Sentences with phrase «because of rain»

I'm a perfectionist by nature, and I had planned and envisioned my wedding day totally different from how it turned out because of the rain.

We're building a guest house for my parents a few feet away from our house and we're delayed because of rain here in the Ozarks too.

One of the most difficult and dangerous road conditions in driving is when the road is wet because of rain.

The patterns are not particularly surprising, there is higher salinity in the sub-tropical evaporative regions, lower salinity near the equator (because of the rain!)

Although desert - like in appearance, because of the rain and rivers the lagoons are home to interesting wildlife.

We get on to the boat, there's no passengers getting wet because of the rain as the crew give us some umbrellas, well not all as there are some passengers choose to run to the boat instead.

Because of the rain, the trail had turned into a tiny, swirling torrent of mud that soaked right through the running shoes I'd foolishly chosen instead of more sturdy hiking boots.

The American Grand Prize was held on February 27, a sodden day that saw 11 of the 30 drivers who started the race withdraw because of rain.

We didn't get a run on new tyres because of rain and yellow flags, but they were reasonably fresh and I wanted to see what we could do.

We didn't get a run on new tires because of rain and yellow flags, but the tires were reasonably fresh and I wanted to see what we could do.

If you're stuck indoors because of rain or intense heat, there are plenty of fun date ideas.

And then I'm stuck inside again because of rain.

When I realized this it was like no rainstorm had ever happened or that my hair had never frizzed up because of the rain.

I had to go with jelly flats because of the rain... but with a pair of heels this look would be the perfect urban safari look.

Last weekend, instead of canceling the photoshoot because of rain, we decided to embrace it and have fun.

It's actually freezing and we were lucky enough to grab the one sunny day that week after having to reschedule because of the rain.

As far as my Monday has gone, we ended up not going on the college tour (for my hubby, read post here) because of the rain.

Pack into boxes all of your boots (I'm gonna miss you high thigh boots) and bring back all of the shoes you couldn't wear because of the rain and the cold.

My gym routine (going for more than 2 days in a row) and clothing choices (being able to wear all the cute spring outfits I never had the chance to wear because of the rain) are all looking and feeling good.

A presidential staffer in the office of the Vice President, James Agyenim Boateng has called on the public to disregard a tweet making rounds on various social media platforms that the Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah - Arthur failed to respond to Dr Mahamadu Bawumia's lecture because of rain.

Chojnacki said that septic system failures are running 15 percent to 20 percent higher than at this time last year because of rain - saturated ground that makes it difficult for liquid wastes to be carried away and absorbed by the below - ground septic field.

Despite the rain (maybe because of the rain?)

Wasn't able to get their Flag Football game in because of the rain, but they looked good in Week 2.

Well, OK, 28 teams are playing because of the rain that forced Cincinnati to reschedule their Opening Day, but the plan was all 30, so we had to mention that.

Pitcher, GS, IP, BB / K, WHIP, ERA AAA Flemer, 2, 10.0, 1/12, 1.60, 8.10 Almonte, 1,.1, 0/0, 6.00, 27.00 (removed for injury) Musgrave, 1, 1.0, 0/0, 0.00, 0.00 (removed because of rain delay) Howard, 1, 5.0, 0/4, 1.20, 3.60 Jenson, 1, 5.0, 1/5, 1.40, 3.60 Holmberg, 1, 4.0, 2/1, 1.50, 6.75 AA Castellani, 2.0, 10.2, 4/9, 1.13, 2.53 Tinoco, 1, 4.0, 3/6, 1.75, 4.50 Lambert, 1, 6.0, 1/5, 1.00, 0.00 French, 1, 6.0, 1/5, 1.00, 3.00 Wynkoop, 1, 4.0, 1/0, 1.75, 4.50 Schlitter, 1 +, 7.1, 3/4, 1.09, 2.45 (Pitched 3.1 innings in relief) A + Dennis, 2, 7.1, 2/6, 2.86, 17.18 Garcia, 1 +, 10.0, 4/11, 1.60, 5.40 (came into a game after Hoffman pitched 3 inninngs) Hoffman, 1, 3.0, 0/2, 1.67, 6.00 Longwith, 1, 6.0, 0/3, 1.33, 6.00 Gold, 1, 6.0, 1/2, 2.00, 7.50 Killian, 1, 4.1, 5/1, 3.23, 10.38 A Santos, 2, 11.1, 3/7, 1.15, 3.97 Eusebio, 2, 8.2, 3/10, 1.73, 5.19 Pint, 1, 0.1, 2/0, 12.00, 81.00 (removed for injury) Gaddis, 1, 5.2, 0/3, 1.41, 3.18 Julio, 1, 4.0, 4/1, 2.50, 13.50 (Schilling will be the guy that replaces Pint in the rotation)

The two middle rounds, a 72 on Friday and a 70 that began on Saturday and ended early Sunday morning because of rain delays, might well have been the most critical for him.

We didn't realize how much of a disadvantage that would be,» Jarrett said after the race, which was shortened to 369 miles because of rain.

Facing the prospect of a lengthy delay for a race that had already been pushed back nearly six hours because of rain earlier, NASCAR smartly declared the AAA Texas 500 official.

MOTOR SPORTS — RICHARD PETTY of Randleman, N.C. won the Daytona 500 — cut to 495 miles because of rain — by averaging 160 mph (page 24).

At least basketball can not be called because of rain.»

Ancient peoples practiced this ritual with a goat or sometimes with a human sacrifice to appease the volcano gods anger, or because of the rain god hadn't come etc..

The roads were slick because of rain.

First, more than 30 of those miles were driven in the rain, and the system did not have to return control to the driver because of the rain.

Usually the waterfall is just a little stream, but because of the rains of the last few days now a huge mass of water violently crashes down.

Yes, I've ruined suede boots and shoes before because of rained on jeans.

Not exact matches

But while Australian demand for the fruit has been fueled by its store of healthy fats, supply has been strangled by heavy rain and bushfires, and because growers in western Australia, anticipating a fall in demand after Christmas, exhausted their stocks to flood the market in the lead - up to the holiday season.

Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, the rain was so intense that drivers stopped under bridges because they could not see in front of them.

Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them.

Sometimes it's enough to have the simple, causal, often mechanical answers that the razor allows as sufficient: the river overflowed because heavy storms dropped ten inches of rain in a forty - eight hour period just as the snow was melting.

You say that good Christians should pray for rain in Denver because good Christians are pro-life — not pro-Iraqi-civilian life, of course — but pro-unborn-child-life.

It has come to my attention that a representative from your organization has encouraged Christians to pray for rain — not rain in Ethiopia, where more than 10 million people are short of food because of drought — but rain in Denver, Colorado, where a few thousand democrats plan to hold their convention in an outdoor stadium.

You say that good Christians will pray for rain because of their Christian values — not those concerning care for the poor, love for enemies, or hospitality to foreigners, of course — but those concerning national security, immigration reform, and tax breaks for the wealthy.

I am not ashamed because there are all these little mustards seeds scattered across our broken, shameful world, some of them just now swelling and splitting underneath the dark soil; others breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

Because of heavy rains, some areas of southeastern Missouri are under significant threat of flooding.

Elijah said to Ahab, «Stir yourself, Take fond and drink; because I hear the swish Of rain.»

This is just senseless, like the account of the creation of Earth, where animals are made first, but then a few lines later animals are made after man, and where water is created long before dry land but then the land is dry because the rain had not come yet.

And when you are broken — because that's what happens when you go for broke — and you look into a mirror, a calendar, into that one face, and you can't stop the aching lump burning up through the center of your heart, listen till the rain comes.

As is well known, Aristotle agrees that some natural processes have final as well as material and efficient causes, but the events in a person's life are not goal - directed merely because they achieve some result that might have been their goal: rain may spoil the crops on the threshing floor, but that was not necessarily the goal of the rain.

«On the other hand, creationists interpret the majority of the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks of the Earth's crust as testimony to Noah's flood... Creationists do this because they regard the Genesis record as implying that there was no rain before Noah's flood, therefore no major erosion, and hence no significant sedimentation or fossilisation.»

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!