Sentences with phrase «lighter than my present»

Harry Melges told me it would be possible to build a Class E scow 500 pounds lighter than the present class requirement of 980 pounds.

I'm old, retired and don't travel often or far, but would rather carry something smaller and lighter than my present cellular phone.

Not exact matches

In other words, says Surace, the «built environment» presents a far greater opportunity than oft - demonized cars and light trucks, which produce 9 percent of emissions.

Indeed, in a 1999 study, Rolf Reber and Norbert Schwarz found that college students were significantly more likely to believe that statements that a particular city was in a particular town («Osorno is in Chile») were true when they were presented in highly visible shades of red and blue than when they were presented in moderately visible shades of green, yellow, and light blue.

My full passage which Mr. Golijov characterizes as anti «Semitic is «Golijov diminishes Jewish culpability in Jesus» death by editing out of Mark's text most passages that present Jewish officialdom in a less than benign light.»

This second trait of freedom in the light of hope removes us further than the first trait did from the existential interpretation, which is too much centered on the present decision; for the ethics of the mission has communitarian, political, and even cosmic implications, which the existential decision, centered on personal interiority, tends to hide.

To learn to address the current issues of the day in light of the past, present and future reality of Christian praxis is to make education a process of doing, rather than merely learning about, theology.

This book presented a non-violent reading of Scripture in light of Girard's mimetic theory, but more than anything, this book was a defense of how the Catholic Mass could still be practiced and not be viewed as a perpetual sacrifice.

Bizarre Bazaar, presented by the Whistler Arts Council, will see more than one hundred local and visiting artists and artisans gather to showcase their handmade goods and original artwork under a banner of twinkling lights at the Whistler Conference Centre.

With the present erractic position in the polls though it is hard to say for sure — we will have another two polls in the week from ICM and ComRes which may shed some light, but it looks as though we can conclude little other than that the two main parties are close to one another in the high thirties and low fourties, with the leaderless Liberal Democrats languishing in the low teens.

Whether the Conservative team offered AV cynically gambling that the voters would not vote for a system more complicated than the present with few obvious benefits will probably never be known, whether the gamble pays off and the consequences for the coalition will only come to light after May 5th.

The light that entered Hubble's optics left the galaxy more than 13 billion years ago, eons before the formation of our solar system, when the universe was only a few percent of its present age.

Lighting the way to new solar panels Another study, published last week in the journal Physical Review Letters, presented a light - emitting device that punches well above its weight, making it appear 10,000 times larger than its physical size.

In this work, we present a new kind of light source that is more efficient than what's available today in terms of power consumption and speed,» said Babak Bahari, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student in Kanté's lab and a co-author of the study.

Light is all around us in more ways than we think, present not just in visible rays but in the microwaves that often transmit wireless Internet and the x-rays that expose the health of our teeth and bones.

Similarly, if a science - fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster - than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.

But some of us are prone to set goals that conflict with one another, such as the study participant who hoped both «to appear more intelligent than I am» and «to always present myself in an honest light» or another participant who wanted both «to keep my relationships on a 50 — 50 basis» and «to dominate, control, and manipulate people and situations.»

«Barnard's star, some 6 light - years away at present, gets relatively close in 10,000 years, closer than Proxima and Alpha Centauri are now,» Preston says.

At present, lenses and mirrors can not focus light into a beam much smaller than the light's wavelength — 500 nanometres for blue - green lasers.

«This means if we look back to the universe when it was less than a quarter of its present age, we'd see that a pair of galaxies separated by a million light years would be drifting apart at a velocity of 68 kilometers a second as the universe expands,» says Font - Ribera, a postdoctoral fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division.

The proof - of - concept device, which has been presented today, 3 May, in IOP Publishing's journal Semiconductor Science and Technology, takes advantage of the latest nano - scale materials and processes to emit green and red light separated by a wavelength of 97 nanometres — a significantly larger bandwidth than a traditional semiconductor.

They are the strongest and stiffest materials yet discovered — hundreds of times stronger than steel but six times lighter — and their unique mechanical, electrical, thermal and transport properties present exciting opportunities for research and development.

With current observations suggesting that dark energy comprises more than 70 percent of the matter - energy density of the present - day universe, astronomers say that measuring the apparent shapes and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe will constrain the nature of dark energy and allow them to examine whether the general theory of relativity is still a valid description of gravitation on scales of billions of light years.

While probing space in depth — let us bear in mind that the further we look, the more we go back in time — ALMA detects the glow of tepid dust present in the most distant galaxies, i.e., the earliest ones, with better resolution than could be possible in the deepest observations using visible or infrared light.

When the light was presented repeatedly without the shock, the rats who'd been injected with D - cycloserine unlearned their fear much faster than those who were going the natural route.

We present photometric data covering more than a century and resulting in a long - term light curve that is densely sampled over the past five decades.

The latest findings, presented at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in October 2003, show that people who used Slim - Fast on and off for 10 years to maintain their weight were on average 33 pounds lighter than a similar group who went without the meal replacements.

Schwarzenegger is presented as a lumbering slab of dumb, destructive strength — the image is more geological than human — and Cameron plays his crushing weightiness against the strangely light, almost graceful violence of the gunplay directed against him.

The WBD movie is produced by the same company that produced the controversial documentary «Waiting for Superman,» which put teachers in a very bad light and presented false and misleading information about charter schools, which overall have not had any better track record in the US than regular schools.

GM says that if the condition is present, and the airbag lamp is lit up, the bag will only deploy in a single stage rather than two stages.

No power figures have been revealed but it is expected to be lighter, more powerful and more efficient than the present 1.8 petrol which is also found in the Indian - spec car.

Built on the lighter, HEARTECT platform, the next - generation Swift will weigh up to 85 kg lesser than the present car.

Other than browsing media on USB - connected storage or scanning the address book of a Bluetooth - paired phone, the iDrive controller and menu present options for changing certain vehicle behaviors (locking, lighting, and such), monitoring fuel economy and trip data, and not much else.

I think this book presented Zelda in a much better light than I expected.

If there are fictional elements that don't have a real world counterpart — like a magic ring or a faster - than - light spaceship — are these things presented in a way that allows us to understand what they do and how they're supposed to work?

The same OmniBalance design is present but it is far more refined than the Xperia Z2 Tablet, resulting in a slim, light and well - built tablet that is identical to the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact but bigger.

But if you have something less than a hit TV show or viral web series or 100,000 Twitter followers, then be advised you will need to not only be a great writer or have a great idea but to present yourself and your work in the most professional light possible.

From sinister unsolved murders or the exploits of slavers to the realms of the supernatural, and the mysteries of the human mind, these tales heighten the senses and take you back to those childhood fears that we are all drawn to once again when the lights go out.The tales are presented from a rediscovered manuscript by Sidney Wainwright's friend Archibald Jerome along with his recollections of the illusive man himself, who is perhaps a deeper mystery than any of the stories.

Verlegger presents his case in considerable detail: how tightened environmental standards have increased demand for light, sweet crude and how it therefore has much lower demand elasticity than crude in general.

The team has poured their heart and soul into every nook and cranny, with lighting subtly creeping into caves and textures that present more detail than thought possible on the system.

You can tell that textures / lighting are not present or incomplete, do people really think that this is going to look worse than gears 3 or gears Ue?

Now turning to the present, a surprising revelation awaits a young man by the name of Zack and his childhood friend, Stella, in the capital from a chubby cat claiming to be none other than the Light Deity and declaring the world to be on the verge of destruction.

Given that this patch was developed in less than 4 days, and that several bottlenecks are still present, this is an excellent start, increasing performance and making Dying Light playable on systems with older and slower CPUs.

Shining light on uncatalogued archives, misplaced works, and undocumented careers, more than 60 venues in Southern California present shows on the art of postwar Los Angeles Read More

This came to light in «All at Once,» the artist's first survey exhibition, a spacious and informative presentation of more than 150 objects, dating from 1993 to the present, in cast paper and plaster, blown glass, and glazed ceramic.

Curse the Darkness: The American Design Club, whose founders, managing members, and staff include Pratt alumni Kiel Mead and James Pratt, will present an exhibition with Roll & Hill featuring functional prototype designs that can hold a candle and light up a room, per the phrase «it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.»

But rather than curating, I think of it as presenting them in a different light.

From 21 January 2012 to 9 April 2012, the Royal Academy presented A Bigger Picture, [63] which included more than 150 works, many of which take entire walls in the gallery's brightly lit rooms.

If the drawings present us with a lucid visual reverie, rich with symbols and lighter than air, then the paintings evoke stronger moods packing a concentrated potency within their relatively small formats.

Radiating as from within, the landscapes represented in Kahn's compositions are, in some manner, a ruse; they are present only inasmuch as they are conduits for an elaborate play with color and light, which seem to come from within the canvases, rather than resting on their surfaces.