Sentences with phrase «edge of the sea of»

Before turning to the substantive issue of where Jesus» ideas went, I would like to digress a moment to speak superficially, geographically, about where Jesus himself went: Jesus moved to Capharnaum on the northern edge of the Sea of Galilee, chosen perhaps because it was ideally suited to the lifestyle he had in mind.

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Now UberJET is returning on Saturday, offering bookings for its second destination after Cannes: Constanta, Romania — a city on the Black Sea at the edge of the Eastern European country.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — One by one, the patrons lurched to the stage's edge, summoned by the siren song of stale arena rock and toplessness — a sea of large men with small bills and slight smiles, plainly convinced that America has been plenty great for some time now.

Medieval mapmakers, with their limited knowledge of distant lands and uncharted seas, sometimes depicted dragons on the far edges of their maps.

Alone at the edge of the sea he sets the stone in place.

«16 Thus, Lindsell posits that the cock crowed six times for Peter (in order to harmonize the Gospel accounts); he concludes that «about 23,500» people died on a certain single day (in order to account for Numbers 25:9 citing 24,000 as the figure while Paul asserts in 1 Corinthians 10:8 that it was 23,000); and he hypothesizes that the «molten sea» described in 2 Chronicles 4 as being ten cubits in diameter and thirty cubits in circumference (although we know that C = BD, I. e., the circumference of something ten cubits in diameter is actually 31.4159 cubits) can be understood if the vessel is considered to have sides that are four inches thick, and if the measurement for diameter is taken from the outer edges while the measurement of circumference is taken from the inner edge.17

I live, in other words, in a mess of imprecision, on the edge of the land, between sea and sky.

Job has no way to reply, and no need; the earth is infinitely bigger than he; how absurd he would look standing at the edge of the sea and trying to whistle up the waves.

Imagine ourselves back some four billion years ago on this planet facing two scenarios: on one side, a vast turbulence, terrific volcanoes belching forth from the inexhaustible fires of the earth's core; on the other side the beginnings of living cells, microscopic, invisible along the water's edge of some shallow sea, quiet, vital.

Trudging along the lip of the white - dusted gully on the edge of Pierre, I looked out to see the land, like a cold sea stretching off to the horizon.

Make sure the carrots are evenly spread out, this will increase surface area exposed and allow edges to crisp up and the maple syrup to caramelize, giving a beautiful finish to the carrots, a small pinch of sea salt will also perfectly season the dish.

For these I lightly rolled the edges of the scallops in some sea salt and freshly cracked pepper.

«For over 20 years, Las Ventanas al Paraiso has prided itself in offering stellar culinary experiences, from our authentically Mexican El Restaurante to our open - air Sea Grill perched on the water's edge to our vibrant Tequila & Ceviche Bar, featuring the most expansive collection of tequilas in Mexico,» said Frederic Vidal, managing director of Las Ventanas al Paraiso.

Mini crispy edged, chewy center cookies with candy coated m & m's, sweet pecans and a hint of sea salt.

Crispy edges, chewy center, large baking chips and a sprinkling of sea salt make for one amazing cookie.

Arrange about 4 slices of baked eggplant on top of the sauce, add a pinch sea salt, and then top with another 1/12 of sauce, allowing eggplant to show around the edges.

He cleans each plate's edges with a vodka - moistened towel and raises his right arm — inked with a tangle of octopus, sea urchin, and clam images — extending his index finger.

Nestled on the western edge of the Temecula Valley, Hart Winery capitalizes on the soil and climate of this Southern California AVA at 1,500 feet above sea level to produce premium estate grown Syrah, Sauvignon Blanc, Roussanne, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Tempranillo.

$ 70 - $ 180 Mayakoba (El Camaleon), Riviera Maya Home to the annual OHL Classic on the PGA Tour, where past champions include Fred Funk, Pat Perez and Graeme McDowell, this unique Greg Norman - designed layout 45 minutes south of the Cancun Airport wows with limestone - lined canals that bisect the fairways, jungle - like mangrove swamps, natural rock caverns and two - par - 3s that edge the Caribbean Sea.

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From the tips, the world's 97th ranked course is a rugged test, but the aesthetics match the challenge, thanks to holes that twist through amphitheaters of giant dunes and others that edge the Irish Sea.

Wild sea urchins decorate the edges of the Oregon Coast tide pools.

The building, comprising 50,000 sq. ft., is located on a site of about 11.5 acres on the edge of Llandudno commanding views over the Irish Sea towards the Isle of Anglesey, Snowdonia and the Great Orme **.

From deep seas to the edge of the stratosphere, this science is taking place in the world around you.

Larsen C is approximately 350m thick and floats on the seas at the edge of West Antarctica, holding back the flow of glaciers that feed into it.

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

This isolated cavity of seawater, down at the grounding zone, sits deep beneath the back corner of the ice shelf — 850 kilometers back from where the edge of the ice meets the open sea.

Astronomers believe large moonlets up to at least a half - mile in size may hide among the rings, which themselves are only about 30 feet thick; the taller vertical structures visible here could be ring material that «splashes» up when the fine particles of the rings collide with these moonlets, much as water at the sea's edge can splash up and over a rock.

Before this time there were elongated narrow seas at the western edge of South America rather than mountains.

Still other discoveries have been made on the coast of the Black Sea and the edge of China.

The Salton Sea Geothermal Field, located on the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea, is one of four operating geothermal fields in the area.

A 1,400 - acre swath of salt flats along the western edge of San Francisco Bay has become the latest site for a development dispute that promises to become increasingly common in coastal U.S. cities: Whether new waterside growth makes sense when sea levels are rising

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

During that time period, trees overtook the tundra, sprouting right to the edges of the Arctic Ocean, and the seas swelled, pushing ocean levels 65 to 80 feet higher.

In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise.

Plankton, crustaceans and fish, all food for wildlife, reproduce at the dynamic edge of the sea ice, where it floats over shallow near - shore waters.

The Sahel region of Africa — a strip across the southern edge of the Sahara from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea — is a semi-arid landscape between the desert to the north and the savannah to the south.

Scientists with the Caitlin Arctic Survey have been utilizing a new device on this year's 10 - week expedition on the edge of the Arctic Ocean near Ellef Ringnes Island, Canada: a unique pedal - powered winch built to haul a 50 - kilogram scientific payload 200 meters below the sea ice.

Coastal altimetry, which provides detailed wave and sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.

From the edge of the door, the massive pile of junk rose precipitously to the ceiling, like a giant sea wave.

Nicklen was not the only mammal lying in wait on the edge of the Antarctic Ross Sea to greet these emperor penguins.

And between 2008 and 2012, researchers discovered two ship burials on the edge of the Baltic Sea in Estonia, 250 kilo meters from the Swedish coast.

Before, during and after the PETM, these sediments were laid down on the sea floor at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, at depths of ~ 1000m, on the boundary between the continents and the open ocean.

Canadian archaeologists have located one of two ships lost at sea in 1845 during an expedition to chart the Northwest Passage, a sea route that would snake through waterways at the northern edge of Canada, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Arctic Ocean.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

As it dove through the gap, Cassini came within about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar — comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles (300 kilometers) of the innermost visible edge of the rings.

The great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, which rise to over 13,000 feet above sea level, accumulate ice over most of their surfaces and melt only at their lower elevations near the edges.

Eighteen - meter - long humpbacks, for instance, are Antarctica's other abundant baleen whales, but they stick to feeding in the open water and the edges of the sea ice.

And the number of polar bears in the southern edge of their range, the Hudson Bay, have drastically decreased as sea ice is present for shorter and shorter amounts of time, he notes.