Sentences with phrase «for the rain when»

Although admittedly, I'm kind of grateful for the rain when it comes to the last one mentioned above.

It reminded us to dress for rain when it was wet, it optimized a few apps to boost battery life, and it recommended some nearby eateries for lunch.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

China's first space station, called Tiangong - 1 or «Heavenly Palace,» will soon break up over Earth into a fiery rain of space — and the predictions for when it's coming down are getting more exact.

When selecting the right rain jacket for your needs, put function in front of style.

For that reason, ProPilot Assist will not work in heavy rain when the windshield wipers are on their fastest setting.

When its raining outside, for example, players will be more likely to spot the Mudkip creatures that enjoy «splashing around,» Niantic said.

However, most poor farmers merely pray for water when rain and floods fail.

When Hurricane Irma roared into Florida on Sunday and Monday, its winds and rains knocked out power for 6.5 million people in the state.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

Years ago when I played ultimate five or six days a week, practicing in the rain until my body ached, playing four or five games a day two days in a row, being sore and painfully scabbed for months.

Thus anticipating when it will rain, snow, be hot, cold, windy and so on, in some human cultures even talking, praying, and perform rituals to ask the earth for food, water, protection, shelter and so on.

The rightly ordered joy of our senses in this world — the scent of spring, warm rain in the summer, the music of Mozart or Beethoven, the face of a beloved — is a foretaste of the glory God made for all of us to share, when we one day stand in his presence.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

Remember when Rick issued a proclamation, that for 72 hours, the citizens of Texas would all pray for rain.

It reminds me of the line in «Sylvester and the Magic Pebble» when he wishes for the storm to stop and it says, «the rain ceased.»

It was fairly miserable and all I could think about it how I wanted to be dry and in bed and how I felt bad for Hailey that she was stuck in a closed park with no access to rides and that's when I noticed that she was having the most fun she'd had all day just jumping in the enormous puddles and catching rain in her mouth.

Remember when the disciples wanted to rain down fire from heaven on a Samaritan village for rejecting Jesus (Luke 9:54).

Remember when Rick Perry rallied his state to pray for rain?

And when you are broken — because that's what happens when you go for broke — and you look into a mirror, a calendar, into that one face, and you can't stop the aching lump burning up through the center of your heart, listen till the rain comes.

If you noticed, we also need water to live and you'll find that most places are built near or on water sources for that reason, yet when it rains really hard or for other natural occuring events, floods happen.

«It will come to us like a shower, like spring rains that water the earth» is an affirmation which could equally well have been made about Baal, for he was the god of rain, and when he ascended from the underworld in the spring, rain accompanied his return.

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).

When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure; when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder; then he saw it and declared it; he established it and searched it When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure; when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder; then he saw it and declared it; he established it and searched it when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder; then he saw it and declared it; he established it and searched it out.

Thou feedest the birds and the fishes; while Thou givest rain in the desert, so that grass springs up, Thou providest food in the field for all animals, and when they hunger, they raise their faces to Thee.

«Who covers the heaven with clouds, provides rain for the earth, makes the grass grow on the hills, gives food for the cattle, to the young ravens when they cry to Him.»

Grillo, said Fo, «is from the tradition of the wise storyteller, one who knows how to use surreal fantasy, who can turn situations around, who has the right word for the right moment, who can transfix people when he speaks, even in the rain and the snow.»

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

and when the floods come the same stupid people will be on their knees begging for the rain to stop - do you think your god has a big learing grin on his face when he pulls these stunts?

When that happens, we may never again be able even to know about things like acid rain and dying lakes, unless we see them for ourselves, first - hand.

When Christ utters the precepts: «Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you,» he gives for a reason: «That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.»

Such stop - gap intervention is bound to produce inequities of the type illustrated when a farmer growing corn prays for rain and a farmer next door growing grapes prays for clear weather.

This winter, it has been tarps (for sitting under when it rains) and men's underwear.

However, prayer changes things, especially when prayer is for something needed, like rain.

However, when conservationists try to oppose polluters and developers solely with pragmatic arguments about the value to human welfare of, for example, gene pools in rain forests, they have been maneuvered into fighting on the same ground as their opponents.

Subsistence farmers depend on the soil to produce food for their families; they know the seasons and when rains will come to water their crops and allow seeds to send out roots.

Religion is nothing more than a collection of made up stories for primitive minds that were vexed when they could not undersand what made rain fall, oceans swell, stars pass.

I look at it often when it has been raining for 24 hours, I am cold and in the middle some hell hole.

In the past he allowed each nation to go its own way; but even then he did not leave you without evidence of himself in the good things he does for you: he sends you rain from heaven, he makes your crops grow when they should, he gives you food and makes you happy.»

The harvests of autumn have been displaced by the rains and cold when everything has been stored into barns and the fields await a later time for sowing.

The limin» continued in full force on Sunday, when a caravan of cars converged on Farley Hill and most of the crew from Oistins was joined by Jasmine and Frank, Norman the jokester and Dennis for a rain - soaked picnic.

I've had them for dinner, with coffee, because when it's been raining all day hot pancakes and coffee can kick some serious Humboldt weather ass.

I need something for when it rains and I have to take the compost out in but I also wanted something I could equally wear to grocery shop with jeans and real clothes.

The dark and sticky flavours of maple syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg means I'll be making it ready for when I'm caught out in the rain during the winter months.

They are perfect for when you want a summer - y barbeque burger situation, but A) it is much much too hot to even consider standing outside in the scorching sun over a 400 degree pit of fire, or B) it is one of those spring / summer days where is is raining and the thought of holding an umbrella over the bbq is more sad than anything.

One evening when it was raining here in Seattle and it was windy I made Indian ginger chai and was craving for warm moist fritters.

I think of my mom whenever I eat or cook fish, for when I was a little girl she would cook it once a week, rain or shine, and would tell me every single time how good it was for the brain.

I remember when if you wanted a gluten free pizza you had to buy a farm, grow the corn, rice, tapioca and potatoes, hope for rain and sun, pray that locusts would ravage elsewhere, harvest the crops, build a mill, mill the flour and only then you could make the pizza base.

Those restaurants we were going to when it was raining for our burger fix... they weren't grilling outdoors.

When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.