Although the Orioles hovered around. 500 for much of the season, they had fallen back by September and were over 20 games behind the first place Tampa Bay Rays.

Judging from other instances of the verb, and instances of parallelism, a more faithful translation may be " he hovered over, guarding.

Adversity hovered over the Rams long before the season began.

When the cursor was hovered over the doodle, a series of mechanisms seemed to move, causing a lightbulb to glow.

He said that the apparition hovered over the shoulder of his wife, leading her to exclaim: " Oh, Christ!

Though Ryan's actual winning percentage hovered only slightly over. 500, his strikeouts and no-hitters brought him media attention.

Ibycus called to a flock of passing cranes, who followed the attacker to a theater and hovered over him until, stricken with guilt, he confessed to the crime.

The New Testament comparison has a parallel in the Talmud, which says that " the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters like a dove ", but in Jewish tradition the olive branch is not used as a peace symbol and neither the Hebrew Bible nor the New Testament mention the dove or the olive in connection with peace.

He instead flew over the river and hovered just above the water, with his landing skids against the bank, hoping that the special forces troops would be able to run the few yards to his helicopter safely.

Others include: the stormy negotiations over a new Statute of Autonomy for Catalonia in which Maragall and the PSC hovered between a nationalist stance and caving in to central government pressure ; the collapse of an entire city block in Barcelona's Carmel district following poorly-planned and executed tunnelling work ; and a schemesupported by Maragall's governmentto build a tunnel for the AVE high-speed train under the shaky foundations of Barcelona's 19th-century city centre.

This successful attack was supported by aircraft recently fitted with wireless, ( they had had to drop messages during the Magdhaba attack ) which hovered over the battle during the afternoon, reporting its progress constantly to headquarters.

He is usually portrayed with a halo of five stars, commemorating the stars that hovered over the Vltava River on the night of his murder.

: " how the authorities refused requests from Bentalha's residents for arms with which to defend themselves ; how the security forces treated the local Islamist groups with a degree of indulgence that the civilian populations found incomprehensible ; how, on the night of the massacre, most of the members of the local ' patriot ' militia had been sent away for some relaxation in a coastal resort on the orders of the local army commander ; how, during the massacre itself, the security forces were stationed on the edge of Bentalha and were aware of what was going on ; how the neighbourhood of Haï El-Djilali, where Yous himself lived and which was specifically targeted by the attack, was repeatedly illuminated by huge projectors recently installed in a nearby field by the police, as if to light the attackers ' way ; how a military helicopter hovered over the scene throughout much of the six hours that the massacre lasted ; how troops manning the roadblock at the entrance to Bentalha stopped civilians from nearby villages from coming to the rescue and even reportedly shot dead a policeman who tried to do his duty in this respect ; and how the assailants were allowed to stroll out of Bentalha and escape down the main road south, the security forces making no attempt to intercept them, although well placed to do so.

The remaining eight Nazgûl hovered over the Army of the West and spread fear and confusion.

The primacy of aquatic gods is reminiscent of, and may have been borrowed from, ancient Near Eastern mythology-where Tiamat ( salt water ) and Apsu ( fresh water ) are the first gods of the Enuma Elish, and where the Spirit of God is said to have " hovered over the waters " in Genesis.

In 1997, when he was as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year, the cricket almanack Wisden described him that he " moved his front foot and head well across, then his wrists hovered, hawk-like, over the advancing ball, extending further and further as if they were elastic if the ball was slanted ever more away from him, before the bat flowed into a square-drive to the boundary ".

A regular in the ODI side, over the previously 12 months he had averaged around 30 with the bat in ODIs, and excluding one score over 50, his batting average hovered around 20.

* The Holy Spirit was " renewing " the face of the earth as he hovered over the face of the waters.

The user hovers the pointer over an item, without clicking it, and a tooltip may appear — a small " hover box " with information about the item being hovered over.

The Novgorod First Chronicle, the oldest chronicle reporting his death narrates that their bodies were thrown to the dogs ; but as a sign of divine favor, their bodies remained unmolested and pillars of fire hovered over them.

At 18: 00 two RAAF UH-1B Iroquois helicopters piloted by Flight Lieutenants Cliff Dohle and Frank Riley arrived over D Company's location with the ammunition resupply, and guided by red smoke thrown by the infantry, they hovered in the heavy rain just above the rubber trees near a small clearing.

As the chopper hovered over the tower the tail rotor hit one of the steel beams of the tower sending the helicopter nose first into the ground.

Mrs. Temple hovered ever closer to Shirley as filming began and ordered Withers to wash her hands before performing in any scene with her daughter.

A leading model at the time, Sabrina got high billing, appearing in all the posters and publicity stills in school uniform, but she actually had a non-speaking part in which she was only required to lounge in bed reading a book while men hovered around her.

Unemployment hovered at 8 %- 10 % after the start of the economic slowdown in 1999, above the 7 % average for the 1990s.

A substantial part of Sindh ’ s gross domestic product ( GDP ) is attributed to Karachi ( the GDP of Sindh as a percentage of Pakistan ’ s total GDP has traditionally hovered around 28 %- 30 %; for more information, see economy of Sindh ).

Following its closure in 1971, the economy of the city hovered in recession for more than a decade.

Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport's passenger traffic has hovered around the five million mark for the last 10 years, apart from in 2002 when the airport suffered a 13 % drop in traffic.

Black kites often hovered overhead, looking for prey and carrion amongst the many tamarind, ficus benjamina and banyan trees.

During their first season in two years, the Gladiators hovered around. 500 for the majority of the time.

McGrath's batting prowess, in the early phases of his career was non-existent ; in fact, he scored first-ball ducks ( zero runs ) on both his Test and One-Day International debuts, and his batting average hovered below 4 for the first few years of his career.

His time in Philadelphia would see him score points at a phenomenal rate ( for much of his first 5 seasons in the NHL, Lindros hovered around 4th all-time in points per game ) and become one of the most feared and dominating players in the NHL.

They hovered in third bottom position for most of the last third of the season, only being saved by the ineptitude of the Stirling Albion side who failed to score in their last thirteen games and by Berwick Rangers who had held up the division for most of the season.

Hernandez's batting average hovered around. 250 for most of his minor league career, until his promotion to the Tulsa Oilers in the second half of the season.

The combined attendance for the first eleven regular seasons hovered around 900, 000.

A significant reason Sheboygan won the 1943 NBL title was the late-season acquisition of Hall of Fame guard Buddy Jeannette, who joined Sheboygan for the last four regular-season games and the playoffs and commuted from his home in Rochester, N. Y. Jeannette, who was working in a defense plant in Rochester and traveling to Sheboygan and other sites of Red Skins games primarily on weekends, averaged 15. 5 points per game, a stout number during the pioneer days when final scores hovered in the 30s and 40s.

The company hovered on the edge of bankruptcy, with the team selling most of their worldly goods, as their second project and only hope for funds -- Darwinia -- ' slipped relentlessly '.

In 1974 – 75 Brady was a first-team regular at Arsenal, and shone as a rare light in a side that hovered close to relegation for a couple of seasons in the mid-1970s.

The town's population then hovered around 600-700 for the next several decades.

Since 1991, walkover rates have hovered around 50 % for each election.

Vedel discovered that the small band of irregulars roaming about were not at all the threat Dufour had described ; for the third time the Spaniards had stolen a march from him, and Reding still hovered somewhere around Mengibar, out of sight.

Through July, his ERA hovered around six and he was relegated to long relief for over a week.