Sentences with phrase «of sheer distance»

I knew in my gut they had to be limited just because of sheer distance travelled to get to me but the other info put it even more into perspective.

Not exact matches

But now I'd say that even if the distance is not comparable — we just moved up the hill within our own neighbourhood, for heaven's sake — the sheer work and logistics of an international move for two young marrieds without children rival an in - neighbourhood move with four tinies.

The result is to produce — out of the sheer overwhelming rhythm of names that suggest space and scope, richness and distance — the intoxication of the illimitable.

Despite this distance and the sheer volume of bags delivered each night, the company takes great pride in operating at a 99.79 percent success rate while offering free doorstep delivery.

Save for a few loses of concentration, Ramsey is jus hardworking... Always ahead in terms of distance covered... Now, that can't b sheer coincidence.....

There were scenes of sheer jubilation when the final whistle rung out at Old Trafford on Sunday, immediately after they had beaten second in the table Chelsea 2 - 1 to move within touching distance of an unprecedented 19th English league title.

The sheer harshness of the environment that begins a few hundred miles above our heads, and the huge distances involved in traveling to other planets, bode poorly for any of us who might dream of establishing human outposts much beyond Mars.

For Amborella, «what is amazing about this case is the sheer scale of the transfer and the [evolutionary] distance between the species,» says Ralph Bock of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam - Golm, Germany, who is not part of the Amborella team.

Because of the sheer scale of the project, it can be difficult to meaningfully explore the layout of the array and display the various detector components in a way that illustrates the distances involved.

While we track CMEs with a number of instruments, the sheer size of the solar system means that our observations are limited, and usually taken from a distance.

The lesson looks at the sheer size of Russia by numeracy work looking at the distance that all teams will have to travel between games within their respective groups.

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

A study released this month by the American Association of School Administrators on equity for rural schools found that, due to the sheer distance between schools, rural students don't truly have a choice when it comes to enrolling in a school that will meet their needs.

At what point will citizens value access to books enough to continue supporting the stores, regardless of pricing, driving distances, and sheer convenience?

LOTTE Legend Hotel Saigon combines natural beauty and sheer opulence to provide the best for the discerning traveler.The breathtaking resort setting and its distinctive architectural interior gives one a feeling of luxury and tranquility.Nestled in Saigon's scenic riverside area and within walking distance to major commercial addresses, the hotel is the perfect place for conducting business.The meeting and banquet facilities are well equipped to cater to your every need.A hotel that takes business and pleasure to heart, enjoy the best of Saigon while being pampered with superb accommodation and excellent service.

just keep listening to those indie devs that tell you how beast the ps4 is... lol, while the games keep coming out looking worse than things I was playing 6 years ago I just mentioned sheer power draw there smart guy its one thing that can easily be looked at, and it is quite telling it lets you know that the ps4 is relatively weak, hence a game like bf4 is sub-1080p, still has tons of aliasing as ps4 is NOT powerful enough to utilize proper AA techniques, the draw distance is reduced, performance is less than ideal, shaders are weaker, textures are muddied and blurred

In the distance, as if by magic, or more accurately sheer force of will, a bright light appeared.

Team Deathmatch, Control, and Distance King (a free - for - all mode wherein the player with the most kill distance wins) can be a good bit of fun in their own right, but the sheer size of the maps in multiplayer means that sniping is going to be of paramount importance if your team is going to win, and No Cross emphasizes this fact better than any other mode in the game.

Scouts are able to move further than any other unit, but their armour is a bit lacking, snipers can't move large distances, but obviously make up for it with the sheer range of their rifles, engineers can repair tanks and disarm mines, whilst tanks are as mighty as you'd imagine but greedily take up two of your command points and have a weakness at their rear end, which you should really take care not to expose to the enemies.

Seeing a performance problem like this so early in the life of the Switch console isn't promising, though it's not exactly deal - breaking either, when considering the sheer scale and breadth of the world at almost every moment — being inside a building talking to people, then suddenly walking outside, seeing everything still rendered, draw distance and all, with zero slow down, really is something that surprises me each time.

Bayonetta 2's campaign gets within touching distance of the original's sheer imagination, but its structure is far superior — Bayonetta's biggest problem was that it didn't offer experienced players a way to simply enjoy the combat system outside of story mode.

As Susan Sontag observed in the catalogue of another big show in Fort Worth, Texas: «Each picture is, ideally, a maximum seduction... the viewer may be tempted to solve the problem, abandoning the proper distance at which all the picture's charms may be appreciated to zero in for immersion in sheer colour bliss — what Hodgkin's pictures can always be counted on to provide.»

While often times the sheer mass of a sculpture can limit its setting to the outdoors, many modern sculptors and collectors revel in the open air as a venue where the viewer is free to study the work from any distance and at any angle.

The sheer amount of semi-truck traffic presents a danger to other drivers on the highways, and the long distances that semi-trucks often travel exacerbate truck maintenance or driver fatigue issues that may occur on the road.

In terms of sheer portability, consider this — the ZenBook Flip S is within spitting distance of the 12.9 - inch iPad Pro's dimensions, at least in terms of width and height.