Sentences with phrase «last fraction of»

And unless our eyes are playing tricks on us, we're positive we saw DICE's Frostbite engine at work in that last fraction of a second at the end, where a booby - trapped prisoner gets blown to smithereens and brings down the wall.

Enjoying a sports car on rural roads isn't about setting the absolute fastest lap time, finding the last fraction of a g of grip, or threshold braking.

Yes, there is still going to be an increase in cortisol, but it is going to be lower and last a fraction of the amount of time as compared to long bouts of exercise.

The first direct detection of gravitational waves occurred in mid-September 2015 (but announced February 11, 2016) with twin LIGO detectors in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA (both USA) when ripples of spacetime from the last fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes with masses 29 and 36 solar masses combined to form a 62 - solar mass black hole with 3 solar masses of energy radiated away as gravitational waves in that last fraction of a second.

Physicists said the gravitational wave detected at 1651 GMT on September 14 originated in the last fraction of a second before the fusion of two black holes somewhere in the southern sky, though they can't say precisely where.

Yes, says Horsch, in a recent speech: «We can not afford to squander our time debating that last fraction of risk from fantastic «what if» scenarios of biotechnology that ignore 10 millennia of broad experience in agriculture and tremendous modern insights into the science of genetics.»

The light show, which lasts a fraction of a second, is a side effect of a huge pulse of current intended to trigger sunlike nuclear reactions.

Such blobs, astronomers believe, could only arise deep within the core of the blast from the flash fusion of silicon atoms into unstable atoms of nickel, a process that lasts a fraction of a second and requires temperatures of at least 5 billion degrees.

Crossing the finish line lasts a fraction of a second.

To be fair, though, the low percentages of janky frames mitigate the issue, and the large spikes depicted in the histograms — which are particularly common when initiating scrolls — correlate to user input lasting fractions of a second.

Not exact matches

Ford said last week it would cut 1,400 staff positions in North America and Asia, a small fraction of the 20,000 job reductions some news outlets had reported were imminent.

Nonetheless, Fossil shares are back to where they were about a year ago at $ 15.33 after precipitous drops in the last 12 months, but just a fraction of their $ 131.98 all - time highs only six years ago.

They are operating on a fraction of the budget of the big public - sector fusion experiments (see my briefing from last August), yet the consensus among scientists who've reviewed its design for «magnetized target fusion» is that, to borrow a phrase from Captain James T. Kirk, it just might work.

The oil major currently trades at a fraction of its net asset value, thanks mostly to the black eye it took from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year.

While Maybach represents a fraction of Mercedes's total deliveries, which last year amounted to 2.4 million vehicles, boosting sales of high - earning models is a necessary counterbalance to ballooning spending that's weighing on earnings.

If we terminate Mr. Drexler's employment without cause or he terminates his employment with good reason, Mr. Drexler will be entitled to receive (i) a payment of his earned but unpaid annual base salary through the termination date, any accrued vacation pay and any un-reimbursed expenses, and (ii) subject to Mr. Drexler's execution of a valid general release and waiver of claims against us, as well as his compliance with the non-competition, non-solicitation and confidential information restrictions described below, (a) a payment equal to his annual base salary and target cash incentive award, one - half of such payment to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date and the remaining one - half of such payment to be paid in six equal monthly installments commencing on the first business day of the seventh calendar month following the termination date, (b) a payment equal to the product of (x) the last annual cash incentive award Mr. Drexler received prior to the termination date and (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days of service completed by Mr. Drexler in the year of termination and the denominator of which is 365, such amount to be paid on the first business day that is six (6) months and one (1) day following the termination date, and (c) the immediate vesting of such portion of unvested restricted shares and stock options as provided and pursuant to the terms of the relevant grant agreements under our 2003 Equity Incentive Plan.

Also, Amazon actually has been profitable of late, but perhaps Trump is in - artfully referencing the fact that the company's most recent profit, $ 482 million in the last quarter of 2015, is just a tiny fraction of its $ 35.7 billion in revenues (PDF), but I digress.

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

An eternal spark that last but a fraction of a second.

They are the «lipid fraction» which contains the saturated fatty acids and the «non-lipid fraction» which has not been studied in - depth, says this award - winning Chemist who is the recipient of the Dr. C.L. de Silva Gold Medal Award - 2009 for «an outstanding research contribution done in any branch of Chemical Sciences during the last five years in Sri Lanka» offered by the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon.

While everyone from Halo Top to Ben & Jerry's has come out with a dairy - free pint in the last few years, you can easily make your own at home for a fraction of the cost.

We all enjoyed it immensely — at last, a vegan cheesecake with the look, taste, and texture of traditional cheesecake, with a fraction of the calories and none of the guilt.

I made a version of these last night — I substituted the sugar with applesauce and reduced the liquid ingredients by a fraction.

They had plenty of snaps last year and showed that they were equivalent at least to the Claiborne Carr etc. group before them, at a fraction of the price.

As a matter of fact, this is one of the main reasons for underperforming in last few years - the so called «British core» - overrated and low quality British players, well bellow, in quality, to foreigners.To spend 32 millions on 2 mediocre English players - Welbeck and Chambers - when you can get foreign «wizzards» for that type of money is suicidal.Now, go on an analyze how much Wilshere, Gibbs, Ox, Walcott and Ramsey helped the team to be the best in the last few years.And how much, for instance, did Sanchez in only few months.Alexis is better than all «British core» combined and cost a fraction of these overrated players.The time we get rid of the british players is the time we go back on top.Time will tell...

Flamini has been poor all season his struggling to stay in the game he looks just a fraction of a player last season he should not be playing not even on the bench.

I bet you are one of these people that want carvalho because he is valued by his release clause at # 37m, yet would be disgusted if we signed a better player for a fraction of that price, which is totally possible as so many are in their last year.

Unwilling to meet the contract demands of running back Curtis Dickey last December, Colts owner Robert Irsay invokes Jackson's name, claiming the sophomore would go pro right away for a fraction of Dickey's price.

Ings has just a year to run on his Clarets deal and could be available for a fraction of his real value and having scored 26 goals last season the signs are that the former Bournemouth man is a player with a great deal of potential.

Seeing that the defensive depth chart this year is a fraction of last year's — probably wise not to waste options

The summer signings have not performed; Postiga and Pabon have managed just 6 goals between them, a fraction of the 24 Roberto Soldado hit by himself last season, while Michel has managed just 4 appearances.

Yet Dembele could have left Rennes last July for a fraction of the price after he fell out with the club following his return from the European under - 19 championships.

But after just two Premier League appearances in four years, Bebé was sold to Benfica at a fraction of his original transfer fee, before moving to Rayo Vallecano in La Liga last summer.

Petr Čech had been joint - top of this category last season on 76 % and was only a fraction down on that in 2016 - 17 with a 75.5 % save percentage.

If the concept isn't already grasped, fractions may become the beginning of a maths phobia which can last a lifetime.

That latter permutation has really been sticking in my craw ever since I saw last year a beautiful, made - to - order «panini» bar at a local Houston high school, where the free / reduced population was so high that only a fraction of the kids could afford this a la carte luxury.

Records show that during the same time period last year, NYSUT spent a fraction of that amount on lobbying costs: $ 179,350.

Deroy Murdock wrote up just a fraction of the problem in the National Review Online just after «Senator Pothole» hovered over the Gillibrand podium following her appointment to the Senate seat last year.

A report last month by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service said fraud in the program is «rare» and that such cases «represent a relatively small fraction of SNAP overall.»

They last for a fraction of a second and contain as much energy as the daily output of the sun.

A large fraction of the area of these highly suitable biomes has nevertheless been occupied by agricultural populations during the last 6000 years.

This figure has halved over the last decade, as the industry has improved its manufacturing processes, and it is only a fraction of that emitted by coal, at over 300g / kWh.

Most likely you will have accomplished only a fraction of last month's ambitious plans.

This explosive expansion of the entirety of space lasted mere fractions of a fraction of a second, eventually leading to a hot universe, followed by a cooling period that has continued until the present day.

Violent red flashes, lasting just fractions of a second, have been observed during one of the brightest black hole outbursts in recent years.

The last two depend on culture or sociology: the fraction of civilizations that do communicate over interstellar distances and the typical lifetime of the communicating technology.»

And because the window for creating them lasts only a tiny fraction of the first second, scientists expect primordial black holes would exhibit a narrow range of masses.

He used a 4 - inch Vixen ED100SF telescope and a PTG Chameleon camera to take multiple photos during the ISS transit, which lasted only a fraction of a second.

It's unlikely that Intel cut the competition for financial reasons, because it cost only a fraction of a percent of the company's total revenue last year, NYT reports.