Sentences with phrase «powerful blow from»

High winds, dangerous rip currents and potential coastal flooding could turn parts of Long Island into a soggy and treacherous mess as the area braces for a glancing but powerful blow from Hurricane Jose — one of two strong tropical storms on the National Hurricane Center's watch list.

Although Ingrid's studies take place in New Zealand, the hunting techniques she describes are very similar to those used by killer whales pursuing seals in the San Juan Islands of Washington: cooperative herding, surpise attacks, and powerful blows from the flukes to deal the death blow.

Not exact matches

Viewers witness how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a vast submarine «waterfall» off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents around the world; and how the sun's heating up of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a colossally powerful hurricane.

Reuters: Israel considers ban for far - right candidate over gaffe on blowing up shrine An Israeli panel weighed a request on Sunday to disqualify a candidate of a powerful far - right party from running in a January 22 election for alluding in a speech to the possibility of seeing one of Islam's holiest shrines in Jerusalem «blown up.»

In classic style the book collects together more than a dozen discussions by authors, varying in their ecclesial loyalty devoted to particular aspects of inter-denominational theological conflict (although one contributor from an Eastern Orthodox perspective - David Bentley Hart - allows himself to get in some powerful blows against some of his peers in his own camp).

For people who have been forced to become foreigners in their own land, who have been driven from their properties and who have been pushed around by the powerful like the mighty wind blows the dust around, ashes, as a moment of the continuum of the pilgrimage of life become most powerful.

An absorbent, 4 - layer sewn - in soaker and the unique, patent - pending double gussets offer a double barrier to contain powerful newborn blow - outs, keeping baby's clothes and Mom and Dad's laps free from messes!

Powerful radiation from supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies creates winds that can blow gas out of the galaxies, halting star formation.

THE discovery of powerful galactic «winds», blowing outwards from distant galaxies, could solve a mystery which has long baffled astronomers: why elements heavier than helium are found in the space between galaxies.

«We see some gas outflowing from this galaxy at millions of miles per hour, and this gas may have been blown away by the powerful radiation from the newly formed stars,» said Ryan Hickox, an astrophysicist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and a co-author on the study.

Because the blown - away material is primarily ice, this means that some large Kuiper belt objects could have been built from a small number of really big collisions among increasingly ice - depleted bodies, while others might have been formed from smaller, less powerful collisions that allowed more ice to remain.

This radiation, plus inevitably powerful stellar winds, would likely blow any atmosphere away from our hypothetical burgeoning Earth 2.0.

This is another one that is variable from menstruator to menstruator — and based upon how powerful you orgasm — but mind - blowing orgasms while bleeding may actually help relieve cramp pain due to the release of those feel - good hormones like oxytocin and endorphins.

«For example, a blow - dryer with a powerful motor and a strong air flow, like Babyliss Ferrari Dryer, will cut your drying time in half; a flatiron with a digital thermometer, like one from Corioliss, will maintain its heat through every pass you make over each section of hair, straightening your hair quickly; and a curling iron that spins in place, like the Beachwaver, curls your entire head in under 10 minutes.»

In this humorous retelling, the wolf didn't huff and puff to blow the pigs» houses down; instead he suffered from a terrible allergy and, when stopping by to borrow a cup of sugar, accidentally blew the houses down with a big and powerful sneeze.

In between the scary - powerful, all - conquering full - blown AMG 63 cars and SUVs we love and the relatively tame base - model Mercedes - Benzes lies a relatively new class of car from Affalterbach: the 43s...

Bleeding and shocky from a powerful blow, the cat began a journey through some of the most advanced emergency techniques and intensive care the Hospital has to offer.

Attacks strike with no sense of impact while enemies sort of vaguely sway away from blows in the least convincing demonstration of pain I've seen in a long time, while sounds are often out of sync with the on - screen action and even powerful magic attacks lack the necessary oomph.

From the vibrant amethyst Ballfrog with inflating abilities to blow out enemies, the super powerful Mosshog, the powerfully magnetic Gorillem, and many more, every gamer will find their Monster in Monster Legacy.

Enemies are brutal, regularly delivering blows capable of taking off five or more hearts in a single swing and, since your weapons and shields can wear out and break, you'll find yourself reduced from all - powerful to complete weakling in the space of one tough skirmish.

The largest and most powerful surface current in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf Stream, is caused by strong winds that blow regularly from the west.

Five major ones are: • Having opposed the candidate who ends up winning appointment as one's dean or chair (thereby looking stupid, wicked, or crazy in the latter's eyes); • Being a ratebuster, achieving so much success in teaching or research that colleagues» envy is aroused; • Publicly dissenting from politically correct ideas (meaning those held sacred by campus elites); • Defending a pariah in campus politics or the larger cultural arena; • Blowing the whistle on or even having knowledge of serious wrongdoing by locally powerful workmates.

If powerful wind currents blow east from Africa, for example, they can pull heat from the ocean into the atmosphere, while also triggering evaporation.