Sentences with phrase «m high cliffs»

The Zuytdorp Cliffs which rise to a staggering 900 feet at Womerangee Hill, are the highest cliff on the west coast.

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Comments: «Our economists see growth disappointing in 2013 with added risk as a result of uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff... Political uncertainty is also high and history tells us that the US underperforms in the first year of a presidential cycle.»

Fort Wetherill used to be a coastal defense battery and training camp on granite cliffs 100 feet high.

Whatever the bottom line turns out to be for HBO, this latest media cliff hanger has the insurance world on high alert.

«I still have total confidence in Bob,» Lafley says, adding, «The most growthful times in my life were when the stress was highest and the cliff was the widest.

GoPro «channels» that air videos — from close - ups of hummingbirds to a base jumper flinging herself off a cliff in high heels — are already available on Virgin America flights and Xbox gaming consoles, while a YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers.

Expectations are high, especially in the UK, that a transition deal can be reached that would avoid a cliff - edge Brexit in March 2019.

President Obama's «higher tax» agenda will now come to fruition, says PIMCO's Bill Gross, especially if the fiscal cliff is to be averted.

That is probably good advice, but still — in this post «fiscal cliff» era of higher income tax rates and new healthcare reform - driven investment taxes, it makes sense to at least look at the tax impact of your savings choices.

First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.

These doubts have been fueled by a high (but declining) unemployment rate, worries about a possible «double - dip» recession, and of course, the European debt crisis and U.S. fiscal cliff.

If the thesis pursued so far in this chapter is correct, the position of humanity today is that of the man in the swirling water, not that of the man high above safe on the cliff.

To return to the earlier parable, ideas do not much matter if they are held or being debated by men whose investment in them is as remote as that of the man high on the cliff who idly speculates about the options available to men threatened with drowning.

This highest point of the temple was probably the southeast corner of the temple which loomed over a cliff of the temple mount.

If humans are dumb enough to built along the shore, near volcanoes, along side river, on high cliffs, and then a disaster happen it's pretty dumb to run around and scream «God's wrath» — a little common sense would be more useful!

The social scientist engaged in this pursuit is like the proverbial physicist struggling up the steep cliff of higher learning to discover the meaning of life, only to find upon reaching the top a humble guru who had - been sitting there all along.

If one could not figure out that stepping off a high cliff was a dangerous thing to do, life would soon be imperiled.

The question of which side held the moral high ground — the NHL with its demand for a link between revenues and salaries or the NHLPA with its market - based system — would be rendered moot; high ground vanishes immediately when 30 owners and 700 - plus players follow their leaders off a cliff.

I knew nothing about him — I don't usually follow extreme sports — but I'm pretty sure he was in the YouTube videos I saw of people in winged suits jumping off ridiculously high cliffs in Norway.

When I told people I was going to my 40th high school reunion, I might as well have said I was jumping off a cliff.

An actual rocky cliff that is approximately 2 - stories high... with a flimsy split rail fence as a «barrier».

If the Treasury had its way in full, the likelihood is that people on incomes of roughly # 40,000 - # 50,000 would face a permanent mix of withdrawn tax breaks and higher tax rates - what Altman calls a «cliff edge».

Plus, he notes that a subset of rock climbing called bouldering — in which climbers tackle boulders or short cliff faces measuring less than 3.5 meters high, without using safety ropes — is especially popular with younger people.

Extreme storm waves at sea have shifted a boulder weighing 620 tonnes, explaining why huge rocks are sometimes mysteriously found on high cliffs

A few hundred yards from the cliffs, piles of crumbled stone and conch shells a few feet high are evidence of altars the seafarers built north of the harbor entrance.

The ice rises up like a sheer cliff face — shelf ice is not only several thousand square kilometres large, it is also more than a hundred metres high in many places.

And now you find them in places that are still more or less unchanged from that time — with tussock grass (Poa flabellata is the species) and these seabirds and high winds and cliffs and oceans.

Permafrost has thawed, causing houses to slide off suddenly muddy cliffs; sea ice has thinned, creating expanses of open water that rise up in ever higher storm surges; and glaciers are melting, leading local sea levels to climb (albeit very slightly).

The site is a beautiful stretch of desert, bordered by high cliffs.

An employee of the US Fish and Wildlife Service was monitoring the bird in California's Los Padres National Forest when he heard shots and accosted two men who had fired at Xewe with a.22 calibre rifle as she perched high on a cliff.

By IAN ANDERSONOver the past decade, palaeontologists and hardy volunteers have been painstakingly blasting and drilling into the base of a 90 - metre - high cliff in a remote part of the rugged coast of southeastern Australia — the only dinosaur mine in the world.

A high ridge of limestone — now famously exposed as the chalky cliffs of Dover — extended all the way to what is now France, allowing mammoths, hippos, and eventually humans to freely pass back and forth.

The altitude ranges between 1600 m and 2400 m above mean sea level and although not very high, the mountain slopes are characterized by steep cliffs and crevices.

The large scarps were formed as Mercury's interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one - and - a-half kilometers) high.

I'm going to skip all of the science that I found in books like this (my favourite book on the subject), and this (my second favourite book on the subject), and give you the cliffs notes of the 30 + hours of private study that I did to find out exactly what foods lead to higher testosterone levels.

Although the drive was quite an experience, a one - way road above high cliffs with traffic in both directions at the end, it was all worth it.

It could be as wild and crazy as jumping off cliffs into huge pools of water when you were in high school and young and stupid (sorry mom!).

After your picnic, continue your drive towards the Slieve League Cliffs which are the highest sea cliffs in Europe.

The film's action highlight is the massacre of Fort Henry (we are spared nothing, not even the bayonetting of babies), but its emotional peak occurs when Cora Munro (Barbara Bedford), daughter of the Fort Henry commander, threatens to fling herself off a high cliff rather than fall into the hands of the lecherous Magua.

In battle, he pushes T'Challa off a high cliff to his death, and that appears to be that.

Released: April 14 Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham Director: Dash Shaw Why it's great: The scraggly sketch style of acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw comes to life in a teenage dream comedy about a coastal town high school that cascades off a cliff, drifts out to sea, and provokes a student - body class war.

As Gamora and Thanos make their way to the top of a high cliff, they're greeted by a mysterious hooded figure who is the keeper of the Soul Stone.

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

I know there will be critics out there and some who may suggest that actually, schools with a higher ability intake face an equally tough challenge, meaning that if those higher ability students don't achieve then the cliff face they fall off as a school will significantly impact upon their progress score too.

If you want proof that the south coast of England was once connected to the northern coast of France, it's here by the millions of tons — 100ft - high chalk cliffs, miles of them, that match those at Dover.

There's a bit of aero tweakery too, but it's unlikely that a funky carbon splitter or venturi at the rear will make any discernable difference unless you happen to drive it over a very high cliff.

Its high sides make it difficult to judge the narrower parts of the road, and how close the car is to the occasional cliffs dropping off the outsides of the turns.

The high cliffs of the region had once been the floor beneath the surface of an ancient sea.

The Cap Rock is that big high, crooked cliff of limestone, sandrock, marble, and flint, that divides the lower west Texas plains from the upper north panhandle plains.

As the president of one Canadian publisher, Emond Publishing, put it recently after ending its book publishing program for the high school market, «This is what falling off a cliff in the publishing business looks like.»