Sentences with phrase «stepped over the curb»

You can actually watch a loved one begin to loosen the ties they have on earth and start stepping over the curb that leads them into the next world, however they perceive it.

Unfortunately, but fortunately for us, the caddie unsuccessfully stepped over the curb, falling over with Hadley's clubs on his shoulder.

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If you trip over a curb, it's an «accident» because you didn't intend to do it, but that «accident» is perfectly explainable by the laws of physics and the cause and effect of your step and the height of the curb and the speed of your body and all sorts of actual, measurable processes.

Mr. Cuomo used his power over the decennial redistricting process to win some victories in March: He was able to get lawmakers, who wanted him to sign the gerrymandered legislative maps they had drawn, to agree to curb pension benefits for future public workers, to create a more rigorous system for evaluating schoolteachers, and to take the first step toward legalizing a significant expansion of casino gambling.

Examples of my work include a street curb which wraps the base of the gallery walls and can't be stepped over, a huge smoke detector which quietly intones weather reports, and a radiator which uses the ironic visual warmth of wood instead of actual heat.

Over the next two decades, when science says aggressive steps must be taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, several hundred million people in the world will be getting electricity for the first time — and a lot of it will be fueled by coal.

I would argue that the steps industry is currently taking to mitigate their own carbon footprints, the recent peak and now downward trajectory of CO2 concentrations in developed nations, increasing global forestation, decreasing paper production, and global awareness in developing nations towards curbing their carbon footprint is enough in itself to hold us over until major breakthroughs in technology squash fears entirely.

It's great that the CEA feels this way about recycling; however their enthusiasm is curbed when the government steps in with regulations of their own, as we saw with the hubbub over New York City recycling regulations last year.

It's all very well to predict that a pedestrian will likely be knocked over if they step into the path of a truck, but the prediction can only be validated if they actually step off the curb!