Sentences with phrase «as ballast for»

Lawrence and his screenwriters, Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt, have done a fine job of calibrating the film's many moving parts, action serving as a ballast for heaps of exposition, flashes of mordant humor darting through all the despair and destruction.

That's a tricky balance to strike, between fact and feeling, and I suppose the family bits were added to act as ballast for the film's practical policy talk, but I'd imagine that there is some root emotional oomph to be found in that policy that could bolster the story in its own right.

Scientists are also investigating why outbreaks of exotic organisms have been reported only in the past 20 years, when water has been used as ballast for more than a century.

Our bonds and low cost index funds act as a ballast for our portfolio.

«ETFs serve as a ballast for these trying times.

In 1974, Rosenfeld founded the Center for Building Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and began developing energy - saving technologies such as ballasts for light bulbs and low - leakage windows.

Not exact matches

Look for fund companies to dump the «ballast» of revenue sharing in order to better compete on price as market competition continues to drive fees down.

The implicit claim, however, seems to be that just as religion provides a necessary moral ballast for the republican ideal, so does a healthy respect for the natural realm.

As for Ballast Point's performance through the midway point of the year, Birkel said sales within tasting rooms are growing but that the company's wholesale business was «not where we want it to be.»

But Constellation's $ 1 billion all cash deal for Ballast Point isn't panning out quite as well as company executives had hoped.

Beyond the Sculpin franchise, Birkel said he hopes consumers continue their journey through the Ballast Point portfolio by experimenting with higher end «explorer series» beers such as a barrel - aged version of Victory at Sea, which sourced wood from Constellation's High West Distillery and is slated for a November release.

As part of the deal, Ballast Point — which sold to Constellation for $ 1 billion last November — will become the «official craft beer sponsor of Barclays Center,» and receive its own branded bar on the main concourse, the company said via a press release.

In formal interviews with craft beer drinkers — those who were solicited for the study as well as patrons that visited Ballast Point's eight tasting room locations — Constellation discovered that 58 percent of craft consumers prefer to drink beers that range between 4 percent and 6 percent alcohol by volume.

In the 40s he gradually forsook pay diving for treasure hunting, prowling from one wrecksite to another, most of them located on tips from local fishermen who had worked over round rocks but never figured them as the ballasts of old ships.

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

Although the Isle Royale boat is almost toy - sized compared with the freighters that ply the Great Lakes, Green contends the relatively simple chlorine treatment could be scaled up to the biggest boats on the lakes as an emergency line of defense that would be far stouter than the saltwater flushing — the only protection for the lakes until ballast treatment systems are required for all overseas ships, which likely won't be until 2021 at the earliest.

The fossa is as agile as a squirrel, he said, using its luxuriant tail for ballast and balance when leaping from branch to branch.

Functioning as a ballast, these platelets are important for the carbon transport to the deep ocean — and thus for the ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of climate change.

The study found that the pathways most frequently recorded as transporting invasive species are ballast water and biofouling for both regions, while aquaculture has also been a very significant route of introduction and spread of invasive species in the NE Atlantic.

As creator, writer and director, Hawley does everything he can to suppress the yawns that will surely come from the superhero - disinclined, setting the tone for a show that favors personality over powers, with dialogue that thankfully lacks the sonorous ballast of most superhero movies.

Ballast like character development goes right out the window and into the icy Russian river that serves as backdrop for The Darkest Hour's anticlimax.

Community leaders can serve as sensible, practical ballast for state officials caught up in their aspirational enthusiasms.

Ballast Point Sedona Ballast Point makes handcrafted beers and spirits, and the Sedona on display at SEMA acted as a rolling dispensary for those premium libations.

As interest rates rise, intermediate duration bonds are expected to slowly return to their proper place in the mid-term bucket, but for right now, an equally good choice for «safe» ballast in the mid-term bucket is cash.

As appropriate, you could replenish ballast for more or fewer years than the above example before starting the sequential depletion procedure.

Article 8.5 will also present some broad guidelines for when to convert ballast to stocks as market gyrations unfold during implementation of your Mindful Bucket Investing Plan for the «old» investor.

This is the reason that Michael Kitces and some others recommend that ballast be maintained only in the first part of the retirement period, which creates the so called «ascending glide path» for stocks as discussed in Article 8.2.

But there are times, like right now, where cash is nearly as good as bonds, and can be used just as effectively as bonds for the short - term ballast portion of your portfolio.

But there are times, like right now, where cash is nearly as good as bonds, and can be used just as effectively as bonds for the short - term ballast portion of your portfolio (as discussed more in Articles 7.3 and 8.3).

The approach of using cash for ballast now and bonds for ballast when interest rates rise, does not completely address the advantages of cash as a reserve for short term expenditures and investment opportunities.

It was built in 1797 on Ballast Point as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay.

«As one of Southern California's premier brewers, for the team at Ballast Point, we couldn't be more honored to work with such an icon in our great state and become the first brewer at Downtown Disney,» Marty Birkel, president of Ballast Point Brewing, shared in a statement.

In 1873 the United States Army took over Ballast Point and built gun batteries for the defense of San Diego as Fort Rosecrans.

In 1962 the United States Navy built a submarine base on Ballast Point as home port for the Pacific Fleet's nuclear attack submarines.

«As one of Southern California's premier brewers, for the team at Ballast Point, we couldn't be more honored to work with such an icon in our great state and become the first brewer at Downtown Disney,» Marty Birkel, president of Ballast Point Brewing, said in a statement.

Ocean acidification, rising ocean temperatures, declining sea ice, and other environmental changes interact to affect the location and abundance of marine fish, including those that are commercially important, those used as food by other species, and those used for subsistence.16, 17,18,122,19,20,21 These changes have allowed some near - surface fish species such as salmon to expand their ranges northward along the Alaskan coast.124, 125,126 In addition, non-native species are invading Alaskan waters more rapidly, primarily through ships releasing ballast waters and bringing southerly species to Alaska.5, 127 These species introductions could affect marine ecosystems, including the feeding relationships of fish important to commercial and subsistence fisheries.

Completed an Energy Efficiency Consultation: lights, general maintenance and HVAC; replacing lamps and ballasts as needed for Caldwell Municipal Buildings.

Candidate with a valid Ballast operator license and comprehensive working experience on marine vessels, seeks to work as a Ballast operator for a reputed marine organization.

Responsible for the installation of electrical components such as fixtures, switches, receptacles, batteries, ballast and fire detectors for residential and commercial clients.