Sentences with phrase «by the cliffs of»

It is on the west side of the island and is known for being a long, wide sandy beach framed on one end by the cliffs of the Na Pali coast.

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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.

Two Democratic Senate aides said the speech was an attempt by Democrats to harden their position ahead of «fiscal cliff» negotiations set to get under way after the Nov. 6 elections.

From the book: «For 2,000 years, the people of Igorot Sagada have laid their dead to rest by jamming their bodies into compact wooden coffins and hoisting them up onto brackets driven into the side of a cliff.

But as research by author Noam Wasserman (author of The Founder's Dilemma) has shown, by the time a venture is three years old 50 percent of founders are no longer in charge, a cliff - like decline that continues to plummet by upwards of 10 percent every year thereafter.

There were, among others, the debt ceiling standoff - cum - rating downgrade of 2011 and the fiscal cliff scare of late 2012, followed by awfully - timed tax hikes and spending cuts earlier this year.

The mere threat of the fiscal cliff has already worsened business conditions in the U.S., according to a July survey by Morgan Stanley.

More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.

I am nearly certain that the folks at the campsite figured they were doing us a great favor by saving such a plum space — boasting as it did a view of the Virgin River, a cow pasture, and the rust red cliffs against the horizon.

Just weeks away now looms the so - called fiscal cliff, a combination of automatic spending cuts and tax increases mandated by law.

It is apparently a myth that lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping of cliffs, according to wildlife biologists who have studied the rodents.

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — March 7, 2018 — CNBC, First in Business Worldwide, today announced that CNBC's Bill Griffeth has been named Co-Anchor of Nightly Business Report (NBR), an award - winning evening business news program produced by CNBC for U.S. public television.

«I'm taking a lot of risk here by doing these things that could go over a cliff,» he said, noting that critics could soon declare that he had «lost it» and was «too old.»

Buffett's comments, fueled by one of the worst annual performances of his flagship Berkshire Hathaway fund, suggested that the U.S. Economy «had fallen off a cliff».

Additionally, the potential for another «fiscal cliff» that would have sapped sentiment was removed by the striking of a congressional deal in late October to raise the federal government's debt ceiling.

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.

These doubts have been fueled by a high (but declining) unemployment rate, worries about a possible «double - dip» recession, and of course, the European debt crisis and U.S. fiscal cliff.

No. 3: The year of big pharma In the past five years, big cap pharmaceutical stocks have lagged biotech stocks because they've struggled to fill revenue gaps created by the patent cliff.

Interviewed by Kate MacNamara of CBC radio for a story relating to the «glass cliff» for women CEOs, April 29, 2014.

You must have forgotten the cliff of economic ruin that this country was driven to by Bush Lite.

And whereas President Obama was able to delay the sequestration by threatening Republicans with the tax portion of the fiscal «cliff,» he no longer will enjoy that leverage.

so according to your logic a mutation occurred in not one but a number of these creatures and their offspring and with their «webbing» (not wings) not all of them fell out of the trees or cliffs to die and be eaten by predators?

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.

You ex-Catholics who are thinking of going back to the cult are exactly what is intended by this scheme and you are falling for it like sheep running over the cliff.

A favorite painting by a Navajo friend shows a lone pinion tree growing out of the side of a cliff, its roots anchored in the rock.

And China, demographically speaking, is heading over the cliff, as the effects of state - mandated infertility, brutally enforced by a totalitarian regime, begin to be felt.

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.

The details of the case are a little murky and very strange, but it involves Pitt pretending to be a cop, fleeing the police when they actually showed up, giving a lengthy and bizarre interview to local television stations and then fleeing arrest again, this time by jumping off a 45 - foot cliff.

But no, if you promote your faith, you're like the rest of the «Christian» sheep... just blindly leading others off that cliff of reality; so you need something to distinguish yourself from other «Christian» faiths by attacking other Christian faiths.

Toward the end of the book, after a night made horrific by her brother's spiking fevers and endless vomiting, Helen goes out to an eroded cliff overlooking the sea.

As the year unfolded, I began to realise that my little nudge to choose Fearless was more of a gigantic shove off a cliff by the Holy Spirit, a sort of dinner bell clanging «COME AND GET IT!»

Fed by waterfalls and surrounded by towering green cliffs, Milford Sound might be the single most beautiful place I've ever been Plus when the tide goes out, you can walk right out into the middle of it!

Piper's son: Lets use our CPS3000 (christian plasma cutter 3000) for this war: By the way Q, if you feel the need to start yet another war you're going to make us all fall off of the fiscal cliff for sure!

Just like the universe, there are laws to everything, law of gravity (try to break it by jumping off a cliff and ask for grace), etc..

Far too many of the people who were ending up in the brokenness of life were being driven off the cliff by dogs yelping at their heels.

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.

And Paleoindians, ancestors of living First Americans, rather handily made the native horses, elephants, and several species of bison extinct by driving them en masse over cliffs and into bogs where many were killed but few provided meat.

Instead, we leap like lemmings off a cliff, plummeting towards «health» by following all sorts of wacky diets.

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).

«As a company founded by a Navy SEAL, KILL CLIFF is proud to support our country's warriors and their families during the Memorial Day holiday and every day,» said Joe Driscoll, CEO of KILL CLIFF.

KILL CLIFF honors the dedication and sacrifice made by these warriors and their families by donating a portion of the proceeds through their Official Partnership with the Navy SEAL Foundation.

This island is sheer relaxation, supreme natural beauty, and lots of gorgeous private beaches to explore by hiking the seaside cliffs.

* The Hillary Step, a 40 - foot cliff marking the last real obstacle to the summit of Everest, was affected or possibly collapsed by the massive 7.8 Gorkha earthquake of 2015.

Prince Edward Island is surrounded by miles of sandy beaches and red sandstone cliffs and is sized just right for touring.

Hicks, Jennifer HIRKANI»S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Scale Modern Mountains to Combine Breastfeeding and Working La Leche League International, 2005 The title of this book was inspired by an ancient Indian tale about a young mother, Hirkani, who scaled down a 1,000 - foot vertical cliff in order to get to her baby to breastfeed.

If you felt like you were being aggressively and relentlessly chased by a menacing stranger, then as you approach the edge, jumping off of a cliff might seem like your only option.

Babies could see the difference by the age of 8 months, while younger infants with less developed depth perception could not see the cliff.

DiNapoli's report fonud that the industry reported $ 10.5 billion in the first six months of 2012 and is expected to record profits of $ 15 billion by the end of the year unless something really bad happens, such as failure tor resolve the so - called «fiscal cliff» in Washington.

Buyers, sellers and everyone else involved in property sales should be pleased to see the back of the outdated and unfair «slab» system of SDLT, which distorted property sales by creating huge «cliff edges» at particular property values.