Sentences with phrase «descent down»

The charge arose after a 22 - year - old worker was killed after the dump truck she was operating toppled over on her while she was trying to stop its uncontrolled descent down a hill.

Naoko Sato: Although Bit's plan and Raven's final decision in the Ark of Time led to a rewriting of the past, Kat and Raven's rivalry and their descent down the World Pillar still exist in the new past.

Start the descent down the Inca steps (approximately 2 hours), which takes you to the final night's campsite by the Winay Wayna archaeological site.

From the moment your plane finally begins its descent down towards the world famous Great Barrier Reef your heart begins to beat faster with the excitement of seeing the beauty of the coral reef and brilliant blue waters below you, along with the wild and brilliant tall undulating green mountains that surround the city of Cairns and all of Tropical North Queensland Australia.

Your first impression is guaranteed to be memorable, especially if you are approaching from the west (Melbourne side) the descent down Jemmy's Point Hill is most spectacular with magnificent views of the Gippsland Lakes System and the Ninety Mile Beach.

After the 7 metre descent down a hole in the ground, you will be astonished by his feat.

A spectacular view of the sacred valley emerges as we make a steep descent down a couple of thousand feet.

From here you will likely continue your descent down the sloping reef to where a gentler slope begins between 25 and 30 metres.

What's more, we are just a short walk (12 minutes) and a breathtaking descent down to Praia Grande, via a set of steps famed for its prehistoric dinosaur footprints.

*** Throughout this day of the tour you can expect to walk about 2.5 miles in total, including one fairly steep descent down stairways.

Once there, take a rest, maybe stretch, and then prepare for the winding, fast, but incredibly fun descent down the one - way Conzelman Road.

A steep descent down a dramatic vertical trolly ride will transport you to the white sand beach, where you can spend the day in crystal clear waters

Riders will experience the thrill of riding Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca as the race track includes a challenging 300 - foot climb and an awe - inspiring descent down the world - famous Corkscrew.

A stretch of easy driving on a long descent down from a mountain added a couple more miles.

In addition, at the end of the long descent down Croatia's winding Učka pass, the pedal starts to feel mushy.

Now they were buzzing with excitement bordering on anxiety as they contemplated his upcoming descent down the 29,029 - foot peak.

But things take a dark turn quickly in this black - and - white descent down the rabbit hole.

Witness a man's descent down the rabbit hole of the American prison system when the intense crime thriller, Shot Caller, arrives on Blu - ray ™ (plus Digital HD), DVD and Digital HD October 17 from Lionsgate.

Her early descent down the Times Square stairs in Mistress America, the second film she co-wrote with Baumbach, felt like more than just the perfect introduction to her self - mythologizing character — it was also the coronation of indie royalty, like the star taking her place as the quick - witted queen of millennial New York neurosis.

Either there or in Bethphage he borrowed a donkey — one might infer from the Synoptics that this was prearranged, complete with a password — and so began his descent down the Mount of Olives in a way that seemed to fulfill the prophecy of Zechariah: «Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!

AVS could adjust damper firmness continuously while DAC modulated descents down slopes.

The evidence in front of the court in Rodriguez in 1993 and in front of the Senate Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in June 1995, was taken to demonstrate that: medical associations around the world were opposed to decriminalising assisted suicide; palliative care was threatened by decriminalisation; and descents down the slippery slope from voluntary to non-voluntary and even involuntary euthanasia follow decriminalisation.

Not exact matches

Each year the mayor and a special guest pushes the Waterford crystal button that activates the descent of the ball down the Times Square flagpole.

-- could come on about 5 minutes before starting the descent and say, «Hi parents, I want to let you know that we'll be starting down in a little while, and your little one might experience some discomfort due to the change in cabin pressure, so this would be a great time to have a bottle prepared, or get into a comfortable nursing position.»

The opposite is true: they are trying to keep it from falling or are at least trying to slow down its descent with every trick in the book (every intermittent phase of yuan strength since the beginning of the decline was triggered by intervention).

Well... If I gave you lottery numbers and said Hey «blessed are the cheesemakers» in 2,000 years from now on this day and month Pass these numbers down and your descent will win the lottery.

The movement of descent, from the universal principle down to concrete reality, is of special importance in avoiding the pitfall of speculative «inadequacy,» in which «failure to include some obvious elements of experience in the scope of the system is met by boldly denying the facts» (PR 6/9).

Thus the term avatara literally means «one who comes down to save» or simply «descent».

«Deep down we all hoped that people would come to see a film about a fictional country on the continent of Africa, made up of a cast of people of African descent.

I name here a few instances, the list could be very long: He Came Down From Heaven and Descent Into Hell, by Charles Williams.

Jesus answers it with a typically simple but graphic story (Lk 10:29 - 37) about a man who was waylaid, robbed, and beaten while «going down» from Jerusalem to Jericho, a steep descent through a rugged, desolate area.

Unfortunately, our descent was interrupted unexpectedly by — and the party involved shall remain nameless for perpetuity, though by now everyone we know knows all — the wedging of a Croc, which this party was wearing, into the mechanism of the escalator about two - thirds of the way down.

Second, the Book of Mormon looks down upon people of African descent.

Maybe you should read the Book of Mormon before making statements about it «looking down on people of African descent».

Then with a fine sense of historical irony he describes how the development of a party system, which embodied the very «factionalism» that Washington above all felt would bring down the republic, gave the nation «a mechanism of... self - criticism and self - correction» that, for all its descent into inanity, has somehow served the cause of republicanism well.

For, was the surface of the earth even and level, and the middle parts of its islands and continents not mountainous and high as now it is, it is most certain there could be no descent for the rivers, no conveyance for the waters; but, instead of gliding along those gentle declivities which the higher lands now afford them quite down to the sea, they would stagnate and perhaps stink, and also drown large tracts of land.

«Those torturous questions, «she writes, «which have bobbed along in human history for centuries, now come to us with a militant ferocity, a ferocity that enjoys a line of direct, uninterrupted descent straight down from Michael Farady and Charles Darwin.

The descent of the dove signifies only that the Spirit has come down from God to anoint and equip Jesus as Savior.

My mom (Indian descent) used to make all us kiddos drink a tumeric and honey concoction anytime we were coming down with sniffles or just general malaise.

On the descent, however, one of the men lost his footing and the whole party, roped together, fell 500 feet down a glacial slope.

When Delgado made a break near the Izoard's summit, LeMond not only drafted him to the top but also led the descent, swooping down to Briancon at 60 mph.

In many hospitals, however, it's still routine practice to coach women to push with each contraction in an effort to speed up the baby's descent — so let your caregiver know if you'd prefer to wait until you feel a spontaneous urge to bear down.

On the descent I gave her some Plum Organic Just Pears which she sucked down, and kept her ears from popping.

Most of the time during pregnancy, nature will take its course and your baby will eventually turn to where he is head down and waiting to drop into the pelvis and make his descent into the world.

But remember, the Sun Belt states that gained population are doing so in part because of an increase in the number of people of Hispanic descent living within their borders, which may portend a political change down the road.

As the Lynx approaches the outer atmosphere, the rocket engines will be shut down and the pilot and passenger will feel weightless until they begin their 20 - minute descent.

After a flight of 10 months and 422 million miles, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander last May executed a flawless seven - minute descent through the Red Planet's thin atmosphere to touch down north of its arctic circle.

He identified four major groups of stringed instrument makers, or luthiers, who each crafted their own signature shapes that were passed down with small changes generation by generation — what Chitwood notes was «descent with modification,» in deference to Darwin's theory of evolution.

One of the most difficult aspects of landing on Mars is dealing with the thin atmosphere — there is just enough to create dangerous heat during the descent, but not enough to slow down a spacecraft the same way we do on Earth.

But there were other forms of life lower down the line of descent that scientists might not have expected.