Sentences with phrase «by ridges»

Surrounded by ridges of volcanic rock and lush tropical forests, the Blue Flag award - winning Playa Hermosa certainly lives up to its name.

The center stack's touchscreen is enclosed by ridges like on some other Ford models, which does improve usability.

Yet when he gave embryos a growth factor produced by this ridge in other organisms, the legs grew by 30 % in just 24 hours.

The path, however, was blocked by a ridge.

They suspended sensors 170 meters above the 2350 - meter - deep ridge, high enough to remain unaffected by ridge - related turbulence.

The disease is characterized by a narrowing (stenosis) caused by a ridge or ring of abnormal tissue growth that inhibits blood flow from the heart to the aorta.

A versatile, athletic hound, the Rhodesian Ridgeback is distinguished by a ridge that runs down his back where the hair grows opposite the coat.

Characterized by a ridge of hair along the spine slanting forward instead of backward, these dogs were ideally suited to the climate and terrain — much more so than the breeds, including Great Danes, mastiffs, greyhounds, salukis and bloodhounds, the Europeans had brought with them.

The wave break is produced by a ridge that extends about a mile off shore.

caused by ridge elevation.

Not exact matches

Irma's continued trek west across the ocean was guided by a strong ridge of high atmospheric pressure over the Atlantic, which prevented the storm from curving north and away from North America.

This is especially so if one understands by the Single One not Kierkegaard's man, who finds truth by separating himself from the crowd, but Buber's man of the narrow ridge, who lives with others yet never gives up his personal responsibility nor allows his commitment to the group to stand in the way of his direct relationship to the Thou.

If this debate is still being carried on by those whose interpretation of human existence is distorted by what I have called falling off to one side or the other of the ridge, this essay will still be as relevant then as it is today, although the tone of urgency in which it was written will indeed be dated.

Buber's philosophy of dialogue not only finds the narrow ridge between the subjectivist identification and the objectivist sundering of the «is» and the «ought,» but it also radically shifts the whole ground of ethical discussion by moving from the universal to the concrete and from the past to the present — in other words, from I - It to I - Thou.

That not many others walk with him on this ridge is suggested by the fact that Karl Heim and Melville Channing - Pearce make use of Buber's thought to point to the unqualified transcendence of God, while J. B. Coates writes, «I find the experience of Buber's «I - Thou» world a convincing demonstration of divine immanence»!

The view that Jesus was a village farmer who also has practiced part - time carpentry in his native village and immediate surroundings as corroborated by the parabolic emphases has been confirmed by recent archaeological discoveries.31 Recent explorations have revealed that Nazareth was a small agricultural village that came into being in the 3rd century BCE.32 Settlements in Nazareth were mostly found right at the top, whereas in the nearby «three northern spurs» they were to be found largely «on the slopes, lower ridges, and just off the basins.

John was sent to the dungeon of Machaerus, the desert fortress perched high on a desolate, forsaken ridge by the Dead Sea.

Gardeners should take pride in their pepper patch and remove weeds by hand, because hoes and shovels can damage leaves, stems, and the roots of peppers grown on ridges.

Founded by the late entrepreneur and visionary Jess Jackson and his wife Barbara Banke, Kendall - Jackson is based in Sonoma County and offers a range of acclaimed wines grown in the family's estate vineyards along the coastal ridges of California.

These are all cooked on a round, dome - shaped, table - top griddle molded of heavy iron with ridges on the surface, fired by a strong heat source (usually charcoal) underneath.

The Santa Cruz Mountains appellation was among the first to be defined by mountain topography, following the fog line along the coast to encompass the highest vineyards on the ridge tops as high as 2600 feet elevation.

The ridges, along with larger indentations on the back, combine with the G's more rounded transition from face to crown to reduce drag by 37 % compared with the G30.

Though the sun had risen, the temperature where I stood, shaded by the crest of the ridge, was iron cold, perhaps -30 ° or -40 °.

Ratcliffe takes out another set of transparencies and displays them — a pi √ ± on pine on a mountain ridge permanently bent and distorted by the wind; coyote tracks on a red dune, partially filled in by drifting sand; a piece of the skeleton of a cholla cactus scoured by the wind.

As you approach the green get more precise with your read by looking for ridge tapers either on or near your line, seeing if your putt is uphill or downhill, and how much slope you have to tend to for speed control.

Located at 6,400» in Northern California's Trinity Alps Wilderness - Camp is nestled in a beautiful alpine lake basin, surrounded by rugged peaks and saw - tooth ridges - the perfect location to provide a co-ed wilderness backpacking summer camp to youth ages 10 - 17.

Most knitters learn the knit stitch first, and they are used to seeing the... MORE bumpy ridges of Garter Stitch that are formed by knitting every stitch on every row.

This applies pressure to the interior tissue of the corona and coronal ridge where nerves that are excited by pressure send a wave of sexual excitement throughout the upper penis.

While Scenic Caves Road provides easy access to the North end of the site, the South end could only be reached by driving down a steep ridge, or «whale's back», from the Scenic Caves Nature Adventures entrance.

To make matters worse, in January 2009, the ridge residence of Mr. Rawlings was gutted by fire and he lost all his property in the building.

STONE RIDGE, N.Y. >> Members of SUNY Ulster's Class of 2018 on Saturday were encouraged by WABC television anchor Bill Ritter not to be swayed by public officials who live in a world of «alternative facts.»

Chairwoman Schweitzer said, «I am humbled by the opportunity to lead the Erie Arts Board and I would like to thank County Executive Poloncarz for the tremendous amount of faith he has put in Ted and me to administer a ridged but fair County cultural funding process.

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New maps of the rocky planet's surface, based on images taken in the 1990s by NASA's Magellan spacecraft, show that Venus» low - lying plains are surrounded by a complex network of ridges...

The resulting ridged fields, which can be between 2.5 and 5 acres, are crisscrossed by canals and encircled by a moatlike protective ring.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

Earth - based observers had trouble seeing the ejecta, because the densest part of the debris cloud flew low across the lunar surface and was hidden by a high ridge.

Concurrently, coastlines of the Bahamas and Bermuda were impacted by massive storms generated in the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in a unique trilogy of wave - transported deposits: megaboulders, chevron - shaped, storm - beach ridges, and runup deposits on high dune ridges.

For many decades it has not been clear whether mid-ocean ridge elevations are caused by variations in the temperature of the mantle or variations in the rock composition of the mantle.

«It is clear from our results that what's being erupted at the ridges is controlled by temperature deep in the mantle,» Dalton said.

Troughs and ridges, which are thought to form through very different processes, are not expected to be found lying side by side.

«The hypothesis that the floor of the oceans has been spreading seeks to explain some characteristics of ocean basins and the continents by supposing that material welling up from the interior of the earth forms mid-ocean ridges and then, as new material rises, moves outward, away from the ridges.

The hypothesis has been strengthened recently by the discovery that bands of alternating normal and reversed magnetism parallel the mid-ocean ridges, apparently indicating upwellings of molten rock during different magnetic «polarity epochs.»»

The pressure difference could be caused by hot, partially molten rock piled up beneath mid-ocean ridges or beneath the cooling plates diving into the earth at subduction zones, the authors write.

The shrinking seems to have slowed down after about a billion years, but the grey, pockmarked world we see today is crisscrossed by steep crustal ridges that reveal the period of rapid contraction.

In mountaintop - removal mining, underground coal seams are exposed by blasting away summits or ridges above them.

Astronomers first noticed these ridges in pictures of Mercury taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in the 1970s.

He and colleagues thought that the answer to the floodwater question might also lie in the lakes» moraines — piles of sediments bulldozed by glaciers into high ridges that act as dams.

He had set up a number of weather stations on the ridge after his first visit in the 1990s, and these indicated that the area was steadily approaching the «tipping point» established by his models.

Adams points out that the snow being deposited on the ridge top by a strong wind is a significant factor that shouldn't be overlooked.