Sentences with phrase «giant chunks of»

As giant chunks of Indonesia's forests are destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations, the government and the businesses that operate in Indonesia need to move as fast as possible to sustainable production methods, as well as make sure that rights over the forest are legally and transparently established.

Said one particularly disgruntled driver: «The hodgepodge of materials and textures is like a visual representation of ADD: wood that looks fake even if it might be real, cheap plastic that covers the dash with its pseudo-gun-grips cross-hatching, leather - textured plastic, and, to me the most objectionable, the giant chunks of black plastic that make up the center stack, especially where the CDs are loaded.»

You will find giant chunks of time slipping away as you sit in front of the computer, clicking away.

Warner also tells me the Australian ice breaker Aurora Australis made the closest approach ever to the Totten Glacier front, where it drops giant chunks of ice into the sea.

In the simulation, the Earth's interior was too hot and runny at first to push around the giant chunks of crust, researchers report in the June Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors.

A crowd gathered, the charges were blown, and then everyone ran as giant chunks of blubber rained from the sky and crushed the Oldsmobile 88 of Walter Umenhoefer, who became known as «the blubber victim» forevermore, to his annoyance.

In the simulation, the Earth's interior was too hot and runny at first to push around the giant chunks of crust, researchers report in the June Physics of the...

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

Add to the dry ingredients, and whisk until mostly combined (it's okay if you have a few small lumps — you just don't want any giant chunks of flour).

The perfect spot to land giant chunks of spacecraft that are traveling more than 180 mph upon impact.

Start with a low speed for a sec, then bust it up to high until everything is combined (no giants chunks of cream cheese).

But for most of the previous decade, the Ross Sea had been choked with multiyear ice after a giant chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off.

Sadly for you guys they're sold out everywhere online but if you live on the giant chunk of red dirt that is Australia you may be able to find a pair in David Jones, which is where I bought mine.

Debt consolidation is where you take a bunch of varied debts, varied interest rates, and varied minimum payments and pay them all off with one giant chunk of money.

Even with that giant chunk of metal encasing your entire body.

The idea is this: race around an arena littered with giant swords, shields and flails with three other people, and spin your giant chunk of metal around while factoring in weight, momentum and reach.

Made of finely spun filaments of food - grade plastic polymer, the mattress core, called «Wovenaire,» looks a bit like a giant chunk of shredded wheat cereal, full of gaps for air to flow through.

With another refresh and implementation of more best practices, they'll be able to save another giant chunk of change.

Not exact matches

This amounts to a threat to Google in two ways: In one sense, it threatens the search giant's advertising base, because web advertising and increasingly mobile advertising are the core of the company's business, and if Facebook vacuums up a big chunk of that then Google suffers.

The wholesale supplier has lost a huge chunk of its stock market value as it battles the grocery giants.

If successful, the initiative would help Amazon become even more ingrained in the daily lives of consumers and grab a greater chunk of the giant food and beverage industry that still predominantly lives inside brick - and - mortar stores.

For one, Netflix is a unique case in that it is a relative giant that accounts for a huge chunk of Internet traffic.

There are thousands of companies competing for the same customers, not to mention the giants such as Amazon, Target, and Zappos who already have a chunk of the space fully covered.

While many global giants, including WeChat and Line are keeping a close eye on their userbase growth in the country, homegrown Hike messaging app is trying to capture the largest chunk of the local mobile messaging market, after crossing over 35 million active users mark recently.

Besides the chunks of Blueberry Creme Rolls, this giant shake sports fresh blueberries and strawberries to give an extra pop of flavor.

Mr Clarke raised the possibility after announcing on Wednesday the acquisition of most of alcoholic beverages giant Diageo's wine division for $ 754 million, with a large chunk of the funds to come from a 2 - for - 15 rights issue to raise $ 486 million.

To take the labor out of this meal, I simply created a giant foil packet, lined it with some parchment paper, chopped everything into big chunks and roasted it in the oven for about 20 minutes or until everything became tender and the sausage was cooked through.

The last thing you want is a giant, hard chunk of the sprout in this delicate salad.

Wigan 2 - 2 Portsmouth â $ «I am looking for these two giants of the footballing world to rip chunks out of each other and nab two goals apiece.

The missing chunk could be due to a giant impact, smashing away part of KBO's icy mantle, or it could mean Quaoar is actually a «contact binary,» consisting of two more - or-less spherical bodies that touch each other.

The giant Kidd Creek mine in Ontario, Canada, is an example; miners there descend through shafts more than a mile deep to extract copper, zinc, and silver from an ancient chunk of seafloor.

They include the detachment of a 1,300 - square - mile chunk from the Larsen B ice shelf, the disintegration of giant ice shelves in the Prince Gustav Channel and the Larsen Inlet, and the disappearance of ice shelves known as Jones, Larsen A, Muller and Wordie.

Gladman speculates that the giant outer planets captured passing chunks of rock or ice while the solar system was forming.

Currently the leading theory of how the moon formed is the giant impact hypothesis, which proposes that an object the size of Mars slammed into the infant Earth 4.5 billion years ago and knocked off large, molten chunks.

About two months later, the star actually exploded, blowing chunks of debris into the cloud of gas, which caused a giant shockwave that produced the light of the supernova.

Gamora (Zoe Saldana: I Kill Giants, Live by Night) gets a meaty chunk of story, too, though it might feel that way only because she has not been a character explored in much depth before, so there's lots to learn about her.

► An astronaut removes six large canisters of genetic research materials from a drifting space station with lights flashing and sirens blaring; a giant spiny rat chases her and pounds on the escape hatch window with paws and tentacles, cracking it (we can not see its face) as the escape pod launches and we see the space station explode into fireballs that fill the screen and soon after we see the cracked pod hatch window break apart and the pod explodes into chunks of flaming debris (the astronaut is certainly dead although we do not see her after the explosion).

No immersion, very little teamwork (everyone is just running around doing their «thing»), weapons are unrealistic (nothing but giant, over embellished chunks of metal with exaggerated functions), player team models make no sense (a mix of future U.S. Army soldiers, English soldiers, terrorists with masks, and this ape thing)-- the enemy has the same models too, too many screen markers

As any Attack on Titan fan knows, the easiest way to bring down a giant is to cut out a chunk of the spinal column from its neck.

The fabric roof is stored under a giant wood veneer chunk said to be the largest bit of woodwork in the industry.

Instead BlackBerry made an Android and licensed it on a territorial basis, with Chinese giant TCL grabbing the largest chunk, becoming the new home of «BlackBerry Mobile», a phone company, and essentially a startup.

The door swings open, sunlight penetrates the darkened space, and the chunks of meat are illuminated; suspended like giant cocoons.

From the tutorial to the giant T - Rex's neon colors, Blood Dragon was an amazing experience that can be had for $ 15 as a downloadable chunk of epicness that has to be experienced by shooter fans.

Exploring at night grants double experience, and surviving until morning outside grants a chunk of experience on top of that, but otherwise, it's just a giant hassle that I never wanted to go through.

Watch as the quest to take down a new giant monster called Anjanath begins in the 23 - minute chunk of footage after the jump.

I'm probably not going to do a good job of explaining this, but the boss fights of Skies of Arcadia really make that one of the best games I've ever played, and it everything to do with keeping a stellar cast of bad guy characters that weren't gone / killed after one fight, but were consistently around a good chunk of the narrative, so not only could they build character off of each successive meeting, but it helped you strategize your giant airship battles against them as you started to learn their fighting style (and of course the game would then use that to try and one - up you).

The image in Cross, 2012 features a chunk of ice that has become detached from a giant iceberg and landed on an Icelandic beach - the word «cross» evokes the sense of its passage.

Imagine a map with giant chunks missing from Florida, Manhattan, Lincolnshire, Rio de Janeiro and the deltas of the Nile, Amazon, Pearl, Mekong, Ganges and Brahmaputra.

«The U.S. Supreme Court should reject New Jersey's attempts to carve away a chunk of Delaware [bottom center of picture] to benefit energy giant BP's plans for a liquefied natural gas import pier on the Delaware River, attorneys for Delaware argued in an interstate boundary dispute document made public Monday.»

Now just two weeks later, the search giant is slashing an even bigger chunk off the price of the LG - made handset in addition to several other discounts.