Sentences with phrase «on prodigious»

Four days ago, the Sierra Club's broken moral compass was once again on prodigious display.

However, even these, are outstripped by the monumental Downtown Dubai growth at the end of the southern strip, standing on the prodigious new Burj Khalifa.

It is on the prodigious research and love of trivia that inform Mr. Brown's stories (this one makes mincemeat of all those factoid - heavy wannabes, like Matthew Pearl's «Dante Club»), the ease with which he sets them in motion, the nifty tricks (Dante's plaster death mask is pilfered from its museum setting, then toted through the secret passageways of Florence in a Ziploc bag) and the cliffhangers.

Whereas the previous generation with its six - speed automatic offered a rich, creamy on - road power curve, relying on prodigious torque to muster energy from low speeds and out of corners, the new transmission means the Kluger is often shuffling between ratios.

Pricing on the prodigious 911 Carrera lineup starts with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $ 73,260 for the base Carrera Coupe and runs all the way to $ 99,460 for a Carrera4 S Cabriolet.

Based on the new Continental GT Speed, the fastest road - going Bentley ever, the GT3 concept capitalises on the prodigious performance, outstanding high - speed stability and renowned durability of Bentley's iconic coupe, while tailoring its specification for the racetrack.

As he brings his Walt Whitman opera Crossing to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the young composer - conductor and Los Angeles Opera's artist - in - residence muses on his prodigious start, his upcoming commission for the Metropolitan Opera, and the future of classical music.

Today it is a national wildlife refuge, home to bald eagles that feast on its prodigious prairie dog population.

Relying on his prodigious fund - raising, he blanketed the state with television advertising, painting Mr. Astorino as a dangerous «ultraconservative» whose views on issues like abortion were unacceptable.

One may behold amazing examples which illustrate this fact on a prodigious scale.

Not exact matches

The companies were selected based on a combination of factors: their prodigious revenues or assets, their social currency, their deep connection to our daily lives, and (particularly for the newer and smaller companies), their disruptive impact.

Thinking about the sports - media market as a supply - and - demand problem probably also pushed Bleacher Report toward its original business model, which relied heavily on amateur bloggers producing prodigious amounts of work.

The company on Wednesday launched YouTube movie rentals in Canada, which should make a nation of already prodigious online video consumers even more ravenous devourers of bandwidth.

The government's Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology has released its report on e-commerce in Canada, titled «Pursuing the Promise,» and it paints the same picture we've known for some time now — that despite Canadians being among the most prodigious users of the Internet, they really aren't doing much online business-wise.

A few weeks ago, some observers celebrated the fact that Canadians are prodigious users of things like Facebook and YouTube as proof that the country is somehow on the digital vanguard.

For civic governments trying to stay on top of all of this, it can mean overload: As more and more government departments — many of them already prodigious producers of data — start moving their data to the Internet, cities are faced with the question of what to do with it all.

Inc. users have been getting to know David Karp since Tumblr burst on the scene a few years ago: His prodigious worth ethic; his favorite Tumblr; and even his modeling career.

A prodigious talent who first appeared on television swinging a golf club at two years old, Woods grew into a champion by winning 14 majors in swashbuckling style.

Retirees on fixed incomes or prodigious savers should rejoice with higher interest and dividend incomes.

Events are moving fast, but let's stop and think a moment, prompted by this major new TWS essay from Reuel Marc Gercht, former CIA guy in Turkey and prodigious commentator on things Middle - Eastern, and author of (2011) The Wave: Man, God, and the Ballot Box in the Middle East.

If that is so, then the racket on this fortieth anniversary must be prodigious.

The Romans were prodigious record keepers, yet never saw fit to mention him, except in the above letters, which were more about keeping an eye on his followers, who were starting to emerge, Falun Gong like, as a dangerous cult to the Romans.

Browning's prodigious research shows that, while the virulent hostility to Jews was a constant, the Third Reich settled on systematic extermination along the lines of Auschwitz and other death camps only after other possibilities, such as the massive expulsion of Jews, were foreclosed, and the feasibility of eliminating Jews, gypsies, and political enemies in conquered Soviet territories had been demonstrated.

The fact is that even on the periphery of these prodigious centers of energy the temperature is far too great for any higher combination to possess stability.

The praise addressed to God's prodigious accomplishments in nature and history is not a movement of the heart which is added to narrative genre without any effect on its nucleus.

This prodigious event is still on its way, and is traveling, — it has not yet reached men's ears.

It is, then, with a certain confidence that he attempts the rather prodigious task of explaining the simultaneous engendering of intelligence and material bodies: ~ we are now, then, to attempt the genesis of intellect at the same time as the genesis of material bodies — two enterprises that are evidently correlative if it be true that the main lines of our intellect mark out the general form of our action on matter, and that the detail of matter is ruled by the requirements of our action» (CE 2040.

(And yes, that is prodigious perspiration on Chef Mark's shirt!

At the helm of Oceana Coastal Kitchen, which is ensconced in the Catamaran Hotel and Spa situated on Mission Bay, is Executive Chef Steven Riemer — a prodigious, sustainability - oriented chef who boasts more than twenty - five years of culinary experience in San Diego and beyond.

Armstrong is poised to become the second Tannadice star to make the move to the Portuguese capital after prodigious teenage winger Ryan Gauld made the move to Sporting in the summer, with the club immediately slapping a huge buyout clause on a player they view as a potential star of the future.

In June he won the National Open, starting the last 18 holes with a prodigious 346 - yard drive to the first green at Colorado's Cherry Hills Country Club — perhaps the single most meaningful golf shot of the year, because he then went on to score six birdies on the first seven holes and record the strongest finish in that tournament's 60 - year history.

Their once prodigious lead over the field is shrinking of course, with the Washington Nationals (88 - 55) now within four games after clinching the National League East on Sunday.

While this year represents a considerable decline on his first season in England — where he scored six goals and contributed two assists in 30 appearances, his technical prowess, his dynamism and his prodigious energy have only rarely been seen in the top flight.

Francis Coquelin has been a revelation for Arsenal this season, coming in at a time when both Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey sustained ankle and hamstring injuries, respectively, during that mid-December period and Arsene Wenger had no choice but to recall his prodigious midfielder, who was on loan at Charlton Athletic, to Arsenal duty.

Ozil, is so frustrating, as today he looked as good a player as is on planet earth but last week, well it must have been his grandad who was wearing his shirt, not him, All that prodigious talent but so very often wasted through just not enough regular fight.

With Gimenez refusing to sign a contract extension and Atletico likely more open to selling him in January than losing him on a free, the opportunity is there to take a prodigious centre back and fix Liverpool's greatest weakness.

That certainly seems to be the case with KRC Genk's prodigious 18 - year - old winger, Bailey, whose performances in the Belgian top - flight this term have attracted attention from a host of scouts, watching on behalf of Europe's biggest clubs.

Relying almost entirely on Quincy Promes to create their goals has proved insufficient for a side that concedes 1.5 goals per game, despite the Dutchman prodigious talents, and Liverpool's attackers should feel confident in coming up against this backline.

Luke Varney was one of the worst players ever to pull on a white shirt a week ago, now we enthuse over his prodigious ability in the air (whilst still quietly shaking our heads at how he misses some chances).

Meanwhile, Weiler will rely on the team's young star, Youri Tielemans to provide the firepower from midfield with prodigious Belgian enjoying a breakthrough campaign with Anderlecht this season, with Nicole Stanciu providing the supporting act.

A prodigious fundraiser, Gillibrand reported having $ 9.1 million on hand at the end of the first quarter this year.

The Mermels, who aren't prodigious political givers, according to the FEC database, also gave $ 2,400 apiece to Chris Cox's erstwhile primary opponent, Gary Berntsen, on Feb. 15.

Gillibrand is a prodigious fundraiser, and has $ 7.1 million on hand.

Long takes on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a prodigious fundraiser and aggressive campaigner, who is seeking a full, six - year term.

The Empire State Pride Agenda and Human Rights Campaign's New York political action committee, both deep - pocketed organizations, will hold a reception on Nov. 2 at the home of businessman and prodigious Democratic fundraiser Dennis Mehiel.

(Long has just $ 122 on hand, and owes $ 282,547, according to her latest FEC filing, while Schumer, a prodigious fundraiser, is sitting on a war chest worth $ 25 million).

As of mid-January, Levy, a prodigious fundraiser — pretty much the main reason Cox wanted him to run instead of former Long Island Rep. Rick Lazio last year — was sitting on $ 4.1 million.

A small sign commemorates it on the quayside, noting the site's prodigious contribution to chemistry.

They are so active in methanogenic wetlands that they are considered the most prodigious methane producers on the planet.

This black hole blasts out prodigious amounts of energy as it feeds on the material in its accretion disk.