Sentences with phrase «jettison of»

Graphene could help reduce aircraft weight, cut down the burning of fuel as well as jettison of carbon into the atmosphere.

This pertains to the trimming of the Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF) spin - out, the Alstom acquisition in Europe and the potential sale or jettison of the GE Appliances unit.

As we rush frantically toward some dazzling digital future, we can not jettison some of the basic frameworks that were constructed to protect authors, their agents, their publishers, and the common good.

I have personally found Documents - to - Go and Lookout security to be preferable alternatives to the former and latter apps mentioned, so definitely consider whether or not you want to jettison some of the Toshi apps when you are doing initial setup.

Its recent announcement that it will jettison all of its U.S. sedan inventory, keeping the Mustang as its sole coupe, and become a truck and SUV company puts a the final nail in that coffin.

It runs into trouble, too, has to jettison some of its equipment, and then there's a sensational landing scene.

It's as if everyone involved, including Vaughn as co-screenwriter, was so enamored of their precious comic gems that they couldn't possibly jettison any of them for the sake of lean and lively storytelling.

This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high - resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows all the «thumbnail» (low - resolution) frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

In which case, we'll have to accept some of their illiberal policies we don't like, they'll accept some of our liberal policies they don't like, we'll each jettison some of the impossible policies we've had to include because our activists cleave to them, and on the rest we'll work out a compromise.

The constitutionally tortious conduct is not subject to congressional immunity and would be the jettison of Article II of the Constitution by failure to stop and / or object to the counting of electoral votes for Barack H. Obama who has admitted that at the time of his birth his father was a Kenyan / British citizen and not a citizen of the United States of America.

But Google makes up for jettisoning some of the traditional car essentials by adding lasers, radar, and sensors that give the vehicle's brains a 360 - degree view of its environment to the point that it can recognize objects up to two football fields away.

You can not move ahead without jettisoning some of those responsibilities in order to make room for new, more valuable tasks and responsibilities.

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.

It does not require the jettisoning of the traditional theology and philosophy of the Church, nor of the entire perspectives developed in the Church from the rise of the Schoolmen.

The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.

While the team is saying they won't acquiesce to such demands, public sympathy is probably not going to be on the side of a team that is jettisoning all of the positive features of its organization in order to make another buck.

In creating the synthetic version, researchers jettisoned some of the chromosome's extra baggage.

David Ullman, a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State University and lead author on the study, said there are two mechanisms through which ice sheets diminish — dynamically, from the jettisoning of icebergs at the fringes, or by a negative «surface mass balance,» which compares the amount of snow accumulation relative to melting.

The production of «Solo» included the high - profile jettisoning of original directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, with Ron Howard steering the finished product home.

Working with Disney was apparently a long - held dream for Bradbury, though he probably didn't much enjoy the tortured post-production on the movie as director Jack Clayton's vision for the film was radically altered by the studio, including the jettisoning of Georges Delerue's rich score.

Anderson wisely jettisons some of the inessentials and introduces a few new elements, the most pronounced and ingenious being Sortilége, a minor character from the novel who transforms into a narrator / guardian angel / apparition played by Joanna Newsom.

For all the weaknesses of the picture (the lowness of its humour, the formalist cliché of its plot, the questionable performances of its twenty - something leads), it gains for the jettisoning of dead weight (professional dead weight Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Shannon Elizabeth, and Tara Reid), and for that vague suggestion that it knows how tired and self - replicating it all is by now.

At the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show, the latest Z came out as the 2009 Nissan 370Z, its new name reflecting a bigger engine and the long ago jettisoning of the Datsun brand.

Initially, engineers considered building the car out of steel, but found that its weight would've necessitated the use of a larger, heavier engine to hit performance targets, and the jettisoning of the creature comforts the team wanted to incorporate — power windows, automatic air conditioning, traction control and ABS — in pursuit of superior handling.

One guest - friendly feature of Nomads is that they provide a free laundry service - ideal if you struggled to restrict your luggage to 20 kg, due to bringing your own dive gear, and jettisoned some of your clothes in the process.

Of central importance was Mr. Overstreet's jettisoning of traditional stretcher bars, anchoring his work — to walls, ceilings, floors or a mix thereof — with thin rope, metal eyes and handsome knots.

His concurrent fascinations with criminality and appropriation come together in an installation that appears to mark the jettisoning of his overt approach to political subject matter in favor of a formalist's engagement with the legacy of modernism.

In the end it did not, preferring to say that «[the earlier authorities] are valuable and salutary, but the effect of the sea change which they wrought has been exaggerated and they do not warrant a wholesale jettisoning of all rules affecting procedure irrespective of their legal effect.»

Lord Bingham (para 20) added that the decisions in R v Sekhon [2006] 1 AC 368 and R v Soneji [2005] 4 All ER 321 are valuable and salutary, but the effect of the sea change which they wrought has been exaggerated and they do not warrant a wholesale jettisoning of all rules affecting procedure, irrespective of their legal effect.

Not exact matches

The captain decides to jettison a portion of the cargo to save the rest, and they dump somebody else's stuff into the briny deep.

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.

Over the past few years a growing number of entrepreneurs have forged a quiet revolution in compensation plans, jettisoning traditional salary structures and carving out bold new incentive programs for their entire organizations.

Since the 2008 setback, MDA has grown revenues by 56 % and more than tripled its share price — all on the strength of a business it previously planned to jettison.

«As with many great American institutions, i.e., General Motors, American Airlines, and many others who have utilized the strategic business tool called bankruptcy, Gary Busey's filing is the final chapter in a process that began a few years ago of jettisoning the litter of past unfortunate choices, associations, events and circumstances that visited themselves upon this great American icon, to enable the start of a new and clear path to peace, happiness and success with his career and his wonderful new soulmate, Steffanie, and their son, Luke.»

Jettisoning its traditional antipathy to the Taliban, Russia indicates readiness to negotiate with the Taliban against the backdrop of the growing threat of Islamic State in Afghanistan.

And he has a history of jettisoning most managers at the companies that his division has acquired.

Remember, connecting with your audience (whether that be an audience of one or 1,000) will always mean taking the time to engage them, exposing your humanity and jettisoning the unfortunate behaviors so commonly associated with an aloof and ill - prepared presenter.

In the spring of 2011, Hastings, Netflix's widely admired chief executive, held a meeting with his management team and outlined his blueprint to jettison Netflix's DVD operations.

It takes more than a leap of faith for a woman to jettison her former career and buy a clothing franchise.

The fear: If the long economic expansion takes a turn for the worse, investors could jettison the debt of more leveraged borrowers such as triple - B issuers.

Investors jettisoned shares of financial, technology and many other businesses, spooked at least in part by a tweet from Mr. Trump aimed at one of the country's biggest companies: Amazon.

A fertile few have managed to find a way to take on board some of the new theories without jettisoning the deep structure of their position, but the general sense is one of weariness and deep loss.

Sullivan's willingness to jettison the monogamous aspect of marriage (and what more important aspect is there?)

In their simultaneous desire to jettison the distasteful parts of Catholicism and keep the more palatable ones, American Catholics have done something novel and truly amusing: They have created a specific catalogue of complaints that resembles nothing so much as a Catholic version of the orphan with chutzpah.

Did it clarify which strongly held Mormon beliefs he would allow to shape his actions and which he would jettison for the good of the whole country?

This tradition had become so naturalized that Mill was willing to jettison the laboriously accumulated repository of spiritual capital on which his brand of liberalism depended for its continued existence.

Some authors think it is necessary to jettison or radically revise doctrines of the faith to be consistent with what science says.

Many seminarians will become pastors who are either cynical about the gap between the «true» and the «false» church or who quickly jettison their theology and settle down with «things as they are» in the congregation, offering the congregation no better interpretation of its common life than the mere need for organizational maintenance.

Contending that the empire option dramatically compromises the gospel vision of peace, Nelson - Pallmeyer jettisons just - war theory and advocates reclaiming Jesus» radical model of nonviolence, He challenges Christians to reject militarism and those aspects of their religious tradition that encourage or endorse violence, and he presents nonviolent alternatives that refuse to sanction violence as part of Cod's providential care of the world.