Sentences with phrase «first dykes»

The Dutch tend to beat the curve when it comes to future - forward thinking; they started building the first dykes back in Roman times.

She'd be the first female mayor, not to mention the first dyke, in Gracie Mansion.

Not exact matches

A realistic appraisal of human nature leads to a view of democracy as a dyke against the flood of self - interest, as a means of approaching basic justice in relationships between people who are by nature inclined toward injustice because they look first to their own advantage.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Cal (1 - 11, 0 - 9 Pac - 12) finishes its first season under Sonny Dykes without a conference victory for the first time since 2001.

S&P + top 20 since 2013, Dykes» first year.

Even with increasing wins over his first three seasons, Dykes» courtships distanced him from key Cal donors and influencers, who never felt the coach was committed to a long tenure, a source said.

Liverpool volcanologist, Dr Janine Kavanagh, who heads up the University's specialist MAGMA laboratory, said «For the first time, using innovative laboratory experiments that combined our knowledge of volcanic plumbing systems with engineering expertise, we have managed to see how magma flows through Earth's crust to the surface through dykes.

In California, Dykes explained, the Beginning Teachers Support Advisement (BTSA) pairs each new teacher with an experienced support teacher in his or her building who can offer advice, counsel, and encouragement during the difficult first two years of teaching.

Dykes went on: «If a parent comes to me asking for a change of teacher during the first week of school, I usually ask them to come to a conference with the new teacher and myself.

At other times, it haunted Josie: like right now, when she was standing in the cafeteria line behind Natalie Zlenko, a dyke of the first order who, way back in second grade, had invited Josie over to play and had convinced her to pee on the front lawn like a boy.

Preparing ski trails with snowmobiles boosted the sport of cross-country skiing and in the late 1970's when Russ Younger had the first tracksetter, made in Golden by Ed Blysak, to set trails on his homestead in the Blaeberry valley, around the Golden Campground and along the Kicking Horse dyke.