Sentences with phrase «at ploughing»

Having a go at ploughing a paddy field using their water buffalo.

Would that these were translated into each and every language so that they might be read and understood not only by Scots and Irishmen, but also by Turks and Saracens... Would that the farmer might sing snatches of Scripture at his plough, that the weaver might hum phrases of Scripture to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveler might lighten with stories from Scripture the weariness of his journey.1

Not exact matches

Not every faculty member at Stanford is ploughing through a weighty tome on a serious subject this holiday season.

Sherwood has been putting his money where his mouth is too, ploughing over $ 330,000 into the company's stock to pick up 5.15 m shares at 6.5 c a share during the quarter.

If Beijing continues to allow credit to grow at roughly 20 % of GDP in 2014 (the average rate for the last five years) and if most of the newly created credit is ploughed into investment, this will show that, for all its rhetoric, the new leadership does not have the stomach for reform.

After a decade in the trenches (plus 4 years prior to that dabbling at various other entrepreneurial ventures) I think there's little I can't take on the chin and plough through; apart from maybe corporate bureaucracy.

Lloyd Blankfein has tried to ease concerns among shareholders that Goldman Sachs may be ploughing into consumer credit at the wrong point in the cycle, stressing that the bank was «being very careful» in its pivot from Wall Street to Main Street.

The economists argue that even if such a tax was levied at just 0.05 %, it could raise hundreds of billions of dollars, which could be ploughed into development projects.

The talks with prospective investors come as Vice seeks funds to plough into its international expansion, as well as a move into scripted programming, another strand of content creation into which the at - times controversial company is expanding.

Alternative worship has ploughed a third way, a way that embraces contemporary (postmodern) culture while re-engaging and reframing tradition at the same time.

There is, let us note at the outset, no religious language in the poem: the images are secular (horses, plume, rein, kingdom, dauphin, skate, plough) and natural (daylight, air, wind, earth).

Susan added: «We've been loyal exhibitors at Luxe Pack for many years now and have witnessed more and more brands and suppliers plough investment into sustainability initiatives as green credentials become increasingly important to consumers.

But when Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg ploughed into the back of Kimi Raikkonen at the end of the pit lane it set the stage for Robert Kubica to take his first (and only) win, and for Coulthard to score his final podium.

Nevertheless, Crooks has ploughed on with his choices, with Artur Boruc getting the nod between the posts after helping Bournemouth to a draw at Manchester United.

With his F3 car stuck in the middle of the track, the marshals couldn't get the yellow flags out in time before Guan Yu Zhou ploughed into the side of him at racing speed.

Prize money is at stake too, but this becomes less relevant given the money ploughed in from domestic and overseas television rights.

Rodney Parade is regularly used for rugby and does not benefit from the artificial weave enjoyed at the Liberty Stadium, so whilst not exactly resembling a ploughed field it will not be anywhere near the pristine grass carpets enjoyed by our players at Premier League venues across the country.

Having to navigate AEK plus another likely strong opponent in the playoffs, the group stage is a long way off at present, but a fall back option of the Europa League (a competition generally missed by CSKA) is a fruitful avenue to plough through if they are unsuccessful.

He details his long hours ploughing through his red boxes and at times his frustrations with civil servants and their ability to procrastinate.

«The whole model on which the privatisation was predicated has failed and the government is in such a state over it, the only option it seems to have at the minute is to plough more taxpayers» cash into it.»

The government has ploughed billions into shoring up the banks and big business at enormous cost to the taxpayer.»

Instead, Labour seem hell bent on ignoring local democracy and ploughing ahead with their preferred combinations at all costs.

What is certainly true is that he would not want to plough on if the Tories had won a thumping majority or even a narrow one: he would go immediately, or at least set a date for his departure.

At time it felt like the PM was ploughing through a particularly turgid political theory text book.

We have set our hands on the plough; we can not at this moment, give up.

As the craft ploughs deeper into the galaxy, the NASA team will look for an anticipated change in magnetic field direction that would indicate that Voyager 1 is at last clear of all solar influences except gravity, as well as anything that can be gleaned about interstellar space, before we lose contact.

In the end, «it seems likely we'll get the permit,» says astronomer Robert Kirshner, head of science programs at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California, which has so far ploughed $ 180 million into the TMT.

While farming methods vary, traditional manipulated «agroecosystems» generally differ from natural ecosystems in six ways: maintenance at an early successional state, monoculture, crops generally planted in rows, simplification of biodiversity, plough which exposes soil to erosion, use of genetically modified organisms and artificially selected crops meanwhile agroecology tends to minimize the human impact.

«But short of ploughing along at 5 feet above a swamp, where you might lose 3 to 5 knots in speed, bugs are not something we worry about,» he says.

«But in one test — ploughing loam soil with a moisture content of 12 to 17 per cent, at a speed of 9 kilometres per hour — we achieved 32 per cent energy savings.

But researchers expect to see seasonal variations in the dark matter signal because the speed at which the Earth ploughs through the surrounding sea of dark matter changes depending on its direction of motion.

At the beginning of this year I migrated to WordPress (the best thing ever) but the move highlighted that some of my old blogger posts have not been optimised for seo correctly so I am ploughing through my older posts and tidying everything up for google!

We still have a stack of things to get sorted before he make an appearance so we are trying to plough through the spreadsheet at the moment so we have it all finished in plenty of time.

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The difficulty level is set, by default, so that you don't have to bang you head against a vertical difficulty curve straight away but at the same time the lack of difficulty in the early stages takes away a little of the reward as you can just plough through it.

From one feisty RTE broadcaster to another - unlikely heartthrob Marty Morrissey (inset below) got women talking at the National Ploughing Championships this week.

It should have you ploughing through high rank quests soon enough, at least until you can build out a more distinctive armor set for your playstyle.

And then we have what's called plough back at the end of the lessons: «Okay kids, can you answer that problem now?»

«In the face of such overwhelming evidence, it therefore beggars belief that the Government has announced it will plough # 50 million to expand the number of places at existing selective grammar schools.

I look forward to the return of leeches and phrenology to our hospitals, hot metal typesetting to our publishing industry, horse - drawn ploughs in farming, pounds, shillings and pence (at least there would then be a legitimate reason for learning the 12 times table) bushels and pecks, rods.poles perches and chains, hundredweights (20 to the ton) and the Fahrenheit scale.

Expenditure on legal advice was so rampant at this time that it was consuming 25 per cent of all the money being ploughed into free schools.

At the flick of the switch, you can engage special low gears that allow the Jeep to keep ploughing on in the trickiest conditions.

These Land Rovers will showcase the key milestones in Land Rover's 65 - year history and also some 4 × 4 world first innovations such as anti-lock brakes, adjustable air suspension, Electronic Traction Control, Hill Descent Control, Terrain Response and Stop / Start technologies.To position Land Rover as the world's most versatile vehicle, the vehicles on display at the event will demonstrate Land Rover's capability, with ploughing, emergency service, military, expedition, royal and concept vehicles.

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The War Ag paid every farmer in the country for ploughing up grazing, for putting down crops, but others left grass between their furrows; others still had refused to comply at all and found themselves thrown off their land.

But I looked at your books and I can see that you found a particular furrow to plough and have done a great job at it, but it seems that like Joel you got established a while back.

However, that's not before E Ink Holdings ploughed about $ 52m into CPT, a strategic move on part of E-Ink aimed at acquiring the rights to use CPT's 6th - gen production line.

At one point my aunt gave me a huge historical novel to read in English, and I ploughed through it, missing a lot of words but being hooked still.

«Because if there were to be a fire or something in the winter,» says Emily Withey, Tim's daughter and an account executive at the brokerage, «the responding fire hall can't get to your cottage because the road isn't ploughed.

Like many peers at the time, it confidently ploughed most of its funds into private equity / PIPE investments.