Sentences with phrase «remnants of old»

A thorough cleaning and sanding will prepare the chair, but I can still see remnants of the old gold details.

I would buy some wood to make a top to the remnants of an old card catalog to make a table for my son's room.

While there may still be remnants of old attitudes associated with seeking counseling, those parts of our society are disappearing.

You can still find remnants of the old «menu» functionality in the LG G4, and there's a simple trick that'll let you access some menus more easily as a result.

After decades of dictatorships, under which shady financial dealings and corruption perpetuated a vast social disparity and a virtually crippled economy, Brazil held its first free election in 1985 — though remnants of the old system continued to hamper its progress.

In one rare case the remnants of an old abandoned medieval silver mine were uncovered.

Institutions for the insane and a haunting labyrinth of hallways thereafter, these remnants of old U.S. methods, lost therapies in such a short national history, stand tall in the wind that always seems to surround them.

Its dark halls, uneven walls, and remnants of old equipment offer artists and visitors alike a delightful challenge.

They quickly begin to realize that Ainground, the new world formed from the remnants of the old one, is very similar in many ways to what they were used to experiencing before they were able to log out of the game.

With the flood went most remnants of the old world, so an opportunity arises to present an entirely new Zelda game without many of the trappings of the series so far.

This is an «open - world» action - adventure game in which players assume the role of John Marston, a reformed criminal on a mission to capture the remnants of his old outlaw gang.

The totem pole's guardian realizes that she can control remnants of the old pole, two pieces at a time, in the hopes of building a bigger, more elaborate magical ward.

Walk for hours along the coast to spot remnants of the old gold dredge, a miners» tunnel, and the Galway Beach seal rookery, then sit around a sunset bonfire with the other backpackers.

Remnants of the old Ghan railway are abundant along the Oodnadatta Track.

Remnants of the Old Ghan Railway are abundant along the Oodnadatta Track.

Remnants of the old Ghan Railway are abundant along the Oodnadatta Track.

It is a favorite playground for dolphins and sea turtles and has the remnants of an old shipwreck with a 400 - year - old anchor.

The tunnels drive through solid rock and are remnants of the old Canadian Pacific Railway.

Don't miss the remnants of the Old Town Wall (from the 4th century!)

Nestled between Black Sand Beach and Nahuna point, it contains the remnants of old submarine volcanoes.

Several of these «subsidy printers» do on - demand printing, but the upfront costs are in the thousands of dollars — so in reality they are merely remnants of the old way of doing things.

And, of course, reuniting the remnants of the old team generates a feel - good camaraderie reminiscent of movies such as The Magnificent Seven, where one knows that the rusty skills of the individuals will meld into one effective whole just in time to give the bad guys a serious walloping!

Maybe even remnants of an old meal that I had while not being able to put the book down to eat at the table:).

They still have remnants of the old model; you can still download an unlimited amount of much sheet music, magazines and digital newspapers.

Driving it on the remnants of the old track is a stark reminder of how much the whole world has changed since 1964.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

The last moment of Harry as a lonesome old man comes as he removes an old box from under his bed, a gift from his daughter, who died when she was young, lay on top of the remnants of his old life as a Marine.

So when it's low tide you can see the remnants of the old sunken A1A that's now covered in natural coral.

When they published their first volume of fairy tales in 1812, they viewed the stories as remnants of old mythologies.

Victory will depend on whose ground game is better — the upstart's or the remnants of the old machine.

Left Unity, The Green Party, and the remnants of the old Campaign for Labour Party Democracy group threw their weight behind Corbyn.

Begrudgingly they followed through the muck and puddles and mire of the parking lot up to the trailhead marked by the remnants of an old train trestle where the tracks crossed the river.

Even as Jesus himself stuck around to help the blind man in John 9 adjust to a world of light and sight, so now the community to whom Christ entrusts the newly raised in baptism, that group we call the body of Christ, assists us daily in stripping off the binding remnants of the old life in death's dominion.

Christianity had been scattered around the world, but, except for a few remnants of old churches in the Near East and India, it is doubtful whether it had yet taken firm root among any non-European people.

Some of these habits of the heart sound awfully familiar» remnants of the old - fashioned, discarded moral curriculum.

Certainly remnants of the old attitudes remain.

Of course, there continue to be remnants of the older view, since it pervades the thought of the pre-twentieth century thinkers who are studied.

I hope now that you agree wi th me that the tiresomeness of an over peopled Heaven is a purely subjective and illusory notion, a sign of human incapacity, a remnant of the old narrow - hearted aristocratic creed.

Białowieża is the best - preserved remnant of old - growth forest that once spanned lowland Europe.

A composite of several Cassini images shows Titan's varied surface, including possibly a remnant of an old impact basin (large circular feature near the center of Titan's disk).

The answer is simple: because couture offers cultural validation; because couture sits quite nicely in the fashion cycle, allowing for early product deliveries; but, most of all, because couture is couture — fashion to the nth degree and the last remaining remnant of the old world concept of fashion as a language and privilege of the elite.

Its life system feels unnecessary and merely a remnant of older game design, and occasionally a stage's gimmick doesn't play out as well as it should.

For our part, starting from the site of the airlift that sustained the city through the eleven - month blockade of 1948 and 1949, we drove a 26 - kilometer (16 - mile) loop over major streets, passing a remnant of the old Wall along the way and reflecting with admiration on our forebears» defiance of Soviet totalitarianism.

So perhaps book stores are a remnant of the older technology, and it's a generational thing which will bow with the passage of time.

Not exact matches

Lie4Him, Schweitzer, one of the first scientists to use the tools of modern cell biology to study dinosaurs, has upended the conventional wisdom by showing that some rock - hard fossils tens of millions of years old may have remnants of soft tissues hidden away in their interiors.

(Exodus 20:24 [marginal translation]-RRB- The Old Testament as a whole represents an era from which the cruder practices of animism had been elided, but all the more impressive are the obvious remnants of the original primitivism, such as holy trees.

Except in lonely outposts of faith — the crippled child Lonnie in The Moviegoer, the fierce nun Val in The Last Gentleman, the firewatching Father Smith with his remnant of faithful Catholics in Love in the Ruins — the old Christian humanist vision is dead.

And the faithful remnant scattered in the pews were too poor, too old, and too few to think of bringing back the statues and the high altar for which their parents had sacrificed countless ginger drops and ice cream sodas so many years ago.

It is believed to have been written on gold plates, whose whereabouts was revealed to Joseph Smith as a very young man, but written and hidden away centuries earlier by Moroni, last remnant of the people who had migrated from the old world to the new.

Problems such as the pope's claim to doctrinal authority are «in tension with the American temper and the very thing the U.S. Constitution was written to restrict,» but such problems, the book suggests, are passing remnants from the bad old days of Catholicism.