Sentences with phrase «of remaining miles»

This is a great way to use a small amount of remaining miles, or to liquidate your balance if you're done with the SkyMiles program altogether.

Not exact matches

Sapir: The FCC introduces policies that do nothing, and then repeals them, over and over again — while real issues, such as the last - mile delivery of internet, remain.

On Monday morning, its center remained well over 100 miles south of the island.

Key players like Alibaba and Tencent are extending their last - mile consumer reach «to digitalize the remaining 85 % of China's retail and reach the 60 % offline consumer population,» the report says.

Twenty months after the spill these expensive recovery efforts continue, and 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River impacted by the spill remain closed to swimming, boating, fishing or even wading for the foreseeable future.

In Cocoa Beach, 60 miles east of Orlando, more than 82,000 people remained without drinkable water while workers scrambled Monday to fix breaches in the water system.

While most of the Tesla Semi attention has been on its 500 - mile range and the speculated 1 mega watt - hour battery pack that has the combined capacity of ten Model S 100D batteries, discussion about the semi-truck's impressive quadruple drivetrain set up has remained sparse.

The fires, which incinerated at least 30 buildings in the core of Lac - Mégantic, a tourist town of 6,000 people about 150 miles east of Montreal, limited the work of accident investigators, as well as attempts to search for survivors and the remains of victims.

Thus, whether it is a trans - continental flight, or a 2 - hour flight, the number of miles remains proportionate to the fare.

But there remains the nagging question that never seems to go away when you are faced, as Bonhoeffer was, with a tyrant in your own backyard (not thousands of miles away) intent on destroying the world and annihilating all those who stand in his way.

For the sake of argument you take them a long way apart — miles or millions of miles — and all the time the total spin would remain constant.

And so it is, to a large extent, with the other saints» cults as well, a point vividly illustrated in the testimony of several of the children of Sanchez, for whom the Lord of Chalma (another cult, centered about sixty miles southwest of Mexico City) was the focus of their spiritual life.48 Even when the cult is community oriented — as in the case of agricultural saints — it remains largely apolitical.

Local passports, valid for ten years, allowed their bearers an unlimited number of entrances into the United States, provided that they remained within 25 miles of the border and stayed for no more than 72 hours at a time.

Its discovery in the remains of a fortress at Khirbet el - Maqatir, nine miles north of Jerusalem, strengthens the case being made by the excavators that this site is the real location of Ai, the city destroyed in Joshua 8.

However, even with the highway, much of the Baja still remains isolated and unpopulated, consisting mostly of rugged mountains (up to 10,000 feet tall), along with 800 miles of harsh desert, with few facilities for travelers.

I don't understand why Wenger still wants to remain so secretive about his targets, when most of the time he messes it up himself by under bidding by a country mile for the player and it's not as if the other clubs are spying on his transfer activities, like they used to, a decade ago.

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

With eight miles remaining in Sunday's New York City Marathon, Abdelkhader El Mouaziz of Morocco stole a glance over his left shoulder, searching for pursuers.

Some people may have noticed, if they are astute, (sarcasm) that I have been trying to get Walcott out of our club for a full decade (out of the 12 wasted years he has been shirking on the pitch and conning huge wages for nothing in return) Yet still this idler remains, uselessly, miles from the first eleven and picking up # 110,000 pw.

But then, with a quarter of a mile remaining, I heard footsteps behind me.

Francesco Totti hasn't been quite as prolific as the past few seasons, but at 38 - years - old he remains, albeit in shorter doses, one of the league's most dangerous attacking players, and Roma's fiercest threat by a mile.

«Public Works staff completed a street by street review of the 220 miles of village streets, searching for and removing any remaining tree stumps.

Yes, the formula companies keep adding a new ingredient every now and then and touting it but formula remains MILLIONS of miles away from breastmilk.

AP US History will be revised next year, but many teachers remain frustrated with the «mile - high, inch deep» approach that some of the AP courses demand in order to prepare students for the culminating exams.

But 25 of them remain in offices at 2060 N. Clark St., almost a mile away from the museum.

About a mile south of 159th Street, small businesses remain.

«The real answer to improving the roads on Staten Island and across the city is doing what we have been calling for these last several months and that is a commitment from the administration to pave 1,300 lane miles annually for the remaining three years of our terms,» said Oddo.

From 2001 to 2008, while population remained flat, the community added 144 miles of new water mains, 61 miles of road and 10 miles of sewer lines.

Half a mile away on the other side of Victoria Street, sitting inside the Department of Work and Pensions, remains Iain Duncan Smith, a man who has seen his welfare reforms repeatedly crash against the rocks of Whitehall's information technology, a self - deluding good news culture and the messy reality of the lives of benefit claimants.

The remaining 4 or so miles of the rail trail from Slingerlands to Voorheesville are still dirt and gravel, but the county's vision includes paving them.

Even in 2012, the Lower East Side remains the area of the U.S. statistically most associated with immigration due to its long service as an initial immigrant destination in which enormous numbers of immigrant and migrant residents were squeezed into its less than two square miles.

Only half would remain truly wild, while the other half would be exposed to the likelihood of intensive motorized uses up to 7 miles into the forest.

«Nearly all (the) Flushing line has been repainted in recent years and the remaining 3.1 - mile stretch will be done as part of the current Capital Program.»

Much remains to be done on the 38 - mile stretch between Kingston and Highmount, all of it labor - intensive and prohibitively costly.

David Sweat, 34, and Richard Matt, 48, remain on the run after using power tools to break out of Clinton Correctional Facility, about 20 miles from the Canadian border.

Today, the site is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and includes the remains of temples and a vast network of canals, ornamental lakes, and dikes stretching over approximately 150 square miles.

«Multiple analyses from many institutions around the Earth confirm that average CO2 is above 400 ppm,» he said, adding that that fact remains true «even at the South Pole,» thousands of miles from significant carbon emission sources.

But a prairie plant in the Midwest, where many miles of land have a similar temperature, might have to travel much farther to remain in its preferred habitat.

What's more, although flood - insurance maps drawn by the federal government beginning in 1983 determined that 33 square miles of land in New York City remained at risk of a one - in -100-year flood, Sandy resketched the maps and proved that, in fact, a remarkable 51 square miles of land — 17 percent of the city — was in jeopardy.

Within eight hours of starting the experiment on November 9, the system converged on a location within the targeted range of 10 miles and remained well below that threshold for the rest of the experiment, Mitchell said.

Of concern, though, is the fate of the remaining 88 percent of Larsen C, which still spans some 17,000 square mileOf concern, though, is the fate of the remaining 88 percent of Larsen C, which still spans some 17,000 square mileof the remaining 88 percent of Larsen C, which still spans some 17,000 square mileof Larsen C, which still spans some 17,000 square miles.

The evacuated zone was extended somewhat on Saturday, but Icelandic airports remain open though airspace of 140 by 100 nautical miles above the volcano was closed.

The B - 2 debuted in 1988 and remains the only long - range stealth bomber in the world, capable of flying more than 6,000 miles without refueling.

On Jan. 3, automated monitoring determined that two weeks later, MAVEN and MRO could come within about two miles (three kilometers) of each other, with large uncertainties remaining in the exact passing distance.

The purpose of the 269 circular and rectangular earthworks, scattered over a 15,000 - square - mile area, remains unknown, but Schaan suspects they were ceremonial platforms (pdf).

Serene Center Even as the outer winds reach speeds of 150 miles per hour, the eye remains remarkably calm, with winds near zero mph.

Then they took out their new boat, this one customized with a winch to pull in the mile of net, and harvested as many of the remaining lake trout as they could from Logging Lake.

Megaplumes, which remain intact, spinning and drifting for months and traveling hundreds of miles, could be mobile ecosystems.

Then, in 1964, rock climbers found the dried - out remains of a giant stick insect on Ball's Pyramid, an 1,800 - foot - tall spire of volcanic rock 14 miles from Lord Howe Island.

A strange 12 - hour cycle of oscillations that remained after the local traffic had been accounted for was attributed to minute Earth movements caused by the tides in the North Sea, 150 miles away.