Sentences with phrase «of life raft»

Surviving with the help of a life raft turned parachute, Indy, along with two tagalongs — lounge singer Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and young Short Round (Jonathan Ke Quan)-- skid down snow covered slopes, float along a river and end up unscathed and ready for a good meal in a poverty stricken village in India.

Even if the wealthy try to use New Zealand like some kind of life raft against the uncertainty of the rest of the world, they can't buy the inheritance Hillary had.

What if American producers of life rafts, helipads, and safety equipment could not sell those products to consortia that included Russian companies?

«In the leaking ship that we've made of our planet, the Transition movement is like a flotilla of life rafts.

Not exact matches

Now was just one of a raft of new products Google unveiled at its annual developer conference on June 27, and the array of products demonstrated just how ubiquitous the company wants to be in your life.

But a raft of lawsuits suggests their ability to do so may be short - lived, and that cleaning and delivery companies, in particular, should be bracing themselves.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a raft of new nuclear weapons systems at his State of the Nation address on March 1 — and one demonstrates Russia's apparent disregard for human life.

He went immediately to his checklist: he untangled himself from his life raft, then checked the canopy of his chute and saw the gash.

A few can swim, there might have some on natural rafts, but that can't explain the diversity of life found in the Americas, Australia, the Arctic and the Antarctic.

As I held onto the life raft of my mother, my new teacher, Janie Adams, came to coax me to join the others.

If you are in a rubber life raft and survival of the group is paramount, then it would be completely moral to throw the guy overboard who keeps attempting to pop the raft and drown us all, and not a single other person in the raft would object for they would understand that that guy must have lost use of his senses and had abandoned his humanity.

Yeah I gave up on that whole «sacredness of life» thing after your God allegedly flooded the Earth killing all men, women, and children except for those on a raft.

«It was like a sinking ship,» says Bradley of Cleveland, «and I was glad to get my life raft and get my second chance over here.

Italian football holds itself to a high standard on such areas of player safety — introducing a raft of measures after Perugia's Renato Curi died on the pitch in 1977, and refining them further since Pescara's Piermario Morosini lost his life during a game in 2012.

I went looking for some appropriately themed pool toys first, and managed to score a couple of turtle and fish rafts, which made life much easier for me!

Things weren't necessarily going the way that I thought they should go... and we certainly weren't in a place much above scraping the bottom... but somehow, in that moment, I found a little bit of hope and, like a life raft in the middle of a stormy ocean, I clung to that little piece of hope because it was all it seemed like I had to hold onto.

In the riptide of motherhood, we're all looking for a life raft that will help us stay afloat.

William Hazlitt once wrote about a reported shipwreck in which a woman swimming for her life to a raft in the stormy sea saw that one of the half - drowned men on it was naked.

Gordon Brown has revealed a raft of measures aimed at improving the lives of Britain's armed forces.

The Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) concurs, citing a raft of studies that show how children living in wood - burning households experience «higher rates of lung inflammation, breathing difficulties, pneumonia, and other respiratory diseases.»

Meanwhile, a raft of studies suggest that infants who are fed breast milk may have lower incidences of asthma, diabetes, obesity and other health problems later on in life.

Gale force winds and waves buffeted the life raft, and the only way the crew could keep hold of it was to flip it over and hang onto it from underneath, floating in the water.

Some life rafts come equipped with devices to convert seawater to freshwater, but the amount of drinkable water they make is limited.

This is the first study to use genetic analysis to pinpoint the source of a raft carrying live organisms, says Kenneth Sytsma, a botanist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Scientists from Japan, India and the U.S. have observed raft domains — active sections of the cell membrane with special groups of molecules — in live cells for the first time.

«The existence of special membrane domains, called raft domains, has been assumed for over 25 years, but was never found to actually occur in living cells,» said Dr. Naoko Komura of Gifu University, the first author of the paper.

The raw data showed that taking COX - 2 inhibitors correlated with a 9 percent higher risk of gastrointestinal bleeds, a potentially life - threatening side effect — a surprise, since a raft of clinical studies had previously shown that those drugs were less likely to cause gi bleeds.

We have information on the drift characteristics of many different items, from people to 55 - gallon oil drums to various kinds of vessels, such as life rafts, sea kayaks, sailboats, skiffs and refugee rafts.

Whether we actually live in a hologram is up for debate, but it is now becoming clear that looking at a raft of other phenomena through a holographic lens could be key to solving...

«A safer solution may be to build a fleet of interplanetary «life rafts» that could maneuver themselves always out of reach of the sun, but close enough to use its energy,» Smith suggested.

The yoga retreat programme also gives you enough time experience other aspects the holy city of Rishikeshhas to offer, like the life along the Ganges, shopping in local markets, treks and white water rafting.

Teaching them to meditate is my first strategy, because it offers a raft of benefits to their sex lives.

The land around the house is home to rice fields, rivers and wildlife (including a live - in stray kitten), and guests can take advantage of local rafting, diving and hiking in the nearby towns.

This diversity means there is no «normal» when it comes to family life: instead there are a raft of different ways to live happily ever after.

For many, Internet and dating sites become a life - saving raft in the stormy ocean of life.

I live and breathe an Outdoor Life (Snowboarding / Long - boarding, Rafting, Fly Fishing, Rock Climbing, Hiking, Camping)... Mix in a heavy dose of Jamaican Lamb's Wool with some irie music, epic people, classic books, some good «ol fashioned Science, the more often than occasional deep, spontaneous...

I had the best year of my life turning 70, getting to go whitewater rafting, sternwheeler tour with my son as we celebrated together...

In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Setting records, he ran in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, served in the Air Force, drifted 47 days in a life raft after his bomber went down and endured sadistic captivity at the hands of the Japanese.

O'Connell and Dubliner star, Domhnall Gleeson, who plays a fellow life raft survivor and POW camp detainee, both lost nearly two stone from their already slight frames during production off the coast of Queenland.

The Blu - ray / DVD / digital copy combo packs its own life raft of extras with ample provisions, including deleted scenes, a spotlight on that amazing CGI and a look at Lee's filmmaking process.

Glass is desperate to protect his son, borne to a Pawnee mother killed during an English raid, right in front Glass» eyes, in the village wherein he spent what seems to be the best years of his life, and so he takes responsibility over the small surviving party (apparently led by Henry) and commands them to part with their raft fearing another ambush would follow should they continue floating that stream.

Of course, the film gets to the life raft quicker than the book does, and some of the religious themed debates have been excised, but I didn't feel for one moment that the tale had been dumbed down in favour of nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieceOf course, the film gets to the life raft quicker than the book does, and some of the religious themed debates have been excised, but I didn't feel for one moment that the tale had been dumbed down in favour of nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieceof the religious themed debates have been excised, but I didn't feel for one moment that the tale had been dumbed down in favour of nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieceof nothing more than flashy visuals and expensive CGI set pieces.

O'Connell stars as «the young Zamperini from the time he was a wunderkind member of the USA track team that competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to his survival of a harrowing plane crash in the Pacific Ocean during WWII through 47 days adrift in a life raft to becoming a POW in a Japanese prison camp.»

A dog - eared, much - scribbled - in life raft of cinema.»

They cling to a life raft, without food nor water, and no hope of rescue.

His rigorous conditioning and perseverance as a track star, as well as his childhood of being bullied and ridiculed by his peers for being Italian, gave him the fortitude to go the distance during his days in World War II as an Air Force bombardier whose plane is shot down, forcing him and fellow soldiers to have to survive in a life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for weeks.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived on a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII — only to be caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.