Sentences with phrase «even flights as»

Unlike short intra-European business class flights, on which the middle seat of a standard economy row is blocked off and a better meal is provided, Virgin Australia provides a «true» business class cabin for its intra-Australian flights, even flights as short as MEL - SYD.

Not exact matches

«Many business travelers do not check luggage, even on long flights as it slows them down upon arrival at baggage claim.

The problem is that top - flight athletes, and even serious amateurs, tend not to drink the stuff, as it is considered excessively sugary.

CEO Richard Branson, immediately upon learning of the tragedy, wrote a brief message about his personal grief even as he prepared for an in - person flight to visit the crash site to meet with the people involved.

Even though you probably won't end up booking this flight because you'll find a cheaper option, you'll want to identify this price to use as a comparison variable.

Who knows: after a few attempts you may even come to appreciate flights as a chance to do good work.

The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly, prompting questions about why smaller cities continue to lose service, why seats keep getting smaller, why fares have remained stubbornly high even as fuel prices dropped and profits soared, and why paying passengers are being quasi-defenestrated from overbooked flights.

And even if the indicator was valid (counterfactually), the article asks readers to accept as given that earnings are properly reported here, that they will grow by nearly 50 % over the coming year, and that investors are willing to key the long - term return they require from stocks to the yield on 10 - year bonds, which has been abnormally depressed in a flight to safety.

Airlines could also carry activity books for kids, perhaps even with a focus on air travel that gently gets home important messages, such as what space on a plane is yours, how noise travels, and how nice it is to nap in flight.

This raised concerns a weakening yuan could provoke capital flight even as China's wider economy stumbles.

Although a combination of limited choice and artificial restraints such as frequent - flier programs often cause even completely dissatisfied airline customers to remain fairly loyal, the relationship between satisfaction and loyalty does resemble a competitive market on routes where several carriers offer flights at around the same time.

The outstanding example, of course, is the Chinese government's long - running «one - child policy,» replete with forced abortions, public trackings of menstrual cycles, family flight, increased female infanticide, sterilization, and other assaults too numerous even to begin cataloguing here — in fact, so numerous that they are now widely, if often grudgingly, acknowledged as wrongs even by international human - rights bureaucracies.

No one at the WTC or on any of the plane flights did anything to deserve what happened, so how can the terrorists involved even remotely think of themselves as acting in a way that was pleasing to God?

Nowadays, though no one doubts that the dramatic detail of the Flight of Helen, the Wrath of Achilles, and the rest, is imaginary, the poems are treated as valuable sources of evidence for the history of Greece and neighbouring lands shortly before 1000 BC Even our own Arthurian legends, I observe, are now treated seriously by quite serious historians, when they are seeking for light upon the dark age of Britain.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

Thus, alongside the lofty and otherworldly flights of Indian mysticism, stands the Zen emphasis upon «nothing special» and «everyday - mindedness» and «just being ordinary,» as in Yun - men's spiritual path described as «pulling a plough in the morning, and carrying a rake home in the evening,» or in Pao - fu's response to the question, «What is the language of the Buddha?»

Virgil's Aeneid even fitfully rivaled the Exodus of the Children of Israel as an archetypal story of flight into the wilderness in order to found a new city.

Again, the otherwise unexplained features in the story, for example the flight of a young man from the garden, or the proceedings in the high priest's house, have been explained as incidents in Peter's own biography — or even in Mark's!

One way of describing Dr. Altizer's effort is to say that he recognizes that Gnosticism, as flight from reality into a private religious world (or ideological world), is the great temptation or even treason of today, and that to combat this threat he has boldly adopted a typically Gnostic pattern of thought as the vehicle for expressing total commitment in and for the world.

Even though his writings were characterized by often bewildering flights of the imagination, I find no justification for regarding them as inflicted with mental disability.

Flight delays, cancellations, and layovers affect us just as much as they do passengers — maybe even more.»

In a long - term relationship, as in a rocket flight, even a small change of direction at the midpoint can make a major difference in its moving toward the goal.

kindof how when your a child you can't fly, but you try to imagine what it is like for the birds; however regardless of how much you attempt to imagine flight you can't understand it as a bird because you can't fly... even as an adult humans fail to truly understand what it is like to fly like a bird because we can't fly, so how can «god» understand death and create a creature that does die if he can't die?

This fun - filled three day event offers early morning Hot Air Balloon Flights, an evening Balloon Glow, Wine Tastings, Craft Beer Tastings, a Kids Faire as well as a Commercial Court with over 150 vendors - and a Food Court filled with your favorite Festival foods!

Yesterday evening, my husband and I had quite a scare as out littlest one tumbled down our steep flight of city steps (hard hard wood that's not the most gentle on teeny tiny noggins), thankfully only leaving a few loose teeth, a bunch of bruises and a little blood, but it left every single person in our house shaken up.

I'm saddened that the First Flight people stopped making clubs a decade after I hit that great two - wood shot in 1973, for I'd surely be buying a set today, even though the old clubs» sweet spots were about as big as the head of a pin.

Man city are far from their best and even so there is no hunger from our players... Add the inevitable mistakes from the usual suspects and it looks like we are just going through the motions with no real desire... Any team with mustafi and xhaka as guaranteed starters has left the top flight in my books... The only positive we are still one nil down I would prefer to see some kind of attacking effort in second half and loose by 3 than this kind of blandness

I'm not even sure if Wenger will put out his very best team as he will want to save players like Alexis (who has to contend with a flight back from South America) for the possibly even more crucial trip to Paris to face PSG on the following Tuesday.

Arteta is now in his fourth season at the Emirates, and at 32 years of age could easily be in his last year of top - flight football, and with the amount of top - class midfielders at Wenger's disposal it is probably unlikely that the Spaniard will even be a starter in most games, especially as Wenger has been promoting Jack Wilshere in the hope that this season will be an injury - free, breakthrough season for the Englishman.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

Szczesny has had a very impressive season in Serie A, keeping as many as 14 clean sheets, more than any other keeper in Italy's top flight and has even attracted the interest of Napoli, Juventus and Roma in Italy and Borrusia Dortmund in Germany.

Few places can impart the faraway feeling as Nantucket does — even today when excellent commercial airline service (about 20 flights in and out daily during the summer) has brought it within little more than an hour from New York and less than an hour from Boston.

I have not just pulled this out of thin air either, because even though Manchester United were widely reported to have tried, and failed, to sign the prolific player this summer with some hefty offers, Muller has this week admitted that the money washing around the top flight of English football is hard to ignore, as reported by Sky Sports.

i like podolski and do nt think wenger has ever really got the best out of him but even at his best he is no longer a top flight player... we need to sell him and bring in someone who can really add to the level of our attack... and carvalho is now a benchmark for gauging wenger «s ambition... the lack of proper defensive cover is one reason our attacks have become much less threatening as players do nt want to overstretch knowing what «s not behind them... i am pretty confident we will beat besiktas (a team that would be hanging around the bottom of the epl if not lower) but the fact that we are in this position again speaks volumes for the way the club is run and managed

Even with signs of improvement at Liverpool, they are winless in their last three in the top flight, but they go as 5/6 favourites for the win, with the draw at 13/5 and Burnley at 10/3 to pick up three home points.

Any concept of competitiveness in today's game is as tenuous as if it were a bunch non-league postmen, plumbers and supermarket shelf - stackers turning up for a third round cup tie against illustrious top flight superstars; with not even the hint of a potential banana skin in sight.

Even before Portugal's triumph at last year's Euros, centre back Jose Fonte had had an impressive season with Southampton as the Saints got the license to treat the rest of the league to a treat of attractive football in the top flight league in England and still manage to stay afloat far away from relegation, above the mid table as they battled Everton for the Europa League spot.

There is excitement at Tyneside as the fans dream, even though a promotion to top flight English football remains priority.

Bolton fans will cling onto their decent scoring record in London, and even better record at Stamford Bridge, for dear life as they desperately need a few more points to be certain of another season in the top flight.

Following the huge elation that surrounded Palace's promotion to the Premier League last season, after just eight games since in the rigorous top - flight of English football, Ian Holloway walked away from his post as manager on Wednesday evening, with Millen now temporarily in charge of first - team affairs.

Furthermore, the crew offered me no in - flight assistance, repeatedly failed to serve me meals, and I even had to take my daughter to the toilet with me as there was nowhere else to put her.

I've even used it as my carry on bag when traveling and was always so relieved to have my pump and everything else I needed handy when dealing with flights, airports, and hotels.

Even today, as an adult, the slightest irritation can sometimes thrust me into «fight or flight» because of how I was treated by my family when I was an innocent, needy child.

Well I needn't have worried; the flight attendant was thrilled to see my pram and even went so far as to comment she wished everyone travelled with one!»

Then, once on the plane, since it is all cloth there were no annoying buckles digging into me when sitting down so I could wear it the full flight and even use it as a cover while breastfeeding (with strangers sitting only inches away from me on either side).

Even though the craft is newly retired, the facility continues to serve as a test site for every NASA prototype that might take flight.

Although sometimes misclassified or even derided as a fraud, the prehistoric flier Archaeopteryx remains a rich source of information about the evolution of flight in birds

Defense contractor Lockheed Martin will soon flight - test a plasma antenna (encased in a tough, nonconducting polymer) that is designed to be immune from detection by radar even as it transmits and receives low - frequency radio waves.

Is it powered flight as in birds, gliding, or even parachuting?