Sentences with phrase «carried over the waves»

Polynesian sailors, carried over the waves in giant canoes, made landfall sometime between A.D. 800 and 1200.

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The waves of chaos and the forces of the sea swept over the Egyptian army and carried them down into death.

Five churches in a predominantly Christian area in the Southern Borno state were completely destroyed on Friday in the latest wave of violence carried out by the extremists who were responsible for abducting over 200 schoolgirls from a Christian village earlier this year.

The Dun Commission of Christian scholars in 1950 in their report on The Christian Conscience and Weapons of Mass Destruction stated that «to accept general war as inevitable is to treat ourselves as helpless objects carried by a fated tide of events rather than as responsible men,» and went on to say, «One reason why fascism and Naziism gained their dread power over great nations was because otherwise decent people bowed before what they regarded as «inevitable» and allowed a «wave of the future» to inundate them.»

Over the past spring and summer, for instance, a few dozen activists with Britain First marched in front of the East London Mosque, waving the Union Jack and carrying white crosses.

The party leader will now have to carry out a fresh shadow cabinet reshuffle, just a few months after he filled the posts vacated by a wave of resignations over the summer.

The effect is like sandblasting — the waves carry sand and debris, such as bits of broken coral, onto the reefs, striking them over and over again,» says Howard Lasker, PhD, professor of geology in the UB College of Arts and Sciences.

The White House presents it as a «month - by - month look at the prevalence of the mosquitoes that can carry the mosquito virus,» visible as a wave of yellow, orange, and red circles washing over the country as 2016 progresses.

While an Alaskan malamute carries his waving plumy tail up over his back, the Siberian husky's tail hangs low when he is relaxed.

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

Schools of Creole wrasse zoom over bumps and dodge fans while staying in wave like formation, you may notice that they carry themselves about much like a group of commuters in a bustling city.

All upgrades purchased in the single player game carry over to this multiplayer mode, although they still require being unlocked by progressing seven waves per tier of upgrades.

Crucible mode is a gift to the players who enjoy Darksiders 2's combat, Death's physical development in the story mode will carry over to the crucible to compete in wave based combat.

The escalating situation there reminds me of how a small protest over a local park in Oregon helped set off a five - year wave of multimillion - dollar arsons, carried out by the Earth Liberation Front.

One week ago Lewis was vaulted to celebrity status by conservative and contrarian Web sites and commentators when he disseminated his letter of resignation from the 48,000 - member American Physical Society over its support for what he called «the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave.»

Many other leaders promised to attend, too, from the Marshall Islands (threatened with inundation) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hoping for a big wave to carry its negotiators to a successful treaty negotiation over the next 15 months).