Sentences with phrase «as the desert highway»

The major North — South highway in the Hashemite Kingdon of Jordan is known as the Desert Highway.

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God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

This digital highway, to be operational in 2014, will not only transfer the enormous quantity of data that ALMA will produce when fully built, it will also allow for heightened quality in the level of communication between those operating the observatory from its remote and hostile region in the desert of Atacama and those processing the data at ALMA headquarters in Santiago; as well as the scientific community throughout the world.

«Hough stars as a young bride - to - be who is trapped in her overturned car off a deserted highway after deliberately crashes it in an attempt to escape a charming, predatory hitchhiker (Sears).

The drive across the Painted Desert was quite surreal with its petrified logs, as was the equally petrified old car we saw as we crossed a section of historic U.S. Route 66, once the main highway to Los Angeles from Chicago.

The white Infiniti and I were becoming better acquainted as we headed down U.S. Highway 89 from the meadows country around Alpine to the desert.

Once done, we took the Pinal Pioneer Parkway along Arizona State Highway 79 to Phoenix, as it put us close to the quintessential landscape of the Sonoran Desert.

The materials are top - notch and the panel gaps are as straight as a highway in the Nevada desert.

My week of toddling around town and playing in the desert, as well as the 600 - plus - mile round trip on the highway, netted me 16.8 miles per gallon, a bit lower than I would expect with the EPA's rating of 15 miles per gallon in the city, 21 on the highway and 17 combined.

Jordan is a journey through religious and ancient history: from Mount Nebo, burial site of Moses, from where he viewed the «Promised Land» to Bethany, baptism site of Jesus on the river Jordan; from Madaba's mosaic map of ancient Palestine to Jerash, best preserved Roman city of the Decapolis and known as «Pompeii of the East»; from the evocative Desert Castles of the Umayyad caliphs, used as a refuge by T.E. Lawrence to the Crusader castle of Kerak on the King's Highway.

Gleaming, pastel visions spread out across the gallery - images of cars, signposts, highways and flat, desert landscapes are obscured as if by fog.