Sentences with phrase «on an expedition as»

He went out on the expedition as a traditional creationist.

Chadwick and Nooner are scheduled to go back to Axial in August to gather more data, but it may be possible for other researchers to visit the seamount on an expedition as early as May.

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Cable channel AMC took SXSW as an opportunity to promote its upcoming show The Terror, which follows a 19th - century British Naval crew on a deadly polar expedition.

Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

I have protested against confining the significance of Jesus Christ to a divine rescue expedition, but the plain testimony of two thousand years of Christianity is that Jesus Christ does rescue us in the supreme sense that through his deed, culminating on Calvary, he opens up the right road to fulfillment and provides grace — which, as Kenneth Kirk once said, is God's love in action — to enable us to walk that road, even in times of stress and even though we are quite likely to stumble and fall again and again.

While on a routine parachuting expedition his chute failed to open properly and as he landed he broke his back in three places.

Pillinger had hoped that the probe, named after HMS Beagle, the expedition ship of Charles Darwin, would bring about a «quantum leap» in our knowledge of Mars, just as Darwin had forever changed our understanding of life on Earth.

Ryan Robinson's interest in wine began over 15 years ago as a Lounge Manager on Lindblad Expeditions, an outdoor adventure cruise liner focused on ecotourism.

Chile peppers made their way into the area through trade with Mexican tribes, maybe as early as 1582 on a Mexican expedition lead by Antonio Espejo.

Together, Lance and Tonya went cold turkey, and as soon as he made enough money — he worked on a construction crew, on fishing expeditions and at a local sawmill — they made a down payment on some property in the woods three miles from the beach.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

As Hector was about to depart on his soul - searching expedition, his girlfriend wholeheartedly proclaimed, «If you're going to do this, do it totally.»

If it had had a nice strapline across the top saying «This is a write - up of David Lammy's speech to the Fabian society about PPC selection» I probably wouldn't have even bothered reading it, never mind commenting on it, because I would have realised that it wasn't designed for us as an audience, but was simply a Labour party fishing expedition.

The Nadoli Kaleo MP revealed this on Asempa FM's Ekosii Sen programme Thursday after the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho dismissed a motion filed by the Minority to investigate President Mahama after he admitted receiving a luxury vehicle, a Ford Expedition, as a gift from a Burkinabe businessman in 2012.

Speaking on Okay FM's «Ade Akye Abia» Morning Show, Hajia Aisha Futa posited that the entire body has not sat to discuss anything so far as the Ford Expedition gift given President Mahama is concerned.

Signoracci's attorney, Cheryl Coleman, said in her motion to quash, «the subpoena is defective as «overbroad,» such that the District Attorney appear (s) to be on a «fishing expedition.»»

Fitzpatrick defended the developer in his criticism of the mayor, going on what a judge described as a «fishing expedition» for material from City Hall.

A Labour stunt vote over the scandal looked doomed to failure tonight as new Home Secretary Sajid Javid accused the Opposition of going on a «fishing expedition».

Diverse insinuations have also trailed the incident as some quarters attributed it to attempt aimed at frustrating the supplementary election slated for tomorrow, others said it may have been as a result of indiscriminate bush burning by some youths on hunting expedition.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toAs I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toas it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

As the melting of the Arctic sea ice accelerates, countries with claims on Arctic Circle territory — including not just Russia and Canada but also the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland — are scrambling to send mapping expeditions to the icy North.

Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $ 215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.

Yet as an expert in «expedition medicine,» Lewin has been a part of some of the remotest digs on Earth.

The «Aurora,» a barkentine of 580 tons with auxiliary steam - propulsion in which the expedition sailed, has recently returned to Australia bringing the report that two separate parties have been landed on those part of Wilkes Land known respectively as Adelie Land and Termination Land.

He's had an impressive career so far (he's only just 42), working for NASA on space medicine, and as medic to a diving expedition.

Though some biologists recently have criticized the collection of specimens as potentially jeopardizing fragile populations of rare animals, Gardner said collecting expeditions to biologically unknown areas remain a critical part of understanding life on the planet.

Geochemist Ken Caldeira of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California, and his wife decided that she should shift from a full - time job to a contract position to allow her to serve as a field assistant on some of the field expeditions Caldeira leads.

Scientists on the Indian - German expedition, known as LOHAFEX, grew a 300 - km2 patch of algae in hopes that the plants» carbon would fall kilometers below, taking with it the atmospheric carbon it had pulled in during growth.

From early on Brown's expeditions for fossils had served as a smoke screen for occasional sojourns as an intelligence agent and corporate spy.

I know there's an expedition called Finnmark2007 going out there on March the 7th from the UK which is going to try and highlight how the Sámi's traditonal knowledge and sustainable practices are important to the rest of the world as we battle against climate change - perhaps Al should go join them, sounds like he needs to!

Approximately 22 percent of the Cuban shelf is designated as MPAs, and many of the dives on this expedition were within these MPAs.

With the proceeds from Ciencia y Aventura, Serrallonga can now afford to spend as many as 7 months each year on scientific expeditions.

In response, the committee's Democrats wrote to Smith on 23 October, noting that the subpoena «appears to be furthering a fishing expedition» and saying that it oversteps the committee's bounds, as the paper is a research study and not a policy decision.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

As a result of this involvement, Geoff Green and Angela Holmes, founders of Students on Ice, an organization that runs polar learning expeditions for teenagers, invited me to become a member of the education team.

Scientists chose Kawio Barat as the first target for the expedition based on satellite information and data collected by a joint Indonesian - Australian team in 2004.

These duties include sailing as the IODP scientific representative on a two - month IODP expedition approximately once every 1 to 2 years.

It also means that any structures placed on the Moon as part of human expeditions will need better protection.

Closer to home comes this ethereal image of the Southern Lights, as captured by a crew member of Expedition 52 on the International Space Station.

Instead, NASA tapped the CST - 100 and Space Exploration Technologies» (SpaceX) crewed Dragon spacecraft as the two offerings which would carry future expedition crews to the ISS, as was detailed on Aviation Week and Space Technology.

The research vessel JOIDES Resolution about to leave Australia as it embarks on the expedition (Credit: IODP)

The sun is captured in a «starburst» mode over Earth's horizon by one of the Expedition 36 crew members aboard the International Space Station, as the orbital outpost was above a point in southwestern Minnesota on May 21, 2013.

The Base Camp Baja expeditions depart from the Baja California Sur city La Paz on January 1, 4, 7, and 10 for three - or four - night voyages aboard the 30 - cabin National Geographic Sea Bird, which will serve as a «floating base camp» to explore the pristine Sea of Cortez coastline.

I actually should dock a star due to the through familiarity of the motifs — Meltdown for instance is a post atomic mishap story much like The Road, as well as in another a dad and son come across a body on a hunting expedition, much like Carver's So Much Water So Close to Home — and perhaps because of its «extreme maleness»: girls barely feature except as longed for or disgusted - by creatures.

To continue: «As far back as the 1930s, Weston Price embarked on extraordinary anthropological expeditions to remote corners of the globe and uncovered the link between modern eating habits and the incidence of chronic degenerative illnesAs far back as the 1930s, Weston Price embarked on extraordinary anthropological expeditions to remote corners of the globe and uncovered the link between modern eating habits and the incidence of chronic degenerative illnesas the 1930s, Weston Price embarked on extraordinary anthropological expeditions to remote corners of the globe and uncovered the link between modern eating habits and the incidence of chronic degenerative illness.

I have since served as the team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, climbed the highest peak on every continent (known as the «seven Summits»), and skied to both the North and South Poles, an accomplishment known as the Adventure Grand Slam.

She not only served as team captain of the first American Women's Everest Expedition, but she also climbed the highest peak on each continent and skied to both the North and South Poles — a feat known as the Adventure Grand Slam, which fewer than forty people in the world have achieved.

Valentines Day may not be a big deal as Christmas or Halloween, but I am on an expedition to redecorate my home with Valentines decorations.

Ok, so no one goes on an expedition in platform sandals but the pockets on the romper definitely could have served as a place for carrying trekking essentials (lip balm & candy?)

Celebrating global sustainability through musical expeditions, Earthworks travels the world with inspiring artists as Date: 21 November 2013 (2013-11-21)-- 23 February 2014 (Minor protests went on until 2 December 2014) Location: Ukraine, primarily Kiev (notably Maidan