Sentences with phrase «over the desert at»

Over the desert at the same latitude the diurnal temperature range is about 72 F (40C).»

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The largest installation at the moment, the Tengger Desert Solar Park in China, generates just over 1.5 gigawatts.

At the time, Virgin Retail had over a hundred record stores across the U.K.. On weekdays, they were deserted.

Flying in at sunset over the desert I noticed that everything was dark, except for one little spot that was lit up like Pitt Street: Taghazout.

For much of the previous year, Uber executives had agonized over how to lower the rate at which drivers were deserting the platform.

On Tuesday, moments after finding out about the layoffs and leadership upheaval at the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, I asked Tony Hsieh by phone why he stepped down as leader of the utopian startup city he had founded, and why he had continued act as head of the ambitious experiment in the desert despite having already handed over the reins to his lawyer and a team of executives.

Frozen deserts at the poles, and hot deserts over much of the middle.

Just a bunch of Jew hating arabs fuming over Israel's success at turning a desert wastland into a productive country.

Someone took footage from a low budget movie called «Desert Warrior», did a fast overdub to add the offensive comments, and put it out on the net to obscure the fact that these people in the lands attacked by the US are actually angry over invasion, conquest, looting, drone strikes against civilians, torture, and being shot at by the United States on behalf of Israel.

Speakers at the event included (in addition to Davidson, Williams, and me) Andrew Comiskey (Executive Director and Founder of Desert Stream / Living Waters), Dr. Christopher Rosik (former president of NARTH), Floyd Godfrey (a licensed professional counselor in Arizona and author, who has come out of the homosexual life), Dr. Peter May (a general practitioner of medicine for over thirty years), and Martin Davie (a Tutor in Christian Doctrine at Wycliffe Hall at Oxford University who has written an important response to the Pilling Report).

In this chapter we are looking at the fact of evil from a specifically Christian perspective, and no Christian can be like the ostrich, which is said to bury its head in the sand when a storm sweeps over the desert.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

Millhollin takes over the William Jessup program after serving as varsity volleyball coach at Desert Mountain High School in Scottsdale, Ariz..

Unless long - term public good wins over short - term private gain and ignorance, vast ranges, already greatly depleted, will at no distant date be as barren as the sheep - created deserts of Spain.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

It occurred to me last night as I was sitting in the hot tub and watching the sun set over the desert, that if I could travel back in time twenty years and whisper in my teenage ear: You're going to be an author and have a wonderful husband and a firebrand, amazing child and you're going to get to travel a lot and one night you're going to find yourself alone in a hot tub in the desert, looking up at a glowing pink sky, I would have thought, That's a pretty f-ing cool life.

I want absolutely everything organized and clean to the point where I am a little OCD about it, I like watching The Bachelor / The Bachelorette on Mondays, I prefer straight tequila over wine, I have a Beagle and a Chihuahua even though I don't even like either one of those breeds, I like Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble and Lyle Lovett, I have at least 20 bottles of shampoo and conditioner in my bathroom at any one time, Audrey Hepburn is my idol, I have an unhealthy addiction to Target and Zulily, Singing In The Rain is my favorite movie, Purple is my favorite color, my best friend and I have been friends for 20 years now, I haven't gotten my driver's license yet out of sheer laziness, my favorite desert is key lime pie and cheesecake, I hide chocolate all over my house for when PMS strikes, I have asthma that I've been hospitalized for 3 times, I used to play guitar, piano and conga drums, (I think) I'm a good photographer, I use to dance professionally (ballet) for 15 years, I love Mexican food and I'm Italian.

At over six feet tall, he carried two guns and a dagger and I knew he was a bit of a legend among the tribes of the northern deserts for his warlike acts.

It's a strange feeling, running past a deserted Westminster Bridge at 6 am, knowing that in little over an hour it will be filled with the hustle and bustle of people on their way to work.

Anger over the expenses scandal at Westminster is thought to have prompted many voters to desert the established parties, with Labour by far the worst hit.

Then a ground - based laser array with a combined capacity of 100 gigawatts of peak power, spread out over a dry, high - altitude site like Chile's Atacama Desert, would zap each sail, one at a time, for a few minutes.

Jan Kramers at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and his colleagues think the rock is instead a piece of a comet that exploded over the desert 28 million years ago.

During this event, the aerosols stayed close to the surface due to the presence of a anticyclone hovering over the study region at sea - level, «reducing the amount of shortwave irradiance reaching the surface and causing greater radiative cooling,» states Obregón, who likens the effects of desert dust with those resulting from certain forest fires or episodes of high pollution.

People living in the Atacama desert of Chile evolved specific gene mutations over the past 7000 years that make them better at detoxifying the heavy metal

When the authors looked at seasonal trends over the same time period, the most notable expansion of the Sahara occurred in summer, resulting in a nearly 16 percent increase in the desert's average seasonal area over the 93 - year span covered by the study.

[TV Weather montage: «We are breathing dust that at one point originated over Africa... Dust particles are carried 15,000 feet into the atmosphere... Another dust cloud from Africa's Sahara Desert has made it all the way to Houston.»]

It will start experimental flights at low altitude over the New Mexico desert in June, says Paul Klevatt, manager of the project.

We find hardly any animals in the daytime at the Operations Support Facility (OSF) of ALMA which extends over the area of about 1 km2 in the midst of deserts a...

Less than a day later, the space rock 2008 TC3 exploded over the Nubian Desert in Sudan at a height of 37 km (23 mi), showering the landscape in meteorites.

Using a NASA Dryden F / A -18 Hornet and a Eurocopter AS350 helicopter, they tested the radar's performance at different altitudes and velocities over a simulated Martian terrain in the Southern California high desert.

Before we got started at Coachella on day 2 we decided to stop by the Soho Desert House for some brunch with Greygoose and then headed over to the Pandora event...

Hillarie and Bobby wed on the edge of a mountain, at over 7,000 feet, overlooking the Washoe desert valley below at cozy Tannenbaum Event Center.

The prologue of the film indicates the word «Sicario» is either Hebrew or Mexican for «hitman», but at its core, the film postulates the ever - shifting goalposts of federal law enforcement (both American and Mexican) while slowly revealing the broken conscience of both States — as if someone thought to remake Soderbergh's Traffic and shoot it over the template of Michael Mann's Heat; all awash in dust motes, artillery and desert sunsets.

Aerial shots taken at London's Elstree Studios, and published over the weekend by the Mirror, reveal stormtroopers gathered at the ramp to a ship on a set for what appears to be a desert oasis or perhaps a beach.

Auteur Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her; Mother and Child) imagines a struggle between Jesus Christ and the Devil over the fate of a family in a remote desert settlement.

And Radhika was speechless after a hot - air balloon ride over the Omani desert at sunrise, saying in a text message, «It is really hard to describe my feelings at this very moment because there is so much 2 say and I don't know where 2 start and because of all the excitement.»

The current status of the parent trigger at Desert Trails in Adelanto is that Parent Revolution is seeking a charter operator to take over the school, although many parents have said that they don't want the school to become a charter.

Just 53 parents at Desert Trails, a school of about 600 kids, made the final call to turn the building — and the public funds to run it — over to a nonprofit group that runs a charter school in a nearby town.

If the judge again rules in the parent union's favor at a hearing later this month, parents who signed the trigger petition will vote Oct. 18 on one of two local nonprofit charter operators that submitted bids to take over Desert Trails in the fall of 2013: the Lewis Center for Educational Research, which runs a popular charter school with a focus on science and project - based learning, and LaVerne Elementary Preparatory Academy, which partners with a university and has a focus on classic literature.

And Cynthia Ramirez expects to have more say in the discipline policy and curriculum now at her fourth - grade son's school, Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in the desert town of Adelanto, now that it has been taken over by a small nonprofit charter opeDesert Trails Preparatory Academy in the desert town of Adelanto, now that it has been taken over by a small nonprofit charter opedesert town of Adelanto, now that it has been taken over by a small nonprofit charter operator.

The father of two children, including a fifth - grader at Desert Trails Elementary School, he helped lead the effort for local parents to use California's parent trigger laws, which allows parents who gather sufficient signatures to wrest control of their school away from officials and, in this case, turn it over to a Hesperia charter school operator at the end of this school year.

Morales said the alleged promise of financial cooperation for promoting «Won't Back Down» had no impact on his or other parents» support for the parent trigger effort and bringing in Hesperia charter school LaVerne Preparatory Academy to take over Desert Trails at the end of this school year.

And as I waved goodbye to Marietta and Carling while they loaded 98i onto the trailer, the sun sunk low on the horizon over the desert expanse of Big Willow just like it did in 1965, when John Morton blew by at 160 mph

«At its best the sense of speed is exhilarating, and at its worst it's like driving a stagecoach over a rutted desert track,» my dad sayAt its best the sense of speed is exhilarating, and at its worst it's like driving a stagecoach over a rutted desert track,» my dad sayat its worst it's like driving a stagecoach over a rutted desert track,» my dad says.

Prior to its historic top speed run in the Nevada desert the Agera RS had also beaten the Bugatti Chiron's 0 -400-0km / h time — at 36.44 seconds it was over five seconds quicker than the much - vaunted Chiron.

Riding with close to 80 psi in the rear tires of this 3/4 - ton over rocky and rough desert backroads was unpleasant at times, to say the least.

GM says it knows HD pickups are often used for towing in adverse conditions so they are testing the bejeesus out of the trucks: Before they're released to dealers, the trucks will undergo more than 6 million miles (240 trips around the earth) of durability testing in the torture chambers at GM's Milford Proving Ground, over deserts and mountains of Nevada and across the frozen flats of Kapuskasing, Ontario.

Our friends over at TruckTrend just spotted this camouflaged Colorado running around the desert.

Run by the Ford Performance Racing School at the Utah Motorsports campus, the Raptor Assault teaches owners of the latest Ford Performance pickup how to drive over desert and rocky terrain while making the most of the truck's six driving modes.

At the successful Petique store at Biltmore Fashion Park and Petopia store in Desert Sky Mall, over 1,500 pets have been adopted in the past two yearAt the successful Petique store at Biltmore Fashion Park and Petopia store in Desert Sky Mall, over 1,500 pets have been adopted in the past two yearat Biltmore Fashion Park and Petopia store in Desert Sky Mall, over 1,500 pets have been adopted in the past two years!