Sentences with phrase «with rickety»

Kenya, a country with rickety infrastructure and a reliance on agriculture, could be poised to kickstart mainstream use of blockchain technology.

With inexpensive and much cleaner alternatives now available, and with these alternatives proving increasingly competitive with the rickety and harmful old energy sources that the world's tax payers unjustly prop up, there's really no excuse in creating further delays for the far less dangerous and harmful clean energy systems we all deserve.

«Sam had a place with a rickety back room.

Starting out with a rickety ship and 1,000 credits in your space suit's back pocket, you'll need to turn to piracy, trading, exploring, mining or bounty hunting to rise through the intergalactic ranks.

It's crowded with rickety beach chairs and dilapidated huts.

And yet behind this glitzy facade, a bohemian character endures, with rickety warungs (cheap eating houses) and reggae joints surviving between the cocktail tables, and quiet retreats dotting the much - less - busy north coast.

Beaches have an abandoned Robinson - Crusoe feel with rickety shelters constructed from wood and sticks with covers of dried palm leaves.

Speaking in his high - ceilinged office with rickety and mismatched BPS - issue furniture and nibbling on prepackaged Granny Smith apple slices, he says plainly that closing was not something he imagined or trained for.

In this landmark cautionary tale, Close's crazy - haired New Yorker lures happily married Michael Douglas to her Meatpacking District loft, complete with rickety service elevator and yawning bed.

All this is sort of known (e.g., genetic architecture, causal roles) yet «jump - to - the - genes» GWASing continues (with rickety elaborations like polygenic scoring).

Those very expensive lifts, which reduced a skier's time spent waiting in line, drew patrons away from the neighbouring Whistler Mountain with its rickety lifts from the 1960s and»70s.

Not exact matches

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

A matter such as US tax reform was never going to pass without comment from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who tends to lurk in the background of his bank's results calls like a grumpy uncle at a Thanksgiving dinner, occasionally piping up with a tirade against clueless politicians or rickety US infrastructure.

I went to my rickety Ikea bookshelf, swaying with the weight of books, and pulled out the slim volume of poems for the Incarnation called «Accompanied by Angels.»

So all that scholars really have to go on is the text itself — a wild ride on a rickety, ancient, circular - reasoning roller - coaster with little external data to anchor our knowledge of anything.

Free - range means they have access to the outdoors, which means they could have animals raised by the hundreds or thousands with a little rickety door [to the outdoors] and that can be marketed as free - range.»

Unfortunately, we all sat down together to eat breakfast on the same side of a rickety picnic table that had seen better days, and the picnic table toppled over, practically in slow motion... our pancakes flew through the air and landed on top of us, along with everything else that was on the table.

The Armadillo has no bumper bar and people seem to complain about it «feeling» rickety and issues with the basket hitting the ground, the Cruz is a two - hand fold and just had a recall on their bumper bar and the Bee has no peekaboo window, lower weight capacity and is about $ 150 more.

The clips that secure your baby in the seat sometimes is a bit rickety and you might want to be careful with that.

You've seen the cheap umbrella strollers: Tiny rickety strollers with no sun canopy for the child and the adult hunches over to grab the handle bars as they shuffle down the sidewalk.

They headed eight kilometers out to sea where a rickety wooden fishing boat was waiting with around 700 others whose dream was to make it to Italy's coast.

One rickety line of Real Steel exposition begins to explain why this may be: «[With humans] you couldn't give the people what they wanted: True.

A rickety old wizard discovers with help from his friends that life can be enjoyable without a rickety old wand and its unpredictable magic.

Assigned to a rickety plane to conduct a search - and - rescue mission, he survived a crash in the south Pacific and spent the next 46 days in a life raft with two others, living on rain water, captured sea birds and raw fish.

In The Wall, director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) has teamed up with debut screenwriter Dwain Worrell to create a 90 - minute thriller about snipers divided by the eponymous rickety structure, which is part of a bombed building in the Iraqi desert in 2007.

The risk pays off for the rickety franchise, with Rise of the Lycans a swell, if profoundly trivial return to form for the creaky Underworld universe.

Left with little to work with in the historical record, they instead turn their villains» bodies into grotesques: Spall's pathetic moustache tells us all we'll ever know about Shakespeare's fraudulence, while Thewlis is dumped under a pound of old - man makeup and parked in a rickety wheelchair, so you know he's bad news.

At best, this feels like an ill - advised homage to rickety B - movies and with dodgy visual effects and some downright poor supporting turns, this King Kong is the poorest of them all

It is a dark map filled with a swamp area, rickety wood cabins, an RV, broken bridge and a vulnerable camping spot that screams: «you're gonna get murdered if you camp here!»

Boarding the rickety wreck, the four friends, along with the lemur leader and his assistant (voices by Sacha Baron Cohen and Cedric the Entertainer), put their lives in the hands of the penguin skipper (voice by Tom McGrath) and his bird - brained crew.

Donner, while not quite at the peak of his form in execution, does manage to keep all of this mess from getting too unruly, and with a great deal of energy and zing, makes this a fun, rickety ride.

The film delicately interweaves personal memory with the excavation of the recent past of Singapore, various lines of the film converging at a rickety pedestrian bridge crossed by three young hikers, and then at a quiet coffeehouse / bookshop.

Director Tom Harper has a great location (the same old rickety house where the first film was set) and some decent talent to work with.

With a plot revolving around a McGuffin that felt rickety when the first one did it in 1994, the picture embraces the quaint charms of the old school to ironically novel effect.

West Texas is a character unto itself with massive poverty, oil pumps on the horizon, dusty streets, rickety fences, and gun - toting citizens everywhere.

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

A specific object (a pink hairbrush with blonde hair matted in the bristles, a discarded replica of a Dali painting, a baby robin, poking its wobbly head from a rickety nest)

The shifter was a bit tall and a little rickety — especially compared with the manual you find in the high - performance Golf GTI — but it did the job.

If you share the car with someone who prefers a different seat height, the standard height adjuster uses a rickety pump lever that's in a narrow canyon between the seat and the door.

Realize you're attracting people with poor business skills and are too willing to hop on their rickety bandwagon.

Now he was standing again, in the cricket racket, forehead moist with sweat, knees rickety, feet cramped, legs aching with lactic acid.

Front porch senior citizens and eight - year - olds who've already seen it all sit on rickety lawn chairs whittling with switchblades, waiting for something to happen, as it always did.

Some older cats become quite rickety and can not cope with a cat flap, even if they used to use it when younger.

The rickety architecture of Casco Viejo is a world heritage site, and feels like a microcosm of the region: narrow alleyways with children kicking footballs against the wall, Panamanian men playing cards, complete with Panama hats.

This rickety bridge leading to Nusa Ceningan contributes to the island lifestyle experience with its clinging noise and adventurous look.

They'll try to scare you with tales of scam operations and rickety boats.

He illuminates all the beauty, frustration, wisdom and bonding that comes with trading our comfort zones for the inside of a rickety car in a foreign land.»

Most of the temples at Tikal can be climbed, some with rather rickety and steep ladders (it would seem that safety regulations are pretty much non-existent in Guatemala).

What we can glean from the demo, Beginning Hour, is that the action takes place in a remote mansion (before you chip in, not in the Spencer Mansion) in the middle of the countryside; as is the bread and butter of the survival horror series, you play as a seemingly clueless guy stumbling about the rickety homestead with no idea what is going on, his only clues being the occasional shadow of a shambling body or gurgling noise from monsters lurking outside.