Sentences with phrase «on a mountaintop»

If you imagine the world of traditional television as a fortress on a mountaintop, one whose walls are crumbling due to heavy fire from players like Netflix (NFLX) and HBO and Amazon Prime, then the seemingly impregnable tower at the center of the fortress would have to be ESPN.

While standing on a mountaintop, you might pause to consider how lucky you are not to be working, then feel elated at your freedom.

In 1 Kings 19, Elijah waits on a mountaintop for God to speak.

A devastating question if we think of God as an old man in the sky with a long white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»

niknak, you realize that fossils are found on mountaintops and that much of the earth was underwater at some point in history?

Early geologists KNEW that the fossils were created by a Global flood that is the only logical explanation for Sea shells found all over the world even on mountaintops.

*** geologists KNEW that the fossils were created by a Global flood that is the only logical explanation for Sea shells found all over the world even on mountaintops.

I'll let you in on a secret: don't try to live your life on the mountaintop all the time.

Most people seem to think that Jesus just wandered about the countryside preaching on mountaintops and along riverbanks.

I used to go off for days alone in the High Sierras, and on so many mornings at sunrise I have been on a mountaintop and have seen God remake the world, that religion dug into me.

Even as they clamber for space on mountaintops as the waters rise.

Denominational officials who once thought they were Elijah on the mountaintop now seem persuaded by shrinking budgets to speak their minds like shrinking violets.

The figure of the solitary sage on the mountaintop is really the exception.

Nor did he have an easy explanation as to why Tebowing, the act of getting down on one knee and praying, went viral - with people doing it on mountaintops, under the sea and most anywhere in between.

I think Jesus said the same thing that day on the mountaintop.

Stand on the mountaintop... turn completely around and observe the entire horizon - guess what you have done and seen?

Expressed glibly, how was it that fossil seashells were often to be found on mountaintops, far from any sea?

The Seashell on the Mountaintop: a Story of Science, Sainthood, and the Humble Genius who discovered a New History of the Earth by Alan Cutler (228 pp., ISBN 0 -434-00857-5) is published by Heinemann.

When you're lying on a mountaintop with your hoodie pulled up around your eyes and all you can see is the starry sky above.

Jan knew her husband was somewhere «on a mountaintop» in Vietnam, but she had no idea what he had been through.

Make sure the guy on the mountaintop has enough flares.

I just want to stand on a mountaintop and DEMAND justice for you, and every other parent who has been put through this!!!! God - willing I will * never * endure another hospital birth again!

The site is on a mountaintop overlooking Saratoga County, at the end of a winding road and surrounded by a 10 - foot fence.

The legend of Pohaku - o - Kane explains how a Volkswagen - sized rock came to be perched improbably on a mountaintop above the Limahuli Valley, visible from much of the botanical garden.

A future incarnation of MoEDAL, located on a mountaintop instead of in an accelerator's cavern, could look for such magnetic monopoles that sprinkle down on Earth from space, Pinfold says.

When the Moon's shadow races across the continental United States on August 21, researchers will be waiting — in planes, on mountaintops and at other carefully chosen vantage points along the roughly 110 - kilometre - wide path of totality.

We could have been on a mountaintop, a freezer, a studio — it was impossible to tell.

«I felt my way into this approach, and I've seen it work such wonders that I want to get up on a mountaintop and shout so everyone can hear me: «You should be doing this, too!»

Even after shattering a vertebra in his neck in a surfing accident nine years ago, Perlman doesn't hesitate to rappel down cliffs or bivouac on mountaintops in order to tend to his plant patients.

They didn't consider reasons for their presence on mountaintops apart from climate suitability.

The Gobi - Altai mountain range in western Mongolia is in a very dry region but ice can accumulate on mountaintops, such as Sutai Mountain, the tallest peak in the range.

In addition to well - preserved sections of the wall enclosing the Roman sanctuary, further parts of a Christian abbey, founded on the mountaintop after the end of the heathen cult, were excavated.

These algae are found all over the world, in soil, fresh water, oceans, and even in snow on mountaintops.

The transfer comes after several years of testing and operations of the 3.5 - meter telescope by DARPA on a mountaintop at the White Sands Missile Range.

This was feasible by the advent of Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), located on a mountaintop plateau in Chile, which works in tandem to detect electromagnetic waves at a wavelength range in the millimeter (pivotal for studying molecular gas) and a sensitivity level that is just starting to be explored by astronomers today.

Unwrapping this bad boy on a mountaintop after a tough hike is the food equivalent of a day at the spa.

Chances are there isn't much going on in the forest or on the mountaintop.

Believe it or not, you don't need to move to some expensive resort on a mountaintop, or spend literally the entire day on or near the toilet to do a detox or cleanse.

Then I shared the Miracle Rose Cleansing stick to my bud Sheryll at Wanderlust, who in turn shared it with her followers and then all my favorite K - beauty bloggers such as Kerry from Skin & Tonics and Coco from The BeautyWolf shouted their praises for it on the mountaintops.

On a mountaintop deep in the Mojave Desert, Harland takes on Mother Nature in a hilarious stand - up set on the world's biggest stage.

The pace and writing are meaningful and sometimes verge on elegant, as Outsiders patiently explores the power dynamics in the town and the strange world on the mountaintop above.

Up on the mountaintop, Barnaby looks upon the happy village in dismay, for he wants to make Mary Contrary his bride and gain control over her estate.

From Julie Andrews warbling on a mountaintop to the time «Harry and the Hendersons» walked away with a handful of gold, here are all the Academy's biggest blunders in one handy list.

It sounds more like she's singing in church than whole - heartedly belting on a mountaintop about her hopes and dreams.

As Quiet lights up enemies, I join her on a mountaintop perch and call in support.

Soman's illustrations, showcasing all the blues and teals of a seafaring journey, are at turns majestic (the churning waters of a storm at sea) and laugh - out - loud funny (searching for seashells on a mountaintop, as a disgruntled ram humors them).

Soldiers in the heat of battle; death - row prisoners; explorers stranded in deserts, jungles, on mountaintops; anyone sick or lost or just tired and bewildered: we all wanted our mothers.

But Born on a Mountaintop also gives us a look at fame and image in pre-Facebook America and finds that, while the cogs moved more slowly, the machine itself was much the same as the one we know today.

In Born on a Mountaintop, author Bob Thompson tries to find the real man behind the myths, but soon discovers that almost every «fact» about Crockett is either the subject of contentious debate or flat - out wrong.

And, as DBW puts it together, he has told the assembly gathered on that mountaintop that «50 percent (of all U.S. book publishing revenues being ebooks) just doesn't seem doable based on usage dynamics and reader statistics.»