Sentences with phrase «on sheer scale»

«Ethereum is at this time the hands - down winner on sheer scale, due to first mover advantage, super effective marketing, and the savant - force of its founder, Vitalik Buterin,» Rik Willard, CEO of Global Blockchain Technologies Corporation and founder / managing director of a New York City - based federation of over 50 blockchain companies called Agentic Group, told International Business Times.

Take a step back for a moment and you'll get a better perspective on the sheer scale of Africa's potential.

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Just the sheer scale of it is also challenging, because you've got ta lay out the carbon fiber in exactly the right way on a huge mold, and you've got ta cure that mold at temperature, and then it's... just really hard to make large carbon - fiber structures that can do all of those things and carry incredible loads.

Facebook's unprecedented scale and the sheer amount of data it has on its users have made it a target for propaganda artists seeking to influence national elections.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

To those in the West who have heard of it, this annual 24 - hour sale, held on an unusual Chinese holiday called Singles Day and hosted by ecommerce giant Alibaba Group (my employer), is a source of curiosity if for no other reason than its sheer scale.

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

He cited the «sheer scale of the sacrifice», the impact of the war on the development of Britain and the fact that «this matters, not just in our heads, but in our hearts» as reasons for marking the centenary.

«I was quite shocked by the scale of sheer need on the ground,» says Victoria.

Scaling the 354 stairs to the crown with her family or on class trips, she was always thrilled by the sheer magnitude of the monument.

The sheer scale of the Permian - Triassic mass extinction boggles the mind: More than 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out.

On the sheer weirdness scale, perhaps the only quasiparticles that top Soljai's boson — fermions are curious things called anyons.

SHANGHAI — No matter where you stand on «Obamacare,» the derisive term given to President Barack Obama's attempt to mandate health care for Americans, you'll be blown away by the sheer scale of «Chinacare.»

Sheer mass is a major issue — it's very difficult to nourish a 3 - D population of cells in the lab on the scale of a liver.

These games are very similar to the shlocky 50s B - Movies that surely inspired them; full of sheer ridiculousness on a grand scale.

«Performance as a whole is good — particularly given the sheer scale of the environments — although, on a standard PS4 set - up, that Tallneck encounter did suffer some major judders as the game seemingly struggled to render the shambling behemoth in close - up.

Martin adds: «When you think about the sheer scale of what an IT technician has to do — from in - class support for teachers using ICT and proactive and reactive management and repair to monitoring security updates and load times and everything in between, it's becoming almost impossible for them to achieve everything on their list without the support of a third party.

Fifty years on, the sheer scale and thoroughness of the EEOS remain mind - boggling.

At over five metres long and close on two metres wide, this probably shouldn't be our sort of car at all, but we swarmed around it, taking in the sheer scale of the sheet metal, admiring the colossal chutzpah needed to put something like this into production.

It was my first time at TBEX and I was impressed, first off, by the sheer scale of the event: More than 500 travel bloggers descended on the Vancouver Convention Center for the weekend.

The sheer scale of the carnage allows plenty of un-scripted awesome moments to occur on the battlefield, such as a radio tower collapsing after being hit by a jet, crushing all who are underneath it, or a mad last - minute raid into enemy territory in a jeep, narrowly avoiding been hit by the enemy tanks before clearing out an entire enemy base only to the be stopped by some smart - ass who rigged the building with C - 4.

Whilst I'll admit that there's something about the game's visuals that are better appreciated on a bigger screen (especially given the sheer size of everything around you), exploring the stunning world still felt great when done on a smaller scale.

Battlefield 1 is a nice callback to the era of historical shooters, and there's no other game on this list that can match it in terms of sheer scale.

World of Warships is also more cinematic than its on - tracks sibling thanks to the sheer scale its warfare is conducted on.

«Due to the sheer scale of the Pokémon projects we are working on now, there is a tendency for members of the dev team to focus solely on the area they are responsible for.

Final Fantasy XV PS4 / Xbox One # 32.85 @ SimplyGames We saw the team take on a huge Titan boss at E3 and the sheer scale of the battle was truly a sight to behold.

Made on a monumental scale, the paintings envelop the viewer from both their sheer size and the extensive expressive markings that make up the art work.

I felt the same way, though the sheer scale of the piece is enough to make your hair stand on end.

The sheer scale on which Twombly worked late into life is an affirmation of life itself at a time when he must have been aware that life was slowly coming to an end.

With sheer, confident power and force she channels her energy in an allover onslaught on vast canvases, whose scale also reference the abstract expressionist painters.

Inspired by Renaissance nativity portraits, these studiedly scumbled and scratched pictures (her superimpositions and erasures rarely avoid predictability) appear less visceral meditations on motherhood than vastly scaled geegaws propped up by classicism and sheer bloat.

The most prominent, due to the sheer scale of his portrait paintings, may be Alfred Leslie, whose work is on view at Bruce Silverstein's booth.

Unique this year is a spotlight on contemporary and modern artists Gino Miles, Thalen & Thalen, Susan Woods, Chris Bracey, David Spiller, Jason Myers and David Kramer, and the sheer spectrum they represent in scale, medium and perspective.

The overall subtle, but specific, use of color focuses the viewer on the composition and the sheer scale of the canvas.

Nevertheless, to see the Anthropocene as a blip that can be minimised, and from which the planet, and its people, can simply revert to the status quo, may be to underestimate the sheer scale of what is going on.

«A Discovery Channel / BBC co-production four years in the making, FROZEN PLANET will provide the ultimate portrait of our earth's polar regions, where the scale and beauty of the scenery and sheer power of the natural elements are unlike anywhere else on the planet.

Their only USP on this project was scale, the sheer number of papers they could plough through to get the expected 97 %, but there is no extra substance there.

Based on the companies» sheer scale alone, it is increasingly difficult for countries to enforce any kind of regulation, especially as the tech giants start pushing for rules that free them from local restrictions, says Open Media «s Meghan Sali.

The American system of licensing attorneys on a state - by - state basis, the tradition of having a headquarters in a single U.S. state and a close focus on profits per partner (as opposed to sheer scale) has to date limited the size of most American law firms.

We haven't been able to give the M5 a full review, but from our brief hands - on time, we were very impressed with the sheer scale of sound is was able to produce.

Along with the perfectionist details Apple executives have insisted on for inside the buildings, the landscaping has also been the source of numerous headaches — largely due to the sheer scale of the project.

That's part of Microsoft's new Windows 10 strategy: with 110 million Windows 10 devices currently on the market and a framework that lets developers build one app to run on every screen size, the company hopes to attract developers through sheer scale.