Sentences with phrase «of parachute into»

This is the classic extreme sports series that preceded all others, Desert motorcycle racer; Larry Rosler; Smoke jumpers; are fire fighters and front line troops that have the initial attack mission of parachuting into burning forests and containing these fires until back - up comes.

Not exact matches

Novelty seeking — getting bored easily and throwing yourself into new pursuits or activities — is often linked to gambling, drug abuse, attention deficit disorder, and leaping out of perfectly good airplanes without a parachute.

Stuart Belkin, CEO of the family firm Belkorp Industries and chair of Rogers Sugar, a Belkorp holding, found himself parachuted into a clean - up job at the University of British Columbia last winter.

(I'd bet a parachute's worth of Junior Mints that more than one poor marketer was called into her boss's office this morning and tasked with staging some sort of «Best Picture» moment.)

After moving from the West Coast to AMD's fast - growing Austin offices, she eventually decided to leave the company and parachute back into the VC scene in 2015 — only this time at the helm of her own firm, True Wealth Ventures.

Hmm, so you're telling me that a «heat shield» that was made of «special plastic» (as NASA called it back in the day), which was nothing but epoxy smeared over a ss honey comb «protected» the astros barreling into the upper atmosphere at hypersonic 5 miles / sec, or well over 30 times the velocity of a jumbo - jet and thru temperatures *** as quoted by NASA *** that are «10 times hotter than the surface of the sun», and then they «braked» with only a parachute to a safe splashdown?

Instead of becoming part of our lives, instead of developing a theology of place, they simply parachuted into our lives and then, when it didn't go well, they left us.

J. Denny Weaver, professor of religion at Bluffton College (a Mennonite college in Ohio), puts it this way in his article «Pacifist Response to 9 - 11»: «It is unfair to assume that pacifists, who did not create the situation in the first place... can now be parachuted into the middle of [the crisis] with a ready - made solution.»

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

For all the talk of the Colts taking Nelson with the sixth pick, they could easily parachute back into the first round to get a player like Wynn.

Then the Sky - Cycle issued an epic cloud of steam, and Knievel shot up the ramp, and the rocket's parachute deployed prematurely, and Evel dribbled needle - nose - down over the canyon edge and into a bottomless oblivion to meet... what?

The Liverpool manager was parachuted into his post in October and, having had a couple of months to assess the strengths and weaknesses of his squad, will now be well equipped to decide where the changes need to be made.

For rural affairs, I would definitely have someone from Norfolk because I hate the way politicians parachute some Kensington - inner - city - London - babe, who happens to own a pair of Hunters, into Downham Market or somewhere like that.

But Theresa May risks charges of election cronyism after party bosses parachuted Burghart into the seat which has been held by Eric Pickles since 1992.

We can assume that most of the paid staff are field organizers and data analysts, many of whom will parachute into battleground states to work the final weeks before Election Day.

Less of the parachuting more of real people coming into politics, less America and more f*cking British politics, less leaders thinking we can make money out of backing the USA.

National Democrats are parachuting into the races because of concern over the outcome of California's so - called jungle primaries, set for June 5.

Anna Gronewold parachuted into the AP's Albany Bureau as a legislative relief reporter for the start of this year's legislative session and will soon depart for her next mission.

That is the real narrative of great leadership, it's the Corbyn narrative and it's markedly different to the: «First they send you to Oxbridge, then they give you a plum Special Adviser job, then they parachute you into parliament, then you become leader» narrative which would be thrust upon us by Oxbridge educated Special Advisers.

Hey y ’ all, if you missed the sound of e.politics parachuting into the FDH Lounge on September 2nd (hello, Cleveland!)

«The idea that we can parachute insubstantial and untested candidates with little knowledge of the local scene into key seats to win the confidence of people they seek to represent is the bizarre theory of people who spend too much time with the pseuds and posers of London's chichi set and not enough time in normal Britain.»

Having just parachuted into our district from New York City, Professor Teachout has a naïve and dreamy vision of how to create jobs.

To add extra emphasis, he has parachuted a croney with no electoral history whatsoever into one of the top jobs.

Many serving Labour MPs were parachuted into constituencies at the request of leading members of the last Labour cabinet, including Mandelson himself.

What if Park could duplicate this tech surge, creating similar squads of Silicon Valley types, parachuting them into bureaucracies to fix pressing tech problems?

Gordon Brown had no Ministerial experience in 1997 and was parachuted straight into the job of Chancellor.

To get a qualified person there's no need for this kind of golden parachute, to lure someone into the job, «Wallace said.

Just like Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper, after Oxbridge he proceeded swiftly to the life of a SpAd, in his case for Tessa Jowell, before being parachuted into a safe seat.

The seat will disappear under boundary changes, and its history really falls into two stages — a safe Labour seat until Tristram Hunt was parachuted in before the 2010 election, and the collapse of turnout and reduction of the Labour vote to a minority in the era after New Labour took control.

I understand the need for parachuting on occasions like if you have a truly exceptional candidate who lives in the one of your parties deserts but it should be done sparingly, only to get the very best people involved who have literally zero chance of getting a seat locally and the seat they must be parachuted into must be at least somewhat compatible i.e no Tristram Hunt's in Stoke Central type affairs which frankly I think is taking the bloody p ** s

I think we all know now that the practice of parachuting favoured members of a party into «safe seats» has been a cause of the rot.

At the time of the UK financial meltdown he was parachuted into Northern Rock after it was nationalised.

Of course, plastics were also pressed into far more significant service, used for mortar fuses, parachutes, aircraft components, antenna housing, bazooka barrels, enclosures for gun turrets, helmet liners, and countless other applications.

According to Shimada, one pair of bones called hyomandibulae formed a massive oar - shaped lever to protrude and swing the jaws open extra wide, like a parachute, in order to receive more plankton - rich water into its mouth, similar to the way many sharks open their mouth.

As they travel, drops flatten from a sphere into a pancake - like disc; this catches passing air and inflates like a liquid parachute that eventually explodes in a shower of smaller droplets.

After parting ways with Cassini, the probe will drop into Titan's atmosphere, open a parachute, and float down to the surface, taking measurements every step of the way.

It is quite easy to take a trip to the river and discover that the part of the film when commandos Jack Hawkins and William Holden parachute into the jungle and plant dynamite under the bridge, which British officer Alec Guinness and his surprisingly healthy - looking troops have built, is pure fiction.

The Dream Chaser team touts the craft's advantages: its reusability, its horizontal landings (as opposed to the Soyuz - style parachute landings for a space capsule), and the reliability of the Atlas V rocket booster that will put it into orbit.

The payload, originally scheduled to parachute into the Australian outback in June of next year, now won't get here until 2010.

More lately he has been using a custom supercar that he calls the Dominator; the new season finds him behind the wheel of an even sturdier version, now upgraded with new toys such as a roof - mounted air cannon that shoots parachute - deploying probes into the spiraling vortices.

The lander will deploy a parachute at a distance of 7.8 miles (12.6 kilometers) from the surface, then jettison its heat shield, flip over to face its thrusters toward the planet and finally fire them in short, coordinated bursts, touching down at 4:53 P.M. Pacific time (taking into account the 15 - minute communication lag between Mars and Earth).

Although all three designs use a traditional vertical launch rocket to get their vehicles into space, Sierra's competitors are building capsules that are designed to land back on Earth using either parachutes and airbags (in the case of Boeing's CST - 100) or thrusters (SpaceX's Dragon capsule).

In 2004, NASA's Genesis mission crashed into the Utah desert when its parachute failed, losing much of its cargo of samples of the solar wind.

It is very similar to the current, unmanned Dragon resupply spacecraft, but with the new ability to soft «land anywhere on Earth with the accuracy of a helicopter,» rather than the normal method of parachuting from the atmosphere into the ocean.

Prior work had revealed some of these interactions in particular fjords, but Josh and his colleagues are now conducting systematic radar surveys of all of Greenland's outlet glaciers, combined with sensors parachuted into the fjords.

As we zoom closer and closer into Gale Crater, the components of Curiosity's landing system come into view: The heat shield was the first piece to hit the ground, followed by the back shell attached to the parachute, then the rover itself touched down, and finally, after cables were cut, the sky crane flew away to the northwest and crashed Image credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / University of Arizona

The Bionic Woman's parachute failing to open, Mr. Magoo, falling into a vat of acid....

This time, we don't get much set up at all, but are flung right into an extremely odd situation as we find Adrien Brody falling from the sky, pounding on the alien - looking ripcord mechanism of a parachute.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

Fortunately, half way through one of the operatives turns out to be a double agent, and Cagney himself parachutes into enemy territory to fulfil the mission.