Sentences with phrase «of wind forced»

Initially, he believed the birds were using «wave lift» to get a boost — capitalising on gusts of wind forced upwards by the sloping edges of waves to create updrafts like those found along cliffs or mountain ridges.

The roofs, walls, and foundations of buildings also provide data: Joints that fail provide a lower bound of wind force, whereas structures that survive offer an upper bound in any one spot.

Not exact matches

In addition eight members of the NATO - led Resolute Support coalition were wounded, the force said.

The system is automated and will stop working if there are any «disadvantageous changes» in either the direction or force of the wind.

From November through February, 30 - foot swells and gale - force winds lash the western shores of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, putting on an awesome show for guests at the Wickaninnish Inn.

Strong gale - force winds have swept Malta in the past few days, forcing a suspension of the ferry services in the Gozo Channel.

COPENHAGEN, Oct 12 - Danish wind turbine maker Vestas said the impending expiry of a U.S. tax credit had exacerbated a fall in orders for next year, forcing it to make more than 800 job cuts in the United States and Canada so far this year.

BI: Your last project, Menshn, attracted a lot of press, but ultimately failed and was forced to wind down.

In early February Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas battled hurricane - force winds and 30 - foot waves, and the same ship is again facing severe weather, forcing an early return to its New Jersey port.

It said he arrived in Syria in the latter part of 2012, and was later wounded while fighting with Islamic State forces in Syria.

The strong Santa Ana winds — reaching near hurricane force — have helped the fire spread across over 60,000 acres, mostly in Ventura County, which is about 70 miles outside of LA.

On the tiny island of Barbuda — where the hurricane first made landfall — cell towers snapped under the force of 185 - mile per hour winds, cutting off communication.

Rates have never been this low for this long, and the Fed will be forced to adopt a new set of monetary tools to wind down its bloated balance sheet.

People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

The wind that is blowing in most episodes of credit booms is generally at least gale force.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

«At stake for FPL are the claims of all customers who paid for storm - recovery charges and nevertheless lost power for a prolonged period in the sweltering summer heat after Hurricane Irma's outer bands unleashed tropical storm force winds in the South Florida area,» a law firm representing the plaintiffs said in a statement.

Harvey rolled over the Texas Gulf Coast on Saturday, smashing homes and businesses and lashing the shore with wind and rain so intense that drivers were forced off the road because they could not see in front of them.

In this day and age, energy comes from wind, water, sun and from geothermal forces below the surface of the -LSB-...]

Tropical storm force winds (sustained winds of 39 mph or more) may extend well inland across parts of southern Georgia.

The CPTPP's entry into force will mark the end of a long and winding road for Canada in committing to an Asia Pacific trade strategy, marked by a number of significant shifts in the calculus of costs and benefits.

Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

When the winds of doctrine try to blow our beliefs to the ground, we turn our open hand into them, using their ideas to force our beliefs more firmly against the hand.

[39] October 15, 1954 - Hurricane Hazel causes hurricane force winds and small portions with 6 inches (150 mm) or more of rain.

[40] August, 1955 - Hurricanes Connie and Diane both cause as much as 10 inches (250 mm) of rain and tropical storm force winds.

It was the soul of his entire race that had shuddered within him: an obscure memory of a first sudden awakening in the midst of beasts stronger, better - armed than he; a sad echo of the long struggle to tame the corn and to master the fire; a rancorous dread of the maleficent forces of nature, a lust for knowledge and possession... A moment ago, in the sweetness of the first contact, he had instinctively longed to lose himself in the warm wind which enfolded him.

CNN WORLD report, in the war 6, 75,000 civilians killed, 7500 troops of USA and its allied forces killed 3 25 000 people wounded and $ 3.5 Trillion Dollar spent for the war.

The general picture is that Osiris, embodying the power of growth and fruitfulness, and indeed all the creative forces of nature, was killed by his brother Seth, who represented the barren red desert and the scorching wind, the natural enemies of agriculture in the Nile valley.

If life's storms are howling about you, throwing the full force of their winds against you, remember that God has delivered you from storms in the past, and will calm this storm as well.

Flow will we, privileged with this knowledge, answer the question the disciples verbalize when they have experienced Jesus» authority over the forces of chaos in the stilling of the storm, «Who then is this for even the wind and the sea obey him?»

The people speak, both through their prayers and through the visible tale told through their eyes, and the wind gives voice to the forces of the world about them and impinging upon them; yet God has nothing to say.

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

Raked by ferocious Santa Ana winds, explosive wildfires northwest of Los Angeles and in the city's foothills burned a psychiatric hospital and scores of homes Tuesday and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.

Soon I had some relief and my bowels opened without blood or force, but the wound of the previous rupture isn't healed yet, and I had to suffer a good deal of pain because some flesh extruded.»

For people who have been forced to become foreigners in their own land, who have been driven from their properties and who have been pushed around by the powerful like the mighty wind blows the dust around, ashes, as a moment of the continuum of the pilgrimage of life become most powerful.

This photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 which provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an injured Syrian man who was wounded by the shelling of the Syrian government forces, waits to receive treatment at a makeshift hospital, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria.

The bubbles on the foam which coats a stormy sea are floating episodes, made and unmade by the forces of the wind and the water.

This photo released on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2018 provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian paramedic, right, treats an injured man who was wounded by the shelling of the Syrian government forces, at a makeshift hospital, in Ghouta, suburb of Damascus, Syria.

Too often the church is busily trying to rake up leaves into nice orderly piles, while the gale force winds of the Holy Spirit are intent on scatting them all over the yard.

To rub salt in the wound, Dejan Lovren then picked up a hamstring injury of his own, meaning Klopp was forced to pair Lucas with Toure at the back and bring James Milner on in midfield.

Skidding down 30 - foot waves during four days of gale - force winds, Tango was virtually catapulted eastward.

Sometime beforedawn the wind accelerates to gale force, and we are jerked awake by thepowerful sound of trees smashing together.

For the most part, though, this is an enjoyable collection, a fair olio of snippets from golfers» memoirs and reportage from some of the game's most respected names: Francis Ouimet's account of Brookline; Palmer's memories of Cherry Hills; Grantland Rice looking back on Bobby Jones's putt to force a playoff at Winged Foot; Dan Jenkins on Hogan at Oakland Hills; Dick Schaap on Tom Watson and Hale Irwin at Winged Foot; and Herb Wind on Watson and Nicklaus at Pebble are all blissfully present.

Kos went off Arsenal's defence folded like a pack of cards in a gale force wind.

West Virginia played the physical, «ugly» type of game that Bob Huggins is known for, and wound up forcing their opponents into 23 turnovers, including eight from senior standout Dez Wells.

It is the central force in his life, slicing across family, football and community, carrying him to the top of his profession and to an iconic status in a still - wounded city that he has helped lift from despair.

Lets hope wenger puts caution to the wind and doesn't revert back to his frugal type but instead thinks of the supporters who once were acustom to Arsenal being an irresistable strike force who wasted opponents with an array of ballers, winners able to assert their superiority at will.

Skipper Bill Cox of the would - be cup defender «American Eagle» is strung as tight as the standing rigging on his boat and, like its spars and stays, defies the wind with unobtrusive force

It is the force of the wind.

He seems to be groping toward a way of seeing, abstracting, transferring to film for others to perceive, the absolutely elemental forces — wind, sun, frost, even time.