Sentences with phrase «over the desert in»

This morning, over the desert in Mojave, Calif., Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, designed to ferry tourists to altitudes of 62 miles above Earth, broke up in flight shortly after firing its engines, resulting in a -LSB-...]

But a funny thing happens on the way to Iraq, for this ill - equipped trio of misfits unit is accidentally ejected from the plane over a desert in Mexico, where it takes them forever to realize that they haven't landed in a battle zone.

Not exact matches

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

Cadiz is a private corporation sitting on roughly 70 square miles of property in the Mojave Desert over a deep aquifer.

Through the program, China is committing $ 1 trillion over the next decade — and as much as $ 3 trillion over the long term — to huge infrastructure investments, in locations that stretch from China's coast through the deserts of Xinjiang province and the steppes of Central Asia as far west as Spain and Scandinavia.

That unit topped the roughly 34,000 rounds fired in support of the invasion of Iraq, and it fired a little over half of the more than 60,000 rounds fired by the over 730 howitzers the Army and Marines used to support Operation Desert Storm, according to historical records seen by Marine Corps Times.

One series of experiments run by the two - year - old Marine Warfighting Laboratory, in Quantico, had 18 squads of marines fanning out over 1,500 square miles of desert.

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.

Adrian Sedlin, CEO of Southern California cannabis - growing operation Canndescent, earlier this year raised $ 6.5 million from investors to help fund a new, 9,600 - square - feet cultivation facility in Desert Hot Springs, Calif., with plans to open more facilities in the area over the next few years.

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.

He finds it appealing to appear in the middle of a desert to uneducated people after allowing humans to suffer for over 100 THOUSAND years just to be tortured by humans as to allow HIMSELF to forgive his own creation.

The Flood story is about how difficult it is in this world to remain faithful to God as the world carries on in its own desires and mocks Noah over 120 years while building a boat in a desert that has never seen rain.

In January 1990, as Operation Desert Storm was lighting up the skies over Iraq.

Maybe not in the brief iconic moment of Mary's Easter morning, but over the oceans and abysses and mountains and deserts of our life through time.

I have always wondered how in Genesis and Leviticus, during the wilderness wandering, all the sacraficing being done, it seems like they wouldn't have had time to do anything else, how did they feed that many animals in the desert???? I mean, I don't think the deserts in America could support enough animals to support million plus, and if they had animals why did they need the mana?????? The rest of the world cant benefit from theknowledge of God if they are all over the Globe and only the hebrews knew of God during those early times, I mean, during the Egyption times there were Asian / Chinese right?

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.

Surveying the desert of modernity, we would be, I think, morally derelict not to acknowledge that Nietzsche was right in holding Christianity responsible for the catastrophe around us (even if he misunderstood why); we should confess that the failure of Christian culture to live up to its victory over the old gods has allowed the dark power that once hid behind them to step forward in propria persona.

Nobody suspected that he hallucinated what he saw after spending over a month in the desert alone?

The only «science» conservatives believe in comes from the endlessly re-interpreted myths of ignorant desert nomads over 2000 years ago.

Very well said Tim — You forgot to mention to have the unbelievers explain fish skeletons scientists have found over the years in the clefts of mountain top ranges, shark teeth discovered all in the Arizona deserts — Of course we know it was the flood — To a lot of non believers I speak to; it's sad because as opposed to looking / researching God's many evidences that He has left there are so many willfully ignorant in listening to modern man's (& I might add) opinion with nothing to back up evolution theories.

Elijah, in despair over the situation in Israel, runs to the desert, back to Mt. Sinai to find the God of the Revelation to Moses.

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).

There was no global flood, the entire human race didn't come from two people in a garden who ate a fruit and got kicked out, there is no archaeological evidence of an exodus of over 1 million Israelites coming out of Egypt and wandering the desert for 40 years.

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 deserIn 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 deserin 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.»

Whether it is the drowning of a child in a river or the murder of an old man in the stairwell of his apartment building or the massacre of an entire family on a deserted Georgia road, O'Connor pushes readers to the brink over and over again.

The book starts with a baptism, ends with a trial of a man who fights the establishment for standing up to his vision after all of his friends desert him, and culminates in a liberation and triumph over evil.

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.

The devil's query about stones and bread hangs over the scene in the desert like a small, dark cloud.

Why is it than in a modern country like America, so many people switch off all common sense and logic and believe the fairy stories and hateful rhetoric written by this ignorant, desert dwelling goat herder and his ilk over centuries?

Seekers from all over the «Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem» went out to meet him in the desert, not because of his great theological acumen and insight, but because of his uncompromising veracity (Mark 1:5).

But while I was trudging past the almost - deserted Christmas - tree store in the Catholic school parking lot, a salesman suddenly leaned over the fence to ask if I wanted a wr ¥ ath to take home.

The history of humanity is, in part, a history of human victories over «nature», of disease being eradicated and deserts made to bloom.

Pictures painted on the walls of my womb began to emerge» (The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother [Paulist Press, 1986], p. 67) She discovered the Great Mother in the awesome beauty of the desert, brooding over a world still in the process of being born.

Over use of fertilisers is turning our farmlands into deserts, and the fishes in our seas and rivers are dying.

Like a magic carpet ride, the helicopter ever - so - smoothly descends 3,200 feet to fly passengers over the Colorado River and in between the walls of the Canyon as they're bathed in the golden light of the desert sun.

Over here in Germany (aka food desert) I've had so many difficulties finding it in the shops, that now when I've got some, I just can not let it go to waste.

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

• Ernie Rose ofPatterson, Calif, gunned racing runabout to world Class B hydroplanecompetition record of 61.058 mph in Desert Regatta over Salton Sea, Calif.Rose's old mark: 59.840.

Pisses all over Perth too unless you like living in a desert with regular days over 100 F.

They have to be the ones to back in my opinion as Senegal, Ghana and Egypt have all taken steps backwards in recent months and Algeria are over reliant on their home form to be considered here as the tournament is away from home for the Desert Warriors.

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.

We remark cynically about DNA in relation to those who have deserted us (Kennedy's situation was quite different to Van Payslip or Fabregas in that he did not agitate for a move and Arsenal accepted a bid for him) but some of the names we have been recalling over the past few months, Geordie, Jon Sammels, Ray and the other members of the Double team we have mentioned really have supplied the DNA.

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.

The international airports in Dubai and neighboring Abu Dhabi (both part of the United Arab Emirates) are hubs for Emirates and Etihad airlines respectively, so Americans travelling to India, Asia, or the Pacific have a chance to lay over in this desert oasis.

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 Italiain 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 ItaliaIn 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.

Viv was not one for heights and yet she came with Sarah Brown, Carolyn Westcott and me in a hot - air balloon ride over the Arizona desert; more bravery.

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.

Bianca's celebration of APGA's victory over the APC in the same ward she shared with Ojukwu's son, Emeka Ojukwu Jr., was also meant to condemn Emeka, who, like Obi, deserted APGA, by joining the APC in the heat of the campaign.

Over the last five elections, C1 / C2 voters have elected both Labour and Tory Governments but they have been deserting Labour in droves since Tony Blair left office.