Sentences with phrase «out of the sand of»

Perhaps a latter - day Charlton Heston, pursued by jackbooted apes on horseback, will stumble on the statue of MJ that stood outside the United Center — right arm rising out of the sand of some beach, basketball held high, like Lady Liberty's lamp: The only relic remaining of a long - lost civilization.

Then, out of the sands of Egypt, the mystic Shadi has come to test Yugi's powers, which will give Yugi his greatest challenge yet.

Not exact matches

Cenovus, one of the biggest of Canada's oil sands producers, said in March that it was operating at lower capacity due to the maxing out of pipelines and other routes through which it sends heavy oil south to U.S. markets.

Why have venture capital investments become ever more concentrated along a single stretch of Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, rather than diffusing out across the country as the industry has grown?

Netscape created the modern Silicon Valley, where entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could meet at a table on Sand Hill Road and scribble out plans for a multimillion - dollar corporation on the back of a napkin.

But cofounder Sand sagely adds that «if there is any problem with K2's system, it's only a matter of time before they work it out.»

Currently, Anderson, Sand, and Guerrero each take out $ 65,000 a year, and own 33 %, 33 %, and 17 % of Switch's equity, respectively.

The U.S. can produce as much shale oil as it wants, but its Gulf Coast refineries are geared toward heavier kinds of crude that can easily process oil sand bitumen but aren't geared toward the lighter crude coming out of, say North Dakota's Bakken play.

Sheffield Resources has announced plans to spin - out its gold and base metals assets into a separate entity and list it on the ASX, as it progresses development of its flagship Thunderbird mineral sands project.

«The overarching theme here is that companies need to take their heads out of the sand.

The letter also argues that the chiefs of some of the biggest companies involved in Alberta's oil sands industry have publicly come out in favor of such stricter carbon pricing.

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

Despite the name, you don't have to use a sand wedge out of a sand trap.

«This is an ostrich situation where the ostrich just pulled its head out of the sand,» says Harry Kargman, CEO of Kargo, which helps manage ad campaigns on mobile devices.

My dad was a coin collector and his old gold coins minted in the twenties had the edges shaved off them, bits gouged out of the faces, sanded faces, by people wanting their coin to go further, same occurred with silver coins.

The recent surge in growth in North American non-conventional oil production, whether it's light oil from North Dakota or the heavy stuff that comes out of Alberta's oil sands, is made possible by high oil prices, which are in turn linked to world demand remaining robust.

They continue to bail out of oil sands stocks, which are down by 70 percent in the last seven years.

If I take Keystone XL out of the mix, in my toy model, I haven't impacted the cost of the marginal barrel of oil sands because I haven't changed the cost of a barrel shipped by rail, I've simply reduced the profit on the barrels which would be shipped via KXL by forcing them to be shipped to market in a more expensive way.

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand and salty water into the surrounding muskeg.

Soon, Lake explains, he'll start looking for a lifestyle increasingly on offer to mobile young people like him: work at a northern Alberta oil sands project, but live further south, either flying in and out of a camp or driving up once a week.

The oil we're now pulling out of the ground in North America, whether from the oil sands or shale rock in North Dakota, is tough to get at.

A lot of dirty oil is going to come out of the tar sands, be refined in China and create enough Co2 to push the planet into climate disaster.

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

My University of Alberta colleague Andrew Leach is fond of pointing out that exports of manufactured products from Southwestern Ontario push up the value of the Canadian dollar, making life more difficult for oil sands producers.

Even as the agreement was being hashed out, however, attention was already turning to a burst pipeline at Nexen's Long Lake oil sands site that spilled 31,000 barrels of bitumen, sand -LSB-...]

As this opinion piece points out, anyone thinking of boycotting oil from the oil sands needs to think about what they're choosing instead:

But you'd be better off sticking your head in the sand and waiting it out instead of trying to «do something about it.»

Even though the sand is out in the open, it's impossible to determine which grains of sand belong to who.

Oil sands workers for training in renewable energyThe government of Alberta should invest in training out - of - work oil sands workers in renewable energy.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

That lasted until April 18, 2000 when Reed was forced out in a boardroom coup, leaving Weill the sole Chairman and CEO and on his way to becoming a billionaire from the lavish stock option grants he received from his head - in - the - sand Board of Directors.

While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace of oil sands expansions.

«Businesses that want to remain competitive need to raise their heads out of the sand and not only pay attention to these trends, but connect them to their business strategies, organizational goals, and workforce management initiatives,» Sutton Fell said.

Oil majors like Shell and Statoil are pulling out of the tar sands already.

Stir up all the crazies... GET YOUR HEADS OUT OF THE SAND AND STOP BELIEVING IN BEDTIME STORIES FROM THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.

The religious NUTS wants everyone to believe God is a Task master who draws a line in the sand called THE 10 Commandments and if you step on that line and break one of those 10 he pulls out his whip and pounds on you!

Too much of this conversation hasn't graduated out of the sand box.

Revelation 20:7 - 10 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.

Believing that universe expanded from something the size of a grain of sand — or even out of nothing — does, indeed, sound like «fairytales and mythology» to me.

And now, GWH threatens the ability of African nations to get out of the quick sand of destitution by forcing them to refrain from developing their resources and infrastructure, all in the name of «saving the planet,» of course.

Get your head out of the sand... BOY!

GFreas — If you do not think the Catholic Church is business, you really need to get your head out of the sand.

It's helpful to know who you're dealing with, and I'd love to see the church get its head out of the sand and stop denying the presence of sociopaths in our midst.

We just have to be wary of building castles out of sand, because you know what can happen to those...

Maybe if you dug your head out of the sand every once and awhile you'd understand the actual implications of martyrdom.

Yes, we have run frantically back and forth between the gods of the «up and out» and the «down and in,» like Hagar searching desperately for water among the hills of Mecca, even as the infant Ishmael's kicking heels opened the clear - flowing spring of Zamzam in the sands of the valley.

Yes, we need to, as Christians, LIVE God's way, but we also need to be light and salt and not just stick our head in the sand and act like... or give the impression that... homosexual marriage, genocide, and abortion are ok, by our lack of speaking out because we're too busy living our own little holy lives.

And like they also pointed out, a lot of the righteous right are always trying to control other sand the world too for that matter.

He buried some bottles of water under the sand and he was somehow going to make water come up out of the earth.

The Republicans better get their head out of the sand, they are not going to get a whif of the whitehouse anytime soon until they rid their party of the Christian Taliban!