Sentences with phrase «dropped out of the wind»

A clean energy company dropped out of The Wind Coalition this year after a legislator made accusations about a tracking device found on his pickup, The Oklahoman has learned.

Not exact matches

Researchers at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom found that parents who set super-high expectations for their teenage daughters — and who constantly reminded them of those expectations — had daughters who were less likely to become pregnant, drop out of school, or wind up in lousy, low - wage jobs.

When cheap imports dropped the bottom out of that industry I picked up a fast - food manager training program, and three years later wound up in college where I did very well (including, of all things, enjoying learning about Shakespeare and Henry Clay!)

In 1977, more than 30 years after he parachuted behind enemy lines to aid the French resistance (he was later wounded and captured), he was feted at a Frenchman's party as the crazy American who dropped out of the air with a fishing rod tied to his leg.

This means that for every 10 students who enter the College of Natural Sciences and participate in FRI, two will graduate who would have otherwise dropped out or taken longer than six years to get an undergraduate degree, and almost three more students will wind up with a STEM degree, as opposed to changing majors, because they participated in FRI..

It can absorb and release huge amounts of electricity at the drop of a hat and do so over and over, making it ideal for smoothing out the flow from wind turbines and solar cells.

So with that in mind and summer sadly winding down I decided to try and squeeze every last drop out of the summer by whipping up one of my favorite summer drinks in Green Smoothie form — Mojito flavoured!

All three dropped out, and the roles wound up going to less distractingly famous actors, allowing the film to seem less like a bloated Saturday Night Live sketch and more like a tribute to the nearly lost art of expertly timed slapstick.

Characters like Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Beetee (Jeffrey Wright) are never fully fleshed out or given enough time to develop, dropping in and out of the story before disappearing like a fart in the wind

Characters like Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Beetee (Jeffrey Wright) are never fully fleshed out or given enough time to develop, dropping in and out of the story before disappearing like a fart in the wind, or simply left as background fodder.

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Boredom and disengagement are two key reasons students stop attending class and wind up dropping out of school.

District Buys House for Homeless Kids Concerned that students with unstable or no homes often wound up dropping out of school, the Maplewood Richmond Heights (Missouri) School District decided to buy a house and convert it to a group home for homeless teens.

And it's certainly true that as Barton winds into her recitative --» I Set Out To Build a Platform Called Book Country» — we're reminded of the many times we've read what seemed like a wholly informative blog post from an author only to find the other shoe dropping: «So that's why I wrote this how - to book, to help you with your writing,» etc., you know the drill.

If you go through the debt settlement process only to drop out before settling any of your debts, you may wind up paying more in bankruptcy than if you had gone that route in the first place.

The recent drop in oil prices has taken some wind out of the inflation sails and caused rates to drop and talk of 2015 rate increases to all but disappear.

But with the increased competition brokers face headed into 2018, many of those clinging to stock options will wind up dropping out of the investment business or choosing another specialty.

Both have excellent diving, but visibility can drop to 50 ft or less when the winds blow steadily out of the east or northeast.

Our swell pretty much dropped off the map overnight and the winds were fairly strong out of the south.

The winds were blowing at a pretty good clip out of the southeast and the swell had dropped off.

The tide was still dropping at the time and the wind was light out of the NNW.

Starting on Aug. 26, Nintendo rolls out a stellar set of offers for both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, including some of Nintendo's biggest hits dropping to a suggested retail price of $ 19.99 each, like Animal Crossing: New Leaf and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD, as well as the debut of a new Mario - themed New Nintendo 3DS system that comes with the Super Mario 3D Land game pre-installed at the low suggested retail price of only $ 149.99.

These massive thunderstorms have extremely strong internal vertical winds that carry frozen water drops up coating them with layers of water that freeze until they fall out as hail.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

Indeed, as Lazard shows in this remarkable chart, while solar and wind have dropped dramatically in price since 2009, nuclear power has simply priced itself out of the market for new power.

When just considering the impact of the CPP, combined wind and solar annual capacity additions drop by a factor of 4 from 2015 levels bottoming out at 4 GWs and don't begin to recover until 2022.

He noticed that the moist trade winds that cross the Isthmus of Panama and drop rain into the Pacific Ocean carry fresh water out of the Atlantic, leaving behind saltier water.

jim2, I recently read a Buffet quote (in print, can't put my hand on it) that the only reason he invested in wind power was the handsome subsidies, drop those and he's out of there.

Unsurprisingly, Coinbase's statement took the wind out of the rally's sails, and the Ripple price quickly dropped below dollar parity and continued to decline as the market began its comprehensive retreat.