Sentences with phrase «ran out of sand»

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Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

Yes, we have run frantically back and forth between the gods of the «up and out» and the «down and in,» like Hagar searching desperately for water among the hills of Mecca, even as the infant Ishmael's kicking heels opened the clear - flowing spring of Zamzam in the sands of the valley.

Relativism runs through the whole of our modern world - view: the assessment of nature as a directionless flux of chance events, the erosion of the absolute value of human life, the dismissal of historic religious authority as «out of date», and the ever shifting sands of personal and social morality.

By that time my mouth was chalk, the sand was running out the tops of my shoes and I was silently cursing Harry for being able to avoid the camel thorns that were grabbing at my flesh.

-LSB-...] a sand tray but when I checked we've run out of food colouring thanks to last month's Rainbow Fish Sugar Cookies so instead we looked at how we could create a Pinkalicious sand tray without colouring the sand -LSB-...]

And as I sit in the sand watching my crazy kids run in and out of the waves, their lips blue from the frigid Atlantic, it sure feels -LSB-...]

«Oil sands and offshore drilling are both symptoms of the same problem: We're running out of easy oil,» says Simon Dyer, oil sands director at the Pembina Institute, a nonprofit sustainable energy research organization.

What I would do is use my anaerobic allotment to train for course - specificity: If the course is particularly rocky, I'd go out for a run after doing lower - leg stability work to challenge those muscles further (you can swap this out for running on sand), or if the course is particularly hilly, I'd train hills comparable in surface, slope, and length to the kind of stuff I'll find of the course.

Once the first coat was dry, I sanded the whole thing, until I could run my hand over it and didn't feel any sand pop out and poke me:) I repeated this process after each coat, for a total of three coats.

When I first started running a few years ago it was back in the Adelaide hills where I could run through the pine forests along a sand horse trail, up and down the hills, along a creek bed and wind up on top of a hill with an incredible panoramic view out to the ocean (albeit, far, far away).

The sun is shining and the sand is hot, but when a group of bikini clad beauties step out on the beach for a steamy photo shoot, these runway models are forced to run for their lives from an unseen killer.

Woody calls the callous conductor over, holds up his ticket and tries to convince the conductor that he's inexplicably on the wrong train (of life) as the indomitable sands of time are running out.

Internal layout of play equipment areas should aim for prevention of conflicts between: • Moving equipment (e.g. track glides) and running children; • Play traffic (e.g. from a slide, out of a tunnel) into the path of other activities; • Quiet play (e.g. sand pits) and boisterous games (football match); and, • Active, boisterous groups (late primary ages and older) and «littlies» and pre-schoolers.

The Erskine Six (part one)-- American car designed for Europe by Finbarr Corry / VCC Heart of England Rally — Photographic record of this event by Paul Shinton / VSCC Prescott — Tom Threfall reports on the August Hill - climb / Morris Commercial one - toner — William Morris's very successful small commercial / The Brighton Run preview — What to look out for on this year's London to Brighton / Sand racing at Southport Racing on the beach — in the 20's and 30's.

Despite featuring a selector control similar to Land Rover's Terrain Response system — it allows you to tailor the car's systems to what passes underfoot, be it snow, mud, sand or rock — it runs out of ideas fast when the ground is both slippery and uneven.

Unfortunately the sand is also where we managed to rip off the front air dam, but this turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it revealed the solid front recovery point that came in handy when a judge or two ran out of talent.

As a child, I used to run barefoot along the sand dunes that snaked in and out of the Mississippi River like a benign creature of habit.

As the desert sands run out on her life's hourglass, Siena must uncover the truth about the Wild Ones while untangling the web of lies and deceit her father has masterfully spun.

He lost a lot of money in stocks like Canadian oil sands and others and that's when he knew he'd run out of inventive ideas to keep his portfolio going on stocks.

For most dogs, getting to run around in the sand, dip into the waves, and fetch balls out of the water is the best day ever!

The deep tracks left in the sand were causing chicks to get trapped, unable to climb out of the 6 inch deep steep sided trench and then run over.

Beach bums will never run out of things to do around Puerto de la Cruz, just make sure you indulge in all of the area's many stunning beaches, among them Bollullo and Jardin Beach, while more lovely strips of sand can be found in neighbouring Santa Ursula.

This shingle and sand beach has natural shade from a line of trees that run right along the back, so there's plenty of space to lay out a picnic blanket for the little ones.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

One story the model tells is a simple one: without major new pipelines, the tar sands have run out of room to grow.

The current plan seems to be that when the oil begins to run out and the price of gas is to high, then it becomes affordable to convert oil sands in Canada to fuel (Downside is more Co2 released further contributes to global warming).

But if large swaths of the country run out of water and are covered by swirling sands, the occasional blizzard doesn't sound so bad.

The details will eventually come out, but it looks like another case of Keystone Cops running around like chickens with their heads cut off while they try to keep us safe from the inevitable ruination that results when you try to put corrosive tar sands crude in a pipeline.

No matter the new pipeline capacity added, or the tar sands projects cancelled, every June since 2012 CAPP has warned that tar sands producers are about to run out of pipeline capacity — as you can see from the graphs CAPP publishes, which look the same every year, only adjusting the base year.

«Chad, said they feared the deer was going to «kick the hell out of us in a 22 - foot center console boat,» but they were lucky, it was too exhausted to resist, «We hit the gas and ran him to the closest beach, Kent Point, where I beached the boat and we carefully unloaded our catch on the sand.

Perhaps one could show the «sand running out» of a «safe climate» carbon budget hour glass, whether set to correspond to +2 ˚ C or at some other metric.

«Tolling» is the equivalent of hitting the «pause» button on a statute of limitations; tolling stops the sands from running out of the statute of limitation's hourglass.

There are a large number of unfinished builder house sand small subdivisions where the builder ran out of money before they finished the project.