Sentences with phrase «figure ground only»

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As you've only got one life to live, you might as well figure out a way to escape the grind sooner, rather than later.

«Short of figuring out real teleportation, which would of course be awesome (someone please do this), the only option for super fast travel is to build a tube over or under the ground that contains a special environment,» Musk wrote in a 57page proposal.

The underlying figures on economic competence and who would make the best leader also show the Conseratives gaining ground — Labour now have only a 3 point lead on which party would be better at running the economy well and Blair is only 1 point ahead of Cameron on who would make the best Prime Minister.

Using data on the rate at which water flows in the creek and official figures on how much salt is spread on the roads, he calculated that even by November only about 45 per cent of the previous winter's salt had been washed down the creek; the rest remained in the ground water.

Consequently, the strains of decreased purchasing power coupled with the responsibility for maintaining the national U.S. ground - based effort in radio, optical, and solar astronomy have led to a division of the NSF AST budget such that, through the decade of the 1990s, about 65 percent of the NSF allocation to AST was assigned to facilities operated by national astronomy organizations, with only about 22 percent made available to support individual investigators (Figure 6.2); the rest went to instrumentation and the university radio observatories.

Perhaps the most famous example of making do is the scene immortalized in the 1995 film «Apollo 13,» when ground - based engineers figured out how to make a carbon dioxide filter that would keep the astronauts from suffocating — using only parts available to the astronauts aboard the spacecraft.

Of course, before you entertain any visions of off - road glory, Hyundai says the Kona is «for urban adventurers,» and it only has 6.7 - inches of ground clearance, a figure it shares with the humble Toyota Corolla sedan.

It can be an exercise in patience, but it's likely your dog wants to make ground, and once they figure out the only way to do that is to behave, they're more likely to stop pulling.

In Reinhardt it's not one color disrupting a grid, it's a collection of colors so dark there is not one of them that can ground the others: no field, only figures; when a field works as a frame, another kind of figure.

Color field painting had no figure or ground, only flat stretches of paint.

In doing so, these raised shapes not only complicate figure - ground relationships but also lend an object quality to each painting that counters the optical mirage produced by the erasures and curvilinear lines.

Special event: SATURDAY 20 MAY 9 am — 12 pm Breakfast launch of the publication of Ground, Figure, Sky — Grant Foster's booklet to accompany the exhibition There are only a 100 copies of this signed, limited edition of text and images.

Secondary coats and vertical lines are prudently reserved to demarcate figures from the ground in his arrangements, or are only applied when necessary.

I would agree with the assessment given here that sensitivity will exist at a higher rather than lower figure, because it is already quite strong, only if it shows up near the ground.

«You need to not only have the scientists on the ground to help you figure out what that service is that's being delivered — clean air, clean water — but you also need the financial institutions that say, OK, just like we have markets for pork bellies, we're going to create market instruments to value clean water.»

Current figures are averaging in the 20 % range globally, but in some areas, like Russia, the total amount of sun that now reaches the ground is some 30 % less than only a few decades previous.

I figure 1 above (Miskolczi 2007) There seems to be only short wave radiation downwards (I asume solar) to the ground, but I cant find any upwards.

Another challenge was some of the tasks I undertook; the labouring roles involved, naturally, hard manual work and to this day I remember having to figure out how to lower a piano to the ground from the third storey of a house, with only one other person and one rope to help me.