Sentences with phrase «as they sink beneath»

Aside from the grim image of every living thing on earth gasping for breath and choking on water as they sink beneath the waves, the flood story also paints a troubling portrait of a God who seems incompetent because He regrets that He made mankind (Didn't He know this would happen?)

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Finally: You're experiencing a cold snowy scene in Greenland beneath a piercing blue sky, gazing up warily as huge chunks of glacier plunge down, right in front of you, into a raging river of ice floes which could have sunk another Titantic, but now, in the modern day, are emblematic of what is sinking Planet Earth.

Take a look beneath the surface of Lake Erie, as divers survey the Admiral, which sank in a storm in 1942.

Instead, all that can be seen is the roof slowly sinking as the aluminium - clad building shrinks beneath it.

Mexico's capital is built on a dried - out lake, and every year the city sinks by tens of centimetres as water is extracted from aquifers beneath it.

Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»

The coast instead slowly and relentlessly sinks as the rock beneath it cools and sand and mud washed off the land fill the space created by the sinking continental margin.

This leaves the climax of Plato's story, the sinking of Atlantis beneath the waves, as a glaring loose thread.

While walking the Coquimbo roads, Darwin had filled his pockets with seashells and, having lived through an earthquake just a few weeks earlier, concluded reasonably that the Coquimbo roads were ancient beaches of the Pacific Ocean, which was right there, and that they stood at their present level not because the ocean had sunk or somehow drained away but because the earth itself had risen, as it practically had just then, right beneath his feet.

As the top layer of lava cools, it solidifies and grows dense, until eventually it sinks beneath the underlying magma and pulls nearby crust with it in waves moving across the surface.

These globs later became more like eclogite from ocean crust, a sign that surface material was getting mixed into the mantle, most likely as ocean plates dove beneath continental ones and sank.

Brown and blue boy's cottage bathroom features a brown washstand fitted with a white quartz countertop finished with an oval sink with a polished nickel faucet beneath a porthole mirror mounted between Thomas O'Brien Bryant Sconces on a wall covered in world map wallpaper accented with a shiplap trim as blue hexagon floor tiles cover the floor.

Chic black and white bathroom is fitted with a glossy black washstand adoring polished nickel pulls, a polished nickel ring towel holder and a white marble countertop finished with a rectangular sink and a polished nickel gooseneck faucet positioned beneath a dark nickel mirror flanked by white glass nickel sconces as natural light flows in from a window dressed in a white roman shade.

A beautiful film sequence by the director John Maybury is at the top of the gallery, and it shows a girl plunged overboard a ship and appear to drown, and as she sinks deeper beneath the waves, the tendrils of her torn chiffon dress ensnare her legs and pull her deeper under.

Even in New York itself I will sometimes hear the question, from the ld men on the Coney Island boardwalk who knew Irving Lefkowitz when he was a bar mitzvah boy and who, from their benches on the Brooklyn beach, envision the long and slender island of Manhattan as an urban Titanic, sinking beneath the weight of criminals, homosexuals, and atheists,...

Or maybe they don't like the feel of the litter beneath their feet or the way they sink too deep into it as they do their business.

Your evening begins with a spectacular hour and a half camel ride through native bushland, arriving at a turn of the century stone cottage as the sun sinks beneath the Dutchman escarpment and the first stars wink on in the evening sky.

Head to the comfortable, covered cabin for drinks and light snacks as you watch the sun sink beneath the Pacific.

You and your special someone can head out during the Golden Hour and enjoy great drinks, fresh food, and incredible views as the sun sinks beneath the Pacific.

Mantle material slowly flows away from beneath the ice sheet in an attempt to restore gravitational equilibrium — much like if you stand on wet sand you slowly sink as the sand flows away from beneath your weight.

Form as cold, dense water of the polar regions sinks and flows beneath warmer ocean water.

So on condensation, under the still rising hotter lighter air carrying on doing its thing and perhaps adding new layers, there would be the accompanying volume and temperature decrease of that first previously rising lighter volume now heavier liquid water and added to by the adjacent volumes of heavier colder air flowing beneath the still rising lighter hotter and into the space now available on condensation of its neighbour, which all now being heavier will increase the pressure at the surface as they all sink together displacing the lighter.

And, finally, as the tundra burns off it exposes the real carbon sink, the permafrost, immediately beneath.

My latest findings are that Q2 2012 may have been the worst quarter for partner lateral hiring (in terms of numbers of hires announced) for almost five years if one takes into account the «Dewey 20», partners from the stricken firm forced to move rapidly to new homes as the US titan sank beneath the waves of its own hubristic expansion (see graph).

Incorporate a natural element, such as a towel - filled basket beneath an open sink, to warm sleek, modern materials.