Sentences with phrase «by puny»

Don't be fooled by that puny - looking grey nib that's sprouted on the right hand side - it's a fully - fledged C - stick capable of 360 degree movement.

Also nominated in this category were Pets Race, a multi-player racing game where the characters are cute animals, by Kooapps from the United States; Drawing for Kids, a game that uses animation to encourage children to explore drawing, developed by Bini Bambini of the Ukraine; and Skye by Puny Astronaut of Scotland.

The other nominees in this category were SIMULACRA by Kaigan Games from Malaysia, Past Cure by Phantom 8 Studio from Germany and Skye by Puny Astronaut from Scotland.

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Their credit increased a puny $ 548 even though the cost of their policy rose by $ 3,527.

Davis, however, believes that the made - in - the - USA movement has serious limitations — particularly a puny domestic supply chain crippled by an unskilled labor pool, at least when it comes to custom manufacturing.

Adding insult to injury, the puny effective tax saving to those tax - filers from the capital gains partial inclusion (worth $ 7.50 in federal taxes at the 15 % marginal rate) was only half the effective savings pocketed by the top 1 % tax - filers (realized at a 29 % rate) on EACH $ 100 of their capital gains partial inclusion (which was then applied against a capital gains flow that was 600 times larger).

He knows he must go out to meet his destiny with his whole being, and he sacrifices «his puny, unfree will, that is controlled by things and instincts, to his grand will, which quits defined for destined being.»

And, as time went on, the more open - minded learned of the pomp and magnificence of the religion of their captors and the might of supreme Marduk before whom, by the accepted test of arms, Yahweh's puny strength had but mocked his people's need.

Even though the individual life may be cherished by God forever, its purposes by itself are ridiculously puny.

Ethics has in its possession no chance, and so matters do not come to an explanation, it does not jest with dignities, it lays a prodigious responsibility upon the shoulders of the puny hero, it denounces as presumption his wanting to play providence by his actions, but it also denounces him for wanting to do it by his suffering.

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews.

It is the result of nothing but an invincible blindness from which we suffer, an insensibility to the inner significance of alien lives, and a conceit that would project our own incapacity into the vast cosmos, and measure the wants of the Absolute by our own puny needs.

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

Next came Rohan's Miami teammates, also not puny - puny, who teased him about his father's ganja smoking and about the alleged looting of Bob's estate by members of his family.

Justice Holmes argued against the majority opinion by adding two adjectives to his test: «imminent» and «forthwith» as a better indicator of violation and called the leaflets «poor and puny anonymities,» and that any charge should be «the most nominal punishment» based on their radical views (Lewis 29).

The GDP data is unambiguous that our recovery is almost entirely due to the oil sector - in Q2 2017, when we exited recession, oil sector growth was 3.5 % while the non-oil economy grew a puny 0.45 %; in Q3 the non-oil economy went back into contraction with negative -0.76 % growth, but the overall economy was lifted by oil sector growth of 25.89 %; and in Q4 the oil sector grew by 8.38 %, while non-oil expanded by 1.45 %.

Mr President, as a Citizen, I have observed with shame, the litany of «puny», and sometimes cookedstories thrown at us by your Ministers and Other Appointees in your Government!

The Triassic was a strange time, Gay notes, with «little tiny, puny things running around getting eaten by everything else out there, giant toilet - headed reptiles, strange plant - eating crocodiles with giant pig snouts.

The sperm, in size as well as in deed, was puny by comparison.

When Hubble observations showed this also occurring around galaxies too puny to warp light by themselves, astronomers realized that the galaxies must be suffused with an unseen kind of material — dark matter — that invisibly adds mass to the universe.

His team estimates that the distant galaxies, which are too tiny to be clearly resolved by Hubble, are making stars at a puny rate.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

Every summer, you take your puny body to the beach, get sand kicked in your face by a house on legs, and vow to get in shape.

OTC kits only contain puny hydrogen peroxide, and tend not to be as effective as stronger products that might be utilised by your dentist.

Where Megamind is unnervingly smart but puny and unpopular, the buff, boffo Metro Man (voiced to perfection by Pitt) was born to lead.

The enjoyment of the close, respectful, top - quality racing between these puny cars is only matched by just how demanding and deliriously fun they are to drive.

With the growth of wheel sizes it has become common to see puny brake discs surrounded by lots of space.

These aren't small puny shocks by any means and the increased oil capacity should work well to keep the shocks performing while prerunning through the desert to keep cavitation at bay.

All My Puny Sorrows takes its title from a line in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 — 1834), who is considered by many to be the founder of the Romantic Movement in poetry.

A 2 GB of internal storage is indeed puny by today's standards considering that even the new Kindle has twice that to offer.

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews I scored this novel at a book exchange party a couple months ago, and it felt like winning the most unexpectedly beautiful prize.

By Wataru Onoda A Buddhist gag comedy about a job - seeking youth who meets a puny, ill - natured monk.

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But most people don't pay attention to those «puny dividends» and the income kick you can achieve by reinvesting your dividends.

When individual investors engage in foreign exchange trading, it is like a puny human trying to get close to a casino craps table run by elephants.

This is a non-sporting breed of dog, puny in size but energetic by nature, this dog can be white, brindle or fawn in color.

It's humbling to see these huge creatures in the everyday of life — side by side with us puny human beings.

A CreditCards.com study released March 16 comparing gas station rewards cards says the savings are relatively puny — and will shrink further if gas prices increase significantly by the time the BP Visa card returns to the market.

There's something so pleasurable about the sheer amount of dice that Fleet Battles typically has you handling at any one time, and I was engrossed in figuring out the best firing solutions for my battlegroups before inevitably being forced to watch as my puny plans were ruined by a devastating barrage of fire from a Covenant group I'd foolishly let get too close.

So, I'm not allowed to show the final map size, but I can say it's going to make every other Assassin's Creed look puny by comparison.

Being absolutely smashed by AI Jagdpanthers that your puny Churchills can not hope to penetrate can get old after a while.

Most sites write about them in little short, puny articles that seem like they're written by a 5th grader.

A triangular piece of the same structure rested against a gallery wall, while a third part, a flying wedge erected high on steel scaffolding anchored by absurdly puny black sandbags, stood opposite.

Probably best known for the relatively puny life - sized sculpture of Jesus Christ (crowned in barbed wire) that he installed for one year on the massive, empty Fourth Plinth of London's Trafalgar Square in 1999, he won the Turner Prize for State Britain, a monumental 2007 installation that recreated a five - year - long anti-Iraq war protest in front of Parliament that was destroyed by the London police in 2006.

The enormity of global warming, they seemed to say — should it really be fixed by us, sitting in this puny room?

When Gort first visited in 1951, it spent little effort on climate change issues, focusing on other aspects of our planet instead: Gort returned in 2012 to answer puny human climatologist questions about whether climate change caused particular weather phenomena by making an obvious point: rather than struggle with theoretical analysis, you can simply use your Climate Changeometer to remove all the excess greenhouse gases and aerosols above natural levels and then measure the outcome.

It is for you and your kind that I fervently hope we do not have the sorts of scenarios envisioned by people like Lovelock or Hawking, individuals whose stature is so far above your puny trolling contemptible self that you are no more than a fly on the dung they drop.

Logarithmic or not, one should not overlook the massive differences between the puny amount of CO2 emitted by humans (or even the relatively tiny amount of total carbon contained in all fossil fuels on this planet) as compared with the gigantic carbon sink contained in the carbonate / bicarbonate of the ocean.

The IPCC summary is deeply flawed as a scientific document and as I have explained in other recent articles it appears impossible for increased levels of atmospheric CO2 at the puny levels caused by mankind to affect the characteristics of the atmosphere enough to significantly enhance the greenhouse effect and even if it could do so then any such effect would be quickly neutralised by the primary solar / oceanic driver and the oceans acting in conjunction with evaporation, condensation and atmospheric convection (which includes clouds and rain).

No doubt a lot of Americans will read a political story into the Azimuthal equidistant projection used by the United Nations in their symbol and flag, where the United States looks positively puny compared to South America and Africa.