Sentences with phrase «as ballast from»

The oldest Anglican Cathedral Church in Central America, St. John's Cathedral, was built in 1812 from bricks brought as ballast from European sailing ships.

Other Belize City points of interest: the Swing Bridge, Supreme Court Building, Government House of Culture and St. John's Anglican Church, constructed in 1812 from bricks brought as ballast from European Sailing ships.

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Tickle explains that, in reaction to the gathering center, many Christians will retreat to their respective corners, or religious traditions, which isn't an entirely bad thing because it serves as a sort of ballast to keep the boat of Christendom from tipping during the upheaval of the Great Emergence.

Beyond the Sculpin franchise, Birkel said he hopes consumers continue their journey through the Ballast Point portfolio by experimenting with higher end «explorer series» beers such as a barrel - aged version of Victory at Sea, which sourced wood from Constellation's High West Distillery and is slated for a November release.

Constellation Brands, which produces and distributes the popular Modelo and Corona Mexican import labels, as well as beers from San Diego craft brewery Ballast Point, continued its rise as the only beer company among the top 5 vendors to post increases in both dollar sales (14.1 percent) and volume sales (12.5 percent).

Organic net beer sales increased 13 percent on the year due to volume growth and pricing as well as an acquisition benefit from the $ 1 billion deal to purchase California - based craft brewery Ballast Point.

In the 40s he gradually forsook pay diving for treasure hunting, prowling from one wrecksite to another, most of them located on tips from local fishermen who had worked over round rocks but never figured them as the ballasts of old ships.

The fossa is as agile as a squirrel, he said, using its luxuriant tail for ballast and balance when leaping from branch to branch.

Rats, the world's foremost invasive species, have traveled the world with explorers and traders; so have tropical fire ants, which genetic studies suggest have hitchhiked from southwestern Mexico to Asia and beyond starting in the 16th century in soil used as ballast in Spanish ships.

As a child he showed considerable initiative in fossil hunting, even collecting specimens from the discarded ballast of cargo ships.

The imported red fire ant, as it is colloquially known, came to the U.S. from its native South America sometime in the 1930s or «40s, likely as a stowaway in ship ballast.

In other cases, human activities are involved in the HAB expansion, such as the inadvertent transport of algal species — or their cysts — from one region to another in ballast water.

Functioning as a ballast, these platelets are important for the carbon transport to the deep ocean — and thus for the ability of the oceans to take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of climate change.

As creator, writer and director, Hawley does everything he can to suppress the yawns that will surely come from the superhero - disinclined, setting the tone for a show that favors personality over powers, with dialogue that thankfully lacks the sonorous ballast of most superhero movies.

Sarah Silverman, as Naomi Watts» friend Sheila from the diner, has proven herself to be a real treasure in her dramatic roles bringing heart and sass to what would otherwise be a throwaway character whose main purpose is to be the kind of emotional ballast to Susan that sometimes only other adult can be.

It also needs the hydraulics in the hood replaced, the xenon headlight has a malfunction (which requires the entire headlight assembly to be removed from the body of the car to change a LIGHTBULB, and if god forbid the ballast is bad, the bumper must be removed as well).

Sun Breeze Hotel: ballast stones used as patio stones, recovered from behind Ambergris Caye in the area known as Bota Lastre (literally means to throw ballast overboard).

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The point derived its name from the fact that the early Yankee skippers would have stones gathered from Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Ballast Point to serve as ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, ballast in their ships during their returns around Cape Horn to their home town, Boston.

This ocean - front event will include famous names from the beer world like Ballast Point, Firestone Walker Brewing, Lagunitas and Stone Brewing, as well as a top - notch lineup of Santa Barbara County breweries including Brass Bear, The Brewhouse, Captain Fatty's, Draughtsmen, Figueroa Mountain, Hollister Brewing, M. Special, Pure Order, Rincon Brewery, Third Window and Topa Topa.

(GML Heritage 2018) SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — According to a BBC News report, indigenous Australians made traditional tools from flint cobbles carried to Australia as ballast on British ships in the...