Sentences with phrase «in garbage dumps»

Negative interactions between polar bears and humans, such as bears foraging in garbage dumps, have historically been more prevalent in years when ice - floe breakup occurred early and polar bears were relatively thin.

Over the last three years I have met too many children living in garbage dumps.

Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, -LSB-...]

Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, are the descendants of the Mayan kings who built these pyramids, young boys and girls working 12 hours a day to salvage recyclables that will pay for a meal, that will allow them to survive for another day, that will do nothing to break them out of the cycle of generational poverty.

The prickly plants also absorb nitrates, which means they can be grown on waste ground or in garbage dumps.

«This city brings in more money than any other in the country, and people live in a garbage dump.»

How they empower women: The story behind Brave Soles starts in a garbage dump in the Dominican Republic but that isn't where it ends.

When my friend Charlie told me the news, I was standing in a garbage dump outside Baghdad; we'd left the city because tanks presented an «aggressive posture» that ran counter to the new mission of nation - building.

This drama follows an unlikely «ratboy» (S.L. Baird) after he is discovered living in a makeshift shelter in a garbage dump.

It's a comedy about the making of a movie as three filmmakers meet in Starbucks, call on their lead actress (played by Eugene Domingo as both herself and the character in the movie) and plan their poverty drama's shoot which will take place in a garbage dump.

The Gist: Stephen Daldry's latest is based on Andy Mulligan's novel, and follows three Brazilian kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump and then soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a wrong.

SYNOPSIS: Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.

Children are depicted living in a garbage dump before being abducted by adults claiming to operate an orphanage.

In an unnamed Third World city, Rat, Raphael, and Gardo live with thousands of other kids in a garbage dump, where they dig for anything that could be profitable.

Not exact matches

Just as you have to pay a fee to put your garbage in the dump, you have to pay a fee to put carbon in the air.

It refers to the Valley of Gehinnom outside of the city of Jerusalem which, in the days of Jesus, was the garbage dump.

I don't know enough about evangelical culture to speak for them en masse but I do know many evangelicals who work in slums, garbage dumps and to stop human trafficking to say that it's not always true that only the pretty things are redemptive.

We have the freedom to keep a dirty house, but not to dump our garbage in our neighbor's yard.

Take the Dominican Republic for example, they are so poor that sick or disabled children are abandoned and left in the street or garbage dump to die.

On the night of his first murders, while taking his dismembered male victim to the dump in garbage bags, he was stopped by a cop for wandering over the center line.

Whatever the rest of the society does not want — jails, public housing, garbage dumps — is conveniently placed in our neighborhoods.

On a recent day in Maradona's old Villa Fiorito neighborhood, little boys, shirtless and barefooted, play soccer on one of the two dusty fields that haven't yet been taken over by rickety tin shacks and a garbage dump.

The WCC is the conference that our garbage dump teams schedule against in order to pad their non-conference schedule.

It sits in our tidy bins, finds its way to the larger garbage containers that some hardworking person, usually a man, has the good fortune to dump into a huge super-compacting truck where said item journeys to a HUMUNGOUS landfill to sit for anywhere from a few years to, much more commonly, a few centuries2.

While proper ways of disposing garbage remain a challenge in most areas, Blantyre City Council (BCC) feels that there is no excuse for dumping diapers on the streets and other undesignated places.

A park district consultant hired to analyze the radiation problem at the site - a former city garbage dump where dirt laced with thorium and radium was left a generation ago - has reported that the contamination is more than 12 times greater in volume than had been suspected.

Dump off solids, and then throw them in the garbage.

It's as if you simply put forth effort cooking just to dump it in the garbage can.

Dan Hazelwood, a leading GOP direct mail consultant, said that if a hypothetical Democratic candidate favors the establishment of a garbage dump in a section of the district, for instance, it makes more sense to «narrow - cast» this message by mail to the people most affected rather than buying an expensive, districtwide television ad.

Pavements and walkways at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra have become a refuse dump for traders who litter the place with garbage.

Mr. Donovan was Mr. Molinari's point man when the borough president was negotiating the closure of the city's garbage dump, known as the Fresh Kills Land Fill, an effort that would make Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican mayor, a folk hero of sorts in the borough.

If we take into account smarts, Dick Nixon smelled like a Rose, while I'm forced to deal with a garbage dump in NY 21 with Coon.

The community is about a quarter mile from the Torne Valley Vineyard mansion, which is just across Torne Valley Rd. from the county's garbage dump in Hillburn.

On Saturday when you're running your errands, go to the Greenmarket, dump it in the garbage can there and, miraculously, it will become potting soil,» Quinn said.

Dog - killer Zheheng Feng, who slaughtered his girlfriend's pooch in a fit of rage and dumped it in the garbage chute last year, pled guilty this week to aggravated animal cruelty...

Prior to that time, trash was dumped in unstructured landfills — Jambeck has vivid memories of growing up in rural Minnesota, dropping her family's garbage off at a small dump and watching bears wander through furniture, tires and debris as they looked for food.

Archaeologists can date that switch by distinguishing remains of wild plants and animals from those of domesticated ones in prehistoric garbage dumps.

In those early years, bears were attracted to garbage dumps in the park and were often killed when they became a nuisancIn those early years, bears were attracted to garbage dumps in the park and were often killed when they became a nuisancin the park and were often killed when they became a nuisance.

Between 300 B.C. and A.D. 800, Egyptians in the city of Oxyrhynchus discarded books, scrolls, and other documents with their household garbage in a dump on the outskirts of town.

«Plastics are very long - lived products that could potentially have service over decades, and yet our main use of these lightweight, inexpensive materials are as single - use items that will go to the garbage dump within a year, where they'll persist for centuries,» Richard Thompson, lead editor of the report, said in an interview.

Although the Laysan albatross chicks of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge live in the central Pacific, more than 1,000 miles from human civilization, their stomachs look like miniature garbage dumps, full of bottle caps, toothbrushes, cigarette lighters — even golf balls.

It is a little like saying since every Wednesday morning everybody in my area of Phoenix is going to put their garbage out, and because we keep producing garbage, we should not have a dump to where all of that garbage is taken.

You will consciously dump the pain, mental garbage, negative memories, discomfort and disease of the past in order to heal the body, purify the mind and experience a wonderful sense of rebirth filled with peace and joy for a New You!

But each time I have to dump that food in the garbage, I just want to kick myself for forgetting about it.

Smile, say thank you, and dump the pamphlet in the nearest garbage.

I tried to dump the old ones in a garbage bag and they were...

He becomes suspicious of his middle - eastern looking neighbor Khaled Abol Naga who has just moved in and seemingly fits the profile of a terrorist because of his friendship with other Arab looking guys who show up at his place with all kinds of mysterious packages and who has the strange habit of dumping his garbage at odd times at night.

It's a purely sensory journey until the pictures start making editorial comments, in slaughterhouses and garbage dumps.

When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage - dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior - Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard - dog, Spots.

Since both films well pre-date the preservationist era of film - as - art - and - heritage — Greed was released in 1925, The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 — they have suffered the further indignity of being unreconstructible; studios back in those days didn't hang on to excised footage for the sake of future director's cuts on DVD, so the reels upon reels of nitrate film trimmed from the original versions were — depending on which movie you're talking about and which story you believe — burned, thrown in the garbage, dumped into the Pacific, or simply left to decompose in the vaults.»