Sentences with phrase «away by a flood»

They were carried off before their time, their foundations washed away by a flood.
A Two - and - a-half-year-old baby girl has reportedly been swept away by flood waters as heavy rain engulfed parts of the Greater Accra region Thursday morning.
Both women saw scores of buildings, men, women and children swept away by the floods.
Dreadnoughtus probably died after it was swept away by a flooded river and buried in quicksand - like sediment — a sad finale for one of the greatest beasts that ever lived, but a blessing for scientists thanks to the remarkable preservation it afforded.
Peoples homes, gardens and lives can actually be saved instead of being washed away by the flood and if tethered the islands would even be in the same place after the flood subsided.

Not exact matches

With Tesla's new product unveiling less than a week away, Elon Musk's «unexpected by most» ambiguous language has led to a flood...
And human marriage is the living out of his plan: a lifelong bond between a man and a woman: the one blessing «not forfeited by Original Sin, or washed away in the flood».
Furthermore, in the specific context of Matthew 24:36 - 44, Jesus equates those who are «taken» in this future event with the people who were taken away by the waters of the flood (Matthew 24:39).
Please strengthen the brethren in upholding faithfulness to God's original plan for the lifelong union of man and woman in marriage, the plan not destroyed by Original Sin or washed away in the flood, the plan entrusted by God to his bride, the Church.
However, as I scrolled through the 129 photos of and about the March posted by my friends on Instagram, not to mention the hundreds of photos and videos that flooded my Facebook and Snapchat, any illusions I held quickly faded away.
Instead they are swept away in the flood of mass images (mostly provided by the United States or other «Western» nations).
Had this regime continued, while modernity — the bad along with the good — continued to take root among Catholics, unguided by the actions and decisions of an ecumenical council, the flood might simply have broken in on the Church willy - nilly, sweeping away the precious treasure Congar loved along with the anti-modernist regime he detested.
In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings from his search in Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flood.
It is a new «heaven and earth» as the old is washed away (yes the flood story in the Old Testament and redemption by Christ in the New).
Marriage between a man and a woman is God's original plan, and as the beautiful statement in the Nuptial Mass reminds us it is «the one blessing not destroyed by Original Sin, or washed away in the flood».
Prosecco Blamed for Italy Flood Deaths The tragic deaths of four people swept away by flash floods in northern Italy have been blamed by critics on the regions burgeoning Prosecco industry accused of over-planting and damaging the lands ability to deal with rainwater...
The best of the worst came from Duncan Schaper, 10, of Ohio Township, Pa. (outside Pittsburgh), who asked for the money because the mound, fence, parking lot and Port - A-Potty at his field were swept away last year by a flood caused by Hurricane Ivan.
MARBELLA, Spain — As he breaks away from a gaggle of Borussia Dortmund players flooding out of a post-dinner team meeting, Christian Pulisic looks almost a little embarrassed by the prospect of being put under the spotlight.
The forecast for flooding later this week will test the work done by Niagara County crews to reclaim land inundated or washed away by Lake Ontario's high water.
Here it goes - Footage of the devastation caused by Irene: roads and bridges being washed away, houses pushed off foundations, cars flushed down streets, flooded farm land, dead animals in the farm fields, old and young crying as they enter their mud clogged homes GO TO The brave Republicans standing behind their hypocrite leader Cantor, followed by their callous video clips speaking about how we can't afford to help unless we cut, cut, cut.
In a news briefing held at Hein's sixth - floor office in the county office building in Uptown Kingston Wednesday afternoon, Hein gave an update on the efforts to help people whose lives have been turned inside out by the havoc - wreaking floods which swept away several homes, drowned numerous cars and swallowed up at least several million dollars worth of the county's infrastructure.
This time they had the chance to make their ultimate protest, but were dragged away by police as around 50 homes in the two villages were flooded.
Iodine Source: Seaweed, milk from cows grazed on iodine - rich coastal soil Effects of deficiency: Blindness, mental impairment, goiter Who's at risk: People living in mountainous areas (the Rockies, the Alps, and the Andes), where iodine has been washed away by glaciation and flooding, or in lowland regions far from the oceans (Central Africa and Eastern Europe) Fortification options: Salt Estimated millions of people affected: 740
Forseeability is key to determining whether someone has been negligent by, say, leaving toxic waste where it can wash away, or building infrastructure that collapses in a flood.
Zonulin incites a flash flood by telling the tight junctions to open enough for water to flood the intestines and wash away the unwanted debris.
Driving in also posed an extra challenge, as there was a flash storm last night, so my route into Reading was flooded and my parking space was just far enough away from the restaurant that by the time I arrived, my carefully straightened hair had adopted more of a drowned - rat chic.
Guillermo del Toro's lavish, full - hearted monster romance «The Shape of Water» swam away with best picture at an Oscar ceremony flooded by a sense of a change for a movie business confronting the post - Harvey Weinstein era.
Maria and the oldest boy, Lucas (Tom Holland), are swept away by the raging flood.
But the disturbing images flooding his consciousness are not easily explained away by Albright's contention that «immortality has some side effects.»
A dark storm builds during their riverside pursuit, and Poppa tragically gets swept away by a flash flood, Mufasa - style.
Guillermo del Toro's lavish, romantic monster fable «The Shape of Water» swam away with best picture at an Oscar ceremony flooded by a sense of a change for a movie business confronting the post-Harvey Weinstein era.
Rod and staff: There's spiritual comfort in Ferrari's classic metal-gated shifter, but it's been washed away by the F1 flood.
Redniss reports extensively, beginning with a mind - boggling stop at a Vermont cemetery where coffins, bodies and bones were washed away by Hurricane Irene's floods.
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My favorite books will not be disrupted by the notifications that have flooded my phone, music players, and now even my freakin» TV, allowing me to finally immerse myself fully in narratives that take me far away from my own reality.
Fed up with the way society has formed around her, Brooklyn quite literally pulls away from New York — its bridges breaking and tunnels flooding — and proposes thathumanity return back to days of old where things and people were defined by their ethics, values and contributions; where skills and art could be bartered and traded; where land could be farmed to sustain life and spawn beauty.
As a result, the biggest competition to all current authors for digital shelf space has come, not from a flood of self - published books, but from a tsunami of books by dead authors that aren't going away anytime soon.
Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a young teen and was in the process 28 years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the flood waters left by Hurricane Harvey.
While Gamecock's office space in Austin is surrounded by large corporate buildings and sits just two streets away from the Texas State Capitol, the company seems to be more in tune with the city's definitely liberal and distinct crowds that flood the eclectic bars and nightclubs in the downtown neighborhood every weekend.
This is especially relevant in Colorado, where the community in Boulder (currently being hit by «biblical floods) has been trying to «break away» and establish its own municipal utility, on the basis that it can provide cheaper and greener electricity than a centralized utility.
Islanders have even observed cemeteries being ravaged by severe flooding with «coffins and dead people being washed away from graves,» the Telegraph reports.
Sea level rise has been eating away at the coasts for years and has probably caused a lot of flooding that otherwise would not have happened, but this is the first time a major event widely noticed by the mainstream media (even FOX news) involving sea level rise killed a lot of people and did a lot of damage.
Another major threat caused by these storms is torrential rainfall, which can cause fresh water flooding in areas farther away from the coast.
An estimated 200,000 to 400,000 vehicles were wrecked by Irma, whether they were flooded, smashed, swept away or even overturned by the storm.
A ROYAL Enfield, Thunder Bird motorcycle of Chandigarh resident Puran Chand was washed away by the Uttarakhand flood in 2013 and now after struggling for nearly five years, Chand has got the insured declared value (IDV) of his motorcycle from the UT Consumer Forum.
Just as health insurance takes some of sting away from the cost of medical care, so home insurance provides a remedy when faced with major home destruction such as that caused by fire, flood, hail, tornadoes or other storms.
In fact, most of the Milwaukee - area homes that were damaged by the floods in the summer of 2010 were more than a mile away from the nearest designated flood zone.
None of that will matter if the entire house is swept away in a flood, burned down in a fire, or hit by a hurricane.
It may seem impossible to unload a home ravaged by flooding, but we never shy away from water damaged dwellings.
Between 2000 and 2007, Hispanic homeownership increased by 300,000 a year, but a vast portion of those gains was swept away in the housing crash, as much of the growth was a result of the flood of sub-prime mortgages.
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