Sentences with phrase «of hitting the gas»

Avoiding a tornado is a simple case of hitting the gas, for instance, and Tintin's motorcycle turns so smoothly in the chase scenes that you might feel as though you're playing Flower instead of Mario Kart.

Not exact matches

The quake was one of the strongest ever to hit the state and prompted its oil and gas regulator, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, to order 37 disposal wells shut in a 725 - square - mile (1,878 - sq - km) area around Pawnee.

Expanded Gorgon cost to hit $ 50bn, Barnett claims The cost of the massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas venture is thought to have ballooned to as much as $ US32 billion ($ 50 billion) after Premier Colin Barnett yesterday labelled it one of the key projects that could help WA weather the global financial crisis.

For the next two years, they traveled around the country, sometimes for months at a time, hitting car shows, swap meets, trade events, rallies, and anything else they could think of to get the Gas Monkey name out there.

Then they released tear gas and hit us with truncheons,» Amirah Lidasan, one of the leaders of the protest, told AFP.

WA - based LNG Ltd has fallen back to earth as an oversupply of liquefied gas worldwide is hitting the share prices of gas - exposed stocks.

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

The United States and its allies are considering whether to hit Syria over a suspected poison gas attack that medical relief organizations say killed dozens of people in the rebel - held town of Douma near Damascus on Saturday.

Morgan Stanley also noted that oil and gas exports account for nearly 16 percent of Malaysia's gross domestic product (GDP), and the sector has been hard hit by crude prices falling below $ 50 a barrel again.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

The first was that natural gas prices also fell hard in 2012, hitting a 21st - century low of around $ 2 per thousand cubic feet (MCF) last June.

Precision shares, though, are off nearly 30 % from their all - time high, as the company's earnings have been hit by weakness in the oil and gas sector, where the majority of the company's non-aerospace sales come from.

There's more to Atlanta than Outkast and Georgia peaches — the city's cost of living is astonishingly low, with food and gas prices hitting the same level or lower than national averages.

The energy market's crash in 2015 hit oil and gas companies hard, but it was only one of many problems that Petroleo Brasileiro faced.

The number of gas stations in Massachusetts has drastically decreased, according to The Boston Globe, and Boston has felt a big hit.

Basic premise (aging terribly, so thank heavens the details are behind a paywall): lower gas prices aren't really stimulative in Canada because the concurrent decline in the terms of trade is detrimental to gross domestic income, thereby crimping purchasing power, and is likely accompanied by a hit to employment (wrong again, so far!).

After you've hit the number of rides you need to get your bonus, I'd quit and just use the destination feature to pick someone up along the way to pay for gas money like I do now.

Crude oil might have hit the gas pedal, but equity investors have been left on the sidelines as energy stocks continue to struggle even as the price of crude rallies.

The national average retail price of regular gas hit a four - month high of $ 3.78 a gallon toward the end of February, according to Energy Information Administration data, up almost 15 % from the start of the year.

While the oil and gas sector, which comprised 24 % of all Canadian exports in 2015, has been hit hard, most other exporting industries experienced major gains in 2015, which are expected to translate into further increases to Canadian exports overall.

When I hit 154mph some tail lights came into view ahead of me and I immediately lifted off the gas, since I knew that I would be closing on the other car at over 90mph.

Energy was at the centre of the 2006 G8 when the Russian - Ukrainian gas crisis hit Europe and oil prices reached $ 50 per barrel for the first time (a threshold now long forgotten, in 2012 the average price is stood at about $ 112 per barrel).

Days after Trump said he wanted to pull the United States out of Syria, Syrian forces hit a suburb of Damascus with bombs that rescue workers said unleashed toxic gas, possibly drawing him deeper into an intractable Middle Eastern war that he hoped to leave.

Given the topic hits so close to home as New York grapples with the idea of approving high - volume hydraulic natural gas drilling it may still be worth a watch.

But the partnership, heralded as a significant break - through when gas from Nigeria hit Ghana in December 2008, has been troublesome on an uncomfortable number of occasions.

The Executive Budget is proposing a massive $ 651 million increase in the state's «Section 18 - A» assessments on utilities (increasing the assessment rate from.3 percent of revenues to 2 percent), a significant share of which will hit electric and gas utilities, with a direct pass through to their business customers.

Chemical weapons gas is also very painful and it hits a lot of women and children.

The shortage of the gas hit the Tamale Metropolis for almost a fortnight and has affected most business activities within the metropolis especially taxis and restaurant but there are no signs of getting the LPG anytime soon.

Thousands of taxi drivers within the Tamale metropolis and some other parts of the Northern Region are crying over the shortage of Liquefied petroleum gas, LPG that has hit the metropolis and some parts of the region.

Estimates are that 32 million Americans will hit the road, in large part because of an improving economy and lower gas prices.

HIT THE GAS Jets from supermassive black holes, like the one shown in this artist's illustration, could be ultimately responsible for three different types of enigmatic high - energy particles.

You can identify volcanic basalt from its tiny pockmarks, formed by bubbles of escaping gas that froze in place when hot magma hit the cool air.

In the case of UED, an electron beam shines through a gas of iodine molecules, with the distance between the two iodine nuclei in each molecule defining the double slit, and hits a detector instead of a screen.

In the experiment, a laser pulse (green) hit a spray of iodine gas (at right).

The ions get out of the Earth's atmosphere because when sunlight or the occasional cosmic ray hits atoms of oxygen (or any other gas) at the edge of space, those atoms can lose an electron, becoming charged.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Beatty believes that when 570 degree Fahrenheit water from thermal vents hits cold, deep ocean currents, several light - producing processes may occur: sonoluminescence from imploding gas bubbles; chemiluminescence from chemical reactions (analogous to fireflies lighting up); crystalloluminescence from the formation of crystal bonds; and triboluminescence from the breaking of those bonds.

When a particle hits a hard surface at high speeds, it vaporizes and ionizes the target, releasing a cloud of dust, gas and plasma.

We wanted to see, if you took a realistic cloud of cold gas and hit it with a hot, fast - flowing, supernova - driven outflow, if you could accelerate that cold material to velocities like what are observed,» Robertson said.

When used to perform HHG, the argon crystal reduced the wavelength of incoming laser light 40-fold, compared to 20-fold in argon gas hit with the same level of illumination.

Atmospheric volumes of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change hit a new record in 2012, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Wednesday.

According to a new study, a small cloud of gas and dust is racing toward the black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and when it hits, be prepared for some astronomical fireworks.

For example, can the same region store the meanings of red and green traffic lights — the memories that make a driver stop a car at a red light, then hit the gas pedal at a green light?

In Morbidelli's revised model, Uranus was hit before its satellites formed from a disk of gas and dust surrounding the planet.

Without any action, the world is on track to achieve at least 4 degrees C warming of global average temperatures by 2100, as the world hits 450 parts - per - million of greenhouse gases in 2030 and goes on to put out enough greenhouse gas pollution to achieve as much as 1300 ppm by 2100.

Olsen thinks the infalling gas hit 30 Doradus, causing it to grow large and luminous by fueling the formation of new stars.

Whereas the size of the fermion gas hit a lower limit, the size of the boson gas continued to shrink (see image).

One of the challenges the team hit involved the transfer of the genetic machinery for gas vesicles into E. coli.

«I've been wanting to do this ever since we realized the potential of gas vesicles, but we hit some roadblocks along the way.

Gas from the comet is likely to have hit Mars, and would have done so at a speed of 125,000 miles per hour (56 kilometers per second).