Sentences with phrase «as buckets of water»

Not exact matches

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

As he was walking up to my apartment he had flowers in his hand and a bucket of water and started splashing the water on me.

Another apt analogy is that of the human mind as an empty bucket about to be filled with the water of knowledge.

In the relational vision, the human mind is not merely the passive recipient of knowledge and information, as in our analogy of the empty bucket waiting to be filled with water.

The point of this «experiment,» as Newton understands it, is as follows: 10 The shape of the surface of the water in the bucket — either flat or concave — is independent of the motion of the water relative to the sides of the bucket — whether at rest or rotating.

My version of the experience: as - if one's head is in a bucket of water, held down by some firm hand.

No jon they won't do anything with their heads as they arrogantly collect their large annual salaries; their heads are too big to fit in a bucket of water.

It's the world's biggest ALS challenge thing as he poors a bucket of ice cold water over Arsenal supporters hopes and dreams for the season

Your young kiddos will have the best times of their lives as they watch the water bucket fill the tidal pool.

If you're using a bucket of water for mopping or cleaning, pour out the water as soon as you're finished.

Pay close attention to buckets of water, cups with fluids in them, the toilet and while bathing as drowning is often silent and can happen in an instance!

Before putting the branches in a bucket of water, take your scissors and cut up and through the center so the branches can absorb as much water as possible.

«Never leave small children unattended in small portable pools, fountains or buckets filled with water, as even small bodies of water pose the threat of drowning to a child,» Nicholas A. DeRosa, Director of Health said.

Metagenomics and metaproteomics extend these measurements to a comprehensive description of the organisms in an environmental sample, such as in a bucket of ocean water or in a soil sample.

But then, just as whoever you're talking to starts to get excited for you, you dump a bucket of cold water on the discussion by explaining how all of your ideas are impossible.

It was two summers ago that our Facebook feeds were full of videos of friends and family dumping buckets of ice - cold water over their heads to raise money and awareness for ALS — Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis — also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

Stand with your hands on your hips as if you were holding a bucket of water.

Before putting the branches in a bucket of water, take your scissors and cut up and through the center so the branches can absorb as much water as possible.

Suffice it to say that Ponyo's fate differs significantly from that of the Little Mermaid and that Ponyo does not end up as a bucket of foaming sea water.

The look of the film adds to its feeling almost like a fable, as do the importance of several everyday objects: a torn photograph, an empty water bucket, a child's bright red dress, a pair of scissors, a crutch belonging to Parvana's father (he lost a leg in the fight against the Soviets).

ANYA: I see Thomasin as this beautiful flame that has a bucket of ice - cold water poured on it again, and again, and again.

Mike Leigh's sprawling J.M.W. Turner biopic opens with a marvelous extended - take long shot: A windmill's silhouette churns its blades against the rays of the rising sun as two Flemish maids enter the frame carrying buckets of water on their shoulders, the camera tracking with them along the muddy banks of a canal before settling finally on a distant figure in top hat, Mr. Turner (Timothy Spall), fervidly sketching the scene in a portfolio.

It's used to regulate engine temperatures and a bucket of water and some soap will do wonders for keeping your car looking good as new.

A picture book that will appeal to children as well as adults reading it aloud, this special gem is a celebration of water — from the little turtle pond to the water fountain to the sprinklers and gardening hoses and the many buckets that move water onto the slides, into the sandbox and onto hot feet.

Eliminate sources of standing water that can serve as a breeding ground for mosquitoes, including children's wading pools, old tires, buckets, and other containers.

Additionally, a person is 16 times more likely to die by drowning in a five - gallon bucket of water than they are to die as the result of a fatal pit bull attack.

«Sit,» came the command, and I obediently sat on the edge of the slab, but my mind was still on the holes in the ceiling, and I was still looking upwards, so the bucket of colder water that drenched me came as quite a shock.

During this time of severe water shortages, we ask all guests to have as quick a shower as possible, so as to save this precious commodity - each shower is supplied with a bucket to catch the shower water.

Brigitte heroically supplied us with buckets of water to do our necessary and offered us the use of her personal shower in the main house, as they had a rainwater tank which solved the problem.

As jets and wheels spray water throughout the entire structure, a 317 - gallon bucket drops a wave of water every five minutes onto those below.

Happy Jets of Water feels a little taxing in that I wanted to explore different modes such as «steal the dog» and «fill the bucket» aside from «soak»em all» quickly.

Images such as shovels, picks, and water buckets allude to the grueling work of field slaves; washboards, scissors, and tableware illustrate the tireless toils of domestic slaves; and chisels refer to carpentry work.

The exhibition includes a ranting mop, a music box, a sculpture made of twisted plastic that rhythmically drums as it drops water into steel buckets, a whistling tree branch, an amalgamation of sensory organs made from bondo that rises more than 7 feet tall, and a drawing of a record that the artist produced by following the melody of a song with one hand and the rhythm with the other.

With EGS, the water is the «bucket» that carries the heat from depth to the surface, and will typically be a relatively costly portion of the operation, so it will be cycled as a closed system in wells that case - off potable aquifers, shuttling water from the surface to the fractures where it's heated, back up to the surface to extract the heat for running turbines, and then back down to the fractures.

But throw billions of tons of bricks in and float thousands of ships and boats of all sizes on then we have Oceans rising, melting ice: add a large block of ice in your bucket then fill the bucket to the top, the ice floats above & below the water, as the ice melts will the water overflow?

it's same as if Tony was showing a mouse eating a cup of grain from the bushel — as proof that: the WHOLE planet is cooler by 0,12 C, because of it — or looking at a bucket of water, and declaring that: the temp of all the seven seas are warmer by 0,03 C. I always had binoculars and a telescope, not big one, but understand what can be seen and what can not.

Many have spent considerable sums of money on water conserving measures such as waste - water recycling and installation of rain - water tanks; others go out of their way to bucket water from showers or washing machines onto their gardens.

They find that, with an enlarged data set that has corrections for bias between drifting buoy data and data taken from ship intakes, as well as extended corrections for water cooling in buckets in the time between being drawn from the sea and being measured, there is a statistically significant warming trend of 0.086 °C per decade over the 1998 - 2012 period.

«Consider simply a black bucket of water initially at the same temperature as the air around it.

But after 1945 a good share of data came from UK ships, which dipped a bucket in the ocean; the water in the bucket cooled as it was hauled aboard, Thompson et al. (2008).

US Weather Bureau instructions (Bureau [1938]-RRB- state that the \ condenserintake method is the simpler and shorter means of obtaining the water temperature» and that some observers took ERI measurements \ if the severity of the weather [was] such as to exclude the possibility of making a bucket observation».

The heat from the volcanoes would have dispersed over an enormous volume and had little effect on ocean temperature, much as a bucket of boiling water emptied into a lake would have little effect on the lake's temperature.

No longer a rogue superhero roaming the streets with buckets of water, Super Tri is now a vehicle for an official message, appearing on posters and in videos, as well as making appearances at schools and public functions.

However, all of those are still just a drop in the bucket in the face of the sheer quantities of water which must be dealt with - as much as 30 billion gallons per year.

Sparklers should be doused in water or immersed in a bucket of sand after burning out, as they remain hot for some time.

If, for instance, you leave a bucket of water standing in the hall of your condominium complex and a senior citizen trips and falls, your St Paul renters insurance will pay not only for the injuries the person sustains but for any court costs you face as a result.

You've figuratively described trauma in a relationship as «a big bucket of ice water.»

Some of these activities will simply go into the management bucket; however, there are many small expenses that are easy to skip over, such as priming an oil furnace that has been run dry or troubleshooting a 60,000 gallon monthly water usage bill by ultimately finding and fixing a leaky toilet.

But, as we stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

Put a bucket of water on a small table by the bath and use a hand towel as a wick, leading from the bucket to the bottom of the bath.