Sentences with phrase «up the river from»

Norbert Roy, co-captain of the Notre Dame football team, brought IC up the river from his native Baton Rouge, introduced it informally to his teammates.

Kicking off in 1981, Stephen Gaghan's first movie since 2005's Syriana has Wells form an alliance of convenience with Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramírez), a treasure hunter convinced a fortune is waiting to be discovered up river from Jakarta.

Just up the river from St. Albans is Nitro, the smallest city in our rankings.

(yes)(no) if you see seagulls in the city along the river, do you think they have flown up the river from the sea or that your city has followed the river down to the sea?

Not exact matches

Ahilya by the Sea, a quietly elegant bed and breakfast set on the Mandovi River, is a far cry from the over-the-top opulence of its sister property, Ahilya Fort, while the more trend - setting W Goa set up shop this year on Vagator Beach — expect sunrise yoga and fitness classes by day and cocktails alongside a thumping Indian DJ soundtrack by night.

In Colorado's Weld County, home to Peppler's farm and more than 19,000 active oil and gas wells, some officials see selling unneeded portions of their allotments from the Colorado River as a way to shore up city budgets.

PetroChina's purchase of the 40 % of the McKay River oilsands project it doesn't already own from Athabasca Oil Sands is just the latest example of China's national oil companies snapping up Canadian energy reserves.

Moreover, it was turning those sales into a river of profit, with earnings per share up 24 % from the previous year.

The neighbourhood of Britannia was designed from the very beginning to be an upscale community: in 1952, when the average Calgary lot was going for $ 250, building lots in Britannia, which hugs the East bank of the Elbow River, were sold for up to $ 5,000.

Jupiter's atmosphere features colossal cyclones and rivers of ammonia welling up from deep inside the solar system's largest planet, researchers said on Thursday, publishing the first insights from a NASA spacecraft flying around the gas giant.

Six fluorescent lights, painted pink to look «like salmon swimming up a river,» hang at different heights from a tin ceiling.

The Deputy Attorney General gave thumbs up for almost 200 court administrators and sheriffs from across B.C. to hold a leadership conference at River Rock Casino Resort, even after the NDP government revealed it was a magnet for whale gamblers from China and dirty money.

And the last book of the Bible prophetically pointed to the gradual depletion of religion, that is false religion, by its members at Revelation 16, which says: «And the sixth one (of seven angels) poured out his bowl (symbolizing God's anger) upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.»

And if, there being no water, because the camel will have drunk it all up, you thirst for wine from the river of wine that is flowing by, you will become intoxicated from drinking pure wine and collapse under the influence of the strong drink and fall asleep.

I've heard it said that it's like we're all caught up in a river and God saves us from going over the waterfall.

He suddenly shifts the point of view, and we find ourselves looking at the scene through the eyes of lowly shad seeking a way up the river to spawn; through the eyes of elderly citizens who remember their own childhood when the fish swam free; through the eyes of farmers with their oxen, barred from cutting hay.

As water disappears from the sea, and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise.

I grew up not far from the Blackfoot river and the Blackfoot Reservation.

If water did not decrease in density as the temperature approached freezing, the water in ponds and rivers would freeze from the bottom up instead of from the top down and lots of fish and other forms of life would perish in the winter.

Lisbon was home to a quarter million, at least 60,000 of whom perished, both from the initial tremor (reckoned now, like the Sumatran earthquake, at a Richter force of around 9.0) and from the tsunami that it cast up on shore half an hour later (especially murderous to those who had retreated to boats in the mouth of the river Tagus to escape the destruction on land).

In one day I walked from the rim all the way down to the Colorado River then back up again.

Over a period from the early 1980s and up to most recently in 2004, GATE Petroleum purchased the clubs: Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, The Lodge & Club, The River Club and Epping Forest Yacht and Country Club.

This is the kind of honey I remember from my childhood while growing up in the Peace River region.

The release of up to 75,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water and up to 15,000 ML of New South Wales held environmental water into the Lachlan River commenced on 7 June 2013 from Lake Brewster and was completed until mid July.

So far 12 wineries have signed up to the initiative, including producers from the Barossa Valley in South Australia, Margaret River in Western Australia and Tasmania's Tamar Valley.

Over in the new Pop - Up Tastings, renowned Australian winemaker, Larry Cherubino, will present a tutored tasting: Great Southern at a glance, which will include the wines from the Great Southern Wine Region, with its five sub-regions of Denmark, Frankland River, Mount Barker, Porongurup and Albany.

A day earlier, two men had been attacked by sharks in separate incidents just hundreds of metres and a few hours apart while surfing at breaks a stone's throw up the coast from where heats were being held for the Margaret River Pro.

The state's annual harvest of the BB - sized berries (90 million pounds of super-powered superfood) shows up in everything from buckles to booze (try Sweetgrass Farm's Back River gin in your next G&T).

The creative idea behind The Smugglers Series, meanwhile, was to honour the tradition of the illicit whisky trade that operated during the 18th and 19th centuries across Scotland in general, and specifically, from The Isle of Arran, up the River Clyde to Glasgow, a hub of market activity at the time.

ABOUT OFFICINE BRERA: Officine BRERA comes from classic recipes of cucina povera, the countryside along the River Po» Valley in Northern Italy where both Chef Angelo Auriana and Matteo Ferdinandi grew up.

The Wetzel Family Estate grows fourteen grape varieties, on diverse sites stretching from the banks of the Russian River up onto the hillsides.

Pacific salmon have never surmounted Shipherd's Falls, a roaring, 60 - foot cataract in Washington's Wind River (although they now negotiate it by fish ladder), but the Steelhead is able to pick his way up by leaping from one small pocket of water, four, five or six feet to the next, often jumping at odd angles to hit the targets he must sense but can not possibly see as he launches himself.

By the time we got up there we were so tired from the climb all we did was sit and drink and look at the river.»

He despised the new sort, the gangs who worked the big river in low - water summer conditions, driving up from the industrial cities of south Wales, putting on scuba suits to drive salmon and sea - run trout into fixed trammel nets, or using cyanide bombs to suffocate the fish and send them drifting downstream to a collection point.

Once an eager young keeper had tried to prove that Si √ ¥ n had been up to no good on the river by the fact that he had been spotted coming away from it wearing rubber waders.

There is a lively player market; an Argentine from Newell's Old Boys gets a cut of the purchase price when he is sold to River Plate, and Swedish youngsters dream of the day when they can grow up and, like Gunnar Nordahl, draw the excited bidding of rich Italian promoters.

Police boats shuttled emergency supplies across the river from New Jersey to Chelsea Piers, and a convoy of ambulances lined up in front of the center, waiting to make runs downtown.

While it looks deceptively small from the storefront, the property opens up into a larger space in the back, including lovely café seating that overlooks the Mystic River.

The Environmental Protection Agency advises not to flush them down the drain (unless directed) because wastewater treatment plants can't remove drugs from sewer system water and they end up in our rivers and streams.

With part of its $ 29,000 share of the grant, the Galena school district bought two tons of chum salmon from a Yukon River seafood processor 50 miles away that scoops up salmon with a fish wheel.

These statistics from single - day clean - ups at specific beaches in Chicago demonstrate how many plastic straws are being left behind here in Chicago, polluting Lake Michigan and the Chicago River.

At Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, Amur corktree was found to have spread up to two miles from the point of introduction, and over 800 trees were located and measured.

And those trays are just the start of a river of trash from school meals that ends up in landfills, including nacho - stained containers, half - empty milk cartons, plastic cookie wrappers and plastic tubs that will sit in thick polyethylene bags for centuries without biodegrading.

Chinese visitors have also been snapping up milk powder products in Europe and Australia, while the former Portuguese territory of Macau, across the mouth of the Pearl River from Hong Kong, announced a plan on Monday to give city parents priority in buying baby formula.

But my husband comes from the rolling hills of lowland Scotland, where the purple heather lights up the hillsides on a bright sunny day and the clear water of the River Tweed winds its way through the verdant valleys.

Delays reverberated up the East River this morning after one of the brand new NYC Ferry boats was pulled from service due to a mechanical issue.

Cuomo once said the dilapidated Amtrak shaft carrying commuters under the Hudson River from New Jersey into Manhattan was «not my tunnel» when the federal government asked to put up state cash toward its repair, but today he insisted the project to refurbish the tube and construct a parallel conduit for trains is «desperately needed.»

New York state lawmakers have included $ 40 million dollars in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

«Hundreds of seniors from as far down as 110th Street and as far up as 220th Street, river to river, rely on ARC Fort Washington every day for a hot meal, fun activities and essential services,» said State Senator Adriano Espaillat, who organized the rally.

New York State lawmakers have included $ 40 million in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.