Sentences with phrase «much as brick»

«They have no business trying to charge as much as the brick - and - mortar schools, at least over time,» said Finn, of the Fordham Institute, which has commissioned a study of the cost of online schools.

I agree that 100 % whole wheat recipes can often lead to muffins that weigh as much as a brick... but yours look so tasty!!

There's nothing wrong with that, as long as the 20 + hours you spend in - game manage to entertain and enthral as much as the bricks themselves.

Not exact matches

While «brick and mortar [retail] is a much bigger business... we have reached the tipping point» he said, as in - store purchases defy steep discounts and foot traffic falters.

Much like their predecessors in traditional brick - and - mortars, online merchants are creating bundles (or also known as kits) to create a competitive advantage for their businesses.

While the lower tax rate gives Amazon an advantage over brick - and - mortar retailers in Alabama, local governments are not getting as much revenue as they could be receiving.

As with standard savings, you can find online - only banks offering much better interest rates on money market accounts compared to brick - and - mortar institutions.

This only proves how much failed you are from challenging the contents of the Quran and all you managed to do is making accusations with out a slightest idea of what you are talking about never even cared to take the beauty and leave out what you think of as beast rather than letting out all... but what the use of me talking to a brick of wall that has no religion faith that we can consider as a candle light to guide you to the straight paths to God..?

Our stores include a range of features such as treated roofs to deflect heat and keep stores cooler, insulated precast concrete exterior walls which require much less energy to make compared to bricks, and cladding made from 70 per cent softwood content sourced from renewable forests.

The A's have always been rumored to be ready to leave, but the odds are much better of them staying, getting a beautiful new ballpark, and making the same transition as the Giants, who moved out of a concrete punchline and into a brick mint.

Viera and van persie, also seen as top talents in their respective leagues, credit to Wenger to scout them out and give them the platform to perform In summary, this repost isn't to knock Wenger down but I feel Wenger is given far too much credit for things he shouldn't (eg building of the emirates, I haven't seen pics of him carrying the bricks with which the stadium was built though).

I could go on but it's like talking to a brick wall and I've spent way too much time on here trying to educate the uneducated clowns such as yourself.

As Eriksen handed over the MotM award to Harry Kane, the Dane cheekily took a dig at the award calling it a «brick», much to the amusement of Kane and the interviewer.

And there's just so much going on at that age that makes it a tough, tough time — they don't really nap yet, their nighttime sleep is falling apart (thank you 4 - month sleep regression), you may be back at work or seriously wondering what made you decide not to go back to work and either way it screws with your head, you probably haven't lost the baby weight yet and don't feel sexy but then there's Scary Spice doing the cha - cha looking like a brick house, and your baby is probably not as fat as your doctor wants him or her to be, and it all just sucks.

Does that mean you ring up the Museum and say, «I was all wrong — the natural variability was twice what we thought, so it is unlikely that adding a new brick to the platform will cause as much effect as I told you last year!»

This recipe did not work at all well - much too sweet and heavy as a brick!

I love stocking up on wardrobe and beauty essentials just as much as the next person, but in recent years I've been foregoing the brick - and - mortars to shop from the comfort of my own couch instead.

You don't walk quite as much here as Rome, but the streets are still lined with cobblestones or bricks, so it can be tough on your feet.

These niggles aside, LEGO Marvel's Avengers is another mighty adaptation from TT Games, with as much wit, magic and authenticity as its other brick - rendered offerings.

Unfortunately, much of what passes for entrepreneurial activity is precisely icing a brick and attempting to sell it off as a cake.

DesignShare has long argued that school design and architecture need to be as much about caps, gowns, and mortarboards as about mortar, steel, and bricks.

Despite lower operating costs, the online companies collect nearly as much taxpayer money in some states as brick - and - mortar charter schools.

A Stanford University study last fall found that virtual charter pupils lag their peers in traditional, brick - and - mortar schools by as much as a full academic year.

When Pennsylvania recalculated charter schools» AYP using the same formula as traditional public schools, a much lower percentage of charter schools (both bricks - and - mortar charters and cyber charters) reached AYP than traditional public schools.

As such, I can't help wondering just how much better the Mariner's fuel economy would be if it were a tad smaller, a tad lighter, and less of a brick in the wind tunnel.

20,054 miles It's not hard to like the 1 - series - great chassis, solid as a brick with more than 20,000 miles on the clock, and a straight six strong enough to make a big car fast, much less this smallest of the BMWs.

As much as we like blocky designs — see the Cherokee Classic — we understand that moving a brick through air takes fueAs much as we like blocky designs — see the Cherokee Classic — we understand that moving a brick through air takes fueas we like blocky designs — see the Cherokee Classic — we understand that moving a brick through air takes fuel.

He went on to outline a number of grievances, from Amazon's use of Luxembourg as their European headquarters, a status which allows them to charge just 3 % tax on purchases vs. much higher rates had they been based elsewhere in the EC, to the fact that they are encouraging customers to showroom — to browse in bricks - and - mortar bookstores but shop online.

With libraries around the world coming under almost as much threat of demise as brick - and - mortar bookstores, one UK library system is taking legal action to fight back against proposed budget cuts in their county that will mean the planned closing of a number of local public libraries.

In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.

Macmillan is also worried that normal bookstores, made of bricks and mortar, will take a hit as sales are lost to much cheaper electronic editions.

DBW 14 saw much talk this current landscape, including the quickly - receding shelf space in brick and mortar bookstores, as well as the accelerated pace of change in the publishing industry.

As a voracious reader, I value brick and mortar bookstores and I very much want B&N to survive.

That may not be BN's problem for too much longer though, as company founder Leonaro Riggio started openly opining on the notion of buying back the company's 689 brick - and - mortar stores (not to mention bn.com) back in February.

The reality is that the majority of book sales today happen online and sadly, brick and mortar bookstores don't matter as much as they used to.

Allow all booksellers from Amazon to indie brick - and - mortar shops and chains to offer as much as possible of this entire catalog in both digital ebook and digital print - on - demand as well as other print modalities.

The Kindle is obviously not so much connected directly to any brick & mortar book store, but its widespread availability and the robust platform behind it has pretty much defined the eBook industry as we see it today.

Such high levels of activity in the market have caused so much rancor that stocking a book published by Amazon is hardly the norm amid the brick - and - mortar emporia of the United Kingdom — as in the States — despite the fact that Cornwell's print book is readily available through Gardners in the UK and the European Union.

Amazon's e-reader may be a fixture at the top of Amazon's home page — making its current status as the merchant's best - selling item pretty much a self - fulfilling prophecy — but it has no brick - and - mortar presence whatsoever.

Online banks can't offer as much direct customer support as brick - and - mortar banks, and there may be other products such as small business loans that will be easier to manage if you keep all your finances in one place.

Online retailers can offer pricing as much as 40 % less than traditional brick - and - mortar jewelers.

As with standard savings, you can find online - only banks offering much better interest rates on money market accounts compared to brick - and - mortar institutions.

Seeing my values drop like a brick isn't much fun, but as long as its not going to be a 10 year bear market I'll be happy.

Although cats can cling to the bark of trees with their claws, other surfaces are much more difficult, such as window ledges, concrete or brick surfaces.

In the case of a glass tank, if nothing else, a heavy weight, such as a brick, can be placed on top, as long as it doesn't reduce the amount of air surface too much.

In fact, a survey by National Retail Federation found that 78 percent of people shopped at brick - and - mortar stores as much or more last year as they did the year before.

Their friendly faces are as much a part of the Secret Garden as the bricks and flowers themselves.

This isn't as much an issue for those who do most of their shopping online, however, can be a problem at many brick - and - mortar shops, especially smaller establishments.

Spending time in the open world hunting down characters and replaying levels with an expanded roster in the name of earning the illusive 100 % completion is as much a part of the game as it has ever been, a task that requires some considerable dedication given the sheer amount of questions, Mithril Bricks and characters there is to be found.

As the heroes, the players have to find and reclaim the cosmic bricks before the villains get a hold of them, and before the Surfer's scouting mission develops into a much larger cataclysmic threat.