Sentences with phrase «as freight trains»

The break, also known as Freight Trains, is widely lauded as the world's fastest wave.

Friedman says trucks can be difficult to find, they often encounter delays and they don't haul as much as freight trains can.

Friedman says trucks can be difficult to find, they often encounter delays and they don't haul as much as freight trains can.

«I used to describe my letdowns as a freight train coming down the track,» she says.

The paper has (as of writing) an author list that is (still) as long as a freight train.

Asf1 act as a freight train that transports histones to the nuclei of our cells where the DNA is copied during cell divisions.

Government spending is often portrayed as a freight train «quickly running out of track.»

The torque rating is 590 lb - ft, but the cars pulls as strongly as a freight train at any speed in any of the eight gears.

What felt unformed and gangly in the first half becomes svelt and athletic; what was meandering becomes as sure and steady as a freight train....

As that freight train of disruption chugs through the mind of the writing - conference - goer, how clear is he on what he's hearing from speakers in each session?

The closer they get, the more intense it gets, he's as strong as a freight train, he starts towing the owner, the hair goes up on his back, and then he starts intensely barking.

Not exact matches

The «baby high,» as I call it, hits me like a freight train from Rainbow Happy Land.

You will, and ought to, feel the freight train of linear causality slamming you from behind as you serve out your sentence.

She served as Glen Ellyn's president from 1973 to 1977, leading the village during the 1976 disaster when two freight trains collided and caused an ammonia leak.

Passengers aboard the Amtrak train that slammed into a freight train before dawn yesterday described being jolted from slumber as seats ripped away, awakening to screams and crying.

(CNN)- A congressional tactic described as a «freight train» to run over the minority party could derail any hopes of bipartisanship with the Obama administration, some Republicans warn.

The administration's rail report does not spell out exactly how many of these high - speed corridors will be include new tracks exclusively for use by faster trains, as opposed to tracks shared with freight and slower passenger services.

What I haven't seen as much written about is why it is so critical to keep these two walnut sized glands at the top of your kidneys happy and healthy and how to spot the freight train of adrenal fatigue coming full speed down the tracks and about to smack your life upside the head.

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (John Hough, 1974) saw Fonda as a bandit trying to outrun the police to the state line, but only moments from the border a collision with a freight train turns the getaway car into a fireball.

And while his approach is to strip away emotion and present a largely affectless society (a style that Colin Farrell mines perfectly), he also identifies the right time to start to shift that style — and it means that when emotions actually register with the characters, it hits us as spectators like a freight train.

If, at the end, its Damon Lindelof - penned solution * (the twelfth - hour salvation of a freight train jumped its tracks) is as stupid as you would expect something Lindelof to pen, at least the journey there is interesting, even occasionally (if only very occasionally) arresting.

The closing laps of the two - hour, 45 - minute race featured a Porsche - Corvette - Ferrari freight train as the three cars raced nose - to - tail.

The default upon startup is all - electric with the gas engine decoupled and this means of operation is not unlike how the Chevrolet Volt — or a diesel - electric freight train for that matter — operates in concept, efficiently using the combustion engine as a generator in series hybrid mode.

Advertisements in magazines such as Hot Rod teased that The Machine is not as fast as a 427 cu in (7.0 L) Chevrolet Corvette or a Chrysler Hemi engine, but it will beat a «Volkswagen, a slow freight train, or your old man's Cadillac.

That familiar truck feel — the sensation of being on a memory foam mattress that rides so straight it may as well be nailed to a freight train — is still present in the Ram.

A huge freight train destined for Berlin, that became known as the «Hungarian Gold Train,» carried these treasures out of Huntrain destined for Berlin, that became known as the «Hungarian Gold Train,» carried these treasures out of HunTrain,» carried these treasures out of Hungary.

After graduating from high school he spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, hopping freight trains and traveling with a circus as a prop man, then attended Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University, where he won the Bennett Cerf Prize for fiction.

They're what I used to call «cracking good reads» — books that move like a freight train, don't take themselves too seriously, and are as fun as caramel covered popcorn.

He has to learn to hop freight trains, deal with gangsters and face a horror from his past as a soldier during the First World War.

As an industry concerned with the welfare of dogs and that understands the importance of caring, quality breeders, we can finally look at the end of the long tunnel we are in and feel good that the light we see is not an oncoming freight train.

But while online hotel ratings services such as TripAdvisor are notoriously inconsistent, you can usually at least determine which places will be clean and safe and free of freight trains loudly rumbling by at 2 AM.

Westby became alarmed as one of the male orcas «jumped straight at him like a freight train,» causing Westby to reverse his boat's engine.

Also know as «freight trains» or «La Barra» works on low tide and the boats leave in front of Miramar Surf Camp.

Go to Anchor Point or Killer Point and learn why surfers often describe the waves there as «freight trains» and why Killers is named (maybe because it kills your shoulders paddling back out?)

Like a freight train with no brakes and bad buffers, there is no stopping The Pinball Arcade as they enter into their third season of virtual pinball table releases.

The recent update to Discord has added some great improvements as they roll into their third anniversary like a freight train.

Robin comes complete with his own unique gadgets and special moves, and is playable in all challenge maps in the game, as well as two additional challenge maps that are included with the pack: Black Mask and Freight Train.

As a young man in the early 1960s, he explored the length and breadth of Canada by hopping freight trains.

Recently Josephine Pryde had a large - scale model freight train constructed for visitors to sit on as they rattled past her photographs in a show in San Francisco, but it is her enigmatic, often staged images that count: hamsters, young women pretending to be pregnant, hands holding objects and gifts.

His works and materials — granite blocks and other cut or natural stone, bricks, raw wooden timbers, steel plates, and repeating geometric shapes of various other metals — reflect the quarries, shipyards, and islands of his birthplace and his years spent as a freight - train brakeman.

From 1960 to 1964, he worked as a freight brakeman and conductor for the Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey, later claiming that the repetition of shapes in train carriages and railway lines had a significant impact on his art.

In the first gallery, you see her series Freight Train Crushes, of large colorful paintings on paper, which Kim didn't want displayed on the wall — instead, she crushed them into wads and placed them as sculptures on the gallery floor.

I would say a 50 % increase in my electric bill (determined without knowledge of the many last minute changes), as a single example, while maybe by itself is not necessarily sufficient to turn the freight train, is a negative side that is no where near erroneous.

Of course, it would be nice if that freight shifted to rail instead, but Elon probably hates freight trains as much as he loathes transit — so we may have to look elsewhere for that particular revival.

At RMI we agree that any serious freight strategy needs to have a big picture, integrative perspective that includes smart land - use and development as well as efficient rail, truck, and shipping transport.Compared to trucking, rail transit does sport higher efficiency numbers - today's average train has an efficiency of 400 ton - miles per gallon whereas trucks currently hover around 130 ton - miles per gallon.

As many as 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new porAs many as 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new poras 18 new freight trains per day would run back and forth from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana to carry coal to the new port.

As development encroaches upon reindeer habitat, however, the iconic animals are suffering... hundreds of reindeer are killed by freight trains alone.

Yep okayA freight train that was near Belen was passing through the New Mexico darkness as if it was any other night.

I also recall the CNR — then still responsible for passenger trains as well as freight — serenely ignoring the time change for mere mortals and staying on Standard time all year round.