Sentences with phrase «more of a blip»

After subscription commerce came «content and commerce,» a trend that peaked so fast it's more of a blip than a full - fledged fad.

Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre, said: «The first drop in obesity prevalence among year six stands out, although we will need to see what the numbers say in future years to determine if this is the start of a decline or more of a blip.»

While MMO players are starved for new material, Bless» arrival might warrant more of a blip than a bomb, much the same way that Revelation Online did this past year.

«It's been more of a blip in the history of beekeeping,» she said in an interview.

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After hearing that Kohl's delivered same - store sales of over 5 percent for the first time since 2001 and that Children's Place logged an 8.5 percent gain in holiday - season same - store sales, Cramer sensed that these were more than just positive blips on the retail radar screen.

You could say that 2018 is still a young year and it's way too early to judge things, which is true, but the level of volatility in both stocks and bonds during February is making this year feel like we've lived through two full years already, and I think what the markets are signaling is more likely to be a sea change than a blip.

But leaders including those in the White House said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and experts agree that the phenomenon was more blip than Black Monday.

Back in 2008 - 09, when so many on both sides were saying that Obama's (and the Democrats») big victory signaled a new birth of PROGRESSIVE REFORM, I said that he's going to be little more than a blip in our political history.

Our form at present is more than worthy of challenging for the title, but we are already some way behind the leaders, but both will have blips this season, and you can not rule anything out.

Didier Drogba, considered by many to be one of the most lethal finishers in the Premier League, has been nothing more than a blip on the radar this season.

Hopefully this is just a blip, and it's worth noting that none of LaLiga's top four won in midweek, but Atleti can't have any more of these if they want to hold on to second place.

As for transitions, yes we're in one, and yes, it's a bit weird after such consistency but any change was going to be different, and difficult, and we can but hope it's a shorter one than those experienced by Spurs, City, Liverpool (not to mention Everton, Villa, Leeds, Forest...) and more like the 2 - 3 season blips of Utd and Chelsea.

A defeat last night would have meant we were well off the pace, but now if we can put together a nice run over the next few weeks, there's no reason we can get back into a top four position, Spurs definitely due a blip and we are well and truly overdue a slice of luck and some more fortuitous refereeing decisions.

The Citizens are likely going to want to prove their defeat was just the most minor of blips and they can collect a victory in this one and there is more than a reasonable chance that it will be to nil.

As babies approach any new developmental phase, their perception of the world changes so, although this can be just a blip on the radar for some babies, more sensitive babies will need extra reassurance and can become quite clingy or generally unsettled at these times.

The first sighting of another solar system was announced in 1992, but a system found more recently may have shown its presence a decade earlier, when a mysterious blip in a star's brightness was recorded.

Others may have looked to DNA for identity, but to this group of Melungeons, a summer morning in the sweet air of Hancock County was more meaningful than any pattern of genetic blips.

Over a brief blip of time, that explosion produced more than 50 times the power of all the stars in the universe put together, as Caltech physicist Kip Thorne explained during the news conference on February 11 announcing the discovery.

Those blips became more frequent as the day of the earthquake approached, Freund says.

Though director Brad Peyton's RAMPAGE shows the occasional blip of rollicking good camp and... [Read more...]

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Ken Loach's latest, the winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, is one of the most important films of 2016; there couldn't be a more timely moment for a film about the value of citizenship, and to issue a protest against the increasingly powerful dehumanizing forces of what you might call «client culture,» the corporate logic that reduces human lives to economic statistics or blips on screens.

To a man, whenever we climb into it our driving styles become more exaggerated: gratuitously blipping the throttle, howling off down the road and deliberately inducing the cacophony of pops and bangs on the overrun.

Automatic - equipped SS convertibles need a slightly modified exhaust to hide the sound of cylinder deactivation, but our stick - shifted car requires only a blip of the throttle to send sweet pushrod V - 8 music resonating through the balconies, the occasional pop - pop of overrun turning heads once more.

Blip the throttle and the revs rise, and then fall, a bit more rapidly than you expect of a big capacity V8.

The gearing is tall, but more playful than a Cayman's, and you have the option of an annoyingly sweet rev - match mode that activates a throttle - blip function (something Nissan pioneered).

With intake and exhaust gases now taking a slightly longer, more convoluted path, throttle response isn't quite as sharp as usual, so exploratory blips of the pedal take a little longer to elicit movements on the rev - counter.

It's a melodic noise, a hint of five - cylinder warble but richer and more complex, and when you blip the throttle the turbine - smooth howl is like nothing else on earth.

The drive becomes even more of a snap in conjunction with the optional Sport Chrono Package: in SPORT and SPORT PLUS mode, the dynamic throttle - blip function ensures the optimum engine speed for every downshift, a more emotional driving experience and an impressive sound.

The PDK seven - speed transmission isn't a manual, to the dismay of so - called «purists,» and there are enough cheap gags at its unyieldingly German name, but it is damn near telepathic: it will read your mind at every shift, blip the throttle accordingly, nail the perfect rev, and more importantly it will do so every single time without fail, with the utmost precision.

Tap the shifter paddle, there's a satisfying blip as second gear engages, more thrust, still more thrust as the turbocharger kicks in, and before you know it, you've topped out at 40 mph in the parking lot of BMW's New Jersey headquarters and with a German engineer riding shotgun.

You don't even think about which gear you're in, of course, but just blip down a couple of cogs if you want more pull through a corner, or are passing a slowpoke.

The ever so slight twist of the frame when you blip the throttle makes you feel even more like a big - rig driver.

After a few more back and forths and several more successful heel - toe blips in between, we returned back to the classroom for the next series of instruction.

The theory behind heel - toe downshifting is that as you downshift and brake the Stingray to go into a corner, using your right foot that is covering the brake pedal, you give the throttle a quick hit or «blip» which raises the RPMs of the engine for more torque and power when exiting the corner.

After a quick explanation of the optional Borla exhaust — and a couple more blips of the throttle — he responds with a simple, but stunned, «Wow.»

The other day, I described self - publishers as more like bacteria: most will never register above a blip, but because we're capable of swapping ideas with each other and evolving at a high rate, the ones that do well can do really well.

That's my preferred route, but notice that by so doing we've again fallen into the trap of switching from «tangible» goods to more computer blips.

We don't know anything about «large - capacity memory products» so we don't know if this is a short term blip on the road to more profits or the beginning of the end.

My games may only be a tiny blip in the mass of media out there, but I can do my small part in working towards more inclusion.»

The seventy — eight works in this retrospective will follow Winters's development from that time through the more fully abstract approach that has occupied him since the»90s, with dense weaves of swirling, crisscrossing lines and scattered blips, and will include more recent drawings that reclaim shapes reminiscent of his earliest phase within the more complex spatial context he's since developed — what he's called a «vitalized geometry.»

The Offices turned out to be nothing more than a blip in art history, but it's remarkable for a number of reasons.

I know in medical statistics, if you have a whole lot of weak evidence, from a lot of different measures or theories, all suggesting there's something going on not yet well understood, it's more convincing that if you have only one piece of weak evidence that's easy to dismiss as being that one - in - twenty accidental blip.

Yields continue to rise faster than population, weather continues to matter less and less because of technology and trade (in the 1690s, when it was cheaper to move people than food, 15 % of France's population starved because of a failed harvest that today would register as a small price blip), and famine continues to reflect more and more political, not ecological causes.

With 27 billion tons of carbon dioxide being emitted each year worldwide, and ever more coming from developing countries, this kind of effort could be portrayed as a token blip.

More likely, Earth's continuing decline in atmospheric temperatures will resume after the current minor rising blip is over, just as the Sun, our source of heat and light, is signaling and consistent with the continuing cooling of Earth through a significant portion of its long history.

We have a 161 year record (HadCRUT3), warts and all, that tells us the warming was around 0.7 °C over the entire period, or a linear warming rate of between 0.04 and 0.05 °C per decade, so this is probably more meaningful than the 65 - year «blip» (or the even less meaningful most recent 30 - year «blip», 1976 - 2005, used by IPCC to demonstrate AGW).

would more likely than not have gone down over this extended «blip» in Earth's history, as our planet virtually certainly recovered from a period of historically recorded colder weather called the Little Ice Age, which, it should be said in fairness, would virtually certainly not have been historically recorded without human beings on the planet.

It's probably too early to tell exactly how the older users are affecting the use of Fan Pages — both are relatively recent arrivals at Facebook — but I think it'll resemble a trend more than a blip, in the long run.

It could just be a natural blip in the cycle, rather than a more worrisome indication that Alexa's skill store has reached a saturation point of sorts.