Sentences with phrase «as water marks»

Note, though, that home inspections are subjective and, generally, will only uncover problems that arise from visual cues, such as water marks found on a wall.

Not exact matches

The reception centre marked the beginning of a number of other similar initiatives in the region this year, such as helping improve search - and - rescue efforts in the waters around the island.

«We've seen a few cycles of this,» he says, pointing to the EU's $ 794 million fine against Microsoft (msft), in 2004, for bundling its media player with Windows, and the 2001 decision to block a merger between GE (ge) and Honeywell (hon), as other high - water marks of regulatory zeal.

But even a small gain would mark a significant development for a brand that has slumped as calorie - conscious drinkers gravitate to other options like sparkling water and zero - calorie energy drinks.

RBC's commitment to water conservation on display as it marks five year anniversary at prestigious flower show...

Coral Springs Marriott general manager Mark Cherry said a truck with a pallet of water showed up, as did delivery men bearing dozens of pizzas.

The Christian conception of God — God as God of the sick, God as spider, God as spirit — is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God arrived at on earth; perhaps it even represents the low - water mark in the descending development of the God type.

To suggest, after all, that philosophers could speak the truth insofar as they «borrowed from Moses» is hardly the high «water mark of Christian tolerance in any century.

This is a high - water mark of the covenant concept, and of the Old Testament, as the mistrusted and persecuted prophet wrote of the new covenant which would replace the old:

He regards the apostles (a word he uses as Mark did not) more highly than Mark did, and he represents Peter as receiving a special promise (16:17 - 19) and, like Jesus, walking on water (14:28 - 31).

here's a baffling question... if it's good theology to believe that Paul was chosen after the others for a reason, then why is he the earliest NT writer... what wd be the purpose of all that seemingly more primitive understanding of the gospel (the synoptics) coming together as written traditions after the Pauline high water mark?

It was a high - water mark in the history of foreign missions when the council declared that the churches of the West need to receive Christian missionaries as well as send them.

But perhaps also the walking on the water was originally an epiphany, for Jesus does not actually appear to the disciples on the water in order to proceed with them to land, but — as is still clearly to be read in Mark (ch.

To date, as we have seen, each ebb has been less pronounced than the preceding one and has been followed by an advance which has carried the faith forward to a new high - water mark in its effect upon mankind as a whole.

As it was getting close to the hard ball mark, I had a bowl of ice water set up and I would put a drop of the hot candy in.

The delivery of environmental water also assisted the spawning of golden perch and silver perch, while lower salinities facilitated a marked increase in species such as the smallmouthed hardyhead in the Coorong South Lagoon.

I put the chia seed powder into a measuring cup and poured in hot water up to the 1/4 cup mark, then stirred it together as it gelled / thickened.

Flannery's face sharpened, visibly pulled itself together as he began to search the high, landward cliffs for marks that he knew, that his father and his father and all the long line of Flannerys had known about the water and the fishing off the Dingle peninsula.

Then there's the high - water mark of the 2011 season, when, as Alvarez mentions, Wisconsin was two Hail Mary touchdowns away (given up to Michigan State and Ohio State) from being undefeated during the regular season and potentially playing for a national championship.

Olympians Gary Hall Sr., Mike Troy, John Kinsella, Jim Montgomery, Don McKenzie, Charlie Hickcox and nine - time gold medalist Mark Spitz were among 200 IU alums who came back to Bloomington to dip into their common past — and in some cases, into the water — as they remembered Doc Counsilman, the man who used to sit on a bench at poolside, sipping coffee, reading mail and occasionally dispensing swimming wisdom through a portable amplifier.

Garcia's ignorant attempt at humor during Tuesday night's black - tie affair was as wide of the mark as the two balls he dumped into the water at No. 17 at Sawgrass in Sunday's finale of the Players.

Austin McInerny, NICA's president, said, «Marked by volcanoes, abundant bodies of water, dense evergreen and mixed forests, as well as high...

Old maps don't mark a farm there as such, but the Sportsman could have been a hostelry / small holding feeding and watering people going hunting on the Marshes rather than a pub on a street as we might think of one today.

If, by the one - year mark, your baby is getting in dairy from other sources such as yogurt, cottage cheese, and cheese, it's OK if he or she prefers to drink water.

The threading itself is fairly resistant to water staining, especially those explicitly marked as such.

However, Martha warns to only use water - based makeup that is clearly marked as safe for facial use and to always supervise your children with the application of makeup.

Other bottled waters (sometimes called table water) may have a more appropriate mineral content and some are marked as being suitable for babies.

After all of the head - spinning votes, speeches, delays and challenges on the floor of the Erie County Legislature, lawmakers ultimately voted 10 - 1 to approve Democratic lawyer Mark Carney as the newest commissioner on the Erie County Water Authority.

It is when we look, as Chris Bragg did in Crain's recently, at the precise political history of the members of the Progressive Caucus, that we understand that the Caucus represents the high water mark of the Working Families Party, circa 2009, before the implosion of Data and Field Services.

The shadow communities secretary, Andrew Gwynne, told the Guardian last week that the polls had been «incredibly unhelpful» to Labour because they raised expectations when the last time the councils had been up for election four years ago the result was generally regarded as a high - water mark for the party.

Dissatisfaction with the two parties and with politics as usual is at a high - water mark.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is unapologetic about the county Health Department issuing an advisory to boil water as a result of a major water main break Wednesday night that inconvenienced nearly 210,000 people.

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Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

After all of the head - spinning votes, speeches, delays and challenges on the floor of the Erie County Legislature, lawmakers ultimately voted 10 - 1 on Thursday to approve Democratic lawyer Mark Carney as the newest commissioner on the Erie County Water Authority.

But what it means is that the 62 percent he won against Carl Paladino in 2010 (and Zephyr Teachout in her Democratic primary earlier this year) is the high - water mark for his term in office, and quite possibly for his career as an elected official.

«As I stated in my «Initiatives for a Smart Economy» address, the protection and restoration of the health and integrity of Western New York's fresh water systems is not only sound environmental policy but also represents a smart investment in our economic future,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

The relatively high water content of NWA 7034, which could be as much as 0.6 % by weight, suggests that «crustal or surface processes involving water may have lasted» well beyond the 4 - billion - year mark, Agee adds.

In the coming years, as the rover trundles up the side of Aeolis Mons, it will pass rocks that, seen from orbit, seem to host mysteriously intermittent dark streaks — perhaps marking seasonal water seeps.

Unlike natural bridges on Earth, which form largely by erosion from wind and water, these lunar bridges probably formed as a result of an impact in the last billion years, says Mark Robinson, a planetary geologist at Arizona State University in Tempe and principal investigator for LRO's camera.

Like the rat test before the water is raised, participants are first trained to drive to a specific location, marked by a lavender box, in a virtual countryside, which includes landmarks such as mountains, lakes, and the sun.

As the water level drops closer to that minimum mark, they dial back the amount of water released, which in turn affects all of the reservoirs downstream.

• Set the ball gently in the bowl of water, placing it so that the marked corners are at the top of the ball, as this will help prevent the ball from filling up with water.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed for the first time a lithium - ion battery that uses a water - salt solution as its electrolyte and reaches the 4.0 volt mark desired for household electronics, such as laptop computers, without the fire and explosive risks associated with some commercially available non-aqueous lithium - ion batteries.

«As we go down, we'll cross a bathtub ring» that marks the highest level the water typically reached, says Squyres.

Then he suggested that many of the unique characteristics of humans and their ancestors, marking them out as different from the other apes, could be explained as adaptations to spending time in water.

Gases such as water vapor leave their mark in a planet's atmosphere.

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• Make a habit of drinking lots of water, because in some cases thirst is marked as hunger.