Sentences with phrase «in a windstorm»

Making changes that reduce the risk of damage in windstorms and other natural disasters is one example.

Your posts are about as useful as a fart in a windstorm.

As Gandalf (Ian McKellan), Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), and Saruman (Christopher Lee) face off in a windstorm of sticks and curses against the dark presence seeking to take over, Thranduil and the humans led by Bard (Luke Evans) seek to take their share of the treasures by force.

I love this idea, but I'm so fearful that it would break in a windstorm.

This story, like a belch in a windstorm, was out and over before most people got a sniff.

It danced wildly around the petri dish, like a grain of sand caught in a windstorm.

It's supple enough to sway in windstorms without snapping, yet strong enough to support its weight — up to 160 metric tons.

His onyx - black hair seems frozen in a windstorm.

Astronomers had known of a stream extending the other way, behind the clouds, but couldn't rule out that this gas was being blown back like so much hair in a windstorm.

Cast members learned how to work with bees, collecting runaway swarms from trees and extracting honey from the combs; the most affecting sequence finds Gelsomina and her father hunkered down together beneath a tarp in the rain, using their bodies to keep the lids from blowing off boxed hives in a windstorm, because there are too few stones in the area to hold them down.

And of course, there are moments that are clearly not realistic: she flies in a windstorm... The film portrays a real human being — a transgender woman — but through artifice, by visiting different genres.

Hard of hearing, infirm yet stubbornly persisting like a wormy old oak in a windstorm, Woody occasionally speaks better sense than anyone else — but not too often.

Instead of having wheels and being hooked up to cars to tow them around, the three trailers were mounted on concrete blocks; plus they were anchored to the ground with metal cables to keep from being blown over in windstorms.

A little squirrel is on the mend after suffering a broken leg in a windstorm that swept through the region.

These phobias may develop because of an inherent sensitivity to the stimulus (i.e. a genetic predisposition) or exposure to a highly traumatic experience associated with the stimulus (e.g. a carport collapsing on the pet in a windstorm).

Granted in the middle of the night in a windstorm at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon or when the temperature dropped below freezing in Bryce Canyon, I could see the wisdom in her decision.

Jasmine's special move in Windstorm... and it's just as is sounds.

Sadly, the original tree, which dated to some time between the mid-16th and late 18th century, toppled in a windstorm in 1942.

Corrupt, decrepit regimes were falling over like dead trees in a windstorm, but in many cases, there was nothing — no replacement regime, no legitimate constitution, no rule of law — to step into the breach.

You will not always have to live in fear of the sound of your porch roof potentially falling down in a windstorm because you will have actual posts that are bolted to the porch to prevent mishaps like that from happening.

The legislation also provides funding for flood control projects and some money for people in Monroe County who had property damaged in a windstorm.

Easy green is going to be about as effective as a fart in a windstorm but for many, the question is never one of effectiveness but of appearance.

There had been a very large pine tree knocked down in a windstorm a couple of weeks earlier.

But Florida is slowly setting up its own political crisis as they subsidize those in windstorm - prone areas, at the expense of those not so exposed.

We understand how structures are damaged in windstorms and how to get these damages paid for by insurance carriers.

While one insurance company may require specific insurance for hurricanes, another may include it in a windstorm policy, while yet another may include it in the basic homeowners policy.

Trees blow down in windstorms, fall in heavy ice / snow storms.