Sentences with phrase «of sailing ships»

This nautical wall covering, which features line drawings of sailing ships (done by an 8 - year - old, no less!)

In the northern hemisphere these near surface winds appear to flow from the northeast, and because they were important in the age of sailing ships (think Columbus), they were called the Northeast Trades.

You deciding to rename the development of sailing ships «green energy» doesn't suddenly lead to a new interpretation of history.

His pictures of sailing ships and the roiling sea echoing the sensibility of famed naturalist John Muir.

Star Flyer is a modern cruise ship in every way, created for luxury - loving singles who also love the traditions and romance of the legendary era of sailing ships.

Bonds are like the iron rods put in the bottom of sailing ships.

«CARGO CULT» ANTHROPOLOGY: «In the central highlands of New Guinea the sudden transition from the society of the stone ax to the society of sailing ships (and now of airplanes) has not been easy to make.

In the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships and many freighters carried iron cannons.

Instead of merely copying the word, he drew a picture of a sailing ship, complete with boom, portholes, and other authentic details.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

While sitting on one of the many decks with the Trade Winds blowing from the East and looking at Coral Bay 1,000 feet below, the sensation is reminiscent of riding the bow of a sailing ship on an upwind -LSB-...]

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In an era of wagon caravans and sailing ships, those trading ties did little to extend a then - insular China's geopolitical clout.

Container ship Cosco Development, registered and sailing under the flag of Hong Kong, is seen near from Panama City on May 2, 2017.

Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of Norwegian, cited four main reasons for revising its guidance, including «continued weak demand from our core North American consumer for European sailings at a time when half of our fleet is deployed in the region, including eight of our highest yielding ships.»

Such modifications remind me of the four - and five - masted sailing ships that were developed in the late 1800s to stave off the threat of the steamship — a little better, but a distraction from the needed reinvention.

The basic sailing of the ship is fairly easy and well understood.

Singapore - listed Neptune Orient Lines» (NEPS.SI) container shipping unit reported an 8 percent decline in the fourth quarter, partly because of fewer trans - Pacific sailings as a result of the congestion.

Named for Halloween, Carbone's favorite holiday, the company scares the bejesus out of willing customers at interactive events, including the Haunted Hayride (a tractor - drawn trek through the abandoned Griffith Park Zoo) and Ghost Ship (which sails out on short horror cruises).

After a rest, Shackleton and two of his men hiked and climbed across treacherous mountains to a whaling station, where Shackleton procured a ship and sailed to rescue his comrades.

The reused rocket was also the first to successfully land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship, which was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

In the sails of the cosmic ship hurtling toward Danielson - land are the names of the collaborators who lent a bass clarinet, trumpet, vocal or hand clap (among other things) to...

Led by Eönwë, the herald of Manwë, the forces of the Valar, with the peoples of the Vanyar and the Noldor that had remained in Aman, sailed eastward in the ships of the Teleri.

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As pirate ships used to disguise themselves under honorable flags, so all manner of dissolute and licentious living sails today under the noble banner of independence.

During his book tour, Bell responded to a direct question about his view of gay marriage by stating that «I think the ship has sailed and we need to affirm people wherever they are».

We were sailing into Ouistreham, the sea port linked to the heart of the city by a ship canal.

David Hubbard, president of Fuller Seminary, invited the press to a convocation at which he denounced Lindsell's «unbiblical» understanding of «inerrancy,» refuted his analysis of the contemporary theological scene, and vowed that Fuller would «sail into the winds of controversy» confident of the «seaworthiness of our ship and the correctness of our course.»

Roman ships leaving the ports of the Red Sea and using the monsoon winds sailed across the Arabian sea to the ports of South Indian kingdoms.

Thus in the Book of Jonah, when Jonah tries to sail to Tarshish to escape the call of the Lord and the ship runs into a violent storm, the crew assumes that the storm is caused by the anger of a god towards someone on board.

But now individuals sail the high seas, as it were, of a fluid intercultural world and, like ships, must bristle with flags of intention and explanation.

Their voyage carried them by Cos and Rhodes and into the Lycian port of Patara, where they changed ships, sailed within sight of Cyprus, and landed at Tyre, where the ship unloaded its cargo.

Verily, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and in the alternation of night and day, and in the ships which sail in the sea with that which profits men, and in the water which Allah sends down from the sky and quickens therewith the earth after its death and scatters therein all kinds of beasts, and in the change of the winds, and the clouds pressed into service between the heaven and the earth — are indeed Signs for the people who understand.

Its suggestion that our biosphere is merely so much waste matter and the human body, at best, a rather unsatisfactory ship in which the intellect has to sail, expresses an unrealistic, mindless exaltation of that intellect — narrowly conceived as searching for facts — and a corresponding contempt for natural feeling....

He gives orders to prepare the ships to sail, but, of course, Dido learns what is happening and begs him to stay.

It is said that the fire, «forming a sort of arch like a ship's sail billowing in the wind, made a wall around the body of the martyr, which was in the midst, or like gold and silver burning in furnace» (15:2).

During the same period, the combined efforts of the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy, sailing for 2,512 ship days at a cost of $ 40 million, resulted in the seizure of a mere 20 drug - carrying vessels.

When a ship sails on a tranquil sea, all the things outside seem to the voyagers to be moving in a pattern that is an image of their own.

The first vessel used was a ship out of Adramyttium, a port on the northwest coast near Troas, which was sailing back from the south and stopped to pick up passengers at Caesarea.

It must have been a considerable time after the Feast of the Atonement, say a month or so, that the ship's crew had risked the cruise from Fair Ravens to Phoenix; for after such an ordeal as they had been through, they would not have undertaken to sail again until spring of the next year.

By the early 19th century, sailing ships brought Chinese paper lanterns from the Philippines to the port of Vera Cruz in Mexico.

I am currently in Florida sailing on Royal Caribbean's new ship, the Harmony of the Seas, and loving every minute of it.

In typical Society style, the Exotic Cargo tasting notes read: «A wooden ship is sailing through the tropics with an exotic cargo of spices, scented flowers, medjool dates and mangoes... close your eyes and drift away on this sherry - soaked cruise into paradise.»

A lot of us were hoping for Pep Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp but those ships have sailed and neither Thierry henry or Patrick Vieira are ready to take on such a massive job.

Here and there under the white water of the reefs, the timbers and decayed iron of old sailing ships lie in common graves with the steel and brightwork of steam packets that foundered only yesterday.

In August of 1730 a capital Spanish ship, officially called Nuestra Se √ ± ora del Carmen but commonly called La Genovésa, sailed for Spain from Cartagena with $ 3 million worth of gold and silver.

With just four goals in all competitions, he has certainly lost his way this year given his prolific record over a consistent period of time, and coupled with speculation that United will target Antoine Griezmann this summer, as noted in the report, it looks as though the ship has sailed on the possibility of Muller moving to Manchester.

Before Chichester set out on his own around - the - world voyage in Gipsy Moth IV he read everything he could find in the way of first - person accounts of sailing the old clipper - ship route from Britain to Australia, and he has assembled the extracts in a stage - by - stage narrative with his own comments holding it together.

to @sevenitti Lacazette has already signed for PSG, so that ship has sailed, Jackson Martinez will join to AC Milan so what's left: Higuaín, compared to Girould he's world class, no doubt of it.

3, Sail the ship as well as head of communication and more....

The following day 26 tall ships assembled for the Parade of Sail into Boston Harbor.