Sentences with phrase «on the blackboard»

Standing before a room of women in Los Angeles, Lulu Hunt Peters wrote a word on a blackboard that she said held the keys to empowerment.

That meant I often couldn't see the writing on the blackboard and even when I could, I still couldn't read it.

«He tended to wheel around the low dais at the front of the room while he delivered his pre-recorded lecture and a graduate student wrote equations on the blackboard,» said Colless.

On the blackboard, fusing hydrogen atoms produces enormous amounts of heat which can be captured and developed into an energy source, energy that is safe, cheap, does not burn fossil fuels or consume non-renewable resources.

We used to have these corporate days where people would come in from all around the world, and we'd tell them, in essence that it wasn't just a formula on the blackboard.

Take as an example a triangle: no material representation of a triangle (such as a triangle drawn on a blackboard) can ever capture the essence of what a triangle is.

As a material representation, the neuron - firing pattern is no different from the chalk marks on a blackboard.

The Doctor saw «listen» on the blackboard and went to get Clara but as she pointed out, it's his handwriting and it is very plausible that he wrote it and forgot it.

Professor Albritton was diagramming on the blackboard Aquinas» Way to the Existence of God from Contingency and Necessity.

When he emerged, he saw he had scrawled something on a blackboard, short lines of text he was incapable of reading.

He began that first night by discussing a single Latin word he had written on the blackboard: latria, worship.

And to write equations on a blackboard and to come up with models about how nature works is, in a sense, a form of worship of that spirituality.

Biting into one of those is like nails on a blackboard to me!

Of course we chose the most extravagant one on the blackboard, my ultimate favourite, «I Am Passionate `... Mmmm they flood it with loads of organic fresh passionfruit pulp before serving.

Schottenheimer patiently scribbled the play on the blackboard again, reiterating the responsibilities of each defender — «and this was for a guy who might not even make the team,» Porcher says.

As a reminder, Barkley wrote another message on the blackboard after Game 4: THEY WANT TO DIE.

Barkley grabbed a piece of chalk and scribbled feverishly on the blackboard while all the other board members gathered around.

Now the two least - envied men in Newcastle begin a slow walk around the pitch, carrying on a blackboard the results of a «half - time pool» based on scores of games throughout England.

A believer in the team aspects of what too often has been a free - lancing game, Shero scrawled the words UNITY AND HARD WORK IS OUR Mono on the blackboard when the Rangers showed up for training camp.

Sure enough, the manager saw that the Little Rock coach was drawing all the ridiculous East Mississippi plays on a blackboard for his players.

Sometimes I see an equation written on a blackboard like half an equation and... I just figure it out.

Royal drew the eight - man - line defense on the blackboard, commented:

Hutchinson showed films and drew diagrams on a blackboard.

Students with poor gross motor development may have difficulty with activities such as writing, sitting up in an alert position, sitting erect to watch classroom activity, and writing on a blackboard.

When learning a new math concept, for example, a visual learner will grasp the material more quickly by watching his teacher solve a problem on the blackboard or seeing himself solve the problem with concrete materials.

A former Vice President, Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, has suggested that the government rejects Microsoft's assistance to a Ghanaian pupil teacher who recently went viral on social media for drawing the entire Microsoft Word window on a blackboard for his students because there was no computer for him to demonstrate to them.

To the extent that we draw pictures, they are just chalk lines on the blackboard.»

The garish pink capitals in which the lecturer chalked those words up on the blackboard remain etched in my mind, an indelible memory from my first year as an undergraduate physicist.

That's a point in favour of the alternative timelines sketched out on a blackboard in Part II.

I remember battling sleepiness as I slouched in a large lecture hall, squinting to make out the writing on the blackboard during my freshman introductory physics course in college.

Memories of middle or high school geometry invariably include an instructor drawing right triangles on a blackboard to explain the Pythagorean theorem.

One thing Hawking can not do is jot notes on a blackboard, which left DISCOVER's executive editor, Corey S. Powell, scrambling to illustrate the renowned physicist's ideas for the photographer.

«They didn't just put it on the blackboard, do a few dry runs, and kick it in the air,» says James Oberg, a spaceflight consultant who spent 22 years at NASA mission control.

For scientists, when we see bad science in movies or on TV, it's like fingernails on a blackboard.

An anonymous member of the research team expressed impatience with the lab bacteria by leaving graffiti on a blackboard: «Hey cells, GROW UP!»

If we could figure it all out on the blackboard, we wouldn't need to build a $ 5 billion accelerator.»

After years of experimentation, Bentley finally perfected the process of catching snowflakes on a blackboard, transferring them to a microscope slide and capturing them on camera.

Over an 18 - month period, they worked in a windowless room, scribbling on a blackboard, feverishly figuring out how nuclear reactions in successive generations of stars could create the elements in the periodic table.

I loved that and want to put it on my blackboard.

If you find her (Ryan) distinctive persona to be too irritatingly cute to bear, this mannered movie is likely to play like fingernails on a blackboard.

And in this post Imus era, such misogynistic epithets grate on one's nerves like nails on a blackboard.

We meet Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg), a Philadelphia high school science teacher; the quote was on his blackboard.

The quotation appears on a blackboard near the beginning of M. Night Shyamalan's «The Happening,» a movie that I find oddly touching.

Titles come up as if they were scratched up on a blackboard.

The full use of strings show Greenwood's ability to be lovely beyond measure, providing a lush balance to the near violin - claw on a blackboard cues that speak for the film's increasingly masochistic relationship.

It takes students the majority of a class period to figure out how to read aloud a 12 - digit number written on the blackboard.

Three middle - school - aged boys draw pictures in chalk on a blackboard on a bright Saturday afternoon.

From Spain, Teresa Perles told me that, «Long explanations on the blackboard have definitely become outmoded in our school.

One of the small white squares shows a teacher, her embroidered arm writing on a blackboard.

This is the traditional world of black - and - white learning from the 1950s that persists today, literally, black text on white pages or white chalk on blackboards.