Sentences with phrase «of geese on»

For a third straight year, ARL Rescue Services was dispatched to the WGBH building due to a family of geese on the roof.

Sullenberger was the pilot who, in 2009, miraculously landed a passenger jet in New York's Hudson River after the engines were disabled by a flock of geese on take - off.

Not exact matches

The Geese will be on the ground too, as «members of the Goose family (will) be zipping around Park City sporting Goose,» the blog says.

You can try to do this nicely — say, by sneaking up on the ducks in the middle of the night, whisking their little goose - down pillows from beneath their sleeping heads and pressing them down on their beaks before they even know what hit them — but it's quite illegal.

Currently, we type our question into the search engine and the algorithm chooses words from it, often sending us on a wild goose chase by bringing up links that have those specific words in them rather than finding links that relate to the context of the overall query.

His success at goosing the rankings of HuffPost stories in search results fueled the site's frantic growth; by the time he launched BuzzFeed in 2008, social networks were in bloom, hence the site's wellknown reliance on shareable listicles like «15 Tiny Hats on Cats.»

A U.S. Airways plane hit a flock of geese shortly after taking off from New York in 2009 knocking out its engines but Sullenberger managed to glide the Airbus A320 to a safe landing on the Hudson River, saving all 150 passengers on board.

«It's about balancing supply and demand without killing the golden goose,» said Andy Yan, director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University, noting British Columbia's finances are dependant on the booming real estate sector, and efforts to cool Vancouver's hot market could hurt less frothy cities.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too This is inevitably followed by bursting into a German song about a fox stealing a goose (which suddenly somehow reminds me of austerity demands on Greece): «Fuchs du hast die Gans gestohlen, Gib sie wieder her!

More than 1,400 Ontario households may soon get an unexpected gift: the miracle of alternating current electricity, with which to heat their homes and roast their geese and snuggle up on the couch and watch The Muppet Christmas Carol.

So add that bit of dressing on top of the goose HE COOKED HIMSELF BY [HANGING HIMSELF I THINK?]

So I stood at the edge of the little lake and watched the geese fly in, the clouds resting like a gauze scarf on the mountains rising darkly in the deep light.

In the days before Christmas, when I lived there, Moscow took on the mythical characteristics of the East, as old women wrapped in black took up station on street corners, selling fresh - killed geese raised in snowy clearings.

as he follows the tracks of the skunk in the January snow; wondering where the skunk is beading and why; speculating on the different meanings of a winter thaw for the mouse whose snow burrow has collapsed and the owl who has just made dinner on the mouse; trying to understand the honking of the geese as they circle the pond; and wondering what the world must look like to a muskrat eye - deep in the swamp.

One couple told of standing together high on a hill in November listening in silence to the far - away honking of wild geese as they made a jagged V lumbering across the sky.

There has never been anything half as lovely written about waterfowl of the family Anatidae as Lancelot's words about seeing «geese on the islands — long smoke lines of them singing like hounds in the cold streak of morning» as he sails to the Grail island.

Chickens and geese and all wild animals do the same thing... Only man, who after all is rational, does not spring to the aid of his suffering neighbour in time of need and has no pity on him.»

I probably reviewed twenty or so recipes and other articles about the use and care of a goose before settling on some combination of three of them to combine for the dinner.

As we moved on, the cows followed us nonchalantly behind us, every pair of eyes were on us, on our movements... gave me the goose bumps like they were seizing the chance to pounce on us unsuspectingly.

Whether he's eating grated reindeer testicle or aged horse meat, trying super-Swedish spins on Vietnamese bahn mi and high - end hot dogs, fishing for oily Baltic herring or whisking goose blood soup, Andrew is schooled on the simplicity of Scandinavian culture.

They call her Heather - Feather, and she floats on the currents of the intrafamilial competition just as lightly as a tuft of goose down.

From bottom to top: a ribbon with the club name in an excitingly chunky font; a lion, rampant; some kind of ziggurat; a couple of accompanying diamonds; a raised hand flanked by bees; and, finally, the crowning glory that is a goose with some feathers in its mouth, standing on a claret - and - blue barber's pole, trying to shake an egg off its foot.

Felt exactly the same way, maybe not like crying but certainly frustrated seeing how other clubs acquire our players and make them fit perfectly on their game, Jenk and Song covering the back and well now feel like crying, FAB leader in assists commanding the Midfield and responsible for Chelsea being on top of the league, meantime let's face it, lately our players are running on the pitch like wild geese with no clear tactics, abusing this tiki taka BS, running thru the middle like rams with no clear options, getting injured in the process and we all know why and who is responsible, enough said...

Usual heavy concentrations of white fronted geese reported, but blues and snows are crowding them out of feed and water, suggesting need for more lenient limits on these species.

In April 2004, a game between Rochdale and Scunthorpe United was held up due to Rochdale keeper Neil Edwards needing medical attention after being nipped on the arm while trying to remove a goose from the field of play.

We've missed out on top class talent in the form of Higuain, in order to go on a wild goose chase for Luis Suarez and after a terrible opening game of the season, we have injuries and suspension, which further hinder an already depleted squad.

Feb 22nd the unveiling of the» God» «s statue outside the emirates, the man who defined greatness, the man who made me so proud and hysterical, the man who for me atleast was the greatest player ever to play for our beloved club, the magician, the man who walks on water, the Iceman, yes Dennis Bergkamp statue set to be unveiled, goose bumps, tears and oh so much pride, love you dennis we really do.

In the Premier League, there are now six teams with genuine title aspirations at the start of every season, two of whom will be forced to miss out on a the golden goose of Champions League qualification.

With so many rhymes I could do a separate post on each one and maybe I will but to finish off I wanted to share some of my favourite activities to go with other mother goose rhymes.

Who could resist turning on lights with the pull of a goose's tassle, pinning a hedgehog's prickles or tugging twine from a fox's tail?

There was the amiable quacking of ducks bobbing on the DuPage River, a child's shout, the dissonant honking of Canada geese overhead, the hum of a passing airplane.

Your spouse can make getting a divorce more difficult, prolonging the process, in a number of ways (avoiding service, sending you on wild goose chases for documents and old bank account statements, etc. filing motions that are essentially harassment, etc.), but no Nevada judge is going to force you to stay married to him or her.

Communities such as Palatine and Streamwood, which have been struggling with goose droppings on playing fields, decided to make use of the free demonstration of FlightControl.

The newly landscaped island, complete with a scenic waterfall, has become a nesting ground for Canada geese and a vegetarian delight for up to 55 of the birds, according to a report to the Park District Board on Tuesday night.

A flock of about 20 geese was on 104th Avenue near 159th Street Tuesday morning when a van struck at least three birds and drove away without stopping, said police Lt. Tony Farrell.

«We have a governor who abandoned his long suffering people to embark on a wild goose chase in the form of a laughable presidential ambition.

He was laid to rest on August 10 of that year at the Geese Park, now known as Asomdwee Park, close to the Osu Castle in Accra.

Once and for all: The «rumor» that Chelsea Clinton might not be getting married in Rhinebeck as some sort of elaborate ruse to send us all on a wild goose chase as she weds on, say, Martha's Vineyard, is simply not true.

We forged new and strengthened existing relationships with key international partners on a range of topics including sarcocystis, white fronted geese, pochard and lead ammunition.»

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

The open season for shooting geese on farmland has closed but farmers can apply to Scottish Natural Heritage for a specific out of season shooting licence.

The Lagos State Attorney General, as naive as ever, has no idea that he is being used, that he is on a wild goose chase, that he is helping to shield and protect the real perpertrators of the crime and that he seeks to destroy the legacy and name of an innocent man and Church.

When Forest Hills resident Lynn Schulman, a Democratic candidate for City Councilwoman Melinda Katz's (D?Forest Hills) seat, stands on the steps of City Hall, she still gets goose bumps.

The first signs of Spring are often its sounds — the first chirping robin, the honking of geese travelling North or the crack of the bat at a ballgame on a crisp afternoon.

That Capt. Chesley «Sully» Sullenberger and his passengers will celebrate the first anniversary of their «Miracle on the Hudson» today at aptly named Providence on West 57th Street, under geese - shaped...

• A Steuben County sheep farmer and two others last year for allegedly poisoning two bald eagles and a red - tailed hawk; • A Niagara County farmer who inadvertently killed three juvenile bald eagles in 2014 by putting poisoned meat on his farm in an effort to kill coyotes; • And a farmer in Allegany County who several years ago applied left - over pesticide to a corn field to «use up the product,» killing a pair of bald eagles and nearly three dozen geese.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of sending police on a wild goose chase to divert attention from President John Mahama's commissioning of the first phase of the Kumasi Kejetia Market.

There is no point setting off on this wild goose chase in the middle of an election campaign.»

But Sully Sullenberger's «Miracle on the Hudson,» when the pilot landed the plane on the Hudson River after flying into a flock of geese, does seem like a miracle.

However, top - down input (in the form of the intercountry species management plan) was also deemed essential for ensuring that the focus remained on goose conservation, as opposed to farmer reimbursement.