Sentences with phrase «than a straight line of»

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The act is intended to stimulate purchases of capital goods, since it allows small businesses a way to deduct more on their taxes than the traditional straight - line method allows for.

«We speculate in our paper that it is possible that this crossing of the lines on the EROI graph may happen earlier than our straight - line extrapolation would suggest.

Earnings season is about to get underway, too, which is more than likely going to show a fourth straight quarterly decline in profits — and if firms aren't seeing bottom line leverage, they may be slow to dole out new positions, or much in the way of payroll hikes.

I became aware that the love of God — hesed, agape — is more of a zigzag than a straight line.

The difference between durée réelle and «mathematical» time must therefore be due to some other cause than the alleged artificial establishment of a correlation between temporal intervals and intervals on a straight line, It must come in already in the first attempt to apply angular measurement to temporal lapses, if it comes at all.70

He is an irresponsible dreamer who will not walk «the straight line of paradox» that makes suffering and sacrifice life - giving rather than soul - deadening.

The final human opinion may, in short, in some manner now impossible to foresee, revert to the more personal style, just as any path of progress may follow a spiral rather than a straight line.

With Arsenal now on a run of seven straight wins in a row with Middlesbrough next in line for a beating, it was always going to hard for Arsene Wenger to drop anyone with the team playing so well, but Le Prof made four changes for last nights match against Ludgorets, and perhaps this team was even stronger than the one that struggled to maintain the pace against Swansea on Saturday.

It is not always a straight line or a direct proportion that if you buy a certain number of players you will obviously do better than those who didn't buy many players.

I always thought of a slot receiver as being quicker than fast with great hands, and that is almost the opposite of Fuller V. Fuller V, at least to me, seems like straight line speed and average hands.

I can't know for certain, but my gut tells me that their quantitative approach toward offensive line evaluation involves a bunch of metrics that are summarized by nothing more complex than a straight - line average of the component linemen.

The European Cup will in all likelihood sit higher on Arsene Wenger's priorities list than the FA Cup despite the quality of the teams left in the competition in comparison to Arsenal's and with no risks being taken on Wilshere's fitness this weekend it is expected he will be ushered straight back into the starting line - up on Tuesday in a game where Arsenal simply must take a lead back to Germany.

I want to support West Ham on this line but the negative comments coming out of Upton Park scare me and my head is saying Spurs straight up but no more than that.

Lilley has lined her products up along a diagonal rather than shooting them straight on, giving a great illustration of how diagonal lines can appear to give the image depth by suggesting perspective.

In the grand scheme of things, progress counts more than straight - line success.

There was her hard - line approach to Brexit: «no deal is better than a bad deal»; and, straight out of the Goodhart playbook, «if you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere».

As policymakers use the term «resilience» to further convey stronger infrastructure or more efficient food delivery systems, that road is becoming more of a zigzag than a straight line.

The voyage of discovery is rarely a straight line, and despite Wilson's insights, other pieces had to fall into place — some more serendipitous than scientific.

Electron motions, says Sachdev, «look more like the spread of molasses than pointlike objects traveling in a straight line.»

«We wanted to give [the droplets] a bit of a challenge and see if they could do more than just go in a straight line,» Grzybowski says.

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

Instead, they flew slightly off course, following more of a curve than a straight line.

The weight of the road deck in a cable - stayed bridge is balanced evenly on either side of a tower, rather than hanging straight down from taut lines like in a suspension.

By contrast, the «tuntian» irrigation systems — introduced by the Han Dynasty at the Xinjiang communities of Milan and Loulan — used longer, wider and deeper straight - line channels to irrigate much larger areas, with one irrigating more than 12,000 acres.

On an x-ray with a front or rear view of the body, the spine of a person with scoliosis looks more like an «S» or a «C» than a straight line.

Nonlinear movements, such as side - stepping footwork using an Agility Ladder, or running a slalom course around Agility Cones, engage a greater wide range of muscles than if you decide to simply run in a straight line.

If you challenge yourself to get the best straight line handstand possible that process will have you improving your flexibility and mobility for more than just hand balancing it will transfer to every other area of your training.

I recently purchased the Michael kors Parker ceramic chronograph watch for my 22 yr old daughter as a surprise Christmas present, she had a poor copy of one originally, so thought the original would be the perfect gift for her, this particular watch caught my eye on line with the rose gold and white it looked stunning and was very reasonably priced for such a beautiful watch, I ordered straight away which was so quick and easy and within days it was hear I was so excited, anyone would of thought it was for me, when I opened the box I was so thrilled it was more stunning than the picture online and looked so very expensive, and all that for well under 200 amazing, Christmas morning came and when at last the parcel was opened the sqeals of delight and tears that rolled down my daughters cheeks when she realised that this was a Michael kors original were priceless thankyou very much for the gift of an amazing present

Point B falls on the center and is a straight line from A. On the left half of the dress, Point C sits closer to the edge than the pink center line.

I had to add some darts under the bust line because the waste line was a bit more straight than I needed and I wanted it a bit more fitted in the waste without going down a size because the rest of the dress fit perfectly!

Confidently cinematic in classical and modern terms, layered with subtleties but also a straight - ahead, crowd - pleasing comedy, with more witty lines and bits of visual imagination than a dozen regular movies, O Brother is where thou shouldst be.

It is essentially a sequence of disparate scenes with no connective tissue other than that they are about the same conspiracy, which unfolds very quickly in a straight line with no consequences felt... Felt... Ohhh.

Something better than another damn quote: The line - up scene was scripted as a serious scene, but after a full day of filming takes where the actors couldn't keep a straight face, Singer decided to use the funniest takes.

Consequently this film, more than the other two, feels like a straight line: less improvisation, more inevitability, all of it leading to the moment where our hero, the merciless assassin, decides whether his training to be an instrument overrules his instinct to be a human.

Butch is a very different design than Arlo in that there's a lot of straight lines, he's a very graphic character, a lot of angles in his teeth his body.»

Tommy Boy «s star - studded cast affords it a great deal more laughs than one might expect out of the standard road - trip / buddy - comedy — a package taken straight from the assembly line and built out of comedy scraps that have come before it; however, Peter Segal makes great use of his talented leads.

A: We do not believe in the charter model that people vilify, which is students in straight lines walking on a taped line in the middle of the hallway where it feels more like a prison than a school.

Lighter and more compact than similar transmissions, the new units reduce energy losses and feature a lower center of gravity for improved straight - line and cornering stability.

You feel the road surface, and there's plenty of body motion when moving in a straight line — again, better than the CR - V we tested, but often present nonetheless.

Of the three cars, it's arguably the most visceral when rocketing in a straight - line, despite having less power on tap than either the Volkswagen or the Hyundai.

Rather like the chassis tweaks it's difficult to identify the ST200's shorter gear ratios in terms of straight - line acceleration — you'd need to drive it back - to - back with an ST — and there are actually occasions where the shorter gearing forces you to shift up between corners rather than being able to hold the lower gear.

Subaru has said the car will weigh around 1220 kg, which puts it close in terms of straight - line performance and power to weight ratio with a Renaultsport Clio 200 Cup, though it's rear - wheel drive rather than front and both Toyota and Subaru possess a choice of 6 - speed manual or 6 - speed auto gearboxes.

Cycle into Sport or Track modes by pressing the ESC button on the steering wheel, and the traction control is slightly more permissive and allows the engine to run free enough to get the wheels spinning just faster than road speed in a straight line but not fizzing out of control.

The brakes are equally excellent on both cars, with more than enough stopping ability to cope with their straight - line speed and the sensitivity to match the precision of their chassis.

Straight - line performance is stronger than ever, but the intensity and excitement of the old six - cylinders has been lost.

Making it a win - win for both customers, who can be satisfied that they've bought the most exciting Range Rover Sport, and for the company, which in the case of our tester can take pride in having added more than $ 45,000 to this already expensive model's basic sticker, a whopping percentage of which premium will go straight to elevating its bottom line.

What the DB9 may lack in straight - line performance its V12 makes up for in aural delight, with not only with one of the most scintillating soundtracks of our time, but a reminder that organic, naturally - aspirated torque is still far more rewarding and satisfying to experience than the forced induced wham - bam thank you mam thrust of today's turbocharged engines.

It may have a distinct lack of finesse compared with the Volkswagen, but if it's straight - line speed that floats your boat, there's no cheaper way of getting your toes wet than by climbing into a Mazdaspeed 3.

Reaching 40mph on the straights, the remote - control Mustang crossed the line with a time of 3 min 47sec — only two minutes slower than a Clio 197 Cup (not bad given the 194bhp deficit), twice as fast as a Sinclair C5 (evo 100), or a scale time of 45.4 sec.

The main means of harnessing 5,000 pounds of kinetic Lexus when it's time to go somewhere other than a straight line is VDIM, vehicle dynamics integrated management.