Sentences with phrase «bored by the material»

Perhaps understandably, he looks bored by the material and the limited challenge of the role.

Nicholas Hoult is serviceable, but he feels bored by the material, and compared with his turn in Warm Bodies, not hard to see why.

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Levitt, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former US intelligence agent, told jurors he did not know if the materials found on Tsarnaev's computer, including sermons by US - born Al Qaeda figure Anwar al - Awlaki and issues of Al Qaeda's «Inspire» magazine, were put there by Tsarnaev or by someone else, such as his brother.

He had been drawn in to the construction - materials business by an intriguing product puzzle and found himself in an $ 11 billion industry that bore the onus of helping fend off a global crisis.

Material for the Boring Bricks will be taken from the rocks and dirt excavated by the company's tunnel boring maBoring Bricks will be taken from the rocks and dirt excavated by the company's tunnel boring maboring machine.

Eramet, which is 25.6 per cent controlled by an investment arm of the French government, has apparently been invigorated over the past 18 months by the appointment of a new chief executive, Christel Bores, and by the material recovery of markets for its major products, manganese and nickel.

We also have experienced, and may experience in the future, gross margin declines in certain businesses, reflecting the effect of items such as competitive pricing pressures, inventory write - downs and increases in component and manufacturing costs resulting from higher labor and material costs borne by our manufacturers and suppliers that, as a result of competitive pricing pressures or other factors, we are unable to pass on to our customers.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Unofficially dubbed as the «Boring Bricks» by the billionaire entrepreneur, the life - size LEGO - like interlocking blocks would be sold as kits and as material for low - cost housing projects.

I object to Stanton Jones» use of the words homosexuality and heterosexuality as equivalent descriptions of different kinds of sexual behavior, because doing so ignores the facts that 1) «heterosexuality» is the result of the allocation of genetic material at conception that determines which reproductive organs people are born with» male or female» and 2) «homosexuality» is sexual action by people who are heterosexual.

So we may say that since by a sort of chain - reaction consciousness, itself borne of complexity, finds itself in a position to bring about «artificially» a further increase of complexity in its material dwelling (thus engendering or liberating a further growth of reflective consciousness, and so on...) the terrestrial evolution of Life, following its main axis of hominization, is not only completely altering the scale of its creations but is also entering an «explosive» phase of an entirely new kind.

Both narrators bring to bear a literary and interpretative artistry by the primary means of a highly perceptive selectivity and arrangement of material.

The six - story building was designed by Buffalo architect Carlton T. Strong and Ernest L. Ransome, an English - born architect who first experimented with reinforced concrete construction by using twisted metal rods to strengthen the material.

Simply put, by employing less expensive semiconducting material thin - film solar cells would be cheaper to make, a fact born out by thin - film solar manufacturer First Solar's world - beating module that costs 73 cents per watt in 2011, albeit before the expense of installing it on the roof.

I was both fascinated by the task and appalled at the quality of teaching materials being used (they had an awful book called The Structure of Scientific English which bored students to death).

Most such lavas have been altered by billions of years of mixing, but in this case, the rocks bore chemical signatures of truly primitive material, almost untouched by time.

Now the Singapore - born, U.S. - trained materials scientist will be addressing the fault lines in global higher education by becoming the founding president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia with a $ 10 billion endowment and aspirations to become a world - class research institution.

By contrast, the points used for cutting, scraping and boring were hewn more casually from readily available local materials.

«By analysing this high harmonic spectrum, we can observe the change in the structural order in these strongly correlated materials «live» for the first time,» says first author of the paper Rui Silva of the Max Born Institute.

Tough «water bears» defy intense radiation by apparently wrapping their genetic material in a bizarre protein that can also protect human cells

Past studies by other researchers had looked at brown bear DNA in comparison to polar bear DNA, but this was the first time anyone had been able to get DNA material from Irish brown bears.

Do you display a board full of exhaustive technical material, knowing that the few who will read it to the end will be outnumbered by the many more who may be deterred from reading it (thus confirming their suspicions that science is difficult and boring)?

Planets can be born in the same way, so by tracing comets like 67P back to the pebbles that made them, we can find out more about what kinds of material made Earth.

A new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark - and wood - boring insects, according to a study by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).

Later, however, it was shown by C.J. Edwards and R. Barnett that the sample that matched Sykes and co-authors» Himalayan ones, was in fact, from a present - day Polar Bear from Alaska, not from a fossil, and they hypothesized that the genetic material in the samples attributed to an unknown type of bear might have been misleading because of degradatBear from Alaska, not from a fossil, and they hypothesized that the genetic material in the samples attributed to an unknown type of bear might have been misleading because of degradatbear might have been misleading because of degradation.

Another process that the scientists investigated was lithopanspermia — the means by which life - bearing material on one planet can be ejected by meteor impacts and delivered to the surface of another planet.

Dr. Rosso's current projects include the following: (1) characterizing the kinetics and mechanisms of elementary charge and ion transport processes in redox transformation of iron oxide minerals, (2) predicting molecular - scale electron transfer kinetics in microbially - mediated reduction of bioavailable iron in subsurface environments, (3) studying mechanisms of heterogeneous reduction of contaminant U (VI) and Tc (VII) by Fe (II)- bearing minerals, (4) simulation of coupled charge and ion transport in transition metal oxide electrodes for advanced materials applications, (5) probing mechanisms and kinetics of mineral transformation to metal carbonates for geological carbon sequestration, and (6) studying mechanisms of uptake and retention of uranium in sediments.

The 32 T superconducting system is made from two primary sections, an outsert section delivering 15 Tesla in a 250 mm wide bore magnet developed by Oxford Instruments Nanoscience (OINS) using advanced Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) materials operating at 4.2 Kelvin and an insert section delivering 17 Tesla in 34 mm cold bore developed by our colleagues at NHMFL using advanced High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) materials manufactured by Superpower Inc..

Though the site is basic, bear in mind that these materials are high - quality, designed by professional linguists with the goal of learner fluency.

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon - 14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by Manplay the Internet's hottest gay dating site for sexy men; whether you're looking to meet a bear, twink or daddy, ManPlay has a man for you!

Chicago born author Edgar Rice Burroughs, in reading pulp magazines circa early 1900's, felt he could easily produce better material and subsequently came up with a story of a white orphan boy, raised by apes, who grows up to become king of the jungle.

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (In Alphabetical Order) 13 Assassins Elite Squad: The Enemy Within Footnote Le Havre Point Blank Top 5 Documentaries (In Alphabetical Order) Born to be Wild Buck George Harrison: Living in the Material World Project Nim Senna Top 10 Independent Films (In Alphabetical Order) 50/50 Another Earth Beginners A Better Life Cedar Rapids Margin Call Shame Take Shelter We Need To Talk About Kevin Win Win «HUGO is such a personal film by Martin Scorsese,» said Annie Schulhof, NBR President.

The filmmakers are clearly bored with this material, an attitude that isn't obscured by the good secondary cast (Charlotte Rampling, David Thewlis), the decision to set the shrink's office inside the phallic Swiss headquarters, or the mention of Jacques Lacan.

By 1985, Madonna was not only a chart - topping global force, she was a show - stopping performer, revealing her cinematic potential in the video for «Material Girl,» with its nod to Marilyn Monroe's «Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend» sequence from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as her controversial performance of «Like A Virgin» at the 1984 VMAs, in which a white wedding dress - clad, «BOY TOY» belt - bearing Madge writhed around the stage floor like the future Queen of All Media everyone (primarily she) thought she might become.

Never Let Me Go is a film born of pedigree; director Mark Romanek is a much loved music video director, writer Alex Garland is a dab hand at adapting difficult material (The Beach) as well as intelligent sci - fi (Sunshine), and the source material is the critically acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

You're never bored, but there's so much material covered here that The Last Jedi easily could have been two movies, and there's so many final standoffs and climactic scenes by its close that it feels like at least four or five movies» worth of conclusions.

, published on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/quando-recursos-minerais-se-esgotarao-648952.shtml >, based on information from the US Geological Survey, the US government agency responsible for geological research that crossed information on the annual consumption, mineral reserves available on the planet and its predictable extinction: 1) Platinum (use in surgical materials)-- Extinction by 2049; 2) Silver (use in the manufacture of mirrors and cutlery)-- Extinction in 2016; 3) Copper (use in wire and cable and air conditioning ducts)-- Extinction in 2027; 4) Antimony (use in remote controls and other materials to increase strength)-- Extinction 2020; 5) Lithium (use in cell phone batteries, laptops and video games)-- Extinction in 2053; 6) Phosphorus (use in agricultural fertilizers)-- Extinction in 2149; 7) Uranium (use for electric power generation)-- Extinction in 2026; 8) Indian (use in smartphones and tablets touch screen screens)-- Extinction in 2020; 9) Tantalum (use in cameras lenses)-- Extinction in 2027; 10) Nickel (use in metal alloy coating, electronics such as cell phones)-- Extinction in 2064; 11) Tin (use in coating metal alloys, such as those used in the soft drink cans)-- Extinction 2024; 12) Lead (use in car batteries and trucks and welds and bearings)-- Extinction in 2015; 13) Gold (use as jewelry and computer microchips)-- Extinction in 2043; 14) Zinc (use to cover alloys, preventing rust that destroy objects like coins)-- Extinction in 2041.

Reflecting on those personal feelings helps us understand what it feels like for students who do not have the foundational background to understand the new topics the class is learning or who have already mastered the current material and are bored by having to listen to lessons that don't introduce new information for them.

Other expenses involved in preparing the required materials (for instance, faculty time and clerical support) are borne by the institution.

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Turn boring material into an interesting novella where characters claim their solutions through the decisions made by the learner.

You want the potential reader to be entertained by your material and not think of how boring this text is.

Either way, there are upfront costs that are borne by the small publisher and / or author: cover art, professional editing, book launch (giveaways, website, advanced reader copies), and marketing materials (bookmarks, posters for in - person signings).

«We insure, up to the limit of liability... for this coverage for direct physical loss not caused by the negligence of an insured, to property covered under Section I caused by water or water - borne material, which... backs up through sewers or drains...»

On the other hand, flood is defined by the insurance industry and the federal government as «water or water - borne material moving along the ground.»

Floods — defined as water or water - borne material moving along the ground are not covered by any renters insurance policy in Wilmington or elsewhere.

If you have damage from water or water - borne material that backs up through a toilet, sink, drain, or similar outlet, that's covered by the water backup endorsement.

We insure, up to the limit of liability shown in the Declarations for this coverage, for direct physical loss, not caused by the negligence of an «insured», to property covered under Section I caused by water, or water - borne material, which:

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