Sentences with phrase «sent on an expedition»

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So don't send prospects on a hunting expedition!

The first Muslim invasion of India took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Walid (87 - 97; A.D. 705 - 15) who sent Muhammad Ibn Qasim on an expedition into Sind, the area which then included most of what is now the Punjab.

[100] In the ensuing months, Muhammad led expeditions on tribes allied with Mecca and sent out a raid on a Meccan caravan.

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

Hein usually ignores such fishing expeditions or sends an underling to thrust and parry, but Parete did manage to get his attention on this one.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

The first cichlid was described in 1864 after a botanist on one of David Livingstone's expeditions sent back some dried skins to the Natural History Museum in London for identification.

Evidently a relief expedition will promptly be sent from the Falkland Islands or Argentina to rescue the main party, left on Elephant Island, and it is to be hoped that succor will reach these gallant men in time to prevent more suffering.

Chamberland's first expedition, Atlantica 1, planned for the summer of 2014, aims to send three aquanauts on a 100 - day underwater mission, longer than any yet recorded, to test «systems intended for permanent human residence of the undersea world.»

As the melting of the Arctic sea ice accelerates, countries with claims on Arctic Circle territory — including not just Russia and Canada but also the United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Finland — are scrambling to send mapping expeditions to the icy North.

Sending humans on an extended expedition to the moon will require the launch of a 1.8 - million - pound rocket.

One idea would be to reduce the crew size from four to the three of the Apollo days, with the idea that on the Outpost - type fortnight - or - more span expeditions, we'll be able to send the whole crew down to the surface, leaving the Orion (or whichever) orbiter craft, untended in low lunar orbit, to be reached by the crew later.

The studios send the film to NASA Mission Control in Houston and then the team there digitally beams it 220 miles away to the six crew members stationed there working on Expedition 31 as well as 2 NASA astronauts, one person from the European Space Agency and three Russian Cosmonauts.

If you and your party members choose to return to camp, you'll be sent to an expedition on that same map, but you'll be playing it together as a group.

It would be easy to imagine someone getting absolutely lost in a wave of dull - as - dirt harvesting quests and being subdued by tedium before getting to the exciting parts, and it doesn't help that most of the supporting systems like sending cats on expeditions (yes, really) or dealing with Scraps aren't intuitive or clear.

He is a past recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Teacher Fellowship, which sent him on an Earthwatch expedition, and the North Jersey Director for the New Jersey Council of the Social Studies.

The Baymen, (as the settlers called themselves then), got wind of this expedition, (you can't keep a secret in Belize to this day), and sent a handful of men up the river to find out what was going on.

Haemimont Games» imminent Surviving Mars will give me a chance to prepare for it beforehand — you know, should NASA run out of astronauts and have to resort to sending unfit games journalists out on its galactic expeditions.

Name: Caveblazers Developer: Rupeck Games Publisher: The Yogscast Release Date: 24th May 2017 Caveblazers is a fun and engaging Spelunky - like adventure game, which sends your intrepid explorer on expeditions into a vast network of ancient caves and ruins.

As an added bonus, completing the former types of quests no longer automatically sends you back to town, often allowing players to choose between staying in your current location to either pick up an additional quest or go on an Expedition to free roam, or returning to Astera, your base of operations, to craft new gear, resupply, etc..

It's now S.D. 10 and the USTA is sending out the first human expedition for a new world to live on.

Caveblazers is a fun and engaging Spelunky - like adventure game, which sends your intrepid explorer on expeditions into a vast network of ancient caves and ruins.

Neverwinter's Harpers seek to end the wickedness of a new death curse on the jungle peninsula of Chult, sending adventurers on an expedition to a land infested with Yuan - ti, undead and dinosaurs.

Imagine having town folks able to gather resources for you, sending them out on expeditions much like you could do with ships in Black Flag.

A tweet this morning sent me on a fact - checking expedition into state - level electricity statistics.

Maybe Apple should just buy BU and send whoever went on this gold digging expedition to the unemployment line?

«Infographics put results front and center without sending the reader on a hunting expedition.»

Mother was sent on shopping expeditions to find the right colour of paint or just the right kind of sacking for the miniature box bed, and both spent days crafting and recrafting the wee crofter's house.