Sentences with phrase «made figure eights»

To make the figure eight million tons comprehensible, Jenna Jambeck, the University of Georgia environmental engineer who led the study, likens it to lining up five grocery bags of trash on every foot of coastline around the globe.

Not exact matches

Friese won't say exactly how much Digiday makes in terms of profit or sales, except to say that «revenue is well into eight figures, and profit is well into seven figures.»

True, the eight - figure elders still break and make bread down the street at Bymark, but this is where tomorrows titans of industry loosen their ties, order Jägerbombs and commiserate over First World problems («My Whaler's in the shop this weekend»).

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

And this works because you are not just hawking a product or service but you are getting your customers on board to make a real difference for something that matters, just like these college dropouts, who turned their idea into an eight - figure Evolved Enterprise, will attest.

I figured it out when I was about eight and the things adults were saying in sunday school made absolutely no sense.

I pinky - swear that I am longing to order your bread book... I love baking and cooking but I just recently had to do the gluten - free switch while baking and cooking from scratch for my family of eight and it has been almost completely overwhelming to figure out what to make that I can eat too.

and then I spent most of the eight hour plane ride rearranging the playlist because, for some crazy reason, that was more important than finishing the seating arrangements or trying to figure out who was going to make the overpriced bunch of flowers I was going to carry down the aisle.

On the canal, romance is in the air, as skaters are invited to make figure - eights or glide hand - in - hand with loved ones.

Is Z - Bo fluttering toward massive decline, and if so, doesn't it make sense for Memphis to flip him while his eight - figure salary still holds some value?

And despite Coquelin making eight interceptions, two clearances and having the best passing figures of our midfield three, he could not stem the tide.

Los Angeles also has three players making eight figures in 2018: Luol Deng ($ 18 million), Timofey Mozgov ($ 16 million), and Jordan Clarkson ($ 12.5 million).

But these teams staying away from the eight - figure contracts makes sense.

To his credit, the 29 - year - old ignored all of the outside media talk, and he's bagged eight goals and two assists so far this season, while making 37 appearances in all competitions to establish himself as a key figure in Ernesto Valverde's plans.

Despite these fitness worries, however, Pochettino seems determined to bring Rodriguez to White Hart Lane — and has offered Southampton winger Andros Townsend as a carrot, with the Saints reportedly having made an eight figure bid for the England winger themselves last week.

Similarly David Luiz found himself frozen out of first team affairs with Mourinho making veteran John Terry an ever present and then preferring to team the Chelsea captain with Gary Cahill and the Blues have managed just two clean sheets in the eight Premier League matches the Brazilian has figured in.

At the same time, Wie is in her fourth year of playing against big - time competition, and she is now a full - fledged pro making eight figures a year in endorsements, so it is clearly time to start delivering on her endless promise.

Murphy, the club's first seven - figure signing for eight years, made a dream start to his career with a stoppage - time winner in the opening day win over Brighton in front of a sold out Elland Road crowd.

Have some of the line be straight, have some be curvy, or make them have a figure eight.

Enough plutonium to make seven or eight nuclear bombs went «missing» from Sellafield nuclear plant last year, new figures suggest.

It's made with six or eight panels, and it's known to flatter any figure.

To figure out how well the Chagos MPA safeguards its inhabitants, an international team of researchers attached GPS tracking devices to eight green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and monitored their movements as they made the trek to their foraging grounds.

Eight or nine figure fortunes have been made from the sales of a single product, which was later proven to be a total farce.

Vibrant prints, standout sequins, velvet ruffles — we found eight festive dresses that will make you pop and your figure rock.

The unique figure - eight design with handles makes it easy to hold onto which keeps the focus on the breathing and the stretching.

This rope can often be very elaborate, made of crystals or beads and is tied in a figure - eight shape to symbolize the couple's lasting unity.

First, see how Eight VFX made it look like Margot Robbie was a professional figure skater in I, Tonya.

From the opening scenes, Reed establishes a tension: strangers ominously eye their movements through the airport and a young boy on a bicycle, an otherwise unobtrusive figure of innocence playing in the streets, tails their taxi and makes lazy figure - eights outside their home, a lone building jutting out of the rubble and ruins of their sector of the city.

In the Grammar Rock series, the exuberant «Interjections» always trumped «Conjunction» for me; in Multiplication Rock, I preferred the gorgeously somber «Figure Eight» over the bouncy «Three»; in the history - themed America Rock, I always found «The Preamble» — and how it made its entire title subject so easy to remember — far more effective than «I'm Just a Bill.»

The noir - ish tale of enigmatic father - figure Sydney (Philip Baker Hall), who approaches down - and - out John (John C Reilly) at a Nevada truck - stop and offers him assistance / advice / mentorship in a manner which makes John just as suspicious of ulterior motives as we are, Hard Eight is an interesting comparison to Anderson's next two films.

Netflix was said to be interested in Sam Levinson's Assassination Nation, even making an eight - figure offer, but was outbid by Neon and the Russo Brothers» AGBO $ 10 million offer, per Variety.

Under the presidency of the Spanish director, screenwriter and producer Pedro Almodóvar, the Jury for the 70th Festival de Cannes will be made up of eight key figures from the 7th Art, coming from all over the world.

The figures for primary schools make for similar reading, with eight per cent of sponsored academies that were inadequate before converting getting another inadequate in their first Ofsted inspection.

After a go on the figure - eight loop, our primo sporting SUV made quite the impression.

Between the front fenders lies an evolution of the Challenger Hellcat's supercharged 6.2 - liter V8 engine tuned to generate 840 horsepower and 770 pound - feet of torque when it's burning 100 octane fuel, figures that make it the most powerful factory - built eight - cylinder engine in the industry.

Figure if a traditional publisher makes an offer and you can work a good contract, you will sign over control of the book for about eight years.

So start thinking about the eight ways to make your biceps bulge, the five things you need to know about sex after 60, or how to sell your business for seven figures checklist.

Best - selling self - published authors Bella Andre and Courtney Milan are reporting eight - figure incomes from their romance series, with many others easily making comfortable livings through Amazon's KDP program.

In the week when the erotica writer Sylvia Day signed a staggering eight - figure two - book deal with St Martin's Press, a survey reveals that 54 % of traditionally - published authors and almost 80 % of go - it - alone writers are making less than $ 1,000 (# 600) a year.

I have to accept making high six figures and low seven figures year in year out instead of trying to go for eight figures / year given the limits of penny stocks.

A 2 - mile trail makes a figure of eight around the islet, passing dramatic overlooks at Inspiration Point and Cathedral Cove.

It is possible that the listing has been made in error, but Nintendo's official UK website now lists all eight Animal Crossing amiibo figures - Mabel, for example - as being compatible with Happy Home Designer, though no details are included as to how the game uses these amiibo in the first instance.

Because of their elusive nature, demanding excessive skill and time, PlayStation owners with Platinum counts in the double - digit figure are still a minority eight years after Sony made trophies mandatory for every PlayStation game.

Among the highlights are that there will once again be eight Robot Masters, figuring out the weakness chain should («will») make more sense, hot swapping between special weapons with the right analog stick, the difficulty of designing new Robot Masters, that they were created by Dr. Light, inspirations, no females this time out, and that the guy on the right isn't named «Brick Man.»

A cathedral in the center of town makes for some intense firefights in games of Domination, and the layout of the map constantly drives players at one another due to the figure eight design.

When we first started, my inclination was to try to figure out how to make flat planes, and then we ended up doing this last print with a series of eight to ten aquatint planes, all gray tonalities on top of the hard - ground etching.

Filling the main part of the gallery are eight sculptures inspired in part by Carlo Scarpa's intricately designed vitrines specially made to display plaster models of the human figure in the Museo Canoviano in Passagno, Italy.

Led by a Sigmar Polke raster dot painting with a $ 20m estimate that would make it only the second Polke work to sell for eight - figures, Christie's has secured the Emily and Jerry Spiegel collection for the May sales in New York.

Nominated by seventy - eight respected figures working internationally in contemporary art, Vitamin D2 presents the work of 115 artists who are currently emerging on the world stage, have become established since the first volume was published in 2005, or who have made a significant contribution to the medium of drawing in this time.

Paired with The Knot (2012), a sculpture of a rope tied into a figure - eight and made out of frosted glass, Khan's work for dOCUMENTA (13) is tough - minded, precise and uncompromising in its commitment to form.