Sentences with phrase «miles of barriers»

The Outer Banks consists of roughly 200 miles of barrier islands and sand dunes that stretch from the Northern Beaches (at the North end, natch) down through to the Cape Hatteras lighthouse at the tip of Hatteras Island.

@Brythan - all fair points, though the point of the example was to indicate that there was existing legal authority to proceed with another 58 miles of barrier and that the Executive Order wasn't creating new law.

I've edited my answer to generalize the «700 miles of wall» to «700 miles of barrier».

Under a 2006 law that authorized 700 miles of barrier, only 649 had been built.

Stretching over three miles of barrier island, Sebastian Inlet makes for great surfing, swimming, snorkeling and beachcombing.

With more than 180 miles of the barrier reef, hundreds of square miles of shallow reefs and three offshore atolls, Belize has ample diving variety.

Not exact matches

Plans now call for a more modest, 722 - mile barrier that is a mix of wall and fencing, mostly updating what's been in place for decades, while relying on drones and other methods to secure the rest.

Emily Hall had just arrived at the research center on Summerland Key, a tiny barrier island 40 miles off the southern tip of mainland Florida, when she got the bad news.

Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.

There are other barriers — the league's constitution states that no NHL team can be located within 50 miles (80 km) of each other, but that rule's been broken — the New York Islanders and Rangers play less than 25 miles apart and only 30 miles separate the Anaheim Mighty Ducks from the Los Angeles Kings.

Think of the beliefs of the past — the Earth is the center of the solar system, the world is flat, you can't break the sound barrier, you can't run the mile in under four minutes, and there's no need for a computer in the home.

Less than half the nearly 95 miles of border construction, including levees along the Rio Grande in Texas, would be for new barriers, with the rest for repair of existing segments.

The journey of a thousand miles to Omega Point may indeed begin with a first step; but the one who makes the trip should understand how far a thousand miles is and should be prepared to negotiate a lot of rocky barriers along the way.

Obviously, aside from the huge social and financial commitment needed to set up the infrastructure, re-profile roads, re-lay Tarmac, fit miles of Armco, build grandstands, pay for race - hosting fees and gain approval and sign - off from the FIA, we don't see any barriers to our vision.

When Diane Crump first broke the sex barrier at Hialeah way back on Feb. 7, 1969 she seemed to loose a veritable stampede of eager «jockettes» who, with pigtails flying and accompanied by choruses of wolf whistles, won miles of cutesy headlines like «Go - diva, go!»

Not long ago in the tiny hamlet of Great Meadows, N.J. he performed a feat that is to drag racing what Roger Bannister's first four - minute mile is to track — he broke the sport's 200 - mph barrier twice in one afternoon.

This barrier island with 13 miles of beautiful, unspoiled beaches is a place that captures your heart and renews your soul.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that the work will entail the rehabilitation and reconstruction of three miles of roadway between Exit 54 / West Seneca and the Lackawanna toll barrier.

The new 2.5 - mile - long boardwalk would be built at a height of 20 feet, although some sections of the more than 4 - mile - long beach barrier would reach almost 29 feet, a significant visual change to the Staten Island shoreline.

In Dauphin Island, approximately 90 miles (150 km) to the east of the point where the hurricane made landfall, the sand that comprised the barrier island was transported across the island into the Mississippi Sound, pushing the island towards land.

The hope is to place SeaBase1 on the east side of Ambergris Caye in Belize, where the local reef joins a contiguous, 500 - mile - long chain that is second in length only to Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Other states have shorter borders than Texas has and more barriers already in place; in Texas, there are walls along only about 100 miles of the border with Mexico.

Congress just exempted the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge from the new fencing project, but many miles of new barriers are set to be built on other federal lands, most of which are part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge.

In June 2010, a 19 - pound bighead was caught in Calumet Lake, upstream of the barriers and only six miles from Lake Michigan.

For Glen Roy to function as a lake would require the construction of a huge barrier, several miles long and nearly half a mile high, to block off the valley's mouth and retain the waters within.

Volunteer to help monitor habitat restoration on this 1,200 - acre barrier island situated two miles east of downtown Miami and one mile southwest of Miami Beach

Today 318 miles of Arizona's 378 - mile - long southern border are blocked with some sort of security barrier.

A total of 49 mountainous miles remain free of any kind of border barrier in the Sky Island region, with about half of that in a single mountain range, according to a calculation provided by the Alliance.

After Congress passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, calling for 700 miles of new border barriers, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff summoned his REAL ID powers to fence the banks of the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona and the U.S. Air Force's Barry M. Goldwater Range to the west, among other places.

The floating rocks traveled more than 3,000 miles (5,000 km) over the next eight months, picking up more than 80 species of corals, anemones, barnacles, mollusks and crabs before ending up in the Great Barrier Reef and the coast of Australia, Bryan said.

At the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef ecosystem at approximately 133,000 square miles (about the size of New Zealand), establishing the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in 1975 was a first step, but not until the park was rezoned between 1999 and 2003 was the reef given the protection needed to rebound from threats that include shipping, dredging, commercial fishing, nutrient and pesticide runoff, coastal development and diving.

By combining data from research sites with models, the researchers peered into the chemistry of the Great Barrier Reef, Earth's largest living structure, which stretches nearly 1,500 miles.

Between them and their destination lies miles of rough terrain, natural barriers and swarms of threats from unfriendly wagon trains to bandits and Native American tribes that prey on unwary travellers.

Between them and their destination lie miles of rough terrain, natural barriers and swarms of threats from unfriendly wagon trains to bandits to Native American tribes that prey on unwary travellers.

In Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, the GirlUp nonprofit discovered that a huge barrier for girls going to school was the commute — often a 20 - mile walk round trip.

Striding toward Bethlehem, in the West Bank, Salopek is detoured by a herder's tattered fence, one of the first human - made barriers — other than checkpoints and border gates — he's faced in some 2,300 miles since he started out in Ethiopia.

Some of the earliest cars — very late 2007 — with something in the region of 30,000 miles on the clock are now dipping just under the # 30,000 barrier.

Side - Impact Test: Forecasts the chances of severe injury when one side of the vehicle is hit by a fixed barrier at just under 40 miles per hour and also when the vehicle is launched sideways at 20 miles per hour into a narrow pole.

Frontal Crash Test: Forecasts how well the vehicle's safety features and restraints protect occupants in a head - on collision when the front of the vehicle hits a fixed barrier at 35 miles per hour.

In the small overlap test, the test car hits a 5 - foot - tall rigid barrier at a speed of 40 miles per hour.

Joining other impressively fuel efficient vehicles like the 2017 Ford C - Max Hybrid, the new Ford F - 150 and its 19 miles per gallon in the city and 24 miles per gallon on the highway earned a «Green Score» high enough to break the barrier of the 2017 Greener Choices List and show the world that full - size pickup trucks can be just as fuel efficient as they are powerful, rugged and dependable — at least when they're made by Ford.

I reckon they should make all the Prius cars * plug in hybrids; * put bigger battery packs in them to extend the EV only range — anything above 100 miles EV only range seems to overcome a lot of psychological barriers; * put a smaller gas engine in it and a more powerful Electric Motor — Electric Motors have recently become smaller, lighter and more powerful; * use carbon fiber body panels to reduce weight;

Now, the IIHS has begun testing cars in a 40 mile per hour head - on crash test that involves only the left 25 percent of the frontal structure hitting a rigid barrier.

The 2016 Lincoln Navigator sets the pace for premium SUVs with 2 percent of its past models breaking the 200,000 - mile barrier.

Another technique used in rating safety of the cars is a side impact test which uses a moving deformable barrier that surpasses the front end of the pickup truck or a huge SUV which hits the vehicle after travelling at a speed of 31 miles per hour.

When it comes to the border itself, the Wall doesn't demarcate the international boundary so much as it defines an invisible barrier roughly 100 miles inland, trapping many thousands of undocumented people in what can be seen as the world's longest prison.

Snaking diagonally across the top of Arizona, the Grand Canyon is a stupendous, 277 - mile rent in the planet's hide that functions as a formidable natural barrier, effectively cutting off the northwestern corner from the rest of the state.

Experience the Great Barrier Reef in a once in a lifetime experience - staying overnight on the Moore Reef Ponton, 26 nautical miles off the coast of Cairns.

While this is not directly on the Belizean barrier reef yet, this location is just over 100 miles from Belize, and the pollution here could easily spread along the Caribbean, as they migrate with the ocean currents, and join the large amount of trash already lining the shores and floating in the reefs of Belize.