Sentences with phrase «coming down from»

This was about the time that it was found that the isotope plutonium 240 had a very high spontaneous fission rate; and there was a great urgency to have a mass spectrometer set up to measure the amount of 240 that was in the plutonium that was coming down from Hanford.

A Steven Rose or a Richard Dawkins, coming down from the ivory tower to explain things to lesser mortals, is, other things being equal, a more likely contender for this particular prize than a journalist such as Nigel Henbest or Roger Highfield, devoting themselves full - time to the art of communication.

«That this is coming down from the government tells us that patients want access to their data to improve outcomes and that the government and regulatory agencies are going to make sure we find ways to make it happen.»

«Borneo's orangutans are coming down from the trees; Behavior may show adaptation to habitat change.»

The team positioned ground - based cameras across a 38 - square - kilometre region of the forest and succeeded in capturing the first evidence of orangutans regularly coming down from the trees.

The animals avoid predators by hardly ever coming down from the trees, so even a narrow logging road through a forest can begin the breakup by preventing them from moving from one patch of forest to another.

But dorsal horns also contain neurons coming down from the brain that can boost or squelch the signals.

The figure (see next page) had wings coming down from its arms; it hovered above a circle with a long, wavy line emanating out.

«Humans are very social, and coming down from the trees to live on the African plains could have triggered a situation where higher cognitive abilities were highly favored,» Lahn says.

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

«The other factor is they are coming down from upstate, where the crime rate is actually higher.

«This kind of money coming down from a source like this tells me that they want to influence an election where they really don't care about the public policy of the election, they just care about Rob Astorino winning.

If one Efta member refuses to adopt new legislation coming down from Brussels, all of them lose access to that part of the agreement.

«Who is going to defend property taxpayers from these new costs coming down from Albany?»

It wasn't until day two, when my milk came in and I started coming down from cloud nine, that breastfeeding became freaking painful.

I started to make low pitched «Oh» noises and smiled as I felt myself coming down from the peaks of the contractions.

You're also coming down from the chemical high of childbirth, and probably feeling pretty exhausted and possibly overwhelmed by the thought of all your new responsibilities.

She said her lullabies are «just full of yummy thoughts «assuring babies that they are well - loved, as opposed to traditional lullabies that refer to babies coming down from treetops, cradle and all.

I'm sort of still coming down from the high, so I can't explain it, it's really difficult to explain, but I think surreal is the right word.

This was his eighth season since coming down from Canada; he had picked Houston over five other NFL cities in a flat - out bidding war.

I'm sure a hefty fine will be coming down from NASCAR officials this week.

you'd think you would have figured that this is probably coming down from the top by now but i guess we have to read you post this AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It seems like they can compete in just about everything and they have no plans of coming down from the top spot..

Between, planning the Food and Wine Conference, the actual event weekend, coming down from the excitement the following week, vacation at the Jersey Shore, the start of football season.

In fact, we're still coming down from our pizza high.

Coming down from Christmas always leaves us in a little bit of a fugue state.

Maybe technology can finally stop the insanity by exposing corrupt religious figures, expose the fantasyland that religion is by fostering views other than that which are coming down from the Vatican (or other depending on what religion) and take in views that science has proven over and over again.

«After this I saw another angel coming down from heaven.

Samuel says to Saul, «You will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them.

The anecdotes, sayings, parables, controversies coming down from the period of Jesus» public ministry are told and retold because they are anecdotes about and teaching given by the one who is to be «the judge of the living and the dead.»

When we had the manna coming down from the heavens to feed the Jews in the desert, Moses saved some in a jar for posterity.

«Moses Coming Down From the Mountain?»

Rev 20:1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.

«Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows,» writes James.

Still it is so: «Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows» (James 1: 17).

It was an iron - grey day, a cold swirl of a day, and as we crossed the river coming down from the north, a bald eagle swooped down and low right beside our car.

If we step out of the glorious sunshine of the post-Vatican II church and into the dark ages that preceded it, we find some highly relevant advice coming down from heaven by someone who knows our situation exactly and whose authority is to be respected and obeyed absolutely.

It does not mention the flood, but rather the panic into which Sisera and his army fell when they viewed the approach of Barak with ten thousand warriors, coming down from Mount Tabor.

A vision, not a visitation by the dead: «As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, «Tell the VISION to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.»

In fact, if he had performed the miracle of jumping from the temple or coming down from the cross he would have been the master of the Word of God.

For example, talk of coming down from heaven may have been appropriate in a world that conceived the divine habitations as almost literally «above»; it will also be appropriate as a useful metaphorical way of describing the presence among us of that which (again in a symbolic sense) is higher than human experience as such.

You have to be joking???? Thank God for His Mercy and Patience and the Blood of Jesus that prevented fire coming down from Heaven to consume you... Do you realize with what fear, awe and respect and honor the Israelites had for God; before The Sacrifice of Jesus.

Or again, when we speak in the creed of the Eternal Word of God as «coming down from heaven,» we surely do not think — or at least we ought not to think — that this is a precise statement of movement from an «up» to a «down»; we all know well enough that it is, on the contrary, a most inaccurate statement from that point of view.

Observe first that the phenomenon of prophecy is induced: Samuel says to Saul, «You will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying» (I Sam.

Coming down from the mountain, Elijah finds his successor working behind 12 yoke of oxen, plowing his family's field.

But this time, rather than Moses coming down from the Mountain with the law, this time, it was the Holy Spirit coming down with grace and power.

The great drama will end, not with «saved souls» being snatched up into heaven, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth.

And what following that illustration would look like to Paul's original audience would be husbands coming down from their high position, to raise their wives up from their lowly position to a place of glorious unity.

It was an iron - grey day, a cold swirl of a day, and as we crossed the river coming down from the north, a bald eagle swooped...

«Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change» (James 1:17).