Sentences with phrase «of string with»

Imagine a piece of string with a series of beads on it.

Long created this sculpture using a piece of string with which he had measured a walk up Silbury Hill in a straight line, spiralling it round on the gallery floor before pacing its length with muddy boots, which left a residue of light - coloured clay.

By Proxy includes Marcel Duchamp's assisted readymade With Hidden Noise, a ball of string with an unknown object rattling inside it; embroidery works by Alighiero Boetti; three drawings from John Cage's 1990 series River Rocks and Smoke, in which chance operations are performed by smoke settling in the fibers of the paper; Oliver Laric's Yuanmingyuan Columns, a new work created with 3D scans of Chinese cultural artifacts ensconced in Bergen, Norway; Yoko Ono's seminal chess set and war allegory Play it By Trust; and a work from Xu Zhen's recent Eternity series, which juxtaposes the East and West by mounting headless replicas of key Hellenistic and Buddhist sculptures neck to neck.

In mathematics, a knot is defined as a closed loop in three - dimensional space — like a piece of string with its ends glued together.

Give your toddler a small container of Cheerios or other round cereal and a clean shoelace or piece of string with tape around the edges to make it stiff.

If you accept the multiple extra dimensions predicted by string theory, black holes are fuzzballs — tangled balls of strings with no well - defined horizon.

Not exact matches

Not only had Mayer bought a string of tech startups, but she's signed high - profile deals with folks like Katie Couric to produce original content.

«I invested in Ali, basically,» confirms Farris, 77, the godfather of B.C. venture capitalists, with a string of technology startups to his credit going back 45 years.

At the start of the special, Kelly promised «an electric exchange between yours truly and Donald Trump» before kicking off the program with a string of clips rehashing the pair's various clashes.

As Sanghavi and Shah launched the company with their life savings and on borrowed funds, there was a string of pretty anxious days.

The analysts» warning on iPhone shipments is the latest in a string of reports suggesting Apple's having trouble at the top of the market with its iPhone X.

I explained to them that I'd created this personal challenge and would ask, «How can I be of assistance to you in some way, with no strings attached?»

When the film debuted, A&W Food Services of Canada was a burger chain, largely operating in Western Canada with a string of suburban drive - thrus and food court locations.

If Internet.org were really a work of charity, the company could offer users free access to the entire Internet with no strings attached.

A few examples that had recipients looking for strings attached: «A cruise to the Caribbean»; «The keys to my client's villa to use on my vacation»; and «A beautiful box with a stack of $ 100 bills and a thank - you card.»

But he also revealed plans to promote consumption by converting federal fleets to natural gas, offering tax incentives to transport companies for converting their vehicles, and creating five highway corridors, each with a string of natural gas fuel stations.

The store, which is popular with teenagers, is the latest in a string of once - popular brick and mortar retailers that are now struggling as online sales cut into their sales.

SXSW comes after a string of embarrassing reports for Uber that put on display the company's treatment of women, its treatment of drivers, its alleged theft of trade secrets, its use of software to circumvent government officials, and its peculiar partnership with China's Baidu.

While the importance of execution is indisputable, a string of conversations we've had recently at Inc. has reminded us all that greatness always, always starts with the idea — or, to be precise, an idea backed by ferocious belief.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

The ubiquitous success of e-commerce retailers worldwide is hardly deniable today, and enough to allow overlooking that the majority of its business models are still beset with bottlenecks in different areas - unless you refuse to turn a blind eye to this, as do the co-founders of Idealz, the latest in a string of promising startup ideas popping up in the UAE.

With a string of victories across the country, and poll numbers rising daily, it seems increasingly likely that the Donald will be the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States.

In the credit card world, tokenization means taking credit card account numbers out of merchants» hands, replacing them with strings of characters — essentially, digital tokens — that would, theoretically, be useless if stolen by criminals.

An environmental activist with no business training and a resume that was little more than a string of odd jobs, he was drawn to the idea of running a business with a strong social mission.

Participants were apt to complete a tedious task (entering 10 - character strings of code) faster when they could tackle quicker segments first, with their motivation increasing as they got closer to completing the task.

It was the latest in a string of quarterly declines in Apple's tablet business, which has been struggling to keep pace with two - in - one hybrid computers that can be used both as tablets and notebooks.

That makes Serta the latest in a string of companies to severe ties with real estate mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after he made derogatory comments about Mexican immigrants during his campaign announcement speech last week.

Since Baazov's blockbuster purchase of PokerStars for US$ 4.9 billion, Amaya has struggled with a string of challenges.

(The string of Christmas tree lights with letters under each bulb were an important part of the plot in the show's first season.)

Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor finally meet in the boxing ring on Saturday night in Las Vegas after months of pre-bout hype and a string of preening press conferences rife with insults and posturing.

With that said, there are a string of phone scams taking place, asking people to make payments for things such as taxes, hospital bills, bail money, debt collection and utility bills.

Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF Global), a rational observer might think the NY Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the financial system from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.

But for numerous reasons, many related to a seemingly endless string of spinoffs and corporate restructurings, Palm lost its way and failed to jump on the lucrative opportunity of combining an electronic organizer with a cellular phone.

«The theory is that automation will result in so many lost jobs that the only plausible answer is some type of guaranteed government check with no strings attached,» Biden wrote in a blog post.

Last year there was a string of serial rapes and we are speaking with some of the local advocacy groups and developing a plan to keep the space open and staffed Friday and Saturday nights until an hour after the bars close so that if there is anyone feeling uncomfortable or threatened by a situation can come and use the space as a safe haven and have the option of being walked home at the end of the evening.

Kroger: The string of analyst meetings continues with Kroger, which, like Wal - Mart, will also have to outline a strategy for bucking Amazon's growing influence in food retail.

Rounding off another beaded string of platitudes, he changed gears and erupted with a burst of rhetoric referencing one of the ancient classics he had studied at Harvard and before.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

After several fruitless hours trying to find a client that still accepted the ancient technology of hash strings — modern, user - friendly wallets like Coinbase use 12 word passphrases instead of 22 - digit keys to secure wallets — I ended up with a more technical client that could «sweep» the funds in my paper wallet.

These days, Reimer is experimenting with a small string of FXR retail stores as a way of further extending the brand and finding new customers.

One of the key ways cognitive scientists test your brain's processing power is through what's called a digit symbol coding test — they equate a number with a certain symbol, then give you a string of numbers and ask you to convert them to the correct symbols.

The company also had a string of departures in the refined products segment last year, with senior traders and blenders leaving to join a rival, according to three market sources.

Of course, these founders also wanted to build their companies with other people's money, just without the usual strings attached.

The San Francisco - based company has been through an exhausting 2017 so far with a string of self - inflicted scandals and a contentious CEO search.

The ad is simple yet impactful, with a string of different faces of people from different nationalities, religions and walks of life.

Pixar Animations is one of the most creative businesses on the planet, and one of the most successful, with a string of blockbuster movies that delight audiences around the globe.

The handout came with strings attached: Salus had to sign off if RadioShack wanted to close more than 200 stores a year — essentially giving the firm power over one of the company's only ways to raise cash.

ABBA won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with «Waterloo» and had a sequin - spangled string of hits including «Dancing Queen» and «Take a Chance on Me» before splitting up in 1982.

The 40 - year - old Woods has not played on the PGA Tour since last fall as he deals with the latest in a string of injuries.

My advice - based articles about how to clarify your calling, overcome self - doubt, self - promote with style and take immediate action toward making your dreams a reality generated a string of clients and within a couple of months I was earning money both writing and coaching.