Sentences with phrase «than their feet on»

Out - of - this - world rewards AmEx cardholders who would rather have their heads in the clouds than their feet on the green may swap 20 million points for a ride on a suborbital spacecraft.

Not exact matches

A cookbook is a nice way to make sure they can get off on the right foot post-graduation, maybe eating some vegetables and enjoying the activity itself rather than relying on the same cheap eats out of habit or lack of know - how.

The design called for glass facades rather than the brick exteriors of suburban drive - thrus, allowing potential customers passing on foot to see the interior.

McRaven talked about being in SEAL training and reflecting on a crew of physically small classmates, none of whom was more than five - feet - five.

On the floor of Gas Monkey's headquarters, there is a thick white line, more than a foot wide, separating the offices from the shop.

On October 14, 2014, the valiant Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner ascended to more than 128,000 feet above New Mexico in a helium balloon before freefalling at supersonic speeds (Mach 1.24) back to earth.

In less than a day, it took on some 150,000 acre - feet of water, The Sacramento Bee reported, filling to roughly 85 % capacity.

A lot of the time, we focus on our upper body or faces, yet our feet reveal more about our emotions than we might think:

In 2009, Mexico slapped duties up to 25 percent on more than 90 different U.S. farm goods, from pork to frozen potatoes due to foot - dragging by U.S. lawmakers on allowing Mexican truckers on to U.S. roads, as specified under NAFTA.

The only thing better than hitting a hole - in - one on the golf course is hitting one off your 200 - foot megayacht.

Plus, this comes on a carbon - fiber body that weighs less than 3,600 pounds, with 507 pound - feet of torque.

The heel and foot, rather than sitting on top, will bed deeper into the midsole than you might find elsewhere.

With a reputed vacancy rate of less than 2 % on more than 40 million square feet of industrial, office and retail property in the GTA, the company is known for moving fast, despite the high - octane distraction of the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, Fidani's pet project.

Honda's Asimo can hop on one foot and serve you a drink, but it still has far fewer abilities than the Westworld hosts.

I, for one, typically favor shoes that feel barely - there but still leverage technology to give better energy return (and protection) than bare feet on pavement can — like the Adidas Ultra Boost X or new Nike Epic React Flyknits, which I've tested and now regularly rely on for my 5 - 7 mile runs.

It's meant to protect the patient lying on the table less than five feet away from me.

The art of conversation requires that we think on our feet, and conversing with someone smarter than you can be a fantastic exercise in quick thinking as well as an opportunity to learn something new.

In fact, the camera's lens is more often focused on bare skin and cleavage than it is on the 20,500 - square - foot estate perched on what's called «Billionaire's Row» on North Hillcrest Road in ZIP code 90210.

«Phase 2» was successfully completed Sunday on the company's test track spanning more than 1,600 feet in the Nevada desert, the company said in a statement.

This year Gideon Gartner sold his Park Millennium penthouse (the asking price was $ 29.5 million, but sources close to the sale said that he got less than that amount), and downsized to a cozier 3,000 - square - foot penthouse in Manhattan's Metropolitan Tower Condominium on West 57th Street.

Having dumped more than two feet (60 cm) of water on Houston already, Harvey, which hit the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane but is now a tropical storm, was expected to hover over Southeast Texas for several days and drop more than two more feet of water.

Today it is a temple to trade, with more than 344,000 square feet of glossy exhibition space on eight floors.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

«I've lived much more on my feet than on my rear end,» Hamilton says.

«We'll jump on a problem with a lot less resentment and foot dragging than you would find in another company,» says chief financial officer Thomas Downing, who spent most of his career working for other companies.

Even as he tries to open more than 30 new stores in three years, he'll do it cautiously, watching how the stores perform in each new market before opening more: «Until I'm very comfortable and convinced, the foot's always ready to be on the brake as opposed to the gas.»

The dollar last week enjoyed its biggest weekly gain in more than two months, and the U.S. currency began this week on a strong footing.

In a day of closed - door meetings with NATO foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to charm European allies with tough talk on Russia and a more sure - footed approach than his predecessor Rex Tillerson, but he still carried Trump's familiar demand for higher defense spending.

Think of your life dream as analogous to your destination — if you find a boulder in the road, you're more likely to quickly find a way around this obstacle and successfully re-orientate yourself if you have a clear picture of where you're trying to end up, rather than if you are simply putting one foot in front of another on the path immediately in front of you.

Sorry I had to put on my stern pants on for a bit in this post, but more often than not so many inspiring social entrepreneurs lose site of these critical items and shoot themselves in the foot immediately out of the gate — and that's the last thing I want to see happen.

Parents still foot more than half of wedding costs, the survey found, with the bride's family contributing 44 percent on average and the groom's, 13 percent.

Since it launched the original offer, Gannett's stock price (GCI) has lost more than 50 % of its value, as investors voted with their feet on the chain's proposed merger.

«The site has grown from one building to a fully integrated research, development, prototyping and educational complex spanning 1.3 million square feet and boasting more than $ 20 billion in high - tech investments and over 300 corporate partners on site,» including IBM, Intel, GlobalFoundries, Samsung, TSMC, Toshiba, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electron, ASML and Lam Research.

Hosted by Cigna Americans spend more than half of their waking hours at work — often seat - strapped, deskbound, or flat on their feet for much of that time.

As the wettest storm on record in US history bore down in the last days of August — dropping five feet of rain in some areas — completely inundating Houston, killing more than 70 people, and damaging almost 200,000 homes, at least five prisons on the east coast of Texas were evacuated.

On a per square foot basis, inventory decreased 3 %, better than our guidance for a percentage increase in the low single - digit range.

This proves inconvenient, some say, as even though a few feet of cord are between the connection with the blanket and the controls, depending on the placement of your outlet, you still may have to set the controls near your feet or on the floor rather than have them near at hand.

More on the 787 - 10 The 787 - 10 is 18 feet longer than the 787 - 9 and 38 feet longer than the original 787 - 8.

The company, which owns more than 1,500 apartment units in Greater Boston including nearly 1,000 in Allston - Brighton, acquired a new 19,250 - square - foot headquarters at 1200 Soldiers Field Road from Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. on May 24 for $ 3.8 million.

I have far more confidence that a Bay Area coder will land on their feet than a textile worker in the South in the 1980s.

The U.S. economy has entered 2014 on better footing than it started last year.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Harvey dumped more than 4 feet of rain on Houston, setting a new record for the greatest amount of rain recorded from a single tropical storm or hurricane in the continental United States.

Investors often overlook what is right in front of them, seeking diamonds on the horizon rather than the gold that is under their feet.

Spend more CAPEX on Rack than Full - line because Rack sales per square feet have historically being greater than Full - line historical sales data.

One day, when he was in Rio on summer vacation from Harvard, a powerful storm had created waves more than 30 feet tall that broke perilously late, right on the beach.

Amazon, in a request for proposals on its website, said it wants its «HQ2» to be the «equal» of its Seattle base of operations, which currently consists of 33 buildings covering more than 8 million square feet of office space.

Mr. Fife reported the story, as it was decided his seniority put him on more solid footing than Mr. Vennavally - Rao.

This means the current asking price of a Miami Beach luxury condo listed for sale is about 42 percent higher than the average transaction price achieved on a per - unit basis and nearly 22 percent higher than the average transaction price on a per - square - foot basis in the first six months of 2017.

If the sale happens at these numbers, MSD and TFC will have made a profit of almost $ 90 million on their 2016 investment after paying a 5 - percent fee to Grand Central and still own more than 500,000 square feet of air rights.