How To Use Descent In A Sentence

You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
I got off it and he was incandescent with rage, much of which was to impress the owners. The Sun
The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.
Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
The plan will also position the Cassini orbiter farther away during that descent.

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Moreover, I can't think of any other 'minority' of which this is remotely true, unless it were to be the other minority from which I can claim descent: people of British or Anglophile provenance. Christopher Hitchens: Reinstate Rick Sanchez!
Umbilical hernias occur more often in premature infants and those of African American descent.
At this stage the rate of descent and particularly the angular rotation appeared to me to be very high and I was sure that ground impact in this configuration would have severe consequences.
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
And, by the same argument, if the circumsolar planets were supposed to be let fall at equal distances from the sun, they would, in their descent towards the sun, describe equal spaces in equal times. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science
In reticulate evolution, there is no unique notion of genealogical descent: genetic content can be distributed collectively. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The leak forced a controlled descent of the giant balloon about 250 kilometres to the west of the launch site.
Jackson and three companions plan to climb K2 without bottled oxygen, but it is the descent that is most tricky.
The red cloth was then edged with rows of iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons.
It takes in 20 wibbly-wobbly crossings, five metres above the ground, then a shriek-inducing zip-wire descent. The Sun
Under the crystal bright light of a full moon their blue marble shined, iridescent.
I sit on the ledge and watch the sun play with incandescent shadows of deep green, as red deer graze in the distance.
As we progressed we found ourselves climbing down steeper and higher dry waterfalls, most of which provided a fissure, a runnel, a pleat of rock or an overhanging crag that allowed a relatively easy descent. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 2
The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky.
The water then collects underground to emerge at various spots in the Maligne Canyon some 20 km away, another 425 metre descent.
The fresher your mackerel the better - look for glassy eyes and bright, iridescent skin. Times, Sunday Times
I got to know a lot of people of West Indian descent. The Sun
They began the difficult descent of the mountain's south west face.
They lead the caravan through the pass, towards the steep descent that marked its exit.
According to the Pechanga constitution, full membership requires proof of lineal descent from an original Pechanga member and a family line contained in the official enrolment book.
Timberland said the new LED lamps are twice as efficient as the comparative foot-candle incandescent bulbs they replaced. Daily apparel and textile news and comment - from just-style.com
And the issue is this -- starting from the contemptuous defiance of the scriptural doctrine upon the necessity of making provision for poverty as an indispensable element in civil communities, the economy of the age has lowered its tone by graduated descents, in each one successively of the four last _decennia_. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
The Prince was said to be incandescent with rage .
Plus, the lots are mostly on the top of a ridge so that your backyard is completely private, a wooded, quick descent that you can't build on. Biting insects
This was an incandescent performance of real beauty and power. Times, Sunday Times
Walker, standing at the foot of the shaft waiting for the answering signal from above, heard the noise and the rush of Mag's body as it bumped from side to side in its mad descent, and starting back, he was just in time to get clear as the mangled mass of rags and blood and pulpy flesh fell with a loud splashy thud at the bottom, the blood spattering and "jauping" him and the bottomer, and blinding their eyes as it flew all over them. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
A slow descent into a long and murky winter; on my doorstep, the colourful leaves on the trees withered and fell, and there was no spring.
I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it.
Her iridescently colored eyes flickered in the direction of the voice, soon followed by a warm smile as she looked to Raek.
Forging a symbiosis with the force that rules their world, some are viridescent, mimicking the foliage that surrounds them.
And the rising sun met the falling star and flashed into coruscant life, a roaring tide of fiery might that batted away cold beams and sent an incandescent lance of godly light in retaliation.
The Romanian-Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian 1907-45 came to the attention of the English-speaking world in 2000 with the publication of his incandescently angry and exacting World War II diaries. Tender and Tense
You could draw a line of descent from that cheeky 17th-century image straight to the saucy postcards of contemporary Blackpool. Times, Sunday Times
The hereditary king of Hawaii is calling for 100% pure-blood Hawaiians of noble descent to come forward and form a new government.
He ended with a long descent to the valley floor. Times, Sunday Times
My mother, who was as haughty as Lucifer with her descent from the Stuarts, and her right line from the _old Gordons, not the Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ Gordons were to the southern Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Surely you may say, the Earth is almost wholly rock and nearly all incandescent with heat.
With a few hours of ski lessons, many beginners catch on well enough to find themselves hooked for life on a downhill descent.
The asphalt ground was a gleaming with a glint of gray, and it seemed to shine incandescently.
The civil status of slaves in Tennessee, as well as in other states in which slavery existed, was such as to disable them from inheriting or transmitting property by descent.
For even in case of its failure, a descent of one species from another through heterogenetic generation is certainly very possible. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
Arrived at the foot of the mountain (the Jungfrau, that is, the Maiden); glaciers; torrents; one of these torrents _nine hundred feet_ in height of visible descent. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
Bhandarkar, _Vaishṇ. and Śaivism_, pp. 67-73.] [Footnote 653: The name Kabir seems to me decisive.] [Footnote 654: Dadu who died about 1603 is said to have been fifth in spiritual descent from Kabir.] [Footnote 655: From a hymn in which the spiritual life is represented as a ride. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
This remarkable transformation, no doubt in some degree inevitable, was actually brought about chiefly through the instrumentality of a single man, a certain English archdeacon of Welsh descent, Geoffrey of Monmouth. A History of English Literature
Bicke's descent into madness begins when he is employed as a salesman in the office furniture business run by Jack Jones, a male so alpha that he is practically beta and gamma as well.
Another way to prevent global warming is by replacing the candescent bulbs in homes with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL).
Lineages of descent from a female ancestor are thus prime substructures composing a macaque troop.
There is the unity involved in continuous unbroken descent from a common origin, and there is unity of effective interconnexion and mutual dependence. The Unity of Civilization
Billy nodded, then chirruped to the mares, and the descent began through a warm and colorful twilight. CHAPTER XVII
This aspect of forensics is rarely mentioned in polite company, but if a skull has a measurably smaller-than-average brain case, it it almost certainly someone of African descent. The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities
Organza makes a great splash along with tulle, lace, elegant luxury fabrics combined with glittering Chantilly, crushed velvet, jersey with lurex and iridescent cady.
The truth is, we're just beginning the real descent into Lawsuit Hell - a place where average citizens injured by delinquent doctors or defective products are denied any recourse.
“Avoid descent rates of 800 fpm feet per minute or greater at airspeeds less than 40 KCAS,” it said, “KCAS” being the abbreviation for “knots-calibrated air speed.” The Dream Machine
You didn't answer this question, but said that molecular homology does indicate vertical descent (common ancestry from an actual cell) in Metazoa, “the group located above the Darwinian threshold.” A Disclaimer for Behe?
Later mythologizers would try to legitimize the family's regal pretensions by claiming descent from the Banquo of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"—which was nonsense, as Mr. Massie explains: The name "Stewart," as it was rendered before Mary Stuart adopted the French spelling, indicated the family's original status, as stewards of the royal revenues. Servants To Masters
He was incandescent with rage as he read the riot act to us in his office. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
Beyond them came the beauty of the Hoxworth lane: to the left and north stood an unbroken line of croton bushes imported by Whip from Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and of all that grew on his plantations, these were his favorites, these low sparkling bushes whose iridescent green and red and purple and gold and blue leaves were a constant source of wonder; but to the right ran a long row of hibiscus trees, low shrublike plants that produced a dozen varieties of fragile, crepelike flowers, each with its own dazzling color; Hawaii
In the normal gut the sacculi and bands act as valves to control the descent of the feces. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
Besides the pigment-cells just described, Heincke discovered another kind of chromatophore, which was filled with iridescent crystals. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
Molly stood up in surprise and noticed that she was now wearing a gauzy dress of iridescent white.
Wildfire and Firecat barreled through the thick smoke, their laser rifles blazing an incandescent firestorm through the smoke.
And in the dusty biscuit-making place of the potters, among the felspar mills in the furnace rooms of the metal workers, among the incandescent lakes of crude Eadhamite, the blue canvas clothing was on man, woman and child. When the Sleeper Wakes
I was unwillingly compelled to take pleasure in the first hour and a half of the descent from the top of the Lukmanier towards Disentis, but this is only a ripping over of the brimfulness of Italy on to the Swiss side. Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
Mercurio D. Rivera's "In the Harsh Glow of its Incandescent Beauty" is a captivating story of revenge on the Neptunian moon of Triton. REVIEW: Interzone #226
The descent of the mountain took nearly two hours.
The word once meant very literally the voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior.
Partly Spanish by ancestry, he claimed descent on his father's side from the Scottish monarchy.
The tribal land-owning corporations are themselves patrilineal descent groups or lineages whose members acquire rights by virtue of being the sons and daughters of a particular man.
This will apply to all, that is, for citizenship by descent, by conferral and for resumption.
He started his descent, passing through pools of color from the lights outside the house, their vividness flooding his pallid features. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
In the twentieth century, the men's loincloths were made of a bright red cloth obtained from the criollos (Venezuelans of mixed descent).
How montbretia, a native of the South Africa veld, became established – miles from the nearest garden – is a mystery, but its orange blooms, as incandescent as coal in a furnace, added a fiery hue to a hot afternoon. Country diary: Durham coast
The facts concerning cryptorchidism, that is to say, failure of the descent of the testes in Mammals, seem to show that the hormone of the testis is not derived from semen or spermatogenesis, for in the testes which have remained in the abdomen there is no spermatogenesis, while the interstitial cells are present, and the animals in some cases exhibit normal or even excessive sexual instinct, and all the male characteristics are well marked. Hormones and Heredity
From the materials of the house itself he draws unexpected resonances, candescent onyx balancing pellucid glass, and that glass itself shifting between aspects. The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
Will people buy Peter Som's broadtail coat from premature or newborn Karakul lambs -- think about that -- with its never-say-excess iridescent fox color? Earth to Fur Designers
They possessed significantly more knowledge of Irish politics and history than those claiming no Irish descent.
As the dollar completes its inevitable descent into the netherworld of official shenanigans, you and I are left to try and figure out what we can do to protect what we have worked for all of our lives.
The descent down into the gully seemed like the hard section was in the beginning with some scrambling down boulders.
There were valid arguments on both sides, but generally the race-blind believers in birthright made a better case: that ten of the thirteen original states allowed free black men to vote; that Americans of African descent had been recognized as citizens by the federal government in various ways (even Andrew Jackson had hailed his free black soldiers as "fellow citizens" after the Battle of New Orleans). Van Gosse: Birthright Citizenship Is Bedrock Americanism
I found this bike to handle the rougher descents with more control than a hardtail.
The pelage consists almost entirely of underfur; it is remarkably iridescent, fine, and silky.
Gernot Vogel Kopstein 's bronzeback snake (Dendrelaphis kopsteini) has bright orange, almost flamelike, neck coloration that gradually fuses into an iridescent blue, green and brown pattern. Borneo
However, his descent into what I call knee-pad politics is frankly disgusting. Now, what's the right way to fix a baby's hair?
And play Van Gogh, he caught the descent into madness perfectly.
Rather, we can entertain common descent from multiple ancestors.
The incandescent gas mantle, developed by the German von Welsbach in 1885, greatly increased illuminating power and for a time helped fight off competition from electric lighting.
Like the outbound leg, if you lose timing don't continue the descent.
Darwin continued to publish more works, including his The Descent of Man (1871), in which he applied his theory of evolution to humans, implying that they had descended from apelike creatures.
His first idea was to replace the incandescent light bulbs with more modern energy-efficient bulbs. Times, Sunday Times
June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
This second column on Tycoons, New England, and Kings, covers the royal descents, and much New England ancestry, for 10 families long associated with American industry, finance, merchandising, railroads, and media, for whom such lines were first brought into the family not by the fortune-finder himself, but by his wife, daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, or the wife of a later agnate descendant.
The approach to landing was unusual because what would be considered normal power corrections for speed and rate of descent were insufficient because of the increased drag - courtesy of our windmilling prop.
Armstrong himself said the group was "livid" with the lengthy seventh stage Friday that concluded with a dangerous and steep descent through the rain. Cavendish wins 9th stage of Giro amid rider protest
Intemperance in food will cause the rapid descent into degredation of one who has previously lived decently.
I swung from blind happiness to almost incandescent, unfocused rage within a second, almost before I had a chance to think about it.
Kinship and descent may have been organized around matrilineal clans, a common pattern in Micronesia.
He ended with a long descent to the valley floor. Times, Sunday Times
The quality and brightness of the light is improving all the time, and the best ones are now indistinguishable from the old incandescent bulbs. Times, Sunday Times
The track rolled down a steep descent and then gathered itself again in tight knots and ruts which led us through a long, spreading puddle to an estate gate.
The growth of the trunk or stem of all exogenous plants, or those which increase in size on the outside of the stem, is brought about by the descent of certain formative tissue called cambium, elaborated by the leaves and descending between the old wood and the bark, where it is formed into alburnum or woody matter. Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
They leaked iridescent bubbles, which rose to the silvered undersurface of the clear brown water. FAMILY PICTURES
They began the difficult descent of the mountain's south west face.
Dr Powers said the helicopter had also been performing a dangerous manoeuvre known as a "bunt" - a rapid descent at speed - that the Puma was not suited for. WalesOnline - Home
This will remove shine, leaving you with a slightly iridescent sheen. The Sun
The beetles' iridescent wings were used in the Victorian era like sequins to decorate the dresses of society women.
And if you look in his left hand you will see a little lever and that controls the forward elevator which controls the aeroplane in climb and descent.
The mountain's snow-white peak was incandescent against the blue sky.
Nor was it merely in the cheeks, or rather the chaps of this painted face, in the mammiferous chest, the aggressive rump of this body allowed to deteriorate and invaded by obesity, upon which there now floated iridescent as a film of oil, the vice at one time so jealously confined by M. de Charlus in the most secret chamber of his heart. The Captive
He was born near Buenos Aires, the son of poor American parents of English descent who had moved to the Argentine to farm.
All midwinter nights and saturnalian chaos, a schizoid descent into dreams and delusions. Archive 2004-09-01
The beaches are litter-free and the water an iridescent ice-blue.
These structures are severally infundibuliform processes, so fashioned by the original descent of the testicle; and, therefore, as the bowel follows the track of the testicle, it becomes, of course, invested by the selfsame parts in the selfsame manner. Surgical Anatomy
Behind the scenes, of course, Elvis's descent was intensifying at rapid speed, helped along by a dependence on uppers, downers and painkillers.
While we were descending the icefall, there were two very large collapses of seracs (luckily not near us), and many places in the icefall which have looked the same all season but were not recognizable upon descent.
As we walked on, beautiful Indian sunbirds, their iridescent green flanks flashing brightly in the sunlight, flew past in a profusion of colours.
And although such overabundant light is problematic in our age of energy consciousness, a substantial discussion concerning the use of less public and private illumination has taken second place to the more prominent campaign urging us to replace our incandescent suns with other, colder fluorescent suns, even though the adoption of compact fluorescent light is only trading one commodity for another. Jane Brox: Light! Less Light! The Evolution Of Artificial Light
One of my major dislikes is bridges, especially on fast downhill descents.
And in spite of their consistently high educational attainments, professionals of Indian descent in the U.K. find it hard to break into the upper ranks, where they are severely underrepresented.
Today in the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans claim some Irish descent.
Each had its own harness and parachute that opened automatically during descent. Times, Sunday Times
An estate is either ancestral or nonancestral; or, as this court says, there are two modes of acquiring title to property, one by descent or inheritance and the other by purchase or by the act or agreement of the parties.
She was incandescent with rage.
To me, one of the scariest things about the Bush Administration was that, like the Ace, most members of the Bush Administration would have considered this point to be “incandescently obvious.” Matthew Yglesias » The Anti-Terror Right’s Incentive Problem
Generally, the later development of the West Germanic language can be divided in two distinct lines of descent: Upper German, spoken in Central and Southern Germany, and Low German, spoken in Northern Germany. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
And to complicate matters yet further, for the few who wished to simplify them, the custom of "borough-English" prevailed, and governed the descent of dilapidations, making nice niceties for clever men of law. Erema — My Father's Sin
The charm of the detail tempted one to linger at every turn, and all the more so because I knew that I should see nothing more of the grace and bounteousness of Nature till my projected descent into Kulu in the late autumn. Among the Tibetans
The images represent the spirits of people of African descent who died in the Middle Passage or later in the Americas.
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
Descent is reckoned bilaterally, with a patrilineal bias.
Consider conducting important meetings under warmer incandescent or fluorescent lights.
Because of its low consumption of energy, the capacity of battery and solar panel are very low, so the lantern system had a better price versus performance ratio than incandescent lantern system.
Combining with GEF project funds, incandescent manufacturer utilizes its own inputs to carry out the conversion project to energy efficient lighting products.
The descent of the mountain took two hours.
When two writers are involved who happen to be great contemporary poets, artistic equals, the material that explodes out of the depths is bound to be incandescent, exhilarating, unearthly and passionate. Ted Hughes's final lines to Sylvia Plath bring closure to a tragic tale
The other path for failed attempts at behavioral control through physical punishment was outright cruelty and sometimes descent into unremitting family warfare. On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams
Many shop signs are still in Afrikaans, the antique Dutch spoken by those of Afrikaner descent.
Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
The fishermen, many of Ukrainian descent, spit-roast or grill their catch over wood embers, or cook a Russian-Ukrainian fish soup called uha; in contrast to the Wallachian ciorb, this soup is not acidulated.
In each case of what we call descent, it is still the first reproducing creature identically the same -- doing what it has done before -- only with such modifications as the struggle for existence and natural selection have induced. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
His policies in the borderlands were essentially conservative, although his Welsh birth and descent were an advantage in his dealings with Wales.
Ascents into the galleries, entries through the yard, acrobatic descents from the stage-roof trap are among the many examples of the production's imaginative use of the architectonic opportunities afforded by the building.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss. But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
A checkered band of blue and silver (called 'fess') is placed across the center of the shield and this is taken from the Arms of Stewart to denote descent from that family.
Then we freewheeled down a long steep descent, right down to the bottom of the valley and across the bridge at Ghulmet.
Along the coast, most merchants and storekeepers are of Indian or Arab descent.
'If a prince of Eldorado should come, with a pedigree of lineal descent from some signory in the moon in one hand, and a ticket of good-behaviour from the nearest Independent chapel, in the other' --? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
The study of organic forms, or morphology, is thus, more than any other science, interested in the doctrine of descent, because through this doctrine it first obtained a practical knowledge of effective causes, and was able to raise itself from the humble rank of a descriptive study of _forms_ to the high position of an analytical science of _form_. Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English
When they've finally drained the mountain of gold, the three men must survive the descent, the banditos and each other to turn their gold into untold wealth.
For reasons I shall not mention, by paths of descent I shall not describe, in the crown of my manhood and the prime of my devilishness in which Oxford renegades and racing younger sons had nothing on me, I found myself master and owner of a schooner so well known that she shall remain historically nameless. THE PRINCESS
Halogen lighting type fixtures provide a whiter, brighter appearance than standard incandescent or fluorescent type fixtures.
And in 1984 another eruption killed 200 people with a nuee ardente glowing cloud, a 300-kilometer-an-hour cloud of incandescent fragments and gas that roared down the mountain. Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1
We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.
Only wisdom, rationality and compassion will deliver us from this spiraling descent to the final moment of darkness.
Dust in the air also makes it difficult to model a lander's descent. Times, Sunday Times
The marriage was considered especially ignominious since she was of royal descent.
Look at them at different times of the day, and in both natural and incandescent light.
The descent was not steep at all and I could go down there as well as anyone.
But we've put in a little twist where the rockets are actually attached to what we call a "descent stage" that flies the rover down and the rover is attached to the underside of that stage. Boing Boing
Ladinos are usually mestizos, people of mixed Amerindian and European descent.
He was of noble descent, his father and grandfather being Christians and prefects of the pretorium of the Gauls. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The descent and ascent should both be at the same moderate pace.
New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
The plane had gone into a steep descent.
We turned around and executed an emergency descent to 10,000 feet.
That minister had himself gone the length of petitioning the Scotch Privy Council for a birth-brieve, or certificate, to attest his descent from the Castlehill family, and the petition was refused through the influence of the Duke of Lauderdale. Life of Adam Smith
This is a very pleasant descent down a tributary valley with the distinctive spur known as the Tongue prominent on the opposite side of the stream.
An actual initiation was, of course, out of the question; on the other hand a _catabasis_, a descent into Hades, was part of the epic inheritance he derived from Homer, and this, like the funeral games in the fifth book, he might use with an earnestness of purpose wanting in Homer, to work in with the great theme of his poem, not merely as an artistic effort. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
His first idea was to replace the incandescent light bulbs with more modern energy-efficient bulbs. Times, Sunday Times
Large checks, iridescent fabrics and decadent velvet are all worn with attitude.
Of such are the records of auroral displays, parhelions, paraselene, lunar halos, fog bows, irridescent clouds, refracted images of mountains and mirage generally. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
Prof. Adler seems to think that the doctrine of evolution explains only the physical descent of man; for the genesis of the spiritual man, he looks for some supernatural "fount" in the skies. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?
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Goldberg's descent into pathetic lack of humanity has been a pitiful thing to watch.
` ` I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion; '' and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane. Ivanhoe
He seemed to belong to a past which was already becoming remote, a past without the incandescent electric light, and without the photograph. Times, Sunday Times
I am led to conclude that many towns existed on the south-western shore of Britain, previous to the descent of Julius Caesar.
It was while glancing back that he took a fall and twisted his ankle on the final descent and came back into the finishing field with bloodied knees.
When entering a trail or starting a descent, yield to other skiers.
Descent with modification led to this--a clam in a beaker with a strip of elodea, me with a laser pointer and a sometimes functioning SMART Board. Mr. Clam goes to BHS
An airplane in a spin does not gain airspeed and its rate of descent is relatively slow.
What happens when a nationalized citizen of Latin descent is pulled over and told to show his identification papers? 3 border state governors critical of Arizona immigration law
Moiré and mother of pearl pastel watch faces in colours like pink and aqua and agate will also capture an iridescent feel.
Agade, and emphasizes her descent from "Anu," the god of heaven. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Fifteen years on, and many, if not most, of the negative trends previously seen as evidence of our civilization's descent into barbarism are in reverse.
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I am incandescent with rage that such appalling suffering is being inflicted here in Britain. The Sun
The broad story of Capote's ascent to literary greatness and descent into decades of writer's block in that time is well known.
When the economy began the descent into recession in the late 1980s, property prices continued to rise, buoyed by an interest rate cut designed to revive the economy in the wake of the 1987 stock market plunge.
The incandescent plume towered like an awesome thunderhead heralding Armageddon. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
From the long tapering fingers of her right hand a golden chain dangled and swinging idly from its end hung a small iridescent vial.
The coach crashed through a roadside wall on a sharp bend at the bottom of a steep descent near Grenoble. Times, Sunday Times
He is a writer of Indian descent and draws upon diverse cultural influences.
It splintered into hundreds of competing chieftainships, all led by infantes claiming descent from Afonso I, all variously cooperative or mercenary, and all dependent on the slave trade for their survival.
Rapid descent With increasing speed, the difficulties associated with descent and translation back to hovering flight become more acute.

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