Sentences with phrase «hurtling from»

Ludum Dare 48 - 2011 A game about hurtling from the sky towards earth, while partying, jettisoning crew members and blowing up.

The bubble in question is actually a field of magnetic plasma, and the bigger this field gets, the faster it will travel, powered by solar winds made of particles hurtling from the sun at a million miles per hour.

The roads of Kinshasa were unbelievable, with people and animals wandering randomly across them, not to mention the vehicles, which hurtled from every direction.

Desplechin hurtles from one heated confrontation to another with little breathing space between scenes, employing a cornucopia of florid stylistic devices employed haphazardly — a voiceover here, an iris - in transition there, with some chapter headings thrown in — and the initial effect is exhausting.

Liz Hannah was hired in October to write the screenplay for Only Plane in the Sky, about the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when President George W. Bush and his administration were hurtled from a press op in a Florida classroom onto Air Force One — then considered the safest place in the world to be.

Paired exclusively with an eight - speed Tiptronic transmission, the Cayenne Diesel hurtles from 0 to 60 mph in 7.2 seconds — 0.1 second slower than the V - 6.

Wise beyond his years, raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education, he has little in common with other children and even less with the impulsive Vee, who hurtles from one self - made crisis to the next.

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The sort - of - spaceship - shaped android that's briefly hurtling through our solar system has intrigued the scientists who scan the skies in search of signals from extraterrestrials.

The results are a stark contrast to multiple polls last week that gave the Leave camp as much as a 6 point lead, leading to fears that Britain was hurtling towards a «Brexit» - a British exit from the European Union.

He experienced, in rapid succession, blows of the sort that can send a disturbed, isolated young man hurtling into a spiral of instability: forced to move out of his lifelong home, spurned by a girlfriend, bounced from school to school, then suddenly losing his mother, his closest companion, to a fatal illness.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

The favorite among my crew is the Xcelerator, on which riders rocket from 0 to 82 miles per hour in a mere 2.3 seconds, launching hundreds of feet into the air before immediately hurtling 90 degrees straight down.

I'd give anything to pack up the car and hurtle down I - 95 once more, in search of that purple - and - pink sign from the back seat.

Quick breaks from their own zone, with forwards hurtling into enemy territory, are the comrades» main offensive weapons.

As usual I was out of my seat hurtling a tirade of abuse at Wenger and Bould for just sitting there letting the game drift away without any input and getting strange looks from the tourists around me, funny place that Emirates stadium, so corporate and touristy, I just don't if I take anymore.

Shortly afterwards Bobby Moore sent Redknapp hurtling down the right wing, and he crossed from the bye - line to Hurst who headed home from six yards.

Possession was stolen from one of the Arsenal players by a nifty little midfield terrier, who came hurtling on to the pitch during the second half.

However, he resigned from the NIC in December 2017 because of the Government's approach to Brexit, saying the UK was «hurtling towards the EU's emergency exit with no credible plan for the future of British trade and European co-operation».

As New York City's campaign season hurtles toward the September 12 primaries and November 7 general election, bringing new flurries of fundraising and spending from mayoral candidates, attention has largely been focused on the «raising,» with a few recent donations getting...

For the first time ever, an asteroid or comet from another star has been caught hurtling through our solar system, astronomers announced late Thursday.

An icy comet just hurtled past the sun on a strange path that suggests it came from outside our solar system, making it the first such interloper we've ever spotted

The probe, which Brownlee oversees from the University of Washington in Seattle, is hurtling toward a meeting with comet Wild 2 (pronounced in the German fashion as «vilt» 2).

While space rocks hurtling in from space threaten to deal modern life a mortal blow, meteorite impacts during Earth's early history may have played a pivotal role in kick - starting life on the planet.

5 million mph The approximate speed at which scientists observed a supermassive black hole, roughly 8 billion light - years away from Earth, hurtling through space.

One such star is hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers per hour, researchers report in the March 6 Science, making it the fastest - moving star to be ejected from our galaxy.

Over an exhilarating 10 minutes, Schrijver followed C / 2011 N3 as it hurtled deep into the sun's atmosphere before vanishing some 50,000 miles from the solar surface.

A spent rocket stage that NASA sent hurtling into the moon last year in hopes of kicking up water from a polar crater delivered on that mission, revealing that at least a moderate portion of its target was indeed made of ice.

It's the familiar force that keeps our feet on the ground and Earth's atmosphere from hurtling into space.

Three scientific spacecraft hurtling away from the Earth on separate missions are being used as a gigantic detector that spans a large part of the Solar System.

A gigantic and resilient «cold front» hurtling through the Perseus galaxy cluster has been studied using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The orbital data, in conjunction with the knowledge that «Oumuamua was hurtling through the solar system at a top speed of around 196,000 mph (315,431 km / h) led scientists to conclude that the object was not gravitationally bound to our Sun, and was instead a transient visitor from interstellar space.

Professor Mavalvala worked with researchers at the US - based underground detectors Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory to build sophisticated sensors to detect gravitational ripples created from the collision of two black holes some 1.3 billion years ago and had been hurtling through space to reach Earth on September 14, 2015.

In 1989, when Voyager 2 hurtled through the far reaches of our solar system passing the planet Neptune, a live feed from JPL opened a window onto an exotic world nearly 3 billion miles away.

Astronomers have just clocked one hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers (2.7 million miles) per hour.

If you jump from too far back before you develop control, the weight of your body hurtling forward and landing on one arm may strain or injure your wrist, elbow, and / or shoulder — not to mention the possibility that you'll land on your nose.

When it comes to meeting women online, the biggest hurtle that any man can face is the transition from online to offline.

The movie hurtles authoritatively from Philly to Newark to an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic to South Korea to Israel to Wales, like Richard Engel on a worldwide assignment.

The film opens pleasantly enough, with voiceover narration by Emma Thompson accompanying an image of the Voyager I spacecraft, the furthest man - made object from earth, hurtling toward the edge of the solar system.

Our heroes encounter a close brush with death every other minute or so, each one an eye - popping spectacle, whether it's cars hurtling through the air, machine gun - fire from a helicopter, a hovering Harrier jet, or hand - to - hand combat in an elevator shaft.

As the world continues hurtling through space towards a great conflagration of death and destruction, your alien overlords have dropped «El Presidente,» the second single from the album.

Superman (Christopher Reeve) foils the plot of terrorists by hurtling their nuclear device into outer space, but the bomb's shock waves free the Kryptonian villain General Zod (Terence Stamp) and his henchmen Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and Non (Jack O'Halloran) from their imprisonment.

The Escapists 2 features: • A dedicated tutorial for new players to learn the basics of prison life • 10 unique themed prisons to escape from including the frosty Fort Tundra, a train hurtling through the desert, and even a trip to the final frontier!

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

 Spider - Man: Shattered Dimensions is a thrilling action - packed adventure set in four dramatically different universes from legendary Spider - Man lore, each with a distinct Spider - Man armed with unique skills and strengths, in one original storyline. Players will be transported to new locations never before seen in a Spider - Man game, from lush jungles and dusty deserts to various urban terrains. Acclaimed Marvelcomic book writer Dan Slott takes players on a mission to contain the magical energy of the Tablet of Order and Chaos, which has been shattered and sent hurtling across parallel universes, and battle fan - favorite villains in a quest to restore the fabric of reality.

In «Ran» we sometimes get the impression that life is hurtling past Hidetoro (Tatsuya Nakadai), who wanders from one tragedy to another, pushing in from the margins, bewildered.

San Andreas joins a long list of disaster movies that have been hurtled our way over the past few years; from the heights of Irwin Allen's epics of the 1960s and 1970s (see The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure), to the more recent CGI affairs, most of which were thrown at the screen by German director Roland Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).

Telling of the burgeoning affection between the Devon teenager Albert (played by former Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble member Jeremy Irvine) and the horse, Joey, who leads the young man hurtling into the horrors of World War One, the script trades heavily on the kind of «I knew when I first saw you» stuff that one might expect from a meet - cute saga like One Day - except that such language is here applied to a strapping lad who would appear to have no actual friends and the half - thoroughbred that his drunken father (a sad - eyed Peter Mullan) buys at auction.

The larger - than - life experience will sweep the audience right into the action as the gang hurtle through a fast paced adventure featuring some very special theme park attractions, from Unikitty's cute and colourful «Wainbow Wubble World» to Wyldstyle's «Super Cycle Mega Ride» and MetalBeard's «Pirate Plunder Danger Cave».

The finish line remains a long way off in a Congress bitterly divided over issues such as health care, hurtling toward the 2010 midterm elections, and still without a specific proposal from the Obama administration about how it would revise the ESEA, currently called...

Despite careful planning and countless checks and double checks from teams of engineers, the orbiter fired its rockets too late, glanced off the Martian atmosphere, and hurtled into space, lost forever.