Sentences with phrase «make up the river»

The experience of reading the essays that make up The River of Consciousness is very much like peering into an ever - changing stream.
Heavy metals at toxic levels fill the streams that make up our rivers, where we draw our drinking water.»

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Beartooth Capital Partners Based in Bozeman, Montana, Beartooth Capital buys ranch land and cleans it up, restoring rivers and planting grass to make the ranches more animal and buyer friendly.
The river is such a magnificent asset that's just sitting there at our doorstep - if we're trying to liven up Perth and make it more «liveable» - wouldn't that be the obvious first step?
The park is made up of several peaks; so if you are feeling adventurous you can head to the top to enjoy the views, or content yourself with admiring the rivers and streams in the many valleys.
VANCOUVER — Despite having bodies made up mostly of water, dozens of angry middle - aged men gathered over the weekend to protest regulations designed to protect B.C. rivers, aquifers and beaches.
We have some quick stories about Abraham traveling around with sarah every where, occasionally screwing stuff in the name of good, almost killing his son in the name of god, selling his wife up the river a couple of times in the name of god, sounds awfully predictable and robot like to me, and yet you have odysessus, a constant lost hero trying to make his way back to his wife penelope and struggling with his own morality, journeys, trials and ultimate success.
A little farther beyond Williamsburg is Berkley Plantation, where the first Thanksgiving occurred on December 4, 1619 after Captain John Woodlief made his way up the James River.
Nor can it be wisdom to say, indiscriminately, that this something eternal has its time like the perishable, that it makes its circle like the wind that never gets further; that it has its course like the river that never fills up the sea.
Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
We know they've messed up our rivers, but less obvious is the mess they're making of our atmosphere.
Up to 23.8 GL of Commonwealth environmental water and 7.2 GL of NSW Government environmental water has been made available to connect the northern rivers.
Margaret River wine region is made up predominately of boutique size wine producers.
Yellow orchids trail in the river, similarly colored butterflies dance over it, and as the mind wanders in the noonday heat, the ululations of the howler monkeys make it no great imaginative feat to conjure up the towering image of King Kong ripping down the 200 - foot - high, mist - wreathed cedars that stand all around.
The Usk River Authority, and others like it in England and Wales, was set up by the Water Resources Act of 1963, and there were plenty of acts before that which made it quite clear that pulling out salmon, except with fully licensed rod and line, was distinctly illegal; but Si √ ¥ n Jones and his friends justify themselves on the basis of somewhat earlier legislation, instituted in the 10th century by an independent Prince of Wales, Hywel Dda («Howell the Good»).
THE FAVORITE: Bear River - Grass Valley (8 - 2)-- The Pioneer Valley League runner - up has not won a playoff game since 2005 (the Bruins have lost their last 6 postseason games), but the division is wide open for them to make a run at the second section title in the program's history.
Police boats shuttled emergency supplies across the river from New Jersey to Chelsea Piers, and a convoy of ambulances lined up in front of the center, waiting to make runs downtown.
While the players more than a few strokes off the lead have plenty of ground to make up, the TPC River Highlands setup is conducive to low scores, allowing players to make a charge.
In a 1945 letter thanking Gila River internees for their support, he wrote of the healing power of baseball: «I will be returning to Fresno and while I am there will try to make a team to play in the league in the city, [to] try to speed up the mutual feeling between the Americans and the Japanese.»
Lanzini grew up in the River Plate academy and went on to make his debut for the club in...
By the teen years, they will be shoveling the neighbor's walk, building the neighbor a lawn border, sorting food at the food bank, picking up garbage on the river bank, and volunteering in the community for no other reward than the good feeling of making the world a better place to live.
Read this article on making river water safe to drink in case you run out or forget to fill up the bottle as you're heading out of the door.
In his remark on the «Community» statue, Mr. Sobayo of Terra KultureStudio said the art work made up of 57 canoes represent the 20 and the 37 Local Council Development Areas united as a State working together to achieve a common goal of a better Lagos without forgetting its roots embedded in the rivers of accord that the boat sails on.
State Senator Rob Ortt, R - North Tonawanda, is applauding the Department of Environmental Conservation's investigation into how a plume of waste water ended up in the Niagara River near the falls at the end of July, but he wants to make sure the results are public.
«I say only if a tsunami could make its way... up New York Harbor and the Hudson River, somehow avoid New York City, and drench our plant,» Jim Streets, director of communications at Entergy Nuclear Northeast, said.
The Mohawk watershed covers all or part of 14 counties, and it makes up approximately one quarter of the Hudson River watershed by area.
«If you tie in the Port Authority crossings, you can make policy to try and divert and spread traffic, during the peak, all the way up the Hudson River,» said Tim Gilchrist, a transportation analyst who rose to top state posts in a 33 - year career.
But in mountain channels, the sediment that makes up the bed of the river very rarely moves except during extreme flood events.
The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).
Officials in the Colorado River basin states have long treated this liquid treasure as a type of environmental retirement account — an additional supply of water they can raid to get through the driest years and make up for the chronic overuse of the rivers themselves.
It makes up about 27 percent of the Brahmaputra — but only between 8 and 10 percent for the Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
«Even fungi and bacteria have to breathe, and when they do, through the degradation of terrestrial organic carbon, they release carbon dioxide, which makes up about 30 percent of all carbon dioxide released from streams and rivers,» explains Erin Hotchkiss, a researcher at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University.
«They're truly fertilizing the river and so that makes its way all the way up through the food chain,» Tonra said.
In tectonic aneurysm, a river cuts down through the earth's crust so fast that it causes the crust to heat up, making a nearby mountain range weaker and facilitating uplift.
Proponents say that diverted rivers, industrial mining, deforestation, extinctions, and urbanization, among other human - driven phenomena, have made deep and permanent changes to the planet that will show up in sediment millions of years from now.
In fact, the rotating mass of the observable part of the universe causes the river of space — which is made up of free particles following the universe's expansion — to rotate together with the stars in the sky.
The drought, they found, will lead this year to 32 percent more acres of land laid fallow, an increase in groundwater pumping to make up for the lack of water in rivers and reservoirs, and total job losses of 18,600.
«By eliminating the 55 kilometers of human - made levees on the west bank of the river from Pointe a la Hache and Venice, the surges propagating in the river from Pointe a la Hache past New Orleans will be lowered by up to two meters,» Westerink said.
A dedicated qualified vessel chartered by NAC made a first call in Greece to pick up the two NAC - LWT casks and a second call in Koper, Slovenia to load the NAC - LWT from Graz, then returned to the U.S. for delivery at the Savannah River Site.
For just over a year, I have spent nearly every Wednesday night and Saturday morning running a warm up pace that makes me overheat, then starting the interval workout which involves me sometimes running slower than the «warm up pace «and watching the lithe people run away from me at incredible speeds, then «slinky - ing «forward while they run back for me on the recovery, watching them sprint away from me some more, and then eventually finding myself labouring up a hill to exit the river valley at the end of the workout to find the group of speedsters waiting to fist pound it out before we run back to the shop at a cool down pace which only makes me sweat even more.
It may seem like a bit of a random jump, but when someone brought up the other day Heraclitus» quote, «You can not step twice into the same river,» it made me think of our culture's relationship with fashion.
This tiny tea room come art gallery come vintage shop is hard to find, but don't give up because down a set of steps on Silver Street this family - run place serves up some tasty home - made lunch, nibbles and cakes and is handily located very close to the river, for an after - lunch stroll.
Not much happened for a while on the old date scene until some folk turned up late in the 19th century to make a trail through the mountains; this hooked up Lillooet through Pemberton and the Burrard Inlet through Squamish and down to the Seymour River, and finished up in 1877 as a cattle drive.
Deep in the Brazilian Rainforest, a river barge makes its way up the Amazon.
For example, most of the southern and central portions of the map are made up of deserts and plains with winding rivers and small islands.
There are auteurs offering up work considerably below the bars they've set (Woody Allen and «Whatever Works,» Pedro Almodovar and «Broken Embraces»), as well as indie hopefuls that could make an unexpected splash, like «Frozen River» and «Away from Her» in years past (Guillermo Arriaga's «The Burning Plain,» for instance, or Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman's «The Messenger,» both extremely deserving).
Playing up a younger Lara's doubts and fears makes her feel more human, but her physical trials - impalement and bone - crunching drops, swimming through a literal river of blood - feel uncomfortably like torture porn.
,» «Marmato» John Akomfrah — «The Stuart Hall Project,» «The Nine Muses» Natalia Almada — «The Night Watchman (El Velador),» «The General» Mirra Bank — «The Only Real Game,» «LastDance» Geof Bartz — «A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,» «Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1» Diane Becker — «We Are X,» «Jujitsu - ing Reality» Edet Belzberg — «Watchers of the Sky,» «Children Underground» Don Bernier — «An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,» «Audrie & Daisy» Ruby Chen — «Plastic China,» «The Rocking Sky» S. Leo Chiang — «Out Run,» «Mr. Cao Goes to Washington» John Davey — «In Jackson Heights,» «National Gallery» Keiko Deguchi * — «God Knows Where I Am,» «Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart» Abigail E. Disney — «The Armor of Light,» «Pray the Devil Back to Hell» Ezra Edelman — «O.J.: Made in America,» «Cutie and the Boxer» Bob Eisenhardt — «Meru,» «Shut Up & Sing» Diana El Jeiroudi — «The Mulberry House,» «Dolls — A Woman from Damascus» Jihan El - Tahri — «Nasser,» «Cuba: An African Odyssey» Geeta Gandbhir — «Which Way Is the Front Line from Here?
In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.
Oh, and there are some boats to drive clumsily around the inland rivers here and there, but they hardly make up for the paucity of drivable trucks on the island.
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