Sentences with word «gird»

It's no wonder that my friend Bill McKibben, while still pushing his vision of returning concentrations of carbon dioxide to their 1988 level, focused his new book, Eaarth, on girding for life in a turbulent world of disruptive climate change.

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But will this shift in perceptions and evidence affect prospects for meaningful action on greenhouse gases — which of course is a much tougher challenge than the near - term imperative of girding against future damage from such storms?

Such of late Columbus found the American so girt With feathered cincture, naked else and wild Among the trees on isles and woody shores.

It also describes a glaring problem, and opportunity, in how federal agencies are locked in to static standards for girding against weather - related hazards even as climate forecasts foresee more rain coming in heavy downpours:

These were no where near as good at the Paks books, but they were worth reading for the background information on Gird and Luap.

This teaching on loins girt about with truth is truly a blessing.

One fact is clear, according to a report issued today by a panel convened by the National Academy of Sciences at the behest of United States intelligence agencies: The country lacks the capacity to clarify what lies ahead as greenhouse heating continues, so gird for surprises.

Saturn's third - largest moon, 900 - mile - wide Iapetus, is girded at the equator with a unique ridge of mountains (photo on the left and in detail at right) that reach a height of 6 miles, taller than Mount Everest.

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Because oil under girds the world economy, oil depletion will result in global economic collapse and population decline.

Open our eyes to visions girt With beauty and with wonder lit, But let us ne'er forget the dirt And those who spawn and die in it.

I haven't girded up the courage to listen to it yet, but I've been a dedicated Bowie fan for much of my adult life (one of my earliest college memories was going to Newbury Comics in downtown Boston during Orientation in order to buy his newest record Heathen, which proceeded to explode my brain when I heard its first track, «Sunday»), and I'm sure it's divine.

The Capitol is still girding for a half - dozen public corruption trials and a coming battle over closing a $ 4 billion budget gap.

Many climate scientists, still reeling from a year of largely unsubstantiated accusations and attacks, are already girding for battle, with some publicly decrying the prospect of congressional hearings on climate science under the impending shift to Republican control of the House.

Rather then working towards a reasonable resolution the parties are now girding for battle.

Constructed in 1974, tenant roster at Sea Girt Square currently includes Wings Fitness, Carter & Cavero, Village Coffee and Ralph's Famous Italian Ice, among others.

Detroit's odyssey through Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy began on July 18, 2013, with major creditors girding for battle and has wound down in a flurry of settlements.

[4] The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble gird on strength.

Therefore, women can ignore those verses about girding up your loins.

But can the 4 Cs present in video game play also gird one's ability to develop social and emotional learning (SEL) skills?

At one point the perspective jumped from Gird to that of another character who quickly died, and it seemed unnecessary.

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On clear mornings or afternoons, you can enjoy a breathtaking backdrop of Mount Agung and outlying small village houses girt by rice fields.

However, once Gird had lost much of his family and began gathering an army, the story picked up and became more cohesive and enjoyable.

First, either grids are drawn in graphite or colored pencil or forms are painted; in time, these underlying depictions may be reinforced by other girds or painted forms laid over them or co-opted, altered or erased entirely.

Munro is just one of a growing stable of consultants with NDP connections who have seen their market value skyrocket in recent months, as B.C. businesses gird their loins for the likely election of an NDP government.

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Only the voters are idiots... so now the length girt and hardness of the candidate's dick become important.

To the south, Virginia girded itself for battle under the guidance of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the stinging words of Patrick Henry: «If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged... we must fight!

19 Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself, And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

And then it's gone, just like the nearly three thousand souls whose names are inscribed on the bronze panels girding the footprints.

The belt also had other purposes beyond just girding up the loins.

During the supper, says John, Jesus girded himself with a towel, poured water into a basin and washed the feet of his disciples.

His mother would go down into the earth with Speed [their dog], her liver large as a toilet seat, a bag girt to her turgid flank to catch her waste.

There's a famous wartime cartoon by David Low, drawn after we were thrown off the Continent in 1940, of a British soldier shaking his fist at wind and waves from a sea - girt rock and proclaiming, «Very well, alone.»

Faith is the key, faith bracketed with the other two virtues, traditionally named as «theological», those of hope and love, the latter also in a further sense under - girding faith.

They spoke frankly on the issue and usually girded their comments with both theological concern and some measure of action.

Simply press the «ON» button, pour your easy - to - purchase organic grains into the «hopper» atop your mill; then gird yourself to witness one of nature's most powerful and profound firework shows up - close «n» personal.

On Sunday in the climactic moments of the 60th Masters, Faldo girded himself in his steel - tempered technique and iron resolve to become a final - round leader's worst nightmare.

The fishing is superb (there is no offseason in the Bahamas), and golden beaches gird the cay.