Sentences with phrase «dry up the river»

The alleged prophet blatantly identifies the dried up river (Isaiah 19:5) with the Nile (Isaiah 19:8).

who says to the deep, «Be dry — I will dry up your rivers»; who says of Cyrus, «He is my shepherd, and he shall carry out all my purpose»; and who says of Jerusalem, «It shall be rebuilt,» and of the temple, «Your foundation shall be laid.»

Cut off the free hosting and the ready source of revenue, and we might be able to dry up the river of spam.

As weather makes less predictable shifts, glaciers melt and droughts dry up rivers, how will dams be affected?

A boy from the remote Turkana tribe in Northern Kenya walks across a dried up river near Lodwar, Kenya.

Despite being a necessity for life, clean, drinkable water can be extremely hard to come by in some places where war has destroyed infrastructure or climate change has dried up rivers and aquifers.

Not exact matches

It's the best clue as to when U.S. consumption and investment will pull back sharply, and when the river of foreign capital will dry up.

And he goes even further to say one of the seas Egypt borders will drain, and this appears to coincide with the Nile River drying up.

And the last book of the Bible prophetically pointed to the gradual depletion of religion, that is false religion, by its members at Revelation 16, which says: «And the sixth one (of seven angels) poured out his bowl (symbolizing God's anger) upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.»

Any river that Flows and later forget it's source will SURELY dries up, it will just be a matter of time!

As water disappears from the sea, and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise.

In Nebraska, the Platte River and some of its tributaries seem to be drying up because of the heavy use of water — 80 per cent of which is used for agriculture.

AnVil: You said, «Isaiah 19:4 - 5 / The river mentioned here is the Nile which never dried up and is still one of Egypt's greatest natural resources»

Isaiah 19:4 - 5 / The river mentioned here is the Nile which never dried up and is still one of Egypt's greatest natural resources.

Invading armies would dry up Babylon's river and march into the city without a battle, and that's not all, Isaiah's prophecy even named the king who would conquer Babylon - Cyrus.

Since Baal was reported to be dead, El handed over the vacant power to Athtar (for when rain ceased and rivers dried up, men resorted to artificial methods, such as digging wells).

A «sacred river» has become a drainage ditch and the sea into which it empties is drying up.

Irrigators along the Darling River have begun pulling out permanent plantings as the river drieRiver have begun pulling out permanent plantings as the river drieriver dries up.

Water companies, farmers and wildlife groups have been brought in for an emergency meeting on water use today, as rivers in central and south - east England dry up.

He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

Below Lake Meade, the river is drying up.

«Groundwater pumping can reduce the stream flow and eventually dry up the streams,» Buschatzke said, nodding to the scientific consensus and at least one federal study that documented the phenomenon on Arizona's Verde River.

Officials in the Colorado River basin states have long treated this liquid treasure as a type of environmental retirement account — an additional supply of water they can raid to get through the driest years and make up for the chronic overuse of the rivers themselves.

Some rules force ranchers to dry up entire streams; others ignore the ecological value of maintaining a healthy river.

To determine the timing of the river, the team drilled cores through the dried Ghaggar - Hakra river bed and analysed the layers of river sediments that had built up over time.

However, until now, scientists had not pinpointed how long ago the river dried up, and had assumed that it flowed while the Indus urban centres grew, playing an active role in their development.

A flash flood runs through the dry Santa Fe river bed, New Mexico, as more than 1000 people hold up blue painted pieces of cardboard or tarpaulins.

It has generally been thought that this was a major Himalayan river that dried up either due to climatic or tectonic changes.

Research in this area has been focusing on the role of rivers drying up leading to abandonment of urban centres by ancient communities.

The river flow now efficiently irrigates fields along the banks of the Syr Darya and runs into and rejuvenates the dried - up Aral Sea.

At the same time, he says scientists shouldn't shy away from painting «scary scenarios» — such as deadly heat waves in New York City and a dried - up Mississippi River as possible results of global warming — to get a message across.

About half the sand in the Colorado Plateau originated 1.2 billion to 500 million years ago in the Appalachian mountains, carried away by a system of immense rivers that have long since dried up.

But critics say the channel will cut across the Bibi river, threatening to cut off most of the water that feeds into the lake, which could cause the lake to dry up entirely.

A team of researchers, including Colorado State University Professor Kurt Fausch and Jeff Falke, a CSU alumnus and an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, have discovered that more than half a century of groundwater pumping from the aquifer has led to long segments of rivers drying up and the collapse of large - stream fishes.

Based on earlier observations and modeling by Falke and a team of graduate students and faculty at CSU, the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, which is fed by the aquifer and used to flow about 70 miles, will dry up to about one - half mile by 2045.

Glacier retreat also means less water is available to supply rivers and lakes, such as southern Bolivia's Lake Poopó, which recently dried up.

But again, the Green River will not dry up as a result of no glaciers being there, if that's ultimately what happens.»

We think the rivers were active 3.9 - 3.7 billion years ago, but gradually dried up before being rapidly buried and protected for billions of years, potentially preserving any ancient biological material that might have been present,» added Joel Davis.

«At the end of summer, the Coos River and other rivers along the coast that feed the estuaries generally dry up,» Sutherland said.

In the last decade, the Zayandeh River in his home city of Isfahani has dried up, and many farmers no longer can plant their usual crops.

But there is evidence that the Red Planet had a warmer and wetter past: dried - up river beds, polar ice caps, volcanoes and minerals that form in the presence of water have all been found.

Now, new data from Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity suggests that Gale Crater — where Curiosity has been hanging out for the last two years — had lakes and rivers that filled up and dried out for upwards of tens of millions of years.

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

Would the present - day Mississippi River suddenly dry up?

In the 1990s, China's Yellow River began to dry up, and in 1997 it failed to reach the sea for several months.

But, what if our river dries up — just a slow trickle of sludge, because we're not eating enough whole plant foods?

What if that river dries up into just a slow trickle of sludge?

«I think teaching must build up your immunity,» she jokes, adding that teaching is more of an endurance sport than running through the loose sand, rocky mountains, salt plains, and dried river beds of the Sahara.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

The canyons, dry wash rivers, sandy creek beds, ditches, and gullies that joined up with the Cap Rock cliff form the graveyard of past Indian civilizations, flying and testing grounds of herds of leather - winged bats, drying grounds of monster - size bones and teeth, roosting, nesting, and the breeding place of the bald - headed big brown eagle.