How To Use Doubling In A Sentence

  • This is exponential growth, constant doubling. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
  • He gave geometrical solutions to doubling a cube and trisecting an angle in this book.
  • That activity has sent a formerly torpid property market soaring, with office rents, according to one study, more than doubling from 1996 to mid-1999.
  • He now proposes changing his car to a 4x4 gas-guzzler, doubling my share of the cost. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, even after we adjusted for these additional factors we still found an approximate doubling of risk of death from cancer among people with widespread pain.
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  • The new push is reflected in the doubling of budget requests-to $ 254m-to combat Aids overseas.
  • If you find yourself a partner of a similar height and build to yourself, you are effectively doubling your collective wardrobes.
  • Peach escapes narrowly to design another day although her pink polka dot snore of a dress (even she admitted earlier it looked like "Barbie's sofa") is called "matronly" by the judges and like "an Amish cocktail dress" by MK (his lines are doubling me over so far this season). Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2
  • Nuclear retention of annexin II results in reduced cell proliferation and increased doubling time of cells.
  • In the coming year we will be redoubling our efforts and in particularly we will be working with those schools that need extra help.
  • And the privacy has proved decidedly fruitful - all six female wallabies have given birth to joeys, almost doubling the park's population.
  • So why not look at going large and doubling the funding for music education and outreach over the next five years? Times, Sunday Times
  • Another old steam era operations feature were doubling sidings, short single-ended tracks.
  • The one discarding a tile that permits another player to win must bear the entire losses of all other players; if the player winning had any of the following four combinations of tiles exposed at the time of discarding, _unless the discarder himself had two complete doubling honors and was waiting for the winning tile_ or _was waiting for the winning tile which would give him more than two doubling honors_. Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
  • Because of a doubling of their chromosome number, these hybrids could no longer cross with the parental species but only among themselves - which they did not hesitate to do.
  • The beer industry had absorbed a doubling of federal tax in 1991.
  • The cognitive capabilities and skills of robots are doubling every few months.
  • The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is doubling, and in some cases tripling its fees.
  • It’s been developed from doubling in psychodrama (see wikipedia) by Bernard Dufeu, and it’s not explained easily. F is for First Lessons « An A-Z of ELT
  • Machinery sales, which account for about two-thirds of its revenue, are seen nearly doubling from a year ago, according to Goldman Sachs. Caterpillar Mines a Modern-Day Gold Rush
  • No signs identify tees and yardages; tee markers are concrete blocks halved, sometimes doubling as trash bins.
  • We have drastically revamped the studio, doubling our space and tripling our technical capacity.
  • Then the mule said to him glaringly: " Will you complain now about my feed doubling yours?
  • He paused and thought about doubling down, but seemed afraid to put out the extra money on such an insecure gamble.
  • He stressed the importance of redoubling their efforts this year to ensure the needs of the club and the community will be met.
  • Due to the colchicine-induced or spontaneous process of chromosome doubling that takes place during the early stages of embryo development, fertile double haploid plants can be easily regenerated within a short period of time.
  • He pretended to show how an uneducated slave boy could be led to prove Pythagoras' theorem for doubling the square.
  • Glocks, Brownings and Berettas are joining flags and banners as top sales items and ammunition sales are doubling and tripling.
  • He has called for a doubling of overseas sales over the next four years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The hulls and germ float to the surface and the kernels swell, doubling or even tripling in size, creating a different form of corn known as ‘hominy.’
  • Plus its close proximity to Cambodia means holidaymakers are doubling up, doing both countries in one jaunt. The Sun
  • In the bacterium, equipartition might thus be achieved either if the cell divides at a length for which the homogeneous state is stable or if period-doubling occurs before or at an initial stage of cytokinesis.
  • On a stretcher they are carrying a mannequin, which is doubling as a wounded man. Times, Sunday Times
  • More than once, I had to pull out my hanky and wipe my eyes after doubling over from laughter.
  • They have lifted a long-standing moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration as part of their commitment to doubling petroleum production.
  • Harry Potter continues to spin his magic, doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
  • That brought a 14 per cent improvement in sales at a constant currency basis and a doubling of profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her belief is that a doubling in high-speed rail routes in the next decade will open up the Continent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Four eyes are better than two, but won't doubling the number of referees dilute their quality? Times, Sunday Times
  • Her belief is that a doubling in high-speed rail routes in the next decade will open up the Continent. Times, Sunday Times
  • Most assessments of climate sensitivity for the present day hover around 3°C per CO2 doubling (5), although if the longterm waxing and waning of continental ice sheets are considered it is probably closer to 6°C (6). Watts Up With That?
  • A lounge, function room, self-contained snooker room, office and a committee room doubling up as a television lounge are all on offer at the new club.
  • Before he got a chance to counter, she launched a sharp roundhouse to his stomach, doubling him over.
  • The chain of recreational-vehicle and boat stores posted fiscal 1995 earnings of 20 cents a share, doubling the year-earlier profit.
  • Add salt and a little lemon juice and the albumen will trap the air as you whisk, doubling in volume.
  • Republicans are doubling down on a legislative agenda that resembles last year's efforts to shrink the size and scope of government, and Obama is prepared to exploit a lack of legislative accomplishments as he runs against a so-called "do-nothing" Congress. News - chicagotribune.com
  • Of course, through gene doubling, it IS possible to duplicate a gene, and then have the duplicate altered by point mutation to produce a different protein, such as, say, a hemotoxin component. "Retraining the Scientific Imagination..." - The Panda's Thumb
  • Perhaps they’d be better off starting a little closer to home - perhaps doubling funding for homeless or IVDU support, or perhaps community programs out @ Punchbowl. Cheeseburger Gothic » Remember how the city council cookie crisis led to General Jackson’s little coup in WW?
  • This is unacceptable for both those tumours with a high doubling time, such as medulloblastoma, and those producing distressing symptoms for which radiotherapy is the most effective palliative measure, such as diffuse pontine glioma.
  • Real conversation is a series of starts and stops, with doubling back to respond to the words and facial expressions of the hearers.
  • Certain advantages were reserved to the banker: -- if he drew a doublet, that is, two equal cards, he won half of the stakes upon the card which equalled the doublet; if he drew for the players the last card of the pack, he was exempt from doubling the stakes deposited on that card. The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2
  • It took him a lifetime (67 last week) to fully alchemize the two idioms—bebop and island music (reggae, calypso, mento)—and it requires a full cast of three drummers, assorted bassists and guitarists and even a second keyboard, plus Mr. Alexander doubling on melodica. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
  • He proposed successively doubling the number of sides of a regular polygon inscribed in a circle so that the difference in areas would eventually become exhausted.
  • Take two deals with a theme - beware of doubling after an unlimited auction, or they might redouble and make. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bill calls for doubling the use of ethanol as a gasoline additive by 2012.
  • In October 1973, Arab states imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the US in response to the Arab-Israeli War, causing shortages and a doubling of prices.
  • The increase in costs will result in a doubling of our charges, which is totally ridiculous.
  • A key feature of this flow field is the kinematic linearity, i.e., doubling the pipette pressure doubles the shear stress on the cell surface.
  • By 2016 the supply of softwood in Scotland will exceed 8.4 million cubic metres - a doubling of the existing harvest.
  • It is these characteristics that give these Mozart performances, with the violinist doubling as soloist and director of the OAE, such dash and vitality.
  • We will be redoubling our efforts to make sure it stays that way.
  • For this reason alone we should be redoubling efforts to clean up our air.
  • Not only are you doubling the size of your family in one fell swoop, just think of all the extra clothes and nappies, cots and that triple road train sized pram.
  • Instead, a method has been developed, the ‘light doubling’ technique, that allows the contribution of photochemical quenching to be transiently reduced to zero.
  • Pembrokeshire County Council will be redoubling its efforts to market the second call centre building, pledged its leader, Councillor Maurice Hughes.
  • It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity will improve profits.
  • Again, there is a doubling: ‘A word dreamer recognizes in a man's word applied to the things of the world a sort of oneiric etymology’ Bachelard says.
  • He surged to his feet, vision doubling as he did so.
  • The visitors offered little or nothing in an confrontation that Britton settled by doubling his goal tally for the season to four.
  • This was to prove a pious hope, the costs doubling over the period.
  • There are times when this doesn't rise above the level of superior student production, particularly in the awkward doubling and some of the crowd scenes.
  • allopolyploids are generated by hybridization between two related species. the hybrid is sterile. however, sometimes chromosomal doubling occurs, restoring fertility. if the two parental species are diploid, the resulting allopolyploid is called allotetraploid. Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb
  • Where Mozart uses divided violas at the opening, he applauds ‘the care with which the harmony is disposed so as to avoid doubling the notes of the theme in the violins’.
  • He was doubling for Immigration who had gone home to babysit while his wife went to the movies with her sister.
  • This is exponential growth, constant doubling. The Crisis of Life on Earth - our legacy from the second millenium
  • We will, of course, be redoubling our efforts in the year ahead - there is still plenty of room for further improvement.
  • It becomes an odorless, stable, nitrogen-rich fertilizer capable, for instance, of doubling corn yields.
  • It took him a lifetime (67 last week) to fully alchemize the two idioms—bebop and island music (reggae, calypso, mento)—and it requires a full cast of three drummers, assorted bassists and guitarists and even a second keyboard, plus Mr. Alexander doubling on melodica. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
  • How could all these models be set to "predetermine" the conclusion that a 3C increase in surface temperature would result from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, assuming a 1%/year growth rate in the atmosphere? Pajamas Media
  • Meanwhile the Daily Express highlights the doubling of flu deaths in England to 112 in what it calls a plea by Doctor Zana Ameen for ministers to vaccinate all children against swine flu BBC News - Home
  • Rice on a chessboard is a good way to explain the power of doubling. The Speculist: Plant More Rice!
  • By contrast, British pop, fuelled by speed and e, moves in fits and starts, breaks and loops, sudden surges, depressive longeurs and doublings-back.
  • Four eyes are better than two, but won't doubling the number of referees dilute their quality? Times, Sunday Times
  • By definition, a pleat is a fold in cloth made by doubling the material upon itself and then pressing or stitching it into place.
  • Companies talk of doubling their total turnover with no increases in their workforce. Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice
  • Doubling back about a quarter of a mile before Calato you come across Lindos through a narrow gulley of rock. May « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • A list of thirty measures ranging from recycling resources to doubling overseas aid were proposed.
  • Current research on all-solid-state continuous-wave(CW) blue lasers mainly focuses on intracavity frequency doubling technique, but intracavity frequency tripling technique is seldom adopted.
  • Measures aimed at doubling numbers include making core tiger areas "inviolate", cracking down on poaching and smuggling, making people aware of the importance of tigers, and setting up cross-boundary protected areas where necessary. BBC News - Home
  • Every position she had had at the State has resulted in doubling of staff. Sound Politics: "Queen Of Pork"
  • Clinics report a doubling in the number of image-conscious men who have gone under the surgeon's scalpel over the past two years.
  • Rents were horrendous for urban dwellers, with entire families doubling up in crowded single room tenements.
  • 
In the United States, Walmart has committed to doubling the sale of locally sourced produce, which we define as grown and sold in the same state, to reach 9 percent of all produce sold. Andrea Thomas: Why Sustainable Agriculture is Important to Everyone
  • Interspecific or intergeneric hybridization, followed by chromosome doubling, can lead to the formation of new allopolyploid species.
  • A hard mod will help if you're installing a lighting kit, doubling the RAM (which no one really does anymore), adding an integrated IR sensor and most importantly, will let you remove the "flubber" animation from startup. XBMC 9.04 “Babylon” Updates For All Supported Platforms | Lifehacker Australia
  • The move from the singular to the universal is partly effected by a certain doubling of the subject to begin with. Subjecticity (On Kant and the Texture of Romanticism)
  • The industry is used to doubling the speed of processors and the cost of them every 18 months.
  • A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur ` variety of limestone 'in lieu of kankar, mulmul ` muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar ` kind of crocodile 'in lieu of magar. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
  • He acknowledges, jokily, that separated parents could be more lucrative, doubling the orders. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for the doubling honors, each set or combination doubles the total score once, and if there are five _doubling honors_ in a hand, the total score should be doubled five times -- for example: a player goes Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
  • The one discarding a tile that permits another player to win must bear the entire losses of all other players; if the player winning had any of the following four combinations of tiles exposed at the time of discarding, _unless the discarder himself had two complete doubling honors and was waiting for the winning tile_ or _was waiting for the winning tile which would give him more than two doubling honors_. Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling
  • Adjacent to the hotel, Jackson Road, an old logging road, closed in winter, offers access to the backcountry for climbing and doubling as a ski trail.
  • She also kept her composure out on the course, more than doubling her overnight three stroke lead with a near faultless two under par 71, which included only one bogey as well as three birdies.
  • Trebling doses of histamine diphosphate were chosen instead of the usual doubling dose because of the half-life of lidocaine, the number of challenges, and the need to minimize possible tachyphylaxis of the histamine effect.
  • The carbon tax might well lead to a doubling of prices for fossil fuels.
  • This meant they would be at least doubling their monthly instalment payments.
  • Modern aluminium sprocket wheels are so light, he says, that doubling their size is relatively unimportant.
  • Joe Cleere and Legacy supplied sound equipment for the night, with the band's bass player Martin Townsend and Joe also doubling up as sound engineers for the night.
  • doubling with a computer took no time at all
  • That will change, and for stockists that could mean a doubling or trebling of annual sales by 2006.
  • Any indignity that Villa Kennan chose to inflict upon him he was throbbingly glad to receive, such as doubling his ears inside out till they stuck, at the same time making him sit upright, with helpless forefeet paddling the air for equilibrium, while she blew roguishly in his face and nostrils. CHAPTER XXI
  • Bisexual reproduction, by doubling the sources of inheritance, doubles the opportunities for variation of characteristics in descent.
  • These perturbations also transform the spectral profile, inducing subharmonic frequencies, transitions to period doubling and tripling, superharmonic resonance, and chaos.
  • When doubling a player who has already doubled you, it is conventional to use the word ‘redouble‘.
  • Meanwhile Labour has voted for one miserable saving - doubling pensioners' concessionary fares.
  • We propose doubling fines for offences that cause accidents such as drunken driving and reckless driving.
  • In a second, the air filled with birdsong, the number of birds doubling and redoubling, blocking out the sun.
  • Just as Moore's Law holds that transistorized computing power doubles every two years, there appears to be a Moore's law of politics, doubling the forces in play around presidential elections. Obama's Digital-Age Advantage
  • Recycling is at its highest ever level, with some authorities in Yorkshire doubling and even trebling their rates in a year.
  • So doubling up on a stock that has fallen, say, 50% and now has a 2.5% weighting doesn't expose clients to more risk than they signed up for.
  • It took him a lifetime (67 last week) to fully alchemize the two idioms—bebop and island music (reggae, calypso, mento)—and it requires a full cast of three drummers, assorted bassists and guitarists and even a second keyboard, plus Mr. Alexander doubling on melodica. The Sound Way Down in the Underground
  • It becomes an odorless, stable, nitrogen-rich fertilizer capable, for instance, of doubling corn yields.
  • A report of colchicine-induced tetraploidy in seedlings of A. mearnsii is the only one of chromosome doubling in the Acacieae.
  • And what deep earnestness is conveyed by the redoubling of this title! Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The normal layout of the string orchestra is in four-part harmony, the double bass either doubling the cellos or being silent.
  • Lotto Tickets are doubling in price to 2 and some winnings being halved. The Sun
  • Also, look for any octave doublings or unisons, circling or otherwise marking them between the staves.
  • The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service is doubling, and in some cases tripling its fees.
  • Societe Generale shares rose 3 percent after France's second-largest bank reported a doubling in third-quarter profit on strong earnings in investment banking, and shares in German sportswear company Adidas spiked 4 percent after it voiced cautious optimism for the coming year despite a 30 percent fall in third-quarter profit. Undefined
  • This money will come from more than doubling the present fees charged to the recipients of home care.
  • The children are doubling up with laughter, pointing at each other gleefully as the clowns knock their noisemakers on their little heads as they run past.
  • Whether a short-term doubling or even tripling of display advertising is likely is another issue; traditional publishers will be convinved that even if that does happen, Google will be the biggest winner. Google lays out display ad strategies
  • Doubling the size of a factory does not necessarily double the costs of production, so the unit cost of production falls.
  • By doubling its price, the industry sowed the seeds of its own destruction.
  • It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity will improve profits.
  • The omelette is then fried in the usual way; but it is usually served without doubling it up, sugar being grated over the upper side after it is put in the dish, which is then set in front of the fire for a few minutes, or the omelette is browned by holding over it a flat red-hot iron called a salamander. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • I.e. “for doubling depth”; e.g. anglice, “form two deep,” etc., when marching to a flank. The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
  • Afterward if the thread was for tram it went direct to the doublers, to be made stronger; but if it was for organzine it was spun again after leaving the doubling frames, and was given a much tighter twisting. The Story of Silk
  • Clinch got this idea from a Shelley Fisher Fishkin monograph Was Huck Black which calls attention to Twain’s use of “signifying” speech, a complex rhetorical doubling characteristic of black speakers of Twain’s time and documented by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Irish Psycho
  • Companies talk of doubling their total turnover with no increases in their workforce. Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice
  • This strange metamorphosis is in some way connected to reports by astronomers that distant galaxies are ‘doubling’ – a phenomenon that is dubbed the Hubble Effect and attributed to the mutual annihilation of matter and anti-matter. Ballardian » Landscapes From a Dream: How the Art of David Pelham Captured the Essence of J G Ballard’s Early Fiction
  • That brought a 14 per cent improvement in sales at a constant currency basis and a doubling of profits. Times, Sunday Times
  • He devotes a chapter to the "surge", what he calls a doubling down on his original bet, increasing the number of US troops in Iraq in 2007. Bush memoir: 'We got things wrong in Iraq, but the cause is eternally right'
  • The illusion of doubling is also supported by Victor's tendency to misrecognize the relation between himself and the creature, repeatedly imputing his own failures of insight or responsibility to the creature's malevolent intervention. Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations
  • In this paper, the dynamic behavior of [beta] galactosidase was studied in chemostat cultures of E. coli synchronized with respect to cell division by periodic phosphate feeding at a period equal to the bacterial doubling time.
  • Brad Arnold says: • There is an estimated 400 billion tons of methane trapped in permafrost ice. • An estimated 50% of surface permafrost will melt by 2050, and 90% by 2100. • Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2-the sudden release of just 35 billion tons of methane would be like doubling the CO2 in the air. Think Progress » How The National Review Bastardizes James Hansen’s Global Warming Research
  • This personal touch has paid off handsomely for the bank with profits more than doubling in the past three years to €504m.
  • The other thing I read this morning in the paper is they are doubling fines for expectorating.
  • As Selman explained, the doubling of nitrogen and tripling of phosphorous in the environment since 1960 -- primarily from intensive agriculture - correlates with the explosive growth in the number of hypoxic and eutrophic sites. Peter Hanlon: Dead Zones, Now in More Frightening Detail!
  • When we came in we saw her doubling up on the sofa.
  • Quiz TV, with the total number of questions for the title doubling from the original amount, bringing the grand total to over 10,000 questions! PS3 NEWS - PlayStation 3 News - PS3News - PS3 Games - PS3 Hacks - PS3 Homebrew
  • They still carried the ball, but the electors moved from being spectators to doubling as occasional umpires as well.
  • Where the ritornello makes way for the voice, the arranger of the Halifax score tends to support the vocal line by doubling, outlining the harmonies, or supplying simple countermelodies in the instrumental lines.
  • So, in 1992, the Conservative government of the day turned the polytechnics into universities, doubling overnight the proportion of students attending university.
  • The normal layout of the string orchestra is in four-part harmony, the double bass either doubling the cellos or being silent.
  • Harry Potter continues to spin his magic, doubling publisher Bloomsbury's profits to $ 8m.
  • In the hotel's Whisky Room, which was doubling as a cloakroom, the peer asked the night porter for his coat, but was refused permission to enter and look for it because he was deemed too drunk.
  • The methods of tree felling were altered and piece work was introduced, doubling the woodcutters ' wages and leading to increased costs.
  • The punch hit him in the stomach, doubling him over.
  • In the case of mali this has already meant the establishment of full diplomatic relations, a doubling of bilateral trade and the initiation of major South African investment projects in Mali. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The newest hotel in York is doubling up as an archaeological store to protect some of the city's most important Roman remains.
  • If you aren't interested in doubling your duty-free allowance, as the first cruise winds to a close, ask the purser about your boarding pass for the second cruise, and how to circumvent Customs if you want to go ashore.
  • Bosambo returned the messenger, with presents more valueless, and an assurance of friendship more sonorous, more complete in rhetoric and aptness of hyperbole, and when the messenger had gone Bosambo showed his appreciation of N'gori's love by doubling the guard about the Ochori city and sending a strong picket under his chief headman to hold the river bend. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country
  • Constant economies of scale occur when a doubling of output causes costs to double. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
  • It led to a doubling of the number of fishermen, and an increase of 65 per cent in fleet tonnage and of 45 per cent in production.
  • An extra £3 billion is to be spent on private surgery over the next five years, doubling NHS use of private hospitals.
  • A few years ago, scientists thought that a doubling of carbon concentrations over preindustrial times, to 550 parts per million, was a reasonable line in the sand; in recent years they've revised that figure downward, to 450 ppm, which is what Copenhagen (and the Waxman-Markey bill) aim for. It’s Too Late to Stop Global Warming
  • Then in 1810 he became war minister and immediately began to strengthen the army; he wrote a manual of generalship, tightened army organization, built strong points, and supervised a doubling in size.
  • ELECTRIFYING AND doubling the existing railway lines, building flyovers and subways in strategic locations, and wider roads could be a better solution.
  • For a sheer handkerchief linen, rather than using interfacing on the facings, which would then show through and look unattractive, try doubling the front of the blouse entirely.
  • A hard mod will help if you're installing a lighting kit, doubling the RAM which no one really does anymore, adding an integrated IR sensor and most importantly, will let you remove the "flubber" animation from startup. XBMC 9.04 “Babylon” Updates For All Supported Platforms | Lifehacker Australia
  • Doubling curves are nearly flat for a long time, then voom, they take off skywards in a hot second.
  • The report proposes a massive increase in funding for health in the poor countries, with a fivefold increase in support from wealthy countries and at least a doubling from the poor countries themselves.
  • While Eleanor was to have Aquitaine in her own right, the son of that marriage would inherit both the kingdom and the duchy, doubling the royal holdings.
  • Eichler himself believes that the flower is dimerous, the four longer stamens being produced by the doubling or splitting of the upper (i.e. antero-posterior) pair of stamens. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • Frequency doubling is an old trick, but Novalux cut costs by using crystals of lithium niobate, which is found in all cell phones. Lasers Project the Big Picture
  • Prima facie, the long-standing problems of trisecting an angle, squaring a circle, and doubling a cube are not questions of existence.
  • As in doubling airfare, inspiring an abject terror of long flights, and changing my view of canals from "quaint and beautiful" to "quaint and beautiful latent drowning spots". Veniceblog:
  • In the play, Mary is playing the part of the dancer and doubling as the mother.
  • If you are on a bidding on a CPM basis though, the doubling of the CTR is a great thing. A Complete Guide to Online Video
  • Lucky ones who had bought of it diffidently, discreetly, with modest visions of four and a half per cent in their unimaginative minds, saw their dividends doubling, trebling, quadrupling, finally soaring gymnastically beyond all reason. Fanny Herself
  • The famed musician's association with the orchestra helped attract audiences, with the philharmonic's box-office revenue more than doubling since the start of his tenure. Perlman Leaves Westchester Orchestra
  • It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that doubling productivity will improve profits.
  • There are always cross-currents and enclaves, deviances or doublings back from what appears to be the main path.
  • This is achieved by doubling all the components, effectively making each component dispensable or ‘redundant’.
  • So the company uses a so-called nonlinear, or "frequency doubling," crystal. Lasers Project the Big Picture
  • Many of Spicer's poems manifest a doubling effect, where serialism becomes a structure for the poem. Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show
  • The usual problem of marshalling an unwieldy cast in such a confined theatre is tackled by doubling up on roles.
  • Further, advances in photonics and additional fiber deployment appear to allow for a doubling of network capacity each year for the next decade.
  • Founded in 1947, the retailer went on one of the biggest expansion splurges in fashion history between 1999 and 2002, more than doubling its turnover and opening over 300 new shops.
  • In other words, in appears the blogosphere is doubling in size every five months.
  • The set and lighting is spectacular, complete with a retractable paling fence that is raised to reveal a five-piece band doubling as the noisy neighbours.
  • A doubling of prices in three decades called a debasement of the currency? City Journal
  • We climatologists describe this in terms of the climate sensitivity, the warming that results in equilibrium from a doubling of CO2.
  • He applied mechanics to improve turbines and waterwheels more than doubling the efficiency of the waterwheel.
  • As far as Sanskrit is concerned, the most important of these is that a macron above a vowel serves to lengthen it, roughly doubling the length of the sound.
  • However, if the loser has not borne off any of his checkers, he is gammoned and loses twice the value of the doubling cube.
  • The unachievable and irremediable task of writing takes the form of an endless repetition, where the same is posed in the dizziness of redoubling, where there is no cognition but only recognition.
  • The doubling of the severity for each decimal is simply a rule of thumb, it is accurate enough for a layman I think. Ahora, encima de todo
  • Will doubling aid and channelling it through those selfsame governments change anything?

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