Sentences with phrase «nothing like the scale»

This would lead to some flooding, but nothing like the scale of Katrina, which pushed over walls and breached levees.

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In any case, nothing like that party was ever launched on a truly national scale, although something resembling its modus vivendi may be seen today in various states in independent - voter organizations.

This large - scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction, and findings show that if nothing changes species like the orangutan could become extinct in the wild within the next 5 - 10 years, and Sumatran tigers less than 3 years.»

I would like to point out a couple of targets I reached since starting Vivica's program... and of course thank her for her dedication to help us and the passion she puts in her job My blood pressure is getting back to normal and now my sleep is good again (I began not to sleep well because of high blood pressure... I think)-- I had some pain in my knees and hips (nothing serious, but it bugged me from time to time) and I realized today that they do not hurt anymore — I also find that I'm less «bloated» (or, at least, I find that some garments are less tight, although I don't know if I lost weight or not... I had such a bad relationship with the scale throughout my life that now I tend to stay away from it So Vivica, thanks so much for what you did up to now... and for all you will do in the next weeks.

And there's nothing like dressing all black under the Californian sun — people immediately rank you as hundred points on a hipster scale.

Operating on a scale like nothing else on TV, and creatively liberated to play a long game stretching into the future, perhaps no project better distinguishes HBO's status as the leading premium player than David Benioff and D.B. Weiss» meticulous adaptation of George R.R. Martin's fantasy world.

Though inevitably doomed, this outrageous heist makes for a striking cinematic image, like something out of a Kelly Reichardt movie (or perhaps French director Michel Gondry's cabin - on - wheels road movie «Microbe & Gasoline»): a wild - eyed woman with nothing to lose, racing down country roads with her 8 - year - old son in the front seat and a full - scale home fishtailing behind her.

The sudden shift from small - scale to large - scale, from low - key to something more like a dream, and seeing how both parts connect thematically is nothing but sublime.

Their value for X % is somewhere on the scale of 1 % (that is to say: a scale at which almost everything is «volatile»), but they use leverage, shorting and hedging to complicate things to the point where it's nothing like a...

At the other end of the scale, there are very high risk investments — like options and virtual currencies — which have the potential to provide huge returns but which put average investors at too great a risk of winding up with nothing.

These are nothing more than a visit to the hospital for a pet where they just wander around getting treats and practicing things they will go through when they have a regular appointment, like getting on a scale or table.

@ 17 and its nothing like an mmo and had no group content and 1 / 10th of the content, Thats why peopel play MMo's, huge scale and group content.

To compare with a scaled - up story from a year ago, George Zimmerman walked free from shooting an unarmed minor and received nothing like this level of treatment.

However, these delays have been like nothing I've ever seen, especially in a crowdfunded game of this scale.

The sense of scale, the sense of presence, there's nothing else like it.

There's nothing quite like the scale of Skyrim in VR, with 100s of hours of RPG gaming, letting you explore a huge map filled with secrets, quests and dragons to fell.

Currently at the prototype stage, and powered by Unreal Engine 4, this room scale HTC Vive title created by HELM Systems sees you take on puzzles, wizards, monsters and dragons with nothing but your skill in an Elder Scrolls - like fantasy world.

The intensive scaling was far too difficult to effectively port to the Genesis (not like Sega didn't try, resulting in disasters like the port of Galaxy Force II) or SNES (whose Mode 7, combined with the DSP chip, could pull off something like Super Mario Kart, but nothing this fast nor as advanced).

Architecture in form, but sculptural in scale (being 2.1 meters in total height), it is a model for nothing specific that nevertheless still looks like a model.

Nothing gets accomplished overnight — but if anything is to be accomplished, it will be because someone has done something, even on a small scale, that captures the imagination of the public — something that appears to them to be almost appears like magic.

The idea that i like is that the large scale picture has nothing to do with Milankovitch cycles.

They had a large - scale prescribed burning program, and for decades there was nothing like a disaster fire.

Finally, you once again fail to understand that in a mind experiment like this how much energy is produced is a matter of the scale of the engines involved, which is under our control, so nothing stops us from making the actual amount of energy extracted as large as we like, as large as a nuclear plant.

While naysayers continue to point to the intermittent supply of solar and wind, large - scale energy storage; the massively underestimated potential of energy efficiency; and the rapid advance of smart grid technology and truly low energy building infrastructure all point to an energy future that will look nothing like our past.

The latter would fit the accompanying example but, like the example itself, would say nothing at all about human attribution; and while you can torture some sense into the former — «explicitly state that humans have had little impact on global warming» or perhaps «explicitly pooh - pooh the claimed scale of human inputs to global warming» — you'd leave the example out in the cold.

«Nothing cuts costs like scaling - up,» is a basic principle of all engineering.

That is what the medical profession does, and all of large - scale manufacturing, because nothing cuts costs like scaling up, and scaling - up is why support - services delivery systems are used in other professions and in large - scale manufacturing.

Note that basic engineering teaches, «bigger is better,» meaning specifically, «nothing cuts costs like scaling - up.»

And, not for nothing, massive cloud computing to date as exemplified by Amazon Web Services (s amzn) has been dominated by scale - out massively deployed commodity hardware, not the mainframe - like monoliths that Oracle is selling.

Sensation seeking was established with a scale addressing 2 important components of sensation seeking, 28 that is, thrill and adventure seeking («I like to do scary things» and «I like to do dangerous things») and boredom susceptibility («I often think there is nothing to do»).

Obviously the doors in the photo aren't exactly the right kind, and nothing is to scale, but I just wanted him to get a feel for what that kind of layout would (sort of) look like.