Sentences with phrase «sheer weight»

The obvious problem with this distinction is that, in the age of so - called big data, all data can become sensitive by sheer weight of accumulation.

«Look at when concert tickets go on sale and a simple financial transaction can crash a website through sheer weight of numbers,» they explain.

Their various adhesive, frictional and electrostatic interactions are computationally problematic, but the real challenge comes from sheer weight of numbers.

Not only for the «fash - un» value (the Kate Moss affiliation always helps) but also for sheer weight (or lack thereof).

The Escalade's sheer weight crushes most bumps, and what does filter through feels one step removed — which is logical, with the Escalade's separate frame beneath the body.

Optional: 2 yards of sheer weight interfacing.

Fire - power covers a host of tactics: Sometimes it's just sheer weight of money (and they become the largest shareholder), but it also includes nominating directors to the board, conducting proxy fights, deposing and / or appointing management, suggesting operational changes and / or asset / business sales, scaring up bidders for a company (or even bidding themselves), demanding strategic reviews or even wind - downs or liquidations, etc..

The difference in the works» materials and sheer weight plays against the close dates of their conception and physically bound nature.

Glaciers are huge rivers of ice that ooze their way over land, powered by gravity and their own sheer weight.

Although a previous post says that we are all at more at risk during the majority of time we spend in our homes, the larger scale and sheer weight of commercial buildings and schools will cause more fatalities and more difficulty reaching victims still alive but buried.

This, coupled with the sheer weight of aggregate debt, has caused «a prolonged risk on / off environment.»

When you consider the sheer weight of his life's work — nearly 50 works of nonfiction, 20 of fiction, and four collections of poetry — it's hard to believe the man ever left his desk.

Also, their repeated and increasingly brazen attempts to squash public debate by the sheer weight of their rhetorical condescension (dissenters are too» organized», too well dressed, ignorant, obstructionist, and, as of today,» un-American» to be taken seriously) are alienating lots of folks and raising real suspicions about their own sincerity.

It moves glacierlike through human history, carrying with it the debris of outworn values and stubbornly trying to break through everything in its path by the sheer weight of its dogmatic claim.

Should college plans be dropped, family life destroyed, the lives of caretakers shortened because of the sheer weight of attending a loved one?

But he is not going to be shocked or coerced into faith by the sheer weight of the inexplicable.

Chris Brown, Commercial Director for James Cropper Paper comments: «Paper has so many surprising qualities and uses, but PaperBridge takes the sheer weight of our product and lets nature do the rest.

It all came back to me in one fell swoop, magnified by the sheer weight of my birthday.

But even the most patient and loving parent will admit that at times the unflagging energy of children, or even the sheer weight of their numbers, can become almost overwhelming.

The sheer weight of speculation that he is going to Man City means that will be where he is going.

The actual games have been a bit short on drama, but now the sheer weight of the result in Game 6 will make it must - see - TV.

You can't buy it, touch it or devise a tactical plan to nullify it, but when Guardiola's men stride onto the pitch at Anfield, and in the return leg at the Etihad next Tuesday, their toughest opponent might be history and the sheer weight of it against them.

Married to that idea is the sheer weight of expectation he's had to shoulder.

I haven't decided whether I'm going to get up and watch this game tomorrow morning (it starts at 4.45 am Brisbane time) but the sheer weight of players that I've not yet seen in action for Arsenal might prompt me to take a peek.

The sheer weight of numbers caused Brentford problems at times and the hosts could have won it at the death.

The Reds were given a helping hand by some shoddy defending but that panic was triggered by the sheer weight of pressure.

Or maybe you're just overwhelmed with the sheer weight of having to think about all that goes along with feeding your children every single day.

In addition to the sheer weight of naming another human being, you (most often) have to do it with someone else's opinion — sometimes, even more than a single someone.

Plus the sheer weight of it all has created a few businesses that are optimized for it, and could cause a systemic shock for them and their customers / creditors if it is ripped away like a band - aid.

They cheered him repeatedly during his exchanges with Ed Miliband, who was forced by the sheer weight of events to concentrate on an issue that now puts his party in jeopardy.

The sheer weight of Ed Milband as a drag anchor on Labour was unveiled and was quite startling - as was the disastrous failure of Labour to even come close to regaining any semblance of economic credibility.

The sheer weight of Osborne's policy announcements diminished, but could not eradicate, Tory divisions over Europe.

«We have good reason to believe that internal and confidential information relating to this trade union and its officials» movements has been obtained by suspect means by both News International and its operatives, and possibly by other national newspapers, and we fully understand in light of the sheer weight of evidence why the police investigations may take some time to conclude.»

Happily the sheer weight of public pressure here in the UK has been too much to ignore and Cameron has joined the madding crowd.

3) Each time it snows a new layer forms overnight and after a few weeks the sheer weight starts to compress the lower layers and presto - ice music starts.

Hot water drilling still posed challenges: A borehole filled with water would quickly refreeze, and the hole could still collapse shut under the sheer weight of the surrounding ice sheet.

After all, the sheer weight of our education, training, and accomplishments should be more than enough to land us the position of our choice, right?

That's because the sheer weight of hundreds of feet of moist soil is always pushing downward against the bedrock below.

(The sheer weight of the medication and other materials needed makes eflornithine very expensive to ship as well, says Pere Simarro of the World Health Organization.)

And by the third trimester, even if you naturally prefer to sleep on your left side, which is the ideal position during pregnancy, the sheer weight of your bump — combined with the increased laxity in your joints as your body prepares for childbirth — can add up to serious aches and pains.

By the sheer weight of wizardly neologism: kneazles and quaffles and bowtruckles, Godric Gryffindor and Horace Slughorn, riddikulus!

The sheer weight of all this is preposterous.

For me, Prisoners is part an engrossing family drama and part a chintzy, lurid thriller, jammed together in a way that lacks conciseness, focus, or ability to avoid collapsing under the sheer weight of the many cheap and cheesy plot contrivances that are far too out of their element to cap off a drama that builds up so well.

Many industries advocate for workplace delivery and assessment of VET in training packages but the sheer weight of numbers would make this impossible.

As NCLB slowly dies from a combination of Congressional inattention, regulatory whittling, and the sheer weight of public rejection, it's worth asking why so much of the optimism surrounding the law proved unfounded, and what those who still believe in federal intervention on behalf of disadvantaged students should do next.