Sentences with phrase «trees in a windstorm»

Corrupt, decrepit regimes were falling over like dead trees in a windstorm, but in many cases, there was nothing — no replacement regime, no legitimate constitution, no rule of law — to step into the breach.

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Cast members learned how to work with bees, collecting runaway swarms from trees and extracting honey from the combs; the most affecting sequence finds Gelsomina and her father hunkered down together beneath a tarp in the rain, using their bodies to keep the lids from blowing off boxed hives in a windstorm, because there are too few stones in the area to hold them down.

During a recent windstorm, an old tree fell in our yard and crushed our detached garage.

Sadly, the original tree, which dated to some time between the mid-16th and late 18th century, toppled in a windstorm in 1942.

The trigger event was a devastating windstorm that leveled more than 10,000 trees in Vancouver, Canada's Stanley Park in December 2005.

Under many weather related disasters, a series of high windstorms due to Hurricanes which tore the roof tops and uprooted the trees in September.

After a windstorm ripped through Paradis early Saturday morning, people in one part of town remove fallen trees from their homes and the streets.