Sentences with phrase «on rickety»

Lost the plot: luxury villas built on rickety poles above Chinese factory to be torn down amid health and safety concerns

Riding into Kingston on a rickety country bus, he is soon met with disaster by those who falsely mask themselves as his friends.

Sure, they re easy to beat once you figure out that pattern, but how could anyone not cherish fire - spitting triceratops on a rickety Farris Wheel?

It's a procedurally - generated adventure downriver on a rickety raft with just a loyal dog for company and whatever you can loot and craft to ensure your survival.

Home to verdant mountains and remnants of the ancient Champa Kingdom, the most famous landmarks in Phan Thiet, however, are the Red and White Sand Dunes, where travellers can enjoy a fun - filled day of riding ATVs or sliding down the slopes on rickety sleds.

True, but of course they have to share your own enthusiasm and are willing to get out of bed at 6:00 a.m., ride on a rickety bus to the middle of nowhere, or trek for hours through swarms of mosquitoes and muddy paths for you to finally get to the place where you can share that certain experience (but if they're willing to do that, then you've found yourself a keeper).

We also went for a ride on the rickety roller coaster and climbed «The Tower» for even better views.

Front porch senior citizens and eight - year - olds who've already seen it all sit on rickety lawn chairs whittling with switchblades, waiting for something to happen, as it always did.

Dozens of embarking passengers, shoving and yelling, and using their luggage as battering rams, fought for a foothold on the rickety gangway.

Realize you're attracting people with poor business skills and are too willing to hop on their rickety bandwagon.

Rocks pelt the car as we jerk around in the back seat like we're on a rickety wooden roller coaster.

The «lab» consisted of a handful of old computers without modems resting on rickety folding tables and a stack of dusty textbooks dating back to the 1950s.

You'll ride on rickety pirate ships, explore mines populated by angry moles and leap through lava filled worlds.

My only regret is that I didn't get it earlier, since I had been squatting on a rickety, old Gold's Gym «quasi-squat rack / all - in - one home gym» that had terrible stability and no safety catches whatsoever.

I guess you are gonno be very comfortable giving excuses for monsieur wenger for the next decade just as you have been doing for the past decade, the fact that we needed a DM and a centre forward in d past summer is not rocket science or based on your rickety analysis

We were supposed to be touring the city but instead we went almost directly to a ramshackle part of town, where earlier the camera crew had spotted some kids playing table tennis on a rickety old table that was set outside in the rain in a grimy dirt plaza that was beginning to turn slippery.

So all that scholars really have to go on is the text itself — a wild ride on a rickety, ancient, circular - reasoning roller - coaster with little external data to anchor our knowledge of anything.

Accompanying the budget, the NDP government has produced a plan to return to balance by 2023, a plan built on a rickety foundation that assumes that the Kinder Morgan pipeline will be built and operate at capacity, that...

Not exact matches

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

And even in the difficulties, even in the exhaustion, even in knowing that I have to rise and shine for every one else in the house in just a few short hours and how my work has suffered, even knowing I can't do this forever and knowing that I'll finagle for a tandem nap while everyone is at school, even here in this moment, I admit it: I delight in her and in this rickety glider that creaks on the ease back motion.

It's much better than having to rely on my, frankly rather rickety, memory.

Unfortunately, we all sat down together to eat breakfast on the same side of a rickety picnic table that had seen better days, and the picnic table toppled over, practically in slow motion... our pancakes flew through the air and landed on top of us, along with everything else that was on the table.

In the 1880s, these women cooked up chili in big clay pots during the day and sold their wares from rickety chili stands on street corners all night long.

It was not much of a hill, and there was not much to buy at the Hatchet Creek Shopping Center, but there was a rickety jukebox on the dock that took us back to the»50s.

Those rickety, old man knees he slid across the pocket on, always just enough, even in his 20s.

On a recent day in Maradona's old Villa Fiorito neighborhood, little boys, shirtless and barefooted, play soccer on one of the two dusty fields that haven't yet been taken over by rickety tin shacks and a garbage dumOn a recent day in Maradona's old Villa Fiorito neighborhood, little boys, shirtless and barefooted, play soccer on one of the two dusty fields that haven't yet been taken over by rickety tin shacks and a garbage dumon one of the two dusty fields that haven't yet been taken over by rickety tin shacks and a garbage dump.

Parents should avoid mattresses on the ground, or rickety bed frames, as your babies are fragile, and should not sleep on even the slightest unstable beds.

The Armadillo has no bumper bar and people seem to complain about it «feeling» rickety and issues with the basket hitting the ground, the Cruz is a two - hand fold and just had a recall on their bumper bar and the Bee has no peekaboo window, lower weight capacity and is about $ 150 more.

Thirdly, as the Doona is made of plastic, it feels a bit rickety and flimsy at times, for example, on uneven ground.

The «Cossack» in Ian Tattersall's new book, The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, exemplifies the risk of relying too much on the opinion of authorities and not enough on systematic analysis.

Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's rickety electrical grid, emergency responders are still struggling to treat the immediate health needs of people on the island.

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.

The message is lost in a sea self - seriousness and melodrama, and the screenplay is too rickety to support any meaningful commentary on drug - related crimes.

Three years after the original «Madagascar,» the animals - on - the - run from the Central Park Zoo and their pals depart for New York on in a rickety plane operated by a canny, if pesky penguin crew and crash - land on the vast plains of Africa.

Director Roar Uthaug («The Wave») piles on the flashy CG set pieces, from a rickety plane dangling over the top of a waterfall to the various tricks and traps of the tomb, but they feel more like elements for a snazzy trailer than scenes that actually create suspense or adrenaline.

It manages to stay on the rails, but it is quite a rickety ride to the finish.

West Texas is a character unto itself with massive poverty, oil pumps on the horizon, dusty streets, rickety fences, and gun - toting citizens everywhere.

Speaking in his high - ceilinged office with rickety and mismatched BPS - issue furniture and nibbling on prepackaged Granny Smith apple slices, he says plainly that closing was not something he imagined or trained for.

And, of course, the derivative storyline, in what is an endlessly derivative military SF sub-genre, invariably revolves around a renegade crew of a rickety, obsolete battle cruiser who are incapable of following orders from the Confederation Admiralty, or some other cookie - cutter, authoritarian shot caller, and who are all that stands between Earth and an invasion from Planet Wherever... Don't even get me started on the zombies.

Last year, one of the horses broke through the rickety fence setting all three on the run.

It may become a little more rickety or unsteady on its back legs.

But in a rickety arena on a Friday night, Jim Benning discovers the forces of good still have a chance against the forces of evil, at least in swan - diving, chair - slamming lucha libre Mexican wrestling.

On the south end, however, is the magic — fewer parking spaces, a rickety wooden stair to descend, gorgeous grasses in the dune, and a quieter beach.

On the banks, rickety old wooden houses on stilts can be seen in stark contrast to the spanking new houses and condominiumOn the banks, rickety old wooden houses on stilts can be seen in stark contrast to the spanking new houses and condominiumon stilts can be seen in stark contrast to the spanking new houses and condominiums.

There were many other western tourists on this bus unlike other bus journeys I have taken in Asia where I'm often the only foreigner aboad looking completely out of place and squashed into an overcrowded, rickety carriage on the road to who knows where.

Its rickety, it's dangerous, it's awesome — it's Vang Vieng — the most fun place on earth.

Set beneath 300 year old Oak trees, this luxurious retreat on an historic Cape Dutch wine farm, offers a la carte breakfasts and gourmet picnic lunches to be enjoyed on the vast lawns or at our neighbouring estate, Rickety Bridge and guarantees our guests a first hand taste of the gourmet capital of South Africa.

Scary but fun — rickety bridgeUnfortunately, most tourists zip right past it on the way from the Puntarens / Paquera ferry to Montezuma, Santa Teresa, or Tambor, never knowing what they've missed.

What we can glean from the demo, Beginning Hour, is that the action takes place in a remote mansion (before you chip in, not in the Spencer Mansion) in the middle of the countryside; as is the bread and butter of the survival horror series, you play as a seemingly clueless guy stumbling about the rickety homestead with no idea what is going on, his only clues being the occasional shadow of a shambling body or gurgling noise from monsters lurking outside.

However, Tropical Freeze has many ranges that scroll routinely, say, with you outrunning a lava movement, flying on the again of a rocket, or tumbling down bumpy tracks in a rickety mine cart.