Sentences with phrase «thickets at»

WHAT TO SEE The most famous inhabitants of this island are its Red - footed Boobies which nest in the Ziricote thicket at the western end of the caye.

Over the few months leading up to the performance, Beasley traversed the High Line, recording sounds from around the park — from crickets chirping in the thicket at West 21st Street, to the evolving sound of various construction sites, to the meandering traffic on the West Side Highway.

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The package also contains bills directing agencies to craft the least costly rules possible, to publish cost estimates for rules in development, and to publish «plain language» summaries of proposed rules online, a salvo at the impenetrable verbal thickets that confound small - business owners, who typically handle compliance themselves.

Similarly, the minister who elicits trust in healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one who acts as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping others to accept their responsibility to work as partners with Jesus Christ, who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits for us to open.

And right here, at the big copper beech tree that marked the entrance to the thicket, my plans went awry, for I discovered that the faint sound of sneakers I thought I had heard was my next - youngest brother Peter, who stood there panting, ready to resume our sprint through the woods to Mass..

The girls, however, do not take part in the fox - hunting at night, when oft - times the part is out until early dawn, riding through branch and brier, swamp and thicket, over fallen logs and accumulated brush - heaps, into holes and over ditches and fences with reckless fearlessness.

The above supper, Thicket, was held at the edge of Mount Hood in June, 2016.

At last the game Alex is watching ends, and he disappears into the thicket of bodies on the court.

Well, one day a letter arrived at this magazine, unsolicited and buried deep in the envelope thickets of a mailbag, from a Yates Center barber.

I lay napping in the hammock with an icy lemonade at my side as the birds of song whistle me an afternoon serenade... Back at reality ranch, I swipe at the black flies gathering to feed behind my ears, take a deep breath, and head past the empty hammock into the thicket to make it happen.

Bill Hobbie has enthusiastically taken on volunteer duties at Ipswich River, as well as at unstaffed sanctuaries including Nahant Thicket, Marblehead Neck, Cedar Pond in Wenham, and Eastern Point in Gloucester.

At just four acres, Nahant Thicket is among Mass Audubon's smallest wildlife sanctuaries.

Between now and the general election, which if we believe Alan Johnson is at most eight months away, there will probably be more than 100 voting intention polls bandied about, so I thought it would be helpful to offer Total Politics readers some basic pointers to help pick their way through this particular thicket.

But unlike last year, when enabling legislation was lost in the thicket of interest groups at the end of the legislative session, the companies and their allies are unabashedly hitching their wagon to Cuomo.

Alan Organschi, a Connecticut architect who teaches at Yale, wants to turn four blocks of downtown New Haven into a thicket of wooden mid-rise buildings ranging from six to eight stories.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

Researchers working at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda spotted an adult female mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) using a thick bamboo shoot to help her distressed infant climb from a thicket on the jungle floor to her higher perch (shown above), the team reports this month in Behavioural Processes.

Rice University ecologists Sarah Bengston and Tom Miller examine ants at Big Thicket National Preserve near Beaumont, Texas.

«We're conducting monthly pitfall sampling at 19 established sites in the Big Thicket, a national preserve near Beaumont,» said Bengston, an ant expert, co-principal investigator on grant and Huxley Research Instructor of BioSciences.

Extensive thickets of staghorn corals at Carysfort Reef, approximately 6 nautical miles east of Key Largo, Fla., are gone today and replaced by a structure-less bottom littered with the decaying skeletons of staghorn coral.

He stopped at the edge of a Midwestern prairie, a thicket of tall flowers and grasses more frightening to farmers than any horror movie madman lurking in a barn with a chain saw.

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

It's the 19th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it's the first to push to the wall, to the max, to the ultron the notion that the MCU really is a universe: a vast intermeshed thicket of comic - book icons, destined to be an army that's greater (in theory, at least) than the sum of its parts.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.

It took the book culture by storm in 1996, turning critics apoplectic with praise while requiring some readers to make multiple attempts at hacking through its thicket of wry footnotes and serpentine, beautifully constructed sentences.

Now a new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social and emotional learning programs and decide on an approach.

I looked at this painting many times before I spotted the white horse and the fox hidden in a thicket.

The forest was old and thick at the edge of the lawn; the bamboo thickets rose thirty feet into the gloom; the trees were moss - slung giants, bunioned and misshapen, tentacled with the roots of orchids.

Ours was a gated compound, guarded at the front by a thicket of rose and hibiscus bushes.

But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.

The amusingly shaped body is really quite efficient at punching into thickets.

At first glance, Hong Kong is nothing short of daunting: a thicket of skyscrapers perched on a South China Sea island.

At Mount Irvine Beach, in the south - west, a thick carpet of sand forms a double horseshoe and is backed by a thicket of seagrape and palm trees.

In the thicket of his surfaces, we see the AbEx demand that we look at paint simply as paint, so that the surface is neither given to narration nor to intellectual content.

In her latest show at Blue Mountain Gallery, which opens on October 5th with a reception for the artist October 7th from 5 - 8, Margaret Grimes shows three large canvases and a series of small ones all depicting woods and thickets.

The collage features a female figure in a foggy thicket, contemplating the partial form of at least one other body, as well as a pink flower, out of which Medusa - like tendrils and a giant hybrid serpent / bird / cicada monster emerges.

Often starting with an excerpt of text, a totem, a gesture, or all three at once, Natasha Bowdoin's drawings grow instinctively, sprawling across a wall or tightening into a thicket of words and imagery contained by the paper's edge.

Rather, justifications, if offered at all, leave behind the realm of the legal and descend into the thicket of «morals», «national interest», «religion», «history» or «race».

A quick look at some of the other NCAA rules now emerging on social media and recruiting reveals a thicket of complex and seemingly inconsistent requirements.

As long as claimants view the comp arena as «a thicket,» claims costs will likely continue to rise, even allowing for the apparent savings experienced through employer - controlled medical care, at least according to the data presented in this study.

For example, in Florida, where claims costs appeared to have yo - yoed in recent years, and in which the state's Supreme Court struck down the state's mandatory attorney fee schedule for claimants [see Castellanos v. Next Door Co., 192 So.3 d 431 (Fla. 2016)-RSB-, the Court complained that the litigation of workers» compensation claims in the state had become far too complex, to the detriment of the claimant, «who depends on the assistance of a competent attorney to navigate the thicket» [92 So.3 d at 494].

No more classes at a Thicket restaurant or hotel room to sit through!

The Surface Book 2 15 is a bit chunky, at 0.90 inches at its thickets point and starting at 4.2 pounds.