Sentences with phrase «sea walls in»

So so lucky!!!! We often cycle for miles along the sea wall in the summer.

That blue wave which Democratic candidates are counting on to sweep them into state and federal offices this year hit a minor sea wall in last month's special election for Pete Lopez's old Assembly seat.

The sea wall in front of the Sun Breeze is a good location to observe them early in the morning.

Likewise, a collapsing sea wall in the Netherlands is likely to be more devestating than a river flood.

Not exact matches

In its Esmeralda Villa, you could easily mistake the bathroom for a miniature spa: its floors and walls are lined with garapeira wood, there's bright white bathrobes, and daybeds are placed right in front of a floor - to - ceiling glass window that looks out over the seIn its Esmeralda Villa, you could easily mistake the bathroom for a miniature spa: its floors and walls are lined with garapeira wood, there's bright white bathrobes, and daybeds are placed right in front of a floor - to - ceiling glass window that looks out over the sein front of a floor - to - ceiling glass window that looks out over the sea.

Major hedge fund managers and investment gurus — the «whales» in the Wall Street seas — are required to notify the Securities and Exchange Commission about their investment moves quarter by quarter.

Citing unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal reported in June that Intrawest had approached Vladimir Potanin, a nickel - mining magnate building the ski resort in Sochi, in the Caucasus Mountains near the Black Sea, that will host the 2014 Olympics.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

Relying on memories of his friend Fly's work as a law - copyist in 1840, and of the office at 10 Wall Street where he visited his brother Allan after returning from sea in 1844, Melville sets his story in a modern, nineteenth - century office building.

God, it is true, has exercised his sovereignty on the front stage, in the spotlight, though miracles and wonders and signs, like the parting of the Red Sea and the sun standing still, and walls of Jericho falling down.

Sea walls along the Bosporous greeted a fleet of Crusaders in AD 1203, and land walls held the last of the Roman Empire until the fall of the city to Mehmed and the Ottomans in 1453.

On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all human beings that are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

For instance, it is probable that what happened at the Red Sea — actually the Sea of Reeds — had more to do with darkness and an east wind and chariots mired in the mud and the change of the tide, than with the vertical walls of water rendered so picturesquely by Cecil B. DeMille.

A lighted «Wave Wall,» crafted by arranging hundreds of glass squares in a pattern mimicking the lapping motion of the Mediterranean Sea, will be a glistening focal point.

The white - heavy walls of the lobby and hallways are awash in unfiltered natural sunlight that's fittingly interrupted by sea blue hues, and decorative genuine coral décor abounds — all making guests feel at one with the marine milieu.

In this region you can visit the archaeological zones of Coba and Tulum, a walled city overlooking the sea.

My 11 - year - old son has been to Italy with us and Paris with his grandmother, but the best holiday memory he has is of a caravan in Wales and the sea wall that we climbed, just him and I, for half an hour every morning.

«When it comes to protecting Staten Island from damaging storms and surges, we have to utilize every tool in the tool box and that is why hammering out a plan for the Island's sea wall is so critical,» Schumer said.

«As Sandy showed us, sea walls, like the one we're breaking ground to restore today, are an essential part of our city's infrastructure,» City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said in a statement announcing the start of the project.

In the last few decades, residents of the island have increasingly used the ancient stones to build walls to shield their homes and livelihoods from pounding waves and creeping sea water.

Currently, it's much faster for property owners in many parts of the country to get a permit for sea walls, bulkheads and other so - called gray infrastructure than it is to get a permit for construction of nature - based systems.

«You're going to have to make big hard decisions like, «I'm going to do what they did in the capital of the Maldives,» which was make a huge sea wall and build huge desalination facilities.

And then, suddenly, there it was, clinging tenaciously to the glass walls of eighteen - year - old William Henry Perkin's test tubes, without a sea snail in sight.

«In 1971 we built the first sea wall... from coral reef rocks and rocks from the hill.

At Medmerry in West Sussex, the Environment Agency has built an inland sea wall and allowed everything on the ocean side to become a wetland.

FOSSILISED sea urchins have been found embedded in the walls of medieval churches, embellished with Egyptian hieroglyphics, and even shaped into Palaeolithic hand - axes.

Against the Sea «Twice during the thirteen years since it was built has the great concrete wall along the waterfront of Galveston withstood the furious onslaughts of a raging sea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectSea «Twice during the thirteen years since it was built has the great concrete wall along the waterfront of Galveston withstood the furious onslaughts of a raging sea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectsea lashed by a hurricane, and in each case the seawall has stood perfectly.

Now, many of those neighborhoods, formerly redlined by lenders and in some places bound in by a literal color wall, have an amenity not yet in the real estate listings: They're on higher ground and are less likely to flood as seas rise.

In an unusually severe storm nearby Miami Beach would be swept by a wall of water up to 16 feet above the current sea level.

It makes its home in the walls of deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Coastal flooding has been addressed in Europe with coastal defenses, such as sea walls and beach nourishment.

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

Construction and repair work along Britain's 1800 kilometres of sea walls and other defences, which cost # 58 million in 1991, is not keeping up.

Most of Essex's sea walls were constructed in a frenzy of public spending after the region's great floods of 1953, when 24 500 people were forced from their homes and more than 300 died.

It has lowered a sea wall that is crumbling where the salt marsh in front of it has been eroded away.

A few years ago, at Sand Bay outside Weston - super-Mare in Avon, engineers built a new beach as an alternative to raising the sea wall.

This is the sequence of events, as recorded in a report by the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee, that left the citizens of Towyn unprotected and unevacuated when the tide burst their sea wall on 26 February 1990.

The National Audit Office's report on British coastal defences last year highlighted breaches of Hurst Spit in Hampshire, which «are due mainly to the construction of concrete sea walls and groynes further to the west in Christchurch Bay, which interrupted the natural drift of replenishing material».

In 2012, Superstorm Sandy broke through some sea walls on properties near Mar - a-Lago.

In the late 1980s, 30 - meter - thick sea walls were built to stop erosion and protect oil rigs on land.

These towering, solitary walls of water can measure tens of meters in height and are difficult to predict, often occurring in calm seas with little warning.

The stylish vibe in this West Village dining room just off the kitchen is achieved by way of a pretty pink wall covering called «Watercolor Strip» by Work + Sea.

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I gave a pair of vintage French nightstands a hint of aqua and created some over the bed wall art in a guest room by painting a sea fan with a pale robin's egg blue and framed it...

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I started out painting the walls in Sea Salt (Sherwin Williams), and then added beadboard wallpaper and hooks to the mix, in the hopes of my children actually hanging up their towels.

In fact, I've already started to put up my tropical decor and even created a few new Summer Sea Watercolor Background Art pieces for our gallery wall — super fun project!

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Made in 1940 when Britain had her back to the wall, The Sea Hawk was clearly about the Second World War, with the Spaniards cast as the Nazis.

Barbara (PG - 13 for sexuality, mature themes and smoking) Nina Hoss handles the title role in this character - driven drama, set in East Germany in the Eighties, about a physician banished to a tiny hospital on the Baltic Sea after trying to get transferred to the western side of the Berlin Wall.