Sentences with phrase «of falling rain»

It delivered an immersive sensation with the sound of falling rain on one soundtrack heralding an approaching storm, augmented by the sound of keyboards in the background and the tolling of a bell.

This is way more than the above m / A of 0.007 kg / sec / m2 for rainfall of one inch per hour, so a downdraft has orders of magnitude more influence on pressure than the acceleration and deceleration of falling rain.

Forming a poetic counterpoint to many of the works on view, Rain Under Lamppost (2014) presents an animated video projection, which replicates the action of falling rain, through the cone of light from a lamppost.

That means if you are looking to fall asleep to the sounds of falling rain or campfires than you must choose another device.

Not exact matches

At Kent Erickson's farm near Irma, Alta., (two hours southeast of Edmonton), about an inch of rain has been steadily falling every day in recent weeks, which has been helpful to his wheat crops.

And the sounds of nature — birds chirping, rain falling, bees buzzing — have a calming effect.

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday afternoon said a record 51.88 inches (131.78 cm) of rain has fallen in Texas due to Harvey, a record for any storm in the continental United States.

Six inches of rain fell in parts of the grounds on the festival's first day, turning pavement into small oceans and grassy fields into mud pits.

In their 2010 third - quarter report, the company cites poor weather as a reason for slightly lower sales — a lack of rain last summer meant less beer in the fall and winter.

But while Australian demand for the fruit has been fueled by its store of healthy fats, supply has been strangled by heavy rain and bushfires, and because growers in western Australia, anticipating a fall in demand after Christmas, exhausted their stocks to flood the market in the lead - up to the holiday season.

A cold rain is falling in Madison, Wisc., though it's cozy inside Wiggie's — the local hangout for the employees of the Oscar Mayer plant, where a bunch of retirees have settled in for a lunchtime beer and a bite.

The humidity is so high in one of the finishing rooms, filled with vertical shelves packed with mini marijuana plants, that a light rain falls from the tall ceiling.

But existing models of water flows don't provide the full range of possible outcomes: «A 50 - year rain can produce a 100 - year flood if it falls on a watershed that's already soaked or on snowpack or if it coincides with a storm surge.»

Imagine if Alberta flood victims had received up - to - the - minute flood warnings on their phone hours before the first drop of rain fell?

Nearly three weeks after the rain stopped falling in Houston, the work of rebuilding has barely begun.

It may be hard to fathom what feet of rain — amounts equaling yearly averages falling in a few days — look like.

In our part of Rosenberg, the rain came late and barely fell long enough to cause a scare.

Hurricane Harvey fell from a Category 4 to Category 1 hurricane when it made landfall Friday, but that hasn't been much comfort to Texans, who have dealt with an unending torrent of wind and rain all weekend and into Monday, with experts saying it will likely get worse before it gets better.

A strong band of rain falls along the Crane Creek Promenade in Melbourne.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The falling yen is raining on Japan's parade of overseas acquisitions, which had a record - breaking year in 2012, when the yen was rising.

Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

7:26,27; «But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell.

Philip Larkin's «Church Going» comes to mind: Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent - free to rain and sheep.

Water evaporates into the air from bodies of water to fall as rain when that air cools beyond 100 % relative humidity.

The rising of the sun, the falling of the rain, a bird in flight, are all miracles of majestic glory.

Since God makes the sun to shine on the good and the bad, the rain to fall on the good and the bad, he is just and fair and lets the consequence of Adam's curse on mankind to take its natural course.

The general, but clever theme of this classic Antonio Carlos Jobim song seems to simply be chromatic descent, as in the falling rains that are typical at the end of the Brazilian summer (March in the southern hemisphere).

As the rain fell tropically into our garden and the children disappeared for the night, we settled into something of a rhythm, watching and scooping as the sky greyed over and dozens of birds provided a backing chorus.

Is that the God of whom Jesus taught that he makes his rain to fall upon the just and the unjust, that he causes his sun to shine on the evil and on the good?

We all feel the rain as it falls on us, but we all have different experiences of this rain, thoughts about it, words for it.

So a Jewish teacher of the fourth century A.D., Rabbi Joshua, said: «Hast thou ever seen the rain fall on the field of X who is righteous, and not on the field of Y who is wicked, or the sun shine upon Israel who are righteous, and not upon the nations who are wicked?

We used to do motions for the rain falling down and the floods coming up, but nothing was as satisfying as dramatically clapping our hands together at the end of the song to simulate the total destruction of the foolish man's house.

If a storm negatively impacts human life it is «part of a fallen world,» but if it is just a rain storm that brings water to some thirsty plants it is just normal or a «blessing»?

There is a verse that applies to all mankind, this is not about the harshness of an Eternal God, this is a reality all mankind must deal with no matter ones faith or non-faith: The Rain Falls on the Just and the Unjust... God did not cause cancer!

With what fascination we boys used to watch it rain on that roof and to wonder at the far - sundered destinies of the drops which fell so near together!

For the drops of rain which fell upon one side flowed into Lake Erie and so out, by the St. Lawrence River, into the Atlantic, and the drops which fell upon the other side flowed into Lake Chautauqua and so out, by the Ohio River and the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico.

Every drop of rain falls precisely where God intends it.

Rain falls on all of us, whether we believe in God or not.

He lets fall the rain of the Teaching.

But if you have built you life on Jesus Christ, and obedience to His Word, when the storm comes, no matter how severe it is, no matter how the winds rage, no matter how the torrents of rain fall, no matter how high and violent the river gets, you will stand strong.

But Jesus told us to offer grace without boundaries, recorded in Matthew 5f, that we were to be perfect as our heavenly Father — who even causes the rain to fall of the fields of the righteous and unrighteous.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

His case is like the case of a smooth rock covered with earth, on which heavy rain falls, leaving it bare, smooth and hard.

No law can be given to the falling rain, that it should not water the fields of the wicked and vicious.»

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

if God is offended by something, and God is the All Powerfullest of the All Powerful Sky Pixies, then God is perfectly capable of expressing God's Own Displeasure by causing a rain of aircraft carriers and rabid weasels to fall upon the offender.

or Jesus» calm assurance that the God who feeds the birds of the air, clothes the lilies of the field, and makes his sun to shine and his rain to fall, will do for us what we need.

The only explanation that the archaeologist could give was this: The rains had fallen unevenly upon the fields of these peoples.

If a seed falls on stony ground in the desert, it simply refuses to germinate until the next shower of rain comes along and gives it an environment at least somewhat appropriate to its needs.