Sentences with phrase «over a cliff of»

This highest point of the temple was probably the southeast corner of the temple which loomed over a cliff of the temple mount.

Such clumsy power plays within the PC have annoyed members who haven't yet signed on to march, to Brad's drumbeat, over the cliff of fealty to the cause.

[1] A main feature of the park is McWay Falls, which drops over a cliff of 80 feet (24 m) into the Pacific Ocean.

Mountains rise from the deep fiord, waterfalls spill over cliffs of granite, fur seals and penguins sun themselves on large rocks as you sail by, and dolphins frolic in your wake.

Not exact matches

While there are signs of economic improvement, small businesses remain cautious in terms of hiring, amid uncertainties over the Federal government's ability to avoid the fiscal cliff and the tax ramifications of going over it.

During the first part of 2008, this average declined very slowly, but then fell off a cliff in the last couple of months of the year to a low of just over 110,000 vehicles in December.

President Obama quickly made his position clear: Congress must raise taxes on Americans earning more than $ 200,000 a year as part of any compromise to keep the U.S. from going over the fiscal cliff.

Burnett: Pandit took over what was America's biggest bank as it teetered on the cliff of failure.

A couple of months ago when you were coping with the looming fiscal cliff, you probably at least thought you would have some clarity when it was over.

During the financial crisis of 2008, Bair insisted that she and her agency have a seat at the table, where she worked — and fought — with Henry Paulson, then the treasury secretary, and Timothy Geithner, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, as they tried to cobble together solutions that would keep the financial system from going over a cliff.

We're at a line in the sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead of enriching the few who already have far more than enough, nourish an ideology of cooperation instead of competition, and put the technology to more intelligent uses than convenience and mindless diversion.

Given the vicissitudes of markets, there was no way to tell whether we'd reached the nadir and recovery was around the corner — or whether we were about to go over a cliff.

In the Vanguard study, 47 percent of plans granted immediate ownership of employer contributions, 30 percent of plans gradually granted ownership over a five - to six - year period, and 10 percent had a three - year cliff vesting waiting period.

Depending on your employer, matching contributions may be immediately yours (cliff vesting) or gradually over a period of time (graded vesting).

«I'm taking a lot of risk here by doing these things that could go over a cliff,» he said, noting that critics could soon declare that he had «lost it» and was «too old.»

Over the past five years, the economy has been through a number of shocks, including the eurozone crisis, the fiscal cliff, China's surprise currency devaluation in the summer of 2015, and the shale oil bust.

The lemmings are abroad, gathering in ever - agglomerating clumps for the rush over the cliff, determinedly oblivious of the evidence.

I mean I voted for Dr. Turner in the last buy - election and so my decision this time around was not a lemming rush over a cliff with all the other previously Tory voters to embrace communism in the shape of the NDP.

But the religous people always have a reason for why the bus load of children fell over the cliff and died.

California, leading the Gadarene rush over the cliff as usual, now provides state - funded «sex - reassignment surgery» to prisoners; the first recipient of this «benefit» was Shiloh Heavenly Quine, a first - degree murderer / kidnapper serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.

Majority of people of this country will prevent Satan taking this country over the cliff again.

You ex-Catholics who are thinking of going back to the cult are exactly what is intended by this scheme and you are falling for it like sheep running over the cliff.

And China, demographically speaking, is heading over the cliff, as the effects of state - mandated infertility, brutally enforced by a totalitarian regime, begin to be felt.

The rich vein of evangelical religion has run well - nigh out; and, though there are masses of apostolic origin lying everywhere, they are but fragments, and are evidently only the talus which has fallen from the cliffs above and scattered itself over the lowered surface.»

If I drew a cartoon for the «Naked Pastor» it would be a guy standing in the middle of shattered glass with buckets of rocks throwing them over a cliff at neighborhood of full of glass houses.

Have to be bc I saw and heard 4 angels as a child and can still remember their lengthy message, have been physically stopped when going over a cliff and stepping in front of a bus.

Such pasture as there was was surrounded with deserts and cliffs in which the straying sheep might perish of hunger and thirst or over which it might plunge to disaster.

To deviate in the slightest is to fling oneself over a cliff into the arms of Backlash.

We have worked very hard over the last fifteen or twenty years to establish a good working relationship between clergy and psychiatrists in healing troubled people at the bottom of the cliff.

He was the kind of man you'd follow over a cliff.

Making my way over to the giant rocks sitting on the shore, I reach out and touch some of the mussels that cover the hundreds of square feet of cliff and rock that protect the houses above from the water.

Too many are falling over the cliff into the morass of the sickness of alcoholism each year.

I will not follow any of these ideas over a cliff, and neither should anyone else — because none of it is found in the Bible.

And Paleoindians, ancestors of living First Americans, rather handily made the native horses, elephants, and several species of bison extinct by driving them en masse over cliffs and into bogs where many were killed but few provided meat.

Just try to tear yourself away from «Vanilla Bean Meltaways» (thick butter cookies showered in sugar with a tiny plastic figurine wielding a vacuum cleaner to seemingly clean up the excess in the photo), «Matcha & Pistachio No - Bake Cheesecake» that's the haunting green hue of moss growing on a cliff, and «Brownie Wears Lace» in which brownies are gilded with blond chocolate ganache frosting, before bittersweet chocolate is piped all over the top in a delicate lace pattern.

There's a hike called Ha Ling and you literally scramble up to the edge of a cliff face over which you could fall several hundred feet to your death.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

Seriously though, I didn't kill myself when we sold Fabregas, I didn't catch a grenade when we sold Nasri and he went and peed all over the Arsenal badge, I didn't jump in front of a train when we sold Van persie, I didn't skew off a cliff when Fabregas joind chelsea, I'm not gonna kill myself if we don't sign anyone.

Liverpool trying to resurrect an empire through spending and Man U trying to stop an empire sliding over the edge of a cliff through even more drastic spending.

Climbing up and over the main divide with ropes, crampons and iceaxes, braving avalanches and ice cliffs, they follow the migration routes of the magnificent Himalayan tahr and nimble chamois all the way out to the West Coast.

A car full of Tottenham fans drive over a cliff!

Or, Stop dangling your brother over the edge of that cliff!

Then something has been added, as in Pierce College, where they took away the glasses of the young man who was dropped off in the country and he sailed over a cliff to his death.

When it hits, I feel so out of control like I'm stumbling over the edge of a cliff without a rope.

That won't stop the left attempting to cut him loose when they see him going over the cliff, of course.

[3] His speech offered less a summation of the potential strategic direction of the State Department under his tenure, than the plea of a Capitol Hill veteran, dismayed by Washington's budgetary partisanship and brinkmanship over the recent «fiscal cliff» and imminent government - wide sequester.

The 112 - mile bike course spans the cliffs of Palisades Parkway followed by a 26.2 - mile run course over the George Washington Bridge, finishing at 81st St in the heart of the city.

US senators are united in their dismay over being back at work in Washington in the absence of a fiscal cliff deal.

The Bush 2 hangover??? Well, the fiscal cliff is made up largely of the 2001 - 02 tax cuts; the unpaid two wars in Muslim countries costing over $ 1 trillion, and growing; the unpaid Medicare Part D prescription program, which can threaten Medicaid's survival; the failed attempt to privatize Social Security; and of course, the 2008 financial - Wall St. meltdown.

«I think the governor's office, essentially, when it came to economic development upstate, turned the keys over to Alain Kaloyeros, and unfortunately in the case of Utica, Alain drove the bus right off the cliff.»