Sentences with phrase «as ballast in»

These plants came to the UK hundreds of years ago as ballast in old boats — and now they are growing again.

The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

[4] The point derived the name Ballast Point from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

In Article 7.3, we found that the normal advantage of bonds over cash as ballast in a mixed portfolio with stocks is currently absent, because bonds are not expected to provide a real return above inflation anytime in the foreseeable future.

The reason is that Emiliania's dense calcareous platelets function as ballast in aggregated organic matter and accelerate its sinking to the deep ocean.

Rats, the world's foremost invasive species, have traveled the world with explorers and traders; so have tropical fire ants, which genetic studies suggest have hitchhiked from southwestern Mexico to Asia and beyond starting in the 16th century in soil used as ballast in Spanish ships.

Not exact matches

But as I mentioned earlier, it's been expanding into beer, having acquired Ballast Point and the rights to sell Mexican brands Corona and Modelo in the U.S.

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.

Specifically, longer - duration bonds are reasserting their role as an effective ballast to equity risk and can be especially helpful in equity - centric portfolios.

However, as I write in my new weekly commentary, «With Stocks on Shaky Ground, a Promising Ballast in Bonds,» this trend can only take the market so far.

Tickle explains that, in reaction to the gathering center, many Christians will retreat to their respective corners, or religious traditions, which isn't an entirely bad thing because it serves as a sort of ballast to keep the boat of Christendom from tipping during the upheaval of the Great Emergence.

It serves as our most intimate and reliable experience of «home,» and thus provides us with the metaphysical ballast needed to endure the greater fluidity, heterogeneity, and change in modern civic life governed by the social norms we rightly seek to protect and preserve.

What started in 1996 as a small group of home brewers who simply wanted to make great beer evolved into a team of adventurers known today as Ballast Point.

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.

Constellation Brands, which produces and distributes the popular Modelo and Corona Mexican import labels, as well as beers from San Diego craft brewery Ballast Point, continued its rise as the only beer company among the top 5 vendors to post increases in both dollar sales (14.1 percent) and volume sales (12.5 percent).

What started in 1996 as a small group of home brewers who simply wanted to make great beer evolved into the team of adventurers known today as Ballast Point.

In a call with investors, Sands provided an overview of Constellation's beer portfolio, which includes Mexican import brands Corona Extra, Casa Modelo and Pacifico, as well as Ballast Point.

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.

Those on the Left fear Momentum may prove a flash in the pan or ultimately reckless while those to the Right assert they provide, as one leader put it, the «ballast to keep our party's feet on the ground and the show on the road.».

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.

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.

Among other things, they have established a partnership on ballast water with the Danish Maritime Administration and the Danish Shipowners Association and, as one of its activities, the partnership organised an international conference in Copenhagen on 1 November.

The stowaways can arrive either as biofouling on the outside of the ships or via water in the ballast tanks.

The continued development of maritime transportation around the world, especially in new areas such as the Arctic, can increase conservation impacts to wildlife, including disturbance, fatal strikes, introduction of pathogens through ballast water, habitat destruction through anchoring (especially on corals), introduction of invasive species, air emis ¬ sions, noise, and fuel spills.

Until recently it was thought that water would have to be heated to as much as 45 °C, but according to Paterson, it may only have to be between 2 °C and 5 °C above the temperature of the water in the ballast tanks to kill off potential invaders.

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.

As a child he showed considerable initiative in fossil hunting, even collecting specimens from the discarded ballast of cargo ships.

The imported red fire ant, as it is colloquially known, came to the U.S. from its native South America sometime in the 1930s or «40s, likely as a stowaway in ship ballast.

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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.

Much attention has been given to migration of vermin on board ships, and the transport of larger organisms such as algae and jellyfish in ballast water.

This trapping phenomenon, very dependent on train speed, could cause degradation in the ballast layer, as the energy provided by the train passing dissipates by the grains rubbing together.

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.

Shot on 35 mm film using only available light, «Ballast» is a profoundly American film that's nonetheless rooted in the European tradition of improvised, lo - fi naturalism (as in, say, the work of Belgium's Dardenne brothers).

Sarah Silverman, as Naomi Watts» friend Sheila from the diner, has proven herself to be a real treasure in her dramatic roles bringing heart and sass to what would otherwise be a throwaway character whose main purpose is to be the kind of emotional ballast to Susan that sometimes only other adult can be.

Wendy And Lucy — Another location - specific American indie in the same vein as Chop Shop or Ballast, and comparable in quality to those films.

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

The use of electronics in most cars came along later, such as electronic ignition only became common place in cars in the 80's and those were with ballast resistors which was a common fail point.

One is a lift - back style sedan that will eventually be dubbed «Sportback», the other a lift - back masquerading as a Sportswagon courtesy of about 100 kg worth of ballast in the rear.

It also needs the hydraulics in the hood replaced, the xenon headlight has a malfunction (which requires the entire headlight assembly to be removed from the body of the car to change a LIGHTBULB, and if god forbid the ballast is bad, the bumper must be removed as well).

It should be noted that during a major bear market or correction bond funds, especially, short term bond funds, are the ballast in your account and either stay the course or recover much quicker than the broader market as a whole.

With interest rates finally on an expected path toward normalization, at least in the U.S., bonds may be less reliable as ballast.

Bonds, or fixed income, essentially play two roles in a portfolio: They offer yield, or income, as well as potential diversification benefits as a sort of ballast to counter equity risks.

Specifically, longer - duration bonds are reasserting their role as an effective ballast to equity risk and can be especially helpful in equity - centric portfolios.

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 I discussed in Article 8.3, to boost the recovery of your portfolio after a crash in the vulnerable period you want a substantial amount of ballast available to buy stocks.

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.

However, to select a percentage of bonds within this range we must also factor in the amount of ballast held as cash in the short - term bucket.

Similarly, if you intend to tighten your belt in the first few years of retirement as a safety measure, you might make these ballast buckets smaller.

We saw in Article 7.3 that small amounts of cash can provide very stable portfolio ballast as compared to larger amounts of bonds.