Sentences with phrase «against gale»

In Peder Balke's The Tempest (c. 1862) a dark group of birds battle against a gale with more success than the stricken ships listing perilously on the grey waves beneath them.

Against a gale storm of unprecedented funding, Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Instruction narrowly won re-election.

Against this gale force, we were able to build an improbable coalition of families, teachers and classified employees, and community activists.

Today, I was battling against both gale force winds and rain.

Not exact matches

He stood against a wild moorland scene, a pine flattening in the gale on the brow of a distant hill, and rags of black cloud flying across the sky.

You sail on through gale force winds; feel the wind - blown seawater against your skin.

Dr Gales» experience ranges from tagging whales at the bow of a zodiac dinghy, to giving evidence in Australia's winning International Court of Justice case against Japan over whaling.

And only the most senior scientists today can stand up against this alarmist gale, and defy the iron triangle of climate scientists, advocates and policymakers.

So it seems you have not had the glorious experience of being wrapped in bin liners against the driving rain while sat on the grass seating and drinking red wine when packed together with hundreds of others also watching the players leaning into an Atlantic gale.