Sentences with phrase «by the drop of»

Beauty was the central value category for Whitehead, because in his vision reality is constituted by drops of experience which must integrate complex data (feelings) into a unity with both harmony and contrasts.

If not, the child gets two quick drops of polio vaccine on the tongue, followed by a drop of vitamin A and a deworming tablet.

In a modern version of Pavlov's experiment, Masmanidis and colleagues repeatedly exposed mice to the unfamiliar scent of banana or lemon, followed by a drop of condensed milk.

Tiny ostracods thrived in a pool of water in the cave that was continually enriched by the droppings of thousands of bats,» says Professor Archer.

By measuring the size of the largest raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.

The drugs are removed from the extraction medium by a drop of solvent, and then they are ionized to produce an array of molecular fragments.

It is designed to correct the problem caused by the drop of testosterone.

But those gains are offset by drops of at least one full letter grade between 2009 and 2011 in New Mexico, Washington, Hawaii, Montana, and Georgia.

The TSX was weighed down by a drop of almost two per cent in the much - battered gold sector as bullion prices resumed sliding after the Fed move.

While the earnings slowdown in 1998 was mild, it was also preceded by a drop of almost 20 percent in the market.

At this time it was dry and because of its limestone makeup, stalagmites and stalactites were created drop by drop of limestone rich water.

Internationally - bound travelers seeking a premium seat would be better served by dropping all of their spending on a co-branded airline card and then converting that reward for that international premium reward.

Gameplay itself is the same fast - paced, parkour - infused pilot - on - pilot gunfire disrupted by the dropping of humongous mecha that can make mincemeat of regular soldier and get into brutal fights with their Titanic brethren.

1992) at p. 193), a «fire ignited in a wastepaper basket is... caused not only by the dropping of a lighted match, but also by the presence of combustible material and oxygen, a failure of the cleaner to empty the basket and so forth».

Not exact matches

Starbucks» first - quarter results show that the coffee chain continues to struggle with soft traffic in the United States, quantified by a drop in the number of transactions.

You can also shop from a list of Order Pickup eligible items by browsing any category and selecting «Buy online & pick up» from the availability drop down.

When I see other people walk by trash or drop cigarettes in the middle of the street, I can't help but think that they're marginalizing their agency and the impact they can make in their community by just implementing one mundane action.

It also estimated that the loss of those workers could cost the country $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, with Medicare and Social Security contributions dropping by $ 24.6 billion.

Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

One interesting aspect to the Thursday sell - off is that Netflix — one of the main beneficiaries of the cord - cutting movement by millennial audiences — also lost altitude, dropping by almost 8 %.

Loans outstanding to small businesses dropped in the second quarter by.4 percent, according to the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy.

ISIS militants in Afghanistan have apparently been undeterred by the «Mother of All Bombs» that the US dropped on them in April.

Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 % by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

There's biochemical research that shows the release of dopamine when we perceive novel stimuli starts to drop past the age of twenty, which makes time appear to go by more quickly.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

But part of the enthusiasm for the stock today can be explained by CEO John Chen — BlackBerry has conspicuously dropped the «interim» from his title — who spoke at length publicly for the first time since joining the company.

Patrick deals with this inconvenience by exporting them into a separate folder and not disrupting his «super organized» address book where he drags individual connections and drops them into the proper category, whether it's a list of architects, designers or contractors.

The value of the cryptocurrency bitcoin is melting down Thursday, having dropped 20 % against the dollar by midday Eastern Time in only two hours of frantic trading.

Now, the network dropped another bomb on business owners by announcing that it's going to focus on friends» posts instead of pages» posts which will further suppress organic reach of the latter.

FICO receives a report of your credit getting checked by a lender — and since new credit accounts come with these credit inquiries beforehand, a small drop in your score might happen.

Most of the big law firms in Perth have shrunk in size over the past year, with Ashurst experiencing the biggest drop in staff, while only a couple of smaller firms have achieved significant growth, research by Business News has found.

U.S. commercial crude inventories dropped by 1.1 million barrels a day in the week through Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, compared with analyst expectations for a decrease of 1.6 million barrels.

T. Rowe dropped Dropbox shares by 16 percent, meaning the current value of its holdings in that company is reportedly under water — 13 percent below the firm's original purchase price in 2012.

All the Internet did was accelerate and enlarge that drop, by siphoning away the attention of newspaper readers, and then the advertising revenue they depended on for their livelihood.

In 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwide.

A new survey by the Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) reported that the number of fund managers that expect the value of oil firms to drop in the next few years has doubled.

Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

Founded in 2013 by Jake Kassan and Kramer LaPlante after they dropped out of college to pursue their passion, MVMT started after the duo recognized a weakness in the market that they thought they could best.

Prince William and his brother Harry did more than just play with lightsabers when they dropped by the set of the next «Star Wars» movie in April 2016.

The drop isn't devastating, but it is significant: while fitness tracker sales slumped 7 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same timeframe one year ago, smartwatches boomed by 25 %, the vast majority of which were Apple Watches.

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

The market for Ether cratered on news of the theft, with the price of the digital currency dropping from a peak of over $ 21 yesterday to around $ 12.93 as of this writing, as tracked by CryptoCompare, on surging volume.

When a mentor recommended that Maylahn look into SoFi, he was paying about 7 percent interest on most of his loans; by consolidating them, his interest rate dropped to 5.1 percent.

Theranos, a company founded by Stanford sophomore Elizabeth Holmes in the fall of 2003 (she dropped out a few months later) has generated a lot of buzz for developing a revolutionary approach to the blood test.

By the time early - riser Sheryl Sandberg gets to the office at 7 a.m., she's already fitted in an hour of responding to emails, a morning workout at her home gym and dropping her two kids off at school.

Add the incursions by craft breweries, which made national brands seem hopelessly dull to many, and the return of hard liquor — beer dropped from 56 % of alcohol consumed in 1999 to 48 % in 2014 — and it made for a depressing picture for mainstream giants like Miller Lite.

To general astonishment, her items of clothing dropped to the floor one by one, revealing a pair of lacy shorts and burlesque tassels that she struggled to keep spinning.

The severity of Ether's drop reflects an existential crisis triggered by the hack.

The 2015 Liberal election platform had a proposal to limit the benefits of the 50 % employee stock option deduction by placing a cap of $ 100,000 on annual eligible stock option gains but this was dropped after intense lobbying by startups in the tech and resource industry who rely heavily on non-cash compensation such as stock options to attract much needed, specialized talent to their firms.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.