Sentences with phrase «on thin air»

I was getting immersed and I walked into a town to find a person sitting on thin air in front of a chair.

This another one of those articles that has been built on thin air.

«Living on thin air — microbe mystery solved.»

Not exact matches

It radiates alpha particles, relatively large on an atomic scale, which means the thin glass of a test tube, the leather of a briefcase, or even air or skin stop them.

«Being prepared on all fronts holds value for any professional, but especially entrepreneurs, as opportunities may appear out of thin air.

In this case, the recipients of the transfer payments will increase their spending and, by virtue of the fact that the funding of these payments is created, figuratively, out of thin air, no other entity need cut back on her / his current spending.

One persistent online critic, going by the screen name Bitfinex» ed, has written several very detailed essays on Medium arguing that Bitfinex appears to be creating Tether coins out of thin air and then using them to buy bitcoin and push the price up.

Although many of us just pull a percentage out of thin air, professionals use software to calculate the optimal equity percentage based on a given time frame.

It is created out of vacuum, it is created out of thin air,» he told Quartz in an interview on March 07.

Given the ECB's paltry 1 % reserve requirement, banks can theoretically extend credit from thin air at a rate of 100 euros for every euro they have on deposit.

Presuming that there were enough water then the Ark and all the animals and birds on it would have been above Everest — thin air and very cold.

It fell easily; one wing snagged on a fir top; the metal fell down the air and smashed into the thin woods where cattle browse; the fuel exploded, and Julie Norwich, seven years old, burnt off her face....

Even weather control is not as incredible as it sounds, for there is a delicate energy balance which can be changed by thin films on lakes and ice fields, or by air - borne particles.

You definitely want to air on the thinner side to ensure that they are not too mushy.

All I need is just switch on my PC and all the pages flow so fast, pulled out of thin air through the magic of Wifi.

Spread out on a clean thin (not fuzzy) dish towel and let them air - dry while the oven preheats.

Place the fish on a rack, skin side down, and allow it to air dry until the flesh is dry to the touch and a thin glaze called a pellicle is formed, usually after an hour or two of air - drying.

I'm finally getting around to reading Into Thin Air about the disaster on Mt. Everest.

In his off time Bailey works on pieces of sculpture — massive - winged birds with thin, curved necks, a pair of girls bent like mangrove roots in a wild dance, a memorial to President John F. Kennedy with Air Force One flying above the White House.

It looks like the books expect the Broncos to bounce back and beat up on the Chargers in the thin mountain air.

Prolific on social media, the Spurs man saw tonight as a perfect opportunity to fire back at Merson after a wonderful strike against Italy left Gigi Buffon clutching thin air.

A good flowing movement on the edge of the box saw Fabregas psychically finding Denilson who cracked in a beauty from the edge of the box, the Gunners then netted two goals from their centre back duo getting one a piece both from truly wonderful balls from RVP and Cesc but one has to question the marking ability of the Toffees defence who vanished into thin air.

Yes, it was going live, and would surely get more attention in that capacity on Tuesdays than it had as a taped program airing on Thursdays, but the roster just seemed so thin to many.

Wenger said it himself I'm not taking this out of thin air, we all know Wenger was in Italy on deadline day so I f he says «if I was home he wouldn't be here» it clearly shows someone went above Wenger's head and signed Welbeck!!!

Although possibly yet to be sent out on loan, the Brazilian U20 World Cup star has a turn of pace and that uniquely Brazilian gift for conjuring up goals out of thin air.

Luckily I'm a mother, and I consistently manage to pull «mom so hard» out of thin air, put on a full face of «hide the undereye bags,» and plan some epic shindigs.

In her on - air apology today she mentioned growing up in an obese family, struggling with extreme dieting and coming from a place where she «bullied herself» into being thin.

If the phone falls into the toilet, smashes on the ground, or vanishes into thin air, you are responsible for the replacement costs or repairs.

Alas, I am mad at the Man, at the corporation, at the ridiculous cultural shift that is based on nothing but thin air and a desire to capitalize on us and our desire to be kind to our babies.

Thin, light weight blankets like those from aden + anais that can be folded or rolled in your diaper bag will serve oh so many purposes on travel day — wiping spit up, creating a place to play on a layover and fending off cold air vents.

Our moms may not have had the advantage of numerous scientific sleep studies to rely on, but they weren't just making up facts out of thin air when they insisted that kids need their sleep.

Where, only a few years ago, folk could stroll to their local club and see British Lions mixing it with the local plumber, they are now expected to watch foreigners play for their regional «club» (conjured out of thin air) on TV instead.

To term the «creation» of jobs out of thin air by spending tax revenues on wages (often paid to economic migrants creating new load on pubic services) an «investment» is an economic deceit.

At the debate on the issue I attended, most of the panellists and delegates were almost entirely dismissive of the problem of antisemitism, with several suggesting that it didn't even exist in any real way within the movement and others suggesting the whole issue had been fabricated out of thin air by Labour MPs and the right wing press.

Clegg told Radio 4's Today programme: «The Conservative party have been tearing themselves [apart] on Europe so they have now plucked out of thin air an arbitrary date, 2017, when a referendum would take place... on the back of what I predict will be a largely synthetic renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership that won't satisfy their backbenchers.

You shouldn't count on «federal guarantees» on your deposits, and banks shouldn't count on the government to keep saving them no matter what, because there's a limit to how much trouble thin - air money can «save» them from.

The mostly empty carriages can still be seen carrying thin air across the Thames on windless days, while at weekends, confused tourists queue up to admire the airborne views of junk yards and refuse disposal centres on the northern side.

Evidence has also been gathered of the existence of a twilight, which would indicate the presence of a thin high air more rarefied than prevails on our highest mountain peaks.

Dangling from the balloon was a payload that extended flat plates out into the thin air and exposed tens of millions of spores — far more than the estimated 56,000 that rode on the surface of the Curiosity rover to Mars.

Besides SSCE, scientists have also been investigating stratospheric sulfur injections — firing sun - reflecting aerosols into the air, similar to the cooling effect after a volcanic eruption — and cirrus cloud thinning, where you thin the top level of clouds, which have a warming effect on the planet.

On the other hand, by warming the atmosphere, aerosols can stabilize the air and protect clouds from drying out and thinning.

That means, on top of the soot there is a very thin layer of air bubbles.

«The slider housing the read / write head flies on the fast - rotating hard drive disk, owing to a very thin layer of air.

On moonless nights visitors can become disoriented and euphoric in the cold, thin air and all - consuming darkness, as countless stars emerge like nameless leviathans from the heavenly depths to overwhelm the constellations.

Newton was sufficiently encouraged by this to offer the society another paper on light, which included a description of the way coloured rings of light (now known as Newton's rings) are produced when a lens is separated from a flat sheet of glass by a thin film of air.

Property From Thin Air The establishment of a carbon market, like any market that involves awarding novel property rights, hinges on political choices.

Murphy's colorful blog, «Super-TIGER on the Ice,» documented the alternating moments of astonishing natural beauty (sparkling glaciers at 2 a.m., surprise penguin visits) and technical tedium (such as making sure the detector's connections still work in the thin stratospheric air).

Until now, thin - film solar cells have been made in vacuum chambers — the semiconductor materials are placed on the glass or metal and then air is pumped out of the chamber, creating pressure that fuses the materials.

Other countries have blamed the thinning of tree crowns on air pollution, mainly acid rain.

«And whole libraries may appear on our desktop screens apparently out of thin air, but unless some radical changes are made in the way we design and produce our information age gadgetry, its ecological footprint will never really be reduced.»