Sentences with phrase «flat land at»

A terrace is the flat landing at the bottom; the stair steps have vertical edges from which calcite grows out, eventually turning into terraces too.

Not exact matches

The best talk in the world will land flat if it's introduced at a moment when the audience isn't ready to hear it (just as, entrepreneur readers will note, even excellent, groundbreaking products fall flat if they're out of the sync with the market).

For the quarter, the index landed at 64, down three points from the first quarter of 2016 and flat with the second quarter of 2015.

Yes, in particular, it is LUDICROUS that this «god» «chose» an arrogant people in a Middle Eastern desert at a time when there was no internet and when those people thought the world was flat and consisted of the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding lands (i.e., they had NO IDEA about the «New World», Antarctica.

In 1989, he acquired more land at McLaren Flat where the premium red varieties are grown.

In 1958, a Russian airplane navigator named Robinson was making his landing approach at the newly opened Vostok research station when he noticed a large, flat, oval depression «with gentle shores» on the glacier surface.

«This deposit is probably more accessible than most water ice on Mars, because it is at a relatively low latitude and it lies in a flat, smooth area where landing a spacecraft would be easier than at some of the other areas with buried ice,» researcher Jack Holt of the University of Texas said in a statement.

Michele: At Lands» End, we believe all of the characteristics you mentioned — exceptional quality, a great fit, and a flattering silhouette — are equally important when shopping for a swimsuit.

Outfit Details: Top: Birds on a Wire Top, on sale at thelimited.com (no longer available) Jacket: Lands End Canvas cargo jacket, old Scarf: Old navy, old Jeans: David Kahn, on sale at ideeli a while ago Shoes: Lands End ballet flats, thrifted $ 5 Jewelry: thrifted

If you are single and Christian and looking for a life time relationship in Anchorage, the home of Flat top Mountain, you've landed at the perfect Christian dating site.

Well, at # 132,800 it is enormously expensive, and for that price you'd have hoped that Land Rover might have come up with a slightly more flattering exhaust arrangement.

Years ago, at the end of the Victorian century, the house had been built in dignified isolation, but later developers split its storeys into separate flats, and the once - grand staircases now ascended past empty landings and closed doors.

Since 2013, the subcommittee has orchestrated several successes and positive outcomes, some of which include: • Collaborating with the PIJAC Zoonosis committee to update the Healthy Herp Handling poster promoting healthy reptile and amphibian handling practices; develop the Zoonotic Disease Prevention Series for Retailers; draft informative store signage on how to prevent zoonotic diseases; participate in meetings on rodent and reptile disease transmission with the Centers for Disease Control; and produce and revise best management practices (BMP) documents; • Collaborating with the United States Association of Reptile Keepers on past and current attempts to pass legislation, ordinances, and regulatory activity that may impact herp ownership and related businesses; • Attending Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) meetings with reports and summary of actions affecting import and export of reptiles; • Addressing the 2013 Center for Biological Diversity petition to list 53 herp species under the Endangered Species Act; • Reviewing and commenting on the recent US Fish and Wildlife status review on the proposal to list wood turtles under the Endangered Species Act; • Submitting comments on proposed listing of flat - tailed tortoise and spider tortoise under the Endangered Species Act; • Introducing federal legislation in 2013 to allow for the export of certain constrictors listed as injurious in air shipments with aircraft that land in a state for refueling; • Providing volunteer support for auctions at 2013 National Reptile Breeders Expo and several North American Reptile Breeders Conferences; • Providing extensive consultation on constrictor caging standards in Ohio.

Moving from the flat lands, he found home here in Vermont at the beginning of 2014.

it towers above the city - which lays on flat land - at more than 3000ft.

After skimming across the flats amongst the myriad wader birds, the craft lands at a remote beach where all alight to view some 120 000 million year old well preserved dinosaur footprints.

However, with several launch difficulties, always - online DRM, a real - money auction house, poor loot tables and an overly simplified progression system, Diablo III fell flat for many gamers, thus landing it at the bottom of the list.

Wilson echoes a common theme in politics and photography, much as when Misrach encountered lunch tables on salt flats: disturbance of the land colors American, environmental, or human history — and a contested history at that.

A balance of elements allows The Landing's presentation at NADA to shine: Yevgeniya Baras, Jeffrey Blondes, J.B. Blunk, Ryan Fenchel and John Zane Zappas present flat and three - dimensional works in easy harmony with the booth's deceptively simple arrangement of space.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Recent solo shows include: On the Grid, Palm Springs Art Museum, Architecture and Design Center; The Flat Field Works, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp; Eye on Design: Andrea Zittel's Aggregated Stacks and the Collection of the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum; Lay of my Land, BALTIC, Gateshead, and at the Stockholm Konsthall; Andrea Zittel: Between Art and Life, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside - Out, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Schaulager Basel; Small Liberties at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

«Enter the permanent collection galleries of any museum of modern and contemporary art in the United States and it's likely you'll lay eyes on a familiar story: the muscular narrative of the Abstract Expressionists — Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, et al. — attacking their canvases in their 1940s cold water flats, creating a distinctly American art out of drips and splashy brushstrokes, continuing through the pathways of»60s Pop (Andy Warhol) and»70s Minimalism (the metallic stacks of Donald Judd) before landing at the Neo-Expressionism of the»80s (Jean - Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel).

It would waste (assuming the goal is not satire) too much space to put research articles in publications proving the moon is made of cheese (it's got craters, Swiss cheese has holes, by Glen Beck style logic: ergo...) or that the moon landings were faked or that the Earth is flat, or that purified water can do magic, or that you can get jewelry by staring at it through a shop window, or that a bacterial flagellum could not have evolved, — you know, common sense stuff like that...

At this point in our understanding, I see very little difference between denying climate change versus someone who thinks the Earth is flat, or that the Moon landings were faked.

At least some direct competition with food is still likely because such trees and grasses grow best and are most easily harvested on relatively flat, fertile lands — the type of land already dedicated to crops.

I have taken off a kerb at full speed — and landed flat on my face in the street trapped under the chair.

The land throughout the proposed site is relatively flat except for a noteworthy low undulating ridge running on a northeast - southwest axis between the farm cluster and a church and pub at Kilbride.

There is no more scientific debate among serious people who've looked at the science... Well, I guess in some quarters, there's still a debate over whether the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona, or whether the earth is flat instead of round.

Even the Elife S5.5 had a little raised section at the camera area, but this one is flat, and that removes the risk of the phone landing right on the camera when placed on the surface.