Sentences with phrase «giants the size of»

Of course, one of the reasons their declared impairments were so massive was simply due to the giant size of these corporations, but the fact of the matter is that diversification of their business segments into many different commodities didn't help these companies from suffering massive losses in 2015 and diversification didn't prevent US stock portfolios from crashing in 2008.

Now, Levison and colleagues have developed a new model that predicts the formation of just a few gas giants the size of Jupiter and Saturn, as they report today in Nature.

If it were a gas giant the size of Jupiter, part of its atmosphere would actually be inside the gravitational destruction zone, and the planet would not have survived long enough for Bailes's team to detect it.

An online dating heavyweight since 1995, Match gets high marks for the giant size of their membership base (and the options it offers singles everywhere in the US and Canada), their in - person singles mixers, and their 6 month.

An online dating heavyweight since 1995, Match gets high marks for the giant size of their membership base (and the options it offers singles everywhere in the US and Canada), their in - person singles mixers, and their 6 month guarantee.

An online dating heavyweight since 1995, Match gets high marks for the giant size of their membership base (and the options it offers singles everywhere in the US and Canada).

An online dating heavyweight since 1995, Match gets high marks for the giant size of.

An online dating heavyweight since 1995, Match gets high marks for the giant size of their membership base (and the options it offers singles everywhere in the US and Canada), their in - person.

And since Galactus is portrayed as a giant the size of a planet in the comic books, I guess he fits under that category.

The giant size of Mastiffs can easily block or attack the intruders if needed.

This is especially crucial because of the giant size of this breed.

Not exact matches

Though Google is notoriously secretive about their methods and policies, many experts feel that 2014 will see the search engine giant focusing on two elements: 1) great content and 2) the size of your social media footprint.

Although the law would allow people to grow up to four plants at home, Bourque, who represents 125,000 real estate brokers, said there's no limit on plant size, meaning growers could raise giant plants that produce 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of grass a year, increasing the risk to homes and health.

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

People have accomplished that by exploiting a giant loophole: The size of the tax deduction is based on a claim about how much the land's value is diminished by the promise not to develop it.

CES is a giant, bloated event that is exhausting and often frustrating to cover because of its sheer size.

They feared they would be unable to compete at home and abroad with such international giants (at the time ING Groep was twice the size of Royal Bank of Canada), culminating in clumsy, thwarted bids to consolidate the sector in 1998.

But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

Regardless of whether you need to communicate new policies to your team or product specifications to shoppers, your small business can do the job faster and better than any giant - sized company.

While the largest tech giants are on record in support of the current FCC rules, their size likely means they will be able to negotiate with Internet providers to ensure any changes to net neutrality policy does not affect them.

The mission aims to identify planets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, using an array of telescopes to perform a two - year survey.

It is because of, and not despite, David's size and unorthodox choice of weapon that he is able to slay the lumbering giant.

Placer can claw back its interest in these projects, or any of Templar's other gold exploration projects in Australia, to 70 per cent if further exploration proves them to be of a size and quality which would interest the gold giant.

The «gig» economy is expected to grow more than twice its current size by 2020 and these two giant companies want a piece of the pie.

Technicians came to the volunteers» homes and attached to the outside walls bright red receivers the size of basketballs and resembling giant Google map pins.

If that group were one giant U.S. company, it'd be second only to Walmart in terms of size.

Giant, wall - sized vending machines proliferated and then died out decades later, rising and falling at the whim of technological change.

The automats were essentially giant, wall - sized vending machines that dispensed sandwiches, slices of pie and other goodies from little windows.

The online retail giant is inviting people to New York to measure them with a 3 - D body scanner

By

Laura Stevens

Amazon.com Inc. wants to understand one of the more intimate things about you: body size.

He outlined the bold plan during a September keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress in Mexico, where he showed off a video of SpaceX's proposed Interplanetary Transport System — a giant spaceship lifted into orbit on a skyscraper - sized rocket.

In a 2014 deposition, the company's executive director of research and development said the pharmaceutical giant had no «procedure related to the development of what a drop size should be.»

NIF's goal is to focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB - sized target filled with hydrogen fuel, fusing the hydrogen atoms» nuclei and releasing many times more energy than it took to initiate the fusion reaction.

At BP's massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog - sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic tracks to creep along pipes connecting the giant oil facility to the sea floor.

According to this video, the government raised red flags in April 2001 stating that the size of mortgage giants, Fanne Mae and Freddie Mac, is «a potential problem» because trouble in either one of them could «cause strong repercussions in financial markets».

I'm enjoying reading «small giants» a secular business book that argues againt the «grow or die» received wisdom through a study of businesses that turned down opportunites to grow in size and profits in order to be great at quality (http://www.anglicancelluk.org/blog/p,12/).

In contrast to this background of smooth planes in muted colors, giant screens occasionally lower from the ceilings to show scenes of catastrophe in high enough definition that they seem to Jeffrey «immediate and real, a woman sitting life - sized on a lopsided chair in a house collapsed in a mudslide.»

Reputations are too frequently made when pygmies stand on the shoulders of giants and when iconic and sometimes heroic figures are symbolically cut down to size....

@Nate and you're saying «myth» like they didn't find a giant petrified wooden boat nearly the size of two football fields in the mountains of ararat exactly where the Bible says.Or the 90 % + pure sulfer brimstone hail found in the ashen remains of Sodom of Gomorrah off the dead sea exactly where the cities were located.

Astronomy is beginning to detect and classify a life of the stars, red, blue and white, giant, middle - sized and dwarf; each type, in its dimensions, particular radiations and brilliance, being subject to a given evolutionary cycle.

Here is part of the decadence movement, the scandalizing and cutting down of a giant to ordinary size.

We are a Goldie Loc's Planet 2 - we got the right of land to water ratio 3 - the moon is at the right size and orbit to prevent the earth from wobbling 4 - the gas giants in our solar system do a great job at cleaning up roaming ice and rock that is flying around our solar system 5 - right distance from the galactic core.

This becomes especially evident when they give lectures to church groups or other congregations of the already convinced and trot out giant «sized Styrofoam mock «ups of mousetraps or other similar toys.

Whether giants, medium - sized or dwarfs, the stars are curiously similar in mass (from one to ten times the mass of the sun), which proves, incidentally, that they must vary prodigiously in their mean density — 1.4 in the case of the Sun, but 50,000 and even 300,000 in the case of the dwarf stars (a fragment the size of a pinch of snuff, brought from one of these to Earth, would weigh a ton!)

«We deal with the hurricane season as a «normal» thing in our region, but the giant scope (size, force, rapidness of development) of Irma and Maria are just of another league,» Ríos explained by email.

It's a warning to giants that no matter the size of your ego or power, you always have a weakness.

1 Giant - sized Sara Lee pound cake, cold but not frozen 3 Klondike chocolate covered ice cream bars 12 - 16 egg whites 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup granulated sugar 1 wooden plank, 12» x 8» by 1 - inch thick Heavy duty aluminum foil to wrap the plank 1 8 - ounce jar of raspberry jam 1 8 - ounce jar of chocolate fudge sauce

Town & Country Foods may be modestly sized compared to some foodservice companies, but it has a guarantee of quality that even giants like Sysco can't match, owner Janet Lapin says.

Whenever I made hummus in the past, it always required buying a giant jar of tahini (the only size I could find) which then sat in my refrigerator for months until I remembered it was in there and threw it out.

These muffins are huge in size, I have a special giant muffin pan for baking them in and this batter gives you just the right amount for 6 of them.

This recipe makes enough to fill one of those giant - size 32 - ounce cups you find at the convenience store.