news recap: «We just felt very lucky that we came across this beautiful story» went the Granik quote in a brief Times dispatch from the ceremony — on its face a gracious thing to say, but something that can also be seen as an attempt by the director to distance herself from the material, as if she were only the conduit through which the real essence of the backwoods locations passed, and not a force active in shaping the way in which they were depicted.

Since launching in 2009, the Texas Virtual School Network has provided first - time high school course credit, credit recovery and dual - credit opportunities in a variety of subjects for students across the state, said Kate Loughrey, the Texas Education Agency's director of distance learning.

Letters bind us across distance, across time, and across difference.

In these words, I always hear Charlotte's voice reaching across distance and time, finding me.

At varying times of the year out on the Great Barrier Reef you will come across species that will have you tied down in the seat for hours on end with a man and fish fight to see who can last the distance.

September is a perfect time to visit with a range of temperatures across such a distance and different timelines.

For grocery shopping, across the street within walking distance is Times Supermarket open until 2 am and open again at 6 am.

Sure, there are enemies scattered across the ocean waves and there's the means to shorten traveling distance by teleporting to certain sections of the map, yet there are times where one just wants to arrive to the next destination.

Spaceships do not teleport across screen edges, bullets do not stop in space after a short distance, there are not hopeless warzones in the midst of space full of asteroids and a lone ship that teleports to another set each time the last remaining fragment is... defeated?

Subsequent walks took Long across Dartmoor and Exmoor and enabled him to explore the relationships between time, distance, geography and measurement.

Place, time and distance, all these various differing locations cut across the various small minor occurrences and memories that lay within me.

If these «Perfect Lovers» loved each other across a long - distance, say one atop Mount Whitney and the other in Death Valley, time dilation would cause one lover to age ever so slightly faster.

Cally Spooner, On False Tears and Outsourcing — dancers responsible for delivering self - organized efforts to resolve difficult and time - consuming issues «go the distance» across multiple overlapping phases using appropriated competitive strategies and appropriated intimate gestures, 2015.

Curated by Anja Henckel and Nadim Samman, Humeau's solo exhibition loops between the aesthetics of prehistory and occult biology and those of science fiction and the Information Age, producing works across multiple mediums that stage «the crossing of great distances in time and space, transitions between animal and mineral, and encounters between personal desires and natural forces».

Sometimes the composer and performer are the same person, sometimes they are separated by hundreds of years, but even across great distances of time and space the composer and performer can communicate with each other, through a series of written instructions, called a score.

From a distance, they come across as intergalactic drifts; nearer, they look like Monet waterlilies reprised for modern times and eventually like hard, bright particles.

There are ranges of homeostasis, built from a complex and poorly understood set of conditions across all scales of distance, of concentrations, of time.

Air is merely a relatively poor conductor and doesn't have time to reach local thermal equilibrium as it convectively moves up and down, and it takes a long time to reach global thermal equilibrium across great distances via conduction alone.

Charter buses and tour buses may be hired several times a year, and may run greater distances and across state boundaries.

If you store your boat on land and have to transport it across some distance, you may also want to make sure that your boat is covered during this land transport time.

distanced itself from the one - deal - a-day format, and now features a variety of special deals, including several limited - time offers across categories like computers, electronics, home and sporting goods, and more.

Another Alexa compatible thermostat, Nest's learning thermostats recognizes you from a distance and it lights up when it sees your coming to share an exact time and temperature across your room or living area.

Especially when you're in a loooooooooong distance relationship across time zones, do not get sucked into the trap of expecting instantaneous responses to texts and messages.

It's up to you to be prepared for this and to put the time and effort in to build a great relationship across distance while you are waiting.

When you're in a long distance relationship across time zones, figure out when you tend to be most awake, alert, and able to be present for long distance dates.

Inspection of the subscales of the FDP (as opposed to the overall family dysfunction score), showed that significant improvements over time were evident across a range of variables, including family pride, vulnerability, emotional distance, tension and anger, and global pathology.