Sentences with phrase «of high cliffs»

The island's feature is of high cliffs and rocks facing the open sea at the western coast.

The countryside is a gently undulating mesh of forests and small fields, leading down to an undeveloped coastline of high cliffs and long empty beaches scattered with rocks.

The northern Tenerife coast is predominately formed of high cliffs which make most of the coast inaccessible unless you want to hop on a boat.

As Gamora and Thanos make their way to the top of a high cliff, they're greeted by a mysterious hooded figure who is the keeper of the Soul Stone.

From the cove, you'll see some of the highest cliffs in the world and Kahekili's Leap, where King Kamehameha's warriors proved their bravery by leaping eighty feet into the ocean below.

It is one of the highest cliff top lookouts in the country and really is a must do while you are in this region.

The location is dramatic, perched on the edge of a high cliff with a picturesque sunset view.

Not exact matches

Comments: «Our economists see growth disappointing in 2013 with added risk as a result of uncertainty surrounding the fiscal cliff... Political uncertainty is also high and history tells us that the US underperforms in the first year of a presidential cycle.»

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.

The expected resolution of the fiscal cliff will eliminate some of the uncertainty that has restrained the franchise sector, but it will also bring higher taxes that create a drag on growth.

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.

Even in the immediate aftermath of the crisis, correlations remained unusually high as investors fixated on macro events — the European debt crisis, the U.S. fiscal cliff, Greece — that transcended asset classes and geographies.

These doubts have been fueled by a high (but declining) unemployment rate, worries about a possible «double - dip» recession, and of course, the European debt crisis and U.S. fiscal cliff.

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.

If the thesis pursued so far in this chapter is correct, the position of humanity today is that of the man in the swirling water, not that of the man high above safe on the cliff.

To return to the earlier parable, ideas do not much matter if they are held or being debated by men whose investment in them is as remote as that of the man high on the cliff who idly speculates about the options available to men threatened with drowning.

This highest point of the temple was probably the southeast corner of the temple which loomed over a cliff of the temple mount.

Reminds me of those pictures of mountain cliffs and high up in the middle of the face of the cliff grows a single tree out from a crevice.

The social scientist engaged in this pursuit is like the proverbial physicist struggling up the steep cliff of higher learning to discover the meaning of life, only to find upon reaching the top a humble guru who had - been sitting there all along.

Ju - ma - na Restaurant at Banyan Tree Resort / / At the very southern tip of the Bukit, high atop the cliffs, enjoy fine dining and a spectacular view at Ju - ma - na at the Banyan Tree Resort.

Flannery's face sharpened, visibly pulled itself together as he began to search the high, landward cliffs for marks that he knew, that his father and his father and all the long line of Flannerys had known about the water and the fishing off the Dingle peninsula.

The question of which side held the moral high ground — the NHL with its demand for a link between revenues and salaries or the NHLPA with its market - based system — would be rendered moot; high ground vanishes immediately when 30 owners and 700 - plus players follow their leaders off a cliff.

I knew nothing about him — I don't usually follow extreme sports — but I'm pretty sure he was in the YouTube videos I saw of people in winged suits jumping off ridiculously high cliffs in Norway.

Towns voted for the fiscal cliff compromise bill, which made permanent most of the Bush tax cuts originally passed in 2001 and 2003 while also raising tax rates on the highest income levels.

If the Treasury had its way in full, the likelihood is that people on incomes of roughly # 40,000 - # 50,000 would face a permanent mix of withdrawn tax breaks and higher tax rates - what Altman calls a «cliff edge».

Scientists have only ever found their shells, translucent granules 0.60 to 0.79 mm high scattered at the base of cliffs.

Plus, he notes that a subset of rock climbing called bouldering — in which climbers tackle boulders or short cliff faces measuring less than 3.5 meters high, without using safety ropes — is especially popular with younger people.

A few hundred yards from the cliffs, piles of crumbled stone and conch shells a few feet high are evidence of altars the seafarers built north of the harbor entrance.

Permafrost has thawed, causing houses to slide off suddenly muddy cliffs; sea ice has thinned, creating expanses of open water that rise up in ever higher storm surges; and glaciers are melting, leading local sea levels to climb (albeit very slightly).

«But you can not make vertical cliffs and pinnacles up to 100 meters [300 feet] high out of sand.

The site is a beautiful stretch of desert, bordered by high cliffs.

This kind of «sensory conflict» may occur when our bodies detect motion that our eyes can not see (such as during plane, ocean or car travel), or when our eyes perceive motion that our bodies can not detect (such as during an IMAX film, when the camera swoops at high speed over the edge of steep cliffs and deep into gorges and valleys while our bodies remain sitting still).

The passage of the Zanclean flood across the Malta Escarpment — a long submarine limestone cliff — resulted in a 1.5 km high waterfall (equivalent to five times the height of the Eiffel Tower).

An employee of the US Fish and Wildlife Service was monitoring the bird in California's Los Padres National Forest when he heard shots and accosted two men who had fired at Xewe with a.22 calibre rifle as she perched high on a cliff.

By IAN ANDERSONOver the past decade, palaeontologists and hardy volunteers have been painstakingly blasting and drilling into the base of a 90 - metre - high cliff in a remote part of the rugged coast of southeastern Australia — the only dinosaur mine in the world.

Bretz found exotic granite boulders perched on basalt cliffs hundreds of feet above the highest recorded river level.

A high ridge of limestone — now famously exposed as the chalky cliffs of Dover — extended all the way to what is now France, allowing mammoths, hippos, and eventually humans to freely pass back and forth.

High on a rocky cliff in central Utah, paleontologists Lindsay Zanno and Bucky Gates found something rare — a large clutch of fossilized dinosaur eggs.

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.

I'm going to skip all of the science that I found in books like this (my favourite book on the subject), and this (my second favourite book on the subject), and give you the cliffs notes of the 30 + hours of private study that I did to find out exactly what foods lead to higher testosterone levels.

before quietly padding past an indoor waterfall onto the cliff - perched patio of the infamous Goldstein Residence, the setting for today's shoot — her most high - fashion yet.

It could be as wild and crazy as jumping off cliffs into huge pools of water when you were in high school and young and stupid (sorry mom!).

The film's action highlight is the massacre of Fort Henry (we are spared nothing, not even the bayonetting of babies), but its emotional peak occurs when Cora Munro (Barbara Bedford), daughter of the Fort Henry commander, threatens to fling herself off a high cliff rather than fall into the hands of the lecherous Magua.

Released: April 14 Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham Director: Dash Shaw Why it's great: The scraggly sketch style of acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw comes to life in a teenage dream comedy about a coastal town high school that cascades off a cliff, drifts out to sea, and provokes a student - body class war.

Now, he spends his life holed up in his cliff - side mansion and especially in the basement, where he makes fancy new gizmos for and prototypes of his high - tech armor on very little sleep.

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

A village in China's mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb an 800 - meter (2,625 - foot)- high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety

«Reduce uneven incentives and avoid «incentive cliffs» by increasing [school performance score] points more gradually as students move to higher performance levels,» notwithstanding the fact that no research to date has evidenced that such incentives incentivize much of anything intended, at least in education.

A huge whale skeleton rests alongside the drained skateboarding pool, and a dozen old surfboards line the outside of a small, thicket shack perched on the edge of a 50 - foot - high cliff overlooking the Pacific.

If you want proof that the south coast of England was once connected to the northern coast of France, it's here by the millions of tons — 100ft - high chalk cliffs, miles of them, that match those at Dover.