Sentences with phrase «under a rain of»

Peonies used to be a flop in the garden, their weighty flowerheads bowed under the rains of a summer storm but, over the past 40 years, peony growers have been busy developing plants with stronger stems.

Not exact matches

The hurricane was still dumping rain overnight Wednesday in Puerto Rico, where crumbled red roof tiles lay scattered across many roads, and curious residents sidestepped and ducked under dozens of black power lines still swaying in heavy winds.

Along Interstate 45 leaving Galveston, the rain was so intense that drivers stopped under bridges because they could not see in front of them.

Much of the city's key infrastructure, including roads and bridges, is currently under water, with heavy rain in the forecast for much of the rest of the week.

(As it turned out, within hours of this discussion, 105 missiles had been rained down on three of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's chemical weapons facilities, under the orders of the commander in chief.)

He said: «The roof leaks, so my office under one of the corners gets flooded whenever it rains very hard and some of the stone work is coming off the outside of the building, so just things that need fixing.»

Because of heavy rains, some areas of southeastern Missouri are under significant threat of flooding.

G. R. Driver comments, «As thus interpreted, the poem depicts the introduction of the youthful Baal as a god of fertility into the Ugaritic pantheon and the establishment of his supremacy, under El's suzerainty, over all the other gods, exercising power over earth as god of rain; for rain is the ultimate source of the life - giving water which is essential to the whole of nature, however it may be distributed.»

I, RICK PERRY, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three - day period from Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas.

The perfect judge would have to apply an infinitely complex law, so that each person under the law would be held to a standard that is individually tailored to his situation: «Anyone who was born on May 23 at 2:53 p.m. at 1128 Main St. and whose first sight was of a quite pretty nurse named Amy whose hands were slightly cold...» and so on, telling the exact story of your life in literally every detail, ``... any such person ought to have been able to control his temper upon discovering that the morning newspaper was wet from the rain, but could not be expected to remember to buy a card for his sister's sixteenth birthday.»

Under primitive conditions man was so at the mercy of wind and storm, heat and cold, drought and rain, mysterious diseases and unpredictable disasters, that the first, natural explanation of his good or evil fortune was sought in the will of superhuman forces.

I thrive under stormy clouds and the fresh, bright smell of after - rain bliss.

we attempted to view the eclipse on monday, there we were, dw & i with our shoddy recalled goggles that we purchased weeks ago, standing under a heavy blanket of grey clouds, it was like Mordor, and then right as 2:42 pm was imminent the clouds opened and we were rained on.

Surrounded by the fragrant steam emanating from my cup, I stole a few minutes of the day to do absolutely nothing — nothing but enjoy the dribbling rain under the blissful silence of a quiet evening.

However, rain forests and peat lands in palm oil producing countries are under pressure — particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia — and in response, many of the world's largest retailers and food companies have pledged to convert entirely to sustainable palm oil by 2015.

But we put such negative thoughts out of our mind while dining, in the rain under the thatched roof of Karola's Restaurant while listening CDs of the guitar music of Ottmar Libberth and Carlos Santana and eating swordfish, shrimp, and yellowfin tuna that were fresh and delicious, but — you guessed it — bland.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

With rain and sleet belting down under the Anfield floodlights, this had the makings of a special night and both teams were quickly into their stride.

The rain refused to subside as proceedings got under way, with both sets of supporters still in fine voice nonetheless.

I'm sitting under an overhang in an outdoor café, the rain blowing in sideways and soaking the bottom of my skirt as an Amy Winehouse album plays on repeat and I try to digest all that we've seen over the past week.

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People were bundled up and huddling under the tents to keep out of the rain.

We left base camp under somewhat darkening skies and three - quarters of the way to the canyon it started to rain.

Unfortunately it rained some so we were only able to borrow the bikes once, but it was beautiful, after a day of crowded Venice (which we loved) it was perfect to calm down under the trees beside the river.

But a little more than a week later, Hadiya and a group of friends were huddled under a park canopy, trying to escape some heavy rain, when a gunman opened fired on the group.

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I'm sitting under an overhang in an outdoor café, the rain blowing in sideways and soaking the bottom of my skirt as -LSB-...]

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

In case of rain, mom sits in a gazebo, or under a really good tree, and let them play.

It was raining outside and we had rain on the motorhome and we got the bed ready and it had plastic underneath it and I had little puppy wee wee pads under that or on top of that.

When I next found the boy who had been eager for me to bang the drum he was standing directly under a stream of rain water that drained from the top of the play house.

The other essential is having a clothes drying rack instead of relying on the washing line just in case it does rain you can keep everything under cover.

Their similarities include - highly reversible seats, very light weight, precisely 25 LB, they are made of fabrics washable machine fabrics of nylon, have an under seat storage basket, have highly adjustable handlebars, have a cover for rain and five - point harness for safety.

Amazing - my son had been tetchy with teething and struggling to settle down to sleep after three hours of being sat in bed with him I tried this on the «under the rain'track and he relaxed and then straight to sleep after about 3 tines round - love it

IRONDEQUOIT, N.Y. — Sandbags are doing their best but much of Mayer's Marina on Irondequoit Bay is under water, and Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said flooding is not just because of recent rain.

Sandbags are doing their best but much of Mayer's Marina on Irondequoit Bay is under water, and Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo said flooding is not just because of recent rain.

Huddled under umbrellas as sleet and rain poured down, rows of rally - goers cheered as de Blasio and other elected officials, all Democrats, criticized Trump's stance toward immigrants and refugees.

About 500 people assembled under a light rain to honour the victims of the deadly Paris assaults, carrying signs that read «We will not retreat,» and «We will defend our values.»

As rain starting falling today, a diverse group of supporters gathered under scaffolding on Madison Street.

The work of journalists dispatched to cover the event has also been halted as the rain has disrupted coverage, forcing everyone to take refuge under canopies mounted at the park.

A 36 - inch stormwater discharge drain about 600 feet south of the beach — closer than permitted under the state beach code — dumps potentially hazardous chemicals and bacteria into the water during heavy rains.

Under such extreme conditions, the Northeast could receive up to 15 more inches of rain yearly, up from 47 inches today.

But as we move [d] down the coast and we also start [ed] to go under these islands which were filled with young penguin chicks — penguins are all kind of born in November, they leave the nest in the first week of February or so and when we were seeing them in January, they were still covered by down and this was during that kind of torrential rain period that we saw, and as a result these penguin chicks which were [a] couple months old covered in down are getting soaked by cold rain during the day and then at night time the temperature drops down into the teens and they are freezing and dying.

The researchers then looked at four key extreme Australian events — the Angry Summer 2012/13; the Coral Sea marine heatwave of 2016; the severe rain event in Queensland in 2010; and the 2006 drought in southeast Australia — to model how often similar events could occur under each scenario.

In heavy downpours, the rain gauge in the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) under - reports the amount of rain.

Researchers have evaluated different mechanisms that could account for declining snowpack in a warming world: earlier onset of snowmelt, a change in melt rates and shifts from snow to rain under certain conditions.

UNDER WATER More than 60 centimeters of rain inundated parts of Louisiana (Baton Rouge shown) in August 2016, driving river gauges across the state to near - record levels and costing more than $ 10 billion in damages.

Whatever comes out of this lab will likely never drink a Belgian rain, or spread its leaves under the German sun.

In the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacted.

Government scientists from throughout Europe will meet in Geneva under the UN banner to thrash out a successor to the 1984 agreement, which is known as the ’30 per cent club» because it required nations to cut their emissions of sulphur dioxide, the main cause of acid rain, by 30 per cent.