Sentences with phrase «by the height of»

Imagine the whole psycho - physical activity of man to be a wave, and the degree of this activity to be symbolized by the height of the wave above a horizontal basal line or surface, to which every psychophysically active point contributes an ordinate....

Imagine, he suggests, that the two - billion - year history of life on earth is represented by the height of the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago — a distance of 200 feet.

It has an intensity determined by the height of its crests.

Don't be intimidated by the height of the boot (and I mean the fabric, not the heel)-- the higher the better!

I am sure that there are many females who don't mind towering over a date, but I am not one of them... and judging by the heights of some of the men that have viewed me, some of them obviously don't fancy dating a Nicole Kidman when they could have a Kylie.

A common misconception is that the choice of wheelbase is influenced by the height of the skateboarder.

By the height of the pulps in 1940, about 50 % of all novels published were only published in the pulps.

It's all speculation when we say a new iPad will be ready by height of the holiday season or what's likely to be the specifications of the new iPads.

This is occasioned by the height of the hills which continually attract the clouds and the vapour that is continually exhaled from the mossy ground... The nearest market town is fifteen miles away and the roads so deep as to be almost impassable.

It's all speculation when we say a new iPad will be ready by height of the holiday season or what's likely... [Read more...]

Dogs are required to jump between 7 inches and 14 inches — with the jump height determined by the height of the smallest dog in the team racing in the heat.

Each type of jump is set at the proper height for each class, determined by the height of the dog at the withers (shoulders).

His work The Ecomuseum of the Modern Man (2013) takes its departure from the practice of architect Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965), who created his own system of measurement called the Modulor, which was inspired in part by the height of detective novel characters.

The cold temperature you refer to, is to a large part determined by the height of the cloud tops in the hurricanes.

The distance between them being governed by the height of the Rossby convective plume, where heat and water vapor content suggest the residence time.

FWIW, it should be quite easy to design and set up a temporary gadget with a small micro-processor, a digital camera (or other optical sensor) with some simple software, and a 4G modem to simply register, record and transmit the temperature (as indicated by the height of the liquid in an LiG thermometer) from a few actual weather stations to a database.

The important thing is that the amount of wind power generated at any one time is given by the height of the green section.

Not exact matches

When you put first things first, you empower yourself and your team to enjoy every day of this beautiful journey and achieve heights that can't be reached by neglecting what is important in life.»

By contrast, in 1929 their p / e was over 18 and at the height of the dot com bubble it was over 20.

Product dimensions would be in inches, not centimetres or entered in the wrong order: width by height by length, instead of, say, length by width by height.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Galvanized by the late - 2013 release of her self - titled fifth studio LP, the fastest - selling album ever to hit Apple's iTunes, Queen Bey reached new heights in 2014.

The storm surge — the quick rise in water caused by a hurricane's strong winds — crested several feet at the height of the storm on the Texas coast.

For instance, the company is believed to be making a healthy profit on the sale of each iPhone, further bolstering arguments by industry watchers who believe the iPhone X and iPhone 8 will help Apple reach new financial heights.

Prices for gold bullion and other precious metals have climbed over the past decade to new heights as investors sought protection against the erosion of incomes and wealth by inflation.

Here's what Lake Oroville, the body of water contained by the tallest dam in the US, looked like in August 2015, during the height of California's raging five - year drought:

At the height ofEurope's migration crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants — most from the Middle East and Africa — arrived at the continent by land and sea.

«When I was able to make that change, I went from a salary of zero, which was really disheartening, to being able to bring in a salary of six figures for myself,» says Burke, whose company posted annual revenue of $ 1.1 million and employed 15 people at its height in 2010 before being acquired by competitor Booksfree.com.

Based in Silicon Valley in California, tucked away between the green rolling hills of San Jose and the heights of San Francisco, Stanford University's manicured lawn has been trodden on by some of the world's brightest researchers, tech entrepreneurs and influencers of our generation, including Elon Musk, Sergei Brin, Peter Thiel, John Kennedy, and Larry Page.

Even amid a restructuring, why would a streaming platform in 2016 take on the name of a music sharing startup that was at the height of its powers around 2000 and is still best remembered by many for its legal woes and the record industry consternation it caused?

The ultra rich — those bringing in more than $ 25 million a year — also saw an increase by 7.5 percent, to a height of 156,000 households.

But he was lifted to that height by an unprecedented amount of free media.

When the expectation from the top down is that people's personal or family lives have to be sacrificed for the job as evidenced by 50 - hour - plus workweeks, little or no vacation time, and 24/7 availability for work communication, you've reached the height of a toxic workplace.

They're trading independently of one another to a degree not seen since the height of the tech bubble, according to a study conducted by Morgan Stanley.

Entrepreneurs who have achieved this level of intellectual agility reach new heights by standing on the shoulders of their network until they can fly.

In the beginning of the film, superheroes are forced to retire by the government when public outrage over the heroes» unchecked power reaches new heights.

His team is also looking at using technology to make employees more productive and proud of their jobs, as well as introducing new retail experiences such as the mass customization of shoes by arch height, toe size, and more.

The tower is still in the planning stage, but if it is build, it will be the sixth tallest structure in the UK, and exceed the height of the tallest building, the Shard in London, by at least ten metres.

The material was dispersed up to three meters away — nearly 10 feet — and a closer look at the study by Ars Technica found that about 70 percent of the dispersed material was at the height of a small child's face.

I started seeing faults in the startup as my own fault and resolved to work even harder — trying to will the team around me to greater heights by spending huge amounts of my energy.

By way of a comparison, this ratio peaked at about 6.1 per cent in the U.S. in the mid-2000s at the height of its housing bubble, and toward the end of the 1980s in Japan, when that country was nearing the end of its own property boom.

By age 31, you sell your website for $ 1.2 million dollars in 2000 at the height of the dot - com boom.

The announcement was made by Dr. Betty Spence, president of NAFE, who describes the winners as «women who have overcome obstacles in achieving heights in their own careers.

We are Dell's 8th largest partner and a member of their PartnerDirect Premier program, which allows us to offer the products and solutions that our customers want, build credibility in the industry, differentiate ourselves based on service offerings, and grow our businesses to heights unmatched by our competitors.

Finally, our analysis reveals that 44 % of the height premium in earnings is explained by differences in educational attainment whereas the height premium in work and life satisfaction is only marginally explained by education.

Within self - employment the probability of being an employer is increased by 0.11 percentage - points as a result of a 1 cm increase in height whereas this increase is 0.05 percentage - points for an own - account worker.

In the late 1980s, on the heels of a three - decade long «Economic Miracle,» Japan experienced its infamous «bubble economy» in which stock and real estate prices soared to stratospheric heights driven by a speculative mania.

With bitcoin becoming more and more popular, and expected to reach new heights by the end of 2016, one question in the mind of investors from all around the world is whether investing in the digital currency is worth it.

That collapse demonstrated that there is often a spectacular difference between the market price of a speculative stock at the height of its popularity, and the actual value of the cash flows that an investor in that stock will realize by owning that stock over time.

Even although ICOs have been round for years, they gained new heights of curiosity final 12 months aided by celebrities equivalent to Paris Hilton and Floyd Mayweather Jr. selling ICOs.