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The only way to descend without slipping is to dig in heel-first, like a mountaineer coming down a snowfield.
There are, unfortunately, people in the world who are unstable, and who may descend into madness.
In moments I descend to depths I would have assumed impossible without scuba gear.
Bri did not dare to move until she heard his shuffling feet and tired grunts descend to the bottom of the stairs and fade into the kitchen.
The game began to descend into a scrappy affair with play the balls getting messy and players getting confrontational.
Watchful waiting is not an option because true undescended testicles rarely descend spontaneously after three months of age.
They descend on my memory somewhat here though I do dimly remember us drivelling on about many other subjects.
A convoy of between 300 and 400 caravans and motorhomes is scheduled to descend upon Geraldton in September.
I descend to greet my public at 11 pm and am able to scrutinize at least 6 different chins and sets of grinning teeth at close quarters.
Near the end of the story, deserted by his wife, he returns to descend into alcoholism.
Water would descend through bronze clouds onto the figure of a drum-beating and dancing wizard and then drain into the trough below.
I managed to step aside so that I could descend the escalator several steps behind them.
She looked exceptionally forlorn when the tour guide reminded us we had to descend by the same passage.
Traders fear a shower of tickets may descend on them after private contractors take over parking enforcement in Stroud.
A trainee controller mistakenly directed a plane to descend through the flight level of another plane.
Let us also hope for a long silence to descend upon the thuggish bigmouth who has strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage for far too long.
After a day of silence, the sounds outside descend upon the ears in a symphonic scale.
I brace myself to descend into the viscera of Filene's to pick unbeatably priced men's suits and business shirts for my frugal husband.
Without agreed rules to play by, and strict sanctions against those who break them, sport would soon descend into unsatisfying anarchy.
In most instances I think we'd find that a combination of factors led these children to descend into the netherworld of crime.
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His five sisters and their broods descend each summer creating an instant barrage of family noise.
And on July 15, more than 800 vintage and veteran cars will descend on the estate for a rally.
Keep the dumbbell centered between your knees as you descend into a deep squat, keeping your head up and low back slightly arched.
When they helicopter began to descend to the earth, the clouds from the sky had somewhat blown away, to give way to a clear starry night sky.
Thousands of visitors are set to descend on York when the five-day festival of horse racing and pageantry comes to the city in June next year.
Dolphins, for example, descend from a hoofed mammal that adapted to life in the ocean about 50 million years ago.
I have never seen him descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night.
I arrive at Heathrow in good time, secure a window seat and descend into the Mecca that is duty free shopping.
Experience subtle changes in vegetation as we descend into the rainforest of bangalow palms, strangler figs and red cedar.
I descend through the green globs of the algal bloom, then into bottom visibility clouded by fine silt lifted by the tide.
These descend to gargoyles which drain onto chains down the column face to gullies at the bottom.
More than 1,000 pinners are expected to descend upon Mad River's densely forested slopes for this genuflectors gala.
But with the park still intact and once deforested areas being restored, researchers will continue to descend on Masoala.
Corticospinal and corticobulbar fibers descend in large bundles at this level, destined for the pyramids of the medulla oblongata.
We descend directly to the stern at 30m and gravitate immediately to the impressive 3m propeller.
Here your hotel room would actually descend gently to the beach, almost touching the endless blue of the sea.
It's all picture perfect, even if the night does descend rather early and hangs on for hours on end.
The inferior parathyroids descend into the mediastinum, then reascend to meet the inferior pole of the thyroid.
Several thousand people descend on a small coastal resort that has seen better days.
As their fins thrashed through the water in fast pursuit, I saw the whale shark descend rapidly to the depths.
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But as you descend the sides of the reef you hit a thermocline at 15-20m and it clears dramatically.
Linguistic relatives are English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic, all of which descend from the ancient Teutonic language.
Gangs of marauding teenagers descend on the town at weekends and often become involved in criminal activity while drunk.
Many of the inner-city poor of the United States descend from farm laborers and tenant farmers.
The muscle's origin may not ascend above the axis or descend below the third thoracic vertebra.
But once the messages descend I remain overwhelmed by the avalanche of letters, information, bulletins and, of course, junk email.
The car lurched gently beneath her feet and began to rise as the weight of the second began to descend under gravity.
The darkness and heat descend upon you like a heavy black cloak and the mosquitoes suddenly make a rush for any exposed bits of skin.
Two rovers are scheduled to descend to the surface and fetch some samples in our ongoing search for life on Mars.
Later, strapped into our positions we descend through the cloud, our stomachs bouncing as we hit the turbulence.
I knew from experience that it is vital to descend the east ridge of the mountain.
But young people are fighting back in South Yorkshire and today will descend on London, seeking to rid their county of its unwanted image.
To get in, you descend through a stair wedged in the cleft between the two retaining walls, to emerge in the tranquillity of the courtyard below.
A losing presidential candidate in Ukraine is warning the country could descend into civil war if the results are not annulled.
First, they take human form, but from there they descend to birds, then to animals and finally to reptiles.
Exhausted, he develops altitude sickness and, because neither brother has a rope, cannot descend by the same steep route.
Step out of line here and the wrath of the consumer can descend with real force.
Visitors don a 70-pound helmet attached to an air line fed from the surface, and descend stairs into less than 20 feet of open water.
Turning, we saw a spotted eagle ray descend the reef wall and glide over the plateau.
The sudden loss of lift caused the airplane to descend rapidly to the runway.
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They know when the red mist is about to descend and can rein in their anger.
Numbers vary from 9,000 to 80,000, 98 per cent of whom descend on the capital from the provinces.
The lyrics at times become too obscure and in some places descend into gnomic utterance.
I spent the evening half-expecting a horde of physicians to descend on me, but Mai was the only one who visited me.
We watch, with polite amusement, as two civil engineers descend on the rural community of Rosscullen to set up an idealised garden city.
Passengers descend a gangplank to access two rowboats, and many more appear already to have disembarked.
Carry on up the ridge to the summit, then descend south-east to reach a steep little spur dropping almost due east.
Today's birds descend from a generalist ancestral finch that invaded the islands from mainland Ecuador.
Will the helicopter gunships and the marines suddenly descend Colombia-style on the newly planted heroin fields and turn on the flame-throwers?
The skiing is suitable for all abilities and ski pistes descend right in to the centre of the various levels of the resorts.
Apparently an army of anarchists is going to descend on Dublin from all corners of Europe and ferment trouble.
As the grey skies descend once again, reminding us all that it's still really winter, navel-gazing has become the order of the day.
After what seemed an eternity, a long white car came over the crest of the hill, and began to descend toward the country club.
But this figure is set to be dwarfed by the crowds expected to descend on the heritage railway once the Harry Potter film is released.
The Ossetes speak an Indo-Iranian language, and are thought to descend from Sarmatian nomads.
To tackle the nose and descend the north ridge, negotiate a rocky corner, then carefully pick your way down, keeping left to avoid difficulties.
I knew that they were far stronger than I was, and that if I did not do something, the other attackers would descend upon me in a moment.
In 1687 Leibniz asked for the curve along which a particle may descend under gravity so that it moves equal vertical distances in equal times.
With the pressure on, we are gripped by indecision and descend into argument.
Most farm workers descend from Africans who immigrated to Zimbabwe specifically to work on these farms.
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As the crooks descend upon the money, the lights in the vault suddenly go out.
The rufous turtle dove which saw a flurry of birdwatchers descend on Stromness earlier this month is still attracting twitchers.
The train station is underneath the terminal so you just descend to the platforms by escalators or lifts.
As the characters descend into madness, the camera work also begins to fracture and break down.
When all of them descend on a small Ohio town, the complications are hilariously involved and tuneful.
Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors.
Just before we descend to the car park, I look out at the bay and a long peninsula of land pointing towards the East.
Closely related animals tend to have similar eyes, because they descend from recent ancestors.
Meanwhile, the country continued to descend deeper into fragmentation, general pauperism, and mutual predacity.
The commander's intent was to hurdle obstacles, crawl beneath objects, ascend and descend obstacles, and jump from objects.
It can quickly descend into manipulative gimmickry, with journalists as professional emoters who cover events to express their outrage.
Rainwater in volcanic areas can descend as far as several kilometres into the crust, later rising to the surface in hot springs or geysers.
Scholars began to discuss civilization as a unilinear process with races able to ascend or descend a graduated scale.
Then, in an instant, we are over the hump, the gray skies part, and we descend toward the lowlands.
Gold miners often have to descend more than 3 kilometres underground to drill ore in sweltering narrow tunnels.
I couldn't have friends descend from far and wide only to find that the sum total of my conversion is still the equivalent of a student hovel.
You have to leave the main road and climb a steep hill to finally descend into Marigot Bay, a yachtsman's dream of shelter.
Maradona is not the only fellow to descend into a grump with world football's organisers.
If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
On Wednesday we'll be getting our own back when several thousand Celts descend on the place for the make or break game against Rosenborg.
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Other versions attach to the wall or descend from the ceiling vertically or at an angle.
Upland valleys and the headwaters of fast-flowing rivers descend to the coast through some of the world's largest swamps.
From her pedestal descend branches of gold, which also encircle the hawsehole.
The scintillating sun was already starting to descend and it was starting to get cold, giving my arms goose bumps.
Some of the small, sturdy black breeds of British cattle may descend from this ancient stock.
This week, hundreds of oilmen from around the world will descend on Aberdeen to share their optimism and their expertise.
I have never seen O'Brien descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night.
The school going children can expect a veritable literary blitz to descend on their schools.
For spirits to appear, for ectoplasm to emanate, for UFOs to descend, darkness is essential.
The country is holding together so far, but could easily again descend into chaos.
We must not descend to the depth of lawlessness for which the criminal was sentenced.
Although they are terrestrial creatures, these crabs descend to the sea to spawn, and their larvae live in salt water for a time.
Athena and Hera dress for battle to aid the Greeks and descend to the field in a chariot.
Letting it descend into a failed state and haven for anti-American militants is not an option they will accept.
Medieval parties to celebrate saints' days would often descend into chaos or a protest.
From the last of the three climbs, two routes descend to a short section of streamway.
At weekends, parties of Greeks descend from Athens, three and a half hours away by car.
Note: It is not possible to climb onto or descend from a cart through the hex in front, whether or not the draft animal is harnessed.
Around a million people are expected to descend on the Dutch capital for a huge street party to celebrate the first new Dutch monarch in 33 years.
A great many surprises must open out in real life as in great fiction, or we descend into the rigidity of myth.
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These races require competitors to climb and descend steep, sometimes dodgy off-piste terrain using climbing skins and lightweight alpine-touring skis, boots, and bindings.
Others had the chance to descend into a crevasse on a rope ladder, and see first hand what it's like inside one of those virtually bottomless icy chasms.
Components of the corona radiata and internal capsule are displayed, showing the convergence of corticofugal fibers as they descend to brainstem levels.
Finally we were able to descend near to the seafloor, which was littered with fallen chimneys, each several feet in diameter and fluted like a column of a Greek temple.
The two masts are in place, and the usual plan is to descend on one of them, explore the aft or forward part of the ship and ascend the same or the other mast.
In this great class we should probably have to descend far beneath the lowest known fossiliferous stratum to discover the earlier stages, by which the eye has been perfected.
After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea.
Evolution has no end in view and men do not descend from chimps, although the two share a common ancestor.
The slopes of the hill on the northern and eastern sides descend sharply into the river valleys draining from the mountain watersheds of Avgo and Ayios Niketas.
In the old burying ground at St. Andrews West in Ontario is the grave of Simon Fraser, great explorer, the first to descend the Fraser River.
This remark delighted the French prelate, who thought that grace had already begun to descend on this idolater full of goodwill.
If the SECOND ACOLYTE has assisted on the predella, he will descend in plano, genuflect, and return to his place.
He looks worried that the full weight of geekdom will descend upon him for his malapropism.
While waiting until the storm that is about to descend on sovereign debt and the related currencies blows over.
They ought not to have to descend into poverty and have to ask for help from food banks.
Political bigwigs, high-ranking bureaucrats, local henchmen and the ever-zealous media descend upon sleepy Peepli to stake their claim.
For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth... horrors can descend again on mankind.
I will descend in full force with My Spirit, to unmask the deceivers and driveout the traders who infiltrated into My Sanctuary.
Turn about and immediately descend the stairs under control to the start point.
I'll bet that very soon, the heavies will descend on that one occupied flat to turf out the women and put the boards back up.
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If the Democrats descend into obstructionism, the swing group could well switch back to Mr Bush's side for the next battle.
Although hopelessly out-classed, there was never a hint that frustration and bafflement would descend into brutality.
And the more that you serve and give to others in your ordinary life the deeper you descend into this fathomless being.
Because of the prevailing wind direction, this enormous quantity of pollution will descend almost entirely upon Hungary.
After the Last Judgment and the final destruction of the wicked, the city will descend to the new earth.
He warned that a cloud of Soviet-style centralism would descend upon the world's financial capital.
Once Tomalin is without the diary, a conditional haze begins to descend upon her biography.
In other words, the Philharmonic is awaiting the same Messiah who failed to descend upon Berlin.
During games, flocks of seagulls would descend upon the crowd, looking for scraps of food.
The huge demand for labour has led to mass migration, as millions of farmers descend upon cities.
As the world prepares to descend upon Vancouver and Whistler, Bill's responsibility is heavy.
Now, we are going to pray all together, with you, to ask the Holy Ghost to descend upon you in abundance.
Let us pray that the Holy Spirit may descend upon each of us, that he may bless the church of God with his grace and unite us in Christ.
If the geese have nested near the seacoast, they may descend the rivers to more favourable coastal marsh areas.
The rearmost court backs onto the mountain, whence spirits descend temporarily when invoked.
The House could descend into one-upmanship and chaos if this type of behaviour is tolerated unabated.
The only cure for altitude sickness is to descend to a lower elevation immediately.
Unpick the substance of the draft Treaty and the IGC will drag on into 2004 and descend into diplomatic farce.
If so, we descend from the rational level to a completely basic, atavistic level that goes to the bedrock of personal and collective existence.
Here we turn right and along the straight road we descend to the deserted gamekeeper's lodge Halín.
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Explore undeveloped mountain sides and descend 1500 to 2000 vertical metres in untracked snow.
The rescuer should be able to ascend or descend to a casualty, de-weight the casualty and descend to the ground.
They are, for instance, always required to descend a staircase backward, or else slide down the banisters.
Spiritual currents fall to work their miracles in earthbound reality, like the tongs of fire that descend on the expectant pentecostal community.
The MASTER OF CEREMONIES and THURIFER descend on the Epistle side in plano.
Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
They are now ready to be born and are starting to descend little by little into your pelvis.
For instance, in rope rescue, have one trainee belay for a lead climber while the second trainee watches the leader descend 400 feet.
Photo 6: Nicolas learning how to belay and descend in the Santa Monica mountains.
Watch the eucalyptus trees morph into subtropical rainforest as you descend into the gully.
The views are both beautiful and awe inspiring as you descend below the rims and fly between the Canyon walls.
Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
Both their books exude the doom-laden mood that has now lifted from the country, though it will very likely descend once more soon enough.
The fierce nature of this fixture may be lost on those beyond the towns and villages of Ayrshire whose inhabitants will descend on Hampden Park.
This continuous descent means that aircraft descend at a more efficient speed, therefore reducing fuel burn.
All Bishops descend directly from the Twelve whom Our Lord called to follow him and who are traditionally referred to as the Apostles.
In that instant my comfort will descend to that troubled heart, and it will be purified by its tears.
This week commercial dive masters will descend to map out their programs.
Earlier this month, Toledo, Ohio, watched its municipal water supply descend into an undrinkable stew of algal toxins.
Whenever she pulls it out, Quechua women descend on Muller and her spindle, each taking turns showing her how to properly transform her pile of fleece into a ball of yarn.
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The violins thirds quiveringly descend from the climax to a low F and the final quatrain returns to narration, over the fiddle's sustained bitonal notes.
Even before she could descend to tell her story, rumors were spreading to discredit her.
Just one more note of caution before we descend down the rapids of morality and ethics.
So they had to make me this waterproof renaissance gown and I would have to descend into the hot tub for rehearsal.
And maybe, just maybe, there are black helicopters with United Nations decals about to descend on heartland America.
The plant is tough to stamp out because it develops a system of roots and rhizomes, horizontal underground stems that descend as far as six feet into the sand.
What it doesn't have is a religious sect of expensively-suited consultants who could descend on an IT operation and sign it up to lucrative long-term facilities deals.
The desire to see the real places in which the fictional Pooh, Rat, Mole, Squirrel Nutkin, and Puck wandered could easily descend into a dreadful literalism.
Beyond the summit the hill's E ridge drops down to a saddle from where you can descend N to the head of the Allt Mheuran and a path back to the starting point.
Her sudden lunge forward pushed Setsunai back and therefore, caused him to drop his sword and forced them to descend off the platform, rushing to their graves below.
Naturally, this ultimate injustice sends the marauding youth into all-out frenzy when they descend upon the community in a violent final confrontation.
The country's transition would descend from a matter of managing change to managing chaos, especially as secessionist regions become a breeding ground for anarchy.
He approached this metaphorically at first, teaching the kids such skills as urban rappelling, which is using ropes to descend the faces of buildings.
Free balloons carrying meteorographs came into use in the 1890s. After a predetermined time, the meteograph instrument package would be released and descend on a parachute.
Despite the enthusiastic overtures which the dawn of a new season brings, Clark admits he will quickly lose his appetite if matches descend into torpidity.
Number Two Court may be colloquially known as the graveyard of champions but the mournful mood was only allowed to descend when football was mentioned.
As you come to a certain brow of the hill on the Mount of Olives, as you begin to descend you come to the valley of the Kidron and so you have a magnificent view of the city.
Foreign observers were first of all to be banned, but the tiny number that eventually made it could only descend on the polling booth for a nano-second before buzzing off.
Mr Oliver began to descend the stairwells in the centre of the building.
This year's event is at Barnes Sports Club in Lonsdale Road on Saturday, June 7th, where old girls will descend from all four corners of the globe.
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Monstrous storms descend from the Artic circle, blanketing Europe in snow, sending a tidal surge across the US east coast, and flattening the west.
Did I think that it would descend to the depths of some people suggesting we were doing this because the networks are going into a sweeps period when ratings become important?
It is now accepted that all humpless domestic cattle are of a single species, Bos taurus, and that they all descend ultimately from the aurochs, Bos primigenius.
He knew he should go down among the dead and say the words over his fallen clansmen, but he couldn't bring himself to descend even a foot into that vale.
He continues his dire warnings of the inordinate amount of pestilence and death poised to descend on our pathetically unprepared continent the second we relax our vigilance.
Trials often descend into desperate searches for collateral information, such as the colour of paint, whether a bicycle was in a yard or whether a school was open that year.
There is certainly the potential for the text to descend into histrionics if handled indelicately, but happily, this ensemble rarely makes that mistake.
It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch.
I finally thought to get off on the fourth floor and descend a flight of stairs, only to find that a custodian had roped off that end of the third-floor hallway for mopping.
The first of these seems to have caused a sense of gloom, despondency and weary hopelessness to descend on the author as he sat down to put his book together.
Caroline leapt out of the van as heavy rain began to descend.
Doors slid silently closed behind him and he began to descend.
I recognise that overall we must obey those laws or descend into anarchy.
If we are not to descend into anarchy, we must live under government.
Suddenly a band of yelping Indians would descend upon the wagon train and kill every man, woman and child and brutally mutilate some through scalping.
What is it about this time of the year that encourages normally passive shoppers, like husbands and brothers, suddenly to descend on the shops in search of all kinds of gifts?
He steps into the road to allow a gaggle of shopaholics to descend on Mayfair and does not expect to be thanked as he flicks the brim of his trilby by way of greeting.
At the time, I was looking for software to visualize my 3-D model data of microbursts, severe downdrafts that sometimes descend from thunderstorm clouds.
Each time we intonate OM we can ask Master Jupiter to descend to the Muladhara and transform the prison into a mobile temple.
The mountains fall steeply on the northern side but descend in terraces to the Ebro River trough in the south.
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The locking mechanism was not functioning properly, and as a consequence, disengaged allowing the upper stairs to descend away from the aircraft.
To get from the police post to the crater you descend the declivitous wall of the old volcano, with its layers of hardened lava at the top and scree at the bottom.
Perhaps I might simply skim over the subject and show to what degree of inconsistency a large party hungering for office can descend.
I don't want my remarks today to descend into a discussion of hardware and software, nor do I want to drone on about wires and pipes.
In previous times I would just ruminate and descend into something much deeper.
Calvin could more calmly contemplate the frightfulness of God's judgments because they would not descend upon the elect.
On seeing the light snow showers ahead, the pilot disengaged the automatic pilot to be ready to slow down or descend.
Visitors descend a well of diffused light, down limestone steps, as if entering a vault.
Other holders of Spanish noble titles that descend from the Aztec emperor include Dukes of Atrisco.
In addition to the United Methodist Church, there are over 40 other denominations that descend from John Wesley's Methodist movement.
We have mares from three other families but the majority descend from Wiener Wald.
A group of languages that descend from a common ancestor is known as a language family.
Noble estates, on the other hand, gradually came to descend by primogeniture in much of western Europe aside from Germany.
Members of the community descend from freed slaves accompanying Voortrekkers who settled in the area.
After unsuccessfully attempting to descend to the river, they left the area, defeated by the difficult terrain and torrid weather.
Communication from lower realms may ascend to higher ones and blessings from higher realms may descend to lower ones and be disseminated to all.
The highlands extend northwards into Verapaz, and gradually descend to the east.
The decorous, professorly group known as the College Art Association will descend on us this week for its 61st annual convention.
A high, wide flight of steps descend from the church to a small yard, or square on the North side of the road.
Such powerful human families would descend upon the reptilians themselves and they would be willing to do just anything to retain their power.
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Scramblers who continue on the top of the ridge are forced to descend an awkward short gully down from the final rock tower to rejoin the path.
He did not desire to cross this rugged mountain chain and to descend into the Po valley with exhausted troops only to have to fight a battle.
However, Hannibal's heavily armed rearguard held back from entering the pass, forcing the Barbarians to descend to fight.
Dip down as far as you are able, aiming to descend to the bottom of your sternum. Press back up to a support.
Heads of state and government from around 70 French-speaking countries will descend upon the Swiss city of Montreux for the thirteenth Francophonie summit, set to take place on 22-24 October.
A trench marks the position at which the flexed, subducting slab begins to descend beneath another lithospheric slab.
As an additional challenge, those who have abseiled before will have the opportunity to descend facing forwards.
According to Hillis Miller, Hopkins supposed that, by a continuous process of subdivision, all words descend from a first original, an ur-word.
Whether such calm will descend upon Ms. Blixseth remains to be seen.
Having eaten to full capacity, they finally descend to earth to spend the next seven or eight months pupating.
Collette Beighton plans to descend 5,249ft into the heart of the Arizonian natural wonder in June.
In Roscoe Bay, jellyfish ride the current at ebb tide until they hit a gravel bar, and then descend below the current.
Both are now thought, however, to descend from a lost common ancestor or ancestors.
After the shootings, reporters descend upon the town.
God forbid that a banker should descend into disreputability.
Should the car not descend, K must be backed off until the car just begins to descend, then backed off a further half turn to ensure that with cold oil, the car can be lowered as required.
Every November, college kids from Michigan to Munich descend on MIT, eager to show off their biohacking skills.
All four lines descend from Pybba, who ruled Mercia early in the 7th century.
Meltwater can pool in proglacial lakes on top of a glacier or descend into the depths of a glacier via moulins.
Discover the lifework of a man who talks with the wolves, descend into the pitch-black bosom of the earth, travel back the Algonquian time or experience a culture that has sidetracked the stressful, urban hustle and bustle.
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The mountains descend in a huge escarpment to the Red Sea and more steadily to the Indian Ocean.
In the east the Qiangtang begins to descend in elevation.
The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by as much as 4000 metres and there was subsequently vertical movement.
The fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift by up to 4000 metres and there was subsequent vertical movement.
The Mach-3 missile proved virtually impossible to outmaneuver, forcing the fighters to descend below effective radar coverage, where antiaircraft guns such as the ZSU 23-4 mobile system were particularly lethal.
No curse or abomination has ever nor will come from Me for my children, and so without distinguishing between sinners and the just, I make my blessing, my kiss of love and peace descend upon all of them.
The union predicts the equivalent of 9,000 doubledecker busloads of extra passengers will descend on the capital for the event.
Many Indian species descend from taxa originating in Gondwana, from which the Indian plate separated more than 105 million years before present.
One has to be careful not to descend into a mess of hagiography.
Now TV crews are set to descend on Calderdale again to film another highprofile drama.
This causes waterfalls to develop where creeks descend over a limestone ridge into a shale valley.
The present Dukes of Buccleuch, Richmond, Grafton and St Albans descend from Charles in unbroken male line.
This nadir of knowledge that some monoglots descend to deserves our pity, be they speakers of English, French, German or whatever.
Pictish is now generally accepted to descend from Common Brittonic, rather than being a separate Celtic language.
Once the Missa Cantata began and the great moment drew near, my heart beat faster and faster, in expectation of the visit of the great God who was about to descend from Heaven, to unite Himself to my poor soul.
Except for Basque, which is of unknown origin, most modern Iberian languages descend from Vulgar Latin.
The priest argued to the king that unless clerics accompanied the colony ship, the colony would soon descend into heathendom and barbarity.
Through monuments, quarters and back streets, visit the most wonderful city of the world and descend the Champs Elysées aboard your classic car for an exceptional cultural tour.
From commonwealths and cities I will descend to families, which have as many corsives and molestations, as frequent discontents as the rest.
It's the time of year when balikbayans descend upon us in droves Ito remind us of how benighted we are.
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So, armed with pickaxes, citizens would descend on the wharves in springtime, eager to lend nature a helping hand by breaking up the remaining blocks of ice.
As they descend to our world and manifest in new bodies in every generation, the same souls develop, realize the need for the spiritual advancement, and attain the supernal knowledge, eternity, and perfection.
Two people used ropes to descend from an observation deck just below the Golden Pioneer statue on the building's roof, Oregon State Police said.
The syce invited us to descend but we felt several degrees more comfortable in our gharri in that multitude.
Flashlights go on almost in unison, and the beams dance across cots and ceilings, hoping to catch the spiders before they descend into our sleeping bags.
Both descend from a Romance language of the Middle Ages now referred to as Galician-Portuguese.
Around two million people descend on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach – all dressed in white – to celebrate new year with a whole host of rituals topped off with a jaw-dropping fireworks display.
We also have the possibility to descend from Ambás to San Salvador de Valdediós and even sleep out in the Monastery where, after going throgh the village of La Rivera, we find samples of the mill indistry.
No doubt the restaurant, run by two brothers for the past 28 years, is buzzing in July and August, when Portuguese holidaymakers descend on the Alentejo coast.
I descend from 2 Black parents, 4 Black grandparents, 8 great grandparents and 16 great-great grandparents.
The first European known to descend the river was the famous explorer La Salle in 1669, who used the river as a route from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, bypassing Niagara Falls.
Clansmen and clanswomen let out war whoops as they descend onto the soccer field or baseball diamond.
Are we fated to descend for the foreseeable future into a world of global protracted conflict and forsaken hinterlands in the Pacific among the major powers?
It will be replaced by other and more perfect races, that will descend from the present race, as the civilised men of the present day are descended from the rough-hewn savages of the primitive periods.
If the ball hits the paddle, a brick, or the top of the game board 50 times on any level, the bricks descend one space each time that you hit the ball with the paddle.
Non-divers view the teeth-gnashing action from a cage floating on the water's surface, while qualified scuba divers can descend all the way to the sea floor in a special submersible cage.
Hast thou not turned thy thought to those who have changed the favor of Allah, with ingratitude, and caused their people to descend to the House of Perdition?
Sometimes, however, they are seen to descend out of the overcast nose-low and try belatedly to pull up, as though they suddenly regained the correct orientation upon seeing the ground again.
Those people who know me, know me for being a practical person, not somebody up there in the clouds wishing further ideology to descend on businesses, but somebody who sees the real advantages for the person in the workplace.
For the blessing the two assistants ascend the predella, and during the blessing they sustain the cope. they afterwards descend with the celebrant and kneel with him on the lowest step whilst the Divine Praises are said.

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