Sentences with phrase «pavement by»

It's the reason we get up in the morning and make those weekly calls, get out there and pound the pavement by knocking on doors, spend hundreds of dollars on advertising, work hours that most people think are ludicrous and deal with extremely different personalities to achieve a positive end goal.

We have tried to hit the pavement by summing up so that you keep your safety top of mind with travel insurance.

I have run over this street so many times in the last few days that if the roads here eroded like the grass in Animal Crossing, I would have worn a noticeable groove into the pavement by now.

Check the pavement by putting your hand on it for 5 seconds.

This keeps you from having to pound the pavement by your lonesome.

Over the span of 11 - weeks the team at MTC transformed a hum - drum full - size sedan that could cruise through mall parking lots unnoticed into a fire breathing dragster that devours pavement by the quarter and eighth mile.

Opt for Cadillac's Magnetic Ride Control and you can select how smooth the ride should be, or how glue - like you want it to stick to the pavement by controlling body lean and sway.»

Mitchell said it works very much like a traction control system, which stops the vehicle's wheels from spinning in slick pavement by slowing the engine or by cutting power to the slipping tire.

It's put to the pavement by way of the same 10 - speed automatic and trick four - wheel - drive system.

A Muslim woman has been dragged along the pavement by her hijab in a horrific Islamophobic attack in London.

We're on the pavement by the Walter Scott monument that dominates Edinburgh Waverley station.

I agree, not only are flexi leads damaging to humans (the dog owner) but I've seen so many dogs walked on pavements by busy roads with the owners not looking at what's happening around them.

In both studies, the researchers used a conservative assumption of increasing the average albedo (solar reflectance) of all roofs by 0.25 and of pavements by 0.15.

Not exact matches

«Pavement Patty,» as she's been dubbed, is part of a $ 15,000 safety program led by the BCAA Traffic Safety Foundation and the public awareness group Preventable.ca, and she will remain in place until Sept. 22.

Teams progress by interviewing potential customers, other businesses in their space, and industry experts — hitting the pavement outside of class.

There was a time when I criticized this practice, arguing that VCs would best serve their investors by putting down the pens and hitting the pavement.

On one side, you can either increase the supply of roads by laying more pavement, or use technology to squeeze more capacity out of the existing road system.

Flak Jacket fake oakleys sunglasses take that one stage further with the latest in performance technology.The lenses in this polarized edition of Flak Jacket are engineered to bar the blinding rays of glare that are magnified by flat surfaces for example snow, water and pavement.

But instead of living by grief, she pounds cancer flat onto the pavement beneath her feet.

Gravity does not «hate» you when you plunge to the pavement after jumping from a 20 - story building (unaided by mechanical devices).

The granite pavement is interrupted by seemingly random rectilinear strips of grass.

And it combines such spectacle with a high - minded moralism, exemplified by «The Square,» which is a piece of square pavement demarcated by florescent lights that is meant to provide «a sanctuary of trust and caring.»

«The Square,» those several square yards of pavement enclosed by a well - lit perimeter, remains vacant for the whole movie.

One day I heard screaming in the street and saw this man dragging his 13 - year - old daughter by the hair along the pavement.

Imagine being asked detailed questions about your financial capacity whilst standing on the pavement kerb by a mother whose only link with you is the fact the her Johnny is in your class.

Triple prams, such as those that are designed in a 3 seater «side by side» format, are not just poor in manoeuvrability, they are also impractical, taking up too much space on the pavement, in a doorway or lift entrance.

Shin splints are caused exactly by the heels hitting the pavement while running.

Rather confusingly, Hannan seems to want a centralised Big Government edict to enforce the social responsibility he wants to see, writing «if everyone were responsible for his own patch of pavement, the disruption caused by snow would be much diminished.

Human rights campaigners have hit out at the plans by Enfield council, in London, which could see certain mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs with a limit of 8mph banned from using the pavement.

Sir George Young: The short answer is that that is because of a somewhat surprising decision — which, of course, one can not criticise — made by a magistrate, who decided that that pavement was not a pavement because very few people used it.

In an enjoyable bit of British minutiae, there's still a process to be had over the pavement, which is run by Westminster council and is legally separate from Parliament Square Gardens, which the judgement related to.

Another featured a builder sat on the pavement with the message: «EU policy at work: British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap labour.»

A New York City police horse tossed an officer to the pavement and took off down a busy Midtown street yesterday after being spooked by a loud noise.

«Small businesses are the lifeblood of our neighborhoods, and there's no better way to see firsthand the challenges they face than by pounding the pavement in this area of Washington Heights,» Stringer said.

Marking, a retired firefighter with the Plattsburgh City Fire Department, has been pounding the pavement since January, when he was endorsed by the Clinton County Democratic Committee.

Que English (5A)-- «Since my feet touched the pavement in my district, I have put my heart and soul into the issues that matter most by lending my voice and pen.

The oldest settled - site in southern Ulster county can be found at the corner of church and mulberry by evidence of the trench in shale leading from the cellar house to what is now a blasted out road with pavement.

The sight of refuse dumped on the streets or on pavements is not uncommon, with the rubbish sometimes being left by the waste management companies.

Cut off from some of his familiar sources by federal and state inquiries into his fund - raising practices, Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, and his campaign have been pounding the pavement for such contributions, and have leaned on some of the mayor's celebrity backers like the actors Cynthia Nixon, Mark Ruffalo and Steve Buscemi.

The pavements had been cleared from last Monday during the decongestion exercise, but shoes, dresses, phone accessories and other wares were again on sale by vendors.

You don't have to think about it too much but generally its recommended to stay away from pavement, building and other large objects that absorb heat by day and release it at night.

While weather stations typically measure air temperatures just above the surface, satellites record the thermal energy emitted by soil, rock, pavement, grass, trees and other features of the landscape.

They found that by shaving off the peaks and irregularities that dot the surface of concrete pavement (top images) with a machine that is essentially a large drum encrusted with diamond dust, workers can reduce road noise by as much as 10 decibels — or nearly half.

In Africa many races, nations and communities of men exist within the whole range from hunter and food gatherer to the urban dweller sealed off from nature by pavement, plumbing and prophylaxis.

Transforming concern into sign - toting, pavement - pounding, slogan - shouting activism is motivated by a collective — and growing — sense of outrage that the federal government is undermining, ignoring, even discarding and stifling science.

(Many snails aren't just threatened by car tires but also the risk of drying up on the slow trek across hot pavement.)

Three of these streams drain forested watersheds, with 87 to 100 % tree cover, while the other four drain watersheds largely converted by human activity into pasture, cropland, or pavement and buildings.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

In September 1986, the US Congress Joint Economic Committee stated that «by sacrificing their sales and jobs so that debtor nations can fully meet all interest pavements, US exporters and workers have been subsidising the bad lending policies of US and other money centre banks.

Urbanization increases surface runoff, by creating more impervious surfaces such as pavement and buildings do not allow percolation of the water down through the soil to the aquifer.