Sentences with phrase «just as the river»

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At 9 on a November morning, the building's other tenants are just trickling in as Reynolds begins a meeting in a small conference room overlooking the Charles River.

With just under 30,000 residents, Mason City is a northern Iowa city centered on the Winnebago River that eventually became known as the «River City.»

Just as I was thinking these thoughts, I looked up the river and saw a boat floating down the river toward me, and inside were some fishermen!

I'd be just as likely to take you on a walk up the mountainside near our house, under the canopy of the trees, so you could listen to the water running in the dozens of creeks dancing down waterfalls of stones, the water bright and cold and clear, heading for the Fraser River, moving towards the fullness of complete ocean.

One early summer morning, as I plied my fishing rod along the foggy river, I caught sight of what looked like just such a foam puff.

Sometimes it's enough to have the simple, causal, often mechanical answers that the razor allows as sufficient: the river overflowed because heavy storms dropped ten inches of rain in a forty - eight hour period just as the snow was melting.

Just as I feel the presence of an ache in my stomach, and the ache thereby becomes part of me, so when I feel the presence of rocks, trees, hills, and rivers, they too become part of me.

Not the high priest in the temple in Jerusalem or the baptism of John the Baptist in the Jordan River brings the ultimate salvation, but rather keeping Jesus» words, as they are conserved in the Sayings Gospel — to be sure, on the condition that they are really kept, observed, and not just conserved.

It's not exactly cheery viewing, as most of the animation involves deforestation, drying rivers and retreating glaciers, but you also see the irrigation of deserts in the Middle East and just the onward march of humanity in general.

As a Master said about Rumi after meeting him for the first time, «I've just met a river that contains an ocean.»

He continues to speak over our lives, just as He did for His Son, Jesus, at the Jordan River, telling us in no uncertain terms that we are His beloved children who bring Him pleasure simply by existing.

While the leisure mentality that pervades River Oaks recognizes that a cruel world rages just down the road, it chooses a posture of gentility and repose that seems to ignore that world, a stance that serves as an apparently deserved reward for doing battle in the power corridors of that world during the week.

Over thirty years later, James disparaged this same view, saying that, of course, «We want a universe where we can just give up, fall on our father's neck, and be absorbed into the absolute life as a drop of water melts into the river or the sea» (PRAG 140).

(You might have thought that the Bible Belt was actually somewhat to the south of Minnesota, but that didn't bother the Minneapolitans, who staked their claim all the same, just as travelers to my own city across the river were greeted by a sign that read «Welcome to St. Paul, Gateway to the Great Northwest.»)

Just across the river was our «twin» city, Minneapolis, which back then touted itself among other things as the capital of the Bible Belt and whose radio stations, in earnest of this claim, carried a more than modest number of fundamentalist preachers.

He may have despised the simple catechism of his German congregation, just as we «moderns» take offense at the minimalistic theology of many of the folk who inhabit our standard - brand churches, but he knew also that they had a great deal to teach the young pastor by virtue of having surveyed the land «across the river» and having dared to cross the chilly waters of Jordan with a sense of divine protection.

I love it when the universe delivers conversations / ideas / emotions / moments / people / art at the precise moment when I am most open to them, and everything just flows as one down a meandering river with strong currents and pockets of stillness.

But, on Whitehead's view, the body is «just as much part of nature as anything else there — a river, or a mountain, or a cloud» (MT 30).

It's really a sight as the clear river water swirls around the top of the watermelon, just off the bank with some stragically placed rocks placed nearby to stop it from being taken downstream and picked off by someone in a cabin in the next county.

America is just one big mixing bowl from all around the world, and we happily celebrate everyone's holidays, even if we do put our own twist on the day (such as dyeing the Chicago River green and drinking green beer — decidedly American doings).

Just steps away from Archer is First Street Napa, featuring distinctive shops, restaurants and bars, as well as the Napa River Walk and Oxbow Public Market.

The significance of this property and its preservation practices can not be underestimated as, without the Napa River Inn's dedication to upholding its rich and storied past, downtown Napa on the whole just wouldn't» be quite as remarkable.

You can count Ridgewood, Saddle River, Alpine and possible parts of Englewood and Tenafly as towns that require a considerable amount of wealth just to pay the real estate taxes but the rest of Bergen is upper middle to lower middle class.

River Valley goalkeeper Triston Montoya made just three saves for the shutout as the Hawks (24 -3-2) could not finish despite dominating possession for most of the match.

From clam bakes in New England to the all - fried everything Red River Shootout to wine - and - cheese in places as disparate as Harvard and Mississippi to the godly wonders of the Bayou, it's about so much more than just burgers and dogs.

This is definitely true if you recall that just last year Folsom and De La Salle - Concord actually played in a NorCal Open Division bowl game, and that starting next year such a matchup still isn't happening while possible matchups such as Mission - San Francisco traveling to play a rural small - school opponent such as Winters or Bear River - Grass Valley will be on the CIF bowl game schedule.

As the supporters made their way to the stadium by the banks the River Ebro they had reason to be optimistic, with an home record of 10 wins, 2 draws and just the one defeat they found themselves sitting as sole Leaders of their group with an healthy lead over second placed Ponferradina, a side who's big cup adventure came to an end two rounds ago in the Santiago Bernabeu, being swept away by Real Marid 7 - 1 on aggregatAs the supporters made their way to the stadium by the banks the River Ebro they had reason to be optimistic, with an home record of 10 wins, 2 draws and just the one defeat they found themselves sitting as sole Leaders of their group with an healthy lead over second placed Ponferradina, a side who's big cup adventure came to an end two rounds ago in the Santiago Bernabeu, being swept away by Real Marid 7 - 1 on aggregatas sole Leaders of their group with an healthy lead over second placed Ponferradina, a side who's big cup adventure came to an end two rounds ago in the Santiago Bernabeu, being swept away by Real Marid 7 - 1 on aggregate.

What if in the end it is all just bread and just water - yucky LA River water at that - and I might as well have been home eating chocolate - covered almonds and watching Blacklist on the couch?

This being said, Cooper wore his swim shorts, with a net lining, just like his daddy's, and I guessed that the net would work as well as any swim diaper to catch flotsam and jetsam that might be trying to escape into the river.

When a woman is told by lets say their dad or uncle» if you let them cry it out they will be better as they grow up» This is just my opinion, Women have the «nurturing instinct» meaning when they are told they should put their baby down and them CIO and they do so their instinct is telling them to go pick the baby up but another influence tells them other wise, now MEN to me have the instinct to teach their youngins to «cry me river its not so bad youll live» id prefer not letting my child CIO, I just wanted to see how long out of curiosity that she would CIO (my dad suggested i try) and she went on for an hour before i said forget this i cant concentrate i have to pick her up cuz it ai nt doin nothing... so i havnt done it since.

TARRYTOWN — As work begins on a temporary work platform to be constructed in the Hudson River just north of the current Tappan Zee Bridge, the public will be able to monitor environmental impacts online.

But Cuomo said it will not toll drivers just to cross the free East River bridges, such as the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges.

I want to remind Metro - North that their agency is responsible for the operation of five rail lines — not just the three on the East side of the river, but the two over here on the West side as well.

The presser tomorrow, according to an advisory we just got, will «exposes Charles River Associates (CRA), EDC's choice to conduct the study, as a business - backed lobbying group using economists who oppose living wage and even minimum wage policies for EDC's study.»

OK, we don't have the Pacific Ocean, but the lake and the river could be just as magnificent.

State Canal Corporation employees work on the Mohawk River as they set navigation buoys for the Erie Canal just below Lock 7 on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, in Niskayuna, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union archive)

Going fishing can be a whole lot of fun, but just fishing on the side of the lake or river isn't always as much fun though you may want to avoid anything billed the best inflatable boat for ocean.

«Listen to the Land» has been renamed «Living with the Land» (maybe because kids today JUST WO N'T LISTEN), but the ride felt just as cool as it did when I drifted down the same fake river 25 years JUST WO N'T LISTEN), but the ride felt just as cool as it did when I drifted down the same fake river 25 years just as cool as it did when I drifted down the same fake river 25 years ago.

«The amount of development that has happened in communities up and down the river way creates less opportunity for water to be absorbed back into the earth as opposed to just running off,» notes structural engineer Jeffrey Garrett, president and CEO of CTLGroup.

Near Lake Meade on the Colorado River just outside Las Vegas, I stood one hundred yards away from a watering hole at midday and saw twenty bighorn sheep, several with large curling horns, as they came to take a drink.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

As Trout Unlimited's Denison points out, flood irrigation is just 35 percent efficient, meaning nearly two - thirds of the water taken out of the river is lost, and never gets used by the grasses it is meant to nourish.

In future, flood mitigation in Germany should be based on four key pillars: Technical flood protection for larger built - up areas will be required just as much as greater space for rivers by means of dike relocation and integration of the agricultural sector.

«It is not just the waterbirds that are affected, but also the quality of the rivers and the services they provide to downstream communities, such as fish populations and river red gums,» says Professor Kingsford.

As the compound flowed from a ruptured storage tank and its cracked containment pond at Freedom Industries» Etowah River Terminal — just 1.5 miles upstream from a drinking - water intake — hundreds of Charleston residents crowded hospital emergency rooms reporting nausea and other ailments.

But water may not be the only factor that shaped these canyons — the wind whipping through them could be just as important, according to a new study of river canyons on Earth.

Just as water from the middle third of the contiguous United States flows toward the Mississippi River, Tully found that galaxies across about 500 million light - years of space flow toward a previously discovered enormous and dense region known as the Great Attractor because of its powerful gravitational pull.

One major change in this year's annual list is the inclusion of several river basins, such as the Citarum River in Indonesia or the Niger River Delta, rather than just major industrial sriver basins, such as the Citarum River in Indonesia or the Niger River Delta, rather than just major industrial sRiver in Indonesia or the Niger River Delta, rather than just major industrial sRiver Delta, rather than just major industrial sites.

Just as the planet's rainforests are in danger of falling to the inexorable human drive for domination, so, too, are its mighty rivers.

Similarly, like people, some species prefer warmer, stiller waters while other mussel strains are more tolerant and can survive just as well in cold rivers and streams as in lakes.