Sentences with phrase «serving as a ballast»

«ETFs serve as a ballast for these trying times.

Our core fixed - income portfolios seek to preserve capital, provide current income and serve as ballast against stock market volatility.

Lawrence and his screenwriters, Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt, have done a fine job of calibrating the film's many moving parts, action serving as a ballast for heaps of exposition, flashes of mordant humor darting through all the despair and destruction.

[4] The point derived the name Ballast Point from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

The space under the floor is filled with insulation and tiles that serve as ballast, which helps the ship lie lower in the water and makes it easier to pass under the bridges.

Not exact matches

Tickle explains that, in reaction to the gathering center, many Christians will retreat to their respective corners, or religious traditions, which isn't an entirely bad thing because it serves as a sort of ballast to keep the boat of Christendom from tipping during the upheaval of the Great Emergence.

It serves as our most intimate and reliable experience of «home,» and thus provides us with the metaphysical ballast needed to endure the greater fluidity, heterogeneity, and change in modern civic life governed by the social norms we rightly seek to protect and preserve.

Ballast like character development goes right out the window and into the icy Russian river that serves as backdrop for The Darkest Hour's anticlimax.

Community leaders can serve as sensible, practical ballast for state officials caught up in their aspirational enthusiasms.

Cash can serve as portfolio stabilizer just like bonds, and because cash is so stable, you can use less cash as ballast and achieve the same outcome as more bond ballast in a mixed portfolio.

Moyer's paintings, in their reference to a geological time, serve as physical ballast to our contemporary barrage of data.