Sentences with phrase «flip of a light switch»

A drive to work, a flip of a light switch and a flight out of town all rely on the combustion of fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas.

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The way my room is configured, my bed is on the opposite side of the room from the light switch, so it was annoying to get up and flip the light off before bed, only to remember I'd forgotten something and flick it back on again.

Frind will spend hours hiding in the three - bedroom apartment he and Kanciar share, furtively flipping light switches, tapping on doors, and ducking into rooms to play on his girlfriend's fear of ghosts.

The utilities sector of the economy is home to the firms that make our lights work when we flip the switch, let our stoves erupt in flame when we want to cook food, make water come out of the tap when we are thirsty, and more.

Well, I guess death was the sentence for a lot of things, backtalk, flipping light switches on sabbath, wearing wool and linen together, etc..

It was he who flipped the switch that lit up, in blazing neon for us, the unalterable teaching of Mother Church.

Likewise, if all of a sudden, light switches everywhere began to fail to have the affect they once had when they were flipped to the «on» position.

When any of us flips a light switch, that electricity is underwritten in part by the violence I've described.

Thanks to the psychopathic wisdom of whatever electrician put our house together, you can't turn the lights on from the top of the stairs — you have to descend in darkness to the bottom before flipping the switch.

It was one of those momentous championship Monday moments that flipped a light switch, allowing an audience to see things that were there all along.

This year on Friday, November 29th at 4:45 pm, North School Park will once again illuminate the night sky as the smiling faces of those gathered in the park eagerly await the flipping of the switch of the over 80,000 twinkling lights that will greet the beginning of the holiday season.

Channing flipped a switch to dim the lights of the Washington Square Park arch at 6:15 p.m. to symbolize how efforts to fight AIDS are hindered by laws punishing victims with the virus.

Also at 3:30 p.m., Midler joins NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver to «flip the switch» and light the Empire State Building green in celebration of the New York Restoration Project and New York completing their MillionTreesNYC initiative, 350 5th Ave., Manhattan.

FLATIRON — With the flip of a series of switches, Baruch College staff turned on a $ 642,000 outdoor lighting system Monday that's designed to make students safer on the Flatiron campus.

The laser light is easy to use and turns one with the flip of a switch.

When residents of Santa Rosa flip a wall switch, they can take a little credit for the lights that come on.

The reionization of hydrogen in the universe didn't occur like the flipping on of a light switch; it wasn't instantaneous and probably didn't happen at the same rate across the cosmos, said Anna Frebel, an assistant professor of physics at MIT who studies stars and galaxies that formed in the very early days of the universe.

If A affects B without being right next to it, then the effect in question must be indirect — the effect in question must be something that gets transmitted by means of a chain of events in which each event brings about the next one directly, in a manner that smoothly spans the distance from A to B. Every time we think we can come up with an exception to this intuition — say, flipping a switch that turns on city street lights (but then we realize that this happens through wires) or listening to a BBC radio broadcast (but then we realize that radio waves propagate through the air)-- it turns out that we have not, in fact, thought of an exception.

3 One of the club's early programs: code that illuminated lights on the mainframe's console, making it look like a ball was zipping from left to right, then right to left with the flip of a switch.

But now researchers at the University of Freiburg in Germany and at the University of Cambridge have managed the reverse: in this week's issue of Physical Review Letters, they describe how, for the first time ever, they used light to actually change the shape and size of a polymermaking it shrink or expand with the flip of a switch.

«When you switch it on to light up your room, it occasionally flips down giving you moments of darkness, and when you switch it off to go to sleep, it occasionally goes up flashing.»

As Campbell described, he could control cancer in those rodents «like flipping a light switch on and off,» simply by altering the amount of casein they consumed.4

-LSB-...] of fall is like flipping on a light switch to pumpkin recipes, I can't get Lyuba's Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake out of my head!

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Turn the lights off with a flip of the switch.

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In our previous installments we've reported satisfaction with the Power Wagon's overall power and hustle out of the gate, but all of a sudden out of nowhere it's like somebody flipped the light switch and added several dozen more horsepower.

It's all handy and fairly novel, particularly the «flipper» switch that operates the turn signals and bright headlights, and the rotary switches at either end of the module that take care of the exterior lights and the wipers.

Roberts is one of those rare writers who can blend genres as easily as flipping on a light switch.

It was like he flipped a light switch inside of me.

When you flip the switch on the wall and the light goes on, you know exactly what it costs — all you have to do is take a deep breath and feel the burn of coal smoke in your lungs.

The three animations on show are Light Switch, in which a figure endlessly flips a light switch on and off; Laundry, where Shrigley turns a surreal visit to the launderette into an allegory about authority and resistance; and Conveyor Belt, a depiction of characters and objects passing by eventually to fall into a skip marked «STUFF&raLight Switch, in which a figure endlessly flips a light switch on and off; Laundry, where Shrigley turns a surreal visit to the launderette into an allegory about authority and resistance; and Conveyor Belt, a depiction of characters and objects passing by eventually to fall into a skip marked «STUFF&rSwitch, in which a figure endlessly flips a light switch on and off; Laundry, where Shrigley turns a surreal visit to the launderette into an allegory about authority and resistance; and Conveyor Belt, a depiction of characters and objects passing by eventually to fall into a skip marked «STUFF&ralight switch on and off; Laundry, where Shrigley turns a surreal visit to the launderette into an allegory about authority and resistance; and Conveyor Belt, a depiction of characters and objects passing by eventually to fall into a skip marked «STUFF&rswitch on and off; Laundry, where Shrigley turns a surreal visit to the launderette into an allegory about authority and resistance; and Conveyor Belt, a depiction of characters and objects passing by eventually to fall into a skip marked «STUFF».

John B. Kessler, President and Chief Operating Officer of Empire State Realty Trust; Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director; Donna De Salvo, the Whitney's Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs; and some of the artists whose work will be interpreted in the light show will jointly flip the «switch» and light the building in celebratory colors.

Instead of a lazy and mindless flip of a switch, a concerted and unaccustomed effort is called for: one which will certainly give pause for deliberation, for thankfulness for the pleasure of electrical lighting and a thought for the power source which takes over after your own wind - power activates the lamp.And a pleasure this lamp must be.

«In almost all of our mathematical models of ecosystems and forests, drought is generally treated like a light switch,» says William Anderegg, an assistant professor at the University of Utah, and lead author on the study: «When drought stress is present, the switch is flipped and trees grow more slowly and die more often, but as soon as the drought disappears, the switch is flipped back the other way.»

No one who flips a light switch or starts a car doubts the benefits of reliable and affordable energy, but accounting for them is only half the ledger.

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We loved Tobias Wong's Light Switch which makes you think seriously before going to the effort of opening the lucite box, flipping the switch, and wirelessly controlling a lLight Switch which makes you think seriously before going to the effort of opening the lucite box, flipping the switch, and wirelessly controlling a Switch which makes you think seriously before going to the effort of opening the lucite box, flipping the switch, and wirelessly controlling a switch, and wirelessly controlling a lightlight.

Just as the slowly increasing pressure of a finger eventually flips a switch and turns on a light, the slow effects of drifting continents or wobbling orbits or changing atmospheric composition may «switch» the climate to a new state.

If that's not enough, there's also this «structural improvement of toy Christmas tree» which entails a «driving rod to activate a toy eyebrow part that is located at the upper part of the foundation unit, thereby, once the power of the invention is switched on, the control circuit board will play happy music and flash LED light (the lamps being installed in the eyeball part), while the motor will drive the eyebrows and mouth of the Christmas tree to flip up and down and open and close, to create a fun image.»

Oh, and then you notice the «Communications Protocol Guide» and before you're even finished wondering what exactly that means your eyes have already wandered to «Controllers Guide,» and then you realize that both of those guides are separate from the «How to Connect Your Tech» guide, and that's when you start to think that sure, you're kind of a lazy person, but you can at least flip a light switch yourself, and actually using a key isn't that big of a hassle, and who needs all of this technology anyway and get off my lawn!

It's why we'll spend an entire afternoon setting up a smart home instead of just continuing to flip light switches.

But then you unlock your door and flip on the light switch and, all of the sudden, your heart sinks to the floor!

But what you may not realize is that every time a storm passes by, every time it snows, every time an ice storm comes, or every time you flip a light switch you are at risk of everything being destroyed.

Habituated from years of flipping hard - wired switches, many users (or their children) will instinctively use the wall switch to turn the lights out when they leave a room.

Instead of just walking into a room and flipping the switch on the wall to turn on the lights, you can now walk into a room, flip a switch on the wall to turn on the lights, and also deal with firmware and connection issues for the rest of your life.

The Watch app has thoughtfully designed controls for dimming your lights, changing the speed of a ceiling fan, or just flipping a switch on or off.

I've bought more than one house with a broken sewer line, once I bought a property with no plumbing in the basement, another time the electrical had been so completely scrambled by some Do - It - Yourself - er with a bit of a meth problem that flipping the bathroom light switch turned on the porch light.