Sentences with phrase «struck by the frequency»

During my tenure with the school district, I was struck by the frequency with which educators applied this selective skepticism to data about students» performance.

Not exact matches

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

Eli Dourado at George Mason University's Mercatus Center in Fairfax, Virginia, has analysed the frequency of bird strikes on aircraft in the US and extrapolated the probability of damaging incidents by drones weighing 2 kilograms or less.

If you strike a tuning fork of the right female frequency by the side of a cage of mosquitoes of both sexes the males will immediately separate and bunch together near the fork.

A vibration element enhances the feeling of realism by changing its frequency depending on how the virtual ball «strikes» the racket.

Townes was 35 in the spring of 1951 when, seated on a park bench among blooming azaleas in Washington, D.C., he was struck by the solution to a longstanding problem, how to create a pure beam of short - wavelength, high - frequency light.

They reported that «no catastrophic hurricane of category 4 or 5 intensity has made landfall in the Western Lake [northern Florida] area during the last 130 year documentary record» but «If future climatic changes, whether or not related to the anticipated greenhouse warming, lead to a return of a «hyperactive» hurricane regime characteristic of the first millennium A.D., then the northeastern Gulf Coast is expected to experience a dramatic increase in the frequency of strikes by catastrophic hurricanes.»

In recent years, we at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) have become increasingly concerned about the frequency and ease with which laws with clear constitutional vulnerabilities have been proposed and passed by Parliament — only to be challenged later, and, in some cases, be struck down by the courts for violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Less - skilled users can strike a general bass / treble balance and choose whether to allow or disable the mic by default, while audiophiles can dive in and fine - tune different frequencies.