Sentences with phrase «in as grains of sand»

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Along with other rail companies, it's shipping more crude, frac sand and grain and it's doing more intermodal business — taking goods to another mode of transportation, such as ship or plane — than it has in the past.

Just as one can not know how many grains of sand are in the Sahara desert, one can not definitely know that God does not exist.

I image our «Universe», and all that we can perceive as a single grain of sand in the largest of deserts.

Under the dome - sky oneness translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness chokes in nebulae of beetles, sand grains, hydrogen atoms.Gnosis blurs, pits the achilded One against the unfathered Many.

We live within a universe of such potential smallness in size that it is as a grain of sand upon the beaches!

Furthermore we read in a passage from Timothy that, ``... the ashes were as grains of sand.

In this book, Whitehead traces the origin of modern natural science as it generalized laws of nature from new observations of aggregates — cannon - balls, stars, grains of sand — and then assumed these laws to apply to individual organisms as well.

The feelings - y, nostalgic choice: King Felix, as the grains of sand left in his MLB career sift determinedly to the bottom of the glass.

At those outcrops, the researchers calculated the percent of mud rock in the overall deposit by measuring the thickness of the muddy layers compared with the thickness of layers containing larger grains such as sand.

Both wolf and flic - flac piders lay down silk threads in rings around the tunnel as they dig it out, creating a very thin mesh with just a layer or two of sand grains.

The glass likely takes the form of sand - sized grains, as it does in glass - rich fields in Iceland.

As the bacteria went to work metabolizing the urea, calcium carbonate crystals began to form around the bacteria, filling in the gaps between each grain of sand.

Once free - flowing but now firmly cemented together with an iron - bearing mineral called hematite, the sand grains were apparently injected into cracks in ancient granite — some of them as much as 6 meters wide — under high pressure.

«This is one more piece of evidence that nearly all stars have planets, and that potentially habitable planets in our Galaxy are as common as grains of sand on a beach.»

Rand describes these mini-cases as «bite - size chunks of real - world complexity» (Spiro & Jehng, 1990) because — to paraphrase William Blake — sometimes the only way to see a world is in a grain of sand.

But as gravity inevitably compels the grains of sand through the hour glass, these high performance vehicles have improved in small increments, while cars at the budget end of the market have advanced in leaps and bounds.

Bladder stones start from tiny crystals that are formed in the urine of a cat that are often as small as grains of sand.

They can vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a chunk of gravel.

Forget leather shoes or high heels; dip your feet in grains of sand as you enter one of the outdoor meeting facilities that is just 6 minutes walk from Nusa Dua Beach.

While these sculptures can be seen as purely abstract forms, they also can be read as directly indexing nature, due to the grains of sand affixed to the plastic cloth used in the casting process.

This weakened the current and prevented it from carrying bigger grains of sand as far as it used to, which told the scientists about differences in the current's strength, Oppo told Live Science.

Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more than current data storage densities.

Taken together, everything that moves across the Internet in a single day weighs roughly the same as the smallest possible sand grain, one measuring just two - thousandths of an inch across.

The nomenclature used to describe water - resistance is know as the Ingress Protection rating (or IP rating) and is specified with two numbers in the format IPXY where X is the degree to which the case is resistant to physical ingress (the intrusion of solid objects like wires, grains of sand, etc.) and Y is the degree of resistance to liquid ingress.

So, the amount of drawers that all the hackers on the earth with their phone apps and their drones, everybody in the world equally attacking at the same time would be able to open as many drawers as there are grains of sand on the earth.

You can't really blame some of these newbie wholesalers as they are drinking the koolaid tainted by these so called gurus that promises them the world but in reality they're only getting a grain of sand.