Sentences with phrase «blew up for»

He and Niki de Saint Phalle built bombs in their hotel room, took them to the desert, wired the sculptures, and then blew them up for over an hour.

We had a taste of that in Summer 2007, where momentum strategies blew up for a short time.

I am just hoping and praying I won't get that big this time, it felt like I just blew up for no reason at all!

The firm had been in frequent contact with MRA's Chintawongvanich, who'd been warning that the VIX notes could blow up for a while.

I have long remembered the remark of a notable art critic — though I have forgotten which one — that many modernist paintings could be understood as fragments of classical painting blown up for their own sake, displaying the formal and technical elements by which painting is accomplished but eschewing the narrative depiction within which such patches of paint on canvas would earlier have had their place.

Everyone prefers to remember me as the volcanic dude who would blow up for a 9 and a 15 on the last two holes if that's what it took to butcher a decent score, but it was oh - so - different on that grand day in» 95.

It had been blown up for a couple weeks and he was going to top it off with air, but the little air compressor wasn't working.

Trampoline Transformation — The kids think they want a bounce house that we can blow up for events... but we didn't want to keep the hassle of a big bulky bounce house?

HR: That's a tough topic, and I think it was unfairly blown up for the campaign.

Mobile dating apps are blowing up for gay men and straight people, but what is on the market for queer ladies?.

Sure, there's bound to be a more marketing - friendly version, with Nicole Kidman's wrathful face blown up for all to see, but, for now, Chan - wook's fans can savor Version 1, which, ironically, bears the lines and hues of currency.

It can either be blown up for a poster, modeled regularly, or printed for each student.

This could even be blown up for display.

These can be blown up for display or provided to students as A4 sheets.

So if I blow up for example because of pension liabilities I can check afterwards wtf was I thinking.

Blow that up for some quick easy progression points.

Perhaps, on the contrary, we will see significant growth in sales, because safes can also be blown up for hard currency.

PS4 are clearly quieter than its predecessor (although fans sometimes blows up for cooling).

We used it heavily as part of a Global Climate Processes course at UW - Madison for later undergrad and grad students, so it has a good deal of flexibility in what you can test (though the model blows up for extreme forcings like snowball Earth, I used CO2 at about 140 ppm and couldn't get much lower than that).

Figure 4: IPCC TAR Figure 9.5 (a) blown up for the timeframe 2000 to 2020 to illustrate Easterbrook's curve (gray) overlaid on the HadCM3 curve (dark blue).

Evidently the plaint du jour out there in denial land is that there is a video showing kids being blown up for not believing in climate disruption (not recommended for winning hearts and kidneys).

Hundreds of mountains have been blown up for the coal beneath.

Not exact matches

Najib Danish, a spokesman for the interior ministry, said a suicide bomber appeared to have posed as a media worker and blew himself up where reporters and rescue workers had gathered.

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

I think of the young private on a checkpoint in Baghdad, waiting for someone to drive up with a vehicle - borne [improvised explosive device], just to blow up that checkpoint, and that private doesn't control that.

(A word of advice, though, don't abuse your access to a customer's email or phone number; they will resent you for blowing up their inbox.)

But as the day's final speaker, he couldn't leave the stage without blowing one more kiss at Ackman: Icahn disclosed that he has now asked his company for permission to take up to a 50 percent stake in Herbalife, the supplement company over which the two have battled so publicly.

Instead, we're due for a gradual deflation of expectations — with a few spectacular blow - ups.

How the legendary brand blew up its single - slogan approach and drafted a new playbook for the digital era.

The sell off in the market for high yield debt, or junk bonds, is now hitting a type of structured bond that is similar to the the type that blew up in the financial crisis.

While chatbots have been around for a while, they recently blew up in popularity when Facebook allowed branded chatbots onto its Facebook Messenger app.

The decision may be a blow to the Republican Party's fundraising as it gears up for midterm elections in November with an unpopular president as its standard - bearer.

For instance, Garbugli includes a little graphic in his presentation illustrating just how hard it is to concentrate before an impending meeting — the hours leading up to it are often dead time — and also quotes Y Combinator's Paul Graham: «A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon by breaking it into two pieces each to small to do anything hard in.»

There were ideas for lobbing mortars into Guantanamo naval base, in addition to blowing up some of the aircraft or ammunition there.

The risk for Amatrice and the surrounding towns is that if the rebuilding takes too long, the local youngsters will drift away, dealing a potentially fatal blow to communities where pensioners already make up a large proportion of inhabitants.

For that to happen, they must be more willing to stand up and blow their own horns.

What YouTube has allowed for is a mutability in the way content is conceived — what begins as a web series can easily transition into a TV show or perhaps a straight - to - video - movie, or if it really blows up, even a feature film.

While corporate Goliath's like Google will almost certainly survive the coming storm, the increasing emphasis on privacy protection could spell disaster for young start - up companies that ignore which way the winds are blowing.

Rather than blowing off the suggestion, I thanked the employee for bringing up the topic and laid out our benefits road map — which held potential for student debt assistance once the company gained another 100 employees.

«Anything that shoots off an armored vehicle, «x» amount of meters, and makes something blow up, is not good for the integrated dismounted / mounted operations.

The total blow adds up to $ 353 million for the three airlines, assuming the airports reopen Aug. 31.

If your idea takes the group's fancy — medical products, consumer electronics, and packaging are the in niches — ADLE is prepared to take the up - front risk, by, for example, creating a prototype and shopping it around to potential licensees, or doing a full - blown feasibility study, which can cost ADLE at least $ 200,000.

Concord Technologies, for example, has two data centers «so if one blew up our customers» fax numbers would keep working,» says Ralph Musgrove, the company's executive vice president.

Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn't blow up on ascent,» Musk tweeted in December.

«If you look at my track record at Sybase, I think we made money for some 60 quarters in a row, even when the dotcom bubble blew up we were profitable.

Avon has racked up about $ 1.8 billion in losses and last year sold off its North American business to private equity firm Cerberus, a huge blow for a company founded in 1886 in New York when a door - to - door bookseller found that the perfumes he mixed himself were popular with his customers.

While the immigration actions include more support for highly skilled foreign students and entrepreneurs, Obama did not expand the number of available start - up or H1 - B visas — a blow to the tech sector in particular.

Hickey contends the markets were ripe for a sell - off, which was sparked by converging factors including worries that rising wages will spur higher interest rates, pension fund re-balancing and short volatility ETFs blowing up.

Over the course of six seasons, viewers have watched the firm's partners battle for business, come to blows, grow big, get acquired, fall apart, relaunch as a start - up, lose key clients, gain even better clients — and most recently, merge with a rival.

«It really blew up our system,» said Jake Fisher, the head of automotive testing for Consumer Reports.