(1) This involved 29 miles cycling, 12 miles running and finally 18.5 miles canoeing.
(2) The broadcast featured panoramic shots of the hundreds of boats, tugs, cruisers and canoes sailing past the Houses of Parliament during the pageant staged as part of the national celebrations in June.
(3) There was a bit more canoeing to see on the lake after that triumph.
(4) Several privately owned canoe and kayak rental agencies offerguided and independent trips down the Mullica, Batsto, Oswego and Wading rivers.
(5) 2.11am BST Pablo Cesar Cano vs Ashley Theophane The first fight of the night will be Mexican Pablo Cesar Cano against Britain's Ashley Theophane.
(6) Right now those two teams are the Royals and the Oakland Athletics , with Robinson Cano’s Seattle Mariners still alive, albeit on life-support.
(7) Down at the beach, there’s always a canoe arriving on shore with fresh fish; or you can hide yourself way in the pousada’s meditation lounge, content with a soundtrack of tropical birds.
(8) The AP’s first published results were based on samples taken along the shores of the lagoon where rowing and canoeing events will be held.
(9) It is the perfect environment for canoeing, with the warm weather and warm water.
(10) The Netherlands’ Pesse canoe dates from around 10,000 years ago.
(11) Canoeing and kayaking are upper-body sports that make varying demands on the body, depending on the type of contest and the distance covered.
(12) It was a strange purchase considering that Cano is not the kind of player that puts a wild amount of fannies in the seats - he’s just not a marquee draw, for whatever reason, despite his tremendous talents.
(13) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(14) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(15) Twelve common Polynesian plants, 8 of which were probably brought in the canoe voyages perhaps 1500 years ago from southern and central Polynesia, constitute the most commonly used plants by Hawaiians for medicinal purposes.
(16) "This has transformed public policy by putting protection of life as an ultimate aim, taking police away from a victory mindset," says Cano.
(17) Each night brought the excitement of finding the perfect camping spot in a grassy dell or spotless beach and the opportunity to explore using the Canadian canoe that we towed behind the raft.
(18) On Saturday night he is on the undercard of a Floyd Mayweather pay-per-view extravaganza in boxing's capital city and, if he beats the very good young Mexican Pablo César Cano, his mentor has promised him he will do everything he can to get him a world title shot at welterweight, a hot division.
(19) And we used to take them canoeing and have camping holidays.
(20) 2.21am BST Pablo Cesar Cano vs Ashley Theophane: Rounds one and two The Mexican started strongly but Theophane came back in the second half of that opening round.
Rafting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Raft
(n.) The business of making or managing rafts.
Example Sentences:
(1) There's no doubt Twitter is, for those who are into that kind of thing, a first-class social networking medium (the proof: pretty much every other social networking site, including Facebook, has tried to buy it and, having failed, adopted a whole raft of blatantly Twitter-like features of their own).
(2) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
(3) It's a great spot for swimming, with clear, calm waters and a bathing raft.
(4) "A pril is the cruellest month": how true TS Eliot's words will ring for millions of low-income working age people reliant on benefits and tax credits as they face a raft of cuts this cold April.
(5) He became the Telegraph's youngest ever editor in 2006 and his appointment was followed by a raft of high-profile departures.
(6) It is understood that ITV is looking at rationalising its network production in the north of England as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures, with executives questioning whether it needs its Leeds studios as well as its Manchester Quay Street site.
(7) The EAW is one of 35 measures the government is seeking to opt back into after having opted out of a raft of more than 100 EU policies relating to justice and home affairs last year, when Cameron wrote to the EU council presidency to give formal notification of the government’s intention to exercise the block opt-out.
(8) quinquefasciatus rafts were found in a wooded area (32.4%) with a dense undergrowth than in a more open area (67.6%), but Cx.
(9) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(10) Imperial Tobacco has become a major player in the US market after snapping up a raft of brands in a £4.2bn ($7bn) deal.
(11) There has certainly been a raft of policy announcements: on a green investment bank , subsidies for domestic renewable energy , electric vehicles , high speed rail , even badgers .
(12) He adds: "We face important policy choices on a whole raft of issues – climate change, energy generation, cloning, stem cell technology, GM foods – that we cannot hope to address properly unless we have access to the scientific research in each of these areas."
(13) When CIN612 cells, which contain episomal copies of HPV type 31b (HPV31b), were allowed to stratify in raft cultures, they differentiated in a manner which was histologically similar to that seen in a cervical intraepithelial neoplasia I biopsy lesion.
(14) We will make these starter homes 20 per cent cheaper by exempting them from a raft of taxes and by using brownfield land.
(15) It was claimed that the prime minister would unveil the measures on Tuesday as he hosted a No 10 meeting with the Mothers' Union, which earlier this year produced a raft of proposals to shield children from sexualised imagery.
(16) It also places restrictions on the raft of state laws that favour same-sex relationships.
(17) Oakeshott resigned the party whip after funding opinion polls in Lib-Dem-held seats showing how the party was in danger of losing a raft of MPs, including Clegg’s own seat.
(18) The government planned to abolish the monitor position as a cost-saving measure but scrapped the plan in early August, when it announced a raft of national security legislation.
(19) The producers and actors were desperate to get it right, down to the medical equipment used.” The impact was considerable: the programme led to a raft of referrals, according to Harmer.
(20) "The raft of measures taken by the authorities has stabilised the economy and will sow the seeds for a recovery over time, including in the housing market.