Sentences with phrase «by cliffs on»

Open Martin's Beach in San Mateo County - Martin's beach is a beautiful crescent shaped beach, surrounded by cliffs on either side, in Half Moon Bay, California, that was recently cut off to public access in 2010 when owner and billionaire ventura capitalist, Vinod Khosla, locked the gate to the beach road, erected signage and hired security guards to exclude the public from the only access road.

The club house and pro shop, which also offers rental clubs, are located on a white sand beach that's book - ended by cliffs on the one side and the mangrove forest on the other.

At 5 miles roundtrip, you'll pass through rainforests, wetlands, and mountain views before reaching the lake surrounded by cliffs on three sides.

«The house on the sketches had been designed not by Roark, but by the cliff on which it stood.

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Big biotech and pharma companies are absolutely dependent on being able to successfully innovate by partnering with and acquiring disruptive startups because of the nature of the patent cliff in pharmaceuticals.

Greece said on Sunday the EU was «sleepwalking towards a cliff» by sticking to austerity rules that created huge inequalities among members, and it expected a debt relief deal for itself to be honored by end - 2016 so that its economy could recover.

We may not yet be in negative rates territory in terms of the official Bank Rate, what with it hanging on to 0.25 % like a cinematic damsel in distress clinging on by her fingertips to a cliff edge.

I am not sure — but I am sure that Gold is right at the edge of the cliff hanging on by its finger nails.

Hartshorne answered by telling him «a little story about how one day, as a young man, he stood on a cliff on the coast of France and beheld a scene of great natural beauty.

To return to the earlier parable, ideas do not much matter if they are held or being debated by men whose investment in them is as remote as that of the man high on the cliff who idly speculates about the options available to men threatened with drowning.

Nothing elicits true honesty like dangling off a sheer cliff face held up only by a cord made from grizzly bear entrails while being pressed by Bear Grylls about flip - flopping on tax reform.

This theological tradition was able to portray a striking and even heroic faith, a sort of holding on by the fingernails to the cliff of faith, a standing terrified before the enemy - God, present to man as terror or threat, comforting only in that he kept us from the worse terrors of life without him.

I had similar feelings about Todd and my wedding, but when it was all said and done I am glad it was larger (and by that I mean it wasn't just the two of us on top of our special cliff spot in a thicket of birch trees, which is where I would have prefered to have gotten married if I knew it wouldn't insult our friends and family).

KILL CLIFF is founded by veteran Navy SEAL, Todd Ehrlich, who is delivering on a plan bigger than CrossFit WODs and post-workout recovery.

In his second intervention on the threat posed by the left - wing candidate, the former prime minister said his party is «walking eyes shut, arms outstretched, over the cliff's edge to the jagged rocks below».

This is on top of the $ 2.4 trillion in deficit reduction that has already been implemented by cuts enacted since 2011, including the fiscal cliff deal at the end of last year.

Lodging of official protests by Kaduna State's political juggernauts shows that the soul of his party APC is on a cliff.

All were fortified by an amazing array of delicious home - made pot luck offerings and healthy doses of conversation on fiscal cliffs, gun control, fraking, entitlement protections and local elections in 2013.

There is much concern in Washington about the impending «fiscal cliff» of severe cuts to federal programs that will automatically result if Congress and the Obama administration can not agree on a deficit reduction plan by the end of this year.

Alexandria Duval, left, stands in Albany County Court with her lawyer Terry Kindlon on Friday, Nov. 18, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. Duval, accused of killing her twin sister by driving their SUV off a cliff in Hawaii, is fighting her extradition from New York to face a murder charge.

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

Excavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted by Bedouins in the middle of the last century.

After a portion of cliff was washed away by the sea, the team found ancient hominid footprints within the hardened clay that had been buried beneath, dating back about 900,000 years based on the vegetation preserved in the clay's sediments.

But the two criticisms I took really seriously [when] we [had] this paper come out were, one, «Hey by putting a boundary, like a firm boundary on the edge, are you telling people it is okay to drive up to the edge of the cliff and stop in the nick of time and everything is okay?

Kappelman shrugs off the controversy, noting he is a trained geologist, and that study co-author Lawrence Todd has worked extensively on the bones of bison driven off cliffs by prehistoric hunters.

Without cars or cliffs in her environment — Lucy was found near a stream on a relatively flat landscape — the only way she could have incurred those fatal injuries, concluded Kappelman's team, was by falling out of a tree.

Remote Bouvet Island, a tiny, glacier - smothered landmass in the South Atlantic rimmed by 500 - meter - tall cliffs, has a notable distinction: It's the only known spot on Earth, scientists say, that has zero invasive species.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

Initially, he believed the birds were using «wave lift» to get a boost — capitalising on gusts of wind forced upwards by the sloping edges of waves to create updrafts like those found along cliffs or mountain ridges.

After producing footage of the lemmings migrating by placing them on a snow - covered turntable, they shipped some of them to a cliff overlooking a river and herded them over the edge.

COVER View of a cliff and gravel field on the small lobe of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko from a distance of 8 kilometers to the surface, as seen by Rosetta / OSIRIS.

Seabirds, which reflect the health of their marine ecosystems, often build their nests in inaccessible areas — wedged into vertical cliffs or on remote islands battered by intense waves.

On the far side of the fjord, the captain dropped me and four other hikers off at the base of a long ravine, where a series of animal trails led through a dense fern jungle and up a granite cliff face bisected by a waterfall.

By SUE ARMSTRONG It is a crisp, sunny winter morning on the cliffs of the Magaliesberg mountains, some 50 kilometres from Johannesburg: a sulphurous haze of pollution hangs in the valley.

The picture, snapped by the Galileo spacecraft during its daredevil dive past Io on Thanksgiving and released here today at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, also reveals a complex, jagged cliff arcing near the volcano.

With a rabbit playing a peppy tune on a stringed instrument, the good guys fight the bad guys by knowing intrinsically how they will move independently and as a whole, and there's a moment where they must all fling themselves off a cliff to create a bridge for Po to recover a falling net full of stolen goods.

It's pretty simple: An American socialite (Matilda Lutz) on holiday with her piggish boyfriend gets raped by one of his friends, pushed off a cliff and left for dead.

And not just when the camera throws you off a cliff, or when your progress is stalled by another tedious, three - strikes - and - out trivia quiz, or when the belligerent checkpoint system respawns you on the opposite side of the map from your current challenge should you dare to die.

Although feigning a cliff - hanger, the finale (1.13, «Decisions») definitively addresses the show's raison d'être, Dawson's slow awakening to Joey's crush on him — if you've never seen an episode, you'll feel any itch to sample the series fully scratched by a viewing of these DVDs.

Undone by murdering his brother last season, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) seems unable to, well, consummate his need to kill the unrighteous, while on «Brotherhood,» sexy thug Michael Caffee (Jason Isaacs) has been left partially brain damaged after the cliff - hanging brutal attack by troubled friend / police officer Declan.

For example, Mija slips off a cliff on the way home, and Okja saves her by taking the fall instead.

How do you think I felt when he solved 512 - bit... how about 1024 - bit?!? How about a man so scared of breaking the law that he doesn't touch a computer for years yet when confronted by federal agents jumps to almost certain death off of a steep cliff without knowing why they want to question him — or why they jump after him themselves — especially when their partner easily drives to the scene two seconds later — and not even a scratch on any of them?

In fact, the best thing about the film is when it captures what it's like to be on the side of a mountain, a sheer cliff face that really wasn't designed by Mother Nature to be inhabited by humans.

In which David Wain, he of Wet Hot American Summer fame, takes on the life of Doug Kenney (played by Will Forte and, in his omniscient - narrator state, Martin Mull), a Harvard man who'd co-create the National Lampoon, co-write Animal House and inject much - needed vulgar irreverence into American comedy before mysteriously falling off a cliff in 1980.

A new Campground has been built in town, and is located on the eastern or western cliffs of town (depending on town orientation) and is managed by Harvey.

In a discussion held at Rochester's annual 360/365 film festival moderated by local film critic Jack Garner, Taymor said she «always jumped off the cliff instead of just standing on the cliff.»

A whimsical concoction as pretty as a wedding cake, a multi-tiered tale, within a tale, within a tale, the GRAND and very PINK Hotel Budapest is presided over by one Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, and involves a wide - eyed lobby boy named «Zero,» Tilda Swinton as a wealthy octogenarian who's «dynamite in the sack,» a family squabble over inheritance, a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art, a greedy evil son (Adrien Brody), a knucklebound henchman with a frightening underbite (Willem Dafoe), a lanky lawyer (Jeff Goldblum) and his soon to be airborn Persian cat, monks on skis, cliff - hanging climaxes, and plotting pastry chefs!

From now on, by their fingernails as the country drops from one cliff to the next.

Jåstad, a 36 - year - old father of two, has put roughly 79,000 miles on his Focus RS in a year and a half by giving rides to locals and tourists visiting the Trolltunga cliff.

Up four flights of stairs, way up in the sky, like a colony of little birds nesting on a cliff, blown about by wind with the high, airy sounds of the city coming up the hill in the ocean breeze.