Sentences with phrase «way as miles»

Points can be redeemed for flights and upgrades in the same way as miles.

Not exact matches

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

As Barclays offers a 5 % bonus redemption rate for travel purchases this can be a great way to offset the entire rate or only part of it by earning a statement credit of 1 cent per mile.

We have a long way to go in making autonomous driving an everyday reality, but as of February 2018, we're seven miles closer.

As the two planets make their separate ways around the sun, the distance between Mars and the Earth varies immensely — from about 35 million miles, to nearly 250 million miles separating the two celestial bodies.

Virgin Atlantic Flying Club partners offer some great ways to earn miles, as you've seen from all the tips above.

Liberal and old school Theologians as well as non believers find their way based upon the light they are given even though they may be miles apart on understanding what is the meaning of the Angel of Lord.

And just as the camp host had said, the road was a beautifully smooth dirt road for a mile or two, and then pavement all the rest of the way home.

But there remains the nagging question that never seems to go away when you are faced, as Bonhoeffer was, with a tyrant in your own backyard (not thousands of miles away) intent on destroying the world and annihilating all those who stand in his way.

If John Wesley had merely ridden 250,000 miles through the English, Scottish, and Irish countryside, preaching 42,000 sermons along the way, his reputation as one of the most energetic Christians in history would be secure.

But the Coens do their best to keep the puzzle and possibility open, as we later learn that the first cat Davis lost miraculously made its way from Greenwich Village back uptown to Washington Heights, and at one point Davis's eye fixes on a poster for Disney's INCREDIBLE JOURNEY, the one where pets find their way home across hundreds of miles of wilderness.

Globalization can thus be defined as worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa.

Walk with them two miles, give them your spare coat... and perhaps praying for strength to endure, for the wisdom to see God, even in the darkness - and who understands suffering, and only for an «instant» miraculous healing if that is God's will... and that many people would believe and find a way to connect with God as a result if that does happen.

As I thought about how to apply these teachings practically, a lot of strategies came to mind — putting the needs of others before my own, buying less and giving more, humbling myself when engaged in political or theological debates, embracing rather than complaining about those «one - way relationships,» praying for others more sincerely, saying «yes» a little more often, working on that ubiquitous sense of entitlement and pride that keeps me from going the extra mile.

The Butcher Shoppe competes with a number of regional supermarket chains as well as Walmart and Target, so Keath says going the extra mile for customers is one way it distinguishes itself.

But keep in mind, as you pound through endless miles on the treadmill and puff your way up imaginary flights on the stair machine, that healthy eating does not necessarily mean unsatisfying food served with a flourish of blandness.

As part of my thank you, I'd made a batch of this maple walnut fudge and sent it back her way, which meant that some of that maple syrup logged about 10,000 miles in the span of one week.

In his heyday Antonious was a hearty athlete who ran three miles each way to high school, and as an adult he became an accomplished duckpin bowler.

In addition, if neither Cazorla nor Ramsey improve their game by a mile, i reckon Ox (for ramsey) or Sanchez (for Cazorla) should take their place on the team and put Poldi on the left winger (or even Campbell on the right) They do nt even have to be bad, this could even be nothing more than a proposition on how to rotate the squad in the way of avoiding injuries on players, as well as giving frustrated benchwarmers some much appreciated time on the pitch.

One is to take a four - mile run up a trail in the hills, a way few know about, a path so narrow it begins to close in behind him as he follows its course.

From a treetop tiger shoot in India, Robert Lehmann flew 8,000 miles to watch with his wife as his long shot Dust Commander took the rail soon after the start, stayed there nearly all the way and won the Kentucky Derby.

That's longer than the Nordschleife, but not quite as long as the combined Nurburgring circuit that the VLN races on (which is 16.1 miles), and way shorter than the Isle of Man TT course (37.7 miles).

Challenged as seldom before, New Zealand's Peter Snell persevered to take the mile from a determined field in Los Angeles as Australia's Ron Clarke, running alone most of the way, paced himself to two world records

By this point, Giancarlo Fisichella was leading by a mile, but on a wet setup was struggling for ultimate pace as Raikkonen chased him down, setting lap records on the way.

He looked certain to score as he advanced calmly towards Cech, opened his body up as the goalkeeper dived the wrong way and passed the ball miles wide of the target.

Genzebe Dibaba continued her record - breaking ways in Birmingham on Saturday as she set a world indoor best over two miles at the Sainsbury's Indoor Grand Prix.

The bridge would be designated as the only legal way for pedestrians to cross a mile - long segment of the railroad tracks.

After trekking 1,600 miles each way in a mini-van with three little ones you learn to bend a little to adapt and make the time as enjoyable as possible.

I use a pram / stroller just in my village as it is a mile to the shop / post office etc a long way for little legs.

Whether it's farmers or fishers suddenly being able to call around and shop around for the best prices for their crop or catch, or the ability of a rural laborer to avoid walking miles in (often fruitless) searches for available jobs, or the possibility, in some countries, to actually use phones as mobile bank accounts, the devices have proved useful in an astonishing number of ways.

Saratoga Casino and Raceway spokeswoman Rita Cox said as the Rivers Casino and Resort is being constructed in Schenectady, 25 miles away, the Raceway is looking for new ways to stay competitive after its own bid to expand to a full - scale casino fell short.

Each gas drilling well requires 5 acres of road and well pad, 4 to 9 million gallons of water mixed with 50,000 gallons of hundreds of different chemicals — many of them highly toxic carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disrupters (as well as many untested synergistically on living beings) forced into a spider web of miles of pipeline that is soon thick coated with radioactive radium when 60 % of that toxic brew is on its way back upward as gas waste «brine.»

I was appalled by the account of Harold Wilson's government, as recently as the late 1960s, forcibly removing Chagos Islanders from their homes to make way for a US airbase on Diego Garcia, even though many lived on islands over 100 miles away.

The STB had no comment on whether it would halt rail removal along the 11 miles of right of way, even as it enters its final stages.

Many people who are councillors in marginal areas, or have previously been in that position, know enough of history, or are old enough recall the 1980's, maybe they blame council election defeats of 1982, and the general elections on the Falklands, maybe they take credit for Andrew Mckintosh winning the GLC for livingstone in 1981, maybe they feel we lost in 1979 as it wasn't left wing enough, But they voted Corbyn and won't accept that we will lose by a mile in 2020 with him, even if we get half as any votes in the council elections over the next 3 years, as before, Various things can be done, Blue labour needs to work with Labour first, like compass before them, anti neo liberalism, felt Blair lost his way after his first 6 years, Yes progress has a large following and ability of resources, but since 2007 it's been redundant

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

A delivery driver who needs instructions can speak to you using 2 - way audio as you sit in a restaurant a few miles away.

(They are able to shed most of their naturally occurring minerals as the water flows through the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts and tunnels on its way to the city's taps.)

If you think of our Milky Way galaxy as an isolated farmhouse, then Impey and Bothun have found evidence of 25,000 new farms within a 20 - mile radius of our own.

Those treks weren't as rough as some people recall them — five miles through the snow, uphill both ways!

Indeed, digs are under way in such unlikely places as a railroad yard eight miles west in East St. Louis, where a new bridge is scheduled.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

As comets near the sun, they start to melt, releasing a tail of dust and gas that stretches out a pretty long way, sometimes hundreds of miles.

Their research demonstrated that three stars had accelerated by more than 250,000 miles per hour a year as they orbited the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Risk can be reduced in several different ways; the traditional approach has been to define a large (10 mile radius) zone within which certain physical infrastructure and administrative procedures are applied as a precautionary measure.

But a recent four - mile race in Sausalito, California, is an example of the continued promotion to drink more: their per - race literature boasts «several refreshment stations along the way» — with a water company as one of the sponsors.

This is awesome as at this exact moment I am half way through a 4 mile hike after polishing off a few mimosas with brunch.

more like punished) to a 5 mile run last night as a way to try and offset all the crazy good eating.

I will try them the correct way as soon as I can get the different kinds of nut flours (we live in a rural town miles away from any!)

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