Sentences with phrase «high precipice»

Smrz handled the train sequence — which singlehandedly saves the movie, and not just because it's the moment at which Howie Long's annoying meathead sidekick gets kicked off the train from a high precipice.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 - its highest levels in nearly a decade - and it was on the precipice of saying sayonara to a 16 - year bear market.

Many investors seem to believe that the cyclical factors that have brought valuations to the current precipice will maintain valuations at a permanently high plateau, or even allow them to advance indefinitely.

Harvey Brooks suggests that living with technology is like climbing a mountain which narrows to a knife - edge as the top is reached.27 Each step takes us higher, but the precipices on either side become steeper.

One player came into the CIF North Coast Section Division II title game on the precipice of making Northern California high school football history, the other knew he had it in him.

Unfortunately for all their wonderful gifts, such people are horrible at taking organization on to the higher plane beyond the precipice.

Principal Pete Hall narrates the school's progress from the precipice of state takeover (for failing to make adequate yearly progress three years running) to an energized school whose test scores went up and stayed high.

The commanding vista from Glacier Point, a 7,214 - foot / 2,199 - meter granite precipice that dramatically reaches out over Yosemite Valley, takes in the park's most famous landmarks — Half Dome, Clouds Rest, Liberty Cap, Vernal and Nevada Falls, and the surrounding High Sierra.

It offers great scenery beneath the glaciated precipices of the Southern ice fields before summiting from the higher Barafu Camp.

As with much of Amerika's conceptual net art, the title is a pun, one that refers to both a weather phenomenon — rain falling and enveloping the landscape — and the fall into a precipice caused by the failing of financial and banking systems.Precipitations also analyzes the falling or bestowing of concepts onto humanity from the «high heavens» with the expectation that people should obey and comply.

And 2 ˚C is far, far too high, given the now clear evidence that at less than 1 ˚C of warming we are already on the precipice of climate catastrophe, from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef, from the Himalayas to Siberia.

Aaron, spiritual leader and High Priest, would select two goats designating one as a sacrifice for God while the other — designated by a red string tied around its neck — had the distinct misfortune of representing the nation's sins and was cast off the precipice of a cliff; the original scapegoat.