Sentences with phrase «were on the deck of»

Simply reducing the number of readings used from modern measurements does not tell you anything about how accurate temperature readings were on the deck of a rolling, wooden sailing ship or how they can be compared to today's reading.

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But if any issue is below the waterline, meaning there is an issue that threatens the seaworthiness of the craft and the life of the crew, then it's time to sound the all - hands - on - deck alert as a way to rally everyone toward fixing that issue as quickly and as effectively as possible.

In his own way, Cook offered at least three signals that some sort of major media acquisition could be on deck.

The Dow could see a big move as seven of its components are on deck, representing more than 27 percent of the index's total weighting.

New products are constantly coming out on the market — if you only know about decks made of wood, you will not know how to inspect and assess the new materials on the market, such as composites that are made to look like real wood.

Sure, parking a rocket truck on the flight deck of a vessel on the open ocean seems simple enough, but Marine officials are overjoyed with the success of the Oct. 22 exercise.

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This smaller, more out - of - the - way island means that there will be more room and accessibility for the aircraft on the deck, which will improve maintenance times and turnarounds.

On the BP Angelin project, the final mechanical completion of the deck along with onshore commissioning is on schedule to be completed early in Q2 2018 at the Altamira yarOn the BP Angelin project, the final mechanical completion of the deck along with onshore commissioning is on schedule to be completed early in Q2 2018 at the Altamira yaron schedule to be completed early in Q2 2018 at the Altamira yard.

But it also proves that its launch of movies on DC Comics characters («Suicide Squad» and «Justice League» on deck) can compete with the already successful Marvel characters that have been dominating the box office.

Occasionally I see people sitting on the back deck; on those occasions that happens, she's always standing at the limit of her chain, as close to them as she can be.

But if you — or your kid — are bent on earning a bachelor's degree, how can you stack the deck to make sure an attractive job waits on the other end of four (or more) years?

Colleran's sales deck, which is focused on Starbucks, takes us back to early 2005, a quaint time before the era of Total Facebook Domination.

At this moment many of those colleagues are just below decks from the helicopter's departure point on the USS Tarawa.

On the fifth night, when the boat was out of fuel and passengers were down to their final rations, Tan, though she had been warned not to speak while above deck, couldn't resist remarking to her mother on the sudden appearance through the clouds of a wide patch of brilliant starOn the fifth night, when the boat was out of fuel and passengers were down to their final rations, Tan, though she had been warned not to speak while above deck, couldn't resist remarking to her mother on the sudden appearance through the clouds of a wide patch of brilliant staron the sudden appearance through the clouds of a wide patch of brilliant stars.

Often times, social entrepreneurs will have three different versions of their pitch deck depending on who they are talking to.

Lea Kissner is back at her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, armed with a crisp gray blazer, a slide deck, and a laptop with a «My Other Car Is A Pynchon Novel» sticker on iis back at her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, armed with a crisp gray blazer, a slide deck, and a laptop with a «My Other Car Is A Pynchon Novel» sticker on iIs A Pynchon Novel» sticker on it.

As the good ship Titanically Overleveraged headed full - steam ahead to a monstrous wall of ice, emotions on deck were mixed.

At the same time, a political discourse that is overly focused on the external causes of misfortune can make people feel like the deck is stacked against them, so why even try?

On Deck's secret is software that evaluates loans within minutes based on analysis of data including cash flow, past credit use, and vendor payment historOn Deck's secret is software that evaluates loans within minutes based on analysis of data including cash flow, past credit use, and vendor payment historon analysis of data including cash flow, past credit use, and vendor payment history.

(New York, NY) March 24, 2010 — On Deck Capital (www.ondeck.com), a leading provider of small business financing solutions, announced today announced today that over $ 50 million of loans have now been made to more than 2,000 Main Street small businesses using its proprietary performance lending system which evaluates businesses based on electronic performance data rather than relying solely on the business owner's personal credit scorOn Deck Capital (www.ondeck.com), a leading provider of small business financing solutions, announced today announced today that over $ 50 million of loans have now been made to more than 2,000 Main Street small businesses using its proprietary performance lending system which evaluates businesses based on electronic performance data rather than relying solely on the business owner's personal credit scoron electronic performance data rather than relying solely on the business owner's personal credit scoron the business owner's personal credit score.

«Business owners need to be aware of the very high price of merchant cash advances,» says Mitch Jacobs, founder and CEO of On Deck Capital, which provides unsecured small business loans to companies denied by traditional banks.

On Deck Capital is financed by some of the nation's leading venture capital firms, including SAP Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Khosla Ventures, RRE Ventures and Village Ventures.

He is leading a consortium of venture capitalists backing On Deck Capital, a financing network designed to provide loans to small businesses that can't pass muster with banks.

On Deck, which launched in 2007, is one of a number of venture capital - backed companies that have arisen in recent years and that take advantage of the greater availability of business data via the Internet to lend to small companies that banks typically turn down, says Mitch Jacobs, CEO of On Deck.

Click on the link just below to download the PDF of the master deck Shel Horowitz uses to select audience - specific slides for his popular talk, «Impossible is a Dare,» given at such venues as TEDx, Green America's massive Green Festival in New York City, and the Slow Living Summit in Vermont.

A handful of other prominent companies are also on deck to report during this shortened trading week.

I travel a lot, and it's the only airport I know of where you can sit out on an open deck and watch and listen to the jets take off and land.

A handful of companies in the data services sector are on deck to report earnings.

In a sales deck obtained by Ad Age that was sent out to partners last month, the company states plainly: «We expect organic distribution of an individual page's posts to gradually decline over time as we continually work to make sure people have a meaningful experience on the site.»

Beyond the special visit of Senator Collins, highlights included: • Intense and probing pre and post-dinner conversations about the economy and the world on the deck (along with wonderful wine and hors d'oeuvres — part of the tradition is that each participant ships several bottles of excellent wine to share with others) • Participation in a financial forecast survey of key factors for the upcoming 12 months as well as a review of the prior year's financial forecast survey — including distribution of funds that the prior year's attendees «bet» on the accuracy of the forecasts.

Darrow said «Instead of being the captain of his soul, as I have sometimes expressed it, man isn't even a deck - hand on a rudderless ship!

Already on deck, of course, is the music streaming service Spotify.

The US Dollar index could begin a larger rally given the weakness in Pound sterling which has a lot of momentum vs USD while the BOJ meeting is on deck for the Japanese, with most eyeing Kuroda to attempt to weaken the Yen using new methods.

In this Part 1, first, we look at the tail of an asset return distribution and compress our knowledge on Value - at - Risk (VaR) to extract the essence required to understand why VaR - stuff is not the best card in our deck.

On Deck announced that Zhengyuan Lu has been named VP of Capital Markets to optimize and strengthen the company's capital structure.

In 15 years of dangerous missions — from midnight raids on al - Qaida safe houses in Iraq to battling Somali pirates from the deck of a heaving Navy ship on the high seas — there had never been one so shadowed by dread.

There is a hummingbird feeder hanging on the deck and I sat out there for hours trying to get a shot like this one of the several hummingbirds that were literally warring over the feeder.

«COLUMBIA, Mo. — Recovery from any disaster is a team effort and a disaster the size of the one in Joplin, Mo. requires all hands on deck.

I think one must be a few IQ points shy of a full deck to post on CNNs religion articles.

And it goes without saying that said tribes can be found powwowing on either the port or the starboard side of the deck.

«But the entire concept of trading gifts, of decking an evergreen tree with tinsel of silver and gold and singing songs and roasting chestnuts on an open fire, that's all taken, 100 % of it.

I stood on the deck beside her, he stretched his tall frame out on a six foot ladder in the middle of a forest, hollering questions about whether or not it was straight.

For me to suggest that much of what followed right into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is not intended to be dismissive of intellectual giants whose efforts far outstrip my own.

two days later the kid sleeping next to me pulled out a piece of paper, sheldon clay was his name, and he showed me his blue print he drew, of a new house, with an above ground swimming pool, with a flush deck around the pool, and a privacy fence on the deck.

A) The Bible does not mention what was done with all those thousands of pounds of excrement or how it was collected, brought on deck and then dumped overboard.

On the cover of the magazine was a boat, decked out just like mine.

It was there, on the deck of the ship, that Horatio Spafford penned the words to the hymn «It Is Well With My Soul.»

They are only higher - paying passengers on a higher deck of the same sinking ship.

But if we pass in advance this bitter judgment of uselessness that paralyzes and discourages us, if we are thus completely lacking in love for God, or if on the other hand we magnify our works and regard them as important and successful (Jesus, little Jesus, I have so wonderfully exalted you, but if I had attacked you in your defenselessness your shame would have been as great as your glory...), if we come before God decked out in the glory of these lofty, grandiose, and successful works, then... «Woe to you that are rich» (Luke 6:24), for the rich man today is the successful man.