Sentences with phrase «like high mountains»

Each scene features tall buildings in imaginative locations — like high mountains or stilts above water.

As in life, it is the never ending mountain ranges like the highest mountain in the world, Mauna Kea.

Indeed, this place looks like a high mountain plateau, treeless with heathers and high winds.

Not exact matches

You don't let obstacles stop you, and enthusiastically embrace challenges like a mountain climber who ascends higher and higher until the summit is reached.

A luxurious escape from the madness of the touristy parts of Whistler, the 77 suites at Nita Lake Lodge evoke sophisticated, mountain - town style, with high, vaulted ceilings, fireplaces, and beautiful chalet - like balconies with gorgeous views.

Like most high - profile servant leader execs, he extends the hands and feet of servant leadership outwardly through humanitarian efforts via the Courage Above Mountains (CAM) Foundation.

But the people who wake up high on that mountain in a howling storm are in grave danger, like the technology people after the bubble burst.

In that system, most of «creation» could support life, but in reality people start dying at the top of high mountains like Everest because the atmosphere is too thin.

Now though we walk thru valleys, «Tho we climb high mountains, We can not give up the fight; We must be like Moses, we must keep on going; Canaanland is just in sight.

You stand at the top of the mountain but you aren't cheering and high five - ing anyone like a few other groups: you are alone.

Harvey Brooks suggests that living with technology is like climbing a mountain which narrows to a knife - edge as the top is reached.27 Each step takes us higher, but the precipices on either side become steeper.

Given the secular climate of our age, the aspirations of this little book seem like the highest and steepest mountain to climb, yet for a young person setting out on life and seeking to understand more fully their own vocation, this is definitely a book to be read, to be treasured and to be used as a reference.

Co-owner of Mountain High Products Nancy Whiteman explains that the advanced scientific processes needed to produce quality cannabis edibles and produce consistent potency resembles technology that one would see in something like a sci - fi movie.

Actually it's the only way I buy bananas now that I found the «Re-Wraps»... I buy trees of freckled wonders (the clerk always asks if I am making banana bread and I tell her I own a monkey, «It's my own ritual of getting these treasures home»)... You see we are BIG FANS of hot cereals, Oatmeal, etc... AND there is NOTHING so delicious as a ripe banana in it... We even eat baked or broiled oatmeal as desserts, with those ripe bananas hidden within like buried treasures... Thank you so much for this wonderful recipe... My banana basket mountain of bananas is a BIT TOO HIGH today and begging to be pruned... It's nice a cool here in CT today SO let the baking begin!!!

Veggies that are packed so high it sometimes falls over like an avalanche of rocks tumbling down a mountain.

This pie is lemony, and the crust is so flaky (because I didn't make it) and I pile the meringue up so high that it looks like a mountain of clouds.

Gierach's Trout Bum blew like a Rocky Mountain high through the stuffy boardrooms of fly - fishing prose two years ago, establishing him as the Angling Aphorist of the»80s.

Executive Director for the NorCal League Vanessa Hauswald elaborated, «We are really excited to get back to Granite Bay for our annual high school mountain bike race; the community here is incredibly supportive of youth cycling and in so many ways it feels like we are coming home when we are at Granite Bay for our event.

The Mountain Buggy Mini has many qualities like large wheels, easy maneuverability, and comfortable seat, extra large storage, and extendable canopy, easy fold, high quality fabrics & parts etc..

These super-star jogging strollers are like high - tech mountain bikes; they are precision machines that safely take your baby over all types of terrain with ease and comfort.

These super-star all terrain double strollers are like high - tech mountain bikes; they are precision machines that safely take your baby over all types of terrain with ease and comfort.

A splurge of hard water forces you higher and higher, it is like the hill will never end, a mountain without a summit.

There were strange pock marks interspersed among smooth plains and mountains that jutted higher than Everest, but they looked more like open sores on a world that could not heal.

Just like mountains and valleys, buildings and pavement create their own distinctive environments — and none so distinctive as urban street canyons, the spaces between high - rises and above the streets that run between them.

The Yeti or Abominable Snowman — a mysterious, ape - like creature said to inhabit the high mountains of Asia — looms large in the mythology of Nepal and Tibet.

On the basis of these examples, Peterson and Dischler speculate that the high - domed pachycephalosaurs with parietal injuries were side - bumping like mountain goats, and that the frontal injuries are indicative of bison - like wrestling.

Like most men who scale high mountains, he has had close calls with hubris.

Both water and nitrogen are solids at Pluto's temperatures, but the nitrogen ice is structurally weak and has a low viscosity that allows it to deform and flow like a fluid, while the water ice has a very high viscosity and can form tall, hard mountains, Trowbridge said.

This $ 200,000 award for high - risk, high - reward projects is not like a typical research grant, obtained only through mountains of exhaustively methodical paperwork and lengthy discussions between specialists.

When the ice age ended, these ancient species and other, more recent ones were ready to take advantage of habitats that opened up in the mountains» higher elevations — and the plants and trees speciated like mad.

And like the good mountain climber that it is, the rover took the opportunity to look around and bask in the view from up high.

But this new study by a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin - Madison has found that the warming temperatures have resulted in mountain pine beetles increasingly invading high - elevation forests, like the whitebark pine forests of the northern Rocky Mountains, and attacking them.

There are some other great options, though even places like Mountain Rose Herbs, where I get the majority of my natural ingredients, don't use the highest quality glass to protect the oil from rancidity.

The bee hives are brought out high up the mountains in clear cut areas where Fireweed likes to grow.

Athletes who are training for endurance could be racing at a higher altitude than what their used to, like outside on a mountain path or hill.

Mountain Climbers These are like doing high knees in a plank position.

Maybe the mountains are where you live not as high as here in Bavaria and of this cause a proposal like that weren't possible:) And thanks, I love pink coats also!

I think i'll pack this look in my suitcase for next week, when I'm off skiing, swapping the heeled boots for my knee high suede boots (a bit like this look here), it's a great evening look for when we're up in the mountains, and i'll finally get the chance to wear my huge Paisie teddy coat again!

With a state song like John Denver's «Rocky Mountain High,» it'd be hard not to be high on life in ColorHigh,» it'd be hard not to be high on life in Colorhigh on life in Colorado.

I am a very happy person because I avoid drama and seek to be cheerful all the time... I like outdoor activities & sports, travel, movies, good food, wine music and good company I read good books and write some... exotic island or high in the mountains are my favorites... I play some Texas hold»em...

Interestingly, the world's highest mountain seems like nothing to this trio: codirector Chin has even skied from the top of Everest.

Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a coder at a Google - like company called Bluebook, wins an employee lottery to spend a week with CEO Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac), an eccentric billionaire genius who lives in a remote, high - tech house on a mountain estate, the better to conduct his mind - blowing experiments without scrutiny.

You've sported a red equal sign on Facebook, watched Nancy Pelosi show Michele Bachmann her politically correct middle finger, and read some of those other lists that have compiled lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) films, hailing usual suspects like High Art and Brokeback Mountain as gay equivalents of Vertigo (oh, don't Citizen Kane me; we're talking regime upheaval here).

If your experience was like mine, every hill you climbed brought higher hills into view until one day, mid mountain, here we are; slightly...

If your experience was like mine, every hill you climbed brought higher hills into view until one day, mid mountain, here we are; slightly startled, adding fabulous new letters to our names.

The district dropped middle - school sports, cut back on travel for its high - school teams, and pared $ 500,000 from the $ 2 million budget that supports afterschool activities like the Math Olympiad and spelling bee at Centennial Elementary, the technology and drama clubs at Rocky Top Middle School, and the anime (Japanese animation) and Knowledge Bowl clubs at Mountain Range Hhigh - school teams, and pared $ 500,000 from the $ 2 million budget that supports afterschool activities like the Math Olympiad and spelling bee at Centennial Elementary, the technology and drama clubs at Rocky Top Middle School, and the anime (Japanese animation) and Knowledge Bowl clubs at Mountain Range HighHigh.

Because the idea of training various channel partners and customers can feel a lot like climbing the world's highest mountain.

At Knox Central High School, located in the Appalachian Mountains, some classrooms have been transformed under Common Core, while others remain much like they were five years ago.

Despite the mountains of evidence about the problems with the Common Core and Common Core testing, corporate elitists like ConnCAN have the chutzpah to say we should implement the Common Core and the unfair Common Cores tests because, «many national studies that show wide support for clear, high standards to help ensure that all students, regardless of where they live, are ready for the challenges of college and career.»

This involved a combination of spirited Eco - and Sport - mode driving, and like most cars of its class it struggled over some of the higher elevations during mountain driving.