Sentences with phrase «on a raft with»

The plane crashes in the Pacific, with eight dead, and the resourceful Louis leads the way in trying to survive on a raft with two of his crew, the pilot Phil & the new gunner Mac (Domhnall Gleeson & Finn Wittrock).

Floating on a raft with my flying fox friend, we get a sudden surprise as we crash ashore onto a strange island.

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Shortly after the ruling, Google posted a raft of help - wanted ads seeking «bright, well - organized and spirited individuals to work with a stellar team on cutting edge technology issues» at its offices in Berlin, Rome, London and Brussels.

His comments, made to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, came on the same day as a «raft of dismal economic news from around the world, with manufacturing output falling in Britain and Europe, unemployment jumping in the eurozone and America, and fast - emerging economies such as Brazil and China showing signs of running out of steam.»

So then, ETH offering, securities - like, mined like a commodity, Bitcoin had no offering, cleanest case, CFTC explicitly designated it as a commodity, Zerocash has the SAFT - like deal but as with ETH it had to raft an instant money supply to deliver on it (a.k.a. a «pre-mine» in the old 2013 alt - coin era parlance).

While one could easily point to a raft of geopolitical factors driving the stock and ETF trading price action, which may indeed have a substantial bearing on the overall market environment, we once again find technical analysis provides us with a suitable explanation.

BEIJING A raft of Chinese data over coming weeks is expected to show the world's second - biggest economy cooled slightly in March from the first two months of the year, with the main risk to the outlook now centered on an escalating Sino-U.S. trade spat.

Certainly you know that the bikinis you'll see on the beach this summer — along with the sand buckets, shovels, beach rafts, towels and tank tops --

I remember at a circuit assembly once the speaker said «As parents it's the hardest thing to save our children and it's like being in a life raft with your panicked child overboard and we want to just bop them on the head with an oar so we can pull them on board to safety...»

Last week a raft of new MFM products hits the menu, including a Vegan Cheeseburger and a Vegetarian «Meat Feast Pizza», with more arriving today, to join current veggie favourites such as Falafel Wraps and Jalapeno and Cheesy Nachos — on which a 10 per cent discount was already available, designed to encourage more students to take the plunge into meat free eating.

With any luck at all, Kelley will take care of that by sculling shooters down on rafts of old squaws, whistlers, bluebills, buffleheads and black ducks on the inland estuaries, bays and tidal rivers.

The two women who rode on the same raft with Caleb suffered serious injuries and settled claims with Schlitterbahn for an undisclosed amount.

In the first week they'll stay in a small village in the heart of the Basque mountains, where they will train on the local club's pitch, go rafting, hiking, and even do some co-training sessions with local club's first team.

Manager Paul Lambert, who hasn't shied away from making a raft of changes on a weekly basis, could decide to start with regular forwards Grant Holt and Chris Martin after neither started last week's win at Bolton.

Lewis travels to Belfast on the back of a nine - dart finish in Liverpool last Thursday, with their opener on Thursday expected to feature a raft of maximums.

There was plenty for a child of 2.5 years old to do — our daughter even went on a large water slide with us in which you sit in a orange round raft and come spiraling down a massive tube from the top of the resort that winds outside and then back in the resort.

Gove is pressing on with his own agenda this week, with a raft of education announcements including promises to extend the school day to ten hours and enforcing community - service - style litter - picking to improve discipline.

The Smith Commission has set out a raft of new powers for the Scottish Parliament, the Chancellor of the Exchequer has signed a new devolution agreement with Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the Deputy Prime Minister has signed an agreement with Sheffield City Council, and the Cabinet Committee on Devolved Powers has reported on options for change in Westminster.

The Conservative party will go on the offensive at the beginning of 2009 with a raft of new policy proposals to take the electorate's mind off the economy.

Quite a long time ago, back in 2005, I was lucky enough to work with my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles) and James O'Shaughnessy on the pupil premium, and little did we know then that it would be a raft for such a friendly and successful coalition.

Obesity is now firmly a matter for public policy, with the government citing the strain on the NHS to justify a raft of targets for a slimmer nation.

The Conservative party will go on the offensive in 2009 with a raft of new policy proposals designed to take the electorate's mind off the economy.

The Inspector - General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, was in the house on a courtesy call, with a raft of Police rednecks in tow.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo talks with his team just before paddling downstream in the Adirondack Challenge rafting race on the Indian River in Indian Lake, N.Y. Sunday, July 21, 2013.

«The success rate of conveyance across the Mozambique Channel was likely extremely low, with many rafts not making it across and, consequently, the animals on them perishing at sea,» observes David W. Krause of Stony Brook University, who wrote a commentary accompanying the report.

The solar wind is like any gust on Earth: It carries along a raft of different particles that can interact with each other.

The target and the route to getting there — a combination of Obama using his executive authority under the Clean Air Act with a raft of regulations on everything from heavy - duty trucks to buildings — were charted months earlier.

When these building blocks interact with a cervical cancer biomarker known as glycosylphosphatidylinositol - anchored placental alkaline phosphatase, or GPI - anchored PLAP, which is located on lipid rafts, they self - assemble into nano - scale chains, or «nanofibrils», that glue lipid rafts into large clusters.

When the researchers looked under the microscope at catalyst material formed with alpha - aluminum oxide, platinum atoms formed balls that tottered around on the surface instead of tidy rafts.

Ice - rafted debris occurs in greater abundances on the continental slope and rise during interglacial periods during the Late Pleistocene, with more varied stone lithologies [32 - 34].

CD45 colocalized with lipid rafts on AML cells, which contributes to elevated GM - CSF signal intensity involved in proliferation of leukemic cells.

We discovered that CD45 does not colocalize with lipid rafts on murine and human non-transformed hematopoietic cells.

His work on controlled free radical polymer chemistry started in the mid 80's with his Nitroxide work and colminated in the late 90's with the publication on reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT).

Its natural beauty, peaceful atmosphere and yoga on the banks of the Ganges go hand in hand with a host of adventure activities like white water rafting, camping, trekking, rock climbing, bungee jumping and jungle safari in Rajaji National Park to sight tigers and other wild animals.

These models are combined with a raft of other tests, and applied to all dating sites in the Scamalytics network, so scammers on one dating site will be instantly recognised on any other dating site.

Still, a browse through the profiles on the site reveals its users are far from the hideous creatures they perhaps imagine — and surely they're a more modest, less self - absorbed bunch compared with those who sign up to the raft of beautiful - people - only dating sites.

cagney plays a reporter who goes in on a false charge and teams up with george raft to clear his name, ending, of course, in a full scale riot.

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.

Assigned to a rickety plane to conduct a search - and - rescue mission, he survived a crash in the south Pacific and spent the next 46 days in a life raft with two others, living on rain water, captured sea birds and raw fish.

Jack O'Connell is starring as Louis Zamperini, a U.S. soldier who survived on a life raft with two others for 28 days after a plane crash.

Stranded on a mysterious island and armed with a few weapons as well as a magical map, our heroine explores the three - dimensional landscape in search of valuable loot and the eight scattered pieces of a raft that could be her ticket home.

Set with the task of stealing eight pieces of a raft with the help of a magical map, your character will use one of four weapons in combat while solving puzzles on your RPG - like adventure in a rather expansive overworld.

The early scenes, especially, of interloper Ben (Dana Andrews) poling his way on a flat - bottom skiff into the swamp to look for his dog «Trouble,» feel as essentially American as Tom & Huck rafting down the Mississippi, and as laden with the unknown and unknowable.

You begin the game with a short tutorial section that will get you acquainted with the simple controls and clever crafting system, and you will then be let loose on a raft downstream with little guidance for the rest of the game.

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.

With a raft of page - to - screen adaptations on the way, we try and predict whether the movie will be better than the book...

Alex Needham and furry friend nail their colours to the mast for Ang Lee's mystical story about a boy stranded on a life raft with a Bengal tiger

He along with remaining survivors Francis «Mac» McNamara (Finn Wittrock) and Alan «Phil» Phillips (Domhnall Gleeson), survived for over a month on a raft, dodging fighter plane fire and hungry sharks.

With two Golden Globes wins and a raft of BAFTA nominations on its plate — plus SAG award nominations for Sally Hawkins and supporting actor Richard Jenkins — it's all but guaranteed to get plenty of Oscar nods, if not wins.