Sentences with phrase «about swamp»

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Forests News sat down briefly with CIFOR Principal Scientist Daniel Murdiyarso to talk about the SWAMP program and how the toolbox can be used.

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(Anyone who thinks that can contact me about some swamp land I have for sale in Arizona).

We didn't know much about Swamp Haven at first.

If we simply kill a hundred possible terrorists in Afghanistan and do little about the swamp of poverty, hunger, despair and political disarray in that country and elsewhere in the Third World, we will fail to «dry out the breeding ground of terrorists.»

I'm just about swamped in terms of work these days — I still work my full time job in marketing, and now I'm a real estate agent too!

I'm just about swamped in terms of work these days — I still work my full time job -LSB-...]

As I watched TV reports showing wind - driven waters sloshing over the floodwalls in several spots around New Orleans today, from a hurricane whose highest surge missed the city, and as I read John Schwartz's sobering report from the Army Corps of Engineers war room, I couldn't help returning to a question that has dogged me since I wrote about the swamping of that storied city in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina — which, like Gustav, was not even close to a worst - case storm.

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When Hootsuite started, with just a few dozen employees, we were honestly worried about being swamped with calls from our millions of users.

«It violates everything he said as a candidate about draining the swamp,» Millstein said.

This might sound basic but think about all those times when you thought, «Ugh, I'm so swamped.

JetBlue (JBLU) was swamped with complaints about its communications and reservations technology that left passengers stranded in the terminal and on runways for hours.

For those of you too swamped to watch the whole thing right now, the money line from Sun is this: «I happen to be in a world that's run by men, and yet Poshmark is all about women.

It's also a case study in how difficult it can be to turn the rhetoric about draining Washington's swamps into reality.

Yet Stewart — the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of numerous books, including Den of Thieves, about insider trading on Wall Street — believes that perjury is a growing phenomenon, one that «threatens to swamp the legal system and undermine the prosecution of white - collar crime.»

Over the last couple of days, my Twitter feed has been swamped with discussion about green jobs.

They discovered and refined potent themes about keeping out immigrants, «draining the swamp» and restoring an earlier era of national greatness — as understood mainly to mean for white American men.

Wylie's sense of uneasiness about that work began building when he heard Trump, in 2016, start using themes that Cambridge Analytica had developed in 2014 about building walls and draining the swamp.

In twenty years of university teaching, poring over footnotes in journals devoted to the study of footnotes, attending conferences in which small increments of knowledge are swamped by large swathes of ignorance, and reading unimportant books about the important books that I haven't had time to read, I retained a longing for the ideal of the collegiate life.

If we do not exercise care, reasonable discourse about right and wrong can easily be swamped by the language of intentionality.

The smell of sin hung foul on them; the mire About their roots was trampled filth of flesh Horrid with rottenness, and splashed with gore Curdling in crimson puddles; where there buzzed And sucked, and settled, creatures of the swamp, Hideous in wing and sting, gnat - clouds and flies, With moths, toads, newts, and snakes red - gulleted; And livid, loathsome worms, writhing in slime Forth from skull - holes and scalps and tumbled bones.57

And this is even before the knuckle - dragging imam offers a harsh, well - received sermon fueled by anti-Semitism and formulations anchored in both qur» anic citations about the Israelites» putative failure to live as God's chosen people and in fever - swamp criticisms of the State of Israel.

Where Willibald, twelve centuries earlier, had seen a swamp and told a story about Christianity's triumph over it, Endō, in a modern version of the medieval story, draws a direct line between Ferreira's previous failure and Rodrigues's personal «struggle» over his faith.

But - without going into great detail about the history and causes of 20th - century feminism - the genuine Christian aspects of the movement were swamped and crushed by other forces.

They ministered likewise to the folk round about by draining their swamps and by training their children; in some cases also by serving their churches.

Before the world is awake (and sometimes before the sun is, too), New York is so quiet that, if I squint hard enough and completely forget about the sidewalk swamps and drippy air conditioners, it reminds me of the slow - lived serenity of Japan.

And yes, I am saying that about a feud involving swamp hillbilly cults and arson committed for the express purpose of desecrating the resting place of Bray's demon girlfriend.

One that did squeak through was the GOP tax reform, and with mixed reporting on who the tax cuts will benefit, when, and how long for, individuals and businesses may feel swamped by the conflicting information they have been reading and hearing about in the last few months.

The good news about emotions is that when we feel safe enough to let ourselves feel them, they swamp us — but then they evaporate.

I use the phrase «industrial strategy» deliberately since we have an underlying problem of short term - ism: a «boom and bust» mentality in financial markets, an obsession with short term results, which has been allowed to swamp strategic, long term thinking about how Britain will make its living.

DRAIN THE SWAMP: Trump showed how many people don't care about experience or qualifications.

And I'm sort of tempted to say that it's unhelpful to have Blond prattling about authoritarianism: he brings along so much excess baggage that those with genuine concerns in this area are likely to be swamped by his concomitant jibberish.

MPs on the committee warned that UK Border Force was about to be swamped with work, especially if it also has to take on a customs function.

Students of Orwell, perhaps, they called their group New Yorkers Against Corruption, and cynically claimed to care deeply about dredging a swamp that makes Washington look pristine.

WASHINGTON — People who don't know this city well don't know where to find the worst parts of the «swamp» that President Trump complains about.

The Tories were soon swamped with mash notes about how great life was under the NDP.

«He's hiding the truth about his shady deal with a D.C. swamp lobbyist and he's hiding his taxes.

«To drain a swamp, you need an Army Corps of Engineers, experts schooled in service and serious purpose, not do - nothing, say - anything, neophyte opportunists who know a lot about how to bully and bluster, but not so much about truth, justice and fairness.»

In 2011 - 12, he enjoyed himself greatly writing about first - class air travel, spas and foie gras, with the late - great How We Live group, before plunging headfirst into the fetid swamp of New York state politics, and the world of Albany...

Mayor Rudy Giuliani once quipped about blowing up 110 Livingston St., the headquarters of the old Board of Education — which he not unfairly painted as a bureaucratic swamp.

But it's raised a fresh question about a Democratic governor who has been laying down markers for a potential national run: has he been stained by the swamp he promised to drain?

Arkema said the company had no way to prevent fires because the plant is swamped by about 6 feet (1.83 m) of water due to flooding from Harvey, which came ashore in Texas last week as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, knocking out power to its cooling system.

The cities of Nowshera and neighboring Charsadda, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly Northwest Frontier province), and their suburbs were the first major communities hit by the unprecedented flooding that swamped one - fifth of Pakistan and left about 7 million homeless this summer.

Then the incessant rain began to swamp this city in northwestern Pakistan, about 50 miles from the Afghan border.

So, when Michigan Technological University geophysicist Wayne Pennington saw reports about a crack the length of a football field suddenly appearing in some swamp and woods in the northern area of the state's Upper Peninsula, he assumed it was a small landslide.

What is fascinating about human cultures is that despite every opportunity for us to be swamped by the cultures around us, somehow the cultures are quite strong, as if deflecting the cultures around them.

«But short of ploughing along at 5 feet above a swamp, where you might lose 3 to 5 knots in speed, bugs are not something we worry about,» he says.

One of those scientists is Philip Orton, an ocean engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., a city of about 50,000 people, in the New York City metropolitan area, that Sandy swamped under eight feet of salt water.

Some 25,000 people, from deer hunters on horseback to National Guardsmen, carved the countryside into a grid, wading through briars and swamps to collect more than 84,000 pieces of debris, about a third of the shuttle.