Sentences with phrase «rough approximation»

A dark day for rough approximations of food, as Hostess has filed a motion in bankruptcy court, asking to liquidate its assets and go quietly into that great night.

Here's an interesting way to look at the problem from a California perspective, courtesy of my state senator, Joe Simitian, who offered these numbers as rough approximations in a community meeting on Saturday, February 5th, 2011.

To a very rough approximation then, the net carbon uptake by all of the planet's vegetation would need to triple (assuming similar transfers to stable C pools like soil organic matter) just to offset current carbon emissions every year.

Climate models are, of course, only rough approximations of the real world that they seek to emulate.

The ability to make rough approximations can be found in infants as young as 4 months old, and even in some animals.

By this I mean that we already have before us a way of conceiving the reality of God, in comparison with which the theism of the classical tradition can be seen to be but a first and rather rough approximation.

Numerous kit car manufacturers have taken a stab at building rough approximations, but now Shelby American is getting in on the act, with a limited run of 50 brand - new Daytona Coupes to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the FIA World Championship awarded to the originals.

No more rough approximations or spreadsheets!

Re 1 Timothy — the idea of an effecive emitting altitude is a useful though rough approximation — the photons leaving for space originate over a range of altitudes at any given frequency (wavelength), and that range shifts over different wavelengths.

I understand this is a very rough approximation so I am not holding you to it, but that is the «ballpark»?

They are OK for rough approximation of your pet's urine pH, but not much more than that.

You can see it's sort of a mesh system, it's not designed to be particularly pretty, but the size of the cone gives you a rough approximation for how much thrust the engines are producing.

In recent months, demand for guns — judging from federal background checks conducted at the point of sale, which are considered a rough approximation of purchases — seems to be perking up.

Definition: EBITDA is a rough approximation for cash flow and it is calculated as revenues - expenses (excluding taxes, interest, depreciation, and amortization).

My point is only that rough approximations to measuring economic welfare strongly suggest that the time for viewing increase in gross product as the appropriate goal for national policy is ended.

It is a very rough approximation, considering such difficulties as that the sun, moon and stars were not created until the fourth «eon,» following the earth and vegetation in the third.

Even among interpreters who do not identify with the literalism of the creationists, one often finds a sense of relief expressed in noting that the sequence of days in Genesis 1, if viewed as eons, offers a rough approximation to modern reconstructions of the evolution of matter and life.

Since the spices and other ingredients are the same as used in Curaçao, you will have rough approximation of the dish.

First, I posted a rough approximation of what I ate in the weight gain stage of recovery.

Because the chiles are not aged in oak barrels for three years, this will be only a rough approximation of the famous McIlhenny product.

In the past, we had to use our ticket percentages as a rough approximation of these money percentages.

Adam Rose is a party animal and rough approximation of Russell Brand's Aldous Snow character.

Infant formula is a rough copy of what we knew several years ago about breastmilk which is in itself only a rough approximation of something we are only beginning to get an inkling of and are constantly being surprised by.

Infant formula is a rough copy of what we knew several years ago about breastmilk which is in itself a rough approximation of something we are only beginning to get an inkling of and are constantly being surprised by.

(I would accept a rough approximation, but I prefer more exact numbers, e.g. taking into account that Green Card holders and citizens of US aren't included even if they were born in the seven countries named in the Execitive order)

Your hair hygrometer may not actually be this accurate, but it can give you a rough approximation of changes in humidity.

Some rough approximations, however, are starting to come into view.

A clone of Earth, or even a rough approximation, has proved a difficult thing for scientists to find.

Susana Martinez - Conde, a visual neuroscientist at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, explains that the ambiguity arises because our brain's perception of the world is a rough approximation of reality.

Ironically, suburban America — landscaped with small stands of trees and wide - open lawns — creates a rough approximation of Vera's mosaic of forest and field.

Would a rough approximation of all 100 billion neurons suffice?

For that reason, any answer you get to the question of «how much muscle can I gain» will always be a rough approximation and should be viewed as such.

And what is a safe «rough approximation» when it comes to the ultimate muscle building potential of a natural trainee?

Meters only give a rough approximation of strength.

A 200 pound dude 5 foot 10 inches tall has a Body Mass Index (a rough approximation of body fat percentage) of almost 29.

The same goes for a fashion - crazy newscaster (Sarah Jessica Parker), her fastidious newscaster boyfriend (Michael J. Fox doing a rough approximation of CNN's Wolf Blitzer), and a gun - toting hillbilly family living in a Kansas trailer park — with the exception of a kid brother named Richie (Lukas Haas) and his semisenile grandmother (Sylvia Sidney), both of whom are outcasts.

A storyboard should be a rough approximation of the product; it's not the final product itself.

A rough approximation of force is half to a third of your body weight when pushing down.

Take on a few basis points (1.5 bps in my case) and that will give you a rough approximation.

This is intended to be a rough approximation for future asset returns and is not intended to be a precise forecast.

You can use the figures below as a rough approximation for your annual home insurance costs by multiplying by your home's value.

This is because book value can serve as a rough approximation of replacement value, which «can be a much better proxy for intrinsic value in many industries, and in many market cycles...»

That's a rough approximation of how much coverage you need for personal property.

But we have a rough approximation that seems to work anatomically and physiologically.

The character creation options aren't too deep, but you can get a rough approximation of yourself in a few minutes.

Barlow has described her drawings as «bad copies»: rough approximations of things she has seen.