Sentences with phrase «which is some distance»

In the seventh century, when the Nestorian Patriarch Isho - Yahb III (650 - 660) wrote to Simemon, the Metropolitan of Riwardashir, admonishing him for «closing the door of the episcopal ordination in the face of the many peoples of India», he speaks of India as a country «that extends from the borders of the Persian Empire, to the country which is called Kalah, which is a distance of one thousand and two hundred parasangas.»

«Well, sir, I threw the slow curve, and he hit this little Chinese home run down the rightfield line — which was no distance at all — 20 feet back into the stands for his second of the day,» says Bush.

Similar courses are available at the Open University, which is a distance - learning institution in Milton Keynes, and at the universities of Bristol, Sussex, and Bath.

They used a newer biological marker of hormonal action in utero: anogenital distance at birth, which is the distance between the anus and the genitals.

The new research also looked at hCG in relation to a biological marker called anogenital distance, which is the distance between the anus and genitals.

A critical dimension is wheelbase, which is the distance between the front and rear axles and a key factor in cabin space, particularly rear - seat legroom.

The fuel efficiency is not great for drives of 5 miles or less (which is the distance I usually drive)-- the engine can be relatively inefficient while warming up, and the hybrid technology doesn't kick in right away.

To help generate the strong low - end torque customers expect in a truck, it was designed with a long piston stroke of 4.01 inches (102 mm), which is the distance the piston travels up and down within the cylinder.

Second, your profit potential, which is the distance from the entry to the supply area above, is as large as it will ever be for this opportunity.

The town proper with it's busy road and great little eats and the beach which is a distance away and almost a town unto itself.

Another way to get to Barbados is to use British Airways Avios miles, which are distance based.

One of the best values is Avios, which is a distance - based program that can save you miles on shorter, non-stop flights.

The track width, which is the distance between the front left and front right wheels, also plays a role in a vehicle's likelihood to roll.

Otherwise the court risks becoming a primary decision - maker, which is some distance from the arm's - length oversight which judicial review traditionally provides.

A famous example of this is the Area 51 complex, which is some distance into the desert away from the property lines.

Safe space — You will learn about safe space which is the distance between you and the driver when traveling at certain speeds both behind you and in front.

Not exact matches

When Musk was a child, he would often gaze into the distance while his parents were speaking to him, which led them to believe that he might be hard of hearing.

The only thing the U.S. has gotten to Mars's surface is a robot, and no humans have been to the moon — which is about 1 / 170th the distance away — since 1972.

As the company's chief technology officer, Yony Feng, explained to Fortune in 2016, Peloton's bike sensors collects data like revolutions per minute, speed, and distance, which is transmitted via the Internet to the company.

A trim long - distance runner and father of three, Marcus Gillam comes by his building ways honestly: his father, Keith, founded Vanbots, which was a construction powerhouse in the Greater Toronto Area from the 1970s to the late 2000s.

If you do sprint — which is high intensity — it must be a short distance.

But once Bannister did it, all of a sudden other runners started repeating the feat, and today the four - minute mile is considered a yardstick by which all distance runners are measured.

It might seem like an empath is pushing you away or distancing themselves from you, but in reality, they're just trying to take a break from absorbing your feelings in addition to their own, which can be exhausting.

While this isn't a new idea, today's young entrepreneurs have the advantage of the Internet, which has collapsed time and distance barriers.

Launch costs, which are mostly based on weight and distance above the planet, are also lower.

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

Attendees — some of whom traveled far distances to get there — were met with widespread network problems, which prevented many from being able to play the game.

Gould told me that the team is already working on a 2.0 version that's powered by peer - to - peer communication, which should significantly increase the distance the Flyer can fly without losing communication with your phone.

«No one, not even the North Koreans, knows the CEP of the HS - 12,» Mike Elleman, the senior fellow for missile defense at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told Business Insider, referring to circular error probable, or the distance by which a missile can be expected to miss its target.

Another good example is Johnson & Johnson, a global organization with employees all over the world, who realized that they needed culturally relevant and appropriate content for distance learning and training that would make sense to each specific region of the world in which they do business in order for their employees to truly feel connected.

The Ranger deployment was followed soon after by a contingent of US Marines from the 1st Battalion, 4th Marine regiment, which left their ships to establish a combat outpost inside Syria that is apparently within striking distance of Raqqa.

As energy costs increase, it will cost more to ship food across great distances, which will ultimately be reflected in the price on the grocery store shelf.

Though executives at large drugmakers, which also routinely enact large price increases for established products, were quick to distance themselves from Shkreli, the House oversight committee seems intent on drawing comparisons across the industry.

He's six feet tall, but he's got the lean physique of a long - distance athlete and a shaved head, both of which accentuate his taut silhouette, making him seem taller.

Fab was experiencing meteoric growth and had just obtained $ 150 million in funding, all of which made it look, from a distance, like a healthy company.

We've debated the ethics of 3D - printing guns before, so this isn't really a new subject, especially for the «maker» community, which has generally addressed the gun - printing issue by distancing itself as much as possible from the hardcore, gun - printing evangelists like DEFCAD.

These sites — which include Net2Phone.com, iConnectHere.com, Dialpad.com, and PhoneFree.com — offer free or inexpensive local and long - distance service and very competitive international rates (including great deals on international calls if they're PC to PC as opposed to using a computer to call someone's regular phone).

«In the moments before the collision, which occurred at 9:27 a.m. on Friday, March 23, Autopilot was engaged with the adaptive cruise control follow - distance set to minimum.

And hired managers are only employees who may or may not have a genuine commitment to their jobs, which makes supervising their work from a distance a challenge.

LNG is liquefied natural gas (the same gas that you'd use in your home heating system) chilled to -161 °C, which reduces its volume to 1 / 600th of the volume of gas, making it economically feasible to transport over long distances by ship.

In his written judgement Ouseley concluded that, «A taximeter, for the purposes of Section 11 of the Private Hire Vehicles (London) Act 1998, is not a device which receives GPS signals in the course of a journey, and forwards GPS data to a server located outside of the vehicle, which calculates a fare that is partially or wholly determined by reference to distance travelled and time taken, and sends the fare information back to the device.»

Spencer was a participant in the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. in August, which led to PayPal cutting ties with him, among other businesses that distanced themselves from his National Policy Institute.

VSP Global, the vision services giant, announced Thursday that it's launching a new «smart glass» product called Level which can track steps, calories burned, distance, and total activity time through a device located in the left temple of the frame.

In an interview with Fortune, the tech icon shares his straightforward investing strategy, which is to avoid it and to keep his distance from finance altogether.

While health problems ranging from malaria to AIDS to respiratory tract diseases are common there, transportation can be difficult to find, which means that distance can dictate whether a person lives or dies.

However, critics felt the name change was a public relations move to distance the company from the hazardous product for which it became known.

This is the event she won in a stunning upset over more seasoned distance swimmers in 2012, and it's the distance at which she's most comfortable.

Through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone.

The bike's sensors collect data like revolutions per minute, speed, and distance, which is transmitted via the Internet to the company.

Which is funny, because one of his agency's contributions to the weepy advertising canon is for Skype, whose Stay Together series is a lovely meditation on how technology can close the distances between people.