Sentences with phrase «own against the sand»

The pieces she gathers have been polished by the waves against the sand, dulling the original colours and giving her jewellery a natural pastel palette that conjures up images of tentatively licking ice - cream on wind - swept shores.

The public areas and rooms (well, our room anyway) are holding their own against the sand and seawater.

The next week, I spent a bit of time on Amazon shoring up our defenses against the sand and sun (Amazon Prime is my friend).

When the pale - coloured Sand Hills of Nebraska formed, about 10,000 years ago, they were colonised by dark - furred deer mice, which would have stood out vividly against the sand.

But we didn't think it was because of that, Lowe says, because the sand on the bottom of the pond was white, and the sharks were turning black, so they stood out more against the sand.

The water molecules push back against the sand, raising the water pressure so it's strong enough to force the grains out of contact with one another, while the shaking allows grains to readily move.

The forests act as a barrier against the sands from the neighboring Taklamakan desert.

This airy silk georgette fabric features a fantasy pattern against the sand beige background.

Late Tuesday night the school board voted 5 - 3 against the SAND proposal.

They were sitting on beaches, cocktails in hand, watching the surf break against the sand, waiting for the night, the drugs, the screaming music and torrential sex.

It doesn't have an IP dust rating, which means it isn't offically protected against sand, but Amazon outright encourages you to take it to the beach and rinse it clean.

As the sun sets on the crystal clear water lapping against the sand along the famous Four Mile Beach and sunlight streams through the canopy of the Daintree Rainforest, Port Douglas provides the wedding couple with the ultimate photographic tropical backdrop to celebrate the happiest day of their lives together.

Constant sunshine, cocktails, gentle waves of a stunningly clear blue sea lapping against the sand, and an occasional cooling breeze is an appealing holiday option.

Barbados offers constant sunshine, cocktails, gentle waves of a stunningly clear blue sea lapping against the sand, and an occasional cooling breeze.

On one of the terraces there is a bespoke hot tub where you can sip cocktails under the stars and listen to the waves gently lapping up against the sands below.

This picturesque island is one of the best locations in the world for yoga, from small, secluded resorts hidden deep in the jungle to luxury beach resorts where you can indulge all your senses with the sound of the waves gently swooshing against the sand.

The Beach House is snuggled up against the sand dunes of Normanville Beach in a quiet secluded spot with plenty of bird life.

Located directly on the beach, the subtle sounds of waves crashing against the sand will soothe you from the moment you wake up to the time your head touches the pillow for the night.

With the warm breeze blowing, ocean waves gently lapping against the sand and sunlight streaming down all around, we have just about everything — except you, of course!

Kenyon's paintings capture the force of the crashing surf and the subtle color fields that reflect the quality of light against sand and water.

In general, you incur points against your Sand Springs Oklahoma driving record each time you commit a traffic offense that is heard, decided and reported by the local Sand Springs Oklahoma court handling the traffic violation to the Sand Springs Oklahoma DPS.

Not exact matches

Rick George, who helped pioneer Canada's oil - sands industry during two decades at the helm of Suncor Energy Inc., died on Tuesday after a year - and - a-half battle against acute myeloid leukemia.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Sand's post came in response to NFL players protesting by kneeling during the national anthem, a controversy that flared up last weekend when President Donald Trump came out against the protests.

He used the term «tar sands,» one the advocates of Canada's bitumen sector have long argued is, by itself, biased against the «oil sands.»

Murphy, who is a right - wing ideologue, also writes a turgid column for the pro-business National Post, where he rails against environmentalists on global warming, champions the oil sands and pipelines, and protests any effort to fight climate change.

The campaign against the oil sands has had the effect of raising awareness of environmental issues, in particular, among the public and, perhaps more importantly, among shareholders, investors, insurers, and regulators.

While the tourism boycott is not, as you note, likely to have a direct or significant impact on Alberta's economy, it should not be looked at in isolation from the broader campaign against the oil sands.

At the same time, we draw inspiration and lessons from the victory against Enbridge for the ongoing fight against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which would see a sevenfold increase in tar sands tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea.

West Coast works with First Nations and communities fighting against tar sands pipelines in the courtroom, in boardrooms, on the land and on the water.

The biggest environmental story of the year was the company's enormous tar sands pipeline, and the backlash against it — a movement built around a simple idea: If this project is built, we can kiss a stable climate goodbye.

Under the dome - sky oneness translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness chokes in nebulae of beetles, sand grains, hydrogen atoms.Gnosis blurs, pits the achilded One against the unfathered Many.

It's a life preserver, if you will, against the shifting sands.

«Isn't the simplest touch of a child's arm on the face more important, isn't the good meal, the brush against a thigh, a hand held during a movie, a swim in the sea, aren't those things of equal importance as the sands of time come rushing down on our heads burying ambition and love, good and evil, breath, blood, brains, waste, memory, alike in the oblivion?»

Its boisterous currents showed bewildering power when they had overflowed their banks, and all our little human preventions were washed away like piles of sand that children raise against the onset of the tides.

Soon or later the desert will heave its burning sands against us and hurl its blistering winds across us, and all that we have dreamed and done will come to naught.

Eurovision's Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand said that Ukraine's decision went «against both the spirit of the contest and the notion of inclusivity that lies at the heart of its values».

Keep up the good work and continue the fight against those that would rather stick their head in the sand.

You seem to indicate that no Christians were sent over to Vietnam against their wishes, your head is either in the sand or up your... Governments have always used religions to control the populace, that is why they are allowed to exist, read some history, please.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Raised in Portugal, in the fertile lands of Alemquer, I die a refugee, dead from the foreign air and its foul decay, food for the hungry fish in a brutish sea, that crashes against these wild Abyssinian sands, so unlike Alemquer, and so far away

Serpent is just one of the multiple names of Lucifer aka satan The big bang and evolution are lies against Jesus» truth to cause doubt, creating confusion Satan's lies are built on quick sand foundation What part of Jesus» truth is clarity and satan's lies are confusion do you not comprehend?

We are tired of fighting, tired of vain efforts to advance the Kingdom through politics and power, tired of drawing lines in the sand, tired of being known for what we are against, not what we are for.

Every time I take a sip all I can think about is basking in the warm sun, sand between my toes and the soft ocean breeze against my face... It's like paradise in a glass!

It's a performance perfectly set against a backdrop of crashing waves and soft sand.

The Sand Snakes — the three bastard daughters of Oberyn Martell — sought vengeance against the Lannisters for the death of their father, killed while showboating in single combat against the Mountain (serves him right, got ta play to the whistle).

I've been called pessimistic / negative etc for saying our results against the top sides are poor, but burying your head in the sand and ignoring what our weaknesses clearly are only exacerbates the problems.

Arnold Palmer hits from a sand trap to the second green during a playoff against Gary Player, left, and Dow Finsterwald during the 1962 Masters.

To make his case against flavored milk, Oliver engaged in some eye - catching (though perhaps slightly misleading) stunts, like filling a school bus to near - bursting with white sand to demonstrate the amount of sugar offered to LASUD students each week in flavored milk.

Fred Schein walked briskly through the play lot and then to the edge of the sand, where a lone willow tree was silhouetted against the darkening blue of the lake and sky.