Sentences with phrase «during the retreat of»

Last year I blogged about the surprising discovery that mosses released after 400 years of frozen glacial ensquashment had managed to survive and sprout new growth, a finding that radically altered our ideas about regrowth during the retreat of ice ages.

There is evidence that greenhouse gas levels fell at the start of ice ages and rose during the retreat of the ice sheets, but it is difficult to establish cause and effect (see the notes above on the role of weathering).

The vertical movements that occurred during retreat of the ice sheets in late glacial time are very much more complex than during postglacial time.

I saw or heard or read somewhere (possibly in «An Inconvenient Truth») that LIA may have been caused when a surge of fresh water was released from North America during the retreat of the last ice age.

Not exact matches

We must acknowledge that when we post a photo of our hotel's pool area and our bathing - suited colleagues during the team - building retreat, we are saying to the world: If our company were a person, it would be hanging out in a Jacuzzi with a Corona in its hand, yelling «Woo!»

The US Dollar was boosted overnight by prospects of Fed continuing the path of gradual monetary policy normalization in light of inflation in the US approaching the targeted levels but retreated somewhat during the European trading on Thursday on profit - taking.

The fact that the bond market retreated during the first week of the year on «old» news and in the second week on very little new economic news, though Wednesday saw softer JOLTS (where job openings slid to a six - month low) and Import Price data barely rising at all, is revealing.

Economic growth in the first quarter retreated due to what we feel were transitory issues, including headwinds from a rising dollar, work stoppages at West Coast ports and harsh winter weather, leading to a 0.7 % drop in the US gross domestic product during first - quarter 2015.1 We still maintain, however, that the two main pillars of the US economy — consumer spending and corporate earnings — will continue to be supported by moderate economic growth.

On a recent day of solitude during a spiritual retreat in Colorado, I was given an «assignment» by my spiritual director to make a list of my «past hurts» and...

In his notebooks, written during his spiritual retreats, we can find something concerning his study of John Ruysbroeck, the famous Flemish mystic whose books he studied in an old version of Dutch.

The year and the long retreat are then reviewed in a five - day period at the beginning of second year.There is little doubt that seminarians grow considerably in their knowledge of themselves and Christ during this time.

The people I meet on retreat or during conferences are not jettisoning the lessons of the Reformation.

The year begins with a three - day silent retreat, includes an eight - day silent retreat during Holy Week and the first few days of the Easter period, and the year culminates in a thirty - day retreat in accord with the Ignatian method.

Tickle explains that, in reaction to the gathering center, many Christians will retreat to their respective corners, or religious traditions, which isn't an entirely bad thing because it serves as a sort of ballast to keep the boat of Christendom from tipping during the upheaval of the Great Emergence.

This question usually triggers among non-converts an uncomfortable silence broken by the phrase, «Well, I was born in a Christian family,» followed by an effort to locate a singular moment of conscious conversion some time during middle school, probably at the altar call of a church youth - group retreat.

Then there is his pace of production: according to commonly accepted dating techniques» using the known dates of Shakespeare's forced retreats from London during the plague years, the year of his final retirement to Stratford, allusions to current events in the plays, and so forth» it seems that during his working life in London he wrote on average two plays each year until the death of Elizabeth in 1603, when the pace slackened to about one play per year during the Jacobean reign.

At the enrichment retreat, the Morgans were encouraged, during a communication session, to tell each other what things caused them grief and pain, and what caused feelings of joy and esteem.

The result of the continued repetition of this undignified retreat, during many generations, has at last almost entirely destroyed the intellectual authority of religious thinkers.

(4) Relaxation and fun periods, both planned and «free time,» are essential during intensive retreats to keep the struggles of growth work from becoming a drag, and to encourage growth in that playfulness which keeps sparkle in a marriage.

This philosophy should be emphasized at these points and others during growth groups: in the publicity inviting participation — for example, «This retreat will have a double purpose, to provide opportunities for us to enrich our own marriages and to discover our capacities to strengthen and encourage each other»; during the establishing of the group contract, near the beginning, when the discussion focuses on the nature of marriage growth; during the evaluation — for example, «How did we support and encourage each other's growth?»

Back in the swings of things with all of the settledness felt during the retreat floating away....

I remember, during one of our first weeklong retreats, seriously questioning my ability to strive for enlightenment if being enlightened meant I would no longer care about «worldly pleasures» like eating chocolate.

During other seasons of the year Timber - lee offers programmed youth retreats.

I had also attended a really awesome session about eBooks during Gleek Retreat that was full of info.

Project World School retreats will become a network of temporary learning communities throughout the world to encourage interaction before, during and after the month long events.

Because everybody is part of a family system, we also educate on other aspects of parenting during our jam packed with valuable information babywearing retreats.

In 1801, during the Battle of Copenhagen, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker ordered Admiral Horatio Nelson to beat a hasty retreat.

Saturday I got to do a presentation for a group of local elected officials at the DC - area Council of Governments retreat, and plenty of good questions and concerns came up during the discussion.

In each and every one of these cases, people want us to do what the terrorists want: Firstly, by a panicked response undertaken during a highly emotional time; secondly, by turning against one another and blaming refugees and Muslims; thirdly, by clamping down on our freedoms, whether of movement or communication; and finally by making our foreign policy — whether it is a retreat or a doubling up — responsive to the apocalyptic hysteria of a bunch of fascists.

He said government could not afford to let the critical timelines to complete the PSP process slip any further and therefore urged the stakeholders to always be reminded of that fact during their deliberations adding that their work at the retreat had huge implications for the millions of Ghanaians who would benefit from the Compact II Programme's implementation.

Well before Cuomo's tactical retreat this week (during which he blamed the Board of Regents), governors and lawmakers who had previously supported the standards, particularly in the South, had begun to back away from them.

As President Buhari said in the opening address during the retreat that took place last week, «You are coming on board the ship of governance at an interesting time.

The extent of the retreat from Michael Howard's «prison works» policy was evident during Justice questions on Tuesday.

If during the day you feel too much stress, retreat to a quiet place and play one of the headspace audios for 10 minutes.

Reporting in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind - driven incursions of warm water forced the retreat of glaciers in West Antarctica during the past 11,000 years.

Today's red deer, which recolonized Europe after the ice sheet melted about 12,000 years ago, fall into three or four distinct lineages that likely correspond to separate southern regions to which the deer had retreated during the height of the ice age, Stanton says.

And in many places, it's moving faster than the ice is thought to have retreated during the warming period at the end of the last ice age, around 20,000 years ago.

Reservoir levels were retreating so sharply during summer in the Southern Hemisphere that officials had warned that the city's water supply would be shut off on «Day Zero» in April, forcing most of the city's 4 million inhabitants to queue for rationed potable water.

During the first two - thirds of the Quaternary, the ice advanced and retreated roughly every 41,000 years — the same tempo as the changes in the tilt of Earth's axis.

The overall retreat of several kilometers that has occurred over the past 20,000 years was interrupted by a stillstand or a re-advance of several hundred years at the beginning of the ACR, and then by increasingly minor glacial episodes at the end of the YD, at the beginning of the Holocene (around 10,000 years ago) and during the Little Ice Age (13th to 19th centuries).

Others who had meditation experiences that felt positive during retreats reported that the persistence of these experiences interfered with their ability to function or work when they left the retreat and returned to normal life.

Published literature shows dramatic shifts in species» ranges as glaciers retreated, but little evidence of mass extinctions during that period (1).

«Their slow visual system and the dynamic behaviour of the opponents during contests may reduce opportunities for visual assessment to the point where individual size - associated tendencies come to dominate decisions of persistence, escalation and retreat,» explain McGinley and Taylor in their study.

According to the team's data, ice advanced from the Aurora Basin and retreated back again at least 11 times during the first 20 million years of the ice sheet's history.

Plants either dropped their leaves seasonally, shutting down the pathways that would normally carry water between roots and leaves; developed thinner water - conducting pathways, allowing them to keep their leaves while reducing the risk of air bubbles developing during freezing and thawing; or avoided the cold seasons altogether as herbs, losing aboveground stems and leaves and retreating as seeds, or storing organs underground, such as tulips or potatoes.

Yet during one cold period, when the Neanderthals retreated, populations of Homo sapiens began to infiltrate the cold regions.

Some are sensing molecules that let us see, smell and taste; others give us a boost after a few sips of coffee, make us retreat during a conflict or help fight off infection.

Gladstone, R. M., V. Lee, J. Rougier, A. J. Payne, H. Hellmer, A. Le Brocq, A. Shepherd, T. L. Edwards, J. Gregory, and S. L. Cornford, 2012: Calibrated prediction of Pine Island Glacier retreat during the 21st and 22nd centuries with a coupled flowline model.

Herman, F., Anderson, B. & Leprince, S. Mountain glacier velocity variation during a retreat / advance cycle quantified using sub-pixel analysis of ASTER images.

We randomized female volunteers who were «non-meditators» — having little to no previous experience with meditation — to either the resort only (herein referred to as the vacation arm of the study) or to the retreat (herein referred to as the novice meditation arm) during the same week.