(1) The sheep in this almost feral flock have access to a small area of unmanaged moorland pasture but are otherwise restricted to the foreshore where they subsist largely on Laminaria spp.
(2) Woodstock Beach in the 1940s, before it was destroyed by land reclamation that extended Cape Town’s foreshore “As racial segregation and institutional inequalities became locked in to the country’s urban landscapes through the formalisation of the apartheid legal codes, Woodstock crucially fell outside of the large-scale implementation of the Group Areas Act ,” wrote Andrew Fleming in his 2011 dissertation Making a Place for the Rich?
(3) But the boy who bypassed industrial foreshores to find a local forest for his own special experience has become a prime minister with no worries about issuing a death warrant against distant pristine forests which he has never seen.
(4) A common feature of this outbreak and a similar occurrence 24 years previously was the grazing of plants growing on the exposed silt foreshores of Burrinjuck Dam by ewes and cows in the early stages of pregnancy.
(5) A fortnight ago the Crown Estate launched local management agreements designed to give more power to communities over their estuaries, foreshore and harbours.
(6) • Near Ventnor (01983 730052, blackgangchine.com ); 10-6pm, over-fours £9.95, concessions £7.95, saver for four people £37.50 Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, Lincolnshire The mile-long miniature railway at Cleethorpes runs from Kingsway station along the sea-sprayed foreshore to North Sea Lane station.
(7) This is the foreshore walk, looking away from the Pier in the direction of Tower Esplanade, shortly before 7pm; about 40 minutes before high tide.
(8) They underline how unearned wealth in London flows down from the glens and foreshore, that loom large in the nationalist imagination.
(9) The foreshore is rocky, so a series of square pools have been cut into them, with ladders and steps into the water.
(10) The video was taken looking southwards along what is normally a foreshore footpath.
(11) One of the first accounts came from Charles Darwin when, midway through his Beagle voyage along the Patagonian archipelago, he witnessed a great earthquake thrust the coastline of Chile a few metres upwards, stranding vast foreshores high and dry.
(12) The Guardian broke the news at 12.45pm, saying that when the tide came out at 4pm on the Kent foreshore there was free gold and it was finders keepers.
(13) We continued down a steep slope that ended on the foreshore.
Station
Definition:
(n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
(n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.
(n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel.
(n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
(n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
(n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
(n.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
(n.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
(n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
(n.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
(n.) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
(n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
(n.) Situation; position; location.
(n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.
(n.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
(n.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
(n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross.
(v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
Example Sentences:
(1) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(2) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(3) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Numerous voters reported problems at polling stations on Tuesday.
(6) Stations such as al-Jazeera English have been welcomed as a counterbalance to Western media parochialism.
(7) In late 1983 the Hagahai sought medical aid at a mission station, an event which accelerated their contact with the common epidemic diseases of the highlands.
(8) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(9) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(10) Service station attendants' exposure to benzene, based on 85 TWA results at 7 stations, were well below 1 ppm except one exposure of 2.08 ppm.
(11) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(12) Russia's most widely watched television station, state-controlled Channel One, followed a bulletin about his death with a summary of the crimes he is accused of committing, including the siphoning of millions of dollars from national airline Aeroflot.
(13) It also cancelled the results from 21 polling stations in Libreville.
(14) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(15) Australia’s greatest contribution to global warming is through our coal, exported and burned in foreign power stations.
(16) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(17) Eleven months later and staff are still waiting to find out when – or if – the station will close and what exactly will replace it.
(18) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.
(19) Stationed in Sarajevo, he became fascinated by special forces methods there and insisted on going on a night raid with them.
(20) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.