Sentences with phrase «swamps on»

Spend the day of your Tropic Air Cave tubing & Airboat Tour zipping through the mangrove swamps on an exciting airboat ride, seeing mangrove swamps filled with crocodiles, turtles and thousands of birds.

Despite a lack of oval experience he drove brilliantly at Indianapolis and was leading with 15 laps to go, but he was swamped on a restart and Fittipaldi went on to win, though Mansell still finished a strong third.

I'd just like to say that I too was locked out of the Swamp on that night back in, gasp, 1971.

The animal theme lets toddlers pretend they're jumping through a grassy, swamp on a tortoise shell right in the middle of your own living room.

While write in ballots totaled an impressive 453 (it is unclear how many of them belong to Samuels because the Board of Elections does not tabulate them on election night unless they are numerous enough to be a deciding factor) Samuels found himself swamped on election day by the expected Democratic tidal wave, carrying appointed incumbent Richard Heppner to his first elected term with 1580 votes, and Lorin Rose into office with 1338 votes.

One April morning, deep in the Alakai swamp on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, John Sincock and Jim Jacobi heard a sound that no one will ever hear again: a plaintive, flutelike oh - oh, oh - oh, drifting through the trees.

We leave the Osa Peninsula on a scenic journey by boat, which passes Drake Bay and up the extensive mangrove delta of the Rio Sierpe — the largest extent mangrove swamp on the Pacific coast of Central America!

Zant's helmet can be found in the swamp on the small island with two dead trees on it.

Sometimes you will even splash the dirt swamp on your way!

But I see the most promise in a hybrid of digital and direct experience, in which children and young adults get out in the wet, wriggling, fluttering world — whether a wilderness or Thoreau's «swamp on the edge of town» — and then use the Web for that deeply human practice of communicating the things that catch our attention.

... in which children and young adults get out in the wet, wriggling, fluttering world — whether a wilderness or Thoreau's «swamp on the edge of town» — and then use the Web for that deeply human practice of communicating the things that catch our attention.

In the end, it is families, local communities and schools that create most such chances — sometimes simply by preserving what Thoreau called the «swamp on the edge of town.»

Thoreau exulted in wilderness, but as Daniel Botkin reminded me in his important book «No Man's Garden,» Thoreau also appreciated «the swamp on the edge of town.»

The creek is heartening to see because it shows the ability of wild things to fill in gaps and thrive amid some of the most heavily trammeled human habitat if we leave just a little room for nature — what Thoreau called «the swamp on the edge of town» (as pointed out to me by the «renegade naturalist,» Daniel Botkin).

North Carolina's Albemarle - Pamlico peninsula is a patchwork of peat soils called pocosins (Algonquin for «swamp on a hill»), thick deposits of decomposed plant matter that store high amounts of carbon.

After a long - standing campaign by environmentalists and local communities, the Indonesian government investigated an oil palm concession under development by PT Kallista Alam in Tripa peat swamp on the island of Sumatra.

Not exact matches

So when it's up to you to make the call on how to swim in this swamp, you'll find that there's no rule book or roadmap.

If you're not sure where you'd like to be in five years or are way too swamped to take on another responsibility, be prepared for a mentor to call you out on this, or just sit out the relationship entirely.

On barren hills and swamps at the outskirts of the city, Lee's government over the past twelve years has built the satellite town of Jurong, which in addition to housing and retail stores is crammed with 510 factories; another hundred will be completed this year.

If you're sick of being swamped with ads on your Kindle, you can pay a fee to cut them off.

As charges continue to swirl around hedge fund SAC Capital, Steve Cohen has put forward a novel defense: He couldn't possibly have acted on a trading tip emailed to him because he is so swamped with emails, he ignores most of them.

JetBlue (JBLU) was swamped with complaints about its communications and reservations technology that left passengers stranded in the terminal and on runways for hours.

Privately, Trump has been telling associates in recent days that his health chief had become a distraction and was overshadowing his tax overhaul agenda and undermining his campaign promise to «drain the swamp» of corruption, according to three people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Yet Stewart — the Pulitzer Prize — winning author of numerous books, including Den of Thieves, about insider trading on Wall Street — believes that perjury is a growing phenomenon, one that «threatens to swamp the legal system and undermine the prosecution of white - collar crime.»

Enacts new ethics reforms to Drain the Swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.

But in 2016, while helping his mother during her campaign for a government position in Indiana, Mr. Musgrave discovered a «poisonous swamp» of content on the site.

In many ways, the discussion between the three men in Mr. Trump's office tower encapsulates the dueling impulses of the president - elect, a man who enjoys being at the center of attention, but who is also aware that he was elected on a strong populist message of «draining the swamp» of Washington cronyism and extravagance.

But neither does the prima facie availability of avenues of escape imply that one who sets out on one of those paths will come ultimately to anything but dead ends, impassable swamps, fatal falls from darkened cliffs, or the wandering circles of the lost explorer.

These e-mail alerts have been able to mobilize a larger number of advocates in a shorter time, as when thousands of people swamped congressional representatives with e-mails concerning House bill 426, which condemned Yasir Arafat and placed all the blame for the conflict on the Palestinians.

He said that he had read and liked my comments on the steps of the Justice Department but was afraid that our dignified demonstration had been swamped by the more sensational aspects of the weekend, for which, he added, «we in the press bear a large measure of responsibility.»

A secondary method would be to swamp the Rep. and Senate District Offices while Congress is not in session although many of these guys will be on junkets.

Every man, woman and child that can physically be able to needs to gather in Washington to swamp the offices of the WH, the Democrats and the GOP to demand that they stop acting for their own pockets and their political welfare and start acting on behalf of the USA.

World Vision embarked on a relief operation after torrential rains swamped western and southern districts, causing mudslides which have claimed at least 151 lives.

One day the pastor took me on a journey one day through the swamps and bayous until we came to this small church in the wild where he was to speak along with other preachers.

Built on a former swamp, humid, tropical Guayaquil is pervaded by a festering stench that rises out of the sewer - like waters of the inlets that crisscross it.

The smell of sin hung foul on them; the mire About their roots was trampled filth of flesh Horrid with rottenness, and splashed with gore Curdling in crimson puddles; where there buzzed And sucked, and settled, creatures of the swamp, Hideous in wing and sting, gnat - clouds and flies, With moths, toads, newts, and snakes red - gulleted; And livid, loathsome worms, writhing in slime Forth from skull - holes and scalps and tumbled bones.57

I am going to have to work on this concept; my brain is swamped with the new images.

Not that we may thereby swamp the thing in the wholesale condemnation which we pass on its inferior congeners, but rather that we may by contrast ascertain the more precisely in what its merits consist, by learning at the same time to what particular dangers of corruption it may also be exposed.

as he follows the tracks of the skunk in the January snow; wondering where the skunk is beading and why; speculating on the different meanings of a winter thaw for the mouse whose snow burrow has collapsed and the owl who has just made dinner on the mouse; trying to understand the honking of the geese as they circle the pond; and wondering what the world must look like to a muskrat eye - deep in the swamp.

Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.»

They are on that show «Swamp People»... they are alligator hunters.

But then one more train of thought: Just as I was swamped in the raging Galilee and the issues it raises, I ran across Scott Stossel's review of Stumbling on Happiness, a book by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology who studies happiness (New York Times, May 7).

For ten years, Father Arne ran the Catholic Information Center on K Street in Washington, D.C.: Swamp Central, if you will.

On Fridays and Saturdays especially, the vendors are swamped as they try to meet orders being shouted by customers.

In 1823, Charles Kellogg built a flour mill on the banks of Bear Swamp Creek in the town of Sodom, N.Y..

Decidedly swamped by other shiny projects (like, the Project), I put my «Paleo for Fertility eBook» on the back - burner for completion at another time.

One of 5 salt islands on the Louisiana coast, Avery Island stands at 163 feet above mean sea level and is surrounded by low - lying swamps and marshes.

So this one is awesome for all of you out there who buy eight avocados when they're on sale and then watch them all go from underripe to black swamp mush in what feels like a matter of hours.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

Won a wild 54 - 48 overtime game over Arizona that was on at the same time as LSU - Florida just to make the submission match in the Swamp look even more like Cro - Mag SEC football.