Sentences with phrase «alight by»

The simple white ceramic plate is set alight by the Unicorn feature and pretty gold stars.

In one of them, his toupee is aflame, set alight by tiny aircraft, but even this act of violence is made less significant by the big smile plastered on his face.

They capture the spectacular violence of smoldering desert landscapes where nearly seven hundred oil wells — set alight by Saddam Hussein's murderous forces as they were scrambling out of the country — are engulfed in flames.

In the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, five thousand women and girls have been doused in kerosene and set alight by family members or in - laws — or, perhaps worse, been seared with acid — for perceived disobedience just in the last nine years.

Providing additional convenience and capability, Automatic Access Height, enabled through electronic air suspension, allows occupants to more easily enter and alight by lowering the vehicle by 50 mm.

On the one hand, we get a man set alight by rioters, a child's horrific blinding, the discovery of Latika in a brothel district.

ALMOST two years ago, the astronomical world was set alight by the discovery of dim, point - like objects called MACHOs in the invisible halo of dark matter that surrounds our Galaxy (This Week, 25 September 1993).

The latest crisis is a full - blown conflagration, deliberately set alight by the Burmese military.

Live television footage on Friday afternoon showed smoke billowing above a railway station and petrol pump in Punjab that was allegedly set alight by supporters of Singh.

Syria was not set alight by western intervention.

Seven years ago, the world was set alight by one Mesut Özil, and his contributions for Germany during the 2010 World Cup proved invaluable.

Arsene Wenger met with the press after his side's latest defeat and set the interweb alight by admitting he had finally made a decision on his future.

A beautiful swan alighted by the banks of the water in which a crane was wading about seeking snails.

Reaching through the haze of post-Christian understanding, employing against itself the only moral language she knows» the Judeo - Christian language of victims» Arundhati Roy alights by chance on a solution.

Not exact matches

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A travel firm confirmed the coach was hit by a fuel tanker which caught fire and set the bus alight.

The home side will be without the on - loan midfielder Renato Sanches for the match - up, although he has hardly set the Premier League alight since arriving from Bayern Munich, while our team will be boosted by the return of Olivier Giroud.

Milner for Gerrard and Firmino for Sterling isn't exactly strengthening and if his previous recruits from Southampton are anything to go by Clyne won't exactly set the league alight straight off the bat.

Still didn't set the game alight all by himself and it was more owing to the likes of Chamberlain and Chambers providing him with support on the right hand side that gave him most of his limited success.

Mertens» release clause of $ 28m is sure to be viewed as a bargain by any of Europe's elite with the attacker currently setting alight the Serie A with his recent performances.

6 The first documented auto fatality in the United States was H. H. Bliss of New York City, who was struck by an electric taxicab on September 13, 1899, while alighting from a trolley car.

Calliphora vicina, the blowfly seen hatching here from its pupa (above), is often the first to alight at the table of death, drawn by fresh flesh scented with acids and gases that signal the onset of decay.

The hairs are tipped by tiny sacs filled with a substance that sticks to any insect that alights on the leaf.

If there is a really sexy entrant, it is Under the Silver Lake, by David Robert Mitchell who set Cannes alight with his scary movie It Follows, which was part of Critics» week in 2014.

While not exactly setting the back pages of glossy magazines alight, even with its livelier suits being tailored by Timothy Everest, more significant is that this film remains true to its own world.

As the cute foxy protagonist «Guy» you must set alight all of the rocket - flowers by bouncing on them.

For example, there's a chemistry lab where students calculate the calorie content of food by setting it alight.

On April 29, 1865, Clara Harris wrote in a letter, «They say we were watched by the assassins; ay, as we alighted from the carriage... and when I think of that fiend barring himself in with us, my blood runs cold.»

There was the one where she alighted from a gilded carriage drawn by six snowy white horses only to find his wasted figure huddled in the gutter outside her father's Mayfair town house.

Alight with unusual intensity, the artwork fills the pages with vibrant images, whether showing a child on a swing surrounded by and infused with the sun's energy or a rolling meadow teeming with diverse plants and animals.

If someone walks in to see if there's a new Honor Harrington novel by David Weber and finds there isn't, her eyes might very easily alight on a «Hyperspace Wars» novel by Chris Webb and see what the blurb is about...

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Community Animal Rescue Effort (C.A.R.E. ™) honored the fundraising efforts of Morton Grove, Ill., resident and long - time C.A.R.E. volunteer Janice Cha with the presentation of a white Liv Alight bicycle donated by C.A.R.E. supporter The Pony Shop, a cycling store in Evanston, Ill..

Alight from the sky elevator into the 30th floor lobby and receive a splendid welcome, accentuated by the awe - inspiring views that surround you.

If you are coming by boat, this is the pier to alight and start your of Chinatown in reverse.

As an RBC Bank Credit card client you are eligible for up to $ 250,000 automatically against accidental bodily injuries that are the sole cause of accidental death or dismemberment while riding as a fare - paying passenger in, boarding or alighting from any aircraft, or land or water conveyance that is operated by a common carrier licensed to carry passengers for hire, provided the entire travel fare (s) has been charged directly to your RBC Bank Credit card account.

Entered via a door in the garden wall, guests immediately alight upon a small outdoor area highlighted by the clear waters of a swimming pool.

We alighted near George Sound Hut, a basic shelter provided by the Department of Conservation for use by hikers (in New Zealand referred to as «trampers») who make the 17.5 km four day trek from Lake Te Anau.

Mythical and magical, a diamond shaped tropical island (140 km by 80 km) of spectacular volcanic mountains and lakes, enchanting rice terraces, ancient temples and palaces, surrounded by sparkling and warm coral seas, picturesque Bali is alight with its own unique culture and traditions.

You are guided through the puzzles by a floating robot, who at first appears quite funny but then after a while his quotes and attempts at humour seem a bit repetitive and tiresome, but other than a few minor shortcomings, this is a solid, fun but unremarkable game which won't set your VR headset alight but will give you a good amount of entertainment, satisfaction and achievement.

The Frieze Tate Fund, which acquires works from the fair for the museum collection, has alighted on exhibits by Dorothy Iannone, Mary Beth Edelson, Hannah Black and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.

By Bus The following buses stop at the South London Gallery: Routes 12, 36, 171, 343, 345 and 436 Alight at «Peckham Road / Southampton Way»

More recently, paintings by a Henry Codax have been alighting at galleries and at least one auction house, his real identity a subject of some speculation.

Accentuated by shifts in color, this contrapuntal rhythm creates a sense of movement, and indeed, it appears as though the butterfly's golden wings will soon alight on the sleeping figure.

Alight is an original, one - of - a-kind figurative painting signed by artist Lazaro Hurtado.

Next week, when V.I.P.s and special guests shuffle through Christie's new West Galleries, in Rockefeller Center, they will alight on a series of abstract paintings by a group of relatively unknown artists.

One hates to alight oneself with a statement by Canaday, just put it that he noted in the columns of the Times what he felt would be the limpness and irrelevance of work on 10th Street during this past couple of years.

After opening first in Liverpool earlier in the autumn, Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2014 has alighted once more at the ICA, taking up both the lower and upper galleries with an exhibition of work by 55 artists graduating this year from BA and MA courses the length and breadth of the country.

Among the new sculptures produced for the exhibition is Fischer's first candle self - portrait, which is set alight and slowly burns down before our eyes, in the fashion of his acclaimed installation at the Arsenale di Venezia, which was described by the Financial Times as «the single most stunning new piece anywhere» in the 2011 Biennale.