The word
"jettison" means to intentionally throw or get rid of something, usually to lighten a load or remove a burden.
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Graphene could help reduce aircraft weight, cut down the burning of fuel as well as
jettison of carbon into the atmosphere.
First, it notes that fundamental legal rules surrounding costs are not
jettisoned in the constitutional context.
It does so
by jettisoning most of the world - building done across the first three movies and putting a hard focus on Katniss's journey.
Indeed, looking back through my notes from the year, active investing was almost entirely
jettisoned from my life when the time crunch got bad.
Baptism is one of the few clear things that I pray we
not jettison for some «new» understanding, but just do what we are told to do.
We hope that the believers of Austin place anti-atheist bigotry in the same category as anti-Semitism or racism - a relic of the past that needs to be
jettisoned for all the right reasons.»
One is to «
jettison as many of their costs as possible and assume the mentality and framework of a low - cost / low - margin scale provider» to networks like Facebook, and the second is to «plan for a non-advertising future with multiple revenue streams.»
Although GE initially becomes smaller by
jettisoning most of GE Capital, its new strategy is grand in scale.
You answer 11 questions designed to gauge, among other things, how long you plan to keep your money invested and how large a loss you feel you could take
without jettisoning stocks.
But, clarifies the SG, the guidelines are
completely jettisoned only in cases with Blakely factors, the guidelines should still apply with full binding force in cases without Blakely factors.
The dead bodies of people
jettisoned into the upper atmosphere fall back to Earth as beautiful shooting stars.
These changes, compounded by the fact that the memory expansion and removable battery were
also jettisoned in the redesign, upset many Note 5 owners.
At the time I didn't really understand the connection between the two parts and couldn't figure out why Kubrick didn't
just jettison the meandering last half for the pristine filmmaking that was the first.
After jettisoning Brian Schottenheimer after the 2014 season, Fisher has chosen two first - time offensive coordinators who proved to be in over their heads, and offensive line development has been sparse behind line coach Paul Boudreau.
by Walter Chaw Preserving the main events of the bombastic blunderbuss novel on which it is based, Kevin Reynolds's adaptation of Alexandre Dumas père's The Count of Monte Cristo also
jettisons what meagre subtlety there was in the source material.
Little did they know that Blair's Labour Party had already
jettisoned many of Hutton's ideas for a «stakeholder economy» on the basis that they might concede too much power to the trade unions.
And FCA isn't
entirely jettisoning cars — Marchionne said that the automaker could stay the course with some of its niche Dodge - brand muscle cars.
NCLB: Romney embraces NCLB's core testing and transparency requirements and wants a reauthorization that holds fast to those,
while jettisoning much of the law's balky, intrusive «remedy cascade» and other prescriptions.
Deciduous trees do protect themselves by dropping their leaves, but since this process is dominated by photoperiod and climatic conditions, there's no way they can just
jettison all their leaves immediately in response to a freak storm.
If you haven't reflexively
jettisoned stocks from your retirement portfolio in the face of the market's recent wild swings, congrats.
That plan was
quickly jettisoned by the Obama administration but partially revived and currently kept on life support by Congress.
On the other hand, «I Zimbra «was
jettisoned because who wants to be Streetpassed by a hipster?
Adapting Michael Faber's quite unconventional novel in a decidedly unconventional way, Glazer and his co-writer Walter Campbell
jettison more than half of source material — the half that contains explanation as to what is actually going on — to focus on female predator at the centre of the story and her discovery of morality?
The updating or «aggiornamento» of the Church did not
mean jettisoning unpalatable parts of the Catholic faith in a vain attempt to be more with it; it meant a more effective proclamation of the same gospel that the apostles received from Christ and that has been handed down in and by the Church ever since — in Benedict XVI's words «the continuity of the one subject - Church».
Keiji Inafune, fresh from the infamy of Mighty No. 9, gets a production credit while his Comcept studio is put to work, Microsoft lends Joseph Staten for his first big writing gig since seeing much of his story for Destiny
jettisoned at Bungie while Armature - an Austin studio formed by veterans of the Metroid Prime series - is also involved.
They at least have prospects and promising young players, but the Padres have already made a habit of spending and
then jettisoning when they don't immediately win, so, who knows what the plan is here.
... and managed to implement some successful alternatives, too: Along
with jettisoning the AP Program, some schools — like the aforementioned Beaver Country Day School — have decided to implement other measures to keep students from succumbing to stress.
Focusing on those major group exhibitions and events
which jettisoned Russian artists to international attention, or introduced Russian publics to Western art stars, the book provides readers with a unique perspective into the dawning of the global art world.
It's cheap, exploitive garbage that would have done
better jettisoning what there is of a story in favour of just being a semi-celebrity hardcore porno flick.
Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators
jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.
The high cruising altitude of jets and planes may increase motion sickness, vomiting, or
even jettison a woman into early delivery.
Sometimes ambiguity is the easy way out, but that last shot, poised so heartbreakingly on a hard
jettison away from everything or the force that will trap Woody in that cycle forever, really got to me.
I know that this post will be somewhat controversial, but I believe that if the church is ever going to rise up and reveal to people the outrageous love of God, we must begin by
jettisoning everything that looks like Satan.
This potential seems evident in the recent laboring pangs of the rebirth of the
once jettisoned Confucian tradition in the twentieth century.
Yeah, Damo — from what I understand, you don't want to start trying
jettison fornication on a night when you are also out of paper towels and saran wrap.
Obama proposed
jettisoning much of the Constellation program, which Bush set up to build rockets and Apollo - like capsules to replace the space shuttle, and instead paying private companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch astronauts into orbit.
The «organic» dash contouring that made the original Focus so youth - oriented was long
ago jettisoned in favor of a more traditional design, netting improved storage spaces, better - positioned controls and attractive ice - blue backlighting.
Not only did this
film jettison Apatow's career it also made Steve Carell a household name.
★ New Museum: Roberto Cuoghi: «Suillakku Corral» (through June 29) This new sound installation from a deeply eccentric Italian
artist jettisons the art object without losing physical intensity, and conjures a distant world with almost scary immediacy.
Holocaust Hoax was
jettisoned through the airlock into the vacuum of ignorance, perhaps never to be seen or heard from again.
After the late Council there did take place in the centres of higher learning in the Church this
wholesale jettisoning of the traditional wisdom of the Church, and I am bound to say that the undue subordination of all things to Ecumenism helped the process on, for the theology of the non-Catholic ecclesial communities has long been enervated by the same rationalist principles.
But for him to really dive in will
require jettisoning the status - quo approach to the energy and climate challenge, which still frames global warming mainly as a conventional 20th - century - type pollution problem to be solved with the old tool kit of litigation, legislation and regulation.
But when our politicians
suggest jettisoning the established understanding of marriage and subverting its meaning they aren't derided.
It might have seemed, hanging naked on the cross, that he had
finally jettisoned everything.
This Abe slaps his eldest son (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) in a fit of rage; he chastises his already pitiful wife (Sally Field), bemoaning the day he decided against institutionalizing her; he even
considers jettisoning abolition altogether, simply to win peace with the Confederacy before more blood is shed on both sides.