Sentences with phrase «rather than a flight»

«These primitive feathers evolved before wings,» he says, «so it's likely they first evolved for insulation and display rather than flight.»

Mortgage Tip: The first changes will apply toward the mortgage credit qualifying standards in place today and expand those products first rather than a flight to new product innovation.

Use land transport wherever possible rather than flights.

Most of my mileage earnings comes from credit card sign - up bonuses rather than flights.

With her amorphous ink stains, she tries to mimic this emptiness rather than flight it.

Thinking of the here and now rather than flights of fancy, use gas fired power plants, modern technology coal fired power plants, invest in modular nuclear power plants research as for example Thorium reactors, and continue on the quest for power storage solutions.

Not exact matches

Typically, it's cheaper to book a round - trip flight rather than two one - ways.

One more tip: Make sure your flight attendant serves you water from a bottle rather than the tap.

Rather than have you spend hours on a slow train or in a cramped car, Blade's flights promise to get you out to the Hamptons in just 40 minutes.

«If you're VP of finance, your job is to manage bank loans, rather than book flights on Expedia,» says Lucy.

Customers traveling within Canada must now arrive for check - in within 45 minutes of their flight, rather than 30 minutes.

The latest vehicle for China's aviation dream, the Comac C919, has just completed its first test flight after Beijing decided to take a different path: buying parts from European and US aviation companies rather than stealing their technology.

Passengers travelling to and from the U.S. and Canada are being given fun - size chocolate bars rather than a meal on flights.

For this week's flight, an Airbus aircraft was used rather than one made by U.S. Boeing due to stricter U.S. sanctions, South Korean broadcaster Channel A reported.

Rather than pay a full fee for a New York to Los Angeles private flight, you can just pay for the 3 seats you actually need.

Airports that are frequently used as hubs to connect flights rather than as final destinations — such as Memphis and Cleveland — saw the number flights shrink 66 % and 44.6 %, respectively.

They also see their desires as demands rather than requests («My flight was late so I must have a voucher for a first class ticket!»).

Rather than calling for an end to the practice of overselling, Trump said that instead, there should be no upper limit to incentives carriers can offer passengers in exchange for their seats on overbooked flights.

Rather than setting out to create a class of entrepreneurs managing companies efficiently, the plan helped managers strip Russia's assets and engage in capital flight while transferring ownership of Russia's raw - materials export capacity to U.S. and other Western investors.

Yet we believe these market moves mostly reflect a temporary flight to safety in the face of political uncertainties — rather than a breaking down of the underlying reflationary dynamic.

Korean Air has recently begun to allow SkyTeam award flight searches online, allowing you to search for award space yourself rather than calling the airline.

As of the moment, the company's popularity rests largely on hype fueled by celebrities such as Katy Perry and Ashton Kutcher shelling out the money for tickets on its first flight, rather than on actual achievement.

Nevertheless, Christianity regards worldliness rather than civilization as the foe of the gospel and of men; it rejects the ascetic and romantic efforts to solve life's problems by flight from civilization.

Liébert struggles to make the case that Nietzsche was Wagner's spiritual inferior: critical rather than creative, brilliant only in fragments, incapable of sustained flights of thought.

It's great for winning others to the side of reason, of course — but I assume you want to slow the flight of rational people from Christianity rather than making them flee so as not to be associated with the nutters.

Robert Kraft is clearly unable to do anything halfway, so the team purchased two planes to retro - fit them so an entire team of football players can fly first class to games rather than chartering flights for eight away games each year.

From his name OsloGunner maybe he prefers to spend his hard earned cash on other things, rather than return flights from Norway and tickets to games.

The former Dortmund midfielder will hope to guide the club back into the Premier League sooner rather than later, but it remains to be seen whether or not he'll be facing his former employers in the top flight or second tier of English football first.

He's fouling Diaby in the box, rather than trying to get to the flight of the ball first... This guy had impressed me last year when he took the ball off Fab..

Sometimes we — as parents — go into fight — or — flight mode ourselves, reacting out of emotion rather than remaining calm and providing consistent consequences and limits.

In most cases, that's not an issue — if it's not a full flight most people would happily switch to allow a parent to sit with their young child (if not out of a sense of goodwill than certainly because they'd rather not babysit someone else's toddler).

In fact if I had the choice, from an insurance perspective, I'd be delivering in Spokane in a heartbeat because I'd prefer to have a NICU available on site, rather than a life - flight away.

Mindfulness does take practice, but each time you practice it, it actively changes the neural pathways in the brain so that it's easier to respond mindfully in stressful moments rather than continue to struggle with the primitive «fight or flight» reactions.

After a long 10 hour flight and a troubled toddler, we decided that it was best for us to get a taxi rather than go on the transfer that was included with our holiday.

Travelling on red eye flights with toddlers, rather than with older children, can be even more of a challenge.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway cost taxpayers thousands of dollars last year — taking numerous trips across the country on private planes, rather than commercial flights, according to House Democrats.

She is also demanding that the proposed system includes details of passengers on flights within Europe, rather than just into and out of the continent.

The latest, a report in USA Today that he spent more than $ 200,000 in taxpayer money chartering flights as a senator, helps Republicans argue that he is more interested using his office to help himself rather than the public.

«Rather than encouraging money to be spent on increasing airport capacity, the government should help cut down on internal flights by making sure Britain's railways are fit for the 21st century,» he said.

This afternoon Alistair Darling has stolen more Tory ideas - on the taxation of flights rather than passengers and on cutting inheritance tax.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

Lehto's detailed chronology of «individual lift devices» is on the dry side, but you learn the sober truth about why these machines never took off: Flight times were measured in seconds rather than minutes; the devices often cost as much as a luxury car; and there was no elegant solution for a malfunctioning jetpack in midair.

The crew capsule will require some upgrades for the deep - space flight, but Musk said those would be limited mainly to a communications system built for much longer distances, rather than the relatively short trips to the space station.

If the neutrinos were produced at one end of the bar rather than the other, it could obscure their time of flight.

Otherwise, the magnets controlling the electrons» flight would produce a blur rather than a crisp image on the monitor.

Such vehicles, capable of making multiple flights, are called reusable lifting bodies (a lifting body being a craft that generates lift from its fuselage rather than from wings).

The secret of the Wrights» success, Tobin shows, lay in their insight that flight required a finely balanced craft, rather than a powerful one.

We showed that egg shapes vary smoothly across species, that it is determined by the membrane properties rather than the shell, and finally that there is a strong correlation linking birds that have eggs that are elliptical and asymmetric with a strong flight ability, the last a real surprise.»

It is now clear that Inmarsat believed other details hidden in the pinged signal gave away the plane's flight path — and its probable crash point — rather than merely its distance either side of the geostationary satellite.

Eagles in flight are especially susceptible to turbine blades as they're attention is often focused on the ground looking for prey rather than looking forward to see obstacles.