Sentences with phrase «pretty much fueled»

As a scientist, my life is pretty much fueled by coffee — from that first glorious latte made by my beloved each morning, to the second one I grab as I'm settling in to my emails, to the third that usually happens in the afternoon, right about the time food coma has kicked in and I need my second wind.

Wow, not only is youtube screwing over smaller channels like myself due to an arbitrary number (I already have the 4K hours, but only 280 subs so thus I don't qualify due to a less significant number) but even NCL's lame creator program can't even bother but screw the smaller channels that pretty much fuel the entire purpose of the program to begin with.

Not exact matches

A serene stillness enveloped the lounge, dissipating any rollerboard - fueled, jetlagged mania that pretty much defined the rest of the international terminal outside the doors of the lounge.

A world of excess savings is prone to bubbles, and either debt - fueled consumption or high unemployment, and this pretty much describes the world we have been living for the past two decades.

They're packed with pretty much everything you need to start your day: carbs for energy, fiber to keep you full, protein to fuel your body and a very small amount of sugar so that mid-morning crash doesn't hit with force.

Starting towards the back of the field for the 1953 German Grand Prix, Loof's F1 career lasted for just two meters as the fuel pump on his Veritas gave up pretty much as soon as the flag dropped.

After Black Wednesday, Labour pretty much led the polls for almost a decade until the fuel protests.

But that's irrelevant to the spirit of the question, since (1) Democratic politicians in fossil fuel states pretty much do the same thing (See West Virginia's Democrat Manchin); and (2) Such behavior is really industry agnostic, and every politician of every party whose constituents are over-represented in a particular industry will of course behave the same way about competing disruptive industry; and (3) The main opposition is not on alternative energy per se, but on measures to tax / disrupt fossil fuel one.

A dirty fuel system is pretty much inevitable after thousands of miles of driving, and can cause issues like rough idling, less responsive acceleration, and lower mileage.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

Seems like if paleo man found a peach tree while they would have been less sweet, he and the clan would have pretty much picked the grove clean as fuel for a coup, e days... No hunting.

This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.

The concept has fueled angry squabbles among scholars, school leaders, and pretty much everybody — not to mention prompting an internationally watched federal court case.

Back in 2009 and 2010, when the Common Core was adopted by a host of states ready to promise pretty much anything in exchange for Race to the Top funds, it was fueled by twin promises: It would «raise standards» and it would make it easier to compare how schools and states were faring in reading and math.

It's pretty much par for the course, where hurried efforts to adopt a new enthusiasm wind up disappointing in practice, breeding cynicism and adding fuel to the ceaseless search for the next big thing.

If the shapes and sizes of modern cars are pretty much dictated by safety, fuel economy, and marketing needs, ornamentation is the only area where designers can differentiate.

The fuel feed off the petcock for 3/4 is pretty much the lowest point in the tank (lower slightly than the feed for 1/2).

70s cars tend to be pretty much all mechanical, 80s cars start to introduce basic electronic ignition systems, and fuel injection starts to come in towards the end of the 80s (I'm guessing those timescales are slightly different in the Americas).

A 20 years old car is going to have other problems than rust as well, e.g. you can expect pretty much everything made from rubber (oil seals in the engine and in the power steering rack, fuel lines) to fail.

the 1st one closest to the engine does pretty much all the work for air / fuel ratio in most non-new generation cars.

Fuel economy for the AWD model is rated at 21 mpg in the city and 28 on the highway for a 24.5 combined rating (11.1 L / 100 km city, 8.6 highway, 10 combined), which is pretty much on par with what the Stelvio gets.

The «four - door sports car» (albeit a sports car with front - wheel drive) as Nissan calls it has been improved in pretty much every way from the previous version with sleek new styling, more power and improved fuel economy among the notable changes.

Destination search lacks an On Route option, which means that an act as simple a searching for fuel along your current navigation route can take you pretty far off of your chosen path and is much more difficult than it should be.

Crossovers have pretty much taken over the Sport Utility Vehicle market, thanks to lower prices, better fuel efficiency and the handling that comes part - in - parcel with being based on a car platform versus truck architecture.

And, as with pretty much every engine Lexus makes, it's very smooth and refined, and the claimed fuel economy (20mpg city / 29mpg highway for rear - wheel drive cars; 19mpg city / 27mpg highway with all - wheel drive installed) is also pretty good by six - cylinder executive sedan standards.

Otherwise, the EcoBoost is pretty much just a 3.5 - liter V - 6, with fuel mileage to prove it: An EPA - rated 16 mpg in the city, and 22 mpg on the highway.

The Ecotec3 V8 goes about its business quietly in the background, and they have pretty much eliminated the semi-flatulent drone that used to herald the switch to the fuel - saving four - cylinder mode in past years.

The Aspire may not be much to aspire to from a performance standpoint, but it's a pretty inspiring fuel consumer.

An apples - to - apples comparison to gas - powered competitors — Ford Expedition, Nissan Armada and Toyota Sequoia — is pretty much the same: comparably equipped models are in the $ 50,000 range and fuel economy is 30 to 40 percent less than the Tahoe Hybrid.

The quoted fuel consumption figure for the 1.5 - litre, as is pretty much normally the case, is optimistic.

Nissan's recipe for the Pulsar is pretty much simple and includes an instantly recognizable design with styling cues borrowed from the Qashqai, small, turbocharged engine that deliver decent power and return attractive fuel economy, and a price tag that's likely to put the hatchback below most of its competitors.

Fuel consumption towing over 180 km averaged 15.9 L / 100 km — which is pretty good for a heavy V8 diesel, and not all that much worse than its consumption when not towing (where it achieved average of 11.7 L / 100 km over 400 km of mostly highway work).

In mixed driving with a lot of idle time, I was able to pull down 22 MPG — mighty respectable given the Pathfinder's size, and pretty much on - the - nose for the EPA combined fuel economy score.

If you are comparison - shopping for fuel mileage, be sure you aren't comparing 2007 models with 2008 models, because pretty much everyone will take a hit with the 2008 numbers.

Just like it has disappeared due to low sales and lower fuel economy ratings in the Toyota RAV4, Nissan Rogue, Mazda CX - 5, and Honda CR - V and pretty much every other compact crossover.

I should have added that I am hoping it will be pretty much equivalent in fuel economy to diesel, and if it is it will have done its job of providing great fuel economy and far lower emissions than diesel.

In general, we save fuel in three separate ways: first is with a grid charge; second is regenerative braking — we run very high power regen, much, much higher than anyone and we pretty much avoid the use of friction brakes; and third is running the engine at the sweet spot.

Braking and suspension are pretty much even on both vehicles, the only difference is that Mazda6 has fuel start assist and Camry does not.

Don't: You pretty much can't get around the high fuel surcharges flying to Europe.

Virgin Atlantic itself pretty much only flies to / from the UK, and they tack on heavy fuel surcharges to their award flights.

Also fueling the category is the fact that it is common for dog owners to take their pets with them pretty much wherever they go.

Thai used to run a non-stop flight from Bangkok to Los Angeles, but fuel prices pretty much shut that route down.

After seeing Bound Unbound, the major retrospective show of Lin Tianmiao's work at the Asia Society Museum in New York I was so intrigued by how such work could emerge from the testosterone - fuelled Chinese artworld in the late 90s that I decided to seek her out in Beijing to ask her what it's like to be pretty much the only female artist in China to -LSB-.....]

After seeing Bound Unbound, the major retrospective show of Lin Tianmiao's work at the Asia Society Museum in New York I was so intrigued by how such work could emerge from the testosterone - fuelled Chinese artworld in the late 90s that I decided to seek her out in Beijing to ask her what it's like to be pretty much the only female artist in China to wear the «feminist» label.

The point of all this is that there's even more evidence now — as Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean energy.

If Chevron Corp. has caused climate change and needs to pay for its damage, so should pretty much every company that has ever explored for oil and gas near North America, as well as manufacturers of cars and equipment that burn fuel, plus consumers.

Rapier understands that fossil fuels are pretty much the only consequential energy source for now (like it or not) and until we go on a major diet (don't hold your breath) we are simply stuck with current circumstances.

Pretty much the same rate it was rising before man figured out how to use fossil fuels to make his life less miserable with the Industrial Revolution.

The cost of fossil fuels is pretty much the cost of the coal, oil and gas, although, of course, there are infrastructure costs, but a reasonable estimate (and Eli is the most reasonable bunny you could ever meet, as a colleague just wrote, reasonably insane perhaps, but reasonable nonetheless).

While the corn ethanol bubble has pretty much popped, serious efforts to find an economically sound and carbon - smart biological - based fuel continue.