Sentences with phrase «at the high tide of»

The PMV Operations Manual from 2007 states that tankers with a draft up to 12.5 metres can only transit through Second Narrows at a high tide of 14 feet.

The advent of youth culture (as grunge was called in those early days) arrived at the high tide of grunge, which ushered in a stripped - down, DIY approach to style.

Not exact matches

Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy by forcing rates higher.

Tankers exiting the Kinder Morgan Westridge Terminal in Burnaby must thread the narrow spans of the CN Railway bridge in Second Narrows, only at the highest tides, and only during daylight hours.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

Once carried high on a tide of stampeding bulls, Syrah is now beset by anxious investors who, at the eleventh hour, seem to have lost faith in the company's ability to supply both industrial users and electric vehicles with the graphite they need.

At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

Every Church in the United States of America who pays their tides and offerings at a congregational building where they have worship service, also pays the same high taxes as the other 99 % ters.

Concurrently with the decline in the vigor in the Christianity of Western Europe which began to be marked after the high tide of the late thirteenth and the early fourteenth century, schoolmen questioned the formulations arrived at in the creative years.

«I sat quietly with the healer for half an hour each day, at first with no result; then; after ten days or so, I became quite suddenly and swiftly conscious of a tide of new energy rising within me, a sense of power to pass beyond old halting - places, of power to break the bounds that, though often tried before, had long been veritable walls about my life, too high to climb.

At high tide the bar carries five feet of water.

A low - tide elevation is a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low tide but submerged at high tide.

Referring to the «rising tide of criticism over the transport chaos groipping the country», Ms Eagle said: «It is unfortunate he's scheduled to update the House on high speed travel when most people would settle for any travel at all.»

Hudson River water levels at Poughkeepsie are expected to rise above normal tide levels during periods of high tide.

Politics: Long a Labour - Conservative marginal on paper, Gower remained tantalisingly out of Conservative reach even at their high tide marks of support.

Sandy caused the storm tide at the Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, to reach its highest level — 14.06 feet — since the start of record keeping at the site.

Bay muds often have a high organic content, consisting of decayed organisms at lower depths, but may also contain living creatures when they occur at the upper soil layer and become exposed by low tides; then, they are called mudflats, an important ecological zone for shorebirds and many types of marine organisms.

Last October, Sandy's storm surge hit the coast at high tide, but storm and tidal conditions were not the only cause of the devastation, Kemp says.

At high tide, when the piston has reached the top of the tank again, the outlet valve is closed, and the system is ready to resume generating electricity as the tide falls.

At high tide, the piston is at the top of the chambeAt high tide, the piston is at the top of the chambeat the top of the chamber.

Grant's study this past spring noted that pollution levels at Huntington Beach were consistently higher at high tide, and rain has long been considered a good predictor of troubled ocean waters.

A major limitation of the system is that it would only produce power for 2 to 4 hour intervals at each high and low tide.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

«The beach above high tide will be lost to erosion with approximately 1 to 2 ft of sea - level rise, at which point beach erosion and coastal storms will threaten sea wall integrity,» the report said.

This kept seaweeds at a minimum in those areas but allowed them to flourish on the very top of the reef, which was only accessible during high tide when predators patrolled the area.

High tide hits the base of sea wall at their house about 40 percent of the time, he said.

For Coral Springs, for example, which appears to be comfortably inland, the high - tide line will encompass about a quarter of the city's population some time in the distant future, if emissions continue at current levels through the year 2040.

Just as the height of high tide and low tide varies from day to day and place to place, we still know that high tide will be higher than low tide on any one day at any one place.

Most of the dating site owners say that Tinder actually led to more people joining their dating sites and causing an increase in revenue, so I think Tinder is at a very high level raising the tide for everyone.

Plus, a profile of Scott Cochran, the Alabama Crimson Tide strength coach, whose contract was re-upped at a salary as high as some head coaches» - and the 75th Anniversary of the U.S. Naval Academy's Brigade Boxing Championships.

Police inspectors soon realize that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, where the Slack River and the sea join at high tide and a small community of fishermen and oyster farmers live — among them, the Bréfort ferrymen, led by a patriarch nicknamed «The Eternal.»

There was ample reason at that time for Johnson and Moynihan to hope for public action, because a powerful tide of American liberalism was then cresting at an unprecedentedly high level.

More than 50 higher - education administrators recently signed on to «Turning the Tide,» a series of recommendations on the application process from the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

How did Green Dot do at stemming the tide of students who disappear from campus into lives usually plagued by high unemployment and low wages?

We meet the state whose motto claims it Is For Lovers in the middle of a bellowing thunderstorm, cruising into Charlottesville at high tide.

The LR4 has a wading depth of 27.6 inches, which allowed us to drive downtown at high tide after the storm without worry.

Nowhere among his impressive historical novels does he bring together these talents with more penetrating bravado than in this gripping and illuminating dissection of the American empire at high tide.»

My mother's scream rang in my ears as she ran toward us and the world froze: the churn of the Thames at high tide, the rumble of going - home school traffic and the tremble of the bridge.

At Alabama Spay / Neuter Clinic, our goal is to stem the tide of unwanted and abandoned companion animals by offering low - cost, high - quality spay and neuter surgeries.

Stay to photograph the shrine's iconic vermillion torii (wooden gateway) at high tide, when the torii and parts of the shrine appear to float on the sea.

Designed in 1969, the unique conveyance makes the 700 - foot - long crossing in just minutes at high tide (the hotel has a fleet of Land Rovers for low tide), ending at a 25 - room Art Deco property that dates to 1929 and has hosted the likes of Agatha Christie and Noël Coward.

Fundy, in fact, has the world's highest tides and at Hopewell Rocks, which also has a visitor centre to explain the phenomenon, you can walk on the ocean floor at low tide and gaze up at the extraordinary shapes sculpted over the millennia by the rise and fall of billions of tonnes of water.

This nine - mile stretch of sand is instantly recognizable thanks to Haystack Rock, a hefty 235 - foot - high landmark that has caves you can explore at low tide.

In Bang Bao's northern corner, most of the sand disappears at high tide in front of To the Sea, The Beach Natural and Koh Kood Resort, all midrange spots built close together on the hillside.

The pneumatophores of the black mangrove which are always (at maturity) taller than the high tide level allow oxygen exchange under normal circumstances.

While there are seven rock formations in all on the island, if you only have time to visit a couple as we did, I would definitely recommend that you check out Bel - At during high tide for the lagoons — the sweeping, majestic view that you'll get of the natural pools is absolutely romantic.

This site is best done around high tide because some of the reef and coastal seaweed farms get exposed at low tide.

The sand out front vanishes at high tide but you can always walk a couple of hundred metres over to the main stretch of Bang Bao Beach.

At certain times of the year, the beach can be completely swallowed at high tide, or extremely wide at low tidAt certain times of the year, the beach can be completely swallowed at high tide, or extremely wide at low tidat high tide, or extremely wide at low tidat low tide.

The widest stretch of sand is found to the south, where most of the resorts are located, though it's hardly wide enough to play Frisbee at high tide.