Sentences with phrase «like sailing a ship»

«The brain is truly one of the last unknown territories in science, studying it is a little bit like sailing a ship to an unknown world.»

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MEUs are Marine detachments that sail around on amphibious assault ships like the Wasp and America - class.

«Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.»

Of course, that ship has sailed, but if you'd like to be part of a Star Wars movie, good news: you'll have plenty of opportunities to do so...

Without God we can do nothing, we would be just like a ship without a sail.

We would most likely still be sailing on wooden ships, Steamships, Trains and cars and the electric light bulb would never have been done, if were not for men like Ford, Morgan, Carnegie etc..

But now individuals sail the high seas, as it were, of a fluid intercultural world and, like ships, must bristle with flags of intention and explanation.

It is said that the fire, «forming a sort of arch like a ship's sail billowing in the wind, made a wall around the body of the martyr, which was in the midst, or like gold and silver burning in furnace» (15:2).

«Our Mariner packages have a ribbon on the top like the sail on a ship.»

For a drinks supplier, missing a cruise ship delivery is like letting a major contract sail away into the sunset.

With the Sanchez purchase (and Cavani's own recent terrible dip in form), I feel like that Cavani - to - Arsenal ship has sailed by.

Instead of sailing majestically through to the quarter finals the good ship Arsenal was out on its ear, like a dude being invited to clear off by the club doorman for unsuccessfully groping the big blond.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

When looking at this photograph, in addition to thinking I look like a ship in full sail, I can't help wishing the dress I was wearing was a little longer.

Now, like ship captains setting sail to untouched shores, scientists are exploring a new age of Viking research.

Like revelers on a ship, the galaxies in our group will continue to collide and interact in myriad interesting ways, but we will be forever separated from the revelers on other ships sailing away from us in the vast universe.

The NEA Scout solar sail will deploy from the spacecraft using four arms — called booms — to hold the sail, much like a sail on a ship.

It works like this: a ship sails along a straight line for 100 kilometres or more, and uses airguns to send an acoustic signal every 50 metres while the ship sails along.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Like guiding wires that orient the sails of a ship, the tension in those cables is of utmost importance.

Some of the flowing tips make me look like a ship in sail!

Its hot - air balloon looks like the ship that sailed to the land of Wynken, Blynken and Nod.

The sights here are sometimes marvelous, like the big moment when a whale pops out of the ocean and lands right at the door of a pirate tavern or the scenes of the misfit band's ship (It's only a model) set to sail on the high seas with the aid of computer animation.

The Monster Hunter world includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and they have ships that sail through the sand.

K - 12 education might benefit marginally from bits of all this but mainly would sail on like a clipper ship of yore, powered by the same winds that had always propelled it.

«As a teacher, Ive found that the beginning of the year feels a bit like sailing on a ship and looking out over a bobbing horizon.

The others creaked and rocked and shuddered like old sailing ships.

The sails of the ship looked like the flags of a small army preparing for war.

The nook had possibilities if they would have been innovative and thought like a reader, but that ship has sailed.

The Viking Age returns like a warrior ship under full sail in the unique debut of Josie Litton.

A 19th - century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with Drax onboard, one of the most keenly drawn villains I have ever encountered, in this original tale that grips like a thriller.

There is some beautifully descriptive prose and marvellous imagery: «The noise never failed to amaze him: the whiplash crack of the sails, the high - pitched shriek of the wind in the rigging, the groan of the timbers and the surf - like pounding of the bow - waves: it was as if each ship were a moving tempest and he an eagle, circling close behind to hunt in the ruins of her wake.»

A nineteenth - century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.

I choose to be an optimist, like the great explorer Christopher Columbus, who had a dream that he could sail a ship all the way across the Atlantic Ocean.

Pepper spends much of his time after - hours in the department store, sending canisters sailing overhead through the tubes like little rocket ships.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).

Given your income, you'd be safer waiting until you had a 20 % downpayment, but it sounds like that ship has sailed.

Bonds are like the iron rods put in the bottom of sailing ships.

Not only will you be accompanied by one of our experienced Tour Managers, but the ship also has its own Cruise Director, someone who knows the stretch of river you'll be sailing along like the back of their hand.

A tepukei looks like an outrigger canoe with a crab claw sail, and is in fact a very sophisticated ocean - going sailing ship, belonging to the proa (two hulls of different size) type.

Modern Hotel occupying the 9th through 29th floors of a 34 - story high - rise building shaped like a ship's sail.

The hotel is uniquely designed to look like a ship's sail silhouette and will stand at 28 stories, becoming a distinct fixture in the area.

They coach you in ship board life, offering you the chance to sail as much or as little as you like.

Like their sister ship, Viking Sea and Viking Sky will sail in Scandinavia and the Baltic; and the Western and Eastern Mediterranean — as well as two new itineraries for 2016 that explore the British Isles.

Last month, the MSC Seaside with an innovative condo / hotel - like design began sailing year - round from Miami, closing out 2017's industry line - up of new ships.

Like the rest of the game Ubisoft have chosen not to tinker with the formula too much, and while that's a little disappointing there's still a whole lot of joy to be gotten from just sailing around, fighting other ships and visiting the many little settlements and forts scattered about.

In addition to sailing the open seas, you'll be able to engage rival ships with the traditional tools of the trade, such as the broadside cannons, ram, and swivel guns seen in Assassin's Creed III, and new weapons like heavy shots, mortars, chain shots, and more.

By collecting elements that can be gained by taking over other ships, like metal, wood, and cloth, players can either strengthen their ship in various ways — cannon power or hull armor for example — or decorate the ship by crafting new sails and figureheads.

And you'll all board the ship together and sail out through the waterfall, explode out through the water like Batman.

The Monster Hunter world includes these huge deserts that make the Gobi Desert look like a sandbox, and they have ships that sail through the sand.