Sentences with phrase «icy grip»

Nations scramble to claim their share of the petroleum riches trapped deep within the Arctic seabed as global warming loosens that ocean's icy grip on its bounty

The governor was scheduled to talk about his proposed state budget at Syracuse University's Schine Student Center, but was grounded by the spring storm that has upstate in its relentless icy grip.

In 2000, as the green shoots of spring cracked through winter's icy grip on the northern hemisphere, a letter from the Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen and his colleague Eugene Stoermer appeared in the news bulletin of the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

And after his heart beat no more, he rested in the earth while the devil sang shrill victory songs, only to hear his whiny whimper when the God of Everything rose again, thrust away death's icy grip, and revealed afresh just who God was and is and is to be.»

I'm not much for cold weather, so when Winter finally loses her icy grip on me and my gorgeous sub-tropical surrounds I feel free, light, and so much happier!

On April 1, 69 percent of the lakes were still locked in an icy grip, a record for that date.

You can feel the icy grip of defeat around your heart the moment the game begins.

It is 1934, and New York City is in the icy grip of the Great Depression.

Despite its relentless theme of trying to escape death's icy grip, McCaughreans's novel is anything but serious.

Four common relax fantasies haunt the daydreams of both office - bound city dwellers and those freezing souls caught in the icy grip of winter:

A deadly blizzard waiting to wrap its icy grip around a tormented protagonist.

Its this sense of realism that grabs players and holds them in its icy grip throughout the entirety of the game.

There are those who have escaped the icy grip of death; those who have unlocked ancient and divine powers.

I am sure I am not the only Realtor who wants to get my hands dirty in the warm soil as soon as Mother Nature's icy grip has left the yard.