Sentences with phrase «alacrity from»

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When I look at the truly horrendous numbers from United Parcel today, when I read once again about how McDonald's knows it has problems and will address them with alacrity, I can't help but wonder: when will someone finally be held accountable for this kind of subpar performance?»

HORSE RACING — JEWEL»S REWARD, fiery Maine Chance bay colt with eye on Derby roses, responded with alacrity when stung by whip in stretch, pulled away from Noureddin to win $ 59,500 Wood Memorial at Jamaica (see below) by half length after surviving foul claim by runner - up.

We must act with alacrity and do all that we can today to stop that from happening.

Despite its size and weight it still goes and handles with the alacrity you'd expect from a car bearing the Porsche badge.

The engine makes 86 percent of its torque from 2000 rpm, so it goes with real alacrity: Mercedes claims 0 to 62 mph in 3.9 seconds, and the car is governed to a top speed of 199 mph.

It changes up with alacrity and each gear engages crisply if you change at the correct moment, but ignore the prompts from the head - up display and wait right to the redline, and you'll be left waiting for the next gear as the engine stumbles into a soft - limiter.

The alacrity of the direction changes is just what you'd expect from such a short wheelbase, and for the most part belies the fact that the engine in front of you weighs 100 kg more than the one in the V8.

In contrast to the standard issue CLS, the CLS63's seven - speed transmission ditches a torque converter for a wet startup clutch, and shifts occur smoothly and swiftly, with extra alacrity and added steering stiffness when you click from «C» (comfort) to «S» (sport), S +, or M (manual.)

The car will dive in the direction you point it with an alacrity so far removed from the time before that you might have fitted a different set of tyres.

Direction changes happen with an alacrity and force that you really wouldn't expect of something with four seats and a boot, while the tight, slightly metallic howl from the 4 - litre V8 speaks of tiny tolerances and a motorsport mentality.

This sort of front - end alacrity and tenacity is not something you could have experienced in any previous - generation 911, apart from the most recent GT models.

Grip from the new, wider tires is prodigious and the uprated brakes stop with greater alacrity.

The forthcoming Focus RS and Volkswagen's Golf R both have gobs more power and torque, albeit at a slightly higher starting price, but then so does the cheaper Focus ST.. The JCW has size on its side, though, and the resulting power to weight ratio makes for a city car that can squirt out of bends and away from stoplights with as much alacrity as far more powerful sports cars — up to a certain speed.

The alacrity of the chassis and the accuracy of the steering were evident from the outset.

Doesn't the fact that «T» can stand there in the shower room at our gym, confidently toweling off his tiny unit, while «O» is at home changing their spark plugs with alacrity, indicate that it is only a short stroll down a slippery slope before he is completely happy being the «girl» in their relationship, from which it is only a slight fey hop down the same slope before «T» is happily married to another man, perhaps my car mechanic, a handsome Portugese fellow I shall refer to as «J?»

But somehow while rats and mice enjoy a reputation for staying within a fairly circumscribed area and making their way back home with alacrity, once hamsters depart slightly from their familiar surroundings they inevitably become distracted and wander aimlessly.

like they fix the broken alacrity bonus from 4pc set bonus that only works on sorcs and not on sages?

These elements demonstrate the alacrity with which Richter had perfected the use of the «squeegee» as a tool for painting: adapted from the wipers used by window cleaners, it was only in the mid-1980s that the artist began to apply paint with them.

I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till herebounded from it — «I refute it thus.»

Apart from the pettiness, there are real issues here for the elderly and disabled who may not be able to meet the expectations of airport security martinets with proper alacrity.

I have therefore decided, on equitable grounds, that it is well within my remedial authority to restrain and «estopp» the employer or its servants from denying the existence of an enforceable employment contract, arising from the Resolution of July 19th, where the exercise of good faith and alacrity might have ensured its existence.

Your morning coffee bullies your mental faculties into motion just enough to spend your shower wondering how you got this — dead tired — your body a little squishier than you remembered — and questioning whether you'll ever wake feeling refreshed, with the kind of alacrity and ready - for - anything pep you vaguely remember from your youth.

But she contrasted this sluggish response with the speed and alacrity with which Google removes copyrighted content from YouTube.