Sentences with phrase «of miles by»

While today you don't have to travel hundreds of miles by dogsled to hear cases as your predecessor judges based in Alaska once did, you probably now have the most grueling commute of any federal appellate judge to arrive at the locations where your court regularly hears oral arguments.

In Alaska, she worked in the «bush» with an Inuit tribe («that's where I learned that the word «Eskimo» is a racial slur,» she adds, «I didn't know that in those days»), including people who had to travel hundreds of miles by plane and dirt roads, just to come to her class.

After all, it's perfectly legal to dig up coal, transport it thousands of miles by rail and ship, and burn it for electricity.

However, Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited reserves the right to restrict the availability of purchasing miles by members to certain geographical areas and the purchasing of miles by members is at the sole discretion of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited.

If you haven't read my post about getting to Mexico on an American Airlines flight for half the amount of miles by booking with British Airways, read it now!

If you valued your miles at 1.5 cents each (which is the standard estimated value), you would have a missed out on $ 60 worth of miles by redeeming a reward instead of paying cash.

Since British Airways has a distance - based award chart where short flights are very few miles, we can often save loads of miles by using British Airways miles instead of American Airlines.

With British Airways» distance - based chart that charges per segment based on miles flown, we can save lots of miles by booking short flights on American Airlines using British Airways miles.

«For example, Chase Sapphire cards give bonus point for restaurants, so I rack up a lot of miles by using that card whenever I eat out,» she says.

Also, if you won't have travel purchases you can redeem your miles for, you'll have to redeem for other options, which decreases the value of your miles by half.

However, it may be possible to pay a lower number of miles by booking that same flight via the award chart of an international partner.

I earn most of my miles by flying, often to places I actually want to go even if just for a short visit.

Use it to determine the actual cost of the miles by adding up the cost, any processing fees, and the Federal excise tax.

Since redemptions are not based on the cash price of the fare, you can maximize the value of your miles by flying within one or two regions and during off - peak dates.

This boosts the value of your miles by a lot.

So, you can occasionally save plenty of miles by adding a stopover to your itinerary.

Unfortunately, that reduces the value of your miles by a lot, so we don't recommend it.

Unfortunately, that reduces the value of your miles by a lot, so we don't recommend it.

We researched the value of these miles by analyzing the ticket costs of various flights and weighing them against the cost of those same flights with SKYPASS miles.

Often, though, we'd drive off with disappointing numbers and were pleased to find we gained back a couple of miles by the time we arrived at our destination.

In Tanzania, Isaac Lema travels hundreds of miles by bus each month, between his university studies and his UCE work in the southeastern part of the country.

Not exact matches

Mulvaney also preemptively addressed questions about the cost of the wall and how many miles could be paid for by the requested sum, pointing to the still - uncertain plans for its construction.

Instead of calling 911, Bergeson drove 12 miles to the emergency room in a neighbouring city by himself because it «seemed like the thing to do,» he recalled.

But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

In October of 2011, the price of WTI at Cushing, OK was discounted by almost $ US25 per barrel compared to similar oil grades on the U.S. Gulf Coast, only 600 miles away.

He gets his daily dose of exercise by walking the five miles from his home to Twitter headquarters while listening to audiobooks and podcasts.

The startup began by creating a Shazam - like song recognition app called Midomi; now, the newly released Hound app is capable of answering complex voice prompts like, «Show me all below - average - priced restaurants within a five - mile radius that are open past 10 p.m. but don't include Chinese or pizza places,» or «What's the weather like in the capital of the biggest state in the U.S.?»

But with an airdrop, he added «almost 100 % of the source term -LSB-...] ends up on the land» — so a salted weapon blown up over a target would «be many, many orders of magnitude worse than the fallout produced by an underwater detonation» several miles from shore.

Commanded by a colonel, the entire 3rd brigade of the 1st Armored Division was spread out for miles around the sandy grounds, partaking in a large exercise called Bulldog Focus.

One of the toughest during SEAL training involves training to attack an enemy ship — by swimming two miles alone underwater and, in the dark, approaching it from below.

Shanghai is expected to build an intelligent - vehicle network covering about 62 miles (100 square kilometers) by 2020, the government said, adding that Shanghai will explore the possibility of connecting to major transportation junctions within the city.

Between four and five square miles of buildings were leveled in the blast generated by just 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium.

Nike - endorsed elite runner Eliud Kipchoge has run the world's fastest marathon time but missed finishing under the two - hour mark by only 26 seconds — a gap of just one second per mile for the distance of the race.

The No. 1 U.S. online retailer is also looking to add a same - day delivery option on all items sold by third - party merchants on its site, a move that some logistics experts said may help offset the high costs of speedy, last - mile delivery.

And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

(The MegaDo also raised more than $ 65,000 for charity, auctioning off items like a Qantas deck of cards, British Airways pajamas, model airplanes, fluorescent yellow rain suits worn by American's ground crew, two free tickets to Europe and 60,000 American miles.)

Working out of a dozen corrugated - metal buildings in a dismal windblown patch of desert in Mojave, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, it has rolled out 26 new types of manned aircraft in 30 years, many of them rule - breaking and innovative; most big aerospace contractors, by contrast, struggle to get a single new aircraft out in an entire decade.

Many airlines around the world feed into this need for prestige by offering arcane top tiers, the best known of which is United's Global Services, which is said to be based not on miles flown but how much you paid for your tickets.

We stopped by the sprawling offices of Tony Hawk Inc, in Vista, Calif., about 40 miles north of San Diego, where the CEO and chief trick - rider presides dressed in jeans and a T - shirt.

Returning to Earth, they set a record still not equaled by a manned vehicle, going 32 times the speed of sound, or 24,816 miles per hour.

The slow - moving storm's center was in the Gulf of Mexico about 70 miles (150 km) southeast of downtown Houston by Tuesday evening and Harvey was expected to move inland again early Wednesday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

The hybrid electric jet will seat up to 12 people, fly up to 700 miles and have operating costs of 8 cents per seat mile, below the operating costs of small turboprops and business jets powered by jet fuel.

Backup human drivers in Uber's self - driving cars had to take over about once every mile as of March 8, according to documents obtained by Recode (Uber doesn't make its data publicly available).

The Arbitration shall be held either: (i) at a location determined by JAMS (or, if applicable, AAA) pursuant to the Applicable Rules (provided that such location is reasonably convenient for you and does not require travel in excess of 100 miles from your home or place of business); or (ii) at such other location as may be mutually agreed upon by you and NBCUniversal; or (iii) at your election, if the only claims in the arbitration are asserted by you and are for less than $ 10,000 in aggregate, by telephone or by written submission.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

He's referring to a weeklong, 500 - mile relay race, launched last July by Nerdist and Lucasfilm, that features teams of runners in Star Wars costumes raising money for the Make - A-Wish Foundation.

The other takeaway from Recode's report is in the number of miles logged by Uber's self - driving systems.

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

For example, this month, while I was on a 544 mile bike ride through Colorado, I got an email from a team member with five questions he needed answered by the end of the week.

She was close to spiraling out of control when she decided to hike 1,100 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail by herself.