Sentences with phrase «jettisoned at»

On the down side it is lumbered with a truly dire voice control system which shout have been jettisoned at birth, rubbish characters and dialogue (with one exception) and an arse - about - tit structure which puts most of the good stuff near the front of the game.

She fired 15 staffers after an internal probe revealed that the faulty switches were first diagnosed in 2001, and she has also jettisoned at least seven other high - ranking executives — swift, decisive moves, at least according to GM's lumbering standards.

Cadillac jettisoned the ATS in the cut - throat compact sports sedan segment.

First, firms have been forced to jettison at least some of the more wasteful practices associated with the billable hour, such as the «staffing up» of a matter to increase billings.

Not exact matches

Whitman began her tenure with a pledge to retain HP's printer - and - PC business, which Apotheker wanted to jettison; three years later, responding to what she called an industry changing at «lightning speed,» she changed her mind.

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

It seems likely that they will eventually jettison these less - played tracks for different content — just look at Netflix.

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.

What if you completely jettison the idea of finding your husband or wife via dating, at least for the first five dates?

Thus, the women's liberation movement in America has been compelling enough to some evangelicals to cause them to jettison, or at least radically qualify, Pauline authority on the subject.

The shock and heartbreak over the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have inspired Westboro Baptist Church to do what they do worst: jettison any semblance of humanity and decency by picketing the funerals of the victims.

Even for those who are not theists at all, it is plainly clear that one is by no means obliged to jettison a metaphysical belief for a purely physical theory or «insight».

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.

Reach out at your place of worship and let the fornicating sinners know that they are glory bound when they reject satan and jettison fornication from their lives.

As I committed to duplicating the sauce at home, I mentally jettisoned the fritters and settled on grilled tempeh as the protein.

Harrier in 1957 ran as a sloop and won the Annapolis - Newport, but the Harrier of 1959 had jettisoned her modest mainsail and jib for a huge undignified main and no jib at all.

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.

Most of us agreed with the decision to jettison Shanahan at the time.

And during his 2 loan spells at Roma, he has been reported to have married his longtime girlfriend and jettisoned smoking for goods, according to media reports.

Manchester United manager José Mourinho appears ready to finally jettison another Louis van Gaal signing as news is emerging that Morgan Schneiderlin has arrived at Everton's Finch Farm training facility to undergo a medical ahead of a long touted move.

Malami was responding to enquiries about the claim that Buhari's administration had jettisoned the probe into the Halliburton and Siemens corruption scandals, in which Nigeria lost billions of Naira to high - ranking Nigerians who held sway at the time.

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.

Here's a look at some other initiatives that were jettisoned, the reasons why the fell off the table, and what may lay ahead:

With this endorsement, I can only guess that corporate pressure from above has caused you to jettison all pretense at journalistic integrity.

So far, none of Global's clients have jettisoned the firm, despite the best efforts of at least one other Republican challenger.

In his welcome address, the host Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose who described the meeting which aimed at fostering unity in the southwest states as timely, said it is high time to jettison socio - political and economic differences so as to promote regional integration and development.

Whether he smirks at the (admittedly pathetic) Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, tells Brits they can't understand the «subtlety» of European political arrangements or publicly humiliates the Greek prime minister, he is a victory for small - minded xenophobia and fecklessness who true internationalists should intuitively jettison.

«With foreign reserves at lows of US$ 28.7 billion and oil prices at US$ 29.47 per barrel, a compelling argument to devalue the Naira at the next Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting can not be jettisoned», it stated.

I am not at all hopeful that he will jettison the Libdemmery.

Adebayo said «All Progressives Congress is a coalition of different political groups and interests and this is the first time there will be a serious gubernatorial contest under the platfor;, the second term of Ogbeni Aregbesola came at the formative stage of the party hence every interested individual should be allowed to put whatever ideas they have for the growths of the State on the table and allow the party to decide who flies its flags according to the laid down rules of the party's constitution; the zoning should be outrightly jettisoned as it is alien to our party's constitution».

In order to keep their genomes trim, he reasoned, these animals must have been good at jettisoning DNA.

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.

Other corals are known to jettison their fleshy polyps, particularly when under stress, but these are the first species known to «take their skeletons with them,» says Paul Sammarco, a coral - reef ecologist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Science Consortium in Chauvin.

With that observation, an entire consistent sequence of events — the particle jettisoned from the uranium, the release of the poison gas, the cat's death — at once becomes real, giving the appearance of something that has taken weeks to transpire.

When the lander jettisons its heat shield at a 1 - kilometer altitude, data transmission switches from an antenna on the shield to one on the lander.

The usual mode of operation for these cargo beasts is to deliver their payloads and then morph into a cosmic trashcan, remaining at the station until the vessel is brimming with ISS waste — whereupon it is jettisoned, deorbited and burned up.

The lander will deploy a parachute at a distance of 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) from the surface, then jettison its heat shield, flip over to face its thrusters toward the planet and finally fire them in short, coordinated bursts, touching down at 4:53 P.M. Pacific time (taking into account the 15 - minute communication lag between Mars and Earth).

You keep telling yourself there's nothing you can do, so «let go» and «be Zen» about it, only to feel your hands gripping the steering wheel and your eyes rolling out of frustration at the car that jettisoned into your lane.

Bridget Weishaar, an analyst at Morningstar, praised the strategy — especially the decision to jettison some items.

Despite the lessening of madcap energy, Shrek the Third is still quite funny in parts, with some fresh throwaway gags to produce chuckles now and then from characters you'd think they probably should have jettisoned long ago, but are secretly glad they've kept around (the Gingerbread Man, Pinocchio, etc.) The fact that they are keeping in nearly all of the characters introduced in the series thus far is a bit of a double - edged sword, as they do provide a certain respite from the main characters that are already cycling through the same jokes all over again, but on the other hand, it's getting to the point that the high overhead of injecting scenes for all of these characters takes away from the focus of the story at large.

It's not merely that Stoller's film is long (clocking in at just over two hours), it's that so much of its time is misappropriated; plot threads with Tom's parents (David Paymer and Mimi Kennedy) and Violet's mother (Jacki Weaver) could be jettisoned entirely, with that time freed up to examine in greater interesting detail Tom's emotional waywardness.

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?

I couldn't jettison that thought while watching «Shut In» Friday morning at my local theater, where less than a half - dozen people sat in a dark room to watch the latest from director Farren Blackburn («Hammer of the Gods»).

Any suggestion from the last film that we're at least responsible for our enemy's mutation is jettisoned along with anything like the cinematic sheen professional misanthrope Alexandre Aja brought to that project, replaced here by childish line - drawing and comparatively juvenile notions of what's gross and what's scary.

Those effects have been jettisoned here in favor of a more conventional strategy of having Lake's periodic head pains trigger jagged flashbacks to his torture at the hands of Banir (a scene Schrader originally dispensed with under the opening credits).

At just one minute in length, this trailer jettisons most of the plot details and instead zeroes in on Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto as he leads the crew on one wild ride.

Looking at times like John Carpenter's The Thing (John Seale's ravishing cinematography is easily the best part of the boondoggle), Dreamcatcher feels a great deal like what it likely is: a product of a down - on - his - luck director trying to juggle material that's clearly beneath him, jettisoning any sense of rhythm and cohesion in the belief that King's massive sales represent the kind of mindless support that defeats the director's best instincts while offering him a chance to regain the keys to the executive washroom.

The worst moments are ported complete from the Tolkien source material (and the theatrical version of The Two Towers): the convenience of a fortuitous in - battle as little Sam storms an enemy keep by himself, the deus ex machina of giant eagles arriving at moments of crisis (in fairness, it seems as though the scene establishing their summoning has been jettisoned), the curiously limp money shot of Aragorn's grasping of his legacy, and a general narrative choppiness that defeats pacing and deadens interest for all but the most invested.

After the events of Street Fighter 4, but before the third game, which at the time was subtitled New Generation, since it jettisoned most of the old cast.

Neal and Del take jobs at a loading dock to pay for the train tickets that actually get them home, for example — the type of fuss that jettisons itself when a film starts barrelling towards the conclusion.