Sentences with phrase «like lost land»

Opponents are concerned about the potential costs of restrictions related to sea - level rise, like lost land to wetland status and degraded tax revenue.

Not exact matches

You lose confidence in the dollar and you want to get out of the dollar, at which point you're like «okay you can pay me in dollars, but I'm going to buy land, fine art, gold, silver, that's when velocity accelerates almost of nowhere, and inflation takes off.

Like Matthew, Luke says «lost its taste» instead of Mark's «lost its saltness,» suggesting that the ordinary use of salt for seasoning is in mind; but instead of Matthew's «It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot» Luke has «It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away.»

And you can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone, your brother's body spoiled and cold, your infant dead, and you dying; you reel out love's long line alone, stripped like a live wire loosing its sparks to a cloud, like a live wire loosed in space to longing and grief everlasting [pp. 42 - 43].

I always thought the evangelicals here were the nuttiest (who literally believe we'll all just be driving down the road one day and some of us will get magically whisked away, and thinks people and dinosaurs coexisted like Land of the Lost), but apparently Crazy doesn't discriminate against any religion.

Posting a ridiculous set of marks from fantasy land like these, just means the writer, Bob, loses all credibility for future articles.

That's like losing a goal to Wonderland, Narnia or Bucks Fizz's Land Of Make Believe...

they strip Conor, make him look like a victim to fans get behind him and then put the pressure on the champ and not the challenger, send him to the octagon against one of these guys, if he loses they would cover it up as «ah he made so much money, he was away for 2 years bla bla bla» and if he lands a punch or something and get a win, they would be like oh GOAT this and that.

Why would we face losing players like Ozil & Sanchez (having both still 3 yrs on their contract) if we don't win EPL or UCL and not lose them as well if we land one of these trophies?

They only had to worry about things like dealers paying out on losing hands or players slipping high - value chips into their stake after the roulette ball had landed.

«They were re-colonising lands that had been lost for circa 10,000 years — economic migrants in a period of rapid global climate change, if you like.

Conversely, spirits like Hector — who hasn't received a Day of the Dead offering in a long time — are unable to cross the bridge into the land of the living during Dia de lost Muertos and risk disappearing from the afterlife for good.

This year's race for Best Picture is looking very much like La La Land's to lose;...

Last Summer's biggest gimmick comedies, Year One (Jack Black in animal skins) and Land of the Lost (Ferrell in another dimension), were crushingly bad; by comparison, Forte's MacGruber (if ever a title deserved to be followed by an exclamation point, this is it), seems like a piece of comic genius.

The title is all kinds of winking: It sounds like a lost Horton Foote play about hardscrabble people of the land, and yet that's the setting here — a quaint, secluded farm, only the struggle is to survive being ripped apart by aliens.

These pilgrims in the desert are a long way from the Promised Land and their buckskin guide of a Moses, Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood, looking like a road show Buffalo Bill), talks a good story of frontier adventure but it's clear to the three families of the tiny wagon train that his shortcut to the Willamette Valley has them lost in the desert.

On film, he's enjoyed fruitful collaborations with Jean - Pierre Jeunet (The City Of Lost Children, Alien: Resurrection) and Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Blade II, the Hellboy films) and kept company with genre eccentrics like Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter) and Glenn McQuaid (I Sell The Dead), as well as landing the role of Elvis in Don Coscarelli's long - rumored Bubba Nosferatu.

Mostly in foreign unions like we do in the real world, such as Afghanistan and Iraq where we lose soldiers to random gun - fire, land mines, and suicide bombers.

There were many environmental issues — deforestation rates that were higher than Brazil, many communities losing their land to palm oil plantations, and massive pollution and congestion in the main cities and reliance on coal rather than on clean renewable energy like solar.

Like a lost missile, it sailed across the high desert of eastern Oregon, a barren land, rocky and sparsely inhabited.

Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.

EPubs, MOBI, fixed - layout or reflowable — do you feel like you are lost in a foreign land?

Like most secured credit cards, the Secured Mastercard from Capital One does not offer any special benefits on par with any of its other credit cards; its sole purpose is to provide a landing ground for cardholders who have lost their footing in bad credit history.

In the late 1980s, this land looked like a can't - lose investment.

Like you I bury my lost pets on the land, over the years, my dogs have aged and then found rest under trees planted over their graves.

Finding the best lines and landings with precision and momentum will mean a satisfying victory, but losing that momentum forces you to bob up and down on the undulating jumps like a fishing trawler in a storm.

The physics are a little awkward to say the least, while the AI is brutal, even on the easier difficulties; we lost count of the number of times we breathed on another rider and fell off, likewise, the padded guidance posts helping you navigate around the track feel like brick walls if you touch or land on one.

You roll dice to move around a bored, and when you land on a space, a little text - based cutscene pops up and tells you what happened to your character (like you won a contest or something), and you gain or lose «Happiness» points.

These range from remixes of familiar songs from popular titles (like the Lost Woods or Gerudo Valley in Ocarina of Time) to slightly ones based on slightly more unknown ones like Cheese Land from Mario Kart Super Circuit.

You can use a small shockwave to make someone nudging your door to lose control of their car, blast the back of a car with an electromagnetic pulse (much like the cops), drop land mines that also deliver a temporary debilitating blast, and more.

From games like Lost Odyssey — which used sections of text to reveal backstory, to amalgams like Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love and Riviera: The Promised Land, where role - playing elements were blended with passages of exposition, fans of Japanese games are likely to have experienced this kind of language - rooted storytelling.

we all know the dream valley music is all wrong and that is due to the 3ds version being linked to the action of changing music only on transformations, not when its suppose to and everyone knows this but in places like graffiti city, rogues landing, race of ages, and addars laire, if you end an all star move in flight section, «lost music» comes back.though in places like seasonal shrines it's on a continous loop whereas you use an all star move at just the right time, you hear a second of japenosque, then it goes back to it's continuous loop and starts the music over again.

No one quite does knick - knacks like us Brits: a fact celebrated by a charmingly eccentric museum in rural Shropshire, The Land of Lost Content.

After a few years, you can show people that Arctic used to be this beautiful silver land, you can play kai on it like people in video.Earth is deversity, have ocean, grass land, desert, wetland, now have silver ice land, but in the future, maybe we will lose the beautiful silver ice land and we use buoy to show «Arctic was here».

They were, hover, able to do something sorta like this to determine that the earth was spherical and how large it was, later partially remembered by Columbus, but having lost the measurement part, he though he had landed in India, much to the dismay of the «Indians» (Native Americans).

If you don't care to believe what the fossil fuel and nuclear industries are doing to our land, air, water, human health, AND how much they're stealing in subsidies from taxpayers like me and (presumably) you every year, then you've lost the ability to think for yourself.

So, losing land is like losing a piece of your identity, a piece of your history, a piece of your ancestral past.

However, speaking of losing functionality, there has been much sadness across the land as Apple has worked to make Pages on Mac and Pages on iOS essentially interchangeable, because doing so has resulted in the loss of some key things like mail merge, which may be a make - or - break for some lawyers.

Travel insurance is a bag filled with gifts of advantages like - offering reimbursement during delay or cancellation of flight, in charge of your lost passport, delay of luggage and taking care of your medical expenses on a foreign land.

«There is no risk you will lose your land like you lose bitcoin,» Kempe says.

Sometimes, we receive valuable feedback from unpleasant situations, like losing out on a promotion, not landing that job that is just perfect, or, even, being fired.

The maps also reveal the risk of liquefaction — when land loses its stiffness under the stress of an earthquake and becomes like quicksand — or a landslide.