Sentences with phrase «breakneck speeds of»

Driving on walls, inside cylindrical tunnels, destroying bridges and obstacles, and barrel rolling off massive jumps at breakneck speeds of 400 - 700 km / h is incredibly satisfying.

While Congress is on a weeklong Thanksgiving break, the breakneck speed of the Republican push to overhaul the US tax code has taken a bill close to passing in the Senate.

Innovations had been coming along before that, but the breakneck speed of technological growth is centered largely on electrical and electronic devices.

However, even travelling at a breakneck speed of about 95,000 kilometres / hour, it took so long for the interstellar object to make the journey to our Solar System that Vega was not near that position when the asteroid was there about 300,000 years ago.

NEAR will be built at the breakneck speed of 29 months, in part because it relies on equipment developed as part of the Star Wars programme.

Now, astronomer Pilar Ruiz - Lapuente of the University of Barcelona and her colleagues claim to have identified the murderous star, which survived the ordeal but was flung into space at a breakneck speed of almost 500,000 kilometers per hour after its partner's demise.

During this phase, some infalling gas was swallowed by the black hole, while the remaining was pumped out at a breakneck speed of nearly 2 million miles per hour.

The breakneck speed of real estate transactions in British Columbia has some brokers so concerned, they are suggesting agents have clients sign a form spelling out that they understand the risks when offers are made with no conditions.

In an age of rapid digital transformation, keeping up with the breakneck speed of change can be difficult.

The tempo is more in line with the breakneck speed of Marvel vs. Capcom than the methodical footsies of Street Fighter, and rounds are rarely decided by a Time Over.

Between the awkward nature of controlling your units, and having to nudge the cursor around with the joystick, the breakneck speed of the PC version slows to an almost glacial pace.

Neither side however has claimed that medieval temperatures collided with the peak of the Medieval Warming Period at the breakneck speed of jousting medieval knights on horseback.

The opportunistic species are moving at the breakneck speed of «about a mile a year,» intrepid climate - chaos promoter Seth Borenstein anxiously noted in his AP wire story.

The breakneck speed of the news cycle makes it difficult for the reporter to gather context, but it looks as if reporters try to at least get some comment from other researchers in the field, which is probably the most helpful way forwards.

With the constant evolution and breakneck speed of technological advances, it's imperative that counsel bring together a multifaceted team of stakeholders to support Information Governance and Discovery initiatives.

When it comes to technology, are we not always hearing about the breakneck speed of change?

Coherent leadership over the whole of access to justice may be practically impossible but this review is part of a process of seeking less ambitiously just to decipher and pull together what is going on at a time of breakneck speed of developments.

Landlords are struggling to keep up with the breakneck speed of increases in the need for rental housing.

Not exact matches

In the mindset of days past, customers had to expect steep prices to get top quality at breakneck speed.

Boycotts are rarely effective, or lasting, particularly when they come and go with the speed of today's breakneck news cycle.

I bring this up because it is not insane or misguided to be wary of the marvels that are entering our world at breakneck speed.

From his release, both pitches look identical to batters needing to make the micro-second decisions that go into swinging, but one shoots by them at breakneck speeds, and the other dives out of the zone while still hitting 91 mph on the gun.

While most of Southeast Asia is developing at breakneck speed, Battambang gives the impression that it's quite content to have settled into an earlier, simpler time.

«Prentice has returned to the PCs» happy place of secrecy and entitlement at breakneck speed, proving that he doesn't understand regular Alberta families.

In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

And then there was Javier (who was better known by his place of origin, Oaxaca) a tireless ball of energy who even after flipping sauté pans at a breakneck speed all night would inevitably start filling the grill with peppers and the fry baskets with fresh - cut wedges of corn tortillas once service started slowing down.

Striving to show her grit and daring, she played football with the stableboys, drove cars and motorcycles at breakneck speeds and once, on a dare, climbed to the precarious upper reaches of the Laurel water tower.

The sellout home crowd of 61,168 rested its lungs early as Missouri quarterback James Franklin conducted an eight - play touchdown drive at breakneck speed (2:45) to open the game.

This team is designed to be played with at breakneck speed, don't take your foot off the throttle and overwhelm your opponent with wave after wave of attacks.

With the plethora of games it would be understandable that we do not play at breakneck speed for 90 minutes.

I was at Stratton when my step - brother and Jake Burton Carpenter and their friends developed the first snowboards in the 1970s and watched as they rocketed down the mountain at breakneck speeds and launched for what were, at the time, heart stopping jumps off of four - foot ramps.

Marriage is changing in so many ways these days and the rigid paradigm of Ozzie and Harriet is going by the wayside at breakneck speeds.

With week thirty - nine just around the corner, the baby will make breakneck speed during the full maturation of its brain and lungs before it he or she is born.

That the plot develops at breakneck speed — it's hard to believe the show is three hours long — owes much to the economy and precision of director Lyndsey Turner's vision, brought to life by ES Devlin's ingenious set design.

It's a lesson which is actually starting to damage the coalition, as it proceeds, crack - addict - like, with a mad variety of initiatives at breakneck speed.

And on the other side of the borough, along the Grand Concourse, the Bronx's main thoroughfare, landlords are swapping buildings at breakneck speed, upping the price tag with each trade.

Eternal health, brain uploads, the end of privacy... with technological innovations coming at breakneck speed, how will they affect our evolution?

The flurry of action — at breakneck speed compared with most vaccine development — shows how a health emergency and a guaranteed global market can prod this process to move a lot faster than usual, with streamlined approvals and millions of dollars in government support.

Thus, for these beetles, skiing across a pond at breakneck speeds costs a lot of energy and requires greater wing thrust than normal flying.

According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the movie's black hole, known as Gargantua, must have had a mass 100 million times that of the sun and whirled about its own axis at breakneck speeds.

And to push her metaphor further, you might say that she pays close attention to her plumage: Her dresses come from Milan, and she perches on stiletto heels day and night, whether relaxing at home, practicing salsa, or striding across the medieval flagstones of Cambridge at a breakneck speed.

Autophagy is a relatively new target in cancer, infectious disease and neurodegenerative disorders, and while advances in the fundamental understanding of autophagy are increasing at a breakneck speed, translation of these advances into clinical trials and clinical benefit has been lagging.

Instead of patiently unraveling life's secrets gene by gene, we can now read them at breakneck speed — thanks in great part to an ingenious, admired, despised, once aimless and now wealthy biologist named Craig Venter.

Computers can speed things up by sifting through potential solutions at breakneck speed, but even the world's top supercomputers meet their match with a certain class of problems, known as «hard» problems.

THE genetics revolution has progressed at breakneck speed since the discovery of the structure of DNA and regulators have often struggled to keep up.

The game compresses four and a half billion years of Earth history into a single minute, letting players become high - speed time travelers and race through the geologic ages at breakneck speed.

Street professional at breakneck speed without handles paper basis of.

As it grows at breakneck speed, the online dating industry has devised a new way of services for their members and even non-members.

Despite the breakneck pace of the prologue, it takes quite a while for The Last of Us to pick up some speed again.

But the brilliance of Billions lies in acting like there isn't, moving at a breakneck speed through every convoluted concept and complex plotline.