Sentences with phrase «of hills»

This is the second oldest set of hills in the country, Hrdy says.

The Science paper further suggested the distribution of hills at one mid-ocean ridge could be matched with three well - known climate cycles — the Milankovitch cycles — that take place every 23,000, 41,000, and 100,000 years.

Olive et al. wanted to understand the spacing and size of these hills.

Proffitt and Witt stood at the base of hills on campus and asked passing students to estimate their steepness in two ways.

On his laptop computer in the trailer, Soderblom compared stereo images of the hills and estimated that they are a few hundred feet high.

If the signals generated were transmitted only from the ground, radio astronomers could seek remote sites and use the shielding property of the Earth's curvature or the shelter of hills.

A glacier «acts as sandpaper because it has rocks embedded in its base... so as the glacier moves, it's deepening valleys and smoothing off the tops of hills,» Horenstein says.

D - Wave instead uses adiabatic quantum computing, in which an array of chilled, superconducting niobium loops — the qubits in this system — very quickly find the lowest point in what can be thought of as an energy «landscape» of hills and valleys.

As the ice sheets melt, there will not only be more water in the oceans, but the positions of those hills and valleys will shift.

Both large craters have a circle of hills around their center called a peak ring.

Something worth noting if you live somewhere with a lot of hills.

Located about 16 km from the capital, the town of roughly one million people sits between the Atlantic Ocean and a range of hills.

This has resulted in stand - offs and fights on a number of hills, and in the deterioration in community relations at an already tense time (Since then the CNTB has been suspended, and Bambonanire sacked).

The sport stroller is an excellent piece of kit and the auto stop is a great feature especially as we live in an area with plenty of hills.

Over its eight kilometer length, you are treated to a landscape of hills in an area of magnificent 200 year old maple, beech and oak trees.

I was a bit concerned about how we would get around with the baby in a carriage, but even the most narrow, cobbled streets had a smooth sidewalk to push him on, and we certainly got a workout on some of the hills.

Sundara: I have a kitchen island that is the center of the main living space and is surrounded by windows with views of the trees and some of the hills of Seattle.

These neat little brakes allow you to slow down and stop with ease on even the steepest of hills.

You'll definitely get your excercise on some of the hills — but if you absolutely need a break, you can bring your stroller on the Funiculaire so long as it folds.

Now I'm not at all fond of hills, but when I saw that, I kept saying, «I hope there's another hill, and another...»

Hunt the lee side of hills, ravines and bushy cover, with the wind blowing toward you.

«They come out of the hills at night and we HUNT THEM!»

You find Washington State University on a collection of hills, adjacent to the town of Pullman, and in the eyes of an old alumnus, it is still a happy find, for one who came from afar and who stayed long enough to have a life picked.

The «Peppers of Senise» are grown in various communities in the provinces of Matera and Potenza, but they got their name from one of the villages in this area, located on the slope of one of the hills along the Sinni River valley.

Given, now, a handsome señorita, with fine oval face and large, soft eyes, and broad, low brow and a strain of pure Castilian blood, to show red - warm through olive cheeks, a white kerchief over her bosom, and a glimpse of amber or gold beads about her throat, and the low, gray, wide - roofed adobe, scarlet - hued with festoons of red peppers, the whole seen against the burnt umber or yellow of the hills and under the pearly haze of a morning in September, and you have a grouping of such splendid color as would delight the heart of a painter.

People enjoy the milky corn amidst natural beauty of the hills which is at its best during monsoons.

Perhaps it is the salubrious climate of the hills that infuses sweetness and tenderness in the corn which is not found in its counterpart that grows in the plains.

Our conversation led to running up hills, and how you have to run up at a lot of hills to get anywhere... a bit like rice research.

The rugged terrains of the hills are harsh and sometimes inhospitable, in its changing forms and moods as though reiterating the fact that the nature is all powerful.

The natives of the hills lead a tough life.

It has worked to preserve the river valleys as forest, planting along the contours of the hills.

In Capiz, hundreds of hectares of hills and mountains are now converted to GM corn plantations.

Sunday: 20 mile trail bike ride (lots of hills) along with multiple dog walks Monday: 1 hour elliptical along with weights for my upper body and some core work

Mediterranean herbs and trees grow spontaneously from the top of the hills down to the water level.

By the time I rub the sleep out of my eyes and roll out of bed on the weekends, my parents already ran (Mom) or hiked (Dad) 6 miles of hills, drank a chai latte (Mom) or black coffee (Dad), drove to Target (Mom) or Home Depot (Dad), typed out 20 + work emails (both), and showered (both).

With some the more subtle and finer air of the hills doth best agree, who are languishing and dying in the feculent and grosser air of great towns, or even the warmer and vaporous air of the valleys and waters.

Of the hills and valleys, Derham, after praising their beauty, discourses as follows: «Some constitutions are indeed of so happy a strength, and so confirmed an health, as to be indifferent to almost any place or temperature of the air.

in the clear white circles of morning wonder i take my place with the lord of the hills and the blue eyed soldiers stand slightly discoloured in neat little rows sporting canvas frills

7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land — a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; 8 a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9 a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills....

Then one may watch across the great plain while evening declines over the shoulder of the hills of Israel, silhouetting the high lookout of Elijah's Place of Sacrifice and picking out with its last rays the church - crowned summit of Tabor; he may follow the gliding cloud shadows over the wide slope toward Galilee, and cling entranced to the fleeting tints of rose and gold and violet that enshrine the friendly heights while the last rays of the westering sun, far out over the Sea, touch lightly with a ruddy promise of hope and joy the last summits of the hills.

The land where you arc going over to take possession is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the heavens, a land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it from the beginning to the end of the year (Deut.

The need may be for simple improvements in farming implements and seeds for subsistence farmers along with aid to peasant villages for improved hygiene and reforestation of their hills.

When the sun is shining these bright limestone cities set on top of hills dominate the landscape.

Some have even gone to sit on top of hills or mountains on the «appointed date», waiting for Jesus.

Whether we are speaking of the matter of the hills or the mind of humankind, the creation is open to the mighty acts of the Creator.

The CEO of Hill and Gertner Capital first got involved in the marijuana industry in 2004 and now presides over upscale pot brand Tokyo Smoke

Though early drafts of the Senate bill called for the Fed to adopt rules - based monetary policy, this ended up being stripped from the final proposal due to Democratic opposition - largely because much of the Hill focus has been on the Taylor rule, which many Fed advocates fear is too restricting.

Now the CEO of Hill Holliday, a prominent advertising and communications agency, she originally joined the company as a receptionist to earn money for law school.

The key is to hold that effort an additional 10 to 15 seconds over the top of the hill — this helps you maintain momentum and speed before letting your heart rate recover back to 70 to 75 %.

When John Roth thinks back on the oil market of two years ago, a certain calamitous image comes to mind: «I liken it to pushing a freight train off the top of a hill,» says Roth, manager of the $ 3 billion Fidelity New Millennium Fund.