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The men were able to steer the raft, but they could not sail against the wind.

At night, a light is hung from the front of the raft. This enables the fisherman to see better, and also attracts the fish.

Imagine standing on a rubber raft and sticking a really long straw into a pond in hopes of sipping a soft drink buried on the bottom.

The equipment used and the qualifications of the company and raft guides are essential information to be considered.

Dorothy sat down in the middle of the raft and held Toto in her arms.

I carried the cats ashore on the raft, but as for the dog he swam ashore himself, and was a trusty servant to me for many years.

Two beeps echoed from each raft confirming that they were ready to run through the confluence.

Before he wast'other side of the river I was out of the hole; him and his raft was just a speck on the water away off yonder.

Equities, which had been flat most of the week, dropped sharply today on a raft of bad data.

This release brings with it a raft of updates to the core Groovy language and libraries.

There was a raft of events, including start-up parties in London and Berlin with hundreds of participants.

Not one of these individuals had ever helped create a raft before. There was no trial run.

Soon afterward, the parrot flew to the magician and perched on the edge of the makeshift raft and stared at the magician. And stared.

in the hope of being able to grapple a corner of the raft and pull it out of the current towards our bank.

Amanda: Well, that's what you said last time, but I seem to recall you loved basking on the inflatable raft I packed.

He made a daily raft out of the towel stand, the tea tray, and his pillows.

Their raft drawn into a fast stream and with ever increasing speed they are shot out of a volcano in southern Italy.

In the end, their raft is drawn into a fast stream and with ever increasing speed they are shot out of a volcano in southern Italy.

At last he asked about the mysterious briefcase to which I clung as if it were a life raft.

If your submarine sandwich was as big as its name, the pickle would be as big as a life raft!

Speaking on television, he said that he would step down after parliament accepts a raft of economic reforms that he's proposed.

Another solution proposed new water storage tank or to move steel raft, but the East power that limited the amount of stored water.

The river guide nodded in agreement. Although the raft was a bit confining, it was a very congenial atmosphere.

They used wood and made a wooden raft, then turned the boat to go.

'It's too big a thing for any one person to change. It's like a big raft in the middle of a lake, and you're trying to move it by swimming.

Publicly humbled by a frank report on its failings, the bank has made a raft of changes.

The rope was just long enough to save Herman, and the four men on the raft tugged on the rope to pull them back to safety.

He is now having to put up with a raft of stories about call-girls being entertained at his home in Rome.

Luckily the sharks did not attack the raft, although some were capable of smashing it.

And then he took this whole raft of 45 spaghetti sauces , and he went on the road .

Suddenly a raft appeared, looking rather like Noah's ark, carrying the whole family, a few hens, the dogs, a cat, and a bird in a cage.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Although one of the rafts did not work in the end, all the participants bravely embraced the challenges and enjoyed the raft-making process.

Then I'll drive the boat close toHuntington and take a raft back in. Just let her drift.

The stock popped that day despite a raft of bad news, including the IPO-eve resignation of the head of the company's audit committee.

After helping a mother and her infant off a makeshift raft, an exhausted Magallanes was lost in the water, his body recovered the next day.

I'm sure Apple has a raft of reasons, but in a competitive war you don't hand an advantage like that to the enemy.

Had I looked closer, I should have seen she was a drowning women, desperately in search of a life raft.

The plan from industry body the GSM Association (GSMA) is just one of a raft of "green" announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Now that you had the so big gourd, why not use it as buoy to tie on your waist. It was much prettier than the sheepskin raft.

Place your hand over the raft and see how the absence of the small raft completely changes the size of the iceberg.

But a raft of new studies has established, convincingly, that breasts are more mobile and less manageable than most people once believed.

WHEN he had stopped crying, Tsutomu Yamaguchi would tell you why he called his book of poems "The Human Raft" .

The deal is among the last standing in a raft of abortive exchange mergers launched this year.

Lipid raft assembly into a platform for signal transduction via aggregation and redistribution during T cell activation.

He is still strong enough to control his raft. He got up early enough to catch the early bus.

Smith was able to pay for the raft after a van accident broke his hip and he received compensation.

His father kidnaps him, but he manages to escape and together with a runaway slave, Jim, they sail down the Mississippi on a raft.

Nevertheless, Deerslayer well knew that a raft was soon made, and as dead tress were to BE found in abundance near the water.

Thus a sharp fall in prices would produce a raft of nonperforming loans and "would have an outsized impact on Chinese banks. "

Another survivor, Daeng Gassing, 35, explained how he had clung to a log for two hours before scrambling into a life-raft.

He had no comment on the raft of satirical products for sale, reiterating that the public is free to comment as they like.

For the last and shallowest stretch , we swapped boats, taking a bamboo raft with a tiny outboard motor .

The raft of sales point to an increase in economic activity as companies can use the money on new business spending, hiring and mergers.

Fastening several trees together, he makes a raft, and thus increases the buoyant power of his embryo water-craft.

A big storm after midnight rained, we do a good job we have to stay within the barrier and let the raft down the river navigation.

However, the competition for good China deals is about to intensify with a raft of new funds.

Life is a boundless sea and a man is like a small raft on the sea.

If you were to enter a rafting contest, what would your raft look like?

The transient response analysis of the system model follows the modal analysis of the floating raft vibration isolating system.

In consequence of their diligence the raft occupied its old station in about half the time that had been taken in the previous visits.

This has already happened in Massachusetts as well as in a raft of countries, including the Netherlands, Israel and Singapore.

And it will certainly seem as lonely as a desert to a raft of elderly males who think adventure still possible when eligible for a bus pass.

Trade has not been devastated by the raft of protectionist actions taken during the downturn.

The raft An-Tiki is floating upon a massive quantity of water. Our charts indicate depths of two miles, sometimes more than three.

It was more difficult to use the pile foundation than the raft foundation, so the latter was used.

The results are of benefit to the design of a real floating raft isolation system.

"We like to look our best . . . There are people who see this loan as their life raft, " he said.

Had I looked closer, I'd have seen that Gabrielle was a drowning woman desperately in search of a life raft.

Jairam Ramesh, the environment minister, told parliament the reduction would be achieved by a raft of measures.

In this case, unless a deep foundation is called for by soil conditions, a raft foundation is resorted to.

Last week, they irritated the president by introducing a raft of amendments to a bill to phase out costly subsidies.

The new release has a couple guiding themes providing an umbrella for a raft of new features, as well as many improvements.

How will the securitisation market cope with a raft of new regulation and what will this mean for the industry?

But it has many different areas of interest to visitors who like to hike, camp, climb rocks, raft in rivers, fish and hunt.

Adopting floating raft technology is one of the effective measures to solve the problem.

Out of the cave, the fisherman found that raft and then slowly punted it away from the Peach Blossom Glen.

The waves would gently move the raft up and down and often I would fall asleep.

I was more isolated than a shipwrecked sailor on a raft in the middle of the ocean.

and a raft of local grievances, tribal frictions, inter-ethnic conflicts and competition for power and resources.

Fight the rapids as you kayak and raft down the vast Mekong River.

Concurrent with the new monetary policy is a whole raft of new banking and corporate regulations which are to take effect immediately.

As a result, they produced a raft of progressive legislation the White House had been fighting for.

Moreover so far there is not a uniform and integrated calculating method on piled raft foundation design.

He told of being cursed by his shipmates and being cast adrift on a bamboo raft.

Cosette, that charming existence, was the raft of this shipwreck.

A meeting of leading powers next week will discuss a new United Nations resolution and a possible fresh raft of curbs against Iran.

A villager sits on a raft made of aluminium vessels to transport flood-hit residents in India.

Regulators in turn have pushed through a raft of rules on the amount of equity and liquidity institutions should hold.

As a raft used by immortals when traveling up to heaven.

We wanted to pass things from the boat to the raft, and then climb in ourselves.

Most Palestinians who voted for Hamas also, judging by a raft of opinion polls, actually support the notion of two states.

An so, early next morning, with his fishing net on his back, he went on board that old and shabby raft stopping before their house.

I spoke to a local civic club, spent good time with my friends, and enjoyed a raft of congratulatory letters and phone calls.

Depending on the analysis of foundation settlement coordination, the foundation of new constructed part is built on a piled raft system.

Tuesday a raft of reports on the global manufacturing sector offered indications of a turnaround this quarter.

they saw a fire smouldering upon a great raft a hundred yards above , and they went stealthily thither and helped themselves to a chunk.

Besides the dinosaur raft, there have been race car rafts, a Snoopy raft and a Dumbo raft.

But the team are going after a raft of other records and benchmarks including first round-the-world voyage by a solar-powered boat.

A raft of economic data, including June inflation and second-quarter gross domestic product growth, are due to be released on July 15.

After sixty-six days at sea, Anthony Smith, an 85-year-old sailor, completed with three friends a voyage across the Atlantic in a raft.

Mr Barroso was responding to a raft of voices in Los Cabos, blaming Europe for the deteriorating global growth outlook.

A weak raft of data has led analysts to say chances of a new recession could range as high as 50 percent.

Nancy Pelosi, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, has pushed through a popular raft of reforms in double-quick time.

During its first term AK enacted a raft of radical reforms that persuaded EU leaders to open long-delayed membership talks.

At Augrabies, one can also river raft along rapids known as Rhino, Rollercoaster, Blind Faith and the Cascades. (NOT for the faint-hearted).

The proposed method could be readily used to analyze the large piled raft foundation.

He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life raft, alone.

Damin sets off on his bamboo raft with his birds. When he reaches the right place, he stops.

The raft would be more buoyant if it was less heavy.

So he locked me in and took the skiff, and started off towing the raft about half past three.

South Korea has raised the prospect of introducing a new raft of capital controls as it wrestles with surging investment flows.

I watched with alarm as the current carried the raft and its passengers toward the dam.

The works are underground level, ground floors, the main place for the whole seismic shear walls, basement box for the raft foundation.

This thesis does secondary development to realize raft foundation analysis with intuitionistic model, simply calculation and convenient use.

Parts of their makeshift raft and some of the their letters were found on nearby Angel Island.

To move from the cabin of our raft for a night-time watch is initially displeasing.

Combined with the engineering practice, gaining the influence of the vertical displacement and internal force of raft.

I mean, if you remember in the opening weeks, a whole raft of Libyan diplomats around the world defected.

Tall building basement piled raft foundation design often overlooked soil between piles to share the role of the upper load.

special clothing, a helmet, and a life jacket, just in case your raft gets turned upside down or sinks.

Results show that the raft structure for the whole of the floating raft isolation system has great influence.

Big-name manufacturers will unveil their answers to the iPad this week as Apple is due to launch a raft of new products.

The global industrial recovery remains patchy and may be losing momentum, a raft of reports released yesterday suggested.

Suggestions in ordinary methods of pile-raft foundation design and formula of the carrying load ratio between pile and soil are put forward.

This paper provides a theoretical reference for the design of the elastic base in raft vibration isolation systems.

Hi! -Hah! Bee! -Then there was a dust buster, a toupee, a life raft exploded. . .

Little turtle crawled out from the pool, lazily lying on the bamboo raft on the sun.

Some sharks came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface.

A practice of a group of highrise buildings with raft foundation in karst region was introduced.

The application less is one of the most popular pagers, and it offers a raft of options to tweak its behavior.

Policymakers have responded with a raft of measures to address escalating prices.

With a meshwork of pipes and strong housing I thought the raft almost complete.

Requirement: A method to move collectors between the raft positions and storage positions on the MC.

Indeed, although government action has stabilised the global economy, a whole raft of questions remains unanswered.

The natural frequency of floating raft is an important factor to affect its performance of vibration isolation.

As we drew closer to the waterfall, I fell out of the raft. I was literally up a creek!

Down the stream the raft floated, and the poor Scarecrow was left far behind.

The museum presents things the voyagers used as well as the remains of the raft.

light refreshment kiosk , bbq area , changing room , shower facilities , toilet , raft , playground.

In addition to the raft and bathtub events, the festival features live entertainment, cook- offs , and a fishing derby.

Reply to the discussion on "Experimental study to reduce differential settlements of raft of composite foundation with rigid piles"

A feed forward fuzzy control method is proposed to control a new type of floating raft with an adjustable damper.

Herman was a strong swimmer, but the raft was travelling faster than he could swim.

But still he was not satisfied! When all 32 asked him to wait seven days, again he departed on the raft.

They must think you are a madman if you tell them you want to cross the Pacific on a raft.

Such comments have echoes of the Happy Guangdong talk, but the statist raft of policies is a sharp contrast with rival proposals.

Tom was floating down the river on a raft when, 1 km lower down, Michael took to the water in a rowing boat.

The research will do good to the design of the floating raft by providing theoretical reference and justification.

This laid a foundation for studying vibration isolation performance of maglev floating raft vibration isolation system.

If he can end the strikes without paying too high a price in concessions, that will smooth the way for the next raft of reforms.

Even now, after months of talks, negotiators are still wrangling over a raft of competing proposals.

A raft of orders went through local hospital, energy and government departments to prepare for the storm's expected onslaught.

As Arnold and Carlos watch from a raft above, the Magic School Bus "erupts" with the magma and lava, and lands atop a brand-new island!

A raft of other American officials, incensed by recent attacks on Western targets in Afghanistan, joined the verbal assault on Pakistan.

If this type raft foundation still is analyzed with the classical theory of thin plate, the limitation is obvious.

If you look down towards the Atlantic Ocean, you will see a little yellow life raft with three people in it to waving at you.

Carried by currents and winds, the raft finally was washed ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean.

Currently the specialized design standard for piled raft foundation is not constituted yet.

This is a desirable outcome in the long run, but a raft of immediate caveats come to mind.

The measures include a raft of tax exemptions, public service payment waivers and credit support for small and medium-sized enterprises.

An electric outboard, with a safe stow position, so it doesn't clash with concentrators or raft, which would cause damage.

The cormorants swim down and catch the fish, and bring them back to the raft.

At night, a light is hung from the front of the raft.

If you use standard Internet protocols to link your nodes, you can ride a huge raft of existing technology with no extra engineering cost.

You have to wear special clothing , a hamlet and a life jacket , just in case your raft gets turned upside down or sinks .

This is desirable outcome in the long run , but a raft of immediate caveats come to mind.

Agile methods preach a raft of values and provide a wide range of practices that help reach and maintain such values.

Then, when we rode on a raft to the mangrove forests, the guide even let us go down into the water and find clams !

After signing a raft of contracts between 2005 and 2008, it hasn't finalized any significant deal with China in two years.

section Wells, A raft foundation engineering experimental building design method of the plank.

Severe flooding earlier in the year has curtailed production at a raft of Queensland coal mines.

So you think the raft's gonna work?

A fisher poles his raft down the Li River, against the backdrop of limestone hills.

A method is proposed for the settlement and inner force analysis of rigid pile composite foundation raft system.

You have to wear waterproof clothing, a helmet and a life jacket, just in case your raft gets turned upside down.

This is especially true of boluo buns, which have been subject to a raft of creative adaptations and flavors in recent years.

Shipwreck Rapids, A raft ride that ventures into the shipwrecks of the deep with twist and turns.

raft fishing Rafts constructed to attract schools of such fishes as tuna so as to make them easier to catch by their concentration.

Beijing responded furiously with a raft of reprisals .

Marotta has come under fire for bringing in a raft of new players, but no real star names.

Wenger was asked a raft of questions about it at Thursday's pre-match press conference and he answered them all.

But the soil around pile-raft and piled-box foundations turns plastic a little, and super structures turn plastic a lot.

He sailed across the Atlantic in his self - made raft.

Jim and Huck travel by raft, and, unable to direct it, they have many adventures.

By and by along comes part of a log raft -- nine logs fast together.

When you're firing a flare, it's critical to remember not to fire it in or over your life raft.

Christian, in fact, had been plotting for days to escape the Bounty on a raft.

One night we catched a little section of a lumber raft -- nice pine planks .

Even though BB stayed silent when they were building a raft, DD know what BB was about to say to him: "I am not going. "

However, the forces in the raft are varied significantly with the varying of the raft thickness.

After further adventures alone on a raft Ulysses eventually came to the country of the Phaeacians .

When Gs alpha is caught in these lipid raft domains, its ability to couple with and activate adenylyl cyclase is markedly reduced.

Board feel lonely tower, tower peaceful, relaxed and happy; drift river by bamboo raft Anhui, the infinite delight.

fast food kiosk , bbq area , changing room , shower facilities , toilet , bathing shed , raft.

A raft of key dates loom in September as vacationing European policy makers return to work, and attention refocuses on Greece.

The flat raft basement is adopted in the foundation design, and the settlement meets the requirement of the code.

After further adventures alone on a raft he eventually reached the island.

For computational analysis, deformation of soil, pile, raft and structure are all in elastic range.

I think I can swim to the shore and pull the raft after me, if you will only hold fast to the tip of my tail.

It means the two sides are delaying a raft of tough issues due to disputes and sensitivities.

One day, the pet parrot was washed off the raft by a sudden wave.

U. S. scientists say they have used the nematode worm to identify a raft of new proteins vital for healthy sperm production.

In fact, a pioneer in many other inventions invented inflatable raft, which indicates that "inflatable boat" was born.

You can walk or ski in the mountains, go boating in the fjords, climb in the mountains, raft or fish in the rivers, and shop in the cities.

Unlike the guys in the raft, we had an emergency locator beacon so the Coast Guard could find us.

The small pavilion gives raft-like edges, and the grass, the trees and the railed bridge overlook the water waves.

The raft structure has a significant effect on the vibration isolation in Double-decked floating raft isolation system.

The most beautiful place on earth was everywhere - a raft in the wilderness of space, precarious, unlikely, our polar bear home.

A raft of stronger-than-expected economic data and shifting rate expectations are spurring the move toward cash.

IMO signs for lifesaving and escapes, Life boat and life raft launching instructions shall be posted according to the rules.

Build your own raft and take to the water by following these instructions. Just make sure you can paddle it.

They have also performed some laboratory tests by blowing on ice-assisted rocks. These simple tests support the ice-raft hypothesis.

The Dodd-Frank Act, which contains a raft of new rules and restrictions, will start to bite next year.

A boatman paddles his bamboo raft along the river at Wawa Dam, Philippines.

Sheepskin raft by the experienced workers driving raft, Qingjushulu, though risky, but narrowly.

fast food kiosk , bbq area , changing room , shower facilities , toilet , raft , car park.

Once launched, the bublik [an inflatable raft named after the Russian word for bagel] glides easily over boulders.

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In diner slang, if you want to order scrambled eggs on toast, you say, "Adam and Eve on a raft, and wreck 'em. "

At a rushing mountain river, the linguists crossed on a bamboo raft and entered the tiny village of Kichang.

"Anybody up on that raft with you? "

In the afternoon, participants used bamboo, ropes and barrels to make a raft and sailed offshore for half an hour.

That is primed to change, with a raft of new luxury hotels and a new high-speed train arriving from Shanghai's gleaming Hongqiao station.

and Tyson turbines that are mounted on a raft for anchoring in flowing streams.

You will have to wear special clothing and life jacket in case the raft gets turned upside down.

They build a raft to cross the sea and are attacked by ancient sea creatures.

The soil around box and raft foundations turns plastic, and the superstructures keep elastic.

Riders can also aim at other passengers on their raft or park guests along the edge of the ride.

The effect of different arrangements of piles to reduce differential settlements of raft was studied under working loads.

We could find no boats around the ferry, and we had to cross the river on a raft.

My raft drifts if it is not steered.

And Huck gets on the raft with a property named Jim, a slave, see.

Huck lay on the raft in the sun until he was dry.

Large construction sites such as Lindsey rely on a raft of subcontractors, each hiring workers on its own terms.

A raft is. a small boat that you can use to paddle down rivers and streams.

Panorama Ten or so people are huddled on a raft floating in the sea.

Who spits silk dimensions THROUGH THE noose looped by the raft?

In my early teens, I read the book Kon-Tiki. This is a story about six Norwegians sailing a raft across the Pacific Ocean.

The agile mom climbs tall trees and stands perilously astride a small earthen raft on the river.

Who sailed across the Pacific Ocean on a raft?

Finally, my mother and I came to ride the small raft Taishan's home --Tree House.

But the government seems half-hearted in this structural shift: it has also announced a raft of measures to subsidise exports.

Photograph by Jim Brandenburg An arctic wolf leaps from ice raft to ice raft in the wilds of northern Canada.

Together, the ram and the monkey cleared the weeds, tugged and pulled and finally got the raft to the shore.

"Silly him, " we three muttered: "Why not a lifeboat or, better still, a raft? "

I'm living in a windmill, all need's a raft. I am gonna build it, all start with this. . . this stick.

The Grizzly River Run takes you through ' gold country ' on a white water raft .

Beijing's rate cut on Thursday suggests a raft of data due out next week will paint an equally bleak scene.

A raft is a small boat that you can to paddle down rivers and stream.