Sentences with phrase «rocky pasts at»

More than 90 percent of the students, including Audrey, have had rocky pasts at other schools.

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Stephen Crabb's campaign got off to a slightly rocky start at a launch event when he had to defend his previous opposition to gay marriage and past links to a controversial Christian group.

«Lots of hard work over the past few years suggests the cutoff — the transition between rocky and gaseous planets — occurs at about 1.5 times the size of Earth,» Kipping says.

But every now and then I could not resist the lure of the mountain, and at the end of the day I slipped away, through the bamboo grove with its tall, smooth trunks and green slanting light, up the rocky path past the shrine of the mountain god, where the villagers left offerings of millet and oranges, into the forest of birch and cedar, where the cuckoo and the nightingale called enticingly, where I watched foxes and deer and heard the melancholy cry of kites overhead.

Beginning at its source in the rocky hills of Duruelo de la Sierra in Northern Spain, the Douro makes its graceful way past flourishing vineyards, spectacular geological formations and pretty towns, full of Spanish and Portuguese charm.

Freefall 60m past rocky cliff faces into the canyon before the ropes swoop you into a 200m giant swing at 150kph.