Sentences with phrase «graveyards for»

The consequences of this shift in cost from main work to supplementation may be seen today in the stacks of the great library collections which resemble graveyards for discontinued loose - leaf publications.

It's the work of 40 - year - old Greek - German artist Michail Pirgelis, who mines airplane graveyards for the materials that become his dystopian - minimalist sculptures.

«The deep mantle is a weird place with mysterious features that may be residues of Earth's formation, graveyards for piles of sunken tectonic plates, sources for hotspot volcanoes like Hawaii or the processes that shaped the atmosphere,» Dorfman said.

Clement of Alexandria wrote, «It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals.

Curtis Creek is a graveyard for unused, unwanted, or wayward ships, mostly from World War I. Freighters, ferries, and barge ships sit rotting in the shallow waters.

Since Peter Lougheed catapulted from official opposition leader to Premier in 1971, Alberta's opposition leadership have become a political graveyard for many well - intentioned and ambitious politicians.

«I always describe New York as an elephant's graveyard for ovaries,» he said.

North east England in winter is a graveyard for southern clubs so it «s just as well we «re going up there in autumn.

They won and he understood: football can either be a platform or a graveyard for dreams.

Mourinho's supreme praise for Azpilicueta ought to make the 21 - year - old very wary about moving to Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea having recently become something of a graveyard for young talent.

The Swede performed admirably against Pascal Wehrlein last season and Leclerc must be wondering if Sauber is something of a graveyard for the careers of promising young racers.

# 150k a week for Lallana, if true, proves we are the elephants» graveyard for over 30's who want to boost their coffers

You could sense people's amazement at the night's result, Fulham 2 Burnley 3 at a place that has been a graveyard for so long and where in this game they were under the cosh for long spells.

During the Ferguson era, Old Trafford was always like a graveyard for opponents.

Bloomfield Road, the venue for Monday night's showcase event, has been a graveyard for many a big club this season.

Pat of the reason this position is such a graveyard for Lewis is that there is no major difference between the two big parties on Northern Ireland.

It was a political graveyard for others, but she lasted six years, making her the longest - serving Home Secretary in modern times, before becoming Prime Minister 11 months ago.

Dive a ship graveyard For underwater adventure, head to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Shipwreck Trail, where you can snorkel and dive on the sites of nine wrecks.

One of the more somber scenes described by Van Dover concerns a site called Clambake, a literal graveyard for giant clams.

We've got big plans for the US but it can easily be a graveyard for companies that don't approach it in the right way.

Lake Maracaibo, a 5,097 square mile body of water, is a graveyard for everything from abandoned pipeline to tires.

The month of January has come to be known as a graveyard for bad movies, but how bad can it get?

The vale is a graveyard for monsters; a final resting place, and should be Zorah Magdaros» as well (hence its migration).

As Erika walks among the cars without sound emanating from the bright, surrounding movie screens, the setting suggests a graveyard for her to roam and search for even a semblance of excitement to momentarily obscure a past seemingly lost to mistakes, daydreams, and fear.

The graveyard for that era includes «40 Days and 40 Nights,» «The Sweetest Thing» and «The Wedding Planner.»

Every frame is a work of art with beautifully stunning environments such as a graveyard for dragons, caverns made of crystal, dimly lit crypts, twisted forests, abandoned mines, a mushroom village, and a dastardly forge filled with molten metal where the undead army crafts their weapons.

Again, who knows but Amazon is all about making money NOT making advanced tech and if the market doesn't buy the (sometimes questionable, like the Oasis) advances that they * do * offer, it's off to the graveyard for that tech and back to basics.

When the last of the generation of the Benevolent Self had gone silent, when all the plots on their side were full, the descendants waited what they thought was a decent amount of time for an indecent bunch and sealed up that graveyard for good.

That was our graveyard for heavenly creatures.

That's important because the Big 5 has been whistling past the graveyard for a decade; trying to convince folks that e-books — and e-readers — are just a passing fad and citing their puny e-book sales as evidence... e-book sales that they have * deliberately * tanked with astronomically high retail prices.

Other Chinatown attractions include the Chinese cemetery — an ancient graveyard for those who were denied burial during the Spanish era.

Spiral HQ has traced the origin of the signal to an ancient junkyard — a labyrinthine graveyard for long - forgotten machines and scrap parts.

It's a career graveyard for civil servants and major project IT teams alike.

Often becoming a graveyard for all the belongings home owners don't know what to do with, clean, spacious closets are a coveted feature among buyers.

They are a graveyard for loose change, old receipts, and pocket lint.

She is the author of a book entitled, «7» and a pastor's wife in a unique and thriving church plant in Austin, TX — an area known as a «graveyard for church planters».

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After an introduction from Hsieh — he informs the crowd that it is in the presence of the band responsible for Zappos's hold music — Rabbit plays four songs, and then most of the graveyard shift piles onto the bus to head downtown to continue the festivities.

The band, which hails from Mount Dora, Florida, is getting ready for an acoustic show at Zappos's offices for the two dozen or so employees working the graveyard shift in the company's call center.

Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk jokingly called Apple the «Tesla graveyard» based on the company's habit for hiring the automaker's former engineers.

For a long time, there wasn't really anything you could do about this except for replacing your pillows before they became dust mite graveyards and maybe using a mattress covFor a long time, there wasn't really anything you could do about this except for replacing your pillows before they became dust mite graveyards and maybe using a mattress covfor replacing your pillows before they became dust mite graveyards and maybe using a mattress cover.

The Yahoo - owned site is the closest thing either has to a competitor, and it's like a graveyard of people's digital memories before they abandoned it for Facebook and Instagram.

I'm the primary care giver for the children since my husband works over night graveyard shifts.

Meanwhile, â $ œthe fifth estateâ $ saw its budgets cut, and moved from a primetime TV slot on Wednesday nights to the graveyard shift of Friday nights, to make way for a now long - forgotten sitcom called â $ œBeing Ericaâ $.

There are no rewards for being the richest man in the graveyard.

For it all end in the graveyard, anyway.

do kill innocent muslims for money power... do lie all the time do keep a straight face do nt ever say no to killing muslims do nt ever say no to jews do nt ever tell the truth path to success goes over a graveyard of innocent muslims

Somewhere in those banished graveyards was a metaphysical ground for politics, and buried in them was a truth that too much of modern political theory seems to have forgotten: The living give us crowds.

St. Joseph Catholic Church in North Vernon, Indiana has a century - old graveyard that has served as a final resting place for all sorts, but no one quite like Jason Carr.

For nineteen years the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the much hallowed Old City, languished under the Jordanians, who not only desecrated Jewish holy places and graveyards but left the whole area in a dirty and threadbare condition.

A homeless man who has made a church graveyard his home for the past six months has been served an eviction... More