Sentences with phrase «away underbrush»

So, once we clear away the underbrush, we can see that the case for a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade emissions rationing system is really that it would be a hedge against the risk that actual damages from warming would be much, much worse than current risk - adjusted projections indicate.

These shortcuts may stir her nostalgia for those long, straight, rectilinear, provincial roads, also something Umberto Saba told her then, so she sweeps away the underbrush of her memory now, memories for which she can not say whether they even sank to the threshold of memory, or are still in the present, set aside, stored, tucked away.

Not exact matches

«By helping to clear away the «structural underbrush» of contemporary racism,» Levine and Harmon inform us, The Death of an American Jewish Community has «tried to foster understanding and, ultimately, new means of resolution.»

Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

The law allowed the mayor to bring stability to a system where chancellors once flew in and out the door and to clear away the bureaucratic underbrush that had defeated his predecessors.

The extra-long blade works well for big tasks like skinning deer and other large game or hacking away at the underbrush (or zombies).

In Pynchon's book, the incipient New Age seer - astrologer Sortilège is a minor character tucked away in the underbrush.

In a final gesture, symbolic of the community leaving Redwood Creek Nursery, the circle of stumps under the buckeye were rolled away into the underbrush, to return to a more natural setting, and seeds of wild cucumber, blue wild rye, and red alder were scattered in the clearing.

Elizabeth seated herself beside the tiny stream, slipping secretly away across the glade, and disappearing into the underbrush.