Sentences with phrase «vast mountain of»

Someone — not necessarily the person who does the actual hiring — must go through that vast mountain of résumés and select from it those candidates who mostly closely meet the basic qualifications of the position.

About halfway between New York and Great Neck, just beneath Flushing Bay, stood the towering Corona Dumps, vast mountains of fuel ash that New York had been heaping on swampland beyond the city limits since 1895, in a landfill created by the construction of the Long Island Rail Road.

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Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

Macaw Mountain, a vast private reserve, is a safe haven for the species of bird that bears its namesake.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

Born in the vast mountain ranges of British Columbia, the Fraser River floods southward to its rendezvous with the Pacific.

West of the mountains lay a vast region threaded by rivers that emptied into the mighty Father of Waters, the Mississippi.

Already the fund has been responsible for returning vast swaths of land to their natural state, in the USA and elsewhere and has largely been credited for ensuring the survival of the tiger, cheetah and mountain gorilla.

Environment is an important consideration in an era that saw highlanders, in search of opportunity, migrate in vast numbers from the mountains to the barriadas around Lima and other coastal cities.

Our farms are so vast and efficient that they provide us with mountains of cheap food even though less than 2 percent of us work on them — fewer Americans than inhabit our jails.

There they were, all five of them, situated on a vast open field with the San Juan Mountains far off in the distance acting as their backdrop.

Ranged around the walls of his gym are various pieces of skiing equipment, and behind the sliding doors of one closet is a vast array of mountain - climbing apparel.

It was not surprising that Marco Streller, a 6» 5» mountain of a man with vast international and European experience, was tough for United to handle.

Here we see a vast alluvial cone between the Altun and Kunlun mountains on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert.

The National Academy of Sciences has given the nod to long - term disposal of spent fuel in canisters that will be sealed deep inside a mountain near the vast, remote Nevada Test Site, where hundreds of atomic bombs were once exploded.

The sediments also hold clues to the tectonic evolution of East Antarctica, and a mountain range buried beneath the vast, thick ice sheet.

The glacial streams descending through the depressions among the mountain slopes constituted the usual lines of travel, and the route developed was new and independent, passing among mountain peaks rising to the height of 15,000 and 18,000 feet above the sea and gradually mounting to a maximum level before the Pole was reached and thence descending very gradually for 140 miles over a vast plateau to the position which was occupied on December l5th and 16th, 1911, and determined to be the South Pole.

the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain of floating ice which flows down from the great mountains of the interior and covers the southern part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which form the mountainous embayment at the head of Ross Sea.

Great mountains of ice are melting in Antarctica, vast plains of frozen water continue to collapse into the Southern Ocean.

Tornadoes have hit every continent on the planet except Antarctica, but the vast majority of tornadoes hit in the United States — specifically in the south and southeast United States, or «tornado alley,» where cold air blowing east from the Rocky Mountains can mix to deadly effect with warm air blowing north from the Gulf of Mexico.

The answers are turning up in traces of mound settlements bordering the rugged Kopet - Dag mountains to the south, which rise up to form the vast Iranian plateau.

Not far from a range of giant ice mountains on Pluto lies a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell - like blocks by snaking troughs, new photos by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal.

Givnish says it's difficult to disentangle the effect of mountain - climbing from tree - climbing, because the vast majority of mountain species are also epiphytes.

Today the crust is composed of eight major tectonic plates — the vast, irregular slabs of rock whose movements shift continents and sculpt mountains.

Said Peter Zahler, WCS Asia Program Deputy Director: «Central Asia contains some of the last great temperate grasslands left in the world, vast natural desert regions, and some of the greatest mountains on the planet.

Vast stands of whitebark pine help to maintain the mountain snowpacks that provide water to more than 30 million people in 16 U.S. states each year.

Since the vast majority of mountain glaciers are in recession, and most studies show permafrost to be melting, this knocks the sceptics» position re urbanisation on the head.

There was a warm, stable climate with dispersed continents surounded by vast warm and shallow seas over continental shelves that provided light, oxygen, and nutrients for life to thrive in, because intense mountain - building also increased erosion and the discharge of eroded nutrients into those seas.

«The randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.»

The story misses this important development, that long before finding the first feathered dinosaur in the mid 1990s, the vast majority of paleontologists and an increasing number of young ornithologists realized and had accepted the mountain of osteological evidence, which Ostrom had pioneered, that frames birds as dinosaur descendants.

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From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost - to the rousing brotherly bonds with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun - scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow - peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend, a man who embraced the ideal that power has a destiny.

With vast mountain terrains and theatrical music, the fantasy film feel is only enhanced by the voice - over by British actor Charles Dance, best known for his role as the uncompromising Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones.

Instead of vast flat lands, we have rocky hills and deep canyons, the red mesas of Monument Valley and the snow - capped mountains of the Rockies.

The finale finds the Dwarves, led by Richard Armitage's Thorin Oakenshield, reclaiming the vast wealth of their mountain home of Erebor, but all is definitely not going to go smoothly.

The film finds the Dwarves, led by Richard Armitage's Thorin Oakenshield, reclaiming the vast wealth of their mountain home of Erebor, but all is definitely not going to go smoothly now.

Explore vast forests and scale tall mountains in this rugged, weather - beaten part of Hyboria.

With a game world as vast, varied and as open as Medici — with its 400 square miles of beautiful beaches, towering mountain peaks and Mediterranean inspired towns — your first hour of play might be wildly different to ours.

Here we have yet another crew of scientists and explorers going into areas unknown, this time, a vast subterranean cave system underneath the Carpathian mountains that appears to have been sealed up for centuries, and has gone mostly unexplored.

There, once it sinks in that the Japanese intend to use the Brits to build a railway west of Baghdad through mountains and valleys, a vast, unenviable and soul - crushing undertaking (famously fictionalized in the Oscar - winning film The Bridge on the River Kwai).

This all takes place in a familiar world of vast plains, snow covered mountains, and other exotic biomes, each hosting its own hierarchy of monsters.

This town is a veritable sanctuary, nestled in a vast range of the Maluti Mountains.

Filkins's narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B - 52s; a night's sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.

Above all, we come to understand the endangered Siberian tiger, a highly intelligent super-predator that can grow to ten feet long, weigh more than six hundred pounds, and range daily over vast territories of forest and mountain.

The sad truth is that the vast majority of people offering Bernese Mountain Dog puppies for sale are unknowledgeable, irresponsible, completely clueless — or all of the above.

The sad truth is that the vast majority of people offering Greater Swiss Mountain Dog puppies for sale are unknowledgeable, irresponsible, completely clueless — or all of the above.

The sad truth is that the vast majority of people offering Entlebucher Mountain Dog puppies for sale are unknowledgeable, irresponsible, completely clueless — or all of the above.

Arelauquen Lodge, A Tribute Portfolio Hotel, will be debut in Patagonia, near the world's end, with vast landscapes of lakes and mountains, while Auberge du Vin, A Tribute Portfolio Hotel, will be located in the heart of Argentina's wine country.

Vast African plains interspersed with granite kopjes, rivers, the Lebombo Mountains in the east, and a series of forests in the far north, dawn game drives, thatched roof accommodation and the eerie night chatter of hyenas or wild dogs on the prowl make this a firm favourite of any visit to the Limpopo.

Madikwe consists of vast plains of open woodlands and grasslands and bordered in the south by the Dwarsberg Mountains.