Sentences with phrase «stakes in the ground showing»

... I took a trip once to one of the inland glaciers in the Canadian Rockies, and there were stakes in the ground showing how much it had receded since the 1800s.

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Outside of measuring how well the Kindle is already doing with developers, the survey also revealed that iOS has remained the most popular platform of all with developers — showing that they do in the end value all those bells and whistles, too — and that Windows Phone and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) are gaining ground against RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) in the mindshare stakes.
Jeffrey Vallance stakes out the middle ground in this show of nine diverse artists, constructing witty reliquaries that range from a standard collection of religious medals and dice (representing lots cast by Roman soldiers at the foot of the cross) to The Gods of Las Vegas, a black box containing rhinestone pins spelling out «Elvis,» «Nixon,» «Liberace,» and «Jesus.»
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