Sentences with phrase «together by a thread»

So far this year, this team has been held together by a thread.

«There are large regions of the chromosomes that are tethered together by these threads, while the rest is stretched out like a slinky as the chromosomes are pulled in opposite directions.

Beyond technology that brings the region magnetic hovering trains and high rises with thatched roofs, Wakanda's existence hangs together by a thread of myth and a militant democratic monarchy, whose throne T'Challa has inherited following the passing of his father T'Chaka (John Kani).

Beyond technology that brings the region magnetic hovering trains and high rises with thatched roofs, Wakanda's existence hangs together by a thread of myth and a militant democratic monarchy, whose throne T'Challa has inherited following the passing of his father T'Chaka -LRB-

On a family vacation, Dan realizes he's falling hard for Mitch's radiant girlfriend, Marie (Juliette Binoche), and Dan has to decide whether he wants to keep his broken family together by a thread or have a second chance at happiness.

So i am wondering from your perspective as having to fix them, does vw really mass produce cars that are holding together by thread and duct tape or am i just seeing all of the people with a negative experience talking about the cars?

The print feels strongly connected to the accompanying text, stringing the exhibition together by a thread of poetic - manifesto styled musings.

Not exact matches

Rig hands thread together drilling pipe at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania.

Shel Horowitz is a man of eclectic interests all tied together by a common thread: a passion for ethics.

First off, I direct you to the threads for lots of good stuff — including very complicated and smart musings by Escoffier on just how strange Mansfield's interpretation of Machiavelli is, together with a Big Mach numerology puzzler (for those who care about such stuff).

Us singles are drawn together by a common thread.

Hence the present array of topics is bound together by the common thread of moral concern.

What escapes Mollenkott is the fact that the hermeneutical principle she enunciates does not suggest dismissing a passage because of «the hardness of our hearts,» but rather reevaluating it with fresh, exacting, detailed research seeking a thread by which the «book hangs together.»

«Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth... one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the whole corpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis... He must at once be a Thomist and an Atomist; until that reconciliation is attempted, the pulpit and the laboratory will be forever at cross-purposes.»

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

Theories woven by atheists AND theists have many presuppositional threads on the backside which aren't readily noticed but are crucial in holding together the theories adorning the walls.

With much of the team having grown up in and around the Campolindo community, the common threads sewn together by Macy and his coaching staff keep expanding year after year.

We keep Louise Hatheway's vision alive by helping people learn about the thread that ties people, nature, and agriculture together.

According to Newton, gravity was a force that could reach across empty space, pulling objects together by invisible threads.

Lacking these bristles, the wolf spider instead glues sand particles together by connecting the grains with fine silk threads.

Recent research has shown that some chromosomes avoid these mistakes by using thin threads of DNA to tether themselves together, but how they come untied again has not been clear.

«By combining human functional brain imaging with nonhuman primate neurophysiology, [the investigators] weave together threads of research that have too long been separate strands,» he says.

This institute, established in February 2004 by Dan Reed, strives to bring together the sciences, arts, and humanities and uses computing to take advantage of the interwoven threads of various scientific goals.

By the 1980s, other related conditions, including increased abdominal fat, obesity and high blood triglycerides, had been tied together in the same common thread by a condition called insulin resistance.2 Recognition that insulin resistance is a spectrum disorder was first proposed in 1979.3 This is a serious problem seen as the earliest manifestation of what became known in the 1990s as metabolic syndrome, 4 and which today incorporates all the above conditionBy the 1980s, other related conditions, including increased abdominal fat, obesity and high blood triglycerides, had been tied together in the same common thread by a condition called insulin resistance.2 Recognition that insulin resistance is a spectrum disorder was first proposed in 1979.3 This is a serious problem seen as the earliest manifestation of what became known in the 1990s as metabolic syndrome, 4 and which today incorporates all the above conditionby a condition called insulin resistance.2 Recognition that insulin resistance is a spectrum disorder was first proposed in 1979.3 This is a serious problem seen as the earliest manifestation of what became known in the 1990s as metabolic syndrome, 4 and which today incorporates all the above conditions.

This type of lace, made by knotting fine threads together, requires ultimate attention, as the weaving technique is quite elaborate and time - consuming.

Almost exclusively locked to playing as Patroklos, the story strings together battles in a confusing web of plot threads punctuated by hand - drawn slideshow styled pencil sketches.

Johnson («Looper») deftly weaves the plot threads together, mixing deadpan humor, familiar characters — like the stalwart Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo, filling the furry boots of Peter Mayhew) and the chrome - plated Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie)-- and some surprising new ones, led by Laura Dern's Vice Admiral Holdo.

It's a series of short films tied together by the characters who thread through the chapters, played by different actors in different incarnations....

In addition, Crackle will SUPERSIZE the commercial by packaging it with a story - arc of unique content that will be threaded together across all 10 episodes.

It's amazing how well the two halves of the equation work, bound together by Wright's usual comedic touch, but finding common threads in surprising ways.

But then disparate threads come together under its pleasant facade to form a sharply incisive zinger that condemns the American people for, sweet and nice as they may be, being perfectly willing to be manipulated by their leaders and their entertainers as long as the flow of cheap oil and useless consumer products continues.

The stories are stitched together by a loose narrative thread involving a man (Paul Rudd) serving as narrator who is leaving his wife (Famke Janssen) for a younger ditz (Jessica Alba).

There are three main threads glued together by Paul (Jeremy Davies), the editor of the movie within the movie.

While Beginners similarly played with editing to embody the intangibility of memory, Women exists in a beautiful haze of shapshots threaded together like we might remember a period that defined us: linear but maybe not, burdened by the perspective of the future, perhaps even a little better (or worse) than it actually was.

Those threads came together in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, a bill designed in part by Francis Keppel, then the commissioner of education (the pre-cabinet-level equivalent of secretary of education) and a transformative dean at the Ed School.

They also see it as a set of social and cultural threads knit together by the world's expanding ability to communicate.

«School improvement is a process that should involve all stakeholders working together on a shared vision» In my opinion school improvement is a process that should involve all stakeholders, working together on a shared vision and be driven by diverse strands threading throughout the school, all feeding into this process.

«By some margin, the TTS is the most agile, fastest, and most entertaining TT of all, and you can thread together corners with real fluency and verve.

- The Independent (UK) «Memories aren't always connected by reason, but Barry proves more adept than most at twisting their threads together with narrative panache.»

The fictional notebooks belonging to Joe Rose, a young gay man killed in 1989 by a gang of hateful young men, is the thread that stitches together the stories of seven out gay high - school students in Montreal.

Excited by its revelations, he has pieced together the tangled and dramatic threads of his family's past and present, making sense of the magnetic pull that has drawn him back to his mother's homeland.

Tunis is recognisably Mediterranean in character, yet bound together by an Islamic thread and North African climate that hold a seductive charm and mysticism.

Tunis is recognizably Mediterranean in character, yet bound together by an Islamic thread and North African climate that hold a seductive charm and mysticism.

With the fate of Dark Reef and the safety of the free seas hanging by a fish - gut thread, you'll need to work together if you're to find any hope for survival.»

Almost exclusively locked to playing as Patroklos, the story strings together battles in a confusing web of plot threads punctuated by hand - drawn slideshow styled pencil sketches.

Zero, unburdened by the need to accommodate the expanded cast of more recent entries, focuses on just two playable characters - stoic series regular Kazuma Kiryu and loose cannon Goro Majima - and two narrative threads, which begin some distance apart before inexorably drawing together and eventually becoming intertwined.

The thin threads of a narrative aren't really tied together and completed by the game has run its course, which is disappointing because despite its fairly generic premise, there was much more I wanted to learn about the predicament I was in, and the planet I found myself on.

The show brings together a number of works created by Bayrle starting in the 1970s that model anonymous grids of city blocks and highways — works he initially envisioned while working as a jacquard weaver and staring into the hypnotic patterns of the thread crossings.

The opening this week of Entangled: Threads & Making — which brings together more than 100 works by 40 women artists of 19 nationalities united by their use of materials and methodology of making art — seems particularly appropriate.

Sandback thickens a line into brighter color by stringing two or three threads together, often pairing two lines like a shaft of light.