Sentences with phrase «landing points for»

The region's rugged, bright coastline is home to secluded, deserted beaches - landing points for 2,000 years of invasion - and there is an unhurried and relaxed way of life here, as you will see in the day - to - day activities of friendly locals.

The region's rugged, bright coastline is home to secluded, deserted beaches - landing points for 2,000 years of invasions by Greeks, Romans, Turks and Venetians.

That's why the club is reportedly looking to offload James Rodríguez, Isco or both this summer, with the red and blue halves of Manchester possible landing points for the pair.

The 2017 recipients of the Ellis Island Medals of Honor gathered Saturday for a brief and rainy pilgrimage to the island that served as the landing point for the ancestors of an estimated 40 % of Americans.

Bookmakers are very much leaning to Chelsea being the next landing point for Morata — with BetVictor making them 1/2 favourites to land him.

And as a popular landing point for newcomers to the U.S., Oakland's proficiency levels for English learners are staggeringly low, at 5.2 % for English and 8.3 % for math.

«We're happy to be a landing point for the rescued dogs from Puerto Rico and the Sato Project.»

Here is also the landing point for the helicopter tours.

You can take a breather in the lovely gardens of the Jardins des Compagnies, or visit one of the fascinating museums, such as the famous Blue Penny Museum, or the Aapravasi Ghat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was the landing point for labourers after the abolition of slavery in 1834.

A landing point for the release window has been decided, but they can't say anything yet.

Guangdong already is the landing point for an 800 - kilometer offshore pipeline from China's own Yacheng offshore gas field south of Hainan Island.

This is the landing point for a class action that has been filed by Mandalena Lewis against WestJet Airlines Ltd. («WestJet»).

Not exact matches

Panama's proximity to Colombia has made it a major transit point for Colombian criminal groups, both on land and water.

In fact, we believe the precision at this point is good enough for propulsive landing that we do not need legs for the next version.

In fact, the land of the Osoyoos band in the Okanagan Valley straddles this country's only true desert — hardly an auspicious starting point for an aboriginal economic revolution.

John 12:8 is the most common example: «You always have the poor with you...» Left out of that (mis) interpretation is the fact that Jesus is actually quoting a passage from Jewish Scripture that makes the opposite point: The continual existence of the poor serves as the fundamental reason for God's command to assist them, to give «liberally and ungrudgingly»: «Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbor in your land.»

For the quarter, the index landed at 64, down three points from the first quarter of 2016 and flat with the second quarter of 2015.

For evidence, he pointed to coastal wetland protection rules requiring farmers to get permits before watering their cows from ponds on their land.

Malaysian carmaker Proton finally landed a foreign partner in Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding, but not all analysts were convinced the deal marked a turnaround point for the one - time national powerhouse.

Eight percent acquired new buildings or land for expansion (up 2 points) and 12 percent spent money for new fixtures and furniture (down 3 points).

As it pertains to the Dow Jones Industrial Averages, a 2.5 % dip in June landed the index 1.3 percentage points in the red for the year to date.

With just one or two rewards cards, you could earn thousands of points that you could redeem for cheap tickets to distant lands.

The average rate for a 30 - year fixed mortgage loan rose two basis points, or 0.02 %, to land at 3.45 %, according to Freddie Mac.

Point Loma is highly undervalued and has a large concentrated land base with a large, multi-zoned drilling inventory to fuel growth for many years.

Last week, China cut interest rates for the first time in three years, as economic growth in that country has fallen to the point where talks of a hard landing are gaining momentum.

He said the ConocoPhillips and Crescent Point deals are likely examples of big companies «looking for scale» in a specific play, as major producers need large parcels of land to meaningfully increase their production.

It looks like we're in for a hard landing, so I think the Fed will lower rates by at least half a point in January.

Eight percent acquired new buildings or land for expansion (up 1 point) and 16 percent spent money for new fixtures and furniture (up 6 points).

Some favoring the second strategy recognize that «[t] he equities are such that compelling some illegal aliens to leave at this point would be unduly harsh — many have been here for a decade or more, have strong community ties, and no longer have any meaningful connection to their native lands.»

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

His statements about priest and king being bound to the land and the people ultimately point back toward a view that sees social and moral responsibility for the common welfare as stemming from a prior relational view of human persons.

The whole point of Thoreau's parable — indeed, of all his writings, including Walden, Civil Disobedience and his famous Plea for Captain John Brown — is to declare that the revolution of 1776 is not yet over; the people and the land we love still struggle for liberation.

This remains a strong implication of the story of the quarrel between Lot (the father of the nations Moab and Ammon) and Abraham, and Lot's free choice of the land to the east and south of Canaan proper (13) The same motive partially underlies the repeated promise of the land to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the pointed denial of the claims of others, for example Ishmael (the Ishmaelites) and Esau (the Edomites) as well as Moab and Ammon.

Sermons that make this second point about poor people tithing often transition over to Matthew 19:29 (or Mark 10:29 - 30) where Jesus promises that those who give up relationships, possessions, homes, and land for His sake, will receive one - hundred times as much in this life and in the life to come.

We sense in all of this the dawn of a new dispensation, a fresh, if sometimes uneven, point of departure for the apostolic heritage, a galvanizing hope, born of proven confidence that we can move beyond Day One of the missionary landing to enter new fields and spheres with our hearts and minds fixed on the right things.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

Of all the Western races, that can read skillfully the providence of God, or can read it at all who can hesitate in affirming that the signs of divine decree point to this land of ours which is gathering to itself the races which must take the lead in the final conflicts of Christianity for possession of the world?

One has only to read the sermons of the early New England divines to remark how often and how eloquently this huge land, unknown in detail but known to be there, supplied illustrations for those passages in the sermon which required pictorial language to nail down a sermonic point.

THink for yourself... obviously it stirred you up... and you are still responding... because the way i wrote it was to incite those feelings... how else can you get to say all you want... if i wanted to spend all night writing then maybe id care... but as i said... leaders do not care what others think... your opinions are as well founded as a mermaid on land... because the way i write a blog does not hinder my ability to get my point across... try adding feeling to your writing... and you might find it works better than your seemingly monotnous tone

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

There has been controversy lately over Obama's May speech in which he said that Israel's 1967 borders should be a starting point for peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and land swaps.

In that briefing note, we identify five entry points for sustainability standards to contribute to the development of these approaches and ensure their integrity and complementarity: preferential or risk - based sourcing; land use planning; government and stakeholder mobilization; producer support at scale; and leveraging finance.

Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, «food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land.

The Bitter End Yacht Club got the name because it is the last spot of land before the Atlantic Ocean and was the turn back point for Caribbean sailors.

If you've been on the fence and were looking for an easy entry - point, these simple Paleo recipes for baking basics that I've been posting (like Paleo Donuts and Paleo Pancakes) might just be the soft landing you've been looking for.

It's a journey that no longer makes economic sense for the buyer, as we've finally reached the point where packaged beef is landing at Philadelphia at a greater cost than US beef.

The mathematics prove the point: the researchers found that a piece of land that could produce 100 g of plant - based protein would be capable of producing far less animal - based protein — the same plot used for laying hens, chickens to eat, dairy products, pork and beef would respectively produce only 60 g, 50 g, 25 g and 4 g of protein.

It pointed out that «[O] ne hectare of land can... produce rice or potatoes for 19 — 22 people per annum.