Sentences with phrase «times the distance from»

In India, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways reportedly has plans to increase its highway network by 20,000 kilometers over the next couple of years.1 That planned increase is roughly four times the distance from New York to San Francisco.

In the days after the speech, Benedict several times distanced himself from the words of the emperor that caused offense, noting that they «were a quotation from a medieval text, which do not in anyway express my personal thought.»

The cloud is about three times as massive as Earth, emits five times as much energy as the sun, and spans 250 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.

They are in a zone located about three times the distance from the star as Earth is from the sun — still close enough, theoretically, to coalesce into more complex molecules from which life could spring.

That's 36 times the distance from us to the moon.

At the time of the observations, the asteroid was traveling away from the Earth, so its distance varied from 1.3 million to 1.6 million kilometers, or about three - and - a-half to four times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.

«For HR 8799, the infrared excess was consistent with dust orbiting at around 80 astronomical units,» or roughly 80 times the distance from the Earth to the sun (7.4 billion miles, or 11.9 billion kilometers), Marois says.

This lead them to predict that there is a planet at more than 200 times our distance from the Sun.

Space.com said that the bright star at the center has a companion separated by 62 times the distance from the Earth to the sun, and the third protostar circles out in the dust cloud, 183 times the Earth - Sun distance.

Pluto's oval orbit takes it so far away (up to about 50 times the distance from Earth to the sun) that the atmosphere may freeze out as bright crystals onto a surface tinged red by methane.

This graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2004 BL86, which will come no closer than about three times the distance from Earth to the Moon on Jan. 26, 2015.

The stars of Alpha Centauri lie 4.3 light - years from us, which is around 270,000 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.

Fomalhaut's ring is offset by 1.4 billion miles, more than 15 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun, suggesting the hidden planet's orbit is also tremendously skewed.

(The outer shell of the nebula has a radius of 10,000 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.)

The ALMA research shows that the ring's width is about 16 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth, and is only one - seventh as thick as it is wide.

British Pop - Artists do not seem to have enjoyed the classification, and many have spent inordinate amounts of time distancing themselves from the movement, often to the detriment of their subsequent career.

Jupiter is (from memory) a bit over 5 times the distance from the sun as Earth is; thus, with about 1/1000 the mass of the sun, the gravitational acceleration of the Earth toward the sun due to the sun's mass is about 1000 * (4 to 6) ^ 2 = 16,000 to 36,000 times that of it's acceleration toward Jupiter due to Jupiter's mass, whereas if the Earth were accelerating toward the barycenter of the Sun - Jupiter system, shouldn't that ratio should be ~ 1000 * 1 / (4 to 6) = 250 to ~ 167?

Not exact matches

Markle's direct line with her fans was nice while it lasted, but royal life demands more distance in the form of strict royal protocol — even though she's been known to break it from time to time.

SpeakerClock (iOS only), the post notes, offers helpfully huge fonts to help you keep track of time from a distance and without squinting.

«No matter the reason for his backing out, it is certainly a good time to distance oneself from Planned Parenthood.»

«I thought at that time that I could manage from a distance.»

Caviar offers free delivery promotions from time to time (usually with a promo code a minimum order amount requirement), and restaurants offer varying rates for delivery based on time and distance.

According to the New York Times, he said that Black Lives Matter activists need to be willing to sit down and actually discuss the issues with those who have the power to enact social change, instead of simply shouting at them from a distance.

Distancing yourself from the rest of the office makes work harder for you because you spend so much time there without connecting with other humans.

Only viewing from a distance, which time away gives, let him see the hamster wheel that superficial, non-meaningful reward kept him on.

Harper was a co-author of the original firewall letter, but had distanced himself from it by the time he took federal leadership.

She self manages her entire real estate portfolio from long distance while holding down a full time job.

It is so easy to be brave from a safe distance, to say that you will be cool when the tough times come.

If you need someone to see through muddled waters, identify opportunities from a distance or raise large capital in a short amount of time, he is the man

They were prompted by strong reaction from TV executives and creative auspices involved in TWC series who practically demanded the name removal as they wanted to distance their projects from Weinstein following the New York Times «devastating Thursday expose detailing decades of sexual harassment behavior.

Hogg urged his followers on Twitter to contact advertisers for Ingraham's prime time show, and by Thursday afternoon, after at least two companies had distanced themselves from the program, the host offered an apology.

-LRB-...) Labour - intensive industries across Dongguan, a city of 8m that from a distance resembles a forest of factories, are grappling with a drop in orders from the west at a time when double - digit Chinese wage inflation over the past couple of years has prompted western retailers to move orders to south - east Asia and Bangladesh.

Road transport is also facing competition from rail, which is taking over more of the long - distance runs that are not popular with drivers, keeping them away from home for extended periods of time.

However, you do not have to be a first time home buyer, as long as you own no other adequate housing a reasonable distance from the area in which you are buying.

As we recently pointed out, the DJIA has posted unprecedented overbought readings in longer - term time frames and we suspect that the distance from the 200 dma it recently reached was quite a rare extreme as well.

While former first lady Hillary Clinton, who defended her husband Bill Clinton when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke out, the wife of the current Oval Office occupant has remained silent and at times kept a distance from the president.

Online payments giant Stripe has also distanced itself from decentralized digital currency bitcoin, which it has supported since mid-2014, citing lengthy transaction times, rising fees and dwindling customer appetite.

Online payments giant Stripe has begun distancing itself from decentralized digital currency bitcoin, which it has supported since mid-2014, citing lengthy transaction times, rising fees and dwindling customer appetite.

There comes a point in time when we have so distanced ourselves from the reality of God»

In our time, with a little distance from it all, a book like God and Man at Yale and a life like William F. Buckley's seem to call us to a different way of being Catholic in the world.

To immediately distance myself from someone at the same time that I'm sharing their thoughts is strange, and it says a lot about how we operate.

It's good that you added your background here to note your theological distance from Tony despite close working proximity at times.

It then landed again a few hours later, bouncing a smaller distance the second time before finally landing about a kilometre from the original landing area (the comet is rotating as well as moving fast).

The political leadership of Revisionism at this time was secular and sometimes unlettered about Judaism; it generally chose to «respect» religion from a distance.

«17 Therefore, a past system can exercise its influence across space and time from a distance, non-contiguously with its effects.

As we saw in the last chapter, popular poetry juxtaposes Christian language with contemporary analogues and contrasts and does thereby achieve a kind of ironic distance from that language; but direct contact with traditional language and symbols — what Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins achieved — is not easy, if it is even possible in our time.

He wasted no time in telling me how he grew up in a Christian world, and how he has now distanced himself far from it.

Each flower, each leaf, every greeting from a friend, every letter from a distance, every poem and every song strikes with double impact, as if we were sensing them for the first and for the last time.

It is only because God utterly transcends history that his free decision to become a human being in time is also a decision of grace: «Far from implying a distance between the Word and the world, the Word's distinct manner of transcending the world implies a distinct manner of intimacy with the world.»

A Christian theologian, Frei explained, will therefore «do ethics to indicate that this narrated, narratable world is at the same time the ordinary world of our experience, and he will do ad hoc apologetics, in order to throw into relief particular features of this world by distancing them from or approximating them to other descriptions....