Sentences with phrase «rocky times as»

It's a tense time for U.S. farmers, who could be in for rocky times as the U.S. and China heat up talks of tariffs.

Now back at local government, after a rocky time as Chairman, Caroline Spelman is beginning to perform well again.

Not exact matches

«I came to Hasbro Gaming around the same time as the iPad craze and we had a little bit of a rocky road in 2010 and 2011,» said Berkowitz.

As small businesses built on the spirit of entrepreneurship grow fast - and by the nature of their set up do experience some rocky times - it's very important to develop a dialogue and constantly seek feedback.

Here, fire and water curiously coexist as natural gas and hot spring water escape the rocky walls — although legend would have you believe that a fiery dragon and a water tiger once fought here a long time ago before they called it a truce and decided to join together as fire and water.

Instead, the dollar has been on a rocky ride, as investors have repeatedly re-calibrated their expectations for U.S. growth and the timing of a Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike.

Some blame the lack of a catalogue - buying tradition in Canada, but demand clearly goes unfulfilled here: Four in 10 dollars spent online goes abroad, meaning a large portion of spending isn't going back into the Canadian economy, at a time when the retail industry is on rocky footing and facing new competition from foreign rivals such as Target Corp..

United already have a mountain to climb to win the title this year as well, but the Special One is clearly back to his best after a rocky end to his time at Chelsea.

INSPIRATIONAL PEP TALK: These have been turbulent times for u Castéddu, as the Sardinians call their largest side; their stadium was only recently refurbished, they have the worst attendance in the league (due to their distance from the mainland) and the saga with Massimo Cellino and Leeds United has made things rather rocky.

The reopening of this old wound couldn't have come at a worse time for Milan, who seem to have steadied the ship after a rocky start to Gennaro Gattuso's reign as coach following Vincenzo Montella's sacking last month.

This time last year I was just hoping to nurse her to six months; we had a rocky start, but now it's easy and we love to cuddle and use it as a bonding time.

Reuben had a rocky start but we got there in the end, Eva latched on without a second thought and is still going... definitely easier the second time, but it might just be the kind of baby you get as well...

But as for water, schools are now going to have to provide drinking water in cafeterias, although implementing what seems like such a simple requirement is proving rocky for some schools and some are claiming that they need more time to figure out how to do it in a cost - effective way.

At the same time, Paterson's time as governor was rocky to say the least and he was clearly relieved to finally leave Albany in January 2011 when Andrew Cuomo took office.

As a symbol of rocky economic times, a restaurant on East 180th Street still sports a sign that advertises its roasted chicken when it actually hasn't been able to roast any poultry since its rotisserie machine broke over a year ago.

Dressing pegs the general upper limit for rocky planets as 1.6 times Earth size.

HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.

CIRM's relationship with industry has been rocky at times, however, and the panel suggested including trying to mend those ties by including more industry representatives on ICOC and as advisers.

Few reliable clues exist as to the early history of Earth's atmosphere and rocky surface because geologic activity has erased detailed evidence over time.

One middle - aged star, known as HD 69830, appears to be surrounded by an asteroid belt that is 25 times as dense as the one in our solar system, possibly the remnants of a rocky planet that never formed.

Super-Earths, rocky planets that are several times as massive as Earth, form in two different ways, a new study suggests.

More specifically, 17 per cent of the stars host a Jupiter - like planet, 52 per cent have a Neptune - like planet, and 62 per cent harbour a super-Earth — a rocky planet up to 10 times as massive as Earth.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

By a further rough calculation, that means the galaxy has held as many as a billion rocky worlds at one time or another.

Gliese 667Cc This exoplanet, which lies just 22 light - years from Earth, is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, and researchers aren't sure whether or not it's rocky.

Volcanic magma, the molten mix of rock and gas below Earth's surface, leads a sort of double life: It spends some time as a hot liquid and some as a colder, rocky «crystal mush.»

But in many instances, the simulations show, even planets starting with rocky cores as little as 1.5 Earth's mass may trap and hold atmospheres containing between 100 and 1000 times the amount of hydrogen found in the water in Earth's oceans — thick, dense envelopes exerting pressures so hellish that life on the planets» surfaces might be almost impossible.

Crops such as canola and corn grow at different densities; the field is sometimes muddy and is rocky at other times; and plants often obscure the view of potential impediments.

Exceptions include a number of planets discovered orbiting burned - out star remnants called pulsars, such as PSR B1257 +12, [14] the planets orbiting the stars Mu Arae, 55 Cancri and GJ 436, which are approximately Neptune - sized, and a planet orbiting Gliese 876 that is estimated to be about six to eight times as massive as Earth and is probably rocky in composition.

While they anticipated finding a range of worlds between one and four times that of Earth, they would that most were either rocky planets up to 1.75 times as large as our planer, or dense gas worlds (mini-Neptunes) 2.0 to 3.5 the size of the Earth.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

«Spectroscopic observations of the white dwarf allowed us to measure the abundances of the rocky material as it is being accreted and filtered through the star's atmosphere in real time,» Melis said.

Similarly, the terms Neptunes and hot Neptunes refer to planets less than about 10 percent of Jupiter's mass, and the term super-Earths refers to those planets that may well be rocky bodies only a few times as massive as Earth.

The road might be rocky, but if we use these incidents as training wheels of life, we can learn from those shaky times and build goals from each new occurrence.

Guadagnino, who spent time on Pantelleria as a boy, has described the rocky, volcanic Sicilian island as «a fierce, relentless place6.»

This death does indirectly lead to the reason for which our hero, a young man named Lockhart, will be sent from concrete jungle to rocky mountain, but at the same time there is no particular reason that this minor character deserves such cinematic attention as he dies.

Still, just as Ron Burgundy is the newsman we deserve, Anchorman 2 is the sequel fans have been clamoring for, and there's definitely fun to be had as Burgundy adjusts to having a black woman (Meagan Good's GNN exec Linda Jackson) for a boss even as he navigates rocky times with wife Veronica Corningstone - Burgundy (Christina Applegate) and seven - year - old son Walter (Judah Nelson), a surprisingly strong comic foil for Ron.

The trio's time as students at Hogwarts is complete, so while their friends and acquaintances off - screen deal with the turncoat - or - is - he Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) as the school's headmaster, Harry, Hermione, and Ron are on the run in the woods, among the dales, and on the rocky cliffs of the English countryside.

WHY: As with most Joss Whedon - created shows, the first season of «Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» is a bit rocky at times, struggling to find its voice as the small - screen companion to Marvel's bigger and better movieAs with most Joss Whedon - created shows, the first season of «Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» is a bit rocky at times, struggling to find its voice as the small - screen companion to Marvel's bigger and better movieas the small - screen companion to Marvel's bigger and better movies.

and is now available for the first time as Trail Rated 4x4 model that's at home on snow - covered roads or crawling along a rocky creek bed in low range.

This «masterly treat» (Times Literary Supplement) will transport you to the rocky shores of Torre Archirafi, to a Sicily full of quirky characters, scorching days, and velvety nights, alongside a protagonist who's as fiery as the Sicilian sun.

The shares have since dropped further and Kaus thinks the next few months could be rocky as the property and power generation company rides out the shocks from the sub-prime mortgage implosion in the U.S. «Still, it's always a good time to buy Brookfield, if it's for a long - term investment,» says Kaus.

Most cats that have a tick attached for a longer period of time will not show any symptoms of tick borne illnesses such as rocky mountain fever, parasites or cat lyme disease.

As this month's cover story explains, there are numerous lessons that pet retailers can glean by examining what businesses in other — sometimes seemingly unrelated — industries did wrong or right during these rocky times.

Additionally, Raseborg is a good place to spend some time at the beautiful Finnish coast, as the town is full of rocky beaches and small islands.

Channelkeeper is also supporting biological monitoring of nearshore underwater habitats such as kelp forests and rocky reefs in partnership with scientists from UCSB to track how fish populations and marine communities associated with these habitats respond over time to the protection provided by MPAs.

The best time to surf is during high tide as the surf rushes over a shallow rocky bottom.

Though it may look peaceful during the daytime even Above Us Only Sky's manager admitted that night time noise from the main beach was an issue as the intervening waters apparently serve to bounce the booming base sounds onto the rocky hillside.

The rocky island was named as Britain's tenth greatest natural wonder in a 2005 poll by the Radio Times, which is roughly three miles long by half a mile wide.

- because people from all around the world have been enjoying the game since launch, the game has won many awards - the development team is pretty pleased to see so many people enjoying the game - the Master Cycle Zero is something Aonuma has been thinking about for a long time - the 4 Champions all have a pretty reliable «companion» in the Divine Beasts, but Link had nothing - this is how the idea of the Master Cycle Zero came to be - the Master Cycle Zero is capable of jumping, climbing up rocky slopes, and more - it requires fuel, but you can use the same ingredients as regular cooking - even if you go at full speed, you can make some pretty sharp turns