Sentences with phrase «of a blip of»

Nothing can be located at a precise point in space or time, preventing the formation of a blip of infinite energy and density.

And the best part is, at the end of this blip of a journey (in the grand scheme)- we get to spend eternity with our Sonny.

Not exact matches

If you need to let the guy who is texting know that the light has changed, a quick blip of the horn is enough.

Says Brannon, «The total number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»

The discovery started humbly, with a curious blip in magnetic field readings during the first flyby of Enceladus in 2004.

Although it may seem as if the staffing shortage of the late 1990s is long gone, today's looser labor market is just a minor blip in what will likely be a continuing labor crunch.

But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.

Although Softbank - which had recently acquired the personal computer industry's biggest trade show (Comdex) and publishing company (Ziff - Davis)- was barely a blip on the industry's radar, Son had dreams of becoming a big player in the fast - growing tech sector.

If there's a blip on this otherwise impressive record, it's Cool's experience with Benjamin Moore, the 131 - year - old paint company Cool was sent in to help after a slew of management and strategic problems (Fortune profiled the business» blues last month).

But this period should be looked at as an anomaly, a mere blip in the stretch of 40 to 70 years during which we amass, manage and consume our life's savings.

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.

Daniel Isenberg, the founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Project, says to truly understand failure, it's necessary to look beyond the individual blip of a single start - up failing to gain wide user traction and going belly - up.

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 it would only mean Hey Inc. is back to where it was in December, with a crazy blip at the end of a four - year journey.

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

From Nike to PVH to Tapestry [formerly Coach], Cramer has watched the companies and their stocks tell a story of a comeback in the apparel space, giving him confidence that the strength isn't just a blip.

And while you're there, shake the hands of the tens of thousands of employees that are working for you if you own the blip on the screen referred to as msft.

As we reported last year (http://www.3dpolicy.ca/content/how-credible-october-2010-fall-economic-and-fiscal-update), the near collapse of the EURO during the Greek crisis can not be seen as a minor «blip» soon to be forgotten.

MATURITY RISK You'll notice a tiny blip all the way to the right of the graph.

However, ever since 2001, the mortgage cost of residential properties has been on an upward trend, with the exception of the 2009 downward blip.

A down - round doesn't necessarily mean it is the beginning of the end but might just be a temporary 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.

But I don't trust these recent blip - ups in markets and expectations based on the notion that Trump and his merry band of billionaires are going to be great for investors.

Maybe they want to say that the «2 % inflation target» is actually a 2 year average and blips of 5 % for a month or a quarter won't cause them to freak out.

«We ignore whatever the daily news is, whether it's the latest twist in the health - care legislation or the latest blip from the Federal Reserve,» said Roger Lowenstein, one of Sequoia's outside directors and the author of a book on Buffett.

The painful losses will still be fresh in their memory, and they'll worry the recovery is a temporary blip, which of course it may well prove to be.

The main question now is whether this transformation will be permanent, or, as has been promised by policymakers of late, just a temporary blip in the history of banking that could soon go away.

Here's Nick Laird of Sharelynx's chart setting out the SGE withdrawal figures for the past eight years, which demonstrates nicely the huge (and very consistent apart from a blip in 2014) upwards trend in withdrawals as China's economy has continued to grow and individual purchasing power has grown with it.

Analysts have called it a short - term blip caused by consumers rushing to buy to take advantage of pre-approved mortgages signed 120 days ago when long - term rates were lower.

In Strategic Total Return, we continue to carry an average duration of about 3 years in Treasuries, where the prospect of further credit strains remains favorable for Treasuries, but where yields are already so depressed that small upward blips in yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interest.

«If you're retiring in 15, 20, 30 years, this market volatility is a very small blip in that picture,» said financial advisor Kraig D. Osborne of Edward Jones Investments in Edenton.

Our lives are a blip compared to all of human existence, and human existence is a blip compared to the existence of earth... and it goes on and on.

My view of Obama and even ObamaCare as blips becomes wrong if he gets reelected by not being properly identified as what he is.

That depends, I think, on whether Schleiermacher's and Hegel's day is over, on whether modernity is wrapped up - on whether, as it was put in one late - night discussion of Pannenberg's work in a gathering of friends and admirers, the Enlightenment was a blip.

As in Will Herberg's undoubtedly classic Protestant, Catholic, Jew of 1955, the «neo-evangelicals» who would later be known simply as evangelicals were hardly a blip on the radar screen.

... and there was mostly silence in public by the EV celebrities involved, though enough blips of evidence of their views from themselves and others associated with Emergent Village, plus documentation of their appeals in private to delete, edit, direct, control, shame.

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

Nevertheless, I am convinced that Earthism is not a blip on the screen, but the seedbed of the future.

Or is it a blip on the screen of history, born of the Progressive era among minorities in a strange land, institutionalized in the New Deal, and now left in the dust by the neoconservative revolution?

It says that we're only a tiny blip in the Universe — an inconsequential mote in the outer spiral arm of a conventional spiral galaxy trillions of light years wide.

Oh, and by the way, this Pastor is a HUGH blip on my gay - dar - I would fathom most of his hatred likely stems from his closeted life in small - town Kansas.

I see blips on the screen of a return to our creativity.

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.

You extrapolated from these «episodes of anger» that Jesus was having a «blip».

It's just a blip on their screen that they interpret as a test from God or a trial of Satan or both.

The emerging church, to be anything other than a hip blip on the radar of American religion, will need to live the tension of «relevant - resistant» no less than it lives the tension of «ancient - future.»

In the broad scope of history, the hegemony of positivism is a temporary aberration, a mere blip on the screen, already beginning to fade.

However, the one that struck me the most was that Bob believes that postmodernism is a thing of the past, and that it was a blip on the screen compared to what is coming... and the church had better be ready.

Those tiny little blips up there represent daily traffic of about 50 - 100 visits, which I am happy enough with.

I'm happy we made it past that blip of a date.