Sentences with phrase «at your limit of»

During a press teleconference on Monday, William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said «we are really working at the limits of Hubble's unique capabilities.»

«The biggest thing we've landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity rover in 2012,» Jones says, «and that was at the limit of what we could do technologically.»

Occasionally I see people sitting on the back deck; on those occasions that happens, she's always standing at the limit of her chain, as close to them as she can be.

Perhaps more importantly, however, you avoid putting yourself at the limits of your financial resources if you choose a house with a price lower than your maximum.

The world's central banks are at the limits of their effective tools.

But praying at the limit of our own ability has sent us searching for resources ancient and new that turn prayer into something like a school for our souls.

Surely at the limits of our own experience we do reach out for something more.

Recent doppler images of stars at the limit of being observable indicate they are exceeding the speed of light and excelerating.

To summarize, it is especially at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

It is at the limits of our experience and problem - oriented questioning that we consciously come up against the truly incomprehensible and uncontrollable mystery to which our lives are inherently open.

They do not fall inside, but rather only at the limits of scientific investigation.

(The generality of American Christians, provoked by the activities of groups like the Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Christian Scientists, has shown similar impatience at the limits of its own tolerance.)

And when this limit, which is God's honor, is reached by man, there is a twofold temptation, either on the one side to pass the limit, to take up God's cause, to try to avenge God's honor oneself, to use political means in the service of the living God in order to do this, or on the other side to remain within the limit but to continue political action as though it did not exist, in other words, to separate the two kingdoms, to argue that while God's honor is there at the limit of politics, and I can do nothing about it, nevertheless in my own sphere I can still act like a shrewd and effective man, pursuing politics to save what can be saved by human means.

Mystery shows up at the limits of our ethical concerns as well.

What kind of blindness or perversity prompts this vapid idealism to choose, of all symbols, the Sermon on the Mount, with its exacting moral demands, all of them straining at the limits of human possibilities?

Yeah I wanted to get a pic w / ice cream in a bowl, but the light was already dying so much I was just about at my limits of allowable exposure time w / o a tripod when it first came out of the oven... My parents live in a forest and so good light goes early, even in the summer!

Giroud is playing at the limit of his ability already.

Arsenal are close to being at the limit of homegrown players in our squad and perhaps that's something the club is looking to improve on.

Unfortunately, at a limit of 40 pounds, your child will grow out of this much more quickly than other seats.

All subjects performed prenatal counseling with a simulated pregnant patient carrying a fetus at the limits of viability.

«We need to accept we are at the limit of numbers now and I would like the forces to come back as soon as possible,» he said.

But what is most striking in «Dreams of my father» is how he becomes frustrated at the limits of community organising, and so realises the need to get into elected politics to shift power and resources.

I think Gordon and Alistair said we had been at the limits of what had been prudent.

To put it diplomatically, we were both operating at the limits of our understanding - sailors adrift on the Far Side of the World, at the mercy of the wind and waves, like those in Peter Weir's stirring film.

By the end of next month it will be at the limit of what the world's largest ground - based telescopes would be able to discern in a 10 - hour exposure.

Sediments holding the finger bone, at the bottom of layer 11, came out right at the limit of radiocarbon dating, and are likely older than 48,000 to 50,000 years, reported postdoc and archaeologist Katerina Douka of Oxford.

Astronomers are used to working at the limits of human imagination, but even they have a hard time envisioning the kinds of insights they will be able to pull out of the bounteous new databases.

Calley Eads, a fifth - year doctoral student in the UA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, aligns a laser system used to track electrons on time - scales at the limits of what can be measured.

Meanwhile, Winter — at the limits of what she could do with her consulting time — needed help at QCT, so she hired Fan as a research scientist and the company's first employee.

«Like a fractal, we see detail at the limit of the resolution no matter what scale we observe.»

«In the subtropical - to - temperate transition zone south of the Great Barrier Reef, corals are at the limits of their distribution and environmental tolerances, as the water is cooler,» Dr Sommer said.

At the limits of the device, the topography and optical spectra of isolated oil emulsion droplets with volumes less than 10 attoliters could be determined.

«It's right at the limit of what we can detect,» said astrophysicist Michele Bannister of Queen's University Belfast, who described the result today at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Science meeting here.

Physicists have a good excuse for huddling under the streetlight when they are pushing at the limits of human understanding.

There is no doubt thatthe observation Wilms and his colleagues made was hard in anothersense — «at the limits of our current technology,» as Begelman puts it.The only easily recognizable thing on their Figure 1 is the littlespike at the summit of the spectrum: That's the iron line, right whereit should be, at around 6.4 kilo - electron volts.

Plants and algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis at wavelengths up to 720 nm — which is in the red part of the light spectrum, at the limit of visibility to the human eye.

Electronic computing is at the limit of efficiency; while it is possible to make a faster electronic processor, the energy cost of moving memory data around the computer any faster is too high.

Such observations are right at the limit of current capabilities, requiring the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the $ 8 billion successor to Hubble scheduled for launch in 2020.

10 of 19 (53 %) placentas and 11 of 19 (58 %) fetal heads from mice who received Moderna's Zika mRNA vaccine had viral RNA levels at the limit of detection of the assay, suggesting virtually complete protection, and the remainder had substantially lower levels than those detected in samples from mice in the placebo cohort.

E. superba, in addition to many of the endemic and range - edge species dominating the marine fauna on the South Georgia shelf, is at the limit of their thermal tolerance.

In fact, the faint, old stars in I Zwicky 18 are almost at the limit of Hubble's resolution and sensitivity.

The Oort cloud is a spherical distribution of cold, icy bodies lying at the limits of the Sun's gravitational pull.

Because of the small size of the clamshell - like Beagle 2 (the lander measured 7 feet across, or 2 meters, when unfolded), it was right at the limit of MRO's imaging capabilities, NASA officials said.

It does make you more flexible, but only at the limits of your range of motion.

In this case, the prospect of flailing one's leg around and barely breaking a sweat sounds a lot more appealing to many people than getting under a barbell and lifting at the limits of one's ability.

In certain cases schools may already be at the limit of staggered lunchtimes.

«It's got massive lateral grip, but you can tell what's going on at the limit of that grip.»

Thanks to the R's weight savings, none of these handling traits is too snappy, and it's certainly effective — posting a 1.25.5 lap time — but consistently working at the limit of the tyres» grip does reveal a more expressive side to the Cayman R.

Here's a bit of relevant information many enthusiasts already know: Most street cars, performance or otherwise, will understeer at the limit of grip in a turn.

The S8 handles well and holds its own when driven hard, but like the S63 AMG and BMW's B7 Alpina, it is hardly the car for dissecting tight corners at the limits of adhesion.