Sentences with phrase «more of a cliff»

From a score or more of cliffs, bluffs and steeps, there open out broad vistas of dozens of rich coves and valleys worthy of Dan» l Boone's first vision of Kaintuck.

I guess without «drugs» the age curve is more of a cliff than a gradual decline.

Very high up a promontory, more of a cliff, it gives an impressive view of the sea and the neighboring islands.

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More and more members of the European Union seem ready to let him drive off the clMore and more members of the European Union seem ready to let him drive off the clmore members of the European Union seem ready to let him drive off the cliff.

Why go: More than 3,000 square miles of nature's finest canyons, geysers and rocky cliffs are an easy sell for nature enthusiasts.

More than 3,000 square miles of nature's finest canyons, geysers and rocky cliffs are an easy sell for nature enthusiasts.

The Democratic president, re-elected in November, unveiled a more combative approach during the end - of - year «fiscal cliff» taxes and spending drama, exploiting disarray in Republican ranks that underscored Washington's legislative dysfunction.

Revenue growth has slowed as many companies sink more resources into developing the next blockbuster drug; what's more, the «patent cliff» for the last round of megabillion - dollar drugs — when generics firms typically see a sales spurt — happened a few years ago.

More important, the cliff is an obvious effort at correcting the biggest flaw in public budgeting — the tendency of politicians to ignore the broader, long - term implications of what they do by continually kicking problems down the road.

Yura: I was interested in hearing what the president had to say about the fiscal cliff and more importantly, his stance on small business and how we are going to continue to grow small business as it is such a huge part of our economy.

Within hours of the presidential election, Washington politicians turned to the most urgent issue facing them: the fiscal cliff looming on Jan. 1, when more than $ 100 billion in automatic spending cuts and $ 500 billion of tax increases will be triggered.

President Obama quickly made his position clear: Congress must raise taxes on Americans earning more than $ 200,000 a year as part of any compromise to keep the U.S. from going over the fiscal cliff.

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.

But what if the cliff were more of a slope, where families were eased off the subsidy gradually, giving them time to adjust?

«First, we move the headwinds, and here we are talking about the fiscal cliff and more generally the bickering coming out of Washington,» he explained.

We're at a line in the sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead of enriching the few who already have far more than enough, nourish an ideology of cooperation instead of competition, and put the technology to more intelligent uses than convenience and mindless diversion.

I began seriously investing for dividend income around 2007 when my business at the time was literally falling off a cliff, as most of the world was starting too as well, when my need for another income stream became more apparent.

In honor of our undaunted Speaker, let me give you two more ways in which the Democrats didn't win the showdown at the cliff: 99 % of the Bush tax cuts are now permanent, including the family - friendly features we Porchers keep forgetting to be grateful for.

Those with more money jump out of airplanes, off cliffs holding onto kites, dart into rush hour traffic on a motorcycle, bungee jump, scale cliffs, motocross, and so on.

As the year unfolded, I began to realise that my little nudge to choose Fearless was more of a gigantic shove off a cliff by the Holy Spirit, a sort of dinner bell clanging «COME AND GET IT!»

Dawkins claims that what actually occurs in natural evolution is incremental change, analogous to a more cautious climber's slow ascent up along, but gentle, slope around the back of that steep cliff.

This arrangement saw sliced head of porpoise occasionally arrive at the table of the Buckland household along with the more mundane delicacies such as mice en croûte and roast mole... The cliffs yielded many magnificient dinosaur specimans to Mary Anning (1799 - 1847), the remarkale nineteenth - century fossil hunter.

I had my eyes closed on more than one of the cliff - hugging, hairpin curves as we climbed up and down the mountains.

I am of the opinion that if Romo was healthy / still playing any of those years that Dez production would not have fallen off a cliff, and particularly in Zeke's absence last year, the two would have made games much more competitive.

Liverpool trying to resurrect an empire through spending and Man U trying to stop an empire sliding over the edge of a cliff through even more drastic spending.

I could see next year going one of two directions for Moss — either he becomes a much better player as he gets more room to operate with more guards / 3 - point shooting or he falls off a cliff with other players emerging with better consistency.

Nestled in lush cloud forest and stone cliffs in the upper Amazon basin, Machu Picchu was once an important trade hub for the Incas, and its ornate stonework and more than 200 structures also suggest it was a place of ceremony.

Lovingly feeding your child formula is better than all sorts of alternatives, including letting him roll off a cliff while you lecture someone else about the breast — or, in the nonmetaphorical version, paying more attention to acrimonious Facebook threads than to him.

If Marine Le Pen wins in France or Trump really turns his fire on Brussels, the EU might become more afraid of the cliff edge and go the extra mile in trying to make Brexit work.

Brexit is in some respects an even more potent issue for them because it brings together a wider group of the electorate, with pro-EU Conservatives and Labour voters wondering how to reverse the march towards the cliff's edge.

The cliff - edge is more damaging to Britain than the EU, so to grant the gift of indefinite transition relieves pressure on the British negotiating team and reduces the EU's leverage.

The mayor, sniffling through his remarks, highlighted major investments in the city's public hospitals, whose finances, a city - commissioned report found, were teetering on the edge «of a financial cliff,» and in shoring up the city's bridges, as well as a one - time, $ 183 credit paid out on the water bills of more than half a million homeowners.

The superintendent said he sees «the cliff approaching, and this time it's approaching faster, and I have no more rabbits to pull out of my hat.»

Gitau went back to look for more, and as he was scratching away at the cliff face, a heavy mass of calcified clay broke loose.

This type of climbing has similar potential for ecosystem damage as roped rock climbing, they note, plus a couple of additional ones: Boulderers often clear the ground below of rocks and logs so that they can place crash pads in case of falls, and they may be more likely to trample anything at the top of a boulder or cliff, rather than coming directly down.

As the pharmaceutical industry's blockbuster drugs fall off the patent cliff, with precious few drugs in the pipeline to replace them, there are signs that big pharma could turn more of its attention to biologically derived medicines.

But as stress mounts — as parts of a cliff or pillar are eroded away, for example — the sand grains on the surface of the remaining rock lock together and become more resistant to further erosion.

More than 3,000 tombs, dwellings, and temples are etched into the sandstone cliffs surrounding Petra, and recent excavations have revealed a caravan of camels carved into the canyon walls.

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today held a public meeting to discuss draft changes it proposed in February to its Nutrition Facts label, the cliff notes summarizing the amount of fats, protein, carbohydrates, sugars, and more found in food and beverages.

And even though dry surfaces are more easily gripped than slick ones, there are still dangers at hand: Multiton slabs of rock can pop off the face of a cliff with little or no warning, careening downslope dozens of meters to shatter in a cloud of geological shrapnel.

Could this, finally, be the hair of a woolly mammoth, its frozen body, and more important, its genitalia, locked inside the crumbling black cliff?

Seeing and photographing firsthand the expansive stone ruins, steep terraces, and looming cliffs, it's easy to understand why Machu Picchu is ranked among the true wonders of human design: the stonework is so well engineered that many walls remain almost perfectly intact after more than five centuries.

The Cayman Trench is unforgettable for its vertigo - inducing cliffs and stark, extraordinary scale, but that beauty is made only more powerful by an appreciation of the relentless forces that created, and that continue to reshape, the earth's surface, sometimes with devastating effects.

Farther north, along the Holderness coast in North Humberside, the soft clay cliffs are eaten up by the sea at an average of more than 2 metres a year.

Perhaps cone - shaped eggs are less likely to roll out of the nest of cliff - dwelling birds; spherical eggs might be more resilient to damage in the nest.

The more dynamic picture in the new simulations suggests that the rate of change in the first half of this century — which does not involve a significant contribution from processes like marine ice - cliff instability, or hydrofracturing — is essentially uncorrelated with the rate of change later in the century.

On July 24, 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft took a detailed full - frame image of Vesta's south pole from about 1,700 miles (or 2,700 km) showing lots of craters, hills, and cliffs (more).

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.

Many of you guys are also readers of the Art of Manliness; what's more epic that scaling a cliff side using nothing but your own two hands?

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