Sentences with phrase «down embankments»

They tumble down embankments in the pitch black, nod off midexperiment, and grow paranoid in the witching hours.

Quick on the heels of Saddam Hussein's removal from power, inhabitants began pulling down embankments and reflooding the land.

One owner loved the «insulated zip pocket» on the exterior of the bag and said that it «clips onto the stroller perfectly,» while another customer reported that their Columbia Summit Rush Backpack «survived falling off the car at 45 mph, tumbling down an embankment, and landing next to a tree and [still] kept the contents inside the bag.»

A man killed in a road crash in Co Fermanagh after his car went off the road and went down an embankment just yards from passing traffic may have lain -LRB-...)

Almost on cue — just the first example of where you can see the plot points right in front of you — her car is sideswiped causing it to flip down an embankment and crash.

I was traveling to fast for snowy conditions slid off the road took out a HUGE hemlock tree did 4 360's and tumbled down an embankment.

Your car gathers speed down the embankment, bouncing.

During a roadtrip through the British Columbia in 2014, 16 - year - old Joseph Philips - Garcia and his black King German Shepherd Sako were flung from their vehicle during a car accident, and were the sole survivors of the 100 - metre tumble down an embankment.

When Smith went to investigate, scooting down an embankment towards the sound of a dog howling, she found the dog lying in the grass, a small kitten nuzzled up beside her.

The San Diego Humane Society and SPCA is asking the public for help in solving the beating death of an 8 - year - old dog whose wounded body was found down an embankment in a Spring Valley neighborhood last month.

According to New Mexico State Police Sergeant Emmanuel Gutierrez, the 69 - year - old driver lost control of a Mesa Vista Consolidated School District bus carrying nine children, drove nearly 100 feet down an embankment, and crashed into a number of trees while transporting the elementary, middle, and high school students to class.

The vehicle, a 1998 Toyota van owned by Bird, crossed the centre line of the highway and rolled twenty feet down an embankment, flipping over before it landed.

When he regained consciousness, he backed up, came out of his collar, slipped on ice and fell down an embankment into a ditch.

The Expedition reportedly left the roadway and rolled several times down an embankment.

You're driving home on I - 75 when a sleep - deprived trucker swerves into your lane and hits you, sending your Jeep rolling down the embankment.

Then at 6 am one foggy, icy January morning, my little car got broken into two bits on a tree after coming off a dual carriageway and down an embankment.

At 6 am one foggy, icy January morning, my little car got broken into two bits by a tree after I came off a dual carriageway and down an embankment.

Not exact matches

Margaret Masson, an elderly woman travelling to her home in Cardonald, was thrown around in the coach as the train slid along the railbed and then careered down a steep embankment.

The trail of debris continued down a steep six - foot embankment and into a drainage basin: Buffalo Wild Wings wet wipes, numbing dental cream, scratched - up country music CDs floating in an oil slick, and an ID card issued by the NFL Players Association.

The journey down to Euston was straight forward enough and I then took the tube to Embankment (Northern Line) to connect up with the District line to Dagenham East which all in all, the journey time is about an hour from Euston, arriving at the ground at 12.30 pm.

An eclectic group of us wandered past the birch trees and down the concrete slope of the embankment, with hunks of bread in our hands.

It also helps you if you have to move up and down curbs and embankments as well.

Demonstrators marched from Victoria Embankment to parliament, before advancing down Whitehall and past Trafalgar Square to Piccadilly and, eventually, Hyde Park.

The process involves excavating the embankments down to a pre-determined elevation, then injecting and mixing dry cement into the soil in overlapping columns in a prescribed pattern to strengthen the subsoils.

Leaving her Jeep at the side of the road, she strides past cow patties and fast - food wrappers and scrambles down an eroded embankment of the Cache la Poudre River.

She clambered down two steep embankments to the water's edge.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

For the third generation XC a new feature called hill - descent - control was introduced that limits vehicle speed when driving down a steep embankment.

Despite not offering a locking rear differential, our TRD Pro Off - Road 4x4 had no problem scaling muddy embankments, inching down steep grades and plowing through shallow streams.

The Tundra does not offer a locking rear differential, but the big truck had no traction problems in our tests in which we drove a 4 - wheel - drive TRD edition up muddy embankments, crawled down steep hills and waded through several feet of water.

It maximizes engine power up to and beyond legal speeds, yet happily putters down rocky embankments in low - range gearing.

But when you're slowly piloting the Jeep down an loose dirt embankment so steep that one of your rear wheels has lifted 18 - inches into the air, the only thing that you'll care about is how cool and capable the Trailhawk is.

The Embankment offers riverboat tours running up and down the River Thames, a unique way to experience the geography and history of London.

In each photograph, the sense of internal ruin is attained with a selection of run - down tourist - poster views of fountains, monuments, the kremlin towers, or the Moscow river embankments as background.

Skarbakka's video, which shows the artist falling down a sandy embankment in slow motion, makes a poignant counterpoint to Herman's portraits of once - couples.

The Conspiracy Bus also veers off the NJ Turnpike and down a steep embankment when he implies that Princeton is conducting significant geo research at the behest of BP.

Of course there was nothing but an embankment to the right of the Defendant's vehicle and the Plaintiff's vehicle flipped down into the ditch.

A Ford Explorer rolled over several times when the left tire detreaded, causing the vehicle to tramp and skate, run off the highway and roll down a steep embankment where it came to rest after hitting a tree.

Although the investigation is ongoing, initial reports indicated that the car's driver allegedly crossed all lanes of traffic including the shoulder at an unknown speed and for unspecified reasons, jumped an asphalt curb, rode up an embankment, hit a tree, and tumbled back down, landing on its wheels.