Sentences with phrase «is the distance at»

This is the event she won in a stunning upset over more seasoned distance swimmers in 2012, and it's the distance at which she's most comfortable.

«Well, sir, I threw the slow curve, and he hit this little Chinese home run down the rightfield line — which was no distance at all — 20 feet back into the stands for his second of the day,» says Bush.

Effective range is the distance at which a client can connect to a Wi - Fi network and remain connected with a stable connection.

Not exact matches

You could focus on transporting seniors to medical appointments locally, or, if you live in an area that's some distance from a city, you could focus on driving people long distances to specialist appointments at world - class hospitals.

At a distance, it all sounds like rather typical challenges for an online streaming service that's been on the market for less than two months, but the complaints are mounting.

His decision has been a divisive one, spurring at least two organizations to announce they would distance themselves from Y Combinator until the accelerator formally cuts ties with Thiel.

This requires the heroic assumption that it's not the absolute level of your income that affects your lifespan, but rather the relative distance between your income and those at the top of the food chain.

That's handy to know if you suddenly feel like your legs are going to fall off at mile 18 of a marathon, but it's a truth that can have a huge impact even if long - distance running really isn't your thing.

«He came with an entire package that was well - established and user - friendly, and had a customizable look and feel,» explains Peter Wolf, then a distance education designer at Guelph.

If you look at the distance between the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2, it was five years.

Other activities include: producing products that may be recycled at the end of their lifespan for material reuse; reducing energy consumption in operations; or even re-engineering distribution methods as a means of reducing long - distance travel during product delivery, ultimately reducing fossil fuel consumption (and the disease - causing air pollution that is its byproduct).

Nick Symmonds, an American middle - distance runner who won a silver medal at World Championships in Russia in 2013, was booted from Team USA for the 2015 games in Beijing because he refused to wear Nike at team functions.

The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) from Titan.

That's the premise behind a recent New York Times story asking female executives who came within touching distance of becoming CEOs what caused them to fall at the last hurdle.

«Credit to the team at Amazon for creating a lot of excitement in this space,» Pichai said, while claiming that Google Home will be considerably superior in its «far - field voice recognition» (ability to decipher speech against background noise at different distances), its integrations with other smart - home systems like Google - owned Nest, and its aptitude to understand and manage things like restaurant reservations, travel itineraries, and contact lists.

Followers do accept requests without complaint, and perform just as well as their counterparts, but the lack of independent thinking and leadership is a major fault when you look at your company from a distance.

The car elevator is just the latest mini-step towards Musk's vision of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

Hiking shoes are designed for use while you're carrying a pack and covering long distances, while trail runners are ideal for the unladen user out for a few hours at a time.

«No one, not even the North Koreans, knows the CEP of the HS - 12,» Mike Elleman, the senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told Business Insider, referring to circular error probable, or the distance by which a missile can be expected to miss its target.

If it had been fired at a normal angle, analysts say, it could have flown much farther — estimates vary between 2,500 and 4,350 miles, the upper number putting Alaska and possibly Hawaii within striking distance.

Ultimately, Musk wants to build a network of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

For instance, two magnets can be designed to attract each other at a distance but stop short of touching, and hover with a gap between them.

«At this point, and in the context of oil prices that are within striking distance of what we envision to be cyclical highs over the next 6 to 12 months, we think the Exxon short has essentially run its course,» Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov wrote.

Offering both full — time and part — time study options, RMC's program is available on — campus in Kingston, Ont., or at a distance, although some residency is always required.

At $ 450, it's not cheap, but its leather band, sapphire glass, and minimalist watch face are handsome, it's comfortable, and it still does well to (automatically) track the basic steps, distance, and swimming stats.

Though executives at large drugmakers, which also routinely enact large price increases for established products, were quick to distance themselves from Shkreli, the House oversight committee seems intent on drawing comparisons across the industry.

With more and more trip distances being increased due to commuters living at the outskirts of the Perth Metro Area, this will have minimal effect.

«We think the safest way to deliver packages is for the drone to remain at a distance and lower it into the customer's hand,» said Sweeny.

Local calls are free; long distance starts at just 2 cents a minute.

When Phil Knight was a middle - distance runner on his track team at the University of Oregon, Bowerman used to holler at him to «run faster.»

«Upfront fares are calculated using the expected time and distance of the trip and local traffic, as well as how many riders and nearby drivers are using Uber at that moment.

«We are closely monitoring Hurricane Irma and are keeping our ships at a safe distance from the storm,» the company earlier said on Twitter.

«In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow - distance set to minimum.

At Hamon, most intracompany calls — and even some long - distance calls outside the company — are free.

Consumers have been slow off the blocks after having been burnt the last time around when they locked in prices at around US$ 80 a barrel in 2014, a level that crude hasn't even been within sniffing distance of since.

According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

«If he returns without any concession, it would be a humiliating blow since he's already gone out of his way to distance himself from the Philippines» allies,» Jay Batongbacal, an ocean lawyer at the University of the Philippines, told Chatham House's Bill Hayton.

The lenses support the eye's effort in focusing at ultra - near distances that are typical of handheld devices by filtering out «harmful blue - violet light emitted by digital screens.»

The portable products to date are mostly improvements on the classic Life Alert «I've Fallen And I Can't Get Up» button, but services to remind taking of medications at precise times, direct doctor - to - device monitoring (as with embedded pacemakers), permitting adult children to easily monitor parents» activity in their homes at a distance, etc. are fast emerging and gaining traction in the marketplace.

And your employees will be forced to remain at a bit of a distance.

Ledecky is only the second woman to dominate all freestyle distances at a single Games, following American Debbie Meyer in 1968.

But as she proved at last year's world championships when she became the first swimmer to win all four freestyle distances — 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m — distance isn't her only specialty.

I was at a distance and getting great experience, but that wasn't seen in Canada.

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

As a business leader, you will always be at the center of the problem, so you'll need to trick your brain into thinking you have more distance than you do.

Healthy communication is essential to making long - distance relationships work, so make sure that you're at least attempting to form some sort of plan.

Though McDonald's $ 50 million investment in Chipotle back in 1998 may have been instrumental in getting the burrito chain off the ground, Chipotle's founder, Steve Ells, always sought to keep the fast - food giant at a reasonable distance.

Pursuing an MBA degree has never been a cheap prospect, but at the upper end of the price scale, Canada's MBA programs are within striking distance of six figures.

«Most of the speakers at the growth marketing conferences were distancing themselves from the audience.

The distance between the base of the pattern at 14,865 and the peak of the pattern near 17,613 is measured.