How To Use Gulf In A Sentence

The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
She is also part of a large group of oceanographers and taphonomists of the SSETI project (Shelf / Slope Taphonomic Initiative) examining carbonate preservation and destruction across the shelf and slope regions in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas using submersibles.
The congress believes that the excavation of an interoceanic canal at sea level, so desirable in the interests of commerce and navigation, is feasible; and that, in order to take advantage of the indispensable facilities for access and operation which a channel of this kind must offer above all, this canal should extend from the Gulf of Limon to the Bay of Panama. The Path Between the Seas
Lee waved down the server behind the counter, who seemed to have been engulfed in conversation with one of the two men seated next to us.
Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military official says the Navy had a close encounter with an Iranian surveillance plane last week in the Gulf of Oman. Iranian Military Plane 'Buzzes' U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
The two sides remain sharply polarised, and periodic attempts to bridge the wide gulf between them have fizzled out.
A curious and unwary fish would become a meal when the goosefish inhaled and quickly engulfed its prey.
It has now been engulfed in nationalism, religion and history. The Global Marketplace
During both the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War, the B - 52's internal stowage of eighty-four 500-pound bombs made it a formidable offensive weapon.
As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Although Mitchell grasses (Astrebla spp.) may be common along drainage lines in adjacent lowland ecoregions (Gulf Plains and Channel Country), it is only in the downs that Mitchell grasses dominate regional vegetation. Mitchell grass downs
Production was cut at its rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and at onshore refineries such as Texas City, which was also the scene of a fatal fire in March.
A blue tractor beam en-gulfed the runabout and thrust it away from the debris. Demons Of Air And Darkness
They were heading in a south-easterly direction from New Orleans, Louisiana, following the Mississippi river towards the Gulf of Mexico.
The spill could wipe out the Gulf's turtle population.
Essentially, the more than $1 trillion that we have spent on these two wars thus far is money that we have borrowed principally from the Chinese, the Japanese and countries out in the Persian Gulf. Op-Ed: Burdens Of War Unevenly Shared In U.S.
The gulf between the ruling elite and the masses became obscene.
Oil prices shot up nearly US $1.50 a barrel yesterday as oil and natural gas producers evacuated rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the southeast (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico.
Europe's intransigeance is forcing them to make at least a temporary alliance with the Pan-Islamic and Nationalist groups, even though the liberals know that anything like a holy war would dig a gulf between The New World of Islam
These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
Another veteran of the 1960 Rome Olympics taking part is the Rev Basil Pratt, who was an Army padre in the Falklands and the first Gulf War.
Georgetown (pop 300) and Normanton (pop 2500) both small isolated towns at the bottom of Gulf of Carpentaria. Phil Jones and Australian Billabongs « Climate Audit
The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
Ed Overton -- who is a Ph. D, a professor emeritus at LSU, and who unlike yours truly is a scientist (in analytical environmental chemistry) -- spoke to us the next day and told us that the kind of dispersant used was not only not poisonous, but also that the amount, though it sounded immense, was minuscule, given the volume of water in the Gulf of Mexico. Rachel Ben-Avi: Dinner at Tara
Brazil's prospects of becoming a leading oil producer increased yesterday when it emerged that a giant offshore field could be double the size of BP's discovery last week in the Gulf of Mexico.
These people would not rest until the west in general, and the US in particular were ingulfed in endless wars agaainst tmost if not all Arab and Muslim people and countries. Antiwar.com: Enemy of the State « Antiwar.com Blog
We did some, not enough" in shedding holdings in response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo field, he said. Energy Fund Largely Passed Oil-Spill Test
Before I was fully upright, a powerful surge of pain engulfed my body.
Stuffed into the neck of the bottle was a flame engulfed rag, blazing brightly.
The Zetas were founded by Mexican special forces soldiers who deserted and went to work for the Gulf Cartel as enforcers.
Such men must be honoured and respected, lest chaos engulf the navel of the world yet again.
I counted half a dozen chrysalises outside this morning, and those caterpillars may take months to complete the metamorphosis because of the cold weather, but because of the warm, cozy conditions this one's found, I expect it to emerge as a beautiful Gulf fritillary butterfly sometime within the next two weeks. Archive 2009-12-01
Alabama's Gulf Coast extends over 32 miles of beaches along the Gulf of Mexico and inland areas of live oaks and pines, freshwater lakes, rivers, bayous, and coves, all showing an abundance of birds.
When they arrived home about 30 minutes later, Suedhoff said the house was "engulfed" in flames. Lsj.com - News
Shahzad, a recently naturalized U.S. citizen living in Connecticut, was taken off an airliner bound for the Persian Gulf sheikhdom of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates about 53 hours after the attempted bombing, authorities said. Times Square bomb suspect Shahzad said to implicate himself; probe expands to Pakistan
After failing to get to the girls, Waddington ran from her home screaming to the neighbours for help just before the house was completely engulfed in flames and smoke.
The Blackshirt column would be swept up and engulfed when it appeared. THE WHITE DOVE
In the Gulf the conditions were bad with heat and the sand storms.
Alisha was eventually rescued by firefighters from her bedroom, after a chip pan fire engulfed the kitchen in flames.
Twelve years ago: A US frigate fired warning shots across the bow of an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman -- apparently the first shots fired by the United States in the Persian Gulf crisis.
But there was no indication that the move would be more than a short-term balm for the crisis engulfing the Eurozone. News - latimes.com
This area requires maintenance costing over $200 million a day and the surreptitious cost of the car culture totals nearly $500 billion a year in the U.S. alone, much of that going to the sustentation of a military presence in the Persian Gulf. Driving Mister Barack
In this context, do you think that the war in the Gulf might appear as a war of religion?
For its part, Iran, in its stand-off with world powers over its nuclear programme, has threatened to choke off oil shipments through the Persian Gulf if it is attacked.
But only if it isn't found grossly negligent for the gulf oil spill, which could double posttax oil-spill-related costs from the $28 billion estimate. BP's Long Road Back
In fact, the gulf is unattrative all the way from the western shore of Mobile Bay to around Progreso, Yucatan and then it becomes pleasant again. Page 2
After 11 years of Margaret Thatcher, it proved necessary to cannibalise the entire armoured resources of the Rhine Army to deploy a weak division for the First Gulf War. The Tory defence policy will be simple: cut, brutally
As monsoonal rains poured down, the Gulf Country of Queensland, and extensive areas of the dry centre, were turned into vast inland seas, isolating pastoral stations and causing heavy cattle losses.
The leaders discussed jointly exploring for undersea resources in the Gulf of Tonkin, known in China as the Beibu Gulf.
Be it anti-drugs patrols in the Caribbean, anti-piracy patrols off Somalia, mine clearance in the Persian Gulf or intelligence gathering by nuclear-powered attack submarines, naval operations rarely make the news.
Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a person under the age of 18 should not have joined his unit in the Gulf?
Whether or not there is an increase in that region remains to be seen, but Rideout said caplin stocks offshore and in the Gulf are, essentially, unrelated in terms of granting quotas. Archive 2006-02-01
Ten years ago, the Persian Gulf War again dredged up anti-Muslim, anti-Arabic fervor and again I was afraid. An American Story | PopPolitics.com
After eating grape leaves and smoking apple sheesha at the Souq market, we headed back towards the Corniche, a lovely strip of road along the Gulf where most of the street celebration happened. Anne Peterson: What 2022 Means to Qatar
Deplorable as this preference may be, it's hardly as deplorable as the gulf which these cultural assumptions themselves created between the lowbrow public and the university-educated art world and artists.
Then finding no longer any refuge from inevitable captivity, except in the waters of the Elster, the brave prince had thrown himself into it without considering the impassable steepness of the opposite bank, and in a few moments he with his horse was ingulfed beneath the waves. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
And yet opportunistic investors may regard the valuation gulf between it and stodgier banks as excessively wide. Times, Sunday Times
Defence Minister Moshe Arens had successfully argued that defence spending could not be reduced in the light of the ongoing Gulf crisis.
It sounds like your underlying fears of rejection and engulfment are controlling your life and not letting you share love.
There is a big gulf in that understanding that we have allowed to grow. Times, Sunday Times
Nor are German businesses being helped by the crisis engulfing the country 's banks. Times, Sunday Times
The United States and its coalition partners had similar legal authority in the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and during the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
It has now been engulfed in nationalism, religion and history. The Global Marketplace
May 10th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - A massive fire engulfed an optical fibre cable factory in Naini area of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
On Aug.13, Hurricane Charley roared in from the Gulf of Mexico, bringing winds of 140 miles per hour and spawning tornadoes.
Simply stated, if one believes the current chaos engulfing Iraq will eventually be replaced by a stable, effective government, then the dinar ought to be a good buy. Dinar Brokers Boom in Iraq Chaos
But then the flames drowned out the rest, and Raspa was engulfed in flames that stretched up and spluttered sparks like shooting stars into the velvety black, strangely beautiful night sky. Bubble in the Bathtub
As the oil slick from the recent offshore oil rig disaster makes its way to Gulf Coast shores - expected to devastate the precious ecosystem and hurt struggling businesses - the seeds of political fallout for the Obama administration are beginning to sprout. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, May 3, 2010
It is speech, then, rather than reason alone that is the phase * change, and that fixes the gulf between man and nonman. The Human Brain
Overwhelming relief and joy engulfed Jason upon seeing her and he took a step forward.
This trophic reorganization is hypothesized to be an important contributor to declines in populations of seabirds and marine mammals, because lipidpoor gadids and flatfishes generally replaced lipid-rich fish species in the Gulf of Alaska food web.
Putner's satire on the supposedly streetwise US stand-up scene is biting: he conveys masterfully the gulf between Stevens's self-image and the bathetic reality.
The widening gulf was bridged by borrowing. Times, Sunday Times
Palm-drenched Koh Samui, Thailand's third largest island, boasts the country's only LGBT diving organization. coordinates trips in the calm southern Gulf of Thailand around neighboring Koh Tao ( "Turtle Island") and north to famed Sail Rock, where schools of batfish and giant grouper patrol the 40-foot vertical passage through its granite core and plankton-feeding whale sharks are often sighted. Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News
The heat and concussive force of the airbursts produced the expected results, instantly engulfing the rebel base in an apocalyptic conflagration.
Notwithstanding the ubiquity of the autocar, it is still a fact that between the man in the car and the man on foot is set an impassable gulf. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country
The north-flowing Gulf Stream collides with a tendril of the southbound Labrador Current there, creating knots and plumes of flow that change daily, even hourly.
I think that one day we will understand what are the sources of the crisis that has now engulfed the whole world. Times, Sunday Times
This topography limits Iraq's ability to impound the waters of the Euphrates behind high dams; consequently, they empty into the Gulf without being put to use.
What do you call a gigantic man-made disaster that is threatening to despoil the ecosystems and wreck the economies of the Gulf Coast? BP touts itself as 'green,' but faces PR disaster with 'BP oil spill'
Conditions varied from steady 10-12 knot south-westerlies to almost dead calm, interspersed with vicious rain-squalls out of the south - typical Monsoon weather in the northern Gulf at this time of the year.
She is inexorably engulfed by the cloud of shame that surrounds parricide.
ADEN, July 21 (Saba) - Amid Yemen's readiness to host the 20th Gulf Football Championship later this year in Aden and Abyan governorates, the security leadership has announced a comprehensive training plan to boost security. Yemen Observer
A city of southwest Maine on an arm of the Gulf of Maine south of Lewiston. Settled c.
Sunderland may be challenging for promotion back to the Premiership, but the gulf between the two divisions was never more evident as Everton eased through virtually without breaking sweat.
But the damage it could do is spurring the Gulf states into unprecedented efforts to protect their shallow, near-landlocked waters.
The incident emphasises the gulf between the president-elect and his own supporters.
As the north-easterly gradually takes control of the Northern Gulf, as is usual at this time of the year, it nevertheless features relatively light, shifting winds, interspersed with at times ferocious, front-line squalls.
It will be a remarkable achievement should it happen, though some uncharitable people may also point out that the gulf between the top three teams and the rest has never been wider.
The neighboring Persian Gulf is even more volatile.
UAE Channels Bag Five Gold Medals in Gulf Radio and TV Festival MANAMA (BAHRAIN) - Channels and production houses of the UAE bagged six awards - five gold medals and a silver - as the 11th Gulf Festival for Radio and Television Production concluded in Bahrain on Friday. Khaleej Times : UAE News
But the unintended consequence of the project, along with the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, was that this new water superhighway became a conveyor for invasive species traveling between the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Amid carp threat, a call to unhook
The bulk of the domestic shrimp catch is harvested by trawlers in the Gulf of Mexico.
So if you want to remember a date that will be etched in history, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast area August 29th.
The advisory committee report did little to resolve the mystery surrounding Gulf War illness.
With the exit polls Tuesday showing an unprecedented gender difference of 17 points, Clinton stretched the gap into a gulf.
Together with our friends and allies, we will work to shape change, lest it engulf us.
With a very moist air mass ahead of this from the Gulf of Mexico, an eastwards moving line of severe thunderstorms was generated across the Mississippi Valley. Weatherwatch: Blizzards in Bucharest, tornadoes in Arkansas
Indeed the Carthaginian captives could distinguish the velaria spread over the courtyards of their houses, beyond the gulf on the slopes of Byrsa. Salammbo
A contemporary Portuguese geographer recorded that Diaz realized ‘that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia under Egypt and on to the Gulf of Arabia, giving great hope of the discovery of India’.
With the exit polls Tuesday showing an unprecedented gender difference of 17 points, Clinton stretched the gap into a gulf.
Calicut, which is situated between the Persian Gulf and the river Indus. Amerigo Vespucci
The front door of the house was open and the smells of the kitchen engulfed them.
It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. David Wilkerson again predicts catastrophe
But separatism only widened the gulf and deepened the mistrust, which was a hurdle in maintaining peace and harmony.
Gulf shrimping and inshore oystering are the only remaining marine commercial fisheries in Texas not under a limited entry program.
There is a huge gulf between disapproval and strong moral condemnation and the right to make a decisive intervention. Times, Sunday Times
The authorities are said to take the view that the Gulf war will distract attention from civilian casualties in Jaffna.
Allowing perceived slights to grow into mountainous outrage means the gulfs will widen and individuals will reach a point where there is no going back and, therefore, no going forward.
The chief divisions of the kingdom are Northern Greece, or Hellas, lying north of the Gulf of Lepanto; the peninsula of the Morea, connected with the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth; and various islands scattered over the greater part of the Grecian Archipelago. A Geography for Beginners.
There has been an enormous backlash against the US government's attempt to promote the term "Arabian Gulf" in preference to the historic norm of "Persian Gulf".
The western slopes drain into the Salween River, which flows through Myanmar and into the Gulf of Martaban in the Indian Ocean. Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
And he hath gathered in her the mightiest heroes of all Achaea, and hath come to thy city from wandering far through cities and gulfs of the dread ocean, in the hope that thou wilt grant him the fleece. The Argonautica
He has a smattering of Arabic, and has knowledge of the way the Islamic people in the Gulf States and the surrounding areas act and react.
Regarding globalism as an alien and godless ideology engulfing their country, they fear that transnational forces are relentlessly eroding the traditional American way of life.
But the Gulf of California is closer than you think, and currently under assault by everything from pollution to poaching.
Hereupon reporter will help a station address to tell that man, and gave him the fare, instruct he instanter takes 24 road cars or dozen of to the gulf salvage station in Liao's home.
The Psalter, datable to about 795, is known commonly as the Dagulf Psalter, for its chief scribe includes his name in one of the dedicatory poems, written in letters of gold.
Riyadh's importance was vastly enhanced in 1979, when Ayatollah Khomeini toppled the Shah of Iran, theretofore Washington's chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
Cold and nondescript from the street, it sits about 2 miles from campus, adjacent to a Bed Bath & Beyond and engulfed on three sides by the tall, barbed-wire fence of a local auto body shop. Catlin has made a career out of busting juicers
When this motion is completely arrested, I suggest that we blow up the Aleutian Isles and enlarge Bering Strait, so as to allow what corresponds to the Atlantic Gulf Stream in the Pacific to enter the Arctic Archipelago, which I have calculated will raise the average temperature of that entire region about thirty degrees, thereby still further increasing the amount of available land. A Journey in Other Worlds
U.S. gasoline demand was unchanged last week as lower demand in most regions of the country was outweighed by heavy demand for the fuel in the Gulf Coast region ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
Just seven months ago, Ralph Lauren and David Geffen "elbowed" each other to secure a $500,000, non-transferable spot on the waiting list for GM's $60 million Gulfstream G650 (release date: 2012). Signs of the New Economy: 'The Private Jet Market Stinks'
He helped me make my own placard to carry on a Gulf war march. Times, Sunday Times
Here was evidence of a glacial and a torrid period, separated by an aeonic gulf; but how the remains came to be piled one upon another in this way is a secret of the ancient earth. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
Thus, by early 1969 a patrolled waterway interdiction barrier extended almost uninterrupted from Tay Ninh northwest of Saigon to the Gulf of Siam. Archive 2004-08-01
Nothing survives of the original garden except the profusion of attractive plant life that engulfs Gordon Town.
Former servicemen and women in Colchester have helped boost the morale of British troops fighting in the Gulf.
Why was I standing on a porch in the middle of some forsaken jungle waiting for the night to engulf me?
Over the weeks, Mr. Sobol explores the shrines and ruins and in his account describes the history of the place, the still-unexplained 15th-century collapse of the Khmer Empire and Angkor's eventual engulfment by the jungle. Finding True North, Chasing Elusive Bigfoot
The latest scandal engulfing the department has been over prisoners absconding from non-secure open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
As they marshaled the aircraft to its final parking spot, the number three brake became engulfed in flames.
However, Cresson's popularity immediately began to dip, as did Mitterrand's own ratings once the temporary boost of the Gulf War disappeared.
KUWAIT - Kuwait reinforces its defences after reported exchange of fire with Iraqi forces just a week after one of the most serious post-Gulf War border incidents ANC Daily News Briefing
A professional photographer had fused the lights, engulfing the entire house in darkness.
But as a new storm nears the gulf this week, New Orleans remains at risk: Parts of the system begun in the 1960s are unfinished, parts are weak and the ability to pump water out of the 17th Street Canal, which breached, is inadequate. USATODAY.com - Piecemeal federal response won't protect New Orleans
BP has repeatedly promised to pay all "legitimate claims" for loss and damage as a result of the Gulf oil spill, now vying for the title fourth biggest oil spill in history at 2.3 million barrels of crude over the past two months. Libertarian Blog Place
She says the couple'were engulfed and then swept away by a wave of fame and fortune. Times, Sunday Times
The medium is the message because the message, the culture and ideology of consumerism, has engulfed the medium.
In consequence, a gulf has opened between ecclesiastics and their congregations.
It moves at the rate of 800 ft to 1000 ft a year and during the 18th century overran cultivated fields and threatened to engulf communities.
This assumption often is true, but for locations such as the Gulf Coast in spring, where birds may continue to arrive all day, the method of analyzing first captures is not suitable.
During the gunfight a fire broke out which immediately engulfed the neighboring houses.
His infectious enthusiasm and energy engulfs players and supporters alike.
The vast and widening gulf between imports and exports tells a troubling story. Times, Sunday Times
Per OED, known alternate spelling (along with ingulf and ingulph); an example of engulph quoted from an 1871 source. master and visiters [** typo: visitors] speak of the down-trodden Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
The inventorying will pit legions of scientists from the Gulf states against legions of scientists from BP. William Dietrich: Exxon Lessons for the BP Spill
Loren fought the feeling of helpless panic that threatened to engulf him.
The Gulf Stream is a benign, liquid force, flowing from under the ribs of the equator, -- a white knight of the South going up to battle the giant of the North. The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
Paris, besides, is the capital of the intellectual world, the stage on which you will succeed; overleap the gulf that separates us quickly. Two Poets
Other demonstrators, passers-by and tourists rubbed their eyes and coughed as the acrid mix of smoke and teargas engulfed the area. Times, Sunday Times
Two quick twelve inch pulls then a huge head appeared quickly engulfing the frog, this was followed by a big boil and swirl.
It took Lou Salomé to cause an unbreachable gulf between the brother and sister.
Hurd flew to the Gulf on Aug. 31 to pursue diplomatic contacts.
I feel more than a little awkward using hoodoo stuff, to be honest, given the vast gulf between my own advantages and the bitterly oppressed state of its originators.
Three days before Mr. Mubarak left office, al Qaeda in Iraq, an affiliate group, released a statement that highlighted the gulf between the protesters in Tahrir Square and the jihadis on the sidelines: "Beware of the tricks of un-Islamic ideologies, such as filthy and evil secularism, infidelic democracy, and putrid idolic patriotism and nationalism," it said. Uprisings Put al Qaeda on Sidelines
The Pentagon ordered up cruise missile attacks from two of the six cruise-missile equipped warships on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
A city of northwest European U. S. S. R. on the Gulf of Finland opposite Helsinki.
His lower half was engulfed in army-issue shorts held up by one of Francis's old school ties.
It was then a coastal city, on a gulf now filled in by silt, in a region known as Ionia. Euclid’s Window
They came for a few sweet hours of respite from the conflict engulfing their country. Times, Sunday Times
Picture a remote estuary entrance, a day's travel from anywhere civilised, the tide is deceptive as it rushes in and out of the gulf, shifting the sands into deep spots every day.
Coldstream worked hard during the contest, but the gulf in class was obvious as Brechin strolled to victory.
That disaster has now engulfed Italy and its neighbours. Times, Sunday Times
The speech scheduled for Jan. 13 is likely to hold up Persian Gulf States like Abu Dhabi, the largest of the United Arab Emirates, as models for the broader Arab world. Bush Picks Abu Dhabi for Speech
All in all, a great gulf fixed request to exploit the tools of data mining, and convert the data " grave" to knowledge "gold ".
Indeed, many of the mesopelagic species range far eastward with the Gulf Stream, outside our area and into the eastern Atlantic.
Under strict secrecy, they flew to the Persian Gulf to witness the reflagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers with U.S. flags.
With a heart, then, inclined to believe what I have said to thee, attend, my son, to thy Cato here who would counsel thee and be thy polestar and guide to direct and pilot thee to a safe haven out of this stormy sea wherein thou art about to ingulf thyself; for offices and great trusts are nothing else but a mighty gulf of troubles. Don Quixote
Despite the Gulfs long history of oil pollution, little research has been done on the long-term impact on marine life there.
For me, this entailed a completely engulfing sense of vertiginous nihilism. Times, Sunday Times
Trolling with artificial baits, the use of dead or live baits, spinning and float fishing were the types of fishing in the Gulf.
It was not bridging the gulf that has grown between Europe and the U.S. since the end of the Cold War.
Global warming will cause the seas to rise, engulfing islands and flooding coastal areas.
KUWAIT - Uganda wants private Kuwait investment in its growing resource-based economy, President Yoweri Museveni said on a visit to the Gulf oil state. ANC Daily News Briefing
The exception to this is the narrow Isthmus of Tehuantepec where fierce northerly winds carry hot moist air southward from the Gulf of Mexico. The Mexican Climate - A Thumbnail Guide
Twenty years later, as an Arabic speaker, he was interpreting George H.W. Bush-a fellow Yaleman and blueblood who fixed his name forever as "Chas" - to King Fahd as ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Haines made his name as a surveyor in the Persian Gulf, and was appointed assistant surveyor in 1826.
The watchman shot out of the place again; Ealer seized the wheel, set an engine back with power, and held his breath while the boat reluctantly swung away from a 'towhead' which she was about to knock into the middle of the Gulf of Mexico! Life on the Mississippi
Saudi Arabia, in company with some other Gulf oil states, is concerned to avoid any repetition of the two oil price shocks of the 1970s.
The tepid water in the Gulf fed more heat and moisture into the hurricane.
It is assigned to an earth satellite station, similar to those used by CNN reporters during the Gulf War. CORMORANT
Confronting seven different objections to our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures, he charts a course through the philosophical quicksands that often engulf us.
the river flows southeastward to the gulf
And the generation gulf is set to widen as the number of pensioners in the area is expected to rise by 22 per cent in the next decade.
Night had fallen sullenly over the storm ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with heavy drops of rain spitting down from the wet, grey, overcast sky.
Near the Gulf of Mexico is a giant dead zone devoid of fish and other aquatic life.
LOS ANGELES Reuters - Paul McCartney on Thursday recalled the shock and fear that engulfed New York in the aftermath of the Sept 11 attacks and what he called the magical power of music in helping to heal those wounds. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Strikes, riots and protests engulfed the country and the price increases were rescinded. Times, Sunday Times
Vegetation is mostly mid and tall grasses such as seacoast bluestem, switchgrass, gulfdune paspalum, fringeleaf paspalum, sandbur, purple threeawn, pricklypear, and catclaw with an overstory of southern live oak and honey mesquite trees. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
The air inside the pub was dense and suffocating, thick with sweat and laughter, jolliness engulfing and eating away at everything in the room.
Species in danger of economic extinction in this LME include the cabrilla, black and white seabass, Gulf grouper, yellowtail, dog snapper and sierra. Gulf of California large marine ecosystem
How the small-time actors feel about the gulf that separates them from megastars who make megabucks is not discussed.
It is not a simple ribbon of water running northward; the Gulf Stream is a complex system of constantly shifting currents and eddies that parallel the coast at speeds that average about four miles per hour. The Atlantic and Its Warm, Blue River
Washington birds appear to migrate east before turning south and migrating across the Gulf of Mexico.
This gulf of Cimmerian darkness was called by early navigators the Coal Sack. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
First the Gulf, then the Balkan campaigns honed the syntax of 24-hour reporting almost to the point of banality.
Amethyst flame bloomed, engulfing the ship in crackling light.

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