Sentences with phrase «straws in the wind»
More straws in the wind for a market correction.
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This is just a straw in the wind, but it's nonetheless very disturbing.
The latest straw in the wind may be pretty close to the last one for me.
In this context Bishop Tartaglia's intervention seems little more than a straw in the wind.
Studies in which I've been engaged began with the thought that the new religious consciousness that seemed to be developing among young people in the San Francisco Bay area might be some harbinger, some straw in the wind, that would tell us of.
However, there are a few straws in the wind that should make them wary of pushing their luck.
There are enough straws in the wind that we could still be about to witness one of the rarest events in British politics: the defenestration of a major party leader.
Sometimes the endorsement, or the lack thereof, is mainly symbolic; Sen. Diane Feinstein failing to receive it (and her primary opponent Kevin de Leon nearly getting it) this year were straws in the wind, but hardly dispositive of what will happen in June or November.
Another straw in the wind is ex-minister Ivan Lewis» announcement that he could run to be the mayor of Greater Manchester.
Don't take these as firm predictions of what would happen, just a straw in the wind.
These are straws in the wind, but it is still too soon to predict confidently the degree to which choice will be introduced into American education over the next decade.
One straw in the wind: Alabama's announcement last week that it is foreswearing both consortia and will use the ACT assessment system.
It doesn't matter a straw in the wind.
In 1981, at the age of 64, Resnick purchased a stack of 140 boards, measuring 40 by 30 inches, after having finished three series of huge abstractions, Planets, Elephants, and Straws in the Wind, many of which took months to complete.
Straws in that wind might include Google, which networks memory, and the augcog systems that the military (and companies like GM and Ford on the civilian side) are developing that network perception and consciousness (what military augcog does is scan battlefield environments, identify potential threats, prioritize them, and feed information to the soldier as (s) he is able to comprehend it.
Perhaps Koonin's take on matters as in the recent WSJ article is a straw in the wind.
It is unclear whether these instances are isolated «straws in the wind» and just coincidental or whether they are harbingers of an era where lawyers will be more likely to be drawn into the firing line, given sufficient cause.
Not exact matches
Around 8.5 billion plastic straws are thrown out in the UK every year, May said, much of which winds up in oceans which contain some 150 million tonnes of plastic waste.
He hooked his drive pretty far to the left and wound up in some pine straw, but he played nice second and third shots to set up a tap - in in four.
Glorifying these people's way of life would be a much tougher job if the main character was to wind up slurping NHS sludge through a straw after being found comatose in a nightclub toilet.
Shield of Straw Dir: Takashi Miike Blue is the Warmest Colour Dir: Abdellatif Kechiche Young & Beautiful Dir: François Ozon Nebraska Dir: Alexander Payne Venus in Fur Dir: Roman Polanski Behind the Candelabra Dir: Steven Soderbergh The Great Beauty Dir: Paulo Sorrentino Borgman Dir: Alex Van Warmerdam Only God Forgives Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn Only Lovers Left Alive Dir: Jim Jarmusch
In The Neon Demon, another one of Nicolas Winding Refn's phantasmagoric orgies, Fanning plays an under - age model sucked up the coke straw of L.A. decadence who cuts a bloody swath to ace the competition.
Morningstar's fair value analysis is not perfect, but it is a straw blowing in the wind, and is adequate for some relative value judgments.
This is just a straw blowing in the wind... but I would lighten up on financial stocks with significant commitments to Alt - A lending relative to their overall book of business.
She has several straw - filled shelters in her pens, which allow her goats comfortable snuggle space out of wind and rain.
No matter the outcome of the current initiative, though, the straw is in the wind.
As your sit confidently on your camel, reins in hands, through the rise and fall of straw - coloured dunes in the Taklimakan Desert, the wind dries your perspiration and carries the tinkle of camel bells.
In her essay, exhibition curator Barbara O'Brien writes, «Her paintings are premised on the truth that she stood in this place, with the light casting shadows just so, the temperature of the air warm or cool, the sun warm against her face, protected by the brim of a straw hat; her fingers able to employ brush to linen against the wind of a New Jersey winter.&raquIn her essay, exhibition curator Barbara O'Brien writes, «Her paintings are premised on the truth that she stood in this place, with the light casting shadows just so, the temperature of the air warm or cool, the sun warm against her face, protected by the brim of a straw hat; her fingers able to employ brush to linen against the wind of a New Jersey winter.&raquin this place, with the light casting shadows just so, the temperature of the air warm or cool, the sun warm against her face, protected by the brim of a straw hat; her fingers able to employ brush to linen against the wind of a New Jersey winter.»
It is generally understood that wind and solar without advances in storage can not supply reliable power, and the scenarios laid out in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project do not rely on large percentages of raw wind and solar, so I think it is a bit of a straw man to suggest that anyone is planning to do this without a backup source or storage.
The Vortex wind generator represents a fairly radical break with conventional wind turbine design, in that it has no spinning blades (or any moving parts to wear out at all), and looks like nothing more than a giant straw that oscillates in the wind.
Over in Wales, Tony Wrench's «ecohome of wood frame, cobwood and recycled window walls, straw - insulated turf roof; with solar power and wind turbine for electricity, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water» has just been granted approval after a ten year fight - it was built without permission in a public park.
The Breakdown Institute's Nightmare Visions In last week's New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert described how the Danish island of Samsø has transitioned to wind electrical generation, biomass (aka straw and such) and other available technologies.