Sentences with phrase «shovelful of»

Try to build any sort of nuclear power plant in the US and be prepared to spend billions for permits before the first shovelful of earth is moved.

Not only because it signals (again) that the world's largest emitter may be starting to tackle global warming (and conventional air pollution), but because it tosses another shovelful of dirt on a longtime U.S. excuse for inaction.

They give you two choices: Buy their special starter or throw a shovelful of soil in the tank.

And thus, horses were horses last month at Gavin Brown's location on Greenwich Street, for the re-staging of Jannis Kounellis» Arte Povera masterpiece, Untitled (12 Horses): they stood, stepped side to side, snacked on provisional piles of hay, and occasionally provided a team of three grooms a shovelful of what we might call «documentation,» or, perhaps even the chromosomes in the «albumen of the mind» Jerry Saltz mentions in his animated review of the show on Vulture.

It has a parallel in earthworks from those years as well, without having to move as much as a shovelful of earth.

Now that the first shovelful of earth has been moved, crews will begin excavating more than 870,000 tons of rock to create the huge underground caverns for the DUNE detector.

Bill de Blasio and Timothy Cardinal Dolan, joined by other federal, state, city and Archdiocese officials, gave a ceremonial toss of a shovelful of dirt and then spoke with the press and an invited audience.

Women in the pulpit was the last shovelful of dirt on the coffin.

So I was at first puzzled when I reached into my file, untouched since the first day of Lent last year, and found that I had scribbled the following: «On Ash Wednesday, the minister who just had to be different slung a shovelful of palm ash at his horrified congregation.

Hold your scrambled eggs close to your chest with shovelfuls of earthworms.

Not even on the times when you bothered to throw a few shovelfuls of dirt in its general direction.

Not exact matches

One shovelful yielded material later determined to be ancient wheat, prompting Pumpelly to declare that Central Asian oases were the original source of domesticated grain.

You can do this by adding a shovelful or two of soil to the bottom of the bin or, better still, get some home compost from a nice mature bin.