Sentences with phrase «by a flight of»

Some were seduced by the flight of liberalism, hoping that economic gains might result, such as by creating riches to be later re-distributed, or by the idea of the indivisibility of freedoms, market freedom being the forerunner of other freedoms to come.

There is one step access to the squash courts but, the spectators viewing area is accessible by a flight of stairs only.

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Fundamentally structured by the flight of the prison escapees, They Live By Night progressively coheres around the developing romance between Keechie and Bowie.

Of course, the life gets bogged down by flights of over-dramatized tragedy: the death of a loved one, a crappy childhood, and even a foray into serious drugs coupled with a loyal love of alcohol.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo form the eastern edge of the Rust Belt — America's former industrial heartland straddling the Great Lakes from New York to Wisconsin — that has been devastated by the flight of manufacturing jobs to lower - wage, nonunionized states and countries.

The side of the car is distinguished by a dramatic «Squash Line» that adds a powerful dynamism to the profile, so called because the angles were inspired by the flight of a fast moving squash ball travelling around a court.

Though Neil Gaiman's celebrated Newbery winner kicks off in an indubitably horrifying way, it is overall a warmhearted work buoyed by flights of fancy.

Each of the beaches is reached by a flight of stairs down from the road on which parking can sometimes be extremely difficult.

Apart from the flat, all the rooms are upstairs, and are reached by a flight of stairs.

Villa Opal, which was built in 2004 and has a two - story Mexican - and Spanish - style exterior, has a main entrance off a sprawling second - floor deck accessed by a flight of exterior stairs.

In Henri Matisse's Nu bleu aux bas verts (blue nude with green stockings)(1954), the body, in paper cut - outs, is celebrated by the flight of dance.

This process is being amplified by a flight of capital, as investors fear that expensive coal mines and coal - burning power plants may become «stranded assets,» with no markets.

This process is being amplified by a flight of capital, as investors fear that expensive coal mines and coal - burning power plants may become «stranded assets,» with no markets, as renewables ramp up and limits on CO2 emissions begin to bite.

In Tallinn's homes, the subterranean stoker's room of the hypocaust and the heated bedroom on the ground floor were usually connected by a flight of stairs.

III control over federal court jurisdiction would not, by any flight of fancy, permit Congress to control proceedings in state courts.

Not exact matches

By filling those flights, the aircraft owner can recover the cost of the deadhead and the client can reach his destination.

Inspired by the competition that eventually led to Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight, Diamandis launched the contest with the goal of jumpstarting the commercial space industry.

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

In June of that year, he led a flight of U.S. defenders against an 80 - plane attack by Japanese forces, disrupting the attack and shooting down seven of the enemy.

British Columbia may have pulled up the welcome mat for Chinese home buyers with a 15 % tax on purchases by foreigners, but the number of flights to Vancouver from China just keeps climbing.

I went from a person totally okay with curling up in my leggings and sweatshirt into a tiny ball entertained by pre-loaded podcasts for an entire flight to a traveler constantly comparing the lack of amenities, professionalism, and comfort of any seat on any airline to the two roundtrip business class flights I took on Emirates.

But when people live in a constant state of fight or flight that's triggered by all the things they're trying to squeeze into a week, this can lead to really poor decisions and life - threatening health problems.

Like the Ansari X Prize, which was claimed in 2004 by aircraft designer Burt Rutan and financier Paul Allen for a pair of flights by SpaceShipOne, the Google Lunar X Prize is open to private industry and non-government entities worldwide.

Southwest even creates other reminders that there are humans in the company by still using manual boards in airports to post flight numbers and other information instead of using digital screens.

The airline has canceled dozens of flights to inspect fan blades on the engines on its Boeing 737 fleet and said Tuesday that it expects to complete the desk by mid-May.

By reducing the constant stream of inputs, the chronic fight or flight response will be tempered.

American and Delta are in the process of rolling out these fares on flights to Europe, and executives have said they measure its success by the rate of passengers who pay higher fares to avoid it.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was a «state - sponsored» attack, carried out by «guys like me.»

The service, called Fly - Fi, is provided by Amazon and available on all domestic flights, free of charge to all passengers.

An example is the program begun by the late Al Ueltshci, founder of FlightSafety, a pioneer in training airplane pilots using flight simulators.

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The luxury estate agent forecast the first sub-orbital flights would be launched in 2020 by the like of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.

Flying rights are currently governed by EU - wide deals and because it is not part of the World Trade Organization, the aviation sector has no natural fallback arrangement to protect flights if there is no deal between Britain and the EU.

«If these bilateral agreements are not negotiated by October 2018 then the chances of being rectified by March 2019 are very slim, which means there's a distinct possibility that there could be no flights in and out the U.K. for a period of time... days, weeks, months, we don't know,» Sorahan warned.

That relative lack of movement, as well as less contact with the roving germ collectors known as flight attendants, translated into a relatively lower risk of infection for those seated by the window.

United typically oversells flights by less than zero to 3 % of the plane's seat capacity to account for no - shows.

And so, whether we're getting dinged by a «system access» fee or our flight is overbooked or our hydro is interrupted without compensation, we have no choice but to shake our fists skyward in mute rage and then maybe lash out at a conveniently sullen barista to restore our sense of dominion over commerce.

I've found that flying from Los Angeles to New York City, then New York City to Dublin, followed by Dublin to Rome broke up the monotony of the flights and actually ended up saving me money.

The crisis was exacerbated by the poaching of crew by other airlines, forcing the Dublin - based carrier to cancel more than 20,000 flights and propose a new pay deal in order to maintain other services.

Look at the history of flight: the workings of intercontinental air travel were being hashed out by textile engineers John Stringfellow and William Henson nearly 60 years before the first airplane flight.

Toronto Pearson International canceled about 30 percent of its flights, or almost 450 departures and arrivals, by 2:30 p.m., after giving a warning about the storm.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

However, Canada's largest airline, Air Canada, confirmed via Twitter that it had no record of any passenger by the gunman's name — nor checked guns — on any of its flights to Fort Lauderdale.

The good news, a JetBlue manager by the name of Adrian found her another flight from DC.

Eventually, Virgin hopes to send tourists on two - hour flights that provide views of Earth previously only seen by astronauts, plus about four minutes of weightlessness.

But it gets 98.5 % of its revenues from flights that both take off and land in the U.S. — flights less likely to be delayed by any of globalization's uncertainties.

Flights into and out of three airports in the Washington region were affected by an evacuation at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Virginia.

Lufthansa canceled 876 of roughly 3,000 flights scheduled by its group airlines for Wednesday, and scrapped 912 flights for Thursday, in what is the 14th strike in the dispute since early 2014.