Sentences with phrase «tied up in»

I also think they would look really pretty tied up in a box as a Christmas present.

As you'll see from this diary I kept while doing a 3 - day juice cleanse, food is a huge part of my life, and I have a lot of habitual patterns as well as emotions tied up in food.

So while I'd like to think that this is really all just a benevolent and worldly minded decision about wanting whole foods — I actually think — for the vast majority of gen yummers — it's also related to emotions tied up in things entirely unrelated to what we eat.

With so much conflicting information in the health world, it can be all too easy to get tied up in knots over what really is best to eat.

In practice, since both of the above mentioned therapies are tied up in the slow - moving edifice of Big Pharma regulatory capture, it will be a long time before they make it to the clinic in any way that is accessible to an ordinary individual.

The findings, reported in the journal Acta Astronautica on Tuesday (April 10), reveal the limitations of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or ETI: Humans are tied up in their own biases and attentional limitations and might miss alien intelligence even if it's staring us in the face, the researchers said.

About 2 - 3 times this much is tied up in roots and below ground carbon, which is a more difficult carbon pool to augment.

«The fact that they take nutrients that are not available to plants — because they're tied up in the dead leaves — and make them available to plants is something you might like to have happen in your garden,» Turner says.

The state has had copper mines in the past but it was native copper, not copper tied up in sulfide, Schulz said.

The most common metal in soils, aluminum is normally tied up in insoluble compounds, but is released into ground water when soils become acidic.

Slight differences in water content (most of the hydrogen atoms buzzed by the magnet are tied up in water) show up as shades of gray, revealing bone, cartilage, or clusters of neurons deep inside the brain.

With phosphorus tied up in organic molecules, it can be exceedingly difficult for bacteria to reach.

The largest blow to U.S. mitigation efforts will be if Trump rescinds or weakens the Clean Power Plan — a rule that requires power plants to reduce their carbon emissions, which was finalized in 2015 but is currently tied up in court.

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — When people say they get all tied up in knots, they don't mean it literally.

The second process is connected to the energy tied up in the water vapor in such storms.

The reason for the conventional farmers» windfall is tied up in the effectiveness of the transgenic crop.

So from calculations of the efficiency with which its search strategy nets MACHOs, the team has estimated the proportion of the halo's mass which is tied up in these objects.

But von Eschenbach was working with an ever - tightening NCI budget, much of it tied up in continuing grants and activities.

We don't know the consequences of global warming in detail, but we do know that a warmer world will release a lot of carbon into the atmosphere that is currently tied up in peat moss.

If you prefer to have contact more closely tied up in your work then you might prefer an environment in which research goals are shared by team members who all work together and regularly discuss developments and obstacles.

«Every time forest or shrub land is cleared for farming, the carbon that was tied up in the biomass is released and rapidly makes its way into the atmosphere,» said Burney, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford.

Moving forward, Henry says that the biggest challenge for studying musical rhythm is that «there's so much other stuff tied up in the experience of music and rhythm listening or performing.

The $ 350 million development was tied up in litigation for 18 months.

Ricci said many buildings remain vacant because the property is tied up in an estate or the landlord might think that using the property would not be profitable.

It's a good bet, though, that the issue would be tied up in court if a law requiring sites like Amazon to collect sales tax were enacted, with a challenge centering on whether federal laws regarding interstate commerce would supersede the state measure.

For long stretches of her administration, City Hall was tied up in fights that yielded only expense and delay.

Instead of focusing all efforts on getting the British economy back on track, the Conservative party will now be tied up in its own internal renegotiation discussions that have very little to do with the reality of treaty change among 27 member states.

Meanwhile, up to 80 per cent is tied up in loans to foreign nationals and companies, bond issues and other investments.

The poll showed only 2 percent of likely voters said hydraulic fracturing for New York's natural gas reserves — commonly known as fracking and tied up in studies of the potential health and environmental impacts — was their top issue.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz says the money is available but has been tied up in the Legislature's Finance and Management committee.

The first version passed in March but tied up in the courts covered transit workers, even though there was a concern that Wisconsin could lose about $ 60 million a year in federal transit aid if the workers» collective bargaining rights were removed.

Instead of getting ourselves tied up in knots in Westminster about this, we just need to get on with it.»

It was Aug. 14, 2013, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo was tied up in meetings all day at his New York City office.

But McKinney would be impossible to run against in that way, inasmuch as nobody can really say for sure the real McKinney isn't tied up in a basement while Bill Curry runs in an uncannily accurate costume.

And that, of course, is tied up in the courts now.

Despite being an island nation, with so much of our history tied up in maritime commerce and adventure, it is remarkable how many of us rarely visit the coast.

Quinn also heard it from her opponents — particularly de Blasio — over her handling of the city's living wage law, which is currently tied up in courts after the Bloomberg administration sued to halt it.

December 2013: The state economic development office awards Pemco a $ 2.8 million grant to subsidize a renovation of the Nynex building, which is still owned by Jacobowitz and tied up in bankruptcy.

As Cuomo and lawmakers seek to wrap up budget negotiations this week, a state appeals court threw a $ 69 million wrench into the talks, lifting a stay that allowed the state to hold off from releasing millions of dollars that were earmarked for failing schools but has been tied up in litigation.

Todd Howe, the Washington - based lobbyist who is under federal investigation and has close ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has quietly been added to a state ethics website as a lobbyist for entities also tied up in the probe.

With stories in the media about authority figures such as volunteers, officials, parents and schools stopping people from taking risks because they fear legal liability or being tied up in red - tape, there is a perception that health and safety has become a barrier to our lives.

Despite her proposed legislation — which she says she'll try to introduce before the Council if it can happen in the next few months — Quinn has historically been leery of the city's attempt to fight obesity, and doesn't support Mayor Michael Bloomberg's ban on serving large sugary drinks (which is now tied up in court.)

We need to understand why there isn't a groundswell of highly accomplished and talented women smashing their way to the top; the causes are complex and tied up in a web that has taken generations to knit.

Why are Repubs trying to keep bill tied up in committee — or out of end of session package?

«If ATF tries to ban these devices after admitting repeatedly that it lacks the authority to do so, that process could be tied up in court for years, and that would mean bump stocks would continue to be sold,» Feinstein said.

The Soraa facility where NexGen is planning to relocate was built by Cor Development of Fayetteville, one of the companies tied up in the ongoing federal political corruption trial in Manhattan involving former Cuomo aide Joe Percoco.

A proposed retail and entertainment complex next to the arena is tied up in litigation, and county officials hit the brakes on a 25 - acre biotech park after Northwell Health abandoned plans for a $ 350 million Center for Bioelectronic Medicine, citing the cost.

Sen. John DeFrancisco in a radio interview Thursday morning said there are political considerations tied up in the allegation facing Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein.

Though Paladino had pledged to use his millions in the race, much of his money is tied up in real estate holding, making liquid assets difficult to come by during the campaign.

If the fund is too large, there are opportunity costs with the funds being tied up in reserve, as well as a worry that it would reduce incentives for careful expenditure planning.