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Searching for savings at the end of its term in government, Labor said it was indefinitely deferring the already legislated changes because the floating carbon price was forecast to be far lower than originally calculated and families did not need as much compensation.
The projecting glassy liner, which drives a wedge between the Southbank and the National Theatre, is echoed 40 metres up in the air, by what the architects describe as a floating pavilion – a 60-metre-long glass box that will loom over the Hayward gallery.
A team of US scientists looked at 18 years' worth of satellite data and found the floating ice shelves that skirt the continent are losing 310km3 of ice every year.
In recent months, the authority has proposed a floating hotel and a heliport for VVIPs in south Mumbai and is looking for other ways to monetise parts of its £7.7bn property.
Two years on from that first visit, I recall a gazelle-like, beautiful human being floating about in the covers, a man with the balance and grace of a ballet dancer – he was an as yet unknown David Gower, still a season away from swivelling pulling his first ball in Test cricket for four.
"The more extravagant vision of the ship floating at sea for weeks is I think an unnecessary vision with my understanding that government lawyers have now undertaken to get this ship of asylum seekers to a destination within the next couple of days, and we have to accept that in good faith".
First, they focus on ocean surface temperature measurements from floating buoys and from ship-board sensors.
It really was a toss-up about what was more noteworthy: that Abbott gave that overly frank account of his private scheduling to a room full of people; or that people would leak it, knowing that's a highly damaging concept to have floating out there.
WS Graham wrote in a 1977 poem of "Floating across the frozen tundra / of the lexicon and the dictionary", but I find lexicons to be more tropical jungle than tundra, gloriously ornate in their tendrilled outgrowths and complex root systems.
Gone are the days when the garden was off limits to all but the most inquisitive of future footballers – it's now a public space and, with some inevitability, there's a Costa cup floating in the pond.
At the opposite extreme of England, another mysterious phenomenon is about to appear around the West Country coast: a floating island, a mini-geography that is desolate and unfamiliar, composed of rock and moraine from the Arctic.
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The word "floating" primarily functions as an adjective , describing something that is buoyant or suspended. As Ludwig AI shows, it also acts as a verb in its present participle form and occasionally as a noun referring to material that floats.
Expression frequency: Very common
