Sentences with phrase «of figure eights»

Based on the family of figure eights and simple mechanical advantage systems, this class offers participants a chance to examine in detail commonly used rescue knots and haul systems used in both technical small and large animal rescue.

More enjoyable was a course of figure eights, chicanes and corners of varying radii tackled in second gear.

Take the other end of the scarf and pass it through the bottom of the figure eight loop you've created.

The result is one of the more basic concepts shown by any major automaker in recent memory, though design cues include blinged - out LED headlights in the rough shape of a figure eight and an upright grille.

The roller rink was also a source of music, a calliope that played melodies suitable for execution of the figure eight marked on the rinks maple floors.

Not exact matches

-- Com Mirza, «The $ 500 Million Man» and CEO of Mirza Holdings; failed in eight companies back to back and today, runs a nine - figure empire with over 600 employees

While some of these operations appear expensive, trading around 20 times cash flow (compared with eight times for miners), Nagle figures it's a fair price considering that all these companies do, basically, is collect cash.

The model is apparently so enticing that Goldman won hundreds of clients and, the company says, nearly eight figures» worth of business in 2013, which was RelSci's first year since coming out of stealth mode.

The years on the chart represent the last year of an eight year period, so the figure «1999» represents the period 1991 - 1999.

Friese won't say exactly how much Digiday makes in terms of profit or sales, except to say that «revenue is well into eight figures, and profit is well into seven figures.»

The building's sloping «figure of eight» design allows residents to cycle — or walk — past terraced gardens all the way up to tenth floor penthouses.

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

GE notes that radiologists» error rate in x-ray based diagnoses can range from 35 % to 50 %; the hope is that the eight machine deep learning algorithms being deployed as part of the partnership can help bring that figure down significantly by more accurately analyzing the medical data.

According to 1996 figures, some 13 % of female - owned companies — about one in eight — were owned by minority women.

I had to figure out very creative ways over a period of eight months to stay in contact with him.

David Allen, shipping $ 47 million worth of product in 10 months, may worry about an eight - figure cash flow, while Jim Cox strips cars for $ 20 bills.

In fact, 145 people worldwide — 8 % of the world's billionaires — have been ejected from the 10 - figure net worth echelon over the past eight months, the Post says.

At the very end of June, he'll announce «a seven - figure fundraise at an eight - figure valuation» with an as yet unnamed strategic investor.

-- Com Mirza, CEO of Fitness Expo Dubai and «The $ 500 Million Man»; failed in eight companies back - to - back and today runs a nine - figure empire with more than 600 employees

It was at work on a handful of projects, and had contracts worth eight figures lined up for later in 2010.

True, the eight - figure elders still break and make bread down the street at Bymark, but this is where tomorrows titans of industry loosen their ties, order Jägerbombs and commiserate over First World problems («My Whaler's in the shop this weekend»).

-- Com Mirza, «The $ 500 Million Man» and CEO of Mirza Holdings; failed in eight companies back - to - back and today runs a nine - figure empire with over 600 employees

I work with entrepreneurs who are generating seven, eight and even nine figures with their businesses and none of them focus on the competition either.

Over the next 10 years, there's a good chance the founders of these companies will personally walk away with eight - figure paychecks.

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

Thankfully, economist Josh Bivens, who wrote about all of the above for CBPPs full employment project, figured out that if x were, say 1 percent — i.e., if average compensation grew 1 percent faster than productivity growth — it would take over eight years for the gap to get back to its pre-recession level.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

I work with entrepreneurs who are generating seven, eight and even nine figures with their businesses and none of them focus on the...

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.

Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has shown that in 2015, the amount of student debt held by those older than 60 totaled $ 66.7 billion, a figure more than eight times the 2005 number.

With figures from last year's time of writing, Ferguson reports, «Six of the eight richest men in the world are Bill Gates (with personal wealth estimated at $ 76bn), Carlos Slim ($ 50bn), Jeff Bezos ($ 45bn), Mark Zuckerberg ($ 45bn), Larry Ellison ($ 44bn) and Michael Bloomberg ($ 40bn).

During one period of «ministerial leapfrog,» between June and November 1915, eight ministers, as well as key figures in the Church and army, were replaced, and even that pace was surpassed in the regime's final months.

«We know that 1.1 million food parcels are given out in Trussell Trust food banks alone but these figures are clearly the tip of the iceberg - the United Nations has estimated over eight million people in the UK are food insecure, approximately 2,000 food banks and food bank centres are in operation, rising levels of hospital admissions due to malnutrition cost the NHS # 12 billion per year and there are record levels of in - work poverty.»

(Exodus 20:5) So if you suffered some undeserved misfortune you could always figure that one of your eight great - grandparents had secretly performed some pernicious iniquity that was only now receiving proper retribution.

I got into astronomy when I was aged seven, trying to figure out why the stars are hot, and from the age of eight onwards I knew astrophysics would be my future career.

I started walking to it as I could see some tiny particles that were platinum - coloured moving in a figure of eight, from the ground upwards.

And no, sorry, if you think «historical» evolution doesn't have eight - million tons of evidence to support it, then you must also acknowledge that there is similarly no «proof» that the figure you call Jesus Christ ever walked the earth at all.

We stayed in two cabins adjoined by a giant figure - eight wrap - around porch and tucked into the woods of Beersheba Springs, a small town at the edge of the Appalachian Mountains.

I pinky - swear that I am longing to order your bread book... I love baking and cooking but I just recently had to do the gluten - free switch while baking and cooking from scratch for my family of eight and it has been almost completely overwhelming to figure out what to make that I can eat too.

In the UAE, there has been an increase of almost eight per cent and in Kuwait an increase of nine per cent (all figures courtesy of Nielsen, by SG Network).

I could hear the sound of a calculator in the background as Joe said, «You'll need five to ten pounds per acre — figure an average of eight pounds per acre at $ 25 a pound, times a hundred acres --»

According to figures quoted in the report — recorded up to November last year - Australia exported eight million head of livestock to 18 countries in 1139 consignments, with only 22 incidents of animal welfare concern, since ESCAS's introduction.

Carbonated soft drinks have been losing «share of throat» to bottled water for the past eight years, according to Retail World figures.

By combining such extracts with whole milk, the amount of fat is decreased to eight grams; when combined with low - fat milk, that figure is further reduced to five grams.

and then I spent most of the eight hour plane ride rearranging the playlist because, for some crazy reason, that was more important than finishing the seating arrangements or trying to figure out who was going to make the overpriced bunch of flowers I was going to carry down the aisle.

On a lightly floured bench, shape your dough in a figure of eight, placing a raisin into the circle you've just created.

Philly pretzels resemble a figure eight instead of a traditional pretzel, with a gloriously chewy center and a tough exterior.

The second title of the night changed hands when Charlotte forced Nikki Bella to tap to the Figure Eight, ending Nikki's 301 - day reign as Divas Champion.

With a core of Butler, Karl - Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins coached by Tom Thibodeau, Minnesota figures to jump into the West's top eight and contend for a playoff appearance.

Billups, bypassing the spread, planted his black leather swivel chair at the front of the locker room and fixed his eyes on Dallas point guard Jason Kidd, who was dribbling figure eights around opponents on the flat screen in front of him.