Sentence examples for of the stopwatch from inspiring English sources

For people used to the objectivity of the stopwatch, the system can seem unsporty, but even grand old ski jumping is determined, in part, by style points.

As Lowe pointed out, "a car that is quick comes to look good — beauty is in the eye of the stopwatch".

occurs in several ticks of the stopwatch less than three seconds – exact specifications have yet to be announced – and 124 m.p.h.

In 1983, Musgrave read the manuscript for the novel that would eventually be published as Jackrabbit Parole (1986), by Stephen Reid, a convicted bank robber and member of the Stopwatch Gang serving an 18-year sentence in Millhaven Institution in Bath, Ontario.

Long after the show's reports on Brown & Williamson are forgotten, we'll still be hearing in our heads the ominous previews — taking up valuable commercial space during the fourth quarters of football games — and the ticking of the stopwatch, simultaneously the most annoying and most effective branding device in television.

This time, to escape the disturbing proximity of the stopwatch, I went up to the Press Box, high above the field, where I had the choice of a television set at my elbow, the game below me, or a typewriter at hand.

But the spotters are also pursuing a thoroughly unusual pastime, one that calls for long hours outside, freezing in the winter and sweating in the summer, straining to see a moving light in the sky and hoping that a slip of the finger on the stopwatch does not delete an entire night's work.

Take, for example, a trip Mr. Giuliani took on a recent day to meet voters in Oakland, Calif., where he logged a 24-minute visit, according to the stopwatch of the veteran political writer Carla Marinucci of The San Francisco Chronicle, who described the appearance as "lightning-quick".

Short-time perception robustly reflects the rate of the stopwatch-like system [8], [11], [12], being shortened or prolonged when the system "speeds up" or "slows down", respectively [13].

Neural correlates of the stopwatch-like system are suspected to include subcortical (cerebellum and basal ganglia) structures in addition to the right prefrontal cortex (PFC) [8], [9], [14], [15].

For a lot of these companies, the stopwatch has even started yet".