Yet he knew the others were sleeping more soundly, now that they had renewed their contact with the matter that had birthed them to send them riding high vacuum.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold.

The summer months are warm but can get hot and moderately humid, with moist air riding up from the Gulf of Mexico, and high temperatures surpass on 4 days of the year, and on nearly 40 days.

The international market, where Business as Usual was still riding high, kept the album at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Whether fairly or unfairly, a great deal was riding on the project, and expectations were high.

Early skate tricks had consisted mainly of two-dimensional manoeuvres like riding on only two wheels (" wheelie " or " manual "), spinning only on the back wheels ( a " pivot "), high jumping over a bar and landing on the board again, also known as a " hippie jump ", long jumping from one board to another, ( often over small barrels or fearless teenagers ), or slalom.

In 1995, the Republican Party was riding high on the gains made in the 1994 congressional elections.

He was usually seen wearing a highly polished helmet, riding pants, and high cavalry boots.

Homosexuals are riding high in the media ... And in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are.

The game's high audio-production values, including a hired professional composer, riding on an already popular game-franchise, catapulted the AdLib card into mainstream media coverage.

For example, individuals who are vaccinated reduce the risk of contracting the relevant disease for all others around them, and at high levels of vaccination, society may receive large health and welfare benefits ; but any one individual can refuse vaccination, still avoiding the disease by " free riding " on the costs borne by others.

The opening Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin sequence in the 1955 film Oklahoma !, with Gordon MacRae singing the famous song while riding a horse past the stalks of corn " as high as a elephant's eye ", was filmed in Amado.

Griffith was riding high along with the rest of the country on the morning of October 24, 1929.

Land speculation was riding high and it was no different for the Midland area.

Other recreational activities include high power rocketry, dogsledding, falconry, ATV sports, land sailing, horseback riding, hunting, camping with amenities, including ultralight aviation.

The Labour Party, under Dick Spring were riding high in opinion polls and pursued a campaign independent of its traditional coalition partners Fine Gael.

" The reverse showed a woman riding a horse, her hand lifted high in exhortation, and the date.

The album also featured the reggae-flavored UK Top 20 hit " Unconditional Love ", which featured the British group Musical Youth who were riding high from the success of their single " Pass the Dutchie ".

As The Blue Belles, their first single was ironically a song that the group didn't participate in-" I Sold My Heart to the Junkman " was, as explained in Patti LaBelle's memoirs, Don't Block the Blessings, originally recorded by The Starlets, then riding high on their hit single, " Tell Him No " and were on the road when the song was released, unable to promote it.

However, less than 72 hours before a planned election call, with the NDP riding high in the polls for its hard line against welfare recipients and aboriginal and environmental radicals, the party's provincial office was raided by Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) officers as part of an ongoing investigation of illegal use of charity bingo money, coined " Bingogate " by the media, by former provincial cabinet minister and member of parliament Dave Stupich.

The Good Schools Guide described Marlborough as a " Famous, designer label, co-ed boarding school still riding high.

The high riding position might seem daunting, but mounting could be learned on a lower velocipede.

Members of the press riding the first demonstration train apparently reported high levels of motion sickness and this caused much bad publicity ; though it has been suggested by some, including APT designer Prof. Alan Wickens, that the ' motion sickness ' suffered by the press may have had more to do with them over-indulging in BR's " liquid hospitality ".

The primary aim is to strike the opponent with the lance while riding towards him at high speed, if possible breaking the lance on the opponent's shield or armour, or unhorsing him.

Brains and beauty, high position in both the social and intellectual worlds, athlete, fabled lover -- if ever the world was any man's oyster it was his.

`` We have two approaches for the technical man: the position of staff engineer, which is rated as high in salary as department manager ; ;

The great advantage of the tube anemometer lies in the fact that the exposed part can be mounted on a high pole, and requires no oiling or attention for years ; and the registering part can be placed in any convenient position.

The strategic position, to wit the high bank of the Waal — which offered an unimpeded view far into Germania Transrhenana ( Germania Beyond the Rhine )— was recognized first by Drusus, who built a massive fortress ( castra ) and a headquarters ( praetorium ) in imperial style.

The cost was high, however, as the government was required by the king to call two general elections in 1910 to validate its position and ended up frittering away most of its large majority, being left once again dependent on the Irish Nationalists.

Since the Persian force obviously contained a high proportion of missile troops, a static defensive position would have made little sense for the Athenians ; the strength of the hoplite was in the melee, and the sooner that could be brought about, the better, from the Athenian point of view.

In 2006, the primary economic concerns focused on: high national debt ($ 9 trillion ), high non-bank corporate debt ($ 9 trillion ), high mortgage debt ($ 9 trillion ), high financial institution debt ($ 12 trillion ), high unfunded Medicare liability ($ 30 trillion ), high unfunded Social Security liability ($ 12 trillion ), high external debt ( amount owed to foreign lenders ) and a serious deterioration in the United States net international investment position ( NIIP ) (- 24 % of GDP ), high trade deficits, and a rise in illegal immigration.

Services currently account for 25 % of GDP, largely because of the oversized government bureaucracy and high transportation costs arising from the country's landlocked position.

Perhaps the tragedy of his life was that he was never awarded the high official position which he desired, from which he wished to demonstrate the general well-being that would ensue if humane persons ruled and administered the state.

Supporters of this position also include high church Anglo-Catholic, Catholic-leaning Lutherans, Eastern Orthodox churches, and traditional Roman Catholic groups.

Herkimer contributed many firsts to the sport: the founding of the Cheerleader & Danz Team cheerleading uniform supply company, inventing the herkie ( where one leg is bent towards the ground and the other is out to the side as high as it will stretch in the toe-touch position ), and creating the " Spirit Stick ".

Cyril was clearly held with high regard by many members of the Church and was able to sustain his place in the History of Jerusalem, despite serious charges and punishments that included banish for years at a time from his position and his city of Jerusalem.

Cyril got in trouble again when he appointed his nephew to bishop of Caesarea ; this was not the first time Cyril had appointed someone close to him to a high position in the Church.

Dives in the straight position are hardest, since there is almost no scope for altering the speed, so the angular momentum must be created at take-off with a very high degree of accuracy.

As with the rest of the British Isles and South West England, the area experiences a maritime climate with warm summers and mild winters-this is particularly pronounced due to its position near the coast-extremes range from a record low of just in January 1987 up to a record high of during June 1976.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

Epic: a long narrative poem in elevated style presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.

If the parameter is the bull's-eye of a target, and the arrows are estimates, then a relatively high absolute value for the bias means the average position of the arrows is off-target, and a relatively low absolute bias means the average position of the arrows is on target.