Sentences with phrase «life rafts for»

Consider your brand your life raft for when life's seas turn rough.

This is not merely a faith that she clings to, nor a life raft for when times are tough.

Snow accumulation builds up the ice sheet, but the extra flakes have not acted as a life raft for West Antarctica's ice sheet, which previous research has found is rapidly thinning as the climate warms, Thomas said.

This performance is presumably for a paying audience, of which the trio is expected to earn some performance royalties as a»... life raft for the three of us.»

It can be a life raft for your most precious commodity: time.

Not exact matches

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a raft of new nuclear weapons systems at his State of the Nation address on March 1 — and one demonstrates Russia's apparent disregard for human life.

The guides and reports provided by MarketingProfs can be a life raft when beta testing email automation, for instance.

I don't live like a miser, I travel abroad every year for several weeks, I kayak and go rafting, mountain bike, go backpacking.

It seems like this is a topic that can be endlessly mined for new perspectives because (1) it is all about looking into the crystal ball to predict the future and (2) everyone's response to the unknowable future is different — some want a really big life raft, while others are happy with water wings and swim lessons.

If you are in a rubber life raft and survival of the group is paramount, then it would be completely moral to throw the guy overboard who keeps attempting to pop the raft and drown us all, and not a single other person in the raft would object for they would understand that that guy must have lost use of his senses and had abandoned his humanity.

Yeah I gave up on that whole «sacredness of life» thing after your God allegedly flooded the Earth killing all men, women, and children except for those on a raft.

I went looking for some appropriately themed pool toys first, and managed to score a couple of turtle and fish rafts, which made life much easier for me!

In the riptide of motherhood, we're all looking for a life raft that will help us stay afloat.

William Hazlitt once wrote about a reported shipwreck in which a woman swimming for her life to a raft in the stormy sea saw that one of the half - drowned men on it was naked.

If Boris Johnson — let alone Jacob Rees - Mogg — becomes Tory leader, some (such as Anna Soubry, Nicky Morgan and Justine Greening) will inevitably look for life rafts outside the party.

For decades it has meant families who suddenly lose their financial security, have a life raft to carry them through the weeks before means - tested support arrives.

Scientists from Japan, India and the US have observed lipid rafts in live cells for the first time.

Scientists from Japan, India and the U.S. have observed raft domains — active sections of the cell membrane with special groups of molecules — in live cells for the first time.

«The existence of special membrane domains, called raft domains, has been assumed for over 25 years, but was never found to actually occur in living cells,» said Dr. Naoko Komura of Gifu University, the first author of the paper.

Whether we actually live in a hologram is up for debate, but it is now becoming clear that looking at a raft of other phenomena through a holographic lens could be key to solving...

For many, Internet and dating sites become a life - saving raft in the stormy ocean of life.

Normally I'm a sucker for true life gangster movies, much like older generations dug Edward G. Robinson and George Raft imitating the Mafia, with colorful real life characters like Ben Siegel, Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino to draw inspiration from.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Jack O'Connell is starring as Louis Zamperini, a U.S. soldier who survived on a life raft with two others for 28 days after a plane crash.

Alex Needham and furry friend nail their colours to the mast for Ang Lee's mystical story about a boy stranded on a life raft with a Bengal tiger

Of course, the film gets to the life raft quicker than the book does, and some of the religious themed debates have been excised, but I didn't feel for one moment that the tale had been dumbed down in favour of nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieces.

Surviving with the help of a life raft turned parachute, Indy, along with two tagalongs — lounge singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and young Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan)-- skid down snow covered slopes, float along a river and end up unscathed and ready for a good meal in a poverty stricken village in India.

Left alone and without money, Kyra searches for a life raft.

His rigorous conditioning and perseverance as a track star, as well as his childhood of being bullied and ridiculed by his peers for being Italian, gave him the fortitude to go the distance during his days in World War II as an Air Force bombardier whose plane is shot down, forcing him and fellow soldiers to have to survive in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for weeks.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived on a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII — only to be caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Adrift in a small life - raft in shark - infested waters, Zamperini, together with a fellow crew member, (played by Domhnall Gleeson), miraculously survived for 47 days.

Games such as Minecraft Edu, or Second Life and a raft of others can already do this, and they also offer other benefits for learners.

An expanding raft of scientific and economic research underscores the need to significantly expand quality early learning in the first five years of life, particularly for at - risk children.

The teachers unions are starting to remind me of a man at sea flailing away for help, but the courts, the general public and even many of their own members are not not throwing out a life raft.

White, for my money, has been too melancholy in some of his books and his trademark moroseness is here, too (with good reason: existential New York miasma, AIDS, literary failures), but the spark of love and friendship between the gay hero and his straight friend, in the end, suggests hope and is a life raft to cling to.

Louis Zamperini's story is the type of sweeping saga that practically begs for a film adaptation — as Hillenbrand told us herself in an interview, «So much of his life is spectacular — his races, air combat, a plane crash, his time on the raft — and would translate beautifully to film.»

The entire book is set in a small life raft where the author struggles to catch fish, capture water, plug holes and stay alive for 76 days.

They'll be running a 20,000 word excerpt from A Reason to Live that I hope will wow a whole new raft of consumers in time for... well, it's a little early for Christmas, but never too late to read a book!

Life jackets are also great for dogs that love to join their humans rafting, kayaking, boating, surfing and paddle boarding,

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Cairns is known as the adventure capital of Australia and the region is famous for its amazing scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef, extreme white water rafting, snorkelling tours, skydiving, marine life encounters, food and wine tours and much more.

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The Patagonia Xpress fleet are stable and well - constructed vessels with the latest in safety equipment including fire extinguishers, eight life rafts and life jackets for all passengers.

The vessel has life rafts and life jackets for every passenger in case anything goes awry.

This 33m long fast boat is stable and well built, and features eight life rafts, life jackets for all passengers and fire extinguishers.

Equipment (Zip - Lines: helmet and harness, Rafts: helmet and paddles, Stalactite River Swim: helmet and life jacket, Amphibious Vehicles: helmet and vehicle for two).

For each passenger, there is an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, approved life jacket, and there are 3 large inflatable life rafts on each vessFor each passenger, there is an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, approved life jacket, and there are 3 large inflatable life rafts on each vessfor the Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, approved life jacket, and there are 3 large inflatable life rafts on each vesLife at Sea, or SOLAS, approved life jacket, and there are 3 large inflatable life rafts on each veslife jacket, and there are 3 large inflatable life rafts on each veslife rafts on each vessel.

Go for more than a day for the walking paths, 4 × 4 routes, wild life, river rafting, mountain biking and diversity.

He is currently taking a new route in life, searching for adventures through hitchhiking, cycling, home made rafts, and whatever else he can dream up.