Sentences with phrase «sucking out all of the oxygen»

Vacuum sealing works by sucking out all of the oxygen from the food storage bags to create a secure airtight around the food so as to limit the growth of bacteria which, speed food spoilage.

Scientists have modeled carbon - rich worlds (as opposed to silicate - rich worlds like Earth) to find out that the carbon that formed the planets in carbon - rich stars likely sucked out all of the oxygen during the stars» formative years.

Not exact matches

They suck the oxygen and the urgency out of whatever initiatives and good ideas might be floating around.

And primary debt issues might pick up as the midyear M&A season gains momentum, sucking financial oxygen out of the refinance market.

The tech bubble of 1998 - 2000 sucked all the oxygen out of the stock market and left no capital for any securities other than tech and telecom companies.

That speaks a bit to the general weakness of the Big Ten in the 1970s; Michigan and Ohio State sucked all the oxygen out of the room, and almost no other program was able to maintain a particular level of quality.

But we're now in the Trump's World, and he's sucked most of the oxygen out of the online room, according to numbers from social media analytics firm Zignal Labs.

My genuine experience is that the referendum has sucked oxygen out of the room and people just aren't thinking about London.»

There was a goon factor of all these people who worked for him where they would almost take over and suck the oxygen out of any area of the Capitol thery were in.»

And coincidentally sucked media oxygen out of a Tory conference where Cameron and his ministers were already struggling to respond to Labour's energy price freeze.

Eventually, the fertilizing effects of these nutrients in surface waters can fuel the growth of algae that ultimately suck most of the oxygen out of large patches of coastal waters, creating what are colloquially termed dead zones (see Limiting Dead Zones).

Decaying organic matter on the lake floor sucked all the oxygen out of the briny layer, forcing microorganisms to find something else to «breathe.»

Meanwhile, some over-fertilised lakes and seas in heavily farmed regions fill with «blooms» of aquatic life which then die and decompose, sucking all the oxygen out of the water in the process.

But Cohan says the resulting controversy «sucked all the oxygen out of the room» and distracted voters.

Trying to actually suck up the oxygen in a room would be, as McKenzie puts it, «like trying to squeeze water out of a sponge under water.»

«We never dreamt an electric wind could be so powerful that it can suck oxygen right out of an atmosphere into space.

Now, if you have all this very cold, nearly freezing water surrounding these ice caps, sucking up carbon dioxide out of the polar atmosphere, at nearly the highest possible rate, 30 times faster than oxygen, and 70 times faster than nitrogen, doesn't it stand to reason that the air that remains might just have a lot less carbon dioxide in it than the atmosphere across the rest of the planet?

Not really, some folks recommend that you cover the juice well, or fill the container to the top (to exclude oxygen), whereas other people tell you to get a vacuum pump and suck out the air from the container, thus reducing the amount of oxygen in contact with the freshly made juice.

Wendell Pierce and Michelle Williams can only do so much with so little, as the movie otherwise lets John Diehl, an otherwise fine character actor, free rein to go over the top in playing a stereotypical character, thereby sucking all of the oxygen out of the room.

He's likable enough on his own, but, when paired with Kendrick, it's like all the oxygen is sucked out of the room.

There are moments of genuine humor in the film, but Finney virtually sucks the oxygen out of the story, and even tempered pros like Gambon and Fricke can do

What to make, then, of Secretary Duncan's widely heralded concession that testing is «sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools» and his offer to states of a year - long delay in making test scores part of their evaluation systems?

It's remarkable that even [former U.S. Secretary of Education] Arne Duncan, who arguably did as much as any one person during the past decade to increase the pressure on educators to raise test scores, conceded that «testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools.»

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, averring that testing was «sucking the oxygen out of the room,» promised to do something about it.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have sucked much of the oxygen out of the room when it comes to discussing K - 12 educational standards.

When we standardize the curriculum and we standardize how teachers get prepared, we just suck the oxygen out of the system.»

In August, Education Secretary Arne Duncan added to the chorus when he wrote in a blog post that «testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools,» and that teachers needed more time to adapt to new standards and tests.

Claiming that «testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools,» U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that states now have extra time to tie student performance on state tests to teacher evaluations.

Look at how congested all these other schools are surrounding us and literally sucking out oxygen, for lack of a better term.»

Meanwhile, it doesn't take great creative thinking to know that the oxygen will be largely sucked out of all the hard work of analyses and stakeholder development that WAES has been engaged in for over a decade and its more recent Pennies for Kids initiative.

Even US Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who has generally advocated testing, said last year that «testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools.»

Enough oxygen has been sucked out of the air about whether Michelle Rhee really raised student test scores through the roof when she taught briefly at a Baltimore school a few decades ago.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently conceded that too much standardized testing was «sucking the oxygen out of the...

Using language that evoked some of his fiercest critics, Mr. Duncan wrote in a blog post, «I believe testing issues today are sucking the oxygen out of the room in a lot of schools,» and he added that teachers needed time to adapt to new standards and tests that emphasize more than simply filling in bubbled answers to multiple - choice questions.

I can hear myself breathe quite loudly now, sucking oxygen out of the ridiculously small cabin in deep, short draws.

iPads in the classroom are all the rage in the education publishing market — somedays the oxygen for discussing anything but learning tablets has been sucked out of the room.

«CO2 sucks all the oxygen out of the room,» he explained.

The concept of warming - as - a-result-of-CO2 has sucked the oxygen out of the room, figuratively speaking, of course, and the result is a failure to intelligently discuss and engage the actual question at hand, which is whether and how to plan to for new fuels.

The whole point is to suck the oxygen out of the room, to weave such a tangle of confusionism and pseudo-debate that the Really Big Question — What is to be done?

Negative pressure inside a composting toilet means you never have to worry about walking into a bathroom that's had all the oxygen sucked out of the air (as I heard it described once).

While dead zones are not uncommon near inhabited coastlines, where industrial runoff can trigger algae blooms that suck all of the oxygen out of the water, they're now popping up in places scientists didn't expect — in the open Atlantic Ocean.

With cap and trade on ice in Washington — regional programs exist in California and the Northeast — the oxygen fueling climate debates was sucked out of Capitol Hill as fast as air vacates a popped balloon.

Through a magical process called photosynthesis, trees suck CO2 out of the air, turn the C into cellulose (wood), and release the O2 (oxygen) back into the air.

It just sucks the oxygen out of so many other important legal technology topics.

The focus on repealing or replacing Obamacare should suck most of the policy oxygen out of HHS and its staff.

Like if I'm cooking and Edouard comes in, I freak out because I feel claustrophobic, like I'm an infant and he's a cat who just wants to suck the oxygen out of my lungs.