Sentences with phrase «of bare ground»

His fields of paint are almost always perfectly haloed by a narrow, unruled margin of bare ground.)

Locals call these patches of bare ground surrounded by rings of tall grass «god's footprints» or the mark of a fire - breathing, underground dragon.

Not exact matches

Previously, Tschinkel hypothesized that the bare patches were made by termite nests or toxic vapors from the ground, according to Stephanie Pappas of LiveScience.

So, he literally — not figuratively — dug into the ground beneath his bare feet and started to shape bricks out of the clay and mixed water with it to make it the right consistency.

«Lush green tropical vegetation can be ripped away by a storm's strong winds, leaving the satellite with a view of more bare ground.

It is essential to the bare existence of the occasion, but it is much more than simply the ground of its being.

That's why the 2nd verse says that he is a root out of dry ground, he has to convert to righteousness, he didn't know who he was at first until he grew to know, and is why it says in verse 12, he was numbered with the transgressors, he «bare» did wrong too, the sins of many, but made intercessor, (turned his life around) praying, working for the transgressors for YHWH telling them to convert, pouring out his soul.

Maybe she would tell of the time, in the mountains with bare feet on the ground, she stood tall and wise and felt every cell in her body smile in assent as she inhaled and exhaled and in one loud second realized, I'm alive!

The bare idea of world - as - such is as ultimate as that of God, the ground being the equal tolerance for the positive coexistence of whatever you please.

Currently, the ground floor is occupied by the Baseline Common Code of the Global Coffee Platform (formerly the 4C Code of Conduct), the bare minimum of decent human and environmental practices in coffee production.

Daniel Mendoza, the heavyweight champion from the London ghetto, had introduced the art of footwork and some fancy blocking, but the average bare - knuckle pug a century ago was a strong, squat, determined slug of a man who stood his ground like an ancient gladiator, dealing out punishment to the limit of his endurance and taking the full force of his opponent's blows without flinching.

It can be the dead of winter, and you see kids playing on bare ground under outdoor hoops.

I found a bare piece of Earth at the edge where the field meets the forest and grounded myself, soaking up energy from the Earth and feeling very aware that the birth would be happening soon.

Cuomo said that the polarization laid bare by the 2016 elections — the surprise victory of Donald Trump, the insurgent strength of Bernie Sanders — had echoes in Albany that made reaching a middle ground difficult.

The left side shows areas of vegetation (green), bare ground (brown) and roads and dense development (gray).

The Klausmeier model is based on a water redistribution hypothesis, which assumes that rain falling on bare ground infiltrates only slightly; most of it runs downhill in the direction of the next vegetation band.

In places where the ground is bare — from overgrazing or from the common practice of leaving fields unplanted for part of the year — photosynthesis stops, and so does the storage of carbon in the soil.

This image shows brown and white snowshoe hares on bare ground at a University of Montana research facility.

Many of our region's typically snow - covered mountains were reduced to bare ground.

On the advice of my vet, since fish oil gives my dog the runs, I now give my Golden Retriever freshly ground flaxseeds and in just a week his coat became shiny, less itchy, and the bare patches filled in (normally this time of year he pulls his hair out like a mad man.

It's that time of year again: the trees are bare, snow is on the ground (in many places), and winter is definitely here!

EARTHING «Earthing» or «grounding» involves placing the soles of one's bare feet on the earth as a way to offset stress, reduce free - radical accumulation, and cancel - out a surplus of inflammation - and anxiety - causing positive ions within the body.

Black ground floral patterns are an edgy way to ease into pretty Spring patterns, and few things make us think of warm weather more than crop tops and bare shoulders.

The voice of life in me can not reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk so we may not feel lonely» - Kahlil Gibran - «I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground.

A man tells a woman and another man that he and three other coal miners were in a mine waiting for radiation to dissipate above ground, when one of the miners «snapped» and tore two of the men to bloody shreds with his bare hands, killing them; the speaking man says he stared strongly into the mad man's eyes, making the killer turn around and leave the area, and he died three hours later.

But only one major - studio film of the modern era, Richard Fleischer's notorious 1975 Mandingo, dared to meet slavery on its own terms — a grind house bacchanal of sadism, incest, and miscegenation, capped by an unforgettable finale in which the eponymous bare - knuckle fighter is boiled alive by his master in a cauldron.

The bare bones plot leaves Jen (a hypnotic Matilda Lutz) pitted against three male assailants / trophy hunters, stranded in the middle of nowhere with an axe to grind.

Pitch perfect performances grounded by a bare - bones gangster plot and a neglected puppy makes The Drop a sweeping human story surging with thematic undertones of good versus evil.

In its first half - hour, the film resembles a VH1 reality TV show in content, as we see Cheyenne await a frozen pizza to finish cooking in his large, lonesome mansion; try to play matchmaker to Mary, an Irish teenager (Eve Hewson) whose relationship to him is unclear; console a woman (Olwen Fouéré) missing a mutual friend; discuss his stocks; hear a pitch to produce a colorfully - named young band; and play bare - hand pelota (a type of handball) with his wife in their unfilled in - ground pool.

Rope climbing couplings, called carabiners, was attached to the teddy bare and it was hung from a tree branch about six inches of the ground.

«The grinding, two - year process of drafting accountability plans under ESSA has upended states» K - 12 political landscape and laid bare long - simmering factions among power brokers charged with putting the new federal education law into effect this school year,» writes Daarel Burnette II in Education Week.

«The grinding, two - year process of drafting accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act has upended states» K - 12 political landscape and laid bare long - simmering factions,» he writes.

The Harper house will pass out of the family one day and be gone — another reason it is doubly important to bring my boy home so his bare feet can touch the ground.

With the fuse out, read between the prongs of the fuse socket and ground (a nearby screw or other bare metal) with the meter on a DC Volts scale (20 VDC is common) to identify the hot side of the fuse.

HH: The four guys and Carroll Shelby who started the car, they wanted a Cobra for the»90s: big horsepower, bare bones, big tires, in your face, out of my way, I'm - gonna - run - ya - into - the - ground kind of car.

If the insulation is damaged near a grounded part of the engine or frame, and the bare wire exposed due to missing insulation touches it, odd things will happen.

Originally finished in Marrone Metallic, 246 ERO has recently undergone (2011/2012) a complete «ground up» and «bare metal» restoration with renowned restorers Foskers of Brands Hatch and has been subsequently maintained and Classiche Certified with Meridien Modena.

Now the ripening wheatie stood as high as his knees, and it looked as if it would be a good crop this year — not that Carl would necessarily be there to see the mummies grind it under the autumn foglamp, their bare breasts nuzzling the hot stone of their querns as they bent sweatily to the graft.

The buildings are surrounded by the skeletal outlines of bare trees, almost indistinguishable from their own shadows in the glare of the snow - covered ground.

White ground appears rarely if ever, although white highlights can give the illusion of bare surface.

This model subverts the order of the soloist, laying bare a deeply stratified ground in which everything created is inscribed and contingent.

Source: Geological Society of America Summary: A 25 - year - long study provides the first quantitative measurement of in situ calcium - magnesium silicate mineral dissolution by ants, termites, tree roots, and bare ground.

(Look at the lichen, which takes a century to reach full size — note how the size decreases down to the band of bare rock just above ground level.

Your intent was fully laid bare when you wrote this: «These are not the qualifications I would expect for the authors of such a ground breaking paper.»

Recently there have been a number of media reports about a «tipping point» having been reached in the Arctic as permafrost thaws, lakes disappear into the permafrost, and more bare ground is exposed to the sun.

The researchers were aware of the diurnal variations, but were interested in the difference in CO2 levels under crops compared to bare ground.

The explanation given to the public is that it's getting so unusually warm because of all the bare ground around which usually isn't snow free in late February.

Weather forecasts try to account for the bare ground heating in their forecast adjustments from the modeled forecasts, especially on days with lots of sun, but it still often gets warmer than what they issue.

Panel a: Direct warming associated with global forest cover.Panel b: Direct warming associated with forest cover between between 20 ° N and 50 ° N. Panel c: Increase in fractional absorption of solar radiation at the ground for forests relative to bare ground.

Photos of barren, snow - covered ground and bare trees simply aren't as compelling.