Sentences with phrase «giant field as»

Potential oil reserves are located in many small accumulations in complex geological formations, rather than in one giant field as was discovered at Prudhoe Bay.

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«This settlement represents a giant leap forward toward leveling the playing field and can serve as a model of best practices for other technology companies.»

Emerson's offer stems from its desire to be a leader in all areas of automation and to present a stronger competitive offering to industrial companies as European giants such as Siemens, ABB Automation Group and Schneider Electric become more aggressive in the field.

Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign in an effort to get young women excited about computer science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.

On the software side, the field includes giants like IBM, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft, which launched its SMB - oriented Microsoft CRM solution last year, as well as smaller companies like Onyx Software and FrontRange Solutions.

It is a giant in the field of «big data» as it gathers information about consumers on everything from where they live to what car they drive and what they buy.

One portion of the giant field, known as the Wolfcamp formation, was found to hold 20 billion barrels of oil trapped in four layers of shale beneath the desert in West Texas, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a report on Tuesday.

In China, the most popular growth areas are proving to be smart robots with companies such as Ubtech, Roobo, and Cloudminds, as well as unmanned areal vehicles (UAV) with drone giant DJI as the biggest player in the field.

@ hawaiiguest: 1) to not consider the writings of scholars & historical giants within your own field as important is what is silly.

As the cautionary principle in all applications of science has been grossly abused by commercial giants in all fields of science, the church will not hasten to reassure a rightly sceptical public.

To Buckland, they also offered strange deposits he identified as fossil droppings (coprolites) of extinct giant saurians; his pioneering work opened up an entirely new field of study — identifying animal's diets — and speaks to his eccentricity.

On Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasy.

But they have put the ball on the Lambeau Field grass three times today, and John Kuhn's first - ever fumble as an NFL player finally gave the New York Giants a takeaway.

This year, for instance, Alabama fields such giants as John Hannah (273 pounds), Jim Patterson (252) and Jim Krapf (240).

One of the key strategies of AFC during the last decade was the supposition that FFP would cut the legs out of both City and Chelsea which our board and most tellingly Wenger thought would «level the playing field» but it didn't and as many thought during this period FFP would either die on the vine or the big financial giants would find ways to bypass it.

A loquacious raconteur endowed with total recall, he is able to talk for what seems almost ever about such long - forgotten players as Moses Solomon, «The Rabbi of Swat,» a slugger the Giants brought up in the»20s to lure Jewish fans into the Polo Grounds, and one - armed Daily, a Cleveland pitcher back in the»80s who used to get into fights on the field and chop away at his adversaries with the stump of his left arm.

In fact, according to the website ParkFactors.com, Petco trails only The Big A (Angels), Safeco Field (Mariners) and AT&T Park (Giants) as the most pitcher friendly ballparks in baseball.

Given that the former Juventus defender has been without a club since leaving the Turin giants last summer, and taking into consideration his issues both on and off the field, it's questionable as to why he believes he deserves to dictate the terms of the deal.

As the»50s dawned, pro football was an afterthought in New York City, but Cavanaugh chronicles how the town fell for a team that was talented (between 1956 and»63 the Giants fielded eight future Hall of Famers), innovative (the coaching staff included young assistants named Tom Landry and Vince Lombardi) and successful (New York made six NFL title game appearances in eight years).

But as he headed across the field at the end of the game, by chance he encountered the entire Giant bullpen contingent at home plate.

As Arsenal get set to host the European champions Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League, the Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has insisted that his team are capable of beating the all - conquering Spanish giants when the teams take to the field at the Emirates stadium.

As for fit, we have never seen the Pat Shurmur - coached Giants on the field, so how do we know?

The opening number was juiced to the home dogs as gamblers could get the Giants at -102 if laying the field goal.

West Brom are without Chadli (who has been as irritating as an inebriated autumn wasp in games against West Ham since his move from north London) but will, as usual, field a team of no - nonsense, take no prisoner giants.

Mauricio Pochettino will be expected to field the strongest XI available at his disposal as a victory could very well give them some breathing space when they take on the likes of defending champions Real Madrid and German giants Borussia Dortmund.

After all, lightning rarely strikes twice, as the old saying goes, and Leeds are a glaringly obvious cautionary tale illustrating that fallen giants can endure protracted exiles from the top flight due to precisely the combination of on - field failure and off - field folly and mismanagement for which our club has become renowned.

Using data from previous field studies, the team estimates that the minerals and other nutrients released by giant Antarctic icebergs (those longer than 18 kilometers) trigger as much as 20 % of the CO2 absorption by life in the southern seas.

That field, they say, would funnel hydrogen from a red giant toward a small spot at the neutron star's magnetic poles, just as in a normal pulsar.

Finding lithium - enriched red giants «is not expected from standard models of low - mass star evolution, which is usually regarded as a relatively well - established field in astrophysics,» says astronomer Wako Aoki of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

Yet some cholera scientists — including Rita Colwell, seen by many as a giant in the field — contended that the bacteria had more likely been present in local waters, and that the outbreak had been triggered by a combination of environmental factors.

Because a gas giant's atmospheric pressure and magnetic field both depend on its mass, less - massive worlds such as Saturn should have dynamic weather extending more than three times deeper than Jupiter's.

TESS, which NASA recently selected as a new Explorer mission, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform the all - sky survey of a broad range of exoplanets, ranging from Earth - size to gas giants.

As astronomers report online today in Nature, magnetic fields inside M33's six most massive giant molecular clouds — large concentrations of dense gas and dust that give birth to stars — line up with the spiral arms, suggesting the magnetic fields helped create the huge clouds and that they regulate how the clouds fragment to form new stars.

And here a writer can only scrub about in his own field to find a writer's equivalent moment, as described by a giant of his profession: Henry James.

A 2011 decadal survey of the field by the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies ranked a giant segmented - mirror telescope as one of its top three priorities for ground - based optical and infrared astronomy.

Both qualify as quite small in the field of known exoplanets, in which most of the hundreds of worlds that have been discovered are giants larger than Jupiter.

This giant bowl - sized formation is nearly as wide as 250 football fields laid end to end.

As this SWRI press release details, Juno has eight scientific instruments designed to study the planet's magnetic field, atmosphere and interior structure, and they show that Jupiter is far more than just a giant ball of gases.

On top of the Supai group is the whitish / grayish Coconino Formation — a younger, thick sandstone layer, deposited in the mid-Permian, in giant wind - blown dune fields (such locations are also known as erg, Arabic for sea of sand).

The pulsar's rotation is thought to slow because the neutron star's powerful magnetic field acts as a giant dynamo, emitting light, radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation as the star rotates.

As the gas giant spins on its axis roughly once every 10 hours, Jupiter drags its magnetic field with it.

The neutron star's powerful magnetic field acts as a giant dynamo, emitting electromagnetic radiation as the star rotates.

In a radio interferometer where multiple antennas are combined to work as a virtual giant telescope, increasing the space between antennas allows higher resolution but narrows the field of view.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

To be fair, it also rips off, shot for shot, moments from Sam Raimi; from Reservoir Dogs in a poor, bleeding - out schlub dubbed «Dead Man» (Akie Kotabe), who fans of «The Simpsons» will recognize as Frank Grimes; and from Luc Besson, in particular (and if you're a carbon copy of Besson, the image fidelity is a field of giant pixels at this point).

Money, a gentle giant who lives with his grandmother, is applying himself both in the classroom and on the field with hopes of landing a scholarship as a ticket out of the «hood.

There is a moment about halfway through Brooklyn when Saoirse Ronan's character is shown as a distant speck in a giant field of green grass, as if lost amongst the lush vegetation.

Last but not least, I would like to thank the faculty, who have served not simply as teachers and colleagues but also as mentors and friends, and I would like give special thanks to Bob Kegan, a pillar of this community and a giant in the field of adult development.

Then she imagined the trees as they would soon look in the full blaze of autumn color — and then afterward, in winter, as a field of bare - branched giants standing on a blanket of white.