Sentence examples for firma from from inspiring English sources

Jupiter has dozens of moons, but you couldn't watch an eclipse from there, either: There's no terra firma from which to experience the shadows these satellites cast on the gas giants.

In the work described here, we developed EST-SSR markers for A. firma from published expressed sequence data, and evaluated the extent of the polymorphism that they exhibit and their potential for transfer to two other closely related Japanese Abies species (A. homolepis Siebold & Zucc. and A. veitchii Lindl).

Far from terra firma, far from other boats, the Müritzsee looked even most vast than before.

Mr. Delno entered the caretaker business for a chance to settle down on terra firma, away from the turmoil of the yachting industry.

Turnover – comprised of investor fees and earnings from the companies owned by Terra Firma – fell to £28.3m from £34.2m.

The danger is that all this can veer into twee territory – certainly 'The Bigger Picture', the catchiest track from new album Tales from Terra Firma, risks eye-rolls, with lyrics about a snowdrop shivering in a graveyard, "no less fragile than the soul to which you cling".

Vivendi is acquiring the EMI music division from Citigroup, which seized EMI from Terra Firma Capital Partners, a private equity firm controlled by the British financier Guy Hands, after Terra Firma failed to pay back loans to the bank.

The accident-prone EMI has done better.The scuttlebutt now is that Warner will try to buy EMI from Citigroup, which seized it earlier this year from Terra Firma, another private-equity firm.

And from its first seconds, my mind began tearing away from terra firma, picturing what scenes these songs could be set to in the game itself.

In February Citi seized EMI from Terra Firma Capital Partners as the private-equity firm struggled with loans that it had obtained from the bank to finance its buy-out of EMI.

With EMI seized from Terra Firma and now with new owners, the revived dispute becomes a fight over money.