Sentences with phrase «as thin wafers»

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These include companies such as GrocShop, PepperTap, LazyLad, MovinCart and Aagaar, as they felt the pinch of a slowdown in funding and couldn't find sustainable growth models in a segment plagued with wafer - thin margins, high logistics and customer acquisitions costs, and fierce competition.

It has a variety of uses — for basting roast meats, to adding flavor to gravy, as a topping for minestrone or polenta or as wafer - thin slices placed over bruschetta or freshly baked bread.

If you can not find those, you can use any kind of thin wafer or cookie as an alternative.

Roll out the dough thin as can be on a lightly floured surface - wafer thin, about 1 / 8 - inch, and stamp out using the cookie cutter.

Because we have a wafer thin defensive line... we have 2 injury prone LB's and we have our current first choice RB as backup for both CB ’s

All kinds of theories have been expounded as to why Leicester are in freefall especially since only one of last season key performers, N'Golo Kante, has moved on: manager Claudio Ranieri has lost the faith of his players; confidence is wafer - thin; workrate has plummeted; too many players are living on their laurels.

Ian Holloway's squad, one which he has openly admitted to being wafer thin and lacking in depth, will now be put through its paces in the second half of the season, though not as much as say their Tuesday night rivals.

But while it may represent a defeat for those Tories who saw this election as a potential opportunity to rid themselves of David Cameron, he must now govern with a wafer - thin majority.

Ms Rudd would come up against several hurdles as a prominent Remainer as well as having only a wafer thin majority of 346 in her south coast constituency of Hastings.

Globe - hopping from ancient China to the Aztec Empire, from glamorous Parisian cafes to the mills of New England, Paper weaves culture with chemistry, and politics with pulpwood, as it chronicles world history through that wafer - thin product we write on.

Through a process known as electron - beam deposition, the researchers have built a thin - film wafer from 13 stacked meta - atoms.

They report * that measurements of the etched lines — as thin as 16 nanometers wide — on the SEMATECH - fabricated wafer were accurate to one nanometer.

In each mission you play as a pre-set warrior, which has allowed Omega to include a number of cinematic elements in order to improve the previously wafer - thin character development.

As for Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah, he has the sense to play for nonsense (a British accent with a lisp, of all things), knowing not to sully this film with the semblance of heaviness for fear the entire tone of the film will shatter like the wafer - thin construction that it iAs for Hank Azaria as Kahmunrah, he has the sense to play for nonsense (a British accent with a lisp, of all things), knowing not to sully this film with the semblance of heaviness for fear the entire tone of the film will shatter like the wafer - thin construction that it ias Kahmunrah, he has the sense to play for nonsense (a British accent with a lisp, of all things), knowing not to sully this film with the semblance of heaviness for fear the entire tone of the film will shatter like the wafer - thin construction that it is.

At the same time, Sky Captain is often as dull as dull can be in the story department, with wafer - thin characters, a confusing plot, and insipid dialogue.

Alas, all of the effort is for naught, as they are surrounded by derivative ideas and wafer - thin characterizations.

This is partially due to the work of Sommers, who never for a moment takes his adventure or any of this characters seriously, coating the entire production with a wafer - thin premise that knows its place as something to deliver thrills, chills, and plenty of nasty kills, and does it with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

The thinking here is that as long as they keep things busy, they don't have to invest any time in these wafer thin characters, or concocting real dialogue between them.

What you don't see in the trailer is what constitutes the other 75 % of the film, namely, the highly predictable brother - helping - brother side stories of families and strangers coming together in their time of great need, and all of the usual wafer - thin archetypical characters you expect in an ensemble film such as this.

The wafer - thin storyline follows a man (Paul Hofmann's Paul) and a woman (Ekateryna Rak's Olga) as they leave their respective homes in search of a better life, with Paul traveling to the Ukraine to install videogambling machines and Olga landing a job as a cleaner at an Austrian geriatric home.

The shaggy plot is wafer thin at best, relying too heavily on familiarity (a character going wild after taking too many drugs has now become an unavoidable staple of the contemporary comedy) and as charming as Madden is, we're never quite sold on him being the impetus for such a major left - turn.

While it may give you what you expect, this cuts both ways, as it gives you the same idiotic plot elements, wafer - thin characterizations, and low - brow angst that made the first film so painfully trite to begin with.

Besides, I don't need a wafer thin television, my living room is more than adequate for something as handsome as a Panny.

The Concept Estate has features intended to wow auto show attendees such as wafer - thin seats, two not four doors, and a low roofline.

The ultimate sacrifice that manufacturers, such as Toshiba, are making by offering full sized connectivity interfaces and replaceable batteries will be the size and particularly the thickness of the device — it can never come close to being as wafer thin as the iPad2.

Ignoring her talk of the devil, I unpacked the clump of old bread, the gleanings of the day's begging, and Liza sliced it into pieces thin as communion wafer.

Conventional wisdom is that Amazon have been pinning their hopes on eBooks as the key area which might one day make them a profit (they're certainly not making any money on sales of Kindle devices, which operate on absolutely wafer - thin margins).

He's the superior and mentor to your budding Gunjack, but when he comes off with such uninspired titbits as «it's death o» clock,» you'd be forgiven for simply skipping over each mission interlude and hopping back into the turret without paying much attention to the wafer - thin story.

All added up to her eccentrically shaped paintings: wafer - thin enamel - on - aluminum compositions of shifting color planes within extruding and sloping architectures that she mounted as closely as possible to the space's walls.

East Antarctica's ice sheet is about as thick as West Antarctica's, but the region sees much less snowfall, so the annual rings are wafer - thin or even indistinguishable.

But as ridiculous as these examples are, it is this same wafer - thin and intellectually dishonest debating trick that has been deployed by Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, and his environment minister, Greg Hunt, in recent days to dismiss the link between human - caused climate change and bushfires.

Credit: LGBecause OLEDs don't require this extra layer of LEDs, manufacturers can make the panels very thin and easily bendable, allowing the technology to be used for both wafer - like displays, such as the LG W7 «Wallpaper» TV, and curvy screens, such as the Samsung Galaxy S8.

It's shallower than most, although thankfully not quite as wafer - thin as the 12 - inch MacBook's.