Sentences with phrase «of a cliff at»

My favorite has her positioned at the edge of a cliff at dawn, nose in the air, a touch of romance in her gaze while she watches ship after ship afire - not unlike her heart.

Not only do you have to make sure the book you have just written doesn't have any major plot holes — after all, it isn't good to leave poor Joe hanging off the edge of the cliff at the end of Chapter Three and never get back to him — but you have to make sure your grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc., are all done properly.

We love to hike the waterfalls along the Hana highway, the Waihee Ridge Trail, Waihou forest trail hike by Makawao, jump of the cliffs at the Venus Pool, the Red Beach at Hana, rappelling (by the Hana highway), went to a Journey concert, Warren and Annabelle magic show and dinner in Lahaina, Red Beach in Hana, Big Beach, Wedding Beach.

The 180 foot tall Sky Walk hangs over the edge of a cliff at 3660 feet above sea...

The 180 foot tall Sky Walk hangs over the edge of a cliff at 3660 feet above sea level.

While standing on top of the cliff at Glacier Point overlooking the valley 3000 feet below, I overheard a ranger tell his tour group, «And this is where they used to create the waterfall of fire.»

Not exact matches

In taking up the CEO post at troubled Yahoo, has Marissa Mayer just thrown herself off of a glass cliff?

At the same time, the «cliff deal» removes a layer of uncertainty, which should also help to compress risk spreads and support equity valuations.»

Nick Woodman and I are strapped into the cockpit of a vintage racecar on a winding, narrow road in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, taking cliff - side turns at 60 miles per hour and rocketing up to 100 on the straightaways.

As I've noted before, since the start of 2013 — when the «fiscal cliff» calamity was averted at the very last minute with a deal struck between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R - KY)-- investors have been impervious to the sorts of anxiety attacks that caused significant corrections during the first four years of the bull market.

Productivity and morale peak may peak at those times of celebration, then drop off a cliff days later on.

With sales growth falling off a cliff in the past two years, they're becoming the most commoditized of hardware and the most responsible for the «bloodbath» losses mounting at Japanese manufacturers.

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.

I am nearly certain that the folks at the campsite figured they were doing us a great favor by saving such a plum space — boasting as it did a view of the Virgin River, a cow pasture, and the rust red cliffs against the horizon.

A couple of months ago when you were coping with the looming fiscal cliff, you probably at least thought you would have some clarity when it was over.

The child care «cliff effect,» as it's called, is a serious problem for low - income working families, says Jennifer Greenfield, a professor of social work at the University of Denver.

During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked — and fought — with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.

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.

Given the off - the - cliff behavior of the economy in late September and October, the November and December «improvements» in the ISM surveys are difficult to take at face value, especially because many of these readings remain below 50, indicating continued overall deterioration in conditions.

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.

Is it because they were at the edge of the «cliff» and they were able to come to an agreement on a framework that they believe will save the EURO and the EU?

Andrew Hastings, chief development officer at the National Philanthropic Trust, noted the phenomenon at the end of 2012 with the so - called fiscal cliff, the combination of expiring tax cuts and across - the - board government spending reductions.

If the American government can not resolve its debt crisis, it will face a fiscal cliff at the start of the year.

«The reason people are really focused on the fiscal cliff is that if no action is taken, the combined impact of all the tax cuts expiring, tax relief not enacted and automatic spending cuts that will kick in at the end of the year is equal to between a 4 and 5 percent GDP hit to the US economy,» says Simon Roy, president of investing tool Jemstep.

«From a tax perspective, I'm of the mind that if you prepare properly you won't need to walk off the cliff — at least, not as a result of tax filing,» says Doug Bekker, tax partner at BDO USA in Grand Rapids, Mich..

I am not sure — but I am sure that Gold is right at the edge of the cliff hanging on by its finger nails.

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.

At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

TGM: I did that years ago and found just as many questions at the bottom of the cliff when I made the soft landing.

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She stood at the edge of the cliff until the sun came out from behind the black rainclouds.

If someone were denying that a cliff at the end of the road exists, and believes the road continues on in the face of all of the evidence presented to the contrary, we can safely say that person is delusional.

If I drew a cartoon for the «Naked Pastor» it would be a guy standing in the middle of shattered glass with buckets of rocks throwing them over a cliff at neighborhood of full of glass houses.

The late Japanese Christian leader, Kagawa, once used a figure of speech which aptly applies to any church which ignores social problems: It is maintaining a rescue station at the bottom of a cliff to help those who have fallen while neglecting to work at the top to keep others from falling.

On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all human beings that are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

In a later scene, Frodo and Sam are struggling towards the cracks of Doom, and Frodo falls off a cliff in the darkness, he is stuck on a ledge, and Sam can not see at all and is unable to help him up.

There was of course that time at Nazareth when they tried to throw him off a cliff for saying what he did about a prophet not being welcome, alluding to what their ancestors had done to prophets.

I'd offer that it seemed Jesus learned this lesson for himself when preaching in the synagogues and winning favour with people until he got to Nazareth and talked of a prophet being without honour among his own people at which point an attempt was made to throw him off a cliff.

Too often, pastoral counselors are like a group of men at the bottom of a cliff.

Far too many of the people who were ending up in the brokenness of life were being driven off the cliff by dogs yelping at their heels.

In our training programs for community clergymen at the Pennsylvania Hospital Community Mental Health Center we have been interested in mutual exchange: (1) We believe that psychiatry and its allied professions can help the clergyman do a better job with his healing ministry (at the bottom of the cliff)(2) We believe clergymen have something unique to contribute to psychiatry in the whole business of prevention (building fences at the top of the cliff)

If we think, however, that having solved the problem of cooperative effort at the bottom of the cliff we also have solved it at the top — in prevention — we are greatly mistaken.

What has happened in the 1960s is a rapid shift of attention from healing the brokenness at the bottom of the cliff to trying to build preventive fences at the top.

We have worked very hard over the last fifteen or twenty years to establish a good working relationship between clergy and psychiatrists in healing troubled people at the bottom of the 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.

The whole scene is such a busy one, and the men so preoccupied with their healing tasks, that no one seems to be able to give any attention to what would seem a logical move: to build a fence at the top of the cliff to keep the people from falling off.

Or why didn't Jesus allow the crowd to throw Him off the cliff at the start of his ministry?

The church I go to is at the bottom of that cliff, bringing in the dying, and speaking of the One who will give them new life.

Situated overlooking the cliffs at Lagg, on the south coast of the island, the new site sits alongside fields of barley that are currently used in distillation at Lochranza.