Sentences with phrase «in rocky times»

They keep their balance even in rocky times.

Not exact matches

«I came to Hasbro Gaming around the same time as the iPad craze and we had a little bit of a rocky road in 2010 and 2011,» said Berkowitz.
It's a tense time for U.S. farmers, who could be in for rocky times as the U.S. and China heat up talks of tariffs.
It certainly wasn't clear at the time of its rocky IPO in December 2012, when the stock debuted at $ 8 a share, far below its earlier target price.
A deal with China would also give Son a powerful ally in Beijing, where he has had at times a rocky relationship, and where he made his name with a landmark bet on Alibaba in 1999.
Some blame the lack of a catalogue - buying tradition in Canada, but demand clearly goes unfulfilled here: Four in 10 dollars spent online goes abroad, meaning a large portion of spending isn't going back into the Canadian economy, at a time when the retail industry is on rocky footing and facing new competition from foreign rivals such as Target Corp..
In modern times, the message has fallen upon the edge of the path, on the rocky ground, amongst the thorns and it is being destroyed.
acting like rocky in # 3 taking weak defenses, he's gonna have a lot of his edge gone by the time Canelo gets back to him.
He wants to be assured that if things are going rocky at the beginning, or that if a school has a change in leadership, he will either get that time or be paid his money in the form of a buyout.
«Rightful place» is a dangerous phrase that smacks of arrogance and entitlement and if it becomes the sole measure of Arsenal success we are in for a very, very rocky ride for a long time to come regardless of whoever comes in to replace Wenger.
On the other hand, Christian Eriksen has contributed a number of key late goals in his two years at the club, whilst Nacer Chadli, who had a rocky first season, has been able to put himself on the scoresheet twelve times over the course of last season.
INSPIRATIONAL PEP TALK: These have been turbulent times for u Castéddu, as the Sardinians call their largest side; their stadium was only recently refurbished, they have the worst attendance in the league (due to their distance from the mainland) and the saga with Massimo Cellino and Leeds United has made things rather rocky.
They'll be an awkward opponent, at St. Andrews in particular, but it's going to be extremely difficult for Birmingham to play to that very same level that they did last season, so we envisage a more rocky campaign ahead this time around although if Zigic gets his head in front then Birmingham may have just enough to fend off the drop for the second season running.
We «discovered» a rocky, gurgling river in which the kids played and balanced for a leisurely long time.
Reuben had a rocky start but we got there in the end, Eva latched on without a second thought and is still going... definitely easier the second time, but it might just be the kind of baby you get as well...
But as for water, schools are now going to have to provide drinking water in cafeterias, although implementing what seems like such a simple requirement is proving rocky for some schools and some are claiming that they need more time to figure out how to do it in a cost - effective way.
At the same time, Paterson's time as governor was rocky to say the least and he was clearly relieved to finally leave Albany in January 2011 when Andrew Cuomo took office.
Moreover, insiders point out that Cuomo seems more likely to side with the legislative leaders in both houses, whom he not only has to work with to craft a budget, but because those relationships have recently fallen on rocky times.
Lacorte's campaign started off rocky early on, when in January he wrong - texted a plan to spy on David Fried directly to Mr. Fried himself, a story which the Rockland County Times famously exposed under the headline «LaCaught.»
«In these rocky economic times we all have to tighten our belts and MPs should lead by example,» he said.
State Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has appointed a task force to study the rocky rollout of the Common Core academic standards in New York and develop recommendations for improvement, the Albany Times Union reports.
WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about vigils in the region in the wake of a mass shooting in a gay Orlando nightclub and a proposed land swap that has hit rocky terrain.
In a new web ad first reported on by The New York Post and released this morning widely, the Stringer campaign recalls Spitzer's rocky time in Albany in which aides sought to recreate documents pertaining to Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's travel and use of state aircrafIn a new web ad first reported on by The New York Post and released this morning widely, the Stringer campaign recalls Spitzer's rocky time in Albany in which aides sought to recreate documents pertaining to Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's travel and use of state aircrafin Albany in which aides sought to recreate documents pertaining to Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's travel and use of state aircrafin which aides sought to recreate documents pertaining to Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's travel and use of state aircraft.
Meanwhile, enormous ground - based observatories like the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile and the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, both scheduled to open their eyes around 2020, will perform the more time - consuming work of measuring the masses and densities of the planets found by TESS to determine whether they are rocky objects, gassy ones, or something else entirely.
HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.
The millions of rocky objects orbiting between Mars and Jupiter probably collide all the time, but this is the first instance in which astronomers have seen direct evidence of an impact.
By the time Webb is operational, Clampin says, another NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), slated for launch in 2017, will already be producing a short list of other potentially habitable rocky planets around nearby small stars.
Many extrasolar planetary systems have large close - in planets, from rocky super-Earths (about two to 10 times the mass of Earth) to gassy mini-Neptunes or hot Jupiters.
One middle - aged star, known as HD 69830, appears to be surrounded by an asteroid belt that is 25 times as dense as the one in our solar system, possibly the remnants of a rocky planet that never formed.
Super-Earths, rocky planets that are several times as massive as Earth, form in two different ways, a new study suggests.
From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.
The scorching ball of gas, a «hot Jupiter» called HD 149026b, is a sweltering 3,700 degrees Fahrenheit (2,040 degrees Celsius)-- about 3 times hotter than the rocky surface of Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system.
Starting with 12 Kepler candidates believed to be small rocky worlds, the BLENDER analysis whittled them down to eight new exoplanets with radiuses smaller than 2.7 times Earth's, all believed to be in the habitable zone.
Even though many of the planets orbit their stars very closely and have high temperatures, which in turn causes their hydrogen - rich atmospheres to expand and a fraction of the gases to escape the planet over time, it's unlikely that the planets will lose enough of their atmosphere to become rocky bodies like Earth, the researchers report online today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Willenbring, now an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, had alleged, in a lengthy complaint filed with BU in October 2016, and reported on by Science last month, that Marchant also physically harassed her, throwing stones at her while she was urinating, blowing volcanic ash in her eyes, and pushing her down a steep, rocky slope several times.
But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.
Although we are some time off from probing a distant potentially habitable world's atmosphere for the presence of liquid water or chemical traces of life, Kepler - along with supporting observations by other space - and ground - based instrumentation - is giving us a tantalizing hint of the preponderance of small rocky worlds in the Milky Way.
The effect of stellar contamination is up to 15 times larger than the signal expected from molecules in the atmosphere of a rocky planet (light green band), which means that we can't currently draw any meaningful conclusions about planetary atmospheres from measurements like this.
This is the first time a white dwarf with nitrogen has been discovered, and one of only a few known examples of white dwarfs that have been impacted by a rocky body that was rich in water ice.
In the case of Kepler - 10c, the planet has a mass 17 times that of Earth and is a dense, rocky planet.
Exoplanets come in all sizes, from rocky worlds smaller than Earth to massive bloated gas giants many times the size of Jupiter.
Exceptions include a number of planets discovered orbiting burned - out star remnants called pulsars, such as PSR B1257 +12, [14] the planets orbiting the stars Mu Arae, 55 Cancri and GJ 436, which are approximately Neptune - sized, and a planet orbiting Gliese 876 that is estimated to be about six to eight times as massive as Earth and is probably rocky in composition.
A speck of light spotted in October 2015 is a rocky world more than 3 times more distant than Pluto — the farthest body in our solar system ever seen.
Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.
One of the few things we know about Proxima b, besides that it is a rocky planet with a mass 1.3 times that of Earth, is that its orbit is in the so - called «Goldilocks zone» of its sun: not too hot nor too cold for liquid water, making it a potential host for life — alien, human or both.
«Spectroscopic observations of the white dwarf allowed us to measure the abundances of the rocky material as it is being accreted and filtered through the star's atmosphere in real time,» Melis said.
Most asteroids are rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in a «Main Asteroid Belt» that is centered around 2.7 times the Earth - Sun distance (astronomical unit or AU) from Sol.
In September, researchers announced the discovery of Gliese 581g, a rocky planet with a mass that is just three to four times that of Earth.
A decedent rocky road fudge, just in time for Easter.
I love sharing these little things with you guys because I've had this blog in some very single times in my life, through some rocky relationships, and now after taking the time and energy to myself to really set an intention for who I wanted to be with, and how I wanted that person to make me feel... (which required a lot of slowing down) that's when I was rewarded with the best - for - me person in the world.
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