Sentences with phrase «on land mines»

«No matter how much two people love each other in the beginning, at some point most couples end up in the same fight over and over — and inadvertently stepping on land mines that restart it all once again.

And the more recent bans on land mines and cluster munitions are also clearly motivated by nonutilitarian concepts.

So many people have stepped on land mines, so many have gotten hurt by war, have lost their families, fled their homes.

MOTALA & MOSHA, THE ELEPHANTS Motala and Mosha are Asian elephants who lost their legs after stepping on land mines along the Thailand — Burma border.

Two years ago Craig wandered into a seminar on land mines at a nuclear technology conference in Crete.

While much of the top 10 was stepping on land mines, James Franklin's squad was regrouping for a three - week stretch that will define their season.

It's worked, even after stepping on some land mines here and there.

In the name of his country, Harmon descended into Asian jungles where he killed men, stood next to friends as they were killed, had his foot on a land mine that should have killed him but did not detonate.

A 17 - year - old kid who had stepped on a land mine in Kosovo had been treated by an orthopedic surgeon in the chief referral hospital in Pristina.

He had stepped on a land mine.

When Farah steps on a land mine on her way to school, her world becomes much smaller than the dreams and hopes in her heart.

His books about the Mozambican girl Sofia, who lost both legs after having stepped on a land mine, is read by thousands of school children each year.

If you do not become familiar with disability law and reasonable accommodation, you will be at risk of stepping on a land mine.

Not exact matches

«We had an agreement with the government that over the life of the mine, we would retain 50 percent of the tailings on land.

I've stepped on a lot of land mines, and I can work on helping you avoid them.

On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.

Landing on an asteroid and mining it for resources might sound far out, but NASA is very serious about it.

Andrew Forrest has lost his battle to stop Yarri Mining from being granted mining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the PiMining from being granted mining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pimining tenements on land near the mining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pimining magnate's Minderoo cattle station in the Pilbara.

Nowhere near as sophisticated as things are today, geo - targeting allowed marketing companies to hit a general area (usually a town, county or city) and drill down to the right people in that area using data mined from cookies, so, for example, farmers within driving distance of one of the many Springfields across our great land would get ads from the local Agway there telling them when there was a sale on farmer stuff.

He tried grey smoked salt and Cabernet salt, but landed on pink Himalayan salt, partly because of its story: It's from the oldest salt mine in the world, it has 84 trace minerals, and it's pink!»

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they're sitting on a gold mine.

The order does not call on regional authorities to shut down mining operations directly, but instead to put the squeeze on them by strictly enforcing policies on electricity consumption, land use, tax collection and environmental regulation.

Less well known are its efforts to sell mining leases on federally owned land to promote coal exports abroad.

President Trump has vowed to help bring back the industry by rolling back environmental regulations, offering tax breaks to invest in infrastructure and ending a moratorium on mining on federal land enforced by President Obama.

UPDATED for 2015 - This book reveals the potential land mines and pitfalls of active investing and educates readers on the benefits of passive investing with index funds.

If you can avoid stepping on financial land mines, you will be able to reach financial independence more easily.

Asteroid mining is still in its infancy — no would - be miners have managed to land on a space rock, much less harvest the water and metals locked away inside of it.

Based on the British Columbia MINFILE mineral database, sixty eight (68) of the one hundred and seventy three (173) past producing Silver Lead Zinc mines in the Slocan Silver Camp are located in the Klondike Silver land package.

Asanko Gold Inc. is an African focused gold producer with an operating mine, the Asanko Gold Mine, and highly prospective land packages on the Asankrangwa and Sefwi belts in Ghana, West Afrmine, the Asanko Gold Mine, and highly prospective land packages on the Asankrangwa and Sefwi belts in Ghana, West AfrMine, and highly prospective land packages on the Asankrangwa and Sefwi belts in Ghana, West Africa.

Finally, the government's cold stance on resource development comes at a time when disputed land claims are hurting B.C.'s resource sector — especially mining.

Before Wounded Knee, in a military action stirred by gold mining on tribal land, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and 200 U.S. troops were killed in 1876 by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn, in what is now present day Montana, about 400 miles west of the Standing Rock battle.

One day prior to the CEAA announcement, hundreds of marchers, drawing people from Occupy Vancouver and including masked protestors, paraded through downtown Vancouver to denounce «mining on native land.»

On July 11, 2016, the company staked additional placer mining claims, totalling approximately 1,724 hectares adjoining the 16 Kibby claims, thus increasing the company's total Kibby Basin land position to 2,760 hectares.

It is that aspect of the law that frightens environmental groups that have fought for years for the coal - mining rule and another rule to restrict energy companies from burning off natural gas during drilling operations on public lands.

U.S. opposition to the ICC is of a piece with its vote a year earlier against the treaty to ban antipersonnel land - mines, its refusal to pay UN dues, its economic sanctions on allies that do business in Cuba, and its implicit foreign policy of demanding a «superpower exemption» from international rules.

Since hundreds of land mines still litter the forest on the side of the main road into Osijek, authorities worked quickly to pick up the refugees on route.

Already more than 16,000 lakes and rivers within Canada have had their protected status removed in order to facilitate oil exploration and resource mining on First Nations land.

In September the USCC put out «voter education» material listing the responses of Clinton and Dole to a wide range of questions on subjects as various as abortion, environment, land mines, foreign aid, and labor relations.

Timeless small land mines of colorful plastic that will occupy your typically boisterous child for hours on end.

The reality is that multinationals are mining the land for a short - term gain, people are confining pigs and poultry in the ammonia of their own excrement in the name of efficiency, and others are exploiting vulnerable migrant workers to ensure there's enough chicken on the Coles rotisserie to feed the insatiable hunger of our convenience culture.

Hualalai Estate Coffee, named after the mountain on which coffee beans grow; started as a hobby of mine on several acres of Kona land.

It might take two leaps to get Purdue back to respectability, especially with a schedule that features six teams from last year's F / + top 40, but barring land mines, Purdue appears to be on the right course.

We can surely step on each other's land mines!

Cary residents worry that Lake in the Hills will allow gravel mining on the land.

Read about some other natural living practices of mine that land on the far side of crunchy like washing my face with oil, using cloth mama pads, and even using cloth TP!)

On the gentle descent into Newquay airport, over the Eden Project and mining earthwork patterns on the hills above, the PM's jet landed in late afternoon sunshine with the sea looking an inviting turquoisOn the gentle descent into Newquay airport, over the Eden Project and mining earthwork patterns on the hills above, the PM's jet landed in late afternoon sunshine with the sea looking an inviting turquoison the hills above, the PM's jet landed in late afternoon sunshine with the sea looking an inviting turquoise.

One person's right to dig a mine and prospect for gold on his land, infringes on the right of everyone downstream of him to have clean stream water to use for cooking or fishing.

The Romanian Parliament, also dominated by USL, is currently debating the modification of the 2003 Mining Law and considering amendments which would facilitate important erosion of citizens» rights, particularly by allowing foreign companies to expropriate the lands and houses of Romanian citizens on behalf of the Romanian government.

This law would also facilitate the approval of other mining projects, including dangerous cyanide - based ones, like the RMGC - led one, by depriving citizens of their right to protest by remaining on their lands.

Last Monday, in a new twist to the never ending drama on bauxite exploration in that part of the country, the Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu declared as invalid and of no effect, a mining lease granted Exton Cubic Ltd..