Sentences with phrase «life rafts in»

Life Rafts in Space?

Or the album closer, «In Reverse,» which floats like a life raft in an endless sea, until the song finds its own land around the 3:15 mark.

Things weren't necessarily going the way that I thought they should go... and we certainly weren't in a place much above scraping the bottom... but somehow, in that moment, I found a little bit of hope and, like a life raft in the middle of a stormy ocean, I clung to that little piece of hope because it was all it seemed like I had to hold onto.

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.

An onboard explosion sinks the ship and our spy finds himself washed ashore on a life raft in southern Japan.

Not exact matches

Now was just one of a raft of new products Google unveiled at its annual developer conference on June 27, and the array of products demonstrated just how ubiquitous the company wants to be in your life.

But a raft of lawsuits suggests their ability to do so may be short - lived, and that cleaning and delivery companies, in particular, should be bracing themselves.

A few can swim, there might have some on natural rafts, but that can't explain the diversity of life found in the Americas, Australia, the Arctic and the Antarctic.

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.

I remember at a circuit assembly once the speaker said «As parents it's the hardest thing to save our children and it's like being in a life raft with your panicked child overboard and we want to just bop them on the head with an oar so we can pull them on board to safety...»

In addition, there are two single sideband marine radios, two VHF marine radios, two automatic direction finders, two VHF aircraft radios, one generator, four emergency distress radios, two life rafts...

Italian football holds itself to a high standard on such areas of player safety — introducing a raft of measures after Perugia's Renato Curi died on the pitch in 1977, and refining them further since Pescara's Piermario Morosini lost his life during a game in 2012.

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.

The Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) concurs, citing a raft of studies that show how children living in wood - burning households experience «higher rates of lung inflammation, breathing difficulties, pneumonia, and other respiratory diseases.»

Meanwhile, a raft of studies suggest that infants who are fed breast milk may have lower incidences of asthma, diabetes, obesity and other health problems later on in life.

Gale force winds and waves buffeted the life raft, and the only way the crew could keep hold of it was to flip it over and hang onto it from underneath, floating in the water.

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...

The yoga retreat programme also gives you enough time experience other aspects the holy city of Rishikeshhas to offer, like the life along the Ganges, shopping in local markets, treks and white water rafting.

The land around the house is home to rice fields, rivers and wildlife (including a live - in stray kitten), and guests can take advantage of local rafting, diving and hiking in the nearby towns.

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

I live and breathe an Outdoor Life (Snowboarding / Long - boarding, Rafting, Fly Fishing, Rock Climbing, Hiking, Camping)... Mix in a heavy dose of Jamaican Lamb's Wool with some irie music, epic people, classic books, some good «ol fashioned Science, the more often than occasional deep, spontaneous...

In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open oceaIn one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open oceain the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean.

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.

Assigned to a rickety plane to conduct a search - and - rescue mission, he survived a crash in the south Pacific and spent the next 46 days in a life raft with two others, living on rain water, captured sea birds and raw fish.

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.

Setting records, he ran in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, served in the Air Force, drifted 47 days in a life raft after his bomber went down and endured sadistic captivity at the hands of the Japanese.

Glass is desperate to protect his son, borne to a Pawnee mother killed during an English raid, right in front Glass» eyes, in the village wherein he spent what seems to be the best years of his life, and so he takes responsibility over the small surviving party (apparently led by Henry) and commands them to part with their raft fearing another ambush would follow should they continue floating that stream.

In «Old Chief Wood» nhead» a wooden cigar - store Indian comes to life and avenges the store - owner's death; in «The Hitchhiker» a rich woman is terrorised by a hitcher; and in «The Raft» a group teenagers out swimming find themselves under attack from a mysterious crafIn «Old Chief Wood» nhead» a wooden cigar - store Indian comes to life and avenges the store - owner's death; in «The Hitchhiker» a rich woman is terrorised by a hitcher; and in «The Raft» a group teenagers out swimming find themselves under attack from a mysterious crafin «The Hitchhiker» a rich woman is terrorised by a hitcher; and in «The Raft» a group teenagers out swimming find themselves under attack from a mysterious crafin «The Raft» a group teenagers out swimming find themselves under attack from a mysterious craft.

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.

You have to find a way to live off the island in the mean time, while trying to build a raft in order to escape.

The film primarily focuses on Louis» life trying to survive on a flimsy raft and his days being brutally beaten in the POW camps.

O'Connell stars as «the young Zamperini from the time he was a wunderkind member of the USA track team that competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to his survival of a harrowing plane crash in the Pacific Ocean during WWII through 47 days adrift in a life raft to becoming a POW in a Japanese prison camp.»

A dog - eared, much - scribbled - in life raft of cinema.»

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.

Joining the US air force as a bombardier prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour, he survived being shot down on a couple of occasions, the last time being when he and two crewmates spent 47 days adrift on open life - rafts in the Pacific, their ordeal ended when they were captured by the Japanese and another ordeal began.

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.

These days awards season guarantees one thing: a raft of movies based on real - life events featuring big name actors in disguise.

It's just a life - raft struggling to stay intact in a gloopy and incessant flow of molten lava.

The disc has a raft of extra features (all of them presented in HD), including a slew of deleted scenes, many of them dealing with Mary's life after she moves away from Henry's court.

Literally raised in a zoo, Pi's family in India decides to sell their animals to a zoo in Canada and on the boat journey there, Pi becomes the sole human survivor as he escapes on a life raft after a deadly storm.

In July 2002, Newsweek reported that a raft of recent charter «reports find that too often, charters haven't lived up to their end of the bargain.»

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.

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.

And so, a monkey and a donkey in the desert take the place of a boy and a tiger on a life raft.

She currently blogs at TanyaSavko.com and lives in southern Oregon, where she tries to find time to work on her next novel when she's not out hiking, rafting, or wine tasting.