Sentences with phrase «polynesians landed around»

After $ 380 million worth of upgrades, the park land around St. Louis» Gateway Arch and the museum below it are nearly ready for the public.

Now, after $ 380 million worth of upgrades, the park land around the monument and the underground museum below it are being readied for visitors.

When it bought Blackcomb Mountain, then just six years old and suffering growing pains, from a subsidiary of Aspen Skiing in 1986, it wasn't looking at the then state - of - the - art lifts so much as the developable land around the base of the hill, which bordered on the new Whistler Village.

This is especially true for the eight countries that control the land around the Arctic Ocean — Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States and Canada — as they prepare to strengthen their claims to the strategically vital and lucrative terrain.

The federal government in September ordered a temporary halt to construction on corps land around and underneath Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir in the Dakotas.

Also, land around cities within reasonable commuting distance to jobs is becoming scarcer, and builders are complaining about shortages of developable parcels.

As with New York on the opposite end of the price spectrum, drastic differences in pricing had little effect on the available mortgage rates relative to the state at large, with the 30 - year fixed rate landing around 4 %.

The land around them is rich, and the weather is conducive to growing good things.

Cobb's perspective strikes us as more naturalistic than substantively Christian, and it is not without its unacceptable moral costs; it not only relativizes all ethics to the Zeitgeist, it leads to a monism which produces great suffering and pain as can be seen in any number of poor lands around the world.

Or the album closer, «In Reverse,» which floats like a life raft in an endless sea, until the song finds its own land around the 3:15 mark.

Considering all of the livestock of both men, the land around Bethel and Ai did not contain enough water and vegetation to feed all the animals.

For generations the Israelites clung, as it were, by their eyebrows to a small section of the hill country of Ephraim amid bitter enemies — Ammonites and Moabites, to the east; the Philistines invading the seacoast lands to the west; the Amorites still possessing a score of strong towns and the farm lands around them.

While the Levites were not given an inheritance of land in the same way the other Tribes of Israel were, they still were given portions of land around various cities scattered throughout Israel.

We know from evidence gathered all over the productive lands around the fast Arabian desert (long ago the historian J. H. Breasted designated this area as the Fertile Crescent) of a widespread eruption of desert peoples, Semitic nomads, into the more sedentary areas.

therefore subject to storms on the Mediterranean Sea; the ships lacked the protection of arms of land around them.

As to the events that led him to martyrdom, there had been disastrous earthquakes in the lands around the Mediterranean as well as fires in Rome, Antioch, and Carthage.

I'm buying up the land around me and I finally got a paycheck.

Chancellor — and Collins, and the Rams» Daren Bates last year — landed around when the holder caught the ball, and had time to jump again and block the kick.

From then on significant additional revenue will come from the stadium expansion and, ultimately, from development of the land around the stadium.

The name «Baltic amber» refers mainly to the region from which this amber is derived: the land around the Baltic Sea.

Both towns have been negotiating with Hoffman for annexation for at least five years, but the feud heated up in December when Hoffman deeded a 25 - foot strip of land around the perimeter of the farm to Lake in the Hills, effectively cutting off Cary from annexation.

Both towns have been negotiating with Hoffman at least five years on annexation, but the competition heated up in December when Hoffman deeded a 25 - foot strip of land around the perimeter of the farm to Lake in the Hills, effectively cutting off Cary from annexation.

After the schools were built, the Park District retained ownership of the land around the buildings; today, the district still handles the mowing and snowplowing and other maintenance work on the land it owns.

The Chicago Park District on Wednesday approved tax - increment financing worth $ 6.22 million to buy a former eye and ear infirmary and the land around it from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lowell Lake State Park 207 acres of land around Lowell Lake for day use online.

Hoffman donated a strip of land around the property to the Lake in the Hills Park District in December to block annexation by Cary after he was unable to secure sewer service for a housing development.

Aside from our house, which is great too, I am having a lot of trouble parting with the land around us.

The DEC's recently released unit management plan for much of the state land around the Tri-Lakes calls for sweeping changes to some popular camping areas, and for opening new campsites to offset the closure of others.

Cuomo is pushing a late plan to be included in the state budget that would potentially allow the state to grab land around Penn Station for development.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo is pushing a late plan to be included in the state budget that would potentially allow the state to grab land around Penn Station for development.

Speaking at the launch, the Municipal Chief Executive for Ashaiman, Albert Boakye Okyere revealed that, government has also allocated three acres of land around the Ashaiman Irrigation Dam area to enable them to expand the factory.

If the mayor and city council approve a deal with COR, the company will pay about $ 2.8 million for 28 acres of former state land around the harbor to erect apartment buildings, a satellite college campus, a hotel, office buildings, townhouses, shops and more.

Chuckie Holstein, executive director of FOCUS Greater Syracuse, shared her group's 2011 study on the preferred uses of the land around Onondaga Lake.

COR was selected in 2012 from among three competitors to develop former state land around the Inner Harbor.

A judge's ruling allows the city of Syracuse to move forward with its claims that COR Development Co. committed fraud in connection with its purchase of land around the Syracuse Inner Harbor.

It was unclear Thursday evening whether a last - minute proposal by Cuomo to give the state power to grab land around Penn Station for development would be in the final budget.

Two other known bidders also submitted plans as Thursday's deadline closed for bidders to answer the Empire State Development's request for proposals to develop the land around the Elmont racetrack.

Imagine MegaCorp owns all the land around, (so that walking away is trespassing, and either leads to a shotgun or jail), affordable public transportation is non-existent, private transportation is too expensive, the only road out is a highway where walkers and hitchhikers are arrested.

SCHROON LAKE — Officials here have begun a waterfront revitalization plan they hope will improve access to Schroon and Paradox lakes as well as increase use of the smaller ponds located on state land around the region.

The city did file a notice of appeal on Feb. 1 of two earlier decisions by state Supreme Court Judge James Murphy rejecting the city's attempt to take back ownership of the land around the harbor from COR and canceling liens the city had placed on the property.

Most of the land around the harbor has been transferred to Cor, except for a parcel along Solar Street on the east side of the harbor.

In addition, COR said the disposition agreement under which the city sold the land around the harbor to COR contained no prohibition against the company seeking tax breaks.

The Woodstock Town Board voted 3 - 2 to recommend a compromise allowing limited hunting on a New York City - owned land around Yankeetown Pond and rejected by that same margin, a recommendation by Councilman Jay Wenk to ban all hunting and trapping on the property.

Another set, fleeing the Bolsheviks, came to farm the same land around 1920.

Nearly one - third of the land around the creek is buried under urban concrete, asphalt and buildings.

In the mid-1970s, David decided that he wanted to tackle Brak, which lay just across the Iraqi border in Syria but was nevertheless part of Mesopotamia — the storied lands around and between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Downstream, near where the river empties into the East China Sea, the land around the Yangtze contains some of the densest clusters of human habitation in the world, and overfishing there has already endangered 25 of the river's 177 unique fish species.

After 4 years surveying 12 square kilometers of land around the United Kingdom's Stonehenge, researchers have uncovered a sprawling complex of chapels, hedges, barrows, and pits surrounding the Neolithic stones, The Guardian reports.

Paradoxically, as more land around the globe is put to agricultural use for pollination - dependent crops, indigenous bee species get crowded out.

The four extinct volcanoes in the cluster are calderas, which form after a volcano erupts and the land around them collapses, forming a crater.