Sentences with phrase «small explosions of»

An unusually heavy impasto of lines, drips and dots are applied atop the canvas and on another until vivid repetitions of color lay way to waves, cascades and small explosions of pure paint.

Small explosions of volcanic ash accompanied this activity.

He pops open a tin can, creating a small explosion of bright green powder.

The announcement prompted a small explosion of news stories.

In the last few years, there's been a small explosion of films about Orthodox Jewish communities — especially about the lives of women.

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Battery makers are suddenly finding themselves with an explosion of new markets to service — both big and small

Last year, The New York Times documented the explosion of young coffee up - starts, noting «more than 40 new cafes and coffee bars have joined a small, dedicated group of establishments where coffee making is treated like an art, or at least a high form of craft.»

In recent times, the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), in Washington, D.C., has witnessed an «explosion» in the number of small - business co-ops, according to association CEO Paul Hazen.

Rather than one big mistake, the disaster likely was the result of numerous small decisions that caused normality to shift and that ultimately caused a fatal explosion.

In one recent example, the Islamic State used a small drone to bomb an ammunition dump at a stadium in Syria, setting off a chain of explosions.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

Other economists say the recent explosion of incomes at the top did hurt everyone else, by concentrating economic and political power among a relatively small group.

The entire universe, matter, time and space, apparently came into existence out of an explosion from an object of inconceivable density — perhaps from something smaller than an atom.

I won't ever understand how people could actually believe that something so massive, complex, and beautiful was actually started by some magical chance of a random explosion, and that humans somehow evolved from some small celled organism that happened to be created out of the explosion.

It takes just as much faith to believe in a God created universe as it does to believe the universe and all it's order was created from an explosion of something smaller than the tip of a pin.

Dr Bill Toth «It takes just as much faith to believe in a God created universe as it does to believe the universe and all it's order was created from an explosion of something smaller than the tip of a pin.»

Baker notes: «The explosion of craft beer segment along with on - premise consumption will drive more small brewers to open their outlets in cities as traditional distribution channels are crowded with big brands.

From the air, the slanting rays of Southern California's winter sun seem to race from one backyard to the next, the light collecting in the swimming pools in a series of small explosions, like flashbulbs popping.

There were times this evening that the Chicago Fire - the no - longer - winless Chicago Fire, the no - longer - pitiable Chicago Fire - were absorbing punishment like the hero of a hackneyed action movie, taking punches that sounded like small explosions, blood, sweat, and gore streaking down their lumpen, stubborn faces.

In this sense, the recent explosion of racism is not simply the product of few small minded individuals but reflects the failure of the political elite to stand up and be counted on one of the most important issues of all.

I'm not a small - government conservative or any kind of libertarian, but I'd think there would have to be an explosion in the population of elected members and and the size of the bureaucracy of the legislative branch.

In an effort to quiet the concerns of residents who are rattled by the barrage of late - night explosions, Schenectady County legislators last night repealed the legal use of small fireworks.

The small business crawl is an expression of support for the small operators impacted by the explosion and fire that rocked the East Village in March.

SCHENECTADY — In an effort to quiet the concerns of residents who are rattled by the barrage of late - night explosions, Schenectady County legislators on Tuesday night repealed the legal use of small fireworks.

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If some of the first stars were twins, each might be too small to trigger such explosions.

This calcium and other heavy elements could have been created in supernova explosions, and then incorporated into new stars, but the clusters as they are today are too small to keep hold of the material violently thrown out by supernovae.

But it was before the explosion itself, «during these anoxic phases... that a lot of morphological novelty arises,» Erwin explains, likely in small, soft - bodied animals that existed on the sidelines of ancient ecosystems and which left little to no fossil record.

The array listens for the echoes of seismic waves — generated by distant earthquakes or small explosions detonated nearby — as they bounce off subsurface structure.

The age - old process of migration and adapting to unfamiliar circumstances may have spurred artistic expression through countless small, creative explosions.

Some MACHOs may be neutron stars left behind after supernovae explosions, but most are thought to be tiny failed stars called brown dwarfs which have a mass of less than 8 per cent that of the Sun and are too small to sustain nuclear fusion reactions.

Such a process takes place over a very long time (tens to hundreds of millions of years), and is capable to turn a small black hole created in the explosion of a heavy star into the super-heavyweight monsters that lurk at the centre of galaxies.

IT HAS been called the demographic sweet spot — a huge working - age population supporting a relatively small number of old and young people — and it has helped power China's economic explosion.

One of the biggest surprises, says Marshall Iliff, an ornithologist at the Cornell lab who co-authored the report and leads a smaller, year - long project similar to GBBC called eBird, was an explosion in sightings of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus).

I»VE BEEN intrigued by the exploits of Kit Tucker from the CSIRO Division of Mining and Mineral Processing ever since I saw him conduct a small explosion in the parking area at last November's Great Australian Science Show in Brisbane.

North Korea has said it has carried out a «higher level» nuclear warhead test explosion which will allow it to finally build «at will» an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.

In an explosion as compared with an earthquake, the amplitudes of Rayleigh waves are smaller than those of the P waves.

The 2006 explosion was relatively small, releasing energy equivalent to about 1,000 tons of TNT — a fraction of the 15 - kiloton bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.

ROME — A project to drill deep into the heart of a «supervolcano» in southern Italy has finally received the green light, despite claims that the drilling would put the population of Naples at risk of small earthquakes or an explosion.

There's an absolute explosion of people making structures that are very, very small.

Having several smaller explosions instead of one really big blast also reduces the chances of fragmenting the asteroid, which would make it more difficult to handle, Remo adds.

The CTBT would prohibit the U.S. and every other signatory from conducting test explosions, no matter how small, of nuclear weapons underground, in space or anywhere else.

An explosion at 7:36 was the one that probably ignited the cook - off, but it was followed by a series of small explosions that gave the soldiers on the base time to take cover.

These sources seemed best explained by hot matter spiraling into black holes tens to thousands of times as massive as the small ones born at the hearts of individual supernova explosions (ScienceNOW, 7 June 2001).

The aftermath of the neutron star collision detected in August included the gravitational waves spotted by LIGO and VIRGO (pale arcs); a near - light - speed jet that produced gamma rays (magenta); expanding debris from a kilonova — an explosion similar to a supernova, but smaller — that produced ultraviolet (violet), optical and infrared (blue - white to red) emission; and X-rays (blue).

But the last couple of years have seen an explosion of interest in the science of the very small, and the reason is all about the way you consider the problem, according to the EPSRC's Peter Smith.

In 2013, the two were awarded a $ 1.5 million contract by the US Army to support their research using small - scale models of under - vehicle explosions.

Wilkinson and a small cadre of scientists are studying whether traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by battlefield explosions can damage soldiers» pituitary glands in ways that cause lasting health problems.

Both occur in systems where two stars orbit each other: a white dwarf sucks away the outer layers of a larger companion star until the smaller star reaches a critical mass, causing an explosion.

For example, Meyer completely omits mention of the Early Cambrian small shelly fossils and misunderstands the nuances of molecular phylogenetics, both of which cause him to exaggerate the apparent suddenness of the Cambrian explosion.