Sentences with phrase «against a tree at»

Knowing that if he fell into a deep sleep he would likely die, he propped himself against a tree at an odd angle so that if he dozed, he would start awake.

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Naturally that has to be set against the hassle factor and the chimp factor — that is, the fair chance you'll self - sabotage at some point because we're all barely down from the trees in investing terms.

His corpse was later discovered in the forest, resting against a tree as if he were sleeping, pale but apparently quite at peace.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

When we first moved home and I saw the sun set behind the pine trees, etching them like black lace relief against the northern sky, I cried for being home at last, for how my soul needed that very beauty.

At the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.&raquAt the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.&raquat man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.»

A crisp breeze and bright sun set against deep blue skies and dashes of color in the trees confirm the season's arrival at last.

By the time I reach the toll booth at the Connecticut line the sky has begun to lighten and I can see the trees outlined against it.

Pros: Good body control, creates a good catch radius despite an average frame and snags the ball away from his body, uses body to shield defenders from ball Understands how to find the holes and sit down against zone coverage Nuanced route runner, uses head fakes at the stem and on release where he also uses feet well to beat press Has special teams experience (though I never thought of him as a standout from the broadcast) Has experience running full route tree, from multiple alignments with multiple personnel packages

At Lawrence both Cincinnati and Kansas State had no trouble beating Texas Tech and Houston respectively on the first night, and their game against each other appeared to revolve around Cincinnati's 6 - foot - 9 Center Paul Hogue, who resembles a large oak tree that has been granted the power to move — fast.

They are are on a three match winning streak at home against Nottingham Forest and haven't shipped a goal in any of those three victories against the Tricky Trees.

* While there are, as of yet, no clinical studies to confirm the results, a laboratory study conducted at the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University (OSU) presented at a December 2007 meeting of the American Society of Health - System Pharmacists found that an ointment containing benzethonium chloride with tea tree and white thyme oil worked best against all four tested MRSA strains, while ointments containing neomycin, polymyxin, and gramicidin also had some antibacterial effectiveness.

For example, the City Council broke from its tradition of deferring to the local council member on land use matters in 2009, when it approved a rezoning for Two Trees Management in Dumbo against the wishes of David Yassky, the Council member at the time.

Councilman Jim Dinizio voted against a tree fund fee at Tuesday's Town Board meeting.

The remaining third die from the trauma of being flung against boulders and trees at speeds of up to 80 mph.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have successfully decoded the genetic sequence of the ash tree, to help the fight against the fungal disease, ash dieback.

«Brushing against a tree could easily leave one in your hair,» says Amesh Adalja, MD, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pittsburgh.

I told her that I also did the same thing when I was younger but instead of looking at the horizon I would often close my eyes and feel how the tree was gently swaying as the wind pushed against it.

I got married at the beach because the horizon, the sound of the waves, and the palms trees against a beautiful blue sky are so peaceful.

Weirdly stylish, at the same time as being grotty and gaudy, the film features an insane climax set against a Boschian landscape of burned tree trunks, which the final shots of The Neon Demon appears to echo.

Recurring images of bare trees against the sky evoke the eponymous tormentor's fingers, and dark coats worn by guests at a birthday party make the event more resemble a wake.

Fellow hobbits Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) remain in the custody of a group of ancient, walking trees, while wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), elfin archer Legolas (Orlando Bloom), belligerent dwarf Gimli (John Rhys - Davies) and dispossessed king Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the rightful ruler of Gondor, are recovering in Rohan, where King Theoden (Bernard Hill) has just led his people to victory against Mordor's army of mutants, beasts and monsters at Helm's Deep.

Against a heavenly backdrop of sun, white sandy beaches and palm trees, she meets billionaire William Burton, and it's love at first sight!

Their powerful hind legs and strong muscular backs ensure that cats can propel themselves up a tree with ease, however they are not so good at climbing back down where the design of their bodies works against them.

Their basic color is often a good enough cover against the backdrops they typically frequent, but if one moves a chameleon from a tree to a solid background of a different color, they will not strive to match it at all.

If weather permits, we highly recommend booking a seat at the poolside terrace, which offers spectacular views of kite - surfers practising their skills, swaying palm trees, and waves splashing against the shoreline.

Aloha from Sydney beach cottage friends, it's a lovely but windy day here on the beaches, I'm sitting in the Summer Room with a nice coffee and open windows... looking out at that blue Aussie sky which still makes me smile and its contrast against the bright green of the wisteria leaves... and a tree which I do not know the...

This classic Hacienda style villa is situated at the oceanâ's edge, with the sound of surf set against swaying palm trees and gliding pelicans.

The Electric - type Raikou and the Fire - type Entei are now available to join your team, both of which are permitted for use in the Battle Tree and against other players at the Battle Spot.

The overcomplicated skill trees feel as though they work against poor Zachariah, as his more powerful abilities are unlocked at the cost of much needed upgrades to your preferred combat stance.

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The camera is fighting against you at every chance it gets, hiding behind bushes, trees, rocks or even enemies.

Observing the way plants, trees and flowers push up against the dappled, translucent glass of these majestic buildings, hinting at what lies inside, is something that all began when, in 2015, on the way home from a «particularly bad day in the office», Samuel got off the train early to visit a botanical garden.

Just look at the fullness of the sky and those trees silhouetted against it — an effect worthy of Leonardo da Vinci.

Unpretentious, melancholy, exact, Dean's Christmas tree lightly brushes against themes of transience, reality and truth that are at the heart of her work.

For example, you wouldn't look twice at the image of a tree and full moon against a plain blue ground, but the work's title Death of David Kelly neatly exploits that good man's death for the smug consumption of the art world's least thoughtful fashionistas.

Celebration of Trees is presented in honor of Tu B'Shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees, at a time when forests are increasingly important in the fight against Climate Change.

Some feature soft - edged color - field blocks resting against one other, others vibrant gestural abstraction — and at least two appear to be palm tree sunsets slapped obliquely over older collaged works.

His work has also been the subject of important group and solo shows throughout the span of his almost 50 - year career, including Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York (2013); superhuman, Central Utah Art Center, Ephraim (2012); Reenactor, Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA (2012); The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (2010); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Corbu Pops, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2009); Thirty Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2008); Black Is, Black Ain't, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); Drawing, Dreaming, Drowning at Art Institute of Chicago (2008); Art After White People: Time, Trees, and Celluloid... at Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (2007); William Pope.L: The Black Factory and Other Good Works, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2007); 7e Biennale de l'Art Africaine Contemporaine, Dakar, Senegal (2006); Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2005); The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams (2004); The Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2004); Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York (2004); William Pope.L: the friendliest Black artist in America at ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, DoverseWorks Artspace in Houston, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, ME, Artists Space in New York, and Mason Gross Art Galleries at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ (2002 - 2004); eRacism: Retrospective Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland (2002); eRacism: White Room, Thread Waxing Space, New York (2000); Eating the Wall Street Journal and Other Current Consumptions, Mobius, Boston (2000); and Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949 — 1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1998).

This does two things that may be important: it allows the non-annually resolved proxies to be used (recent previous reconstructions, e.g. MBH98, Esper et al., used only those with at least a value each year, to allow calibration against the instrumental record; Moberg's approach allows the use of data that only provide 50 y means); and it throws away the long - term signal from the tree rings, which they consider to be untrustworthy.

Michael Grunwald at TIME explains why he's standing «with the tree huggers» on the fight against the Keystone XL pipeline.

or if it's something else entirely that may have happened before (making tree rings an unreliable source of data, or at best requiring weighing the ring data against whatever

«We examined the evidence for a time - dependent elevation bias in the reconstruction by regressing mean MXD against mean sample elevation for different age classes of trees... These results (shown in [their] Table 2) indicate no significant elevational influence on mean density, at least over the range of elevation involved in these calculations»

Ironically, it is these burning fir trees that pose the only real fire threat to their sequoia symbionts, the burning trunk of a fir leaning up against the sequoia can lead to exactly the type of fire hollowing damage that we observe and that ultimately makes it possible for a dead sequoia to fall over at all, otherwise they might remain standing dead for a thousand years [not much good even for the squirrels].

Now then, not to bother about age - detrending at all, I took tree rings of 50 - 60 years of age in trees that lived less than 100 years and plotted them against the calendar years, see below.

The models have used measured data and reconstructed temperatures from proxies (tree rings, ice cores, boreholes, sediments, etc.) and been calibrated against at least the last few thousand years of data, and they all predict that the temperatures will continue to rise.

Looking at the facts of the case, they are pretty much exactly what you would expect from a bachelor party golf outing that involved dozens of beers, a bottle of tequila, several marijuana joints smoked «before the third hole,» «power slides» in the golf carts and clubs smashed against trees.

In a Feb. 25 post playing on the recent killer whale incident at Sea World (a post which can no longer be read thanks to a temporary restraining order granted against HAN by a Louisiana state judge), HAN wrote about the supposed fate of «veteran wildlife guide Dizzy Dimarco» who was said to have been thrown into the upper limbs of a tree while feeding giraffes at Global Wildlife.

Partner responsible at trial for Lending Tree's infringement and validity case in its patent infringement lawsuit against Zillow, Adchemy and NexTag over a method for generating on - line mortgage leads.

Made in France - Floor lamp in the shape of a tree branch - Can be placed against a wall or attached to the wall (at 2 points using 2 metal parts supplied)- On / off foot switch on cable - Bulb (included): 36W fluorescent tube, warm light