Sentences with phrase «flights taken by»

Carbon offsetting — IOP records details of overseas business flights taken by its staff and makes a financial donation, based on those figures, to a company that takes steps to limit the potentially harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions on the environment.

I requested information on the number of flights taken by Richard Black, this is important...

No points or Companion Pass qualifying points will be awarded for flights taken by the Companion using the Companion Pass.

«Mr. Andrew Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how many business class, work - related flights taken by members of his Department's staff through the flexible travel scheme were (a) eligible for downgrade to economy class and (b) downgraded to economy class in January 2008.

In the single - channel short film Flying (2005), documentary footage of the flight taken by then South Korean president Kim Dae Jung to meet with then North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is appropriated and reworked.

In Flying, footage from a flight taken by then South Korean president Kim Dae - jung in 2000 to meet with the late North Korean leader Kim Jong - il captures the eerie uninhabited landscape of the north, while simultaneously suggesting the anticipation of hope.

Not exact matches

I went from a person totally okay with curling up in my leggings and sweatshirt into a tiny ball entertained by pre-loaded podcasts for an entire flight to a traveler constantly comparing the lack of amenities, professionalism, and comfort of any seat on any airline to the two roundtrip business class flights I took on Emirates.

But it gets 98.5 % of its revenues from flights that both take off and land in the U.S. — flights less likely to be delayed by any of globalization's uncertainties.

The FAA expects as many as 11 million commercial drones to join the millions of recreational drones already taking flight by 2020.

In a recent blog post for Flyertalk, JetBlue flight attendant and columnist Amanda Pleva gave an honest account of what it takes for her to treat a passenger well — and it all comes down to how she is treated by them.

The largest U.S. airlines have taken issue with a contract for federal employees to buy flights between New York and Milan in 2017 from JetBlue, which are marketed by the New York - based airline but operated exclusively by its codeshare partner, Dubai - based Emirates.

Brussels wants to take the operation step - by - step, starting by collecting intelligence on the traffickers by using radar, satellite pictures and reconnaissance flights and raiding unflagged boats.

As these planes are added, the airline plans to enlarge its discount Rouge brand — which takes flight in July with four planes — by adding six more aircraft in 2013.

Photographs of the flight deck taken while the drone was landed were also featured by media outlets including the BBC and MailOnline.

«We had to take two connecting flights to Yuma, Arizona, and then drive for an hour to the border to literally walk through the turnstiles and be picked up by someone from the factory, which was a 10 - minute drive from there,» Zak recalls.

Travel is controlled mostly by an onboard tablet inside the pod - like cockpit — a passenger selects their flight destination, and then relaxes in the airborne vehicle's air - conditioned cabin as the 184 takes off, flies, and lands on its own.

I've yet to take a flight long enough to completely drain the Mini, even with continual video playing, but the Note Pro was running low by the time we'd crossed the ocean.

Everything from missed flights to reroutes to last minute upgrade opportunities are taken care by the agent in real time on your mobile device, ensuring that your recharge time really is stress - free.

The first operational KC - 46A Pegasus — the tanker being designed by Boeing to replace the aging KC - 135 — took its maiden flight on December 5.

Co-founders Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone are working to manufacture the world's first 3 - D printed rocket, which they hope can take flight by 2020.

Jackson was taken by ambulance to an emergency room for treatment, then took a later flight to San Diego, according to Delta.

That is why German reparations and Inter-Ally debts were written down after World War I. Greece's foreign debt is what is known as an «odious debt,» taken on by fraud to finance capital flight by Greece's One Percent.

Though Conway took over the workspace previously occupied by Valerie Jarrett, who had been Obama's closest adviser, the confidant dismissively predicted that Trump would rarely climb a flight of stairs.

I can remember one of my customers devising a plan to take a cruise ship down to a location that he was expatriating to because he said that customs inspections on cruise ships were not as thorough as they were by flight.

The report, which was first made by Sky News, says that Google is in «advanced talks» to place a minority $ 30 million stake in Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and invest an undisclosed amount that is somewhere in the range of «hundreds of millions of dollars» in Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism venture, which aims to take well - heeled clients who can pay $ 200,000 for a ticket to an orbital space flight around the Earth.

With a donation to Project Orbis attendees are able to «take the controls» of an aircraft in one of the state - of - the - art flight simulators that, in some cases, are used by NetJets ® pilots for training.

For Domestic Carriage Liability for loss, delay or damage to checked baggage, or any baggage or personal item which is taken into custody by Cape Air, is limited to the fair market value at the time of the loss, damage or delay and will not exceed (except for wheelchair and other assistive devices)(1) for on - line travel solely on Cape Air with no connecting service, $ 500 per passenger; (2) for interline travel where the Cape Air flight segment is included on the same ticket as a connecting flight segment of another airline with an aircraft of more than 60 seats, $ 3400 per passenger ($ 3500 per passenger effective August 25, 2015) as per federal rules; and (3) for interline travel where the Cape Air flight segment is included on the same ticket as a connecting flight segment of another airline with an aircraft of 60 seats or less, $ 500 per passenger.

Nonetheless, Southwest is asking some workers to help manage security lines by taking steps such as calling out flights that are leaving soon and moving those passengers to the front of the line.

Of course, the Harper government took some of that away by banning lobbying for five years after leaving government, but for a top - flight political staffer, the world remains an oyster all the same.

Family members told CNN that authorities — who were reportedly caught off guard by Trump's executive order — that they had two options once they landed: Get back on a flight to the Middle East, or have their visas taken away and be detained.

And thus it has been ever since: All of us must «come down to the level adopted by God himself in his Incarnation — the level of poverty, crib, flight...» Yet in lowering ourselves to the lowliness that God himself assumes in taking on a human nature, we remain who we are: Some are intellectually gifted and rich in the world's goods; others are impoverished in various ways.

It starts from the ground of particular observation; it takes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation» (PR 5/7).

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

It is, of course, our story: the threat, real or simply paranoid; the flight in terror through the wilderness of despair; the wonder of sustenance in the desert; the darkness, the stillness, the strangely comforting loneliness of the cave in which we spend a night or a week or however long it takes for the noise and fury of our hell to subside; the perception of the gift, now, of gentle silence; the miracle, then, of the discovery anew of the «isness» of the Word, but the immediate, bitter protest against it because it will not let us stay in this place of haven from storm, this realm of the silence of gentleness, because it sends us back again, and because it rebukes the pride of our paranoia, our monumental sense of absolutely unique commitment and persecution; and finally our return, to call an Elisha on the way and to resume the work of ministry to Word of God and word of earth, renewed by the whole kaleidoscopic experience of the trip to the Cave.

But, on the whole, Luther took the argument into the enemy country and deliberately repeated the words to which exception had been taken, reinforcing them: «Therefore, as I wrote then so I write now: Let no one have mercy on the obstinate, hardened, blinded peasants who refuse to listen to reason; but let everyone, as he is able, strike, hew, stab, and kill, as though among mad dogs, so that by so doing he may show mercy to those who are ruined, put to flight and led astray by these peasants, so that peace and safety may be maintained.»

By piling complex image upon complex image, Hopkins drives toward the «inscape» or particularity of the bird's majestic flight and brilliant death; that is, the most indirect path is the most direct, or to put it differently, the only way to express radical particularity is through a plethora of images juxtaposed to one another, sparking the imagination to move toward a synthesis which, while not logical, is, taken as a whole, suggestive of a particularity.

Deerborn just happens to be the one thats 90 % Muslim since the White Flight when white populations and even black populations left when Muslims moved on in and started taking things over... like history repeating itself in many other areas of the world by the way.

By Louise FitzRoy The next time you're snacking on a flight take a closer look at the food's packaging.

So, after I hauled 56 pounds of cookbooks up four flights of stairs, I heaved the boxes onto our kitchen counter and took a deep breath (really though, I had no choice because I was panting by that point).

PSV Eindhoven, similarly, lost two of their key players this summer in Memphis Depay and Georginio Wijnaldum, and are unlikely to be the same force that took the Dutch top flight by storm last season.

Frosinone secured promotion to Italy's top flight for the first time in their history by beating Crotone 3 - 1 back in May and they will hope to make an immediate impact when they take on Torino at the Communale Matusa while another newly promoted side Capri, stocked with loan signings from Juventus and Fiorentina, will take on Sampdoria hoping for a surprise while Palermo face Genoa.

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

It was taken in full flight by Stearns, who galloped the remaining 30 yards for the score.

However, it was not meant to be as they were bounced by the Cinderella ATO team (aka David mentioned above) in the Elite8 Round before their Playoff journey ever really took flight... As for AKL..

The stability of the former slave state was tenuous at best while the gold - masked Sons of the Harpy murdered citizens and Unsullied alike, a situation that could worsen with Queen Daenerys skipping town (and escaping assassination) by taking flight on one of her dragons.

Wilshere has been injury prone but has been injury free for a good while now... Missing a friendly against holland is hardly a sign of medical catastrophe so this is a massive overreaction... Wilshere is by a very long way the best of the British stable at arsenal and on his day he is a top flight creative midfield play maker... Don't take my word for it ask xavi arguably the best ever in that role... Since his return he has shown signs of his best but not over 90 mins... But wenger has played him all over the place does not no how to combine him with ozil and miki and surrounded him with utterly hapless players like Ramsey and xhaka... He needs a new manager to bring best out of him I hope at arsenal but if the fossil stays he should go...

With Wolves set to figure in England's top flight next season, their spot in the Championship is likely to taken by West Brom, who remain bottom of the Premier League and face a tough trip to Manchester United on Sunday.

The Black Country outfit are back where they feel they belong, and in Neves they boast an ace in the pack that is ready to take the English top - flight by storm.

Naby Keita: The dynamic midfielder was one of the key figures in RasenBallsport Leipzig's remarkable campaign in the Bundesliga last season, as the top flight new boys took the division by storm and secured Champions League qualification.

Ominously, though, United must beat the worst team in the top flight, Blackburn, the side with the second-most porous defence, by a minimum of five goals if they're to enhance their claims of ending the first day of 2012 atop of the Premier League − as Man City are expected to take home maximum points from their trip to Sunderland on New Year's Day.