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As their ship began to sink beneath the swells, the men huddled together in three small whaleboats.
In the arm, you can measure blood flow in the arm by how much it swells up as some blood flows into it.
It's fantastic for them and their families, but we've got two billion people in the global middle class today, and this swells that number to five, a big challenge when we already have resource scarcity.
When you write about parasites, your lexicon swells with phrases like "devoured alive" and "bursts out of its body."
And quite apart from that, we are getting the swells at the moment.
It comes with the winds, it comes with the swells, and so they can be magnified, but what we are beginning to witness is the change in the weather pattern, which is perhaps the more urgent challenge that we will face sooner than perhaps the rising sea level.
These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.
And some of these waves travel for more than a week, with swells originating more than 10,000 kilometers away from shore.
And the terrain is offered back to the river, as with the monsoon the water swells again.
Although each worker only lives for roughly 3 weeks, the queen’s continuous egg-laying swells their ranks.
The body swells up.
We are led to cheer as the music swells and the Afghans use our weapons to blow the Ruskies to bits.
There's a dozen things to which I could point and say, "That should have been better" or "That's totally out of place" but, if I were given the option, I wouldn't change a thing (well...the orchestral swells in the last five minutes of the film make my teeth hurt.
The writing lurches, the characters stumble, and the music swells repeatedly like that nasty, recalcitrant pus-filled boil on Farmer Bean's neck.
A couple of choice scenes to demonstrate the cheeziness of this movie -- First, the scene in which Gooding gets all the inmates to tear up their playing cards while the inspirational music swells and you half-expect the cast to start the slow-unison clap from those awful highschool sports movies.
The music swells as the images flash by.
Not only does Godard torture the viewer on purpose, beginning right after he questions Allen about his then recent release of Hannah and Her Sisters with abrupt recurring title cards meant to scoff at Allen's film and segueing without direction into random and exasperatingly repetitive moments where music swells to the point where it drowns out the clearly uncomfortable Woody and displays inexplicable freeze frames of indeterminable screen time.
Poverty has been drastically reduced, and income inequality is declining, as the middle class swells.
When this number falls as a result of lower fertility rates, and when higher life expectancy swells the ranks of pensioners, the only way to sustain PAYG systems is to decrease the level of benefits relative to contributions.
When a country defaults, the economic damage swells the number of poor people and worsens their living conditions.
By 2030, as the human population swells and appetites increase, the world will need at least 50% more food, 45% more energy, and 30% more water.
For their part, donors in Malawi and elsewhere in Africa tend to provide episodic democracy assistance that swells during election years but wanes during the crucial interim period when electoral commissions would most benefit from institutional strengthening.
But after thinking it over, I realized that these so-called clouds were caused simply by the changing densities of the long ground swells, and I even spotted the foaming "white caps" that their breaking crests were proliferating over the surface of the water.
The sea grew towering, inflated by long swells.
Across the moor there had ridden a black-coated gentleman, with buff-topped hunting-boots and a couple of grooms behind him, the little knot of horsemen showing up clearly upon the curving swells and then dipping down into the alternate hollows.
But my heart swells when I think of Torquilstone and the lists of Templestowe.--Farewell.
you think me, I daresay, an irreligious dog: but my heart swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now.
In proportion as architecture ebbs, printing swells and grows.