Sentences with phrase «than rock of»

[But] since the lightweight plot and great music make this less annoying than Rock of Ages, fans of the era may find something to enjoy.

Not exact matches

And while it's endured some volatility in the past, its beta of 0.9 suggests it's been rocked no more than the rest of the market.

Maybe Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson will make a «continuation» of «Jumanji» great, but it's tough to imagine anything better than the 1995 classic with Robin Williams.

Look no further than TD for an example of how to build rock solid customer loyalty ---- an increasingly important trait in a market promised to be overhauled by tech startups.

Canadian rock icon Neil Young's Pono digital music device has garnered rave reviews since a high - profile launch at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, last week, and more than doubled its fundraising goal of US$ 800,000 on Kickstarter.

And because of the materials he had, including his rock saw that he uses for the trenching, he was able to provide a more efficient and much cheaper service than others for the customers, who are usually large - ranch owners investing a lot of money to save their trees.

Even MORE money is at stake than what Kobe or even the best rock bands in the world can make by being at the top of their game.

As of Monday, Anheuser - Busch — maker of popular beers like Budweiser, Bud Light, Shock Top, and Rolling Rock — had sent three truckloads with more than 155,000 cans of drinking water to areas affected by Harvey, which has brought historic flooding that is wreaking havoc on southeast Texas.

Gordon and his wife have discussed the idea of buying a safe house — something more secluded and modest than their current White Rock home — to which they could escape when things get bad.

The pair of rocks, called the Donnorsmarck Diamonds, total more than 185 carats and once belonged to French nobility.

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER: Sonoma gets a lot of good press for its pizza (the shrimp pesto, with rock shrimp, pesto, oven dried tomatoes, mozzarella, and arugula sounds unreal) but more than anything this place is about the wine.

There will be no clearer sign that electronic music is uncool than when it's inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Financial group Skandia was rocked by revelations of huge bonuses to executives more than a decade ago, while telecom group Ericsson faced shareholder protests in 2007.

The folks in and around the Duluth metro area know how to rock the vote — more than 70 % of residents 18 and older turn out on Tuesdays to cast a ballot, according to data from the American Community Survey.

Nearly 19 % of residents are veterans; more than half of the population rocked the vote; and the Fourth of July festivities take patriotism to new heights.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

For example, more than a million people used social media to «check in» at the Standing Rock Reservation, center of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

Less than 24 - hours after a 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hit central Mexico, 6.1 - magnitude tremors rocked the coast of Japan Wednesday.

Spokesman Marc - Antoine Pouliot said more than 100 cryptocurrency companies have expressed interest in coming to Quebec to take advantage of the province's rock - bottom energy prices.

The market for top - flight talent is now so tight that nearly 100 directors of Fortune 250 companies estimate that fewer than four people — including those both inside and outside their company — would be capable of stepping into the CEO role today and running it at least as well as their current CEO, according to a survey by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Rock Center for Corporate Governanceat Stanford University.

Rather than paying to have the rock disposed of, Musk will create «lifesize Lego - like interlocking bricks» which can then be used to create sculptures or buildings.

He stood up to greedy bankers, chastised corporations for sitting on piles of cash rather than investing, cracked wise with the media, and even managed to name - drop Down With Webster, a Canadian rap - rock group of questionable talent, without damaging his cred.

But according to interviews with more than a dozen people, Mr. Houston — a private man with a love of 1990s rock and business books — built his company with an easygoing management style and a dry sense of humor, which helped him deal with the bumps along the way.

Having spent much of last spring touring the remarkable and little - reported - on tech startup communities in the Middle East — from Cairo to Amman to Beirut to Dubai — I was excited to see that no one is rocking this scene more than the women entrepreneurs.

While Mark Cuban sees more value in a holding a «pet rock» than the yellow metal, Kevin O'Leary said it's a definite part of his portfolio.

Capital funding for digital health systems in the first half of 2014 reached $ 2.3 billion, more than the total for all of the previous year, according to a study by Rock Health, which provides startups in the sector with funding and support.

They offer higher returns than many kinds of sovereign bond ETFs, including Treasurys, which have had rock - bottom interest rates for years.

Hypothesis Traces First Protocells Back to Emergence of Cell Membrane Bioenergetics Dec. 20, 2012 — A coherent pathway - which starts from no more than rocks, water and carbon dioxide and leads to the emergence of the strange bio-energetic properties of living cells - has been traced for the first time in a major hypothesis paper in Cell this week.

«Yeah, and our nearly fifty - year run of Dada for the Masses has been so much obviously better than either American rock n» roll or German classical, right?»

«But even more than Christ being the Rock — the foundation of His ecclesia (the Body of Christ and His followers), Christ would build His ecclesia on a specific principle — the principle that God would teach His followers directly.»

Loss of a loved one, strong feelings of loneliness, «hitting rock bottom», a need to belong to be part of something bigger than themselves.

From relationships, to friendships, to tests and careers, we will all feel the impact of hitting rock bottom on more than one occasion.

I recently trudged through a breakup that, despite being one of my shortest relationships since my boyfriend - for - a-day in the fifth grade, rocked my world much more than I'd like to admit.

I say this only because Cameron Crowe's documentary, which showed the Pearl Jam's alleged heroic testimony before Congress as they called out the monopoly of Ticketmaster in setting prices for concert tickets, made this band something other than a rehash of «70s stadium rock with a lead singer with a Bono complex.

Well I couldn't resist (ineptly) posting that photo of the reef - rock that China and the Philippines both claim, but doing so perhaps made the topic seem more humorous than it really is.

Workers progressed across the 29 - mile Rift through volcanic rock and over steam vents on the valley floor, and then descended from a summit of over 8,000 feet to Lake Victoria in the valley below — a feat requiring 11,845 running feet of viaducts, some up to 881 feet long and more than 110 feet above the earth.

Dan has risen to the occasion of fatherhood with more sweetness and energy than seems possible, changing diapers, doing seemingly infinite loads of laundry, rocking and burping the baby, making pot after pot of coffee (which we now refer to as «liquid hope»), researching baby poo on the internet, and so on.

Those who seem to think their religious belief, or lack there of, is more important to their personal life than quitting drinking, despite likely hitting rock bottom, probably aren't ready to quit drinking.

it is easier, I think, to be in the boat with Borg's historical Jesus — wisdom teacher / movement initiator / social prophet — than with Jesus the Resurrected Christ who rocks the hell out of my dead and dying world.

Police said the home of a Ahmadiyah sect preacher was raided Sunday by more than 1,000 people - some wielding knives, sticks and rocks.

After a few years of wilderness wandering (you should expect that, by the way — look for the manna; look for the water from rock), I found myself in the Episcopal Church, which is no less riddled with conflict and shortcomings than any other Christian tradition, but which introduced me to the sacraments that have managed to sustain my ever - complicated, ever - faltering faith.

Accompanied — almost drowned out — by the kids» rock band, the words point out the practical value of the recommended behavior, rather than exhorting.

They knew from the Theory of Evolution where such a creature should be, the rock type, how deep, then they dug for more than 3 years.

Coming from a rock is quite different than being born of a virgin.

I do think Stillman is aware of most of these downsides, but in any case, his film convinced me that there was more to that scene than we might think, namely, that at its best, it sought and to some extent achieved a more natural form of aristocracy - within - democracy than rock ever has.

Go crawl back under the rock you call home and maybe actually learn to read something worthwhile other than the few books of the gospels while ignoring the rest of the bible.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.

Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was forRock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was forrock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

This set of interesting people includes more gays and blacks than the typical crowd, reflecting the origins of the disco music and scene, but as Stillman emphasizes, it also includes a wider spectrum of ages than you associate with rock.

That is, when we tried to democratize the heroic charge of a Dylan, Morrison, Townsend, Bowie, and Iggy, by asking all the rock - tuned «sonic youth» to D.I.Y. — i.e. to Do whatever It is we think the stars did Yourself — what we mostly wound up with is, to twist Charlotte's words a bit, a set of people far more «conceited and full of themselves» than even the «Woodstock Generation» could hope to be.