Sentences with phrase «high side of the scale»

While the penalty was on the high side of the scale of an appropriate penalty, it was within the range.

Not exact matches

Little ones are often tempted to scale the sides of high chairs that can easily fall over.

So, we have a document that defends the individual's rights on both sides of the scale, a document written at the birth of the nation, and written in beautiful language promoting the highest ideals by people in history that remain popular.

«Mutual assured destruction, or mutually assured destruction (MAD), is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full - scale use of high - yield weapons of mass destruction by two opposing sides would effectively result in the complete, utter and irrevocable annihilation of both the attacker and the defender becoming thus a war that has no victory nor any armistice but only effective reciprocal destruction.»

Projects already underway on both sides of the Atlantic include the development of two prototype laser fusion plants - HiPER in the UK and Ignition in the US - both of which require numerous large scale, high specification optics.

The Toyota RAV4 is also an Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick, having received the institute's highest rating of good (on a scale of poor, marginal, acceptable and good) in side and small - and moderate - overlap frontal crash tests, along with tests of its roof strength, head restraints and seats.

You survey the massive bonnet and surroundings from on high, the steering wheel is simply enormous, and as you scan side and rear - view mirrors, the scale of the 300C is inescapable.

The interior design suggests it's biased more toward the luxury side of the scale, and most materials are high quality.

This is on the high side of the pricing scale.

For the High Line, Ruscha will present his first public commission in New York City, a large - scale work hand - painted by a professional mural company on the side of an apartment building adjacent to the High Line at West 22nd Street.

Titled The Living Pyramid, Denes's new large - scale, site - specific earthwork spans 30 feet at its four - sided base and ascend 30 feet high, created from several tons of soil and planted grasses.

Other ambitious, memorable projects Ms. Pasternak oversaw during her two decades at the high - profile organization include Kara Walker's monumental sugar sphinx sculpture, A Subtlety, at the Domino Sugar Factory, and Doug Aitken's large - scale film projection Sleepwalkers on the side of the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

That depends on the data, so you need to look at variance for the particular record (a side note — satellite mid-tropospheric records have higher variance than surface records, and inherently require more data to make that determination), at auto - correlation, the scale of trend changes, all of those, to determine whether current trends are significantly different from the past.

-- A growing number of affordable, long - range electric vehicles coming on the market — Ongoing policy - making commitment to those vehicles, even from a post-Brexit conservative UK government (the future is a little less certain on this side of the pond)-- Low cost, large - scale renewables and wide - spread energy storage — A wider range of non-car transportation options, including affordable, high - quality e-bikes — Internal combustion engines shall henceforth forever be known as the Suck - Squeeze - Bang - Fart engine

Now the first of a kind plant is always going to be a bit expensive, and 275 MW is a bit on the small side to get economies of scale, but a factor of 3.5 is pretty high.

If this forecast is correct, it will take a long time or big technological innovations on the production side to induce large - scale fossil - fuel production from high - cost areas such as the Arctic Ocean, regardless of sea - ice conditions.

As I describe in that article the weather systems on Earth (primarily the jet streams and the high pressure cells either side of them) ramp up their thermal efficiency in tune with the scale of any positive or negative energy input changes from any source including that from human CO2.

It's not exactly as good as the sound from the BoomSound speakers of the latest HTC flagships or the Nexus 9, but the sound on the Nexus 6 is almost as high on the quality scale, and clearly better than any rear or side - mounted speakers from competitors.

The Motorola Stature i9 is $ 399.99 MSRP — on the higher side of the smartphone scale — and available through both Boost Mobile and Sprint.