Sentences with phrase «in traffic jams of»

The big ottoman in this room is usually covered in a traffic jam of Disney Cars and Hot Wheels.

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«It's kind of like being stuck in a traffic jam and honking your horn at the guy in front of you,» says Canada West Foundation senior economist Michael Holden.

In September, Gilbert agreed to pay $ 1.25 million of his own money for a road project to widen downtown Detroit's Interstate 375 exit from one lane to three, a move to help alleviate traffic jams heading into the Greektown Casino - Hotel, which he also owns.

Arguably the best traffic - navigating app in the world, Waze will help you get out of any traffic jam with some of the most interesting scenic routes imaginable.

What became known as the «longest traffic jam ever» — a nearly two - week, 60 - plus mile gridlock — took place a few years ago, not in a huge Western metropolis, but in the northern China province of Hebei.

They can feel they have a stake in his enchanting vision of a future where cars are no longer polluting, traffic jams are no longer an impediment, and people can live on Mars if they want to.

There was not much to see in Luanda except massive traffic jams and high - rise yellow cranes, because the nation was in the midst of an oil - fueled construction frenzy.

For the myriad of instances in our daily routines in which we find ourselves faced with the mundane — a traffic jam, a line at the grocery shopping, a long shower — giving the brain free - rein to wander is not only acceptable, but beneficial.

Ford's commercial, which is part of its ongoing «Go Further» marketing campaign, features a montage of clips of people getting stuck in various scenarios, from a stalled ski lift to a major traffic jam.

You're tuned in to Episode # 61 of Traffic Jam and joining me today is Brian Honigman.

Of course, spin alley is in a near traffic jam trying to explain away Mr. Mar's feelings towards having Albertans pay out of pocket for health carOf course, spin alley is in a near traffic jam trying to explain away Mr. Mar's feelings towards having Albertans pay out of pocket for health carof pocket for health care.

«Each group must stick firmly to schedule or, as happened during one of my visits, a kind of backlog of devotion can build up: foot - tapping Armenians were stalled behind impatient Greeks as an overflow of Copts intoned their prayers in apparent obliviousness of the traffic jam.

It may in fact be of better quality than what most of us have: quality food, quality wine, lots of nature, job security, quiet streets and no TV commercials / crowded malls / traffic jam / domestic abuse / gun violence etc..

The next day, we were snarled in a Port - au - Prince traffic jam, and somehow I wound up telling everyone in the van more about this crippling fear of mine.

I was immediately impressed by the kind nature of the folks in Philadelphia, especially given the severity of the traffic jam they were so happily driving into.

Any Sunday in summer 100,000 Detroit boating fans are likely to crowd onto the water to form one of the biggest marine traffic jams in the U.S.

The first of trotting's Triple Crown events proved nothing when 13 sulkies were trapped in a traffic jam and a 15 - to - 1 colt romped home

He began to stockpile draft choices — not give them away, as the Kings had done over the years; he traded for veteran defensemen — Dave Lewis and Jerry Korab in particular — to stop the traffic jam in front of the Kings» goal; he signed scoring champion Marcel Dionne to the biggest contract in NHL history — a six - year, $ 3.6 - million deal; he remedied the Kings» lack of depth by acquiring the services of veteran Center Garry Unger; he gave Berry a bevy of rinkside assistants; he organized a farm club in Houston; and he redesigned L.A.'s uniforms.

You look down, out, over, across, around, and there — gathered up in countless white peaks out of reach of cable TV, divorce courts, PCBs, CIAs or IOUs, Flag Day, interest rates, canned meats, traffic jams or the Super Bowl — is the top of the world.

Print out a map in case your phone battery or signal dies — and leave yourself plenty of time for traffic jams and late - running trains!

With the school holidays in full swing, families across Britain will be off on their travels - but it doesn't have to spell out the beginning of traffic jams, squabbling kids and endless toilet breaks.

The next time you curse morning rush hour traffic, think of the three women who gave birth on the jammed Interstate 5 in Seattle during one month in 2007.

Their little bodies produce the extra bilirubin to help pass these extra cells but often due to a bit of a traffic jam at the liver, the excess bilirubin is transferred to the blood and stored in the skin, thus resulting in the yellow tint.

«Being slightly less in the list of traffic jams» is not scientific evidence and does not refute decades of research across the world.

Some changes are on the way to help avoid a repeat of last weekend's massive traffic jam in downtown Buffalo.

Christie's name keeps surfacing in a trial stemming from the traffic jam scandal known as Bridgegate, and Cuomo is facing arguably the worst crisis of his governorship after nine people tied to his administration were arrested in a corruption sweep last week.

«Over the 30 years we've lived on Grand Island, we've been stuck in so many traffic jams because of the narrowing to the toll booths and then leaving the toll booths.

David Wildstein — a former Christie - appointed Port Authority official who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the Bridgegate case — testified on the stand in Newark this afternoon that it was his «understanding» that Cuomo had collaborated with the Garden State's governor in composing former Port Authority Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni's claims to the New Jersey State Legislature that the traffic jams going into Fort Lee were the bungled product of a real experiment on vehicular access and a minor «miscommunication.»

In speaking before lawmakers, de Blasio moved toward accepting a desperately needed funding plan for the troubled subways by making street - clogging vehicles pay to drive into traffic - jammed parts of Manhattan.

Unions, the MTA, and elected officials warned that the LIRR's first strike in two decades would have been devastating — forcing scores of riders into traffic jams and non-air-conditioned school buses supplied by the MTA to help get some of its 145,000 riders to work.

It was a traffic jam that, in the end, rerouted the career of the chief executive of the world's fourth - largest airline, and how one led to the other is a tale of power, politics and New Jersey wheeling - dealing.

Officers of the Police Motor Transport and Traffic Department are reportedly under pressure to manage the traffic jam that started building up in the mTraffic Department are reportedly under pressure to manage the traffic jam that started building up in the mtraffic jam that started building up in the morning.

The need for reform comes in the wake of the Bridgegate scandal of 2013, when access lanes to the George Washington bridge were blocked leading to a major traffic jam.

In addition to the tolls, the supervisor and others have complained that vehicles stuck in traffic jams at the tolls are causing air pollution, with elevated levels of benzene that is harmful for Grand Island and Tonawanda residentIn addition to the tolls, the supervisor and others have complained that vehicles stuck in traffic jams at the tolls are causing air pollution, with elevated levels of benzene that is harmful for Grand Island and Tonawanda residentin traffic jams at the tolls are causing air pollution, with elevated levels of benzene that is harmful for Grand Island and Tonawanda residents.

My personal feeling, which I expressed in my chat with Carter, is that while it may be to the employer's advantage to reduce risk in this way, I still have trouble figuring out why I need to share my fear of traffic jams (see sidebar).

It turns out the evolution of our complex brain has come at a price: Sometimes we end up with a mental traffic jam in there.

According to a study in the New Journal of Physics, traffic jams develop spontaneously when vehicle density exceeds a critical level, beyond which minor fluctuations in the flow of individual vehicles destabilize the whole thing.

«The edge of a traffic jam propagates like a shock wave in a fluid,» says Alexandre Bayen at CCIT.

Traffic congestion has gotten way out of hand — and not just in developed countries anymore: Traffic jams and smog plague dozens of cities in China and in many other parts of the developing world.

Because of that — in addition to increasingly smaller sizes of transistors and similar charge - carrying materials — electrons have a tendency to bottleneck, or create traffic jams.

Your drive to work is easy in spite of fog, thanks to in - car radar and the intelligent transport software that automatically guides you around traffic jams, allowing you to arrive in time for a presentation in which high - definition video is streamed flawlessly to your tablet computer in real time.

The grains of cornstarch, they concluded, are so closely packed together that when the rod hits them, they have nowhere to go — like cars in a traffic jam.

American drivers are wasting more time and money in traffic jams than ever before, reports David Schrank of Texas A&M University, and commuters are adjusting to longer travel times rather than phasing in long - term solutions.

The vast amount of gas and dust sucked in by the black hole's intense gravitational pull creates an enormous traffic jam that prevents most of this stuff from ever making it into the black hole.

A quick lesson for those stuck in underwater traffic jams: Don't honk at the fish in front of you.

The government limits the number of cars on the roads by means of an elaborate system that has the effect of making cars expensive (a very reasonable goal, as those who have been in a Bangkok traffic jam can attest).

When the temperature drops below a threshold temperature, small imperfections in the material trigger a kind of traffic jam for the electrons.

«While every part of the global economy needs to become greener, cleaning up the traffic jams in the world's cities offers the least pain and the most gain,» said Replogle.

Moreover, they suggest, laboratory experiments with drugs designed to clear up these cellular «traffic jams» restored normal transport in and out of the nucleus and saved the cells.

«Based on this instruction, you will never get in a traffic jam,» said Andreas Malikopoulos, deputy director of the Urban Dynamics Institute at ORNL.