Sentences with phrase «away by giant»

The Amazon will become an endless series of lifeless reservoirs, its life drained away by giant walls of concrete and steel.

James Lovelock: «We tend to now get carried away by our giant computer models.

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Soon, though, he graduated to filling up giant, 60,000 - liter fuel tankers at a ranch called «El Caracol,» connected by buried hose to a pipeline about 3 kilometers away.

The proposed deal, reported earlier by finews.asia, is the latest by Chief Executive Masayoshi Son in his bid to move Softbank further away from its roots in mobile phones into holding stakes in everything from Uber and Alibaba to U.K. software giant Arm.

Rio Tinto is set to invoke a clause that will allow the miner to walk away from contracts with a giant metal refinery in Ireland controlled by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska.

One person said that if Christians would be honest (and stop cherrypicking their favorite passages to live by while ignoring the difficult ones), they would come to the conclusion that God is nothing more than a giant hand that gives and takes away.

Then one day I went home for a visit, and it was gone, wiped away as if by a thoughtless giant hand.

We're still a few weeks away from the release of my new book, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, but today I wanted to let you know about a generous pre-order incentive offered by my publisher.

Actually America was founded by refugees running away from two giant god - corporations, the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

A study published by supermarket giant Tesco has found that 68 % of produce grown for the supermarket's salad bags, just under half of baked goods and 40 % of apples are thrown away.

We Love: How the giant octopus mural behind the bar, painted by Will Mitchell of Square Away Signs, totally makes the space.

As I was writing this column, the beverage industry was still just days away from being roiled by the news that Keurig Green Mountain has agreed to acquire Dr Pepper Snapple Group, in a deal that will create an $ 11 billion (sales) beverage giant.

The England international has been linked with a move away from Merseyside since it was revealed in January by the Daily Mirror that contract talks had stalled between the two parties, with La Liga giants Real Madrid credited with an interest.

The 26 - year - old is keen to seal a permanent move away now as he looks unlikely to break into Walter Mazzarri's starting lineup, particularly with the Italian giants now backed by wealthy Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir, who plans to make some big - name purchases in the January transfer window.

His creative ability from a variety of attacking midfield positions made him a highly influential player almost straight away, and with a highly impressive haul of 22 goals and 12 assists in his final season with the club in 2006/07, he was snapped up by Spanish giants Real Madrid for # 23million.

The 21 - year - old has finally been given permission by the Hammers to travel to Italy in order to conclude a move away from the club, and is set to sign for the Serie A giants in the next 36 hours.

Podolski accused Wenger of disrespect when he was sent away in January, but now the ex-Koln man has been rejected by the Italian giants, he is talking about coming back to Arsenal, and thinks that Wenger will play him!

Fortunately for the Gunners, no one has yet really taken the Premier League by the scruff of the neck and with the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich in our Champions League group, it was always looking like Arsenal would not finish on top and so that defeat away to Dinamo Zagreb is not necessarily a big problem.

Turan was bought for $ 34 million by Barcelona but has only made 25 appearances and he now wants to move away from the Spanish Giants in order to gain more playing time.

Spanish newspaper AS, cited by the Mirror, claim that the Liga BBVA giants have turned their attentions away from the Argentina international; believing that the Red Devils have reached an agreement with the defender ahead of a summer transfer to the Premier League.

The Italian giants were reportedly travelling by train for their away fixture against Champions League qualification rivals Fiorentina.

We won away at Man City by outsmarting them, we've gotten 3 wins in a row for the first time this season, and we survived the FA cup giant killing.

The Catalan giants have spent heavily in the last two windows, signing Ousmane Dembele last summer for a fee that could total # 135.5 m, as per BBC Sport, while a further # 146m was spent to prise Philippe Coutinho away from Liverpool last month, as noted by Sky Sports.

After the excitement of seeing Kooz end the All - Star Game by fanning Yaz, however, my attention began to drift away from New York and back to the Bay Area, where the Giants were enjoying their own phenomenal pitching success story in Juan Marichal, who shut out the Dodgers on Aug. 1 to run his record to 20 - 4.

The 25 year old has been strongly linked with a move away from the Bernabeu for some weeks, this despite his excellent form for the Spanish giants, and by all accounts Man United are willing to offer as much as # 120m for the former Tottenham man.

Fellaini's move away from United, which has also been reported by Ajansspor, is edging ever closer, as the Belgian has reportedly agreed a deal in principle to sign with Turkish giants Galatasaray, with the two clubs yet to agree a fee being the only thing standing in the way of the deal being completed.

Made by Adidas, the new FCB away shirt was officially unveiled on June 30, 2017 by the German giants.

Having already won the domestic title with five more rounds to play in the league, the Portuguese giants are arguably treading through their best season ever and one should hardly be surprised if they run away with another European title after winning the erstwhile UEFA Cup in 2003 followed by the elusive Champions League trophy the next year under the tutelage of Jose Mourinho.

Spanish international has been heavily linked with a move away from Old Trafford to join La Liga giants Real Madrid and the move is happening if the latest reports in the media are anything to go by.

The Frenchman recently celebrated 18 years in charge of the north London giants, making him by far and away the longest - serving boss in English football.

The new Blues away top was officially revealed by Adidas on July 20, 2015 and will see action next week when the club take on Spanish giants FC Barcelona in a pre-season outing in the United States (US tour - July 28)

The Spanish giants are facing a challenging summer in the transfer market as their star player demands a move away after feeling he has not been supported by the club during allegations of tax fraud against him.

Even as I sat down to write this guest post (for Randy Patterson and Northeast Doulas) I was interrupted by my three year old son Miles walking into my office holding a giant kitchen knife requesting that I slice him up a snack, followed shortly after by my six year old banging away to The Who on his drum set - up.

Or consider JB Priestley's account of travelling out of London in 1933 along the Great Western road and confronting the endless, low - density exurbia of ribbon sprawl: «We might suddenly have rolled into California... This is the England of arterial and by - pass roads, of filling stations and factories that look like exhibition buildings, of giant cinemas and dance - halls and cafes, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworths, motor - coaches, wireless, hiking, factory girls looking like actresses, grey - hound racing and dirt tracks, swimming pools, and everything given away for cigarette coupons.»

Before his address, the president toured the city's iconic General Electric plant which is producing giant turbines — among other things — that are exported to nations as far away as Kuwait, India and China — a far cry from the light bulb filaments invented by Thomas Edison that put GE on the map in the late 19th century.

The other star is an expanding red giant, with a bloated outer shell of hydrogen that gets whisked away by the strong gravitational pull of its partner.

For this, a giant Schramm mine rig made in Pennsylvania drove an innovative pneumatic hammer - driven drill bit (made by Pennsylvania drilling technology firm Center Rock Inc.), which chipped away at the rock like a giant jackhammer.

The oceans of super-Earths would persist for at least 10 billion years (unless boiled away by an evolving red giant star).

A clue came from local residents who told researchers that the die - off coincided with a «red tide» of harmful algal and a giant plume of smoke created by massive fires hundreds of kilometers away.

Nearly a year later, a giant raft of Krakatoa pumice washed up on the shore of Zanzibar, 3,000 miles away off East Africa, where it was found by schoolchildren.

They will have been stripped from the cluster as it passed by a giant gas cloud or had a close encounter with a neighbouring cluster, or even simply drifted away.

Setting first in the evening at visually towards the outskirts of the galaxy, as we can see it from Earth, and at about 65 light years away, is the red giant Aldebaran, very low on the horizon and setting at about 8:30 pm by the middle of the month, in Taurus @ 0.86 magnitude.

Tens of thousands of smaller objects are estimated to lie out there, left over from the upheaval caused by the giant planets moving away from the Sun and settling into their current orbits.

In a separate observing program, a team led by Rich, and including Gebhardt and Luis Ho of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, found a 20,000 - solar - mass black hole in the giant globular cluster G1, located 70 times farther - 2.2 million light - years away - in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

Farther away in the disk, ices that haven't been vaporized by the star and more gas combine to form giant gas planets.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

From Darlene's detailed account of being used and swindled by record producing giant Phil Spector in the early 60s, to Merry Clayton's humorous retelling of the time she was coaxed out of bed in the dead of night, whilst heavily pregnant, to scream «Rape, murder / It's just a shot away» on The Rolling Stones» track, Gimmie Shelter.

And it's a remarkable way to end a remarkable career: a film with all the artistry that we've come to expect from Studio Ghibli, but by some distance proving to be a more grounded and realistic work, doing away with the giant cat creatures and courier - witches and flying pigs and moving castles that have defined his work.

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