Sentences with phrase «on a grand scale in»

The Odd Couple is being rewritten on a grand scale in Manhattan today, as a new 40 - storey, $ 400million tower block is being divided between condo owners and renters, each created by different developers.

Anthropomorphized animals and fanciful critters explore and rebel on a grand scale in an alternate reality where fish fly and birds can swim.

It works on a grand scale in his installations and sculptures.

The geometric repetition seen in Le Coq, and later on a grand scale in Brancusi's triumphant Endless Column, is a recurring compositional element in the works in this exhibition.

From readers in the Hollywood Hills and students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa who posed for a 350 photo - op to TreeHugger writers who formed the number five in London's South Bank and rallied in a climate change march in Fayetteville, Arkansas, global citizens participated on a grand scale in support of 350 and the International Day of Climate Action, Saturday, October 24, 2009.

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In Kenya, efforts to produce wind power on a grand scale are underway.

«There have been exits on a smaller scale in the past, but we have grand visions,» says Kevin Yen, one of the event's organizers.

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

Investing in your workers and your company has been seen to drive growth and innovation on a grander scale.

Other currencies such as Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash are even younger but are busy devising ways in which they can be used on a grander scale.

Most of these changes on the surfaces look to be minor and largely insufficient in the grand scale of things.

He experimented with in massachusetts, and will bring it to America on a grand scale.

I believe he was the one that had it translated in his native german dialect... after that the game was up and the church turned to outright killing people they couldn't control on a grand scale.

In fact, it only works provided the returns on the capital which is creating value and added value, the bases of distribution and transfer of wealth towards the creditors of production, has been achieved on a grand enough scale and without shocks or interruptions in the flow of wealtIn fact, it only works provided the returns on the capital which is creating value and added value, the bases of distribution and transfer of wealth towards the creditors of production, has been achieved on a grand enough scale and without shocks or interruptions in the flow of wealtin the flow of wealth.

On a designated «Boozers» Day» as many as twelve hundred alcoholics were rounded up in Skid Row areas and transported on double - decker buses to a great hall where they were exposed to a gospel meeting on a grand scalOn a designated «Boozers» Day» as many as twelve hundred alcoholics were rounded up in Skid Row areas and transported on double - decker buses to a great hall where they were exposed to a gospel meeting on a grand scalon double - decker buses to a great hall where they were exposed to a gospel meeting on a grand scalon a grand scale.

Armstrong's self - deception took place on a grand scale, to be sure, but his story has too many disturbing parallels to our own, as we construct our idealized identities in our own way and become unable to let them go.

The human capacity to author life and skip all over the genetic alphabet raises theological questions, just as does the human capacity to destroy life on a grand scale and actually put ourselves, for the first time, in a position to be uncreators.

Indeed, I really mean most of us in Western culture, and so I will be making cultural generalizations about us on a grand scale.

Not only that, we still practice the virtue of charity as particular persons in big numbers and often on a grand scale.

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways, but large cultural changes require a deliberate reorientation in consciousness at the grassroots level.

On a grand scale societies have responded to change in major ways.

One ox weighed 983 pounds, and by eleven o'clock in the evening he was on the spit grand scale, part of the trenches over which over a fire of coke, roasting in most appetizing fashion.

Point Leo reminds me (albeit on a far grander scale) of visiting Len Evans at his home, Loggerheads, in the Hunter Valley, in the 1990s.

Fraud is practiced on a really grand scale in America.

For children who love engaging in pretend play on a grander scale, they may want to consider a toy castle tent.

Corporate officials at Procter & Gamble attacked the problem on a grand scale, according to court documents, assigning the formidable task of designing the perfect diaper to Kenneth Barclay Buell, a mechanical engineer who had worked on the Gemini space program in the 1960s.

His plan is social engineering on a grand scale — he needs to break the cycle somewhere, and chooses to draw a line in the generational sands.

The story is threaded with Bloomberg's desire to do something bigger, if not the presidency (which is clearly not in the cards) then something else on a grand scale.

The casino in the Catskills is intended to be on a grand scale, to compete with Foxwoods and Atlantic City.

He says he'll also improve the state's emergency fuel and water supplies and protect the subway system and other infrastructure from future floods, in what he says will be a massive effort that «requires immediate assistance on a grand scale.»

This was about money and markets on the grand scale, allegedly assembling guests worth # 11bn, and bringing together a gaggle of plutocrats that would make the traditional icons of the Tory party turn in their grave.

The transcription of non-coding regions in the genome is precisely regulated by cellular signaling pathways — and on a grand scale: up to 80 per cent of the RNA copies were non-coding.

For instance, in order to understand particles interacting with each other in a quantum computer, you can pretend that they are located on graph paper and safely ignore gravity and other grand - scale relativistic phenomena.

«That's what his advance is pointing towards,» he says, «finding an alternative catalyst that will allow us to do oxygen evolution (breaking the bonds of water or H2O and forming oxygen) in concert with hydrogen» on a grand scale.

Grand Challenges are ambitious goals on a national or global scale that capture the imagination and demand advances in innovation and breakthroughs in science and technology.

We have a rare opportunity to address ecosystem issues on a grand scale — and to step away from that opportunity in order to address more provincial needs may be understandable but would be a singular failure.»

If that ship had slipped further off those rocks and ended up in deeper water, then maybe we would have seen more lives lost even on a grander scale than Titanic herself.

This course exposed me to integrity as it pertains to research on a grander scale and touched on all aspects of ethics and integrity in science.

Now, researchers have done something similar in the name of science, albeit on a grander — and smellier — scale.

Heliophysics plays out on scales ranging from the fusion of subatomic particles taking place in the heart of the sun to the grand sweep of magnetic storms that can engulf entire planets.

Others theorize that the early universe broke first into colossal clumps that contained enough building materials to make structures on the grandest scale — great walls and sheets of millions of galaxies — that fragmented into increasingly smaller gas and clouds, ultimately resulting in individual galaxies.

Melting permafrost is altering the landscape in northern Canada on a grand scale.

Adopting renewable energy on a grand scale is a monumental task that requires next - generation technologies born out of breakthrough discoveries that push the boundaries in materials science, chemistry and engineering.

In the far future, they envision printing 3 - D schwarzites with ceramic and metallic materials on a grander scale.

I think Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is the most consistently entertaining, most laser - focused entry in the series so far, and while I would argue that it is very much a sequel to the third film and not just a disconnected piece of a flexible franchise, it is also a great rollicking self - contained spy movie adventure on a grand scale, and it's preposterous fun.

The ending of the season premiere was literally epic, on a grand scale (though creepy in hindsight).

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Since «Iron Man» in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has been using cutting - edge visual effects to tell entertaining stories on a grand scale, and has billions in box office gross to show for it.

There are too many fake - outs involving dreams and scary simulations (which take on a much grander scale with the resources allowed by Insurgent's bigger budget), but otherwise Schwentke creates a steady sense of build and momentum that results in a rather stirring final few minutes.

Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), «one of the best and most important directors in the world» (Richard Brody, The New Yorker), this daring, poetic and grand - scale film focuses on four characters, each living in different provinces, who are driven to violent ends.