Sentences with phrase «into sloughs»

Even experienced salespeople occasionally fall into sloughs and slumps.

Acting wise, Lesley Manville is the obvious star, pulling - out all the stops and then even more (some might think rather too many) as she descends into the slough of despair.

This discussion walked into a slough of denigration: neck - deep.

In the presence of crooks, the trough of disillusionment can easily turn into the slough of despond...

Not exact matches

As soon as Singapore moves on to such activities, says Lee, «we can slowly slough off our labor - intensive factories and get them to move into the countries around us — Malaysia and Indonesia.»

At 3 p.m. on Saturday, Mexico's short, dark and Buddha - calm Pedro Rodriguez scrambled into the seat of a blue and orange Ford GT40, designed by Ford but produced by JW Automotive Engineering Ltd. of Slough, Bucks.

Jell - O is a bit tricky to work with — in the first test run, I used the regular instructions for Jell - O, and when I unmolded it, Saban's face sloughed right off and plopped into the sink, leaving me with a terrifying faceless blob with finely coiffed hair.

Listen closely and you'll hear those mental gears grinding into place, sloughing off weeks of rust, dust, tarnish and corrosion — a blog is a harsh mistress, and this one's due to start her whip a-crackin» right about... now.

That this House notes the improved security of ballots in Northern Ireland following implementation of the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 which has also resulted in increased levels of voter registration; further notes the successful prosecutions for electoral fraud in Slough, Peterborough and Birmingham; further notes the 2007 Council of Europe investigation into electoral fraud in the UK and the recent report entitled Purity of Elections in the UK: Causes for Concern, published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Ltd which highlights how vulnerable the electoral system is to electoral fraud; and calls on the Government to improve electoral security across the rest of the UK.

The particles were probably sloughed off by comets that wandered into the inner solar system.

Jaenicke's 15 - year study found that more than a billion tons of bioaerosols — bits of proteins and cells, animal fur, dandruff, dead plants, and insects — are sloughed off into the atmosphere every year, an amount about 20 times greater than previously estimated.

Before the river was «leveed off» and the landscape behind it given over to agriculture, La Grange Reach tapped into shallow lakes, thick pockets of woods, and myriad sandbars and sloughs, all of which moderated the flow of nutrients into it.

Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival by Sheck Exley (National Speleological Society, 1986) Caverns Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley (Cave Books, 1994) The Taming of the Slough by Sheck Exley (National Speleological Society, 2004) The Cenotes of the Riviera Maya by Steve Gerrard (Steve Gerrard, 2000) Beyond the Deep: The Deadly Descent Into the World's Most Treacherous Cave by William Stone, Barbara am Ende, and Monte Paulsen (Grand Central, 2002)

Gas sloughed off the star in the direction of its movement (up) slams into surrounding interstellar gas and compresses, while gas expelled in its wake expands freely, explaining why the skull's top half is more defined than its gaping mouth.

The world's biggest reserves of above - water ice are in Antarctica, and understanding the rate at which the ice sheet will slough into the sea could help researchers refine sea level rise forecasts.

All exfoliants can be categorized into one of two camps: physical exfoliants, characterized by a grainy consistency and the ability to physically slough off dead, flaky skin, and chemical exfoliants, which contain a combination of acids and enzymes that gently break down dead skin, excess oil, and product buildup at the skin's surface.

This mask sloughs away dead skin cells in less than five minutes, enabling the potent nutrients in the rest of your routine to bee - line their way deep into your skin cells.

It helps to reduce sun spots and is useful in transforming a dull complexion into a more radiant and bright one, by sloughing off dead skin cells.

By using a facial loofah, like The Body Shop's Smooth & Renew Face Loofah Pads, you are not just saving time by turning your cleanser into an exfoliator, you are also sloughing off dry, dead skin cells and prepping your skin for hydration.

Instead, the movie turns into failed tragicomedy, and the parish off the County Sligo shoreline becomes the Slough of Despond.

Down goes Los Angeles, sloughing off into the sea.

One by one, the audience is introduced to a number of other Belko employees: Leandra (Adria Arjona, «Anomalous») who sloughs off the advances of creepy Wendell (John C. McGinley, «42»); easygoing Mike (John Gallagher Jr., «10 Cloverfield Lane») who closes her office blinds so he can steal a kiss from her in private; Terry (Owain Yeoman, «American Sniper») who's just arrived back from a trip with his family and has pictures to share; and Roberto (David Del Rio, «Pitch Perfect») who tells Dany that normal people don't work at Belko, helping her relax into her first day.

The third day of our drive is devoted entirely to Berlin, which has over time sloughed several skins without managing to evolve into a truly homogenous metropolis.

The culprits, of course, were the manufacturers themselves, which sloughed off their smaller trucks in favor of getting us all into full - size pickups.

So - called «non-shedding dogs» slough off hair, too, but it goes into their undercoat, not onto your couch.

However, when your veterinarian finds more than a very few red blood cells (RBCs), the presence of more than a few white blood cells (WBCs), increased debris and cells that have sloughed from the tubes and ducts that convey urine (casts)- then careful consideration is needed see if they might fit into the reasons you brought your pet to the veterinarian in the first place.

«Anyone who currently takes their pet into a veterinary hospital with unlicensed technicians is putting their pet in peril... â $ œI have witnessed first hand horrific examples... Soap solution was accidentally placed in the eyes of pets scheduled for surgery, resulting in the sloughing of the surface layers of their corneas.

Join a South Slough interpreter and venture into the Reserve in search of winged wildlife on the first Saturday of each month.

As the cave grows warmer, the protagonist sloughs off his skin and jumps, somehow, into «the fresh and clear Milky Way.»

How grasslands sequester carbon: grasses tend to keep root systems in proportion with top growth, so when livestock graze on high grasses then that land is allowed to rest, the roots slough off the excess growth and their carbon becomes available to microbes as food, polymerizing it into humus.

This week the U.K. sloughed off the naysayers and announced it will be going all out to tap into these next - generation fuels.

So here we are «regulating» what's left of the US economy into a permanent slough of micro-regulated despond.

When thick ice clogged the slough into Napaskiak, forcing the barge carrying a winter's worth of heating oil to turn back in October, people panicked.

Spring for a summer escape you can actually afford in these cash - strapped times and set your toes twinkling before you take your show on the road — or sidewalk, as the case may be.Step 1: Soak those puppies in a basin of warm water, then rub on Le FP Green Body Care's Salt Energizing Exfoliant in Key Lime PIe ($ 14), a beachy keen, 95 percent organic concoction of Dead Sea and Epsom salts, ginger milk, and grapefruit seed extract, as well as fennel, ginger, lemon, and lime essential oils, to slough dead skin into oblivion.