Sentences with phrase «time than clock»

Bergson's riposte, that there is more to time than clock time, seemed trivial in comparison.

Not exact matches

The 0 - 60 mph time has been clocked at about 5.5 seconds, and although I thought it came off as slower than that in my tester, that was more impression than reality.

A lot of electric clocks, such as those on many radios and ovens, still keep time by synchronizing themselves to the frequency of the mains electricity supply, rather than an inbuilt quartz crystal (which is more expensive) or by connected to a «time server» on the Internet (more expensive still).

«Turning highly sought - after entry level management careers into hourly jobs where employees punch a clock and are compensated for time spent rather than time well spent is hardly an improvement on the path from the working class to the middle class.»

This results in internal time being slightly later than external time, which is why people with slow internal clocks end up being later chronotypes.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

I see religion driving it's political tools in congress and the states to control women's reproduction more than any time since the 1970s, even trying to turn the clock back and put the kybosh on BIRTH CONTROL.

The fact is that the religious life involves far more than killing time, far more, for example, than sticking out one's hand in a gesture of otherworldly defiance and running down the clock, though heaven knows we need gestures of religious defiance in today's world.

I consider simplicity as a spiritual way of life — if you stop working around the clock or worrying about being in debt or shopping compulsively, then you have time to try to be a better person rather than just an accumulator.

When the astronomical revolution of the sixteenth century — in which the Italian philosophers of the Renaissance played a far more important role than historians of science admit — removed the universal cosmic clock, there were two alternative ways open to physics and philosophy of nature: either to retain the relational theory of time and to hold with Bruno (Bruno 1879, p. 144) that «there are as many times as there are the stars» (tot tempora quot astra), since there is no body possessing a privileged rotation motion, and the only body which allegedly had it — the sphere of the fixed stars — has been swept away; or to save the unity and homogeneity of time by separating it from any particular motion — and this is what Newton did, anticipated in this respect by Isaac Barrow and, in particular, Gassendi.

You're still going to have to eyeball the times, going by «doubled» etc. rather than the clock.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs today announced their filing of a collective action lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full - service restaurant group, alleging servers were paid less than the minimum wage and were not compensated for time they were required to work off the clock.

Walcott enjoyed one of his best campaigns in an Arsenal shirt last season, clocking up 19 goals in all competitions, but found himself predominantly benched this term with a new formation needing one less attacking players limiting him to less than 50 minutes of game time in the Premier League since the start of the new term.

Unfortunately for FGCU, the basket didn't count because of an NCAA rule where any time less than 0.4 seconds left on the clock, a player can not catch and shoot but has to tip the ball in.

No running back at the NFL Combine clocked a lower 40 - yard dash time than Hines» 4.38, a time that puts him on par with breakaway runners like Jamaal Charles and Maurice Jones - Drew.

In addition to a 20 - second pitch clock, breaks between half innings were down to two minutes and five seconds, and each team could convene meetings on the mound no more than three times.

They really put on a show and came up huge down the stretch and none bigger than his clutch free - throw with zero time on the clock to seal the Week 1 victory.

Please appreciate that your time is worth far more than just the result when the clock strikes 0:00.

Arsène Wenger: The south stand, the Clock End, because he not only changed history, and spent more time as Arsenal manager than anyone, but built a legacy that is timeless.

They were still battling over the final 400m but the Kenyan had more than enough left for a final push and clocked 4:16.71 to Hassan's 4:18.20 Dutch record — the winning time putting Commonwealth champion Kipyegon equal fourth with USA's Mary Slaney on the world all - time list.

But, having enjoyed regular action on the red and white side of north London for the first time in some years, clocking more Premier League minutes than he's managed for the Gunners since 2013/14, has Wilshere done enough to earn a new contract?

Let the stadium clock show the time left to play, and teams who run over by more than 3 minutes, injury time excluded, get fined.

Re point 3: There is no doubt that pausing the clock would go against the time - wasters, but the issue is more complex than that.

They also state several times that hunger takes precedence over the clock (so if your baby shows signs of hunger earlier than 2.5 hours, you should feed them!).

- Normally I recommend watching the baby and following his / her cues, rather than watching a clock, however during the holidays time can get away from us.

I didn't know that my baby could tell me so much more than the clock about feeding times.

Getting places early may sound like a drag, but better to be there early and have time to kill, than be racing against the clock to board a plane.

Only offer the bottle occasionally in the early months and spend a lot of time skin to skin with your baby, frequently offering the breast without sticking to scheduled feeds (feeding by following your baby's cues rather than a set schedule by the clock).

Using something other than a clock to help you pass and measure time can help you stick with the rocking until baby settles down and can help you fill your mind with happy thoughts so you can weather those kicks and scratches.

Time books or toys - it's never too young to start teaching babies about clocks, but this age group are more likely to enjoy moving the hands around than younger babies.

It came in more than abundantly with OK who I pumped religiously around the clock every two hours for, it came in a tiny bit, but not much, with the singleton who was also way too early to attempt to save, and it came in even more abundantly than for OK with MK, even though I only pumped ever three hours and made sure I got at least one six hour stretch of sleep a night, and my worst oversupply problem of all of them was with YK, who I only pumped those first few days a handful of times when I felt up to it.

However, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Dietetic Association and the World Health Organization now recommend that healthy babies should be fed when they show signs of hunger rather than when a clock indicates «it's time».

In government departments, the clocks run faster than ordinary ones and endless decisions are required - with little opportunity for discussion - all the time.

«At a time when the White House wants to turn back the clock on critical protections, it's more important than ever that we stand up against discrimination.»

At the time, the de Blasio administration dismissed it as a vanity project, and asserted that there was a greater need to focus on the subway running more efficiently than improvements like installing countdown clocks and USB ports.

Harman and Nick Brown, the chief whip, are now in talks over modifying the proposals, which would still involve an attendance allowance but with new scrutiny to ensure MPs actually spend time in the Commons or stay overnight, rather than just clocking on and leaving.

Moreover, recent studies on rodents indicate that the internal clock also affects how the metabolism responds to the intake of carbohydrates or fats, and that certain time frames are more suitable than others for the consumption of a high - carbohydrate or a high - fat diet, seen from a health perspective.

Before that point, physicists still held dear the picture of the universe laid out by Isaac Newton more than 200 years earlier, in which space and time were immutable and could be measured accurately by rigid rulers and clocks.

This is a major step toward a nuclear clock that could keep even better time than today's best atomic timekeepers.

The second is currently defined by caesium atomic clocks, but optical clocks promise higher precision because their atoms oscillate at the frequencies of light rather than in the microwave band, so they can slice time into smaller intervals.

Such clocks should be easy to fashion; optical light «ticks» a thousand times faster than lower frequency microwaves.

The higher frequencies mean that optical clocks «tick» faster than microwave atomic clocks and could thus provide time - stamps that are 100 to 1,000 times more accurate, greatly improving the precision of GPS.

By checking in constantly with whatever GPS satellite is in view at a given time, a pair of gravity satellites can use its single clock rather than trying to synchronize their own.

Professor Aneta Stefanovska from Lancaster University, who has been studying the physics of biological oscillations for over 20 years, said: «Combining the technique to noninvasively record the fluctuation corresponding to cerebrospinal fluid and our sophisticated methods to analyse oscillations which are not clock - like but rather vary in time around their natural values, we have come to an interesting and non-invasive method that can be used to study aging and changes due to various neurodegenerative brain aging may begin earlier than expected.»

Along with Mars 2020, STMD is hard at work, advancing promising technology for potential infusion into these Mars missions including: Heat - shield for Extreme Entry Environment, a tailorable, woven thermal protection system that would reduce entry loads and greatly reduce heat - shield mass; Deep Space Optical Communications, which will improve the data - return capacity from space to Earth by more than 10 times the current state - of - the - art; and the Deep Space Atomic Clock project which will revolutionize deep space travel by improving the precision of space navigation and enabling more efficient use of tracking networks like GPS.

These rubidium atoms in conjunction with the lasers provide an «optical atomic clock» that works according to a different physical principle that the quartz clock and «ticks» about ten million times faster than the quartz unit.

A test last year in Washington, D.C., by the U.S. Naval Observatory, the division responsible for maintaining the GPS master clock, found that Locata's web of signals synced up within 200 trillionths of a second, more than 50 times faster than GPS.

In 1972 a network of atomic clocks in more than 50 countries was made the final authority on time, so accurate that it takes 31.7 million years to lose about one second.

So although scientists» own time clocks are often more demanding than any time clock they might punch elsewhere, their historically flexible schedules can help make raising children possible.

Mice with a disrupted biological clock slept less, ate more, and gained more body fat than normal mice, indicating that, when it comes to understanding the molecular basis of obesity, timing may be key.