Sentences with phrase «on sinking»

What a journey (as joni mitchell put it: stepping stones on sinking sand) through interviews, documents, scrutiny, meetings with our builder, cost of installing a well to obtain permits, improving access road for the fire dept, building permit $, and the NO from 3 piece - suits â $ «some of them whippersnappers.

Unlike my ex-boyfriends and the couples that Julie Schwartz Gottman and John M. Gottman describe in 10 Principles for Doing Effective Couples Therapy, my boyfriend and I were not on a sinking ship watching one another drown.

«Feel as though you're on a sinking ship and there's nothing you can do?

If you find yourself on a sinking ship of negativity, it might be time to get out before it drags you down with it.

Because sticking around on a sinking ship can only damage your career and delay your professional growth.

There is unfortunately no data on sinking water and ocean circulation than enables this question to be answered.

The Paris talks are flopping and their leaving like rats on a sinking ship.

It feels ever so much like we're being extra sure to turn out all the lights as we leave the dining room on the sinking Titanic.

Kim Hansen: Unfortunately the typical response is to lobby Washington to pay $ 200 million to build sea defenses on sinking land, and they seem to get it.

For example, conditions at the poles affect how much heat is retained by the earth because of the reflective properties of ice and snow, the world's ocean circulation depends on sinking in polar regions, and melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets could have drastic effects on sea level.

Just raising minimum wages is like shuffling the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic.

Local solutions on a sinking paradise, Carterets Islands, Papua New Guinea from UNUChannel on Vimeo.

In the foyer of Tate Liverpool, just by the café and the shop, stands Rodin's The Kiss; it made almost as much impression on my young son as the exhibition on the sinking of the Titanic in the Maritime Museum next door.

In another, the house, depicted at night with lights reflecting on the ocean, lists on a sinking foundation.

The market seems to be going full steam ahead with digital game releases, and I'll still be on the sinking ship that is physical releases.

In this anxiety - filled M - rated DS game, players find themselves kidnapped and trapped on a sinking ocean liner, forced to work with eight other similarly unfortunate characters to survive deadly puzzles set by a mysterious villain named Zero.

Many also combine role playing with different types of adventure, such as surviving on a sinking island or digging through caves or being lost in a desert.

These boss battles will feel familiar to those who've played the thousands of party games that have spanned the series: they're quick, and place the players in an arena where the focus is much more on beating each other than it is on sinking the boss.

Having now sunk a terrifying amount of my life into the game and fully intending on sinking a lot more too I'm here to say it meets those expectations and punches them in the face.

Bladestar, you now sound like the fiddle players on the sinking Titanic as it went down, continuing to play, inspite of knowing their fate.

We can be blind to the most obvious truths, and we can convince ourselves that everything is going to be alright when we're on a sinking ship.

Converting to e-book format just to save money at the printer is not a marketing program; it's a lifeboat on a sinking ship.

This statement makes as much sense as saying, «We can't save all the passengers on the sinking ship so we might as well let everyone drown.»

A 4 day unit of work, written for Year 6 as part of a wider topic on the sinking of the Titanic.

On the sinking of the Maine, the book is angrily adamant: «Although the Maine had been blown up by American spies in order to provoke the war, the public was not informed of the truth.»

Both series offer pilots that are tight and often funny — «Up All Night» is the one I'd save first if we were all together on a sinking ship, as if that could happen, but «Free Agents» has its moments and fine performances — and also make one wonder about the long run.

The character of Leslie's father, Jack (Frank Langella) who initially appears to be the film's antagonist, a wealthy, upper class fat - cat hell bent on sinking his claws into Ben's family, but we soon come to hear him as a voice of reason.

The Ballad of Holland Island House is a short film told from the perspective a home in the Chesapeake Bay, telling the true story of the last house on a sinking island.

Set in 1952 the movie tells the story of a daring rescue by the Coast Guard of the crew on a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod during a...

It was a good script on the analysis of the self - destructiveness of personality: people who insist on sinking into the abyss.

10:00 pm — TCM — A Night to Remember Rather than graft a fictional narrative on the sinking of the Titanic (as did both the 1953 and 1997 films entitled Titanic), this film attempts to stay as true as possible to the truth of what actually happened, using only people and stories that were actually on the boat.

A dense quilt of nested scenes allegedly pulled from cinema's greatest abandoned films, this impossible tangle of original stories bounces from sailors on a sinking submarine to burly hunters trying to rescue a woman from a lupine forest gang.

In one sequence where they nearly drown on a sinking ship, I white - knuckled the arm rests of my chair.

Perhaps my body is worried that I might be on a sinking ship, in the middle of the ocean, and I would have to float to shore, so it made sure I had two large flotation devices that will help me get there.

A roomy fit and internal drawcord provide maximum comfort so you can focus on sinking your next jump shot.

To assess the efficiency of the biological carbon pump, data on sinking velocities of the different species are necessary.

«Status has its obvious rewards in a modern, stratified society — if you were on the sinking Titanic in 1912 and you were high status, then it was more likely there was a place for you on one of the lifeboats,» said Michael Gurven, professor of anthropology at UCSB and senior author of the paper.

The questions included the following: «On a sinking ship, whom should you save first?

Something — perhaps a seamount on the sinking plate — pinned the high - slip patch of fault in place for 500 or 1000 years, they argue, while patches around it failed repeatedly in smaller quakes.

Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: November 28, 1914 On this date 100 years ago Scientific American reported on the sinking of HMS Audacious, one of the British Royal Navy's most modern «dreadnoughts» — the largest and most powerful battleships in existance in 1914.

The Boomtown Rat wanted to stay on the sinking EU ship and made a rude salute to the Ukip leader and his Brexiteers.

creating more non-productive Government jobs to boos jobs numbers is nothing more than shuffling the deck chairs on the sinking upstate NY Titanic

«What is needed from the G20 is a radical shake up of the global economy, what we got was world leaders desperately rearranging the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic,» he said.

Other politicians running for the statewide seat, he said, are like an «orchestra entertaining passengers on a sinking Titanic, while I am proposing a complete redesign of the Titanic.»

«Sheldon Silver and his legislative cronies are not leaders, they are Kamikaze pilots intent on sinking with the ship.»

The Finest Hours (June 7)-- based on a true story about a storm that traps 30 soldiers on a sinking ship.

Just rearranging the deck chairs on the sinking ship.

prick well selling RVP why should he stay on a sinking ship.

It's good to know the 1 - 3 Vikings are having fun on a sinking ship.

Simply answer, they have no interest in being passengers on a sinking ship captained by Kroenke and Wenger.