Sentences with phrase «withering heat»

In summer, we'll be less likely to want to walk or jog in the withering heat.

It is the Ministry of Energy's responsibility to minimize crop - withering heat waves, to prevent the melting of the glaciers that feed Asia's major rivers during the dry season, and to prevent the ice sheet melting that would inundate the river deltas and floodplains that produce much of the Asian rice harvest.

Crop - withering heat waves have lowered grain harvests in key food - producing regions in recent years.

Prominent among these are falling water tables, the growing conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, and more extreme climate events, including crop - withering heat waves, droughts, and floods.

DEBORAH AMOS: Farmers lost crops in the withering heat.

The temperature increases bring crop - withering heat waves, more - destructive storms, more - intense droughts, more forest fires, and, of course, ice melting.

The twice - around - the - clock endurance race was run in withering heat, with 97 - degree temperatures on the second day of racing.

Withering heat.

Only once the LWF secured a big school bus, so that players never had to walk an hour through withering heat to play away games, did the KPL take off.

The next few days will be critical as to how the Honest brand stands up beneath the withering heat of scrutiny.

Not exact matches

The reason unconstrained aggression is so potentially destructive to human relationships is that often it does not permit those subsequent goods to emerge which otherwise could have taken root if they had not been withered by the heat of aggression.

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the field; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes.

Riches are a perishing commodity, as evanescent as the flower doomed to wither in the heat of the sun (1:10, 11).

It was very sunny that day - a perfect day for BBQ (that's what we had) and we were all withering under the summer heat till Michèle brought out this lovely and cold delicious looking bowl full of fresh veggies and some sort of wheat in it.

Black tea leaves are picked, allowed to «wither,» rolled, and then left to ferment for some time before being heated again.

As a result, technologies and models with disruptive potential sprout prematurely and then wither in the heat of the sun because they are adopted before they have a proven track record at outperforming traditional instruction in addressing students and teachers» needs.

But as we transitioned from the lakebed's smooth, almost pavement - like texture, the squishy cadence withered away in the desert heat as we made our way onto the OHV area's rocky and rolly terrain.

I ask Inhofe if he's noticed any climate changes in his home state, such as last summer's unprecedented heat and severe drought, withering crops, wild fires and dramatically expanded tornado season.

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The heat stoked wildfires that continue to burn out of control and have overwhelmed the country's firefighters, while an unparalleled drought withered crops so severely that Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin took the radical step of banning all grain exports.

The public is beginning to see the danger, too — Midwestern farmers struggling with drought, more damaging wildfires out West, and withering record summer heat across the country — while wondering about possible linkages between rapid Arctic warming and strange weather patterns, like the recent outbreak of Arctic air across much of the United States.»