In their mind, Europe is just a speck on an otherwise expanding economic landscape.
By now the old fellow was quite a distance from us, just a speck, really.
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Regardless, foreign banks are but a speck compared to China-based banks in local operations.
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Peter's and quickly became a speck in the horizon as it flew toward Castel Gandolfo.
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Whether a speck of dust is man-made or natural can be worked out from its trajectory.
Physically, the DNA carrying all that information is no bigger than a speck of dust.
Earth was just a speck at best when photographed late into Voyager 2's journey.
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Heron Island, for example, is a speck of land on the Barrier Reef inhabited mostly by birds.
Every email that came in was like a speck of lint on an otherwise perfect white carpet.
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Flying into Xilinhot, I could see a tiny farm, a speck of a house off in the distance.
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Not that Fomalhaut b, as the new planet is known, seems much more than a speck in the sky.
It was hardly a speck within the multi-trillion dollar mutual fund industry.
"At times, I felt as if I was on a Caribbean cruise, " with barely a speck of ice to be seen, he adds.
But it was concentrated onto a speck a little more than one thousandth of a millimetre across and it lasted for just 30 femtoseconds (30 million billionths of a second).
These little beans are nutrition powerhouses, packing protein, fiber, iron, manganese, folate, thiamin, potassium and other nutrients into a modest calorie count, with just a speck of fat and no cholesterol.
Still a speck inside a business unit mainly comprised of big corporate videoconferencing deals, called telepresence, it was launched internally in November and now has 150 groups focused on things like software design.
The weakening in the U.S. labor market and on onslaught of discussion surrounding what the Fed might do beyond the completion this month of QE2 has set the yen up once again as a safe haven with investors realizing that monetary tightening in the U.S. remains as distant a speck on the horizon as it does in Japan.
The music teacher standing on the pier looked smaller and smaller until he became a mere speck.
To the sun, the Earth is a tiny speck: its diameter is less than 0.01% of the Earth-sun distance.
Forensic evidence about a tiny speck of gun residue found in Barry George's coat pocket after his arrest helped secure his original conviction.
He photographed rural scenes, wide views of towns, pictures you have to delve into to find the subject, which is often a small speck of detail somewhere in the frame.
So far, Novasite is a flea-speck operation under the wing of a relatively small biotechnology company.
Until then, we will be standing here wearing our active Bluetooth 3D glasses and looking out for a 400-nit speck on the horizon.
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Last summer Barbara Speck took a literary tour to Galicia, Spain, where she stayed out until 3 a.m. drinking wine and dancing to rock music with her fellow readers at an outdoor festival.
Although he doesn't get script credit and he's not working with regular collaborator Adam McKay here (it's actually co-directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, with a screenplay credited to Jeff and Craig Cox, among others), Ferrell remains the movie's alpha male.
Irene Baran, CEO of Palo Alto-based Speck Products, a maker of protective cases for electronic devices, says her company isn't positioned to purchase a suite but that she plans to host the company's holiday party at an event area there once the new stadium opens.
It'd be hugely valuable to have the entire bottom of the screen act as a trigger, so you can focus on what's downrange of the lens instead of how to direct your fingernail to land on the speck-of-a-button that'll trigger the shutter.
Stroum, a Seattle philanthropist, venture capitalist and a major Democratic fundraiser selected by President Barack Obama to be the face of the U.S. in the speck European nation of just under 500, 000, has left her post before a scathing report about her was made public, according to N.
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Before I learned that credit card trick (see Speck review above), I spent plenty of time trying to pry the case off, a rather unpleasant experience for my fingers.
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