Sentences with phrase «like a rain of»

They often hear them throughout the day, sometimes like a rain of sound, or a relentless hammer.

Just imagine, like, opening a closet and getting like a rain of hats falling down on you.

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After that, Meyers showed a clip of a CNN correspondent saying, «It's like the White House is peeing on our leg and telling us that it's raining outside.»

It's not officially water - resistant, but Motorola says it'll have a level of «water protection» that lets it survive in light rain and the like.

As allegations continue to rain down on powerful media moguls (like the recently - convicted comedian Bill Cosby), as well as high - profile politicians, doctors, members of Congress and male journalists, the idea that power can be a dangerous tool of manipulation is shifting into the mainstream.

In the Marines, we are often working in close quarters in really uncomfortable settings (like a chest deep fighting hole, and, oh yeah, it's probably raining), and if you can't get along in the group, you're not going to be able to effective leader or member of the team.

(The MegaDo also raised more than $ 65,000 for charity, auctioning off items like a Qantas deck of cards, British Airways pajamas, model airplanes, fluorescent yellow rain suits worn by American's ground crew, two free tickets to Europe and 60,000 American miles.)

That cost, combined with viral images of rain - soaked scenes more suited for Glastonbury, seemed like enough to throw the young festival permanently off course.

It's like disapproving of rain.»

It would fly over regions of the developing world, sprinkling Internet access like so much rain.

«Hell no, it's raining, and we have, like, 20 different flavours of coffee to try out!»

While U.S. power plants have limits on other air - born pollutants — like nitrogen and sulfur oxides that cause acid rain — there haven't been limits, until now, on the levels of carbon dioxide emissions that power plants can emit.

It may be hard to fathom what feet of rain — amounts equaling yearly averages falling in a few days — look like.

Like a washcloth through a wringer, the mountains squeeze more rain of the system — «at least on the order of 10 to 30 percent compared to moving over flat terrain,» he says.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

Kapnick noted that even individual rain storms can be overwhelming, like storm that drenched Baton Rouge last year with 31.39 inches of rain and three times the volume of water of Hurricane Katrina throughout Louisiana in 2005.

According to Adriana Gonzales of the Sierra Club, an uncovered five - story pile of coal ash situated next to a low - income and minority community in the town of Guayama threatens to toxify the entire area thanks to its content of heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, and chromium that will be released when the rain liquefies the ash.

Positive price predictions are raining like cats and dogs as buy orders now comprise a major part of the market's activity.

7:26,27; «But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell.

It is like saying there is not smoke with out fire, like sighting a droppings and trail of foot prints you would realize that a camel and passenger passed the desert then the seeing of the greatness of the mountains and passages through them, the seas great waves the skies it helps to realize the existence of super power «GOD» above all... any way it is like the verses written in the Quran «GOD «Allah speaking about how he had created earth to man by the mountains, seas and rain from skies which brings life to earth..

That's like saying fairies cause rain so every time it rains is proof of fairies.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

So in ourselves, it is true, we are like a drop of rain on a raging fire of sin.

How like the subtle Demiurge to have planted them in the Amazonian rain forest, knowing that when in due time they were found they might, thanks to the naivete of the eaters, contribute to the prevailing complexity and confusion in the world, and thus insure the continuing force of that initial unspeakable happening.

Some of them are just now swelling and splitting underground; others are breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others are meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others are growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

In Japanese the novel is clumsy and repetitive, employs distractingly flawed narrative techniques, and even stoops to basic literary gaffes, mixing metaphors to create unappealing descriptions like «a blanket of rain enveloped the whole plain like the strings of a harp.»

The poor that oppressed the poor is like a man trying too gather grain in a driveing rain storm, islam religion when I see these same country poor opperressing the poor by breaking up store shops turning over cars and setting cars on fire of the poor really sad

As for rain, a man of prayer, like Samuel, powerful in his influence with Yahweh, was supposed to be able to dictate its coming — «I will call unto Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king.

I am not ashamed because there are all these little mustards seeds scattered across our broken, shameful world, some of them just now swelling and splitting underneath the dark soil; others breaking through the surface with a garish flash of green; others meandering toward the sun, desperate for light or rain or some sort of trellis; others growing slow and steady into tall shade tress with limbs like arms wide open to the world, welcoming the birds of the air to nest in their branches.

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams of living water, that bears fruit in season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over with all kinds of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind of church we want to be.»

Now, in April, when lilacs shake in gusts of rain, the crown - like buds Waving thick and green on sceptre tips, I ask myself: What have we been.

The rain this spring, here as in much of the country, has been heavy and regular, and so the ditches are full to overflowing, and gleam like silver when viewed at an oblique slant.

The words of bigots and naysayers mean very little to a man of faith like him - its like rain on a windshield - we got wipers for that @ssholes.

I'd say when it comes to religion, one of the most insidious forms of pride is manifested when someone like Santorum decides to stand up in public and self - righteously rain down judgement & condemnation on everything that he doesn't like.

You're like some guy who notices that it rains fairly frequently, but can't see how many years of that caused the erosion that has shaped rivers.

Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

This is just senseless, like the account of the creation of Earth, where animals are made first, but then a few lines later animals are made after man, and where water is created long before dry land but then the land is dry because the rain had not come yet.

«It will come to us like a shower, like spring rains that water the earth» is an affirmation which could equally well have been made about Baal, for he was the god of rain, and when he ascended from the underworld in the spring, rain accompanied his return.

His case is like the case of a smooth rock covered with earth, on which heavy rain falls, leaving it bare, smooth and hard.

If you simply can't communicate on any but a superficial level («Pass the butter,» «Looks like rain») in spite of determined efforts on your own, or if your are unable to achieve the kind of communication which satisfies your needs as a couple, it is essential to seek professional help with your communication blocks.

The place you grow out of, everything receding slowly, fading like a chalked sidewalk in the rain.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

I clung tighter and tighter, the sand of answers spilling out of clenched fists like rain.

But, in the midst of a gentle rain, while these thoughts prevailed, I was suddenly sensible of such sweet and beneficent society in Nature, in the very pattering of the drops, and in every sight and sound around my house, an infinite and unaccountable friendliness all at once, like an atmosphere, sustaining me, as made the fancied advantages of human neighborhood insignificant, and I have never thought of them since.

So, Hurricane Sandy, the tropical storm that was threatening the Florida coast with yet another bruising deluge of rain, is losing steam and it looks like Floridians will miss the...

But doing things like psychosocial support for families and children to help them recover kind of mentally and emotionally from what they've experienced, cash - for - work programs that will do things like building latrines and bathing facilities in the camps, which is a practical need but also does help if the rains come or hurricanes come.

ya i know christians ruin everything they ruin people from spending eternity in hell fire.but hey you wan na go there go do nt let the christians stop you.like i said its gona be like noah and the flood everybody laughed and mocked him and than the rains came nobody was laughing than werae they just like the end of the age when the christians who spoil everything are gone and the people are left to meet their fate nobody will be laughing than

you know just like noah and the arch people moched him and ridiculed him, than suddenly the rains came they wrent laughing them were they, just like when the end of the age comes and people are left behind to meat there fait they wont be laughing than will they