Sentences with phrase «on rafts as»

Accumulation (1971), which is executed with the dancers on their backs, has been performed in public spaces of all kinds, including on water, with the dancers floating on rafts as they methodically work through the piece's graduated gestures.

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Treasury yields on Friday book a weekly drop as geopolitical instability keeps investors pouring into the perceived safety of government paper, but for the day, rates of government paper rise as a robust raft of economic data suggested U.S. growth would maintain its steady clip, ahead of a key monetary - policy update on Wednesday.

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).

As Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf noted on Wednesday, Sept. 24, the problem is that the face value of mortgage loans and a raft of other bad loans far exceeds current market prices or prices that are likely to be realized this year, next year or the year after that.

Jochabed, Moses» mother, practiced wild hope as she placed her baby on a raft of reeds, sending him across the waters of the Nile.

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.

I think Arsenal embarked on a raft of player sales because it is running short of money especially as Kroenke needs more money to fund his LA stadium project.

Coming as it did on the heels of a raft of such retirements that included Rory McIlroy's toothache at last year's Honda Classic and Bubba Watson's Bay Hill walkoff due to allergies after a first - round 83, DJ's evacuation seemed suspect to some.

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin will attend the second annual whitewater rafting event known as the Adirondack Challenge this Sunday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office on Friday announced.

Rather than scandalise herself by being on the same raft as a naked man, she swam away and was drowned.

Now, as Cuomo's closest friend and former top advisor, Joseph Percoco, is about to be indicted for rigging bids on state contracts, the governor proposed a raft of ethics reforms on Wednesday that stand little chance of ever getting made into law.

The tax breaks were due to come into force as part of the raft of «A-Day» reforms next April, and would have enabled savers to add properties and assets such as art collections worth up to # 215,000 to a Sipps - they would then receive a full tax rebate on their initial purchase.

As New York's state Senate finishes out a raft of tasks before the legislative session ends on Friday, one vote was easy: Acting MTA director Thomas Prendergast will now officially take over Joe Lhota's job after a unanimous vote to confirm him.

The state's budget is due on April 1, and the issue of sexual harassment seems likely to command significant attention in the coming weeks, as legislative leaders and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, have promised a raft of new measures to address the problem.

His authority and judgement are in question on this, and a raft of other issues, as never before.

He also hinted at a raft of radical policies to be unveiled by Corbyn, including more taxes on big corporations and the rich — defining this group as those who earn more than # 70,000 to # 80,000 a year.

Instead, he said, «there will be indications of what Brazil intends» as well as a raft of cooperative measures between the two countries on clean energy development.

The continent emerging from the rafts would take on bizarre and unpredictable geometric structures as it grew, creating landmarks rooted in math's never - ending strangeness.

Being emotionally tough may be what enabled Kiley to hang on for as long as she did, but she survived because a Russian ship spotted her raft on the fifth day.

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.

Torpor is incredibly useful when it comes to surviving periods without, or only limited access to, food and water, such as during a raft on the ocean or a journey to unhospitable landscapes,» said Dr. Julia Nowack, lead author of the Mammal Review article.

Instead of using boats to deliberately settle on Indonesian islands, hominins may have arrived as castaways, carried on makeshift rafts after floods.

On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New ZealanOn July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealanon an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealanon the seafloor northeast of New Zealand.

We have information on the drift characteristics of many different items, from people to 55 - gallon oil drums to various kinds of vessels, such as life rafts, sea kayaks, sailboats, skiffs and refugee rafts.

Just I was convinced that I was losing my ability to gauge these things, and the thing that really convinced me was on the second day as we were rafting and we got to Red Wall Cavern.

Madhusree Mukerjee distinguished herself at Scientific American for the depth of her knowledge about string and related theory as well as the elegance of her news and feature writing.After she left, the trained physicist applied her writing prowess to a book on the Andaman Islanders and recently to Churchill's Secret War, a scathing investigation from a raft of primary sources that revealed how direct decision - making by Winston Churchill led to massive famine on the Indian subcontinent.Meet Madhusree in this recent interview in Harper's, in which she parries gracefully a series of sharp questions from interviewer Scott Horton.

Huge, drifting ice rafts (the white spot on the satellite image below) shed minerals as they melt, painting trails of nutrients, teeming phytoplankton, and chlorophyll across hundreds of kilometers of ocean.

June 13, 2011 James B. Nachman, MD, 1948 - 2011 Pediatric cancer specialist James B. Nachman, MD, professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago — affectionately known as «Doc Nach» — died Friday, June 10, from a suspected heart attack while on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.

That was this past year — 70 - odd years after he had participated in the Olympics, fought in World War II, survived being stranded on a raft at sea for 47 days, been tortured as a PoW for nearly two years in Japanese camps, and battled severe post-traumatic stress disorder to find God.

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.

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.

In Desert Island Escape, make use of each animal's different skills, find materials and evade enemies on dozens of islands as you attempt to construct a raft and float to safety within seven days.

There's a whole raft of supplementary content, some on the same disc as the feature (the Day & Night short that complemented Toy Story 3's theatrical release, for example), but most on a separate second BD disc.

The River Wild ** 1/2 (Century 16, Century 12) While enjoying a white - water rafting trip on a river where she once worked as a guide, Gail (Meryl Streep) and her family are taken prisoners — first psychologically, then physically — by Kevin Bacon and his henchman (John C. Reilly).

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

Susceptible to the threat of hostile Indians, Matt, his son, and Kay make off down the river in Harry's abandoned raft, but the river itself proves to be just as perilous... Monroe and Preminger had a famously rocky on - set rapport (prompting Preminger to buy out his own contract from Fox), but Mitchum's effortless subtlety beautifully balances Monroe's broad strokes.

Joining the US air force as a bombardier prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour, he survived being shot down on a couple of occasions, the last time being when he and two crewmates spent 47 days adrift on open life - rafts in the Pacific, their ordeal ended when they were captured by the Japanese and another ordeal began.

This is the directorial debut of brothers Todd and Jedd Wider, though the two have worked as producers on a raft of documentaries, including the Oscar - winning Taxi to the Dark Side and the Emmy - winning Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.

When the raft he builds is destroyed by a red turtle as large as him, he stomps on the animal and puts it on its back to die.

Along with some warfare and the suffering experienced on the raft, are lengthy portrayals of his plight as a prisoner.

Literally raised in a zoo, Pi's family in India decides to sell their animals to a zoo in Canada and on the boat journey there, Pi becomes the sole human survivor as he escapes on a life raft after a deadly storm.

In an invaluable new analysis, John Bailey of Whiteboard Advisors — and veteran of the White House, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Commerce — examines how the federal government excludes for - profit educational providers even as it welcomes for - profits in a raft of other vital areas (Full disclosure: Bailey's piece is published by my shop at AEI, as part of my ongoing series on «Private Enterprise in American Education.»)

The opposition leader said that the proposals were a «poor attempt» by the conservative government to «duck their record» on education, which he said had «seen classes grow to the largest in Europe, teachers flocking to leave the profession as pay and conditions stagnate and a raft of corruption scandals at unaccountable Tory academies that have failed to deliver the promised improvements in standards».

imposes a raft of new prohibitions on the federal Department of Education while broadly reflecting recommendations sketched by conservative education reformers in such outlets as the Conservative Reform Network ’s

Based on the 2.3 - litre Ecoboost model, a similar raft of modifications as to create the Q500 are applied to entry - level Mustang for # 6k.

On the dynamic side of things, the 750s receive a new suspension, as well as the normal raft of 7 - series technologies like roll stabilization, stability control, and traction control.

Capable of seating seven, with clever interior packaging, lusty (though thirsty) V6 petrol power, high - set driving position and a raft of occupant comforts it ticks many boxes as an on - road family hauler — and it remains well - equipped for decent off - road adventures when the all - wheel drive box is ticked.