Sentences with phrase «as sponges when»

They act as sponges when it comes to gases in the atmosphere, retaining large levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (methane and nitrous oxide).

They called for sewage treatment mechanisms to keep waste from tainting the East River during floods and permeable surfaces that could act as a sponge when the area gets deluged.

Not exact matches

When asked where he got his inspiration for his performance as Captain Sparrow, Depp said that «For a good portion of the time I was spending with [Richards], I was sponging as much of him as I possibly could for the character.»

When you speak or post I'll try my best to act as a sponge.

First, when Jesus «became sin» and died upon the cross, I tend to get the visual of Jesus acting as a spiritual sponge....

It sounds a little like the sponge cakes my mum bakes - when my sister and niece were diagnosed as celiac this was one of the first recipes my mum made for them because they have so little flour it was easy to de-glutenise - not really my favourite type of cake and yet they make me so nostalgic that I sometimes fine them irresistable

Cake flour is the best choice when you're making a cake with a fine, tender crumb, such as pound cake, devil's food cake or sponge cake.

When you, as a world - weary parent, find yourself genuinely rooting for a chortling character made of neon yellow sponge (and wishing you could give him a squelching hug at the end of his journey), that's some serious stage magic right there.

When it came time to give our little guy his first sponge bath I needed a nice soft, hooded towel to make him as comfortable as possible (even though it was tough since he HATES being undressed!).

Women were BUILT to give birth, OBGYNs are glorified surgeons, oh a BTW what about leaving sponges inside women, and all kinds if issues that come with surgery, and the fact that a hospital is full of germs and sick people, where as at home its the same environment moms been in the whole pregnancy... Hospitals smeared midwives when they first started cutting babies out, and they continue to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they lied about the stats

Alastair Campbell was proud of this Faustian pact at the time, and when I rang up the then editor of The Sun, Stuart Higgins, known as the «human sponge» to ask if it were true that his paper would be supporting Labour he said «No!»

Zuckerman, who is on leave from his position as director of the Gowanus Canal Community Development Corp. to campaign full time, pulls from his experience as director of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy when he suggests creating so - called «sponge parks» that would work as natural water filters.

When researchers sequenced the sponge's genome in 2010, they found genes that help individual cells cooperate as a group: how to divide, send signals to one another, and distinguish between friends and outsiders.

«But as soon as you wet it, like when you wring a sponge, the nitrogen can flood into the rivers.»

The extraction of water and heat from the porous sandstone causes it to contract, much as a sponge shrinks when it dries out.

Toilet engineers have always known this: When George Jennings's Pedestal Vase won a gold medal at a Health Exhibition in 1884, it had successfully ushed 10 apples, one at sponge, three «air vessels» (crumpled paper) as well as cleaning the «plumber's smudge» smeared on the bowl's surface.

Some people experience intense aversion and anxiety when they see clusters of roughly circular shapes, such as the bubbles in a cup of coffee or the holes in a sponge.

«We believe that they use sponges as a kind of glove to protect their sensitive rostrums when they probe for prey in the substrate,» says Michael Krützen, formerly of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and now at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Scientists have identified a fossil just a millimeter long as the earliest known sponge, helping resolve debates about when the sponge lineage diverged from that of more familiar animals.

When you see French fries, visualize them as 24 - day - old sponges dripping with rancid grease.

It's latex free and can be use wet or dry.This sponge is not as stiff as Hello Beauty makeup sponge applicator, but it does expand and yet becomes a much softer when wet.

When they are finally damp, they aren't as bouncy or soft as other sponges.

Beauty Blender — When I first heard someone talking about Beauty Blender and how good it is I couldn't believe as I've always hated those «regular» makeup sponges.

In general, many sea stars feed on sponges, as well as detritus, so keep that in mind when stocking your tanks.

It will absorb liquid as a sponge, but when it reaches its limit it fails suddenly and dramatically.

Only 10 minutes from places like the Raja Ampat Dive Resort, it can also be done as a night dive, when you will find a completely different set of critters like sponge crabs, walking sharks, harlequin shrimps and many other strange and amazing creatures.

It's just that when you use the likenesses of real - life veterans (with living relatives, natch) as bullet sponges for your pseudo-philosophical hero fantasy, that's when you come out of this looking like an asshole.

Despite how basic gameplay generally is, when you're mashing at foes with a friend it's not as noticeable; you'll be too busy co-ordinating attacks or smashing down the damage - sponge bosses to think about how simple it all is.

Combat is frantic and fun when served up on rare occasions, but when it takes over as a main component of the game it gets a bit dull and frustrating, with enemies that can be bullet - sponges if not handled properly.

This is especially in issue with the boss fights, which makes them feel like damage sponges when you're playing as her.

Later I sponged off Levi in the Mission District of San Francisco (where he'd worked as a taxi driver and studied poetics with Robert Duncan) until a decade or so ago, when we both ended up in the Hudson Valley, almost neighbors here in the Shawangunk bioregion.

Measurements of 13C / 12C on corals and sponges — whose carbonate shells reflect the ocean chemistry just as tree rings record the atmospheric chemistry — show that this decline began about the same time as in the atmosphere; that is, when human CO2 production began to accelerate in earnest.

As the ice began to melt the land started to rebound, just as the sponge recovers shape when the metal disc is removeAs the ice began to melt the land started to rebound, just as the sponge recovers shape when the metal disc is removeas the sponge recovers shape when the metal disc is removed.

When you speak or post I'll try my best to act as a sponge.