Sentences with phrase «life boats for»

They are the life boats for the darker times»

As there will not be any interstellar life boats for some time, I will put the light music back on once again.

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Every summer I lived on a boat working as a crew, and I'd do boat deliveries, Atlantic crossings, working for peanuts and learning to sail big oceangoing boats.

We volunteered trucks for many critical efforts, including delivery of life - boats, food and supplies for first responders.

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After successfully silencing the tug boats whose tooting tormented her on the porch of her Riverside Avenue mansion, Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, the wife of venture capitalist Isaac Rice, founded the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise in New York in order to combat what she called «one of the greatest banes of city life.»

One is a triathlete with cerebral palsy, another a Syrian woman who swam for her life while saving a boat with other refugees.

If you live in the Houston area, the sheriff's office is asking for people with boats and vehicles that can handle high water to help with rescues.

@ jack3 no you have the right to believe what ever you want, but we might mock you for believing in something that has talking snakes, a story about the world flooding and being able to fit all the animals on the planet on one boat, that believes in magic, that believes a person lived in the belly of a whale, and that people coexisted with dinosaurs all without any actual proof.

Talking snakes, talking donkeys, a boat at sea for half a year with a couple million animals, a temple less than 5000sq feet taking 150,000 workers and 7 years to complete, and then sacrificing 14 animals a minute for 7 days straight, a virgin birth story (like there weren't already a few of them before), a zombie invasion that no third party seemed to witness, a dude living in the belly of a fish for a couple days, a guys last words (before become back as a zombie) being «My god, my god, why hast thou forsaken me.»

Well, except for heathens, pagans, apostates, heretics, witches... oh and every living creature on the entire planet save for that which fit on a boat.

After all, wasn't it your «god» that wiped out all life on Earth, save for one little boat with a few people and some animals?

Nothing we do is crazier than talking donkeys, boats full of animals surviving floods covering the entire planet, people living for 900 + years, etc etc etc that you believe and read in your bible (assuming your not agnostic).

Jonah knew that God was out to discipline him, and by going down into the boat headed for Tarshish and falling asleep, he needlessly endangered the lives of the sailors on board and almost took all of them down with him.

The arrogance to act as if your version of Abraham's god is any different... Noah's boat, The Garden of Eden, Living in a fish for 3 days, Satan existing, The slavery, The changing morals, The contradictions, The need to kill jesus, The fact that bible scholars can not agree to what it says, and the 3 gods all rolled up in one thingy.

Families are running for their lives abroad, climbing out of tiny boats or over fences to hand their babies to strangers offering help.

But, when their overcrowded boat broke down in the middle of the Agean Sea on its way to Greece, Mardini and three other passengers — the only ones on the boat who could swim — did something truly heroic: They jumped in the water and pulled the boat through open water for three hours, saving more than a dozen lives.

Jeremy i think satanic forces is more likely in that particular storm with Jesus and his disciples in the boat that was to test his disciples faith and they failed the test.Jesus rebuked the storm there was a power that was out to destroy them why else would he rebuke it maybe he was waiting foir them to rebuke it themselves they had prayed for people and seen healing they had commanded evil spirit to come out of people so they were aware of the power of God.Yet they were in fear of there lives faithless and afriad.Paul on his way to rome was caught in a storm and through an angel paul was told many would die Paul interceeded for the crew and lives on board and God promised that all would be spared.Paul had warned them before the voyage that it would end in disaster but they did not listen.Satan wasnt happy with that plan because he had hoped to kill as many people as possible there was over 300 souls on board and many had been expected to die.So satan attempted to kill Paul and he was bitten by a snake but satan is no match for Jesus Christ he has been defeated and so Paul lived and continued to preach the gospel was many being saved.brentnz

That makes the plant more than 7000 years older than Noah's flood, which supposedly destroyed all life on earth save for that which was in the magic TARDIS boat.

They had squeezed into their attic and lived there for all these days in sweltering heat as they waited to be rescued by the boats.

I'm starting to think the secret of contentment is not learning how to «escape» from life but to enjoy it for what it is — not sorting out the conditions just so, finding someway to stop the boat's rocking, but learning to keep your balance no matter how smooth or rough the seas.

Is living on a boat in the caribbean next for us?!

Cookie cutter (when I did this pumpkin, I was living in a town known for its harbour, which is why I used a sail boat cookie cutter.

With our country's pride burning bright thanks to our efforts on behalf of whales, and the International Court of Justice's decision, it's an appropriate moment to reflect on how hard our government fought to stop those killing boats — and what needs to happen in our community for the live export ships to stop, too.

I was intrigued by the particularities of their lives - the trunks of books carried by boat onto remote islands, the tiny incestuous circle of fellow anthropologists, the divorcing from «traditional» society, and the drive for notoriety and that one big discovery.

Besides, she'd had three goals for the better part of her adult life: to graduate from Cal, to cox the first boat and to win nationals.

Yeah, Polak is a garbage fire in one of the kitchen and it would be better to not have a garbage fire in one of the kitchen than to have one, but there are some bigger holes like a hepatitis B outbreak aka Andersen not stopping pucks, the first mate has launched a mutiny movement aka out their 2C for a just suspension, 30 foot waves coming in aka lost Komarov to injury, no radio communication aka Zaitsev looks completely lost, the bottom 2 decks are entirely submerged aka they have no answer for the Bruins top line, the life boats are made of cheap dry wall aka the PP and PK are MIA...

After laboring as a deckhand for years and being force - fed sailing talk in her off - hours, the wife of one skipper said recently and wearily, «I was living with my so - called husband Jack before he married his first boat.

My friend Colleen, who happens to be a food blogger, had the idea to reach out to other bloggers as well as some of their collective contacts to pull off a fantastic holiday surprise for 21 children who live in a small remote village in Alaska where one can only get in or out by bush plane or a small boat via the rough Nushagak River.

Nick Robbins, the park district's manager of the Lloyd Park boat launch, said the new system has made life much easier for the beach staff.

Swimming in warm, calm, clear waters, diving down to bright seabeds, teaming with life, building ditches and sandcastles, or exploring the coastline on a boat are unforgettable experiences for the whole family.

Browse their selection of trucks, trains, & boats, musical instruments, natural and safe arts and craft supplies, organic dolls, and more and you'll be sure to find the perfect gift for any child in your life.

As we live on water, we had introduced Finn to life on the boat at an early age (he was two or three weeks old when he donned his first infant lifejacket for a trip with his cousins).

In addition to my whirlwind life of event planning, my family shares a passion for boating and any sport that takes place on water.

We lived in the Caribbean for several months before my daughter was born and UHT milk has a very large presence in grocery stores there where refrigeration is not very reliable living on a boat.

The boat, on autopilot, kept on chugging, and his partner, Anthony Sosinski, wouldn't wake up for another few hours, so Aldridge was left behind, with no life vest, in the dark deep waters, 40 miles south of Montauk, a fishing town on the east side of Long Island.

On the other hand, it seems likely that the prospect of being rescued in this way provides an incentive to migrants to embark on journeys that are visibly unsafe, and that where states have broken the link between rescue and access to their territory — as the Australian government has done by adopting a policy whereby migrant boats are either towed back to their point of embarkation, or else their occupants are assessed in offshore detention centres, with those qualifying for refugee status placed in third countries — the stream of boats rapidly dries up, and with it the loss of life.

Clearly an advocate of the view that it is better to act now and ask for permission later, she responded to the government's refusal to protect the dissident Republicans involved in the Spanish Civil War from fascist reprisal by simply chartering a series of boats herself, saving many lives.

The Rochdale Canal Festival celebrates life along Manchester's famous canal, hosting a range of outdoor activities include fishing, kayaking and boat trips for all.

But even the former Army man may not have been fully prepared for what he was about to face when he decided to live on a boat while working in the Commons.

Search for «migrant boats» on Google and read down the list of tragedies, the lives lost in a desperate scramble for a better life.

We're meeting at 3:45 PM on the Manhattan side of the Staten Island Ferry to take the 4:00 PM boat over to the Staten Island Borough Hall (right across from the ferry terminal on the S.I. side) for a 4:30 PM rally and press conference to tell Rep. Michael Grimm (R - Staten Island) that cutting Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid betrays OUR idea of what America can live up to.

He served in the Navy on PT boats in the South Pacific for 30 months during WWII, and later in life became a member of the PT Bboats in the South Pacific for 30 months during WWII, and later in life became a member of the PT BoatsBoats.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Onondaga County officials took advantage of the warm November weather Monday to scout ideas by boat for the next section of hiking trail around Onondaga Lake, County Executive Joanie Mahoney said in a live chat on Syracuse.com.

In the village of Villianur, where 1500 people were dependent upon fishing and had no modern means of navigating their boats, villagers began using the network to obtain the U.S. Navy's wave - height predictions for the Bay of Bengal, and they believe such information continues to save lives today.

The species, native to the Caspian and Black Sea basins, was well known on that side of the Atlantic for its ability to fuse to any hard surface, growing in wickedly sharp clusters that can bloody boaters» hands and swimmers» feet, plug pipes, foul boat bottoms and suck the plankton — the life — out of the waters they invade.

Advances in bottom - trawling technology have given commercial fishing boats access to the sea floor where unknown species have been making a living for eons

Then during the night the ships would cross to Queenstown, Ireland, where last - minute Royal Mail bags were delivered to the ships and where many of the third - class passengers — often bound for a new life in America — would board from special ferry boats.

After breakfast, board our guided tour boat for a half - day journey through further canals and lagoons, and along the spectacular seashore — all within the diverse habitats of Tortuguero, where Caribbean sunshine and tropical rains give rise to an incredible profusion of plant and animal life.

Friends and colleagues describe Gray as a careful, methodical veteran sailor, who for a few years had even lived on a boat.