Sentences with phrase «as a sink»

All of these processes are changing ocean ecosystems and altering the ocean's capacity to act as a sink for carbon.

If you've been on the receiving end, then you've felt the sharp knife of betrayal as it sinks into your back even though you likely never saw it coming.

In addition, they act as sinks for terrestrial runoff, supplying abundant nutrients to habitats for many species.

I also love the original basin as a sink in the bathroom.

All food equipment as well as sinks and water supplies are checked.

Remove it from the oven and don't panic as it sinks down, because this is quite normal.

The long run: We are properly concerned about the exhaustion of some resources, in particular the atmosphere as a sink for carbon dioxide emissions and the depletion of fossil fuels.

You have a very good question about if it could be used as a sink.

Do you think it could serve as a sink for powder room?

If the toilet is in the same room as your sink and shower, position it as far away from the bathroom door as possible.

Meanwhile, the idea of plants as a sink which will thrive with more CO2 and warmth is built into every carbon budget ever released.

Accounting for biomass energy often ignores the critical role forests play as a sink for carbon dioxide that might otherwise accumulate in the atmosphere.

In the initial years the majority of your monthly mortgage payment is applied to interest and what is referred to as a sinking fund.

Trouble with considering biomass as an energy sink, however, is that if biomass remains constant then it does not act as a sink at all — only if it is increasing.

I've started using my microwave as a sink, my toothbrush as a comb and my tv as a coffee table.

The ocean is warming at a faster rate than occurs on land, because oceans operate as sinks — trapping in the heat.

I like them, I'm just overwhelmed by the bathtub posing as a sink in the first picture.

Also order, as it sinks into the background before new conditions, has its requirements.

Today our quartz countertops are to go in as well as the sink.

As this sinks in, what was once politically impossible may soon be merely hard.

This is known as the sunk cost fallacy.

Much of the damage was inflicted by debris such as sunken ships, cars and washing machines.

Over the past decade, as it sank deeper into the muck of the Dead Puck era, the league peddled tired lines about improved «flow» and scoring chances even if the matches were too often eyesores.

Not to mention, an old chandelier of my kitchen table, plank / bead board bath room walls, pieces of furniture being used as sink bases in both of our bathrooms, and wood floors are the things I desire to do this year.

Near the halfway point, you can also call an assembly to afford more services or affect future missions, capture and interrogate prisoners to help you gain evilities and new recruits, set up squads to help you run the home base and give you neat bonuses in combat, redesign and build the entire hub world as you sink more time into it than you might sink into rearranging your house in Animal Crossing.

Though, instead of having been formed amidst the cosmos like in the main continuity, these gems originated on Earth, each formed from a different traumatic event incurred by the plaent such as the sinking of Atlantis or Ragnarok.

As you sink ever deeper into that suffocating abyss, you can faintly hear the sound of a dog rapping.

All that, and «Get Out» manages to be genuinely creepy, too: When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) is hypnotized by his girlfriend's mother (Catherine Keener) and sent to the dark void known as the Sunken Place, Peele manages to generate a crushing sense of claustrophobia around this sudden, unknown threat.

Aside from the grim image of every living thing on earth gasping for breath and choking on water as they sink beneath the waves, the flood story also paints a troubling portrait of a God who seems incompetent because He regrets that He made mankind (Didn't He know this would happen?)

But then there are those readers right now saying «that's me» under their breath as it sinks in that they will never be in the position to make a maximum RRSP contribution.

So, as I sank slowly in the west, I had to bid a fond farewell to Polynesia; land of beautiful people, too many vowels and cooking that's the pits in the best way possible.

The newly chosen Deputy Majority Leader of the Senate, John DeFrancisco of Syracuse, said he thinks Cuomo is responding to anger from his party's base, as well as sinking poll numbers among Democrats.

I wasn't sure if I'd over dressed for a breakfast meeting in my floral dress and pink blazer, but I felt right at home as soon as I sunk into one of those chairs.

Sebastian Silva's story of a young black man (Mudbound's Jason Mitchell) trying and failing to fit in during a guys weekend in the Catskills is a masterclass in racial alienation — the drunken dude trip reimagined as the Sunken Place.

But with Snap drowning under Facebook's competition, Spiegel's renegade style could see the company refuse life preservers even as it sinks.

From where I sat I could watch the sun as it sank behind the rapidly silhouetted city walls while sipping excellent local red wine and listening to distant accordion music; the place could barely have been any more perfect.

Our Newport villas offer a taste of Orange County living, with views of the ocean from graceful terraces, so you can wake to the California sun than sit and watch as it sinks into the Pacific at the end of a fun - filled day.

As you sink lower, you are surprised by the absence of marine wildlife down here.

The swimming pool is situated among the gardens and grounds and offers sunbathing and shade as well as a sunken bar so there is no need to leave the pool if you require a cocktail, beer or a range of other beverages.

His reference to the oceans» role as a sink for CO2 and heat is significant in the present debate about the apparent slight slow - down in the pace of atmospheric warming and the likelihood that the heat is going into the oceans instead.

Just as the sunk cost fallacy makes us afraid of changing careers once we've already invested our time in something — even if we no longer like it — loss aversion makes us overly afraid of loss, which harms our career prospects.

Thanks to the air conditioning and numerous ceiling fans you'll stay cool as you sink into the living room's plush sofa or lounge chairs.

In addition, these two automakers include some geometric and cushion specifications that direct occupants downward as they sink into their seatbacks in a rear - end collision, thus counteracting the «ramp up» that has been described in tests with volunteers (an occupant's neck shortens as the torso «ramps up» the seatback and then lengthens during rebound).