Sentences with phrase «spiral towards»

Which is a bit sad, really, as I spiral towards my next significant birthday.

Christpher Pyne, the Education Minister, clearly wants a higher education sector that is high quality, saying «If we don't act, and act now, we risk (the) system falling into a downward spiral towards mediocrity.»

Notably, depleting the cash value with a withdrawal may mean the policy will still ultimately need another contribution (i.e., more premiums) to sustain in the long run; nonetheless, if the cash value is in a downward spiral towards lapse anyway, a withdrawal to repay the loan will help extend the life of the policy, given that the crediting rate of the cash value is always lower than the interest rate of the loan compounding against it (which for newer policies might be a 0.5 % to 1 % spread, but on older policies can be a 2 % spread or more).

When young slave Samuel watches as his mother is beaten to death on the plantation, he begins a spiral towards isolation that seems almost unrecoverable.

While our short, regularly scheduled check - ins with the dog as he begins a downward spiral towards brutal insanity are appropriately suggestive and evocative, our time with the Trentons is less scintillating.

Some portions of the film definitely fell a little flat, especially the villain, and it sort of went into a messy spiral towards the end.

Intense tidal forces pull the stars apart as they spiral towards each other and the black hole is formed amidst the chaos.

And if three black holes spiral towards each other, one can get tossed out, undressed.

According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes how gravity works, the two bodies excite strong ripples in spacetime — gravitational waves — as they spiral towards each other.

A black - hole merger occurs when two black holes start to spiral towards each other, radiating energy as gravitational waves.

As the stars spiral towards each other, orbiting ever faster, they squeeze and stretch each other ever faster too.

This polarisation causes the atoms to spiral towards the nanotube, speeding them up until the atoms circle it in just a few trillionths of a second.

Computer simulations suggest that when two black holes spiral towards each other on a collision course, much of the gas and dust in the spinning accretion disc surrounding each of them is ripped away by the gravity of the other.

And until the state helps with that, more cities in New York state will continue to spiral towards insolvency.

I'm very glad that baby saw us instead of a judgmental lactivist who would give ineffective suggestions and let the baby continue on a downward spiral towards dehydration and hypoglycemic seizures.

I'm all dismissive hand waves when a conversation spirals towards the pointless stewing over of certifiable crap.

To a certain degree things have spiralled towards mediocrity for reasons outside of Wenger's control.

Hulse and Taylor realised that the two pulsars were losing energy and slowly spiralling towards each other in a way that was exactly consistent with Einstein's equations of general relativity: the missing energy is thought to be emitted as gravitational waves.

On 17 August, the LIGO collaboration saw gravitational waves from two cosmic objects that were spiralling towards each other.

In 2015, the LIGO collaboration first detected a gravitational wave caused by two black holes spiralling towards one another and merging.

The gravitational waveform produced by the black holes as they spiralled towards each other and finally merged would have lasted for many millions, perhaps even billions of years.

Theorists speculate that so - called quasi-periodic oscillation was caused by bright blobs in the black hole's accretion disk, made up of gas that slowly spirals towards the hole.

All four have come from pairs of black holes spiraling towards one another and then colliding, their colossal masses warping space - time as they merge.

For a population of animals spiraling towards extinction, things get bad before they get worse.

What Kurzel has opted for is to open up the play as a psychodrama about the romantic relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth that is spiraling towards disaster because of the psychological trauma each has endured.

The entire process is totally out of control, like an airplane spiraling towards the ground, the pilot desperately applying countermeasures.

The movement drives storms spinning off the polar vortices and surface ocean eddies moving in Ekman spirals towards the coast of the Americas.

Not exact matches

Penny stock companies are quite often companies that are either newly formed or has been sucked into a downward spiral heading towards bankruptcy.

The spirit of anti-Christ is alive today and seeks to continue ill - advising non-Believers and atheists into a continuing spiral downward instead of upward towards the Light of God's Salvation through Jesus Christ.

For me as a Christian the journey always seems to spiral downwards towards the poor.

What many people seem to be misplacing in regards to the gods and goddesses is that they all are the sons and daughters - in - law of God Almighty whose Holy Spirit is the vast Seas of the Nothingness regions that reaches ever so far away in the celestial domains and spirals ever inward towards the inner domains!

The coreless screw, made of stainless steel with a spiral construction, moves the product on the multihead weigher gently but firmly towards the hopper system.

Barcelona go into this weekend's game on the back of that devastating loss in the hands of Paris Saint Germain which erupted suggestions that Barcelona's dominance is heading towards downward spiral.

As they spiral in towards each other, they should emit a burst of gravitational waves with a particular signature.

He says: «Our results suggest that children who have low levels of well - being are particularly likely to become orientated towards consumer culture, and thus enter into a negative downward spiral.

Known as an accretion disc, it is the place where material gradually spirals inwards towards the black hole.

Gradually slowing down, the two black holes should spiral in towards the centre of the galaxy and eventually merge.

If the planets migrated into position, they should still be spiralling in towards their stars and would be quickly demolished.

In about a billion years, the two stars will spiral in towards one another and merge, releasing a burst of gamma rays.

It is orientated nearly face - on towards us so we get a lovely view of its centre and spiral arms.

As pairs of black holes spiral together, heading towards a collision, they also spin on their own axes - like a pair of figure skaters spinning individually while also circling around each other.

The ideal situation would be two black holes spiralling in towards each other, churning up space - time as the approach the point of impact.

Towards the end of the Twenties Hubble had discovered enough galaxies that he was able to compare them to one another and create a classification system, known as the Hubble Tuning Fork diagram, which grouped galaxies into ellipticals, spirals and barred spirals.

The first step towards stopping this downward spiral is to get control of your hormone balance.

With all three shapes, the first two steps are always the same: spiral your arms so that you have direct contact with your earlobes to your shoulders and close your ribs pulling them through your body towards the floor.

However, the arrival of Gordon's daughter, Alexia (Michelle Ryan), an old schoolmate of his, on top of some threatening behaviour towards his sister and brother by local thugs, starts to send Clayton spiralling out of control, and down the same path that his father travelled many years before.

It starts with Richard Dane (Hall) accidentally killing an unknown intruder in his home before spiraling down an unpredictable path towards the unexpected.

When she shoots an arrow in the clip below, the arrow curves around the bow slowly before spiraling beautifully towards its target, moving with amazing fluidity.

He's helped, of course, by having Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as his leads, never losing sight of their characters» humanity even as they spiral ever down towards the monstrous.

As a visual highlight, the tweeters in the mirror triangle of the driver's door and their counterparts in the rear doors rotate through 360 degrees when the head unit is turned on, moving ten millimetres towards the passengers in a spiral motion.