Sentences with phrase «much as it floats»

Lying half - submerged in a murky swamp, alligators and crocodiles resemble nothing so much as floating logs.

At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don't swim so much as float, and they get by with little oxygen while consuming a low - calorie diet of zooplankton and detritus.

The vehicle doesn't just roll over roads as much as it floats on them.

The Dead Sea is one of the densest bodies of water on our planet, meaning that you don't swim so much as float or bob — like a cork — in the water.

Not exact matches

«You float out that much into a $ 450 billion market, it's going to make up a quarter of the market cap, so movements of that company would affect that market as a whole.

DUBLIN (Reuters)- Packaging conglomerate Ardagh Group [ARDGR.UL] launched a long - awaited initial public offering (IPO) late on Monday, as it sought to raise as much as $ 370 million by floating around 7 percent of the company on the New York Stock Exchange.

Credit concerns typically create a spike in demand for default - free assets such as U.S. government liabilities, so even though there is a much larger float than is likely to be sustained over time without inflation as the ultimate outcome, credit concerns tend to support the value of these liabilities and hence mutes immediate inflation pressures (essentially, monetary velocity declines as these liabilities are sought as a default - free store of value).

Cheap because of low interest rates as they aren't earning much on their «float».

GE, which backed its full - year profit outlook, said it expects to retire as much as 7 percent of its outstanding floated shares by mid-November, as it completes the spinoff of its former retail finance business, Synchrony Financial.

As an alternative, House Republicans have floated the possibility of adopting a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget resolution early next year (since Congress failed to adopt a FY 2017 budget resolution last year) to include reconciliation instructions for repealing (and possibly replacing) much of the ACA, while adopting a FY 2018 budget resolution later next year that includes reconciliation instructions for tax reform (and possibly some mandatory spending changes, perhaps from Medicare reform, other mandatory savings assumed in the budget resolution, and / or some ACA replacement).

Justin, as much as this would be a completely black & white, rational decision for you on the subject, the majority of humanity floats in a gray area on this, drifting back and forth between atheism and strong spiritual beliefs (usually rooted in the culture they were raised in).

You have to have just as much faith that you are nothing more than a speck of dust floating through existance for no reason, than you do to believe that you are part of creation.

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Assuming one has managed to arrive at some kind of uneasy truce with the sheer stupidity of something as silly as football having this much money floating around — and since you're here, dear reader, you probably have — then what does it matter that Stupid Amount A is four times the size of Stupid Amount B?

There's been a lot of rumours floating about in recent weeks and few seem to be making as much noise as Leon Goretzka to Liverpool.

Erik Lamela: This may get floated about, as much out of desperation to find a role for him as anything.

It went down as the second own goal of the night but owed much to Hudson - Odoi's craft and vision as the forward skipped into the box and floated a cross to Redan at the back post.

They kept things compact but their awareness was questionable at times as they allowed the home side's attack to float around without much pressure.

As important as sleep safety is for babies, there's not as much clear information as there should be online and there's a lot of misinformation floating arounAs important as sleep safety is for babies, there's not as much clear information as there should be online and there's a lot of misinformation floating arounas sleep safety is for babies, there's not as much clear information as there should be online and there's a lot of misinformation floating arounas much clear information as there should be online and there's a lot of misinformation floating arounas there should be online and there's a lot of misinformation floating around.

Indeed, shortly after I delivered my son, Campbell, I inflated like a float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, as much of the extra fluid that had been coursing through my body for the past nine months spread to my legs.

Presumably there's a whole load of focus group research going into this, but I can't believe the floating voter gives much thought as to whether Britain is ahead of the global race.

Much the same way as you can grow complex snowflakes with moisture floating in the air, you rarely see such complexity when you freeze ice in the ice tray at your home.

There's at least four times as much plastic floating in the Pacific as we thought, and a lot of it may have floated over from Japan after the 2011 Tohoku tsunami

A starshade is a sunflower - shaped, paper - thin screen half as big as a football field that would float tens of thousands of kilometers directly ahead of WFIRST, blocking out a target star's light in much the same way one might blot out the sun in the sky with an extended thumb.

A team led by applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of the University of Cambridge, U.K., discovered that the wax is extremely water - repellant: Water droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of nails.

At least 79,000 tonnes are floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, up to 16 times as much as was estimated in 2014.

A new study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego researchers has revealed that the thickness of Antarctica's floating ice shelves has recently decreased by as much as 18 percent in certain areas over...

The new theme is ok but I much prefer the old theme as I more of an image of objects floating in space when I hear it.

But, what about those worlds that orbit much farther out, such as Jupiter and Saturn, or, in some cases, free - floating exoplanets that are on their own and have no star to call home?

The 2015 - 2020 Dietary Guidelines lifted the longstanding hard limit on cholesterol, as many researchers now believe the cholesterol you eat doesn't have that much bearing on the amount of artery - clogging LDL cholesterol floating in your bloodstream, and that saturated fat (like fatty meats) and genetic makeup are the real driving force behind dangerously high cholesterol.

The basic concept is that floating reduces external stimuli as much as possible to help the body achieve a natural restorative state.

I'd suggest you do some serious research on this topic, as there are much information floating around the Internet, mostly from anecdotal claims than of scientific facts.

I saw a documentary on I think it was NetFlix called «Fresh» where they floated an idea that Alzheimer's was a kind of diabetes of the brain, and that a lot of diseases could be viewed as the effects of too much sugar on different organs.

I'll have to keep track of how much fiber I'm getting — as a relatively new and nursing mom, I have lots of hormones floating around!

I'm loving the abundance of pumpkin recipes floating around the web, no such thing as too much pumpkin!

Sadly, much of the film goes in circles as Jack floats between woman, his apartment, and the increasingly shallow conversations with Benedetto that don't even have the decency to pretend to be layered.

Hero Girl's lost ticket, for example, flutters through the air with as much freedom as the famous floating feather at the start of «Forrest Gump.»

The Gordon - Levitt rumor has been floating around for quite some time, so his casting doesn't come as much of a surprise, however, Temple's involvement certainly does — and a nice one at that.

The camera prowls and floats through scenes with a gentle restlessness, constantly catching character bits and defining details, as if it were as much a character in Altman's company as the actors.

Much of what we were feeling and thinking — the numbing calm followed by tears, the sense that time had stopped or changed directions, the floating, dislocated sensations — were adaptive and protective coping strategies that helped us «survive» as we struggled to find safety again.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings - Blake, who did not attend the briefing, has said that she would devote $ 23 million in new funds to schools construction to allow the school system to float as much as $ 300 million in bonds.

As for the float level, if it was letting too much gas in, could a sign of that be a lot of gas being dumped out of the carb overflow tubes?

Watermarking is often floated as a good possible alternative to DRM — one that allows users easy access to the books they bought without wanting to share them — but it hasn't been used much in trade books before now.

The fictional Anna is filled with as much self - doubt and need for emotional connection as the author was in her earlier work, the autobiographical Learning to Float (2002).

While the Transformer runs Android 3.0, ASUS has added a very clever MyWater wallpaper: Ice cubes floating in water slosh around as you move the tablet, and the water level rises and lowers according to how much battery life is left.

This news doesn't come as much of a surprise, given that we've already seen a leaked Jelly Bean ROM floating around for the T - Mobile Galaxy S III a number of leaks that indicated an announcement at the... [read full article]

We have newer devices floating around with just as much quality such as the BlackBerry Curve 85xx which is more of a starter edition Berry.

However, you must be pretty much cautious as well, because there are many paid reviews that float around on the Internet.

Every time you use any of this money, you must make the $ 1000 float whole again before you can buy yourself so much as a single cup of coffee.

If you think of the stock market as a cauldron of minestrone soup that occasionally somebody sticks a ladle in and stirs up, it takes a while before all the vegetables float back to the level that they were at before... When it gets shaken up, mispricings tend to occur much more than when the market has been at the same level for a long time.