Sentences with phrase «of stony»

In a notice published on 12 February 2010, NMFS announced it will evaluate the status of 82 species of stony coral that the Center for Biological Diversity has asked to be listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

It could not afford time to tell a story from right to left, like Robert Motherwell in his hints of a stony, inhuman procession.

Clouds solidify into geographical features and warm - blooded anatomies are born of the stony shapes that proliferate in his paintings from this period.

The rich diversity is in part due to the 2,000 km (1,240 mi) of coral reef extending along its coastline; these fringing reefs are 5000 — 7000 years old and are largely formed of stony acropora and porites corals.

The Island of Mljet is also well known to divers as it encompasses the largest reef of stony coral in the Mediterranean.

The Mesoamerican Barrier reef runs along the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatan Peninsula and is home to 66 species of stony corals, more than 500 species of fish, as well as several species of sea turtles, dolphins and whale sharks.

The Mesoamerican Reef is home to more than 65 species of stony coral, 350 species of mollusc and more than 500 species of fish.

, with exceptional views of the stony river valleys below.

The warm waters hosts over 500 species of fish and 65 varieties of stony coral.

There are hundreds of species of stony corals and soft corals that give the reef it's color and provide an underwater haven for the creatures that thrive there It is part of the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) system, and its distance from the mainland varies from 25 ′ to 50 ′ miles which results in coral mountains and 90 — 110 foot channels.

Every variety of stony coral known to live in shallow water can be photographed in this one area.

Luckily for us, the weather and the waves were quite calm, allowing us to land the tender boats on a small area of the stony beach.

There are few rail routes in the country which give such a concise snapshot of Wales, providing marvellous views of stony mountains lakes and rolling green meadows.

There are hundreds of species of stony corals and soft corals that give the reef it's color and provide an underwater haven for the creatures that thrive there It is part of the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) system, and its distance from the mainland varies from 25» to 50» miles which results in coral mountains and 90 - 110 foot channels.

Between them is a sloping sand flat with a few scattered growths of stony and soft corals.

A large variety of stony and soft corals flourish on this shallow reef.

Spaced judiciously throughout a tank of stony corals, they make a home aquarium look like a wild, living reef.

The composition of the matter from which the solar system formed is deduced from that of stony meteorites called chondrites and from the composition of the Sun's atmosphere, supplemented by data acquired from spectral observations of hot stars and gaseous nebulas.

The 1,100 - pound (500 kilogram) meteorite is an ordinary H5 chondrite, a type of stony meteorite responsible for 31 percent of Earth's impacts.

In Joggins, a forlorn town on the Bay of Fundy, entire trunks of fossilized trees — indeed, whole cemeteries of stony forests — emerge from the bluffs and fall in pieces to the beach below.

Diatoms [a type of shelled algae] are big carbon sinkers because of their stony shells and powered buoyancy.

The Almahata Sitta meteorites are mostly ureilites, a rare type of stony meteorite that often contains clusters of nano - sized diamonds.

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Stradbally village went by, and then we saw two likely spots, a pair of stony little streams that crossed half a mile of bog and sand to the sea.

Not exact matches

A stony - faced Taliban official burst into laughter at the mention of the Petraeus affair during an interview with AFP in northwest Pakistan this week.

However, if you've already chased them a couple of times and received nothing but stony silence in return, you might need to try a different approach, angle, or twist on the topic.

The stony - faced daughter of a Korean billionaire, whose older sister was brought low by the «nut rage» scandal, apologised Tuesday as she reported to police for questioning over allegations she sprayed a business associate in the face with fruit juice.

Mark 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

Few can match Job for pure misery, a man who went from immense personal wealth and happiness to utter nothingness in a matter of days, and fewer can match him for stony faith — a resolute, steely trust that God had an answer, even if that answer didn't really make sense from an earthly perspective.

The rythms of the liturgy fall upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeness.

Even your stony - hearted editor felt a moment of sadness.

(CNN)- Heaven and Earth are said to meet atop Jerusalem's sacred mounts, but the city's stony streets have seen more than their share of violence.

overt glory shining round the fear - filled shepherds on the stony soil of Bethlehem.

How strange that in the space of just one week a book reviewer in the New York Times mentions the «frisson - inducing» discovery only nine years ago of a ninth century B.C. stele referring to the «House of David,» thus issuing «a stony rebuff to those who think that David is a mythical figure,» while another...

A new heart also will I give you;... and I will take away the stony heart Out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Yet politically and culturally this seed of a transformative experience of reason fell on very stony ground.

It is a land where alone one may understand the haunting sensuous beauty of the Bible, a land where poetry seems to spring from the stony hillsides, where poets lived and walked whose words are known and cherished more than those of any others, and, rendered into hosts of tongues of which they never heard, are loved and repeated the world around.

(4) do none of the above and maintain his conviction that there is a god, prayer works and Texas is special in god's eyes while maintaining a stony silence about what went wrong in this case.

Now see there you've run into too many stony grounders... of Mark chapter four..

And, of course, I sometimes cringe when a stony reading of a lively story makes it leaden and deadly.

If a seed falls on stony ground in the desert, it simply refuses to germinate until the next shower of rain comes along and gives it an environment at least somewhat appropriate to its needs.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

Various Biblical writers entertained the hope that the Lord would take away the stony heart from his people and give them a heart of flesh, or in differing terms, that he would write his law on their hearts.

2011 Domaine de La Réserve d' O «Hissez O»: The stony, clay and limestone terroir is evident in the lively minerality of this ripe, full bodied bottling.

In the first of two photographs shared by Boca's official Twitter handle, Gallagher and Tevez are seen in fond embrace, while the second shot depicts a more stony - faced Gallagher being presented by a Boca kit by current coach Guillermo Barros Schelotto.

I mean it is not as if the club is stony broke or anything, and even in those years when the boss was having to scratch around for cheap and relatively unheard of players to sign, the boss could always find someone.

The morose trudge from the field, past the blank, stony face of the manager.

Now, I want to make one final request (this might be very difficult for you but I do hope you won't mind): please touch the stony heart of Arsene Wenger and make him do the right things from henceforth.