Sentences with phrase «feat of»

In an extraordinary feat of marksmanship, they would have to fly just ahead of its leading edge and then, firing the Apollo spacecraft's rocket engine, go into orbit just 69 miles (111 kilometers) above its surface.

The musicmaking is a high - speed feat of constantly anticipating, responding to, and melding with his partners» interpretations on a central theme, Finch says: «Each of us senses where the music is going at a given moment and puts it together so that it makes sense.»

In some caves, every chamber is adorned with this architecture — an extraordinary feat of engineering in absolute darkness.

SQUEEZE PLAY This weird new metamaterial achieves the counterintuitive feat of expanding when squeezed.

Some of these proteins are wasp venoms, suggesting that genes from the wasp have been transferred into the virus in a feat of natural genetic engineering.

The global index, representing close to half the world's corals from 316 sites, is an impressive feat of data science: It emerged from a meta - analysis of all available historical records on coral bleaching from 1982 through 2006 — the «sum of human knowledge on species - specific bleaching during this period,» according to Swain.

How do outfielders regularly manage such a feat of speed, grace, and coordination?

With his knowledge of context and nuance, he manages the enthralling feat of hearing birds as individuals.

But with daily practice — the average computer user makes more than 1000 mouse clicks per day — you have become such an expert that you don't even think about this amazing feat of dexterity.

Developing the e-Dura implant was quite a feat of engineering.

FIFTY years ago waves of Liberator bombers were deliberately destroying a remarkable feat of engineering.

Has the time for this epic feat of engineering come round at last?

In a feat of diplomacy, Mulroy convinced the other six utilities that she could get each of them more water if they formed a single agency and let her negotiate for the group.

Our brain, with its multitude of specialized but interacting parts, seems optimally adapted to achieving this feat of information integration.

Apart from the cinematic qualities that won it four Academy Awards, this film pulls off the difficult feat of presenting abstract mathematics on - screen — the idea called the Nash equilibrium, which had won the film's protagonist, John Nash (played by Russell Crowe), a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994.

In a depth - defying feat of dazzling daring last year, the robot known as Nereus dove to the deepest spot in the ocean and spent 10 hours exploring a spot that is deeper than Mount Everest is high.

In theory a starlight - blocking device called a coronagraph could perform this extreme feat of optical wizardry — but in practice all coronagraphs tend to leak trickles of unwanted starlight into a telescope's delicate sensors.

It is a feat of spatial reasoning that no robot has ever accomplished before.

The celebrated rescue in October of 33 miners trapped a half mile below the Chilean desert was not just a compelling human drama but a historic feat of applied medicine, psychology, and engineering.

At this point, realizing that I must have either slept through or forgotten the high school physics class where it was explained how magnets manage that singular feat of interacting with each other at a distance, I set out on what I assumed would be a minutes - long odyssey to understand the phenomenon.

The industrialist and founder of the prize that bears his name would no doubt be pleased by a feat of organic chemistry reported in this week's Angewandte Chemie International Edition: the synthesis of what may be the most powerful nonnuclear explosives ever made.

In a dramatic feat of engineering prowess, the private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket booster yesterday — the second such landing for the company, and the first successful touchdown on a ship.

Such a machine could even help scientists attain the seemingly impossible feat of reaching absolute zero.

In an amazing feat of tissue engineering, Anthony Atala and his research team at the Children's Hospital in Boston are creating new organs in the laboratory using patients» own cells and by employing the same technology used to clone Dolly the sheep.

When IBM computer Deep Blue defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, it was by evaluating an immense number of moves in a very short time — a feat of brute - force calculation that hardly qualifies as intelligence.

Aside from the feat of answering the longstanding question of how the lymph system arises, understanding how it forms and develops can provide important insights into disease, from metastasis to the abnormal accumulation of lymph fluids, particularly in the wake of surgery to remove cancerous tumors.

After the 26 - hour feat of superhuman endurance it took to deliver him, I felt that my body was capable of anything.

Genetically engineered tobacco plants, chosen to test the concept, managed the unusual feat of growing 14 to 20 percent more mass — meaning more crop yield — than untweaked plants, says Krishna Niyogi of the University of California...

Broadly speaking, the coalition has been a considerable feat of party management by the two leaders and their key lieutenants.

His three - year run to victory was a remarkable feat of political smarts and good luck.

Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has said that the feat of releasing the 82 abducted Chibok Girls at a time many people had concluded that Preside3nt Buhari was not working because of his ailing condition has shown pessimists that the president is working round the clock.

[4] He thus achieved the feat of having stood for election to Parliament on behalf of a major political party on three occasions before his 28th birthday, at a time when the minimum age for candidates was 21.

Today, he again tried to pull off the same feat of oratorical showmanship.

Falana said in a statement that despite Buratai's commendable feat of leading the Nigerian Army to defeat Boko Haram in the North East, the war on corruption was also a must - win for the Buhari Administration.

«Doing the budget is a feat of logistics and operations, and some items inadvertently drop out of the budget on a technical level, and that's primarily what the bill is about.

Allen Drury, Public Affairs Manager at Con Edison in an email confirmed the feat of restoring 9,000 Westchester Customers from 10 PM Tuesday night to early Wednesday morning accomplished by Con Edison Crews teaming with crews from Texas, Canada and Wisconsin working together in worsening conditions through the night.

Alan Hardwick in Lincolnshire pulled off the unusual feat of managing to get elected without, according to his official return, spending a single penny on his campaign.

But it was much more than a spectacular feat of arms.

Sports News of Monday, 14 May 2018 Source: GHANAsoccernet.com Black Satellites Black Satellites Captain Issahaku Konda harbors dreams of winning the FIFA Under - 20 World Cup with Ghana and wants to replicate the feat of he Dede Ayew led side in 2009.

Hein praised the county Department of Public Works for their efforts in getting a substitute bridge for the washed - out Hatchery Hollow Bridge in Oliverea, allowing cut - off residents to get in and out: «In less than 24 hours, using surplus materials, in an amazing feat of engineering and a testament to their hard work, they were able to make a secondary bridge.»

This as an amazing feat of loyalty from a TEAPublican party that has failed to unite behind their two last candidates for governor.

The prime minister's spokesman confirmed today that this was Cameron's belief — and in the process achieved the unlikely feat of putting Nigel Farage and Tim Farron on the same page.

In an intricate feat of urban engineering, the L train will be shut for repairs for 15 months, transforming streets in Lower Manhattan into the busiest bus route in the country.

It was an impressive feat of memory.

KIA's Terminal 3, is a monumental feat of engineering.

In an extraordinary feat of logistics, land, air and sea travel will be used to get the ballot papers to counting stations.

As has always been the great feat of the West, to evoke the Moral Law in whatever it does, and make everyone at the recieving end of their communication, feel, what they are doing is right.

The operation of separating Siamese twins is delicate and intricate and is a great feat of modern science in this modern world.

A newly installed bridge touted as a feat of engineering collapsed on Florida International University's campus, killing several people.

«For a country where oil was discovered only about nine years ago, this is a feat of sorts, compared with Nigeria where oil was discovered in 1956 but is still battling to have its PIB passed into law.