Sentences with phrase «beacon at»

A light beacon at the east end of the island guides the B.C. Ferry to safe harbour at Nanaimo.

After completing the game, Mario can find a green Koopa Troopa in a cap that hosts the Koopa Freerunning mini-game, where Mario races a quartet of Koopa Troopas known as the Roving Racers, with the goal to reach a shining beacon at the end.

The curved building, sheathed in bronze - tinted glass, stands like a beacon at the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip.

WHAT: Marooned on a sun - scorched planet, notorious fugitive Riddick (Vin Diesel) activates an emergency beacon at a mercenary outpost in the hopes of hijacking a ship from whoever comes to collect the price on his head.

Along their way to inhabit a new planet, they discover a distress beacon at a closer planet.

Then in 1999, astrophysicists detected a steady buzz of x-rays flowing from an object called Sagittarius A *, a radio beacon at the galaxy's core — additional evidence for a black hole.

With a beacon at its peak to ward off aircraft, the spire will provide public transmission services for television and radio broadcast channels.

The company is planning to add Android accessibility and beacons at even more locations later this year.

«We at AAE earnestly celebrate these schools not only for producing results for students, but also for their role as beacons at the front of education reform and innovative instruction.

While I was proud to earn this business degree, jobs were not exactly beaconing at my doorstep.

Not exact matches

«America must remain a beacon for entrepreneurs like Tom Szaky, who left his home in Hungary following the Chernobyl disaster, and ultimately moved to the United States to study at Princeton University.

At the beginning of 2015, BI Intelligence predicted that beacons would drive $ 44 million in retail sales by 2016.

Beacons allow brands to detect where a customer is at any given moment, and then send them push notifications with promotions or other useful information.

At this moment, 75 % of the top 20 retailers in the US have already implemented proximity technologies (beacons, sensors, etc.) into their marketing strategy, including such giants as Home Depot, Lowe's, Target, Walmart, Safeway, Rite Aid, and Macy's.

Lori Schafer, executive adviser of retail for analytics company SAS Institute, said the retail industry is currently at the «cusp of a transformative shift,» as more retailers realize the potential of mobile analytics, like low - energy Bluetooth beacons.

«At this stage, Vietnam serves as the beacon for all the frontier markets.

«The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the technology),» said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.

For example, the Hilton hotel chain is using beacons to provide travelers with recommendations for activities and amenities available at its resorts, reports Mobile Commerce Daily.

«We've been looking at things like beacons: how can we utilize a beacon to measure in store visits or to kind of improve the communication messages we send our customers,» says Kraus.

First, the report also tracks action at the provincial level, and several provinces that had marketed themselves as beacons of virtue in contrast to Harper — Ontario, British Columbia and Manitoba under its former NDP government — turn out to have underperformed, too.

While not denying the wrongs committed, the Crusader kingdoms were at times relative beacons of culture and tolerance.

At the foot of the headland is a lighthouse or beacon, not casting rays on every side, but throwing one bar of light through the darkness.

Both the tower and the new chapel have skylights that are illuminated at night, transforming these structures into glowing beacons on the skyline.

The note sounded by both Chomsky and Roy is admittedly rather shrill, but we must consider that their dissent comes at a time when much of the world seems content with President Bush's view that this attack was simply an attempt by «evildoers» to snuff out «the beacon light of freedom» in the world.

Your intolerance for diversity is a beacon to us all and not at all the height of hypocrisy.

And into their hands he puts all the things a science boy would love to have: the oscilloscope and ten - channel transmitter they get a newspaper to buy for them, the gastroscope a professor at the nearby university lends them to look inside a sealed cannon, the radiosonde beacons they can attach to almost anything.

Over the years, I have seen first hand the wind turbines that power the visitor center in Puerto Rico, employees riding bicycles around Martini & Rossi in Pessione, Italy, and our distillery, Bombay Gin at Laverstoke, that is a beacon to sustainability today.

Castello Banfi is a beacon for hospitality in the region, with a full service enoteca, glass museum, winery tours, informal Taverna for lunch, fine dining at the Michelin star - rated Castello Banfi — Il Ristorante, and luxury rooms and suites at the recently opened Castello Banfi — Il Borgo.

The Inn at Dos Brisas luxury resort and ranch is set amongst more than 300 acres of peaceful, rolling horse pastures and manicured organic farmland and rises as a beacon of serenity and a retreat from the chaos of busy lifestyles.

Beacons also have the ability to offer customers ordering and payment options right at the table.

The fact is, the fervent atmosphere and SRO crowds at the Garden along with the TV exposure and gobs upon gobs of dollars (league officials predict a cool $ 1.4 million windfall for the schools and the conference from last week's event) all melded to create a spectacular climax to the conference's four - year pursuit of that beacon of intercollegiate marketing, the ACC.

Depending on your perspective, the journey into college sports» heart of darkness, or depending on how you look at it, one of its most inspiring beacons of light, begins as the sun sets on the West Memphis, Ark., home of Daniel Bandy.

Injuries cut Winslow's season short at just 18 games, and in those 18, he wasn't exactly a beacon of hope.

Everton continued their abject home form with an eighth league defeat at Goodison Park, as an FA Cup semi-final looms like a lone beacon of hope amidst a season to forget.

The former CD Tenerife striker, whose 22nd birthday is tomorrow, has been a beacon of light at St James» since his arrival.

While Costa had some Arsenal players riled up, the striker's former Chelsea team - mate Petr Cech has been a beacon of calm at the back to provide the defence with authority in their title challenge.

Our democracy is a light, a beacon, around the world because we affect change at the ballot box and not because of these... outbursts of violence in certain cases.

«Together, certainly with the governor, we will be able to do all of the things that we know are important to make sure New York stays the progressive beacon that it is,» Stewart - Cousins said at a press conference Wednesday.

The Tories desperately need London to be a beacon of Conservative competence and creativity, but that's looking highly unlikely at the moment.

Red and white balloons served as beacons so visitors could spot them at a distance.

«This event was supposed to be an opportunity for people of different religions and perspectives to debate, at a university that is supposed to be a beacon of free speech and debate.

In a speech at the Lowry in Salford, Burnham appeared to borrow from Tony Blair's 1997 Labour conference speech, when the then prime minister spoke of turning Britain into «a beacon to the world».

North Wales and the Brecon Beacons provide height and grandeur at one end, and a more gentle sense of haunting mystery at the other.

«This state when at its finest is a beacon of social justice,» Cuomo said at a press conference after the vote.

At a time like this in our country's history, after the neo-cons have destroyed our economy, killed our children in an unjust invasion / occupation of a country that did nothing to us, extinguished our world beacon to peace and freedom, of course we need this visionary to rekindle the spirits of John & Bobbie and restore America; s greatness.

Katelin Schutz, a theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, says that clarity could come even faster from stellar beacons called millisecond pulsars, which emit exquisitely regular pulses of radio waves.

So the team used them as beacons to track the galaxy's rotation and sideways motion at four intervals over the course of about three years.

The result is a system that does not require much computing power at the beacon or in the vehicle itself.

Currently, the best measurements of those variables come from a system called very - long - baseline interferometry (VLBI), which uses radio dishes spaced across Earth to stare at quasars — brilliant beacons in the distant universe that occasionally flicker.

To help the glider get and keep its bearings, the NRC plans to test an acoustic beacon system whose components would be placed underwater at strategic points around an iceberg, allowing the glider to triangulate by sound.