Sentences with phrase «by a balloon of»

Flying high over Antarctica, a NASA long duration balloon has broken the record for longest flight by a balloon of its size.

Not exact matches

Cryptos are a lot more fun when you can freely and by hook or crook manipulate prices up and watch the fruits of your handiwork balloon into endless perceived wealth than when these manipulated prices suddenly run out of this fuel and plunge.

When the Bitcoin price peaked at $ 20,000 in December, the value of Mt. Gox's assets (by then including Bitcoin derivatives such as Bitcoin Cash) ballooned to $ 4.4 billion — nearly 10 times the amount Mt. Gox said it lost in the first place.

Arizona - based World View Enterprises Inc. is developing a fleet of high - altitude platforms, called stratollites, carried by balloons to the edge of space.

Musk says that a giant balloon is «great for creating a giant object that retains its shape across all Mach regimes & drops ballistic coefficient by 2 orders of magnitude.»

When Branson isn't risking his body in a hot air balloon or a wetsuit, he looks after it by playing daily tennis matches and swimming, kitesurfing, and paddleboarding in the waters off Necker Island, often in the company of friends like Google co-founder Larry Page and President Barack Obama.

The new makeshift transmitting antenna, dubbed «Funtenna» by lead researcher Ang Cui of Red Balloon Security, adds another potential channel that likewise be would be hard to detect because no traffic logs would catch data leaving the premises.

By 1913, the number of attendees had ballooned to 250,000 — making the annual show, which had been relocated to the Olympia due to the growing number of displays, more popular than the city's Horse Show.

Airports across the country are seeing lines balloon in size, thanks to a «perfect storm» of conditions — the number of airline passengers has increased to 700 million; there's massive attrition of TSA security screeners each week; TSA has cut staff by 10 percent over the last three years; and not enough passengers have enrolled in TSA's PreCheck program, the Associated Press reports.

It is the latest in a series of setbacks for 1MDB, which has been offloading assets to cut a debt load that ballooned to more than $ 11 billion by 2015.

According to Scotiabank's Derek Holt, who predicts household grocery bills could balloon by as much as 15 % in the next few years, the failure of the international community to settle on a rational policy for handling shortages has led to stockpiling and export bans, which «further impairs supply sides of markets and causes prices to go up even more.»

Two years in the making, Woodle says he created the ballooning hoodie — which takes three seconds to inflate by mouth — as part of a quest to «elevate the small aspects of life,» your weary brainpan included.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Canada has seen its co-efficient increase by 0.02 since the 1970s, whereas the U.S. has seen a relative ballooning of 0.06 in the same time frame.

The value of the Internet economy may be understated in GDP calculations, for example, but the omission is offset by artificial inflations in other sectors like financial services, which ballooned in the run - up to 2008 thanks to risky, unsustainable products like mortgage - backed securities.

As the number of initial fundings balloons, and as nontraditional money creates a powerful updraft for companies that make it through the initial cull, the imperative to cross the valley by any means necessary becomes ever more urgent.

It's a question faced by many western brands that over the past 15 years have flocked east, eager for the potential profits presented by a nation of 1.5 billion people with a ballooning middle class.

By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

The Fed is helping the process of moving toward more normal interest rate levels by winding down its balance sheet, slowly releasing the air from the balloon, he said.

By making one large lump sum payment, balloon loans allow borrowers to lower their monthly loan repayment costs in the initial stages of paying back a loan.

Project Loon aims to deliver high - speed internet connectivity by using giant helium balloons to function as airborne mobile phone towers, floating untethered at an altitude of 20 km.

Maduro's administration has pointedly claimed that the people who will be hurt most by the sanctions aimed at stymieing the nation's ballooning debt will be shareholders in the U.S. Indeed, there is outcry that the potential banning of oil imports from Venezuela — the 3rd biggest supplier of oil to the U.S. behind Canada and Saudi Arabia — will dramatically drive up gasoline prices and hurt the U.S. job market.

Rising house prices and the accompanying wealth effect, courtesy of ballooning equity lines of credit, have kept the economy from faltering as business spending retrenches and exports disappoint — last year real estate was by far the largest contributor to GDP in seven of 10 provinces, including B.C. and Ontario.

Founded by 34 - year - old Kim So Hee in 2004, the company has in 14 years ballooned from an online merchant of trendy goods to a $ 150 million annual business that's spread across beauty, fashion, café and boutique ventures.

While Google has been testing these balloons in the U.S. for the past two years — they have a test site in Winnemucca, Nev. — this is one of the rare times they've actually been spotted by a human being.

Amid the political mayhem, Greece's cost of borrowing ballooned, with the interest demanded by markets to buy Greek 10 - year bonds exceeding 31 percent - compared with 2 percent for European powerhouse Germany.

Yet instead of enhancing the Fed's conventional powers of monetary control, the ballooning of the Fed's balance sheet has sapped those powers by making it unnecessary for banks to routinely borrow from one another in the federal funds market to meet their legal reserve requirements.

Google X Project Loon balloons may provide 22 MB / s Internet speeds to rural and remote corners of the world by 2015, which experience no or weak Internet connection.

Unsurprisingly, avarice prevailed as some traders speculated in stocks paid for by billions of dollars worth of unsecured checks, causing Kuwait's stock market to inflate like a balloon and pop in a most analogous manner.

Credit default swaps on Saudi Arabian debt have ballooned, and Dubai's debt pile, estimated to have reached $ 130 billion at the end of 2015 by the Institute of International Finance, is once again garnering the attention of distressed debt investors.

There are a lot of different kinds of mortgages, including fixed - or adjustable - rate (ARM), interest - only, balloon mortgages, and special programs sponsored by the Federal Housing Administration and Veteran's Administration.

«People all across this province are struggling to buy their first homes, scrambling to find space for growing families, and being squeezed by ballooning costs and low availability of rental homes.

Many parents may be overwhelmed by the cost of college, which has ballooned...

The family of Alfie Evans said they have been left «shattered» by his death, as more than 1,000 supporters gathered to release balloons in his memory.

The argument here is that the civil (political) and religious balloons have not been easy to hold together because of the ambivalence toward the church so widely felt by Mexicans in the civic arena.

In return for the guarantee of flying any religious balloon, all churches» balloon strings must be available for handling by government.

Religious balloon strings, being no longer the property of the church only, could be grasped by anybody, including (perhaps especially) judges.

In between, balloons will drop on the first Mormon to be nominated by a major political party to be president of the United States.

As one who ascends in a balloon rises by casting weights from him, so does the despairing man sink by casting from him the good (for the weight of the good is uplift), he sinks, doubtless he thinks he is rising — he does indeed become lighter.

My grade - school science teacher demonstrated the chemical reaction of baking soda and vinegar by mixing them in a test tube and placing a balloon over the top so it would inflate from the gas that formed.

Flowers hardly seemed appropriate for a 5» 10» teenage boy, but a balloon centerpiece flanked by jars of candy worked perfectly.

It is called Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade by Melissa Sweet.

Assets held by Challenger's two main funds management businesses are expected to balloon by a compound annual rate of 13 per cent over the same time period.

When inflated by propane burners, the illuminated balloons come to life with brightly glowing colors and the roar of the burners.

Balloonists can steer a balloon to a limited extent, by adjusting the balloon's altitude to make use of different wind speeds and directions.

Located just north of San Diego County, California, the Festival has a successful history of celebrating Southern California Wine Country's finest assets of clear skies dotted by hot air balloons, mild temperatures, and rolling vineyards.

The festival has a successful 33 year history of celebrating Southern California Wine Country's finest assets of clear skies, dotted by hot air balloons, mild temperatures and rolling vineyards.

Beat egg whites in the very clean bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment on medium speed until frothy, about 30 seconds (you can also use a handheld beater, or do this by hand with a balloon whisk).

Your body steps up its defense mechanisms by instantaneously inflating liquid - filled balloons of sorts inside your oral cavity.

However, at certain moments it is difficult to convince him of this — such as the time he was fastened by a bungee cord to a hot - air balloon, or the time he was pummeled with a jousting stick on the set of American Gladiators.