Sentences with phrase «off of the ground several»

Not exact matches

But as opposing experts (and a small army of writers) feud over the issue here in the United States, across the pond several top universities are eliminating the underlying logic of the argument by creating programs to help budding business owners get their start - up dreams off the ground — while they get their degrees.

Inside the Edgewater section of Miami, several roofs were ripped off, power lines lay on the ground and a large truck was overturned on its side in the middle of the street.

Several tweeted about the incident as soon as it happened and posted photos, including one of a ground crew member carrying off a piece of the winglet.

But Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, slapped the effort down before it even got off the ground (and the Super PAC's leaders insisted the Wright campaign was just one of several ideas).

An estimated 2,500 fans visited Town's training ground to get their picture wth the trophy completely free of charge in the first of several opportunities that fans will have to see the Play - Off trophy this summer.

The Times Union reported Sunday that a woman who dated Morse for several years in the 1990s confirmed to the newspaper that she called police multiple times to report abusive behavior by Morse, including an incident in which she accused him of grabbing her neck and lifting her off the ground during an argument at her downtown apartment.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

The latest findings, announced in August, show that he stood his ground and may have fought off several foes before dying of an arrow shot to his left shoulder.

Try a side plank Try a side plank while lifting one leg off the ground There are several variations and again, this is one of the easier poses to perform which will in fact prove results.

In an extended sequence a 30 - foot long wolf and a huge gorilla begin destroying a major city as people evacuate by bus and on foot; the animals toss several vehicles off the road, into walls, and demolish a bus and several skyscrapers as we hear crashing metal (no one is in any of the smashed cars or the bus); the wolf jumps into the air and bites a helicopter in half as men and women run through the streets, screaming and the wolf extends flying - squirrel type wings and slides from a building to the ground.

Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) manages to stop the bomb from hurting anyone on the ground, but when she raises it into the air to get it clear of the marketplace where Crossbones set it off, it explodes beside a building, killing several people.

People dangle off the end of spaceships that are crashing through forests, or fall several stories to the ground with nary a bruise.

There were several smaller story - lines placed throughout the film, some stronger than others, but none of them seemed to really get off the ground and add much to the overall film.

Democrats in the Wisconsin legislature frustrated the governor for several years, but Thompson enlisted the aid of Annette «Polly» Williams, a black state legislator who pulled together enough bipartisan support to get a very small program off the ground.

Keep all plants and shrubs trimmed several inches off of the ground and do not allow them to overgrow onto paths so that any snakes hiding under these plants can be easily seen.

Bears like 755 remind us of how humans impact bears, even when we are elevated several feet off the ground.

If you're willing to make it past several hours of brutal horde attacks, there's a gorgeous and well - crafted action - platformer to enjoy, but those turned off by lengthy grinding or chases through barrages of enemies had best look somewhere else.

But the fiery scene that takes place above ground after wells are completed in certain circumstances — a controlled burn - off of initial gas for several days — is not as dramatic as what is happening more than a mile beneath the surface.

The German toy / model company Conrad ran a TV advert featuring an amazing Rube Goldberg bike lock that used motorized skateboard wheels to raise your bike several meters off the ground and up a lamp - post; here's a making - of video showing the R&D that went into this fantastic gadget.

Much like it needed several years to find its feet in an overcrowded, ultra-competitive mobile device industry, experimenting with convertible PadFones and an overly humble first Zenfone generation before hitting one out of the park in 2015, Asus may have failed to truly get the ZenWatch and ZenWatch 2 off the ground only to succeed this time around.

The big fear for many agents is wasting precious marketing spend on ads that won't get any clicks (or at least not clicks from the intended demographic), but these ad channels offer plenty of tutorials to simplify the ad creation and targeting processes, and there are several guides that can give you advertising insights for Facebook and how to get your AdWords strategy off the ground, so check out those before hitting go on your event promotion ads.