Sentences with phrase «as desert point»

Leaving Gili Asahan and back on the mainland there are small home - stays and private accommodations spaced out along the road to Bangko - Bangko — known as Desert Point and the surfing Mecca for those in the know — located on the far southwest tip of Lombok.

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Children of Israel, Hearken to the voice of David above, and go and find his long awaited and anticipated Descendant in that DESERT (that is FAR AWAY from Israel now) if you want to protect yourself from that raging Wind and Storm that is coming upon Israel and all that Region, as David thus clearly pointed out above.

And, as the prophets later saw, all this presented two focal points of peril to the best traditions that had come from the desert: it substituted for the old austerity the alluring licentiousness of baal worship, and it sanctioned the commercial inequalities and tyrannies, which the baals of sophisticated Canaan sponsored against the ancient ideas of social solidarity, equality, and justice for which Yahweh stood.

Committee meetings may be, as James Ashbrook points out, «oases of fellowship in deserts of loneliness» for some people.

New England shocked Arizona narrowly winning in the desert Sunday night but easily covering the spread as 9.5 point dogs.

Mike served around the world: the DMZ in Korea, defending the German border in the Cold War, commanding an infantry company in Desert Storm with the 1st Armored Division, serving as a European foreign area officer, earning two masters degrees from Indiana University, teaching at West Point and the Command and General Staff College, leading logistics units in Hawaii, and commanding two training battalions after the attacks of 9/11.

It is also clear that ecological tipping points can be crossed if we push this process too far, with potentially irreversible consequences as overgrazed grassland tips into desert, or as degraded tropical forest dries out and burns over vast areas of Indonesia and Brazil.

In its creation of the monument late last year, the Obama administration pointed to concern over vandalism in the area, much of which had previously been designated as areas of critical environmental concern for the desert tortoise and bighorn sheep.

To prove his point, Hillenius did an experiment on five types of mammal — rats, squirrels, ferrets, rabbits, and opossums — that are native to the area around Oregon State University, where he was earning his Ph.D. (Western Oregon, he notes, is about as far from desert conditions as a mammal can get.)

Farther inland, he trekked through arid forests where giant jumping rats surfaced among baobabs — odd, upside - down trees with wide bases and pointed tops — as well as through a sandless desert landscape speckled with thorny armored bushes with thick, fleshy leaves that harbored hissing cockroaches.

After our active two week rotation at the Mars Desert Research Station as Crew 160, I can confidently say that each member's point of view on what life on another planet would be like has been completely reformed.

I make a point of heading outside as soon as I wake up although I started this more for SAD — even living in bright desert light, it feels too dark in winter.

At this point everyone deserted me again as I headed to London for XBiz where we were a major sponsor and I was on a panel with Live Jasmin and Pussy Cash explaining how to cross sell products and maximise revenue from you traffic.

Using «Robinson Crusoe» as a starting point, this soulful and meditative tale about a shipwrecked man who washes up on a deserted island tackles some big themes like man vs. nature and the circle of life.

As we visited out of season, the only place we could find that was open was Desert Point Lodge, which sits more or less opposite the boat landing for Pearl Beach on Gili Asahan.

Kibbutz Ketura is a world leader in desert agriculture and agricultural technology, traditional kibbutz life is fused here with innovation, as the kibbutz is a major point on Israel's «start - up Nation» map.

Our paradise is only 20 minutes away from «Desert Point» also known as «Bangko Bangko Beach» THE secret surf spot on Lombok.

On its day «Desert Point» is regarded as one of the best waves on the planet.

Renowned fishing spots include: The south west point of Lombok, towards Bangko - bangko (Desert Point); opposite Nusa Penida (Bali) which is recommended as one of the best for trolling and deep fishing; North West of Lombok, close to the Gili Islands (Trawangan, Meno, Air) which is a spot known by the locals as takat (sea wall) and is great for both trolling and deep fispoint of Lombok, towards Bangko - bangko (Desert Point); opposite Nusa Penida (Bali) which is recommended as one of the best for trolling and deep fishing; North West of Lombok, close to the Gili Islands (Trawangan, Meno, Air) which is a spot known by the locals as takat (sea wall) and is great for both trolling and deep fisPoint); opposite Nusa Penida (Bali) which is recommended as one of the best for trolling and deep fishing; North West of Lombok, close to the Gili Islands (Trawangan, Meno, Air) which is a spot known by the locals as takat (sea wall) and is great for both trolling and deep fishing.

Phoenix also serves as a central point to many of the sights around the state of Arizona, such as the Grand Canyon, Lake Havasu (where the London Bridge is located), Meteor Crater, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, Tombstone, Kartchner Caverns, Sedona and Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff.

Better yet, head to Desert Point, also known as Bangko Bangko beach which is known for its long walled left handers that will blow you away.

The wide white sand bay is lined with fisherman's huts and draws hundreds of surfers every year from as far away as Hawaii and Brazil to challenge the huge waves of Desert Point, just offshore.

Most visitors use Tunis, the country's capital, as a stepping stone to the nearby Mediterranean resorts of Hammamet and Sousse, or as the starting point for tours of the Sahara Desert.

The region's rugged, bright coastline is home to secluded, deserted beaches - landing points for 2,000 years of invasion - and there is an unhurried and relaxed way of life here, as you will see in the day - to - day activities of friendly locals.

Another famous surfing spot is Bangko bangko, or known by most surfers as «Desert Point».

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For Tuesday Evenings, Cuevas's presentation is centered on research - based projects formally developed through the use of socio - cultural strategies, including actions such as marking a crossing point in the Chihuahuan desert at the US - Mexico border, or multidisciplinary processes such as the simultaneous collaboration with the SFMOMA and public libraries around the subject of public knowledge.

Platou has exhibited and performed internationally in such projects as Desert Guitars, Thousand Points of Light, Joshua Tree, U.S. (2014); Platou's Cave, Noplace, Oslo, Norway (2012); Nothing is Nothing, Kurant, Tromsø, Norway (2010); and Jonny Winklers Kanon, Obrestad Light House, Varhaug, Norway (2010).

The first single from Odd Blood, «Ambling Alp,» is an invigorating self - help anthem with cryptic allusions to boxing matches of the»30s, and is accompanied by a disorienting video that simultaneously points to the youthful exuberance of photographer Ryan McGinley and the mystical deserts of Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo — naked young bodies leaping and tumbling down sand dunes as a strange, shape - shifting figure clad in nomadic robes looks on from horseback.

If the artist's paintings point elsewhere - whether to adobe architecture, the New Mexican desert, or some similar sense of the works» material origins - these untitled photographs position themselves as supporting evidence of Dash's studio artisanry.

The large - format pictures, but especially the desert photographs, offer the viewer little orientation aids, not an eye - catcher that could serve as a starting and ending point for viewing the picture.

Rosson Crow uses the desert landscape as a point of departure for a new...

It is deeply disturbing that unnamed federal law enforcement officials pointed to the nonviolent «resolution» of the 2014 Cliven Bundy stand - off — in which the feds backed down from seizing his cattle illegally grazing for more than a decade on national park and desert range lands — as a «success» and a model for handling the current situation in eastern Oregon.

In the early afternoon hours on sunny summer days such as today, the desert atmosphere is nearing the point of full mixing to heights up to three miles above the desert basins.

The difference between the UHI in forested, grassy and desert surroundings would point to the predominance of evaporation suppression under sunlight as a key source of the UHI effect (out of the polar regions at least).

Greg Craven's meltdown is but the tip of the iceberg, and as that iceberg, reaches its inevitable tipping point, more thinking followers will desert their thinning ranks.

Areas with the most greenhouse gases (tropics) have maximum temperatures that are no where near as high as some desert areas with the lowest amount of GHEs (yeah, yeah, it's the water evaporation and clouds; but that is precisely the point on Earth).

Please point out any errors in my logic with this as I am always trying to deepen my understanding.Also just read an article in yale e360 which states that the artic tundra has the same precipitation level as a desert.

Now, as I pointed out before, if anyone has ever been to Byrd, or has seen the pictures on Google Earth, it would be very hard to validate ANY offset between two stations being 2.5 km apart on that deserted ice field without a proper physical explanation.

This time it's a Honda commercial that shows what happens if you mass hundreds of cars Honda Insight hybrids in the desert at night, point them in the same direction, wire them just right, and let a computer person play with their headlights as if these were pixels on a screen.

She points to such innovative social enterprises as the Council's Tjanpi Desert Weavers which represents more than 400 women artists from 26 remote communities and the Ngangkari program that melds traditional healers with the best of western medicine to maximise health outcomes and wellbeing.

Additionally this property neighbors other cities such as Desert View Point, Lee Canyon Summer Home Area, and Las Vegas.

I used the fabric on the chair pillow (Waverly Santa Maria Desert) as a jumping off point and added white furniture and yellow, turquoise and red accents.