Sentences with phrase «down the slopes of»

And when they're not bombing down the slopes of Bromont or Jay Peak, they're likely to be found with a drink in hand (they're above - average consumers of both craft beer and fine wines) in their front rooms looking out on the narrow streets of Sunnyside.

The crowd cheered, politely, made a quick turn and started that Augusta «no running allowed» speed walk down the slopes of the 18th green for the exits.

And the flows can travel at incredibly high speeds down the sides of a volcano; an estimate of the average speed of the pyroclastic flow down the slopes of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State during its 1980 eruption (also Plinian) was around 230 kilometers per hour.

Reviewing surveys of the seafloor conducted by Japanese scientists before and after the earthquake, the scientists found signs of a large slump on the seafloor — a rotational landslide 40 kilometers by 20 kilometers in extent and 2 kilometers thick that traveled down the slope of the Japan Trench, leaving a horizontal footprint the size of Paris that could only have been created by a 100 - meter uplift in the seafloor.

«There seems to be more contribution from the wind coming down the slope of the mountain here compared with the crescent dunes farther north,» said Mathieu Lapotre of Caltech, who added that they have observed more grain and ripple movements at the linear dunes than at the crescent dunes.

In a year where 80's retro electronics are all the rage when it comes to the sci - fi throwback realms of «Stranger Things,» leave it to Matthew Margeson to salute to the era's days of sports - ready synth glory with this run down the slope of power - pop electro artists like Harold Faltermeyer, Bill Conti and Vince Di Cola Margeson also layers on inspirational strings for his tribute to The Day's most unlikely Olympic ski champion of them all.

It simply means the market is on the down slope of the natural cycle.

As a true adrenalin junky, you can find her racing down the slopes of the Great Canadian Mountains, surfing the white water rapids of the Ottawa river, playing hockey, hiking the beautiful Bruce trail or just relaxing by a fire with some really good friends and stories to tell.

One wrong step would drop me 1,000 feet down the slope of a forest canopy.

Then, you will enjoy the other emotion, with sand boarding, standing on a board and sliding down the slopes of appropriate dunes.

The biggest is the Dubai Mall, home to an aquarium and underwater zoo, or you could head to the Mall of the Americas to swoop down the slopes of the world's largest indoor snow park.

We ran down the slope of the hill until our feet could not touch the ground any longer, and then...... we were flying!

The 2460m high Mayon Volcano, on the Philippine island of Luzon, has started to erupt, with lava flows down the slopes of the mountain visible at night.

The «Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces» covers 16,603 hectares in southern Yunnan, and features the rice terracing which descends down the slopes of the Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River.

Usually on a day it was possible to observe several small eruptions, accompanied by smoking hot lava that flowed down the slopes of the volcano.

This heart - thumping adventure will have the family mountain biking down the slopes of the Atlas Mountains and horse riding on the white sandy beaches of Essaouira.

Bike down the slopes of Pichincha Volcano, hike through dense, biodiverse cloud forest, raft whitewater rapids toward the Pacific, zip - line over the forest canopy, hike and ride horses through the high Andes near the active 19,347 foot high Cotopaxi Volcano on this exciting 9 - day adventure tour of Ecuador.

Event two is racing down the slopes of Mount Wario in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

The current commission, with three - person swings and a colourful carpet that is like catnip to children who like rolling down the slope of the hall, is the work of the Danish collective Superflex.

But as the pathbreaking work by Rosamond Naylor and David Battisti has shown, the tropics are already too hot to efficiently grow grain, and those places where grain is produced today are already at optimal growing temperature — which means even a small warming will push them down the slope of declining productivity.

However, this is only my «guess» (based on the present downward trend, and the fact that we are likely on the down slope of the Holocene), not a hypothesis, and has as much or more validity as AGW.

Charles Handy's famous S - curve, shown in the schematic diagram in a contemporary legal services adaptation, explains that the time to start the change journey is when a firm is still on top, and not wait until it has passed its peak and looking down the slope of decline.

The phrase «slipping market» took on an entirely new meaning in Edmonton last fall when one luxury home literally slid down the slope of...

The phrase «slipping market» took on an entirely new meaning in Edmonton last fall when one luxury home literally slid down the slope of the North Saskatchewan River.

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Sure, various groups — doctors, lawyers, small biz owners, etc. have picked up a lot of tax breaks along the way for various reasons but these arguments all lead down a slippery slope.

Even if hitting the slopes isn't your cup of hot cocoa, clicking into a set of skis is well worth it when it means you can return to a cozy chalet after a day spent traipsing down the mountain.

While you're headed down the slopes, LED lights on the bindings (one of each heel and toe) light up to guide you into making small adjustments along the way.

Clamping down on any communications options will slide the U.K. even further down the freedom - of - speech slope.

To remain optimistic, discipline your mind to stay clear of catastrophic, bogged - down thoughts and the «what if» slippery slope of anxiety.

Lily has 20 minutes of flight time and will follow you down the slopes, out on the water on your jet ski or even on a run around the block.

While the «Life Elevated Skier» design features someone skiing down one of the state's famous slopes, the «Life Elevated Arches» version shows the Delicate Arch, an iconic natural formation at Arches National Park.

During this phase of the event, teams must move the tire and a simulated casualty down a muddy slope, across a muddy slough, and up the other side.

If you were to draw a vertical line upward from the December 31 marker, you'd end up with a nice down slope to the right of that line.

Regardless, when the market does see it's next reversal, ETFs that are rallying into resistance of long term downtrend lines and down - sloping 200 - day MAs will generally provide the best shorting opportunities.

From the middle of July to the end of August the S&P was creeping higher while the MACD was sloping down and showing negative divergence.

If only the believers would move off of 0 — but of course most will not because to do so would start them down the slippery slope...

But once you go beyond the golden rule, and common sense, humanist discussions of morals and ethics, you run a slippery slope down to religious bias.

In short, unless the Court is prepared to think about this issue with greater care than was evinced by the Ninth and Second Circuits» and there is little in its opinions of late to suggest that it has the moral imagination to do so» the question will be not how far we slide down the slippery slope of legally sanctioned killing, but how fast.

Most readers of «First Thoughts» are likely, being mostly conservatives of some sort, to feel that things are always getting worse and that the contemporary world has fallen a few steps down the slope towards decadence from the position its predecessors held.

The real question is will we continue to at least strive for separation of Church and State or go down the slippery slope that leads ever closer to a Theocracy - which never had ended well in the entire history of mankind.

I told him that he had begun to slide down a slippery slope, for the five points of Calvinism are like five links on a chain: they stand or fall together and if one link in the chain breaks, it is only a matter of time before the whole system unravels.

We are not comfortable, even frightened, with the pull of gravity down a slope because we feel like we have little or no control.

To be fair, both sides of the gender debate have been guilty of sliding down a slippery slope, which in my view is unnecessary, given the wealth of excellent resources available to help us accurately interpret Scripture on issues related to gender, sexuality, and faith.

Whatever one's view of the personal responsibility involved on the part of the alcoholic, one can certainly accept the fact that «society greases the slope down which he slides.»

People who have left the church because they've gone down some sort of slippery ethical slope are not the ones talking about their experiences and sharing with other Christians outside the church or even making it known that they ARE still Christians, but there are a great many Christians who don't go to a formal church service.

The Greeks knew they had something of value and kept asserting it in their declining circles, while they looked down the slopes at the practical, militant Romans who knew how to run the show.

I'm not suggesting we be proprietors of sloppy grace or ignore sin and allow this world to skate down a slippery slope to hell.

Some charities may think the government link a great deal, but Ms. Arrison suggests they think again: «By accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil society.

Many of them would say that the old guard of evangelical theology has itself been slipping down a disastrous slope for at least two decades (since the publication of Harold Lindsell's Battle for the Bible)-- back toward fundamentalism.

He perceived the realists in America more generally as sliding down the «slippery slope» of metaphysical obfuscation from which all had only so recently emerged.