It wasn't until pro-Ouattara troops began advancing toward Abidjan last week that the tide began to turn. |
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The Kafranbel posters have jilted both the regime and the rising tide of al-Qaeda affiliated Islamists inside Syria. |
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But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear. |
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These small lagoons off of the main lagoon are filled with seawater at high tide and dry at low tide. |
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The tide here sets in alternately from N. to S. and from S. to N., which causes the whirlpool of Galofaro, the Charybdis of the ancients. |
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Many moderate constitutional monarchists still urged a waiting game, with the electoral tide flowing so strongly in their favour. |
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It extends from the spring high tide line, which is rarely inundated, to the spring low tide line, which is rarely not inundated. |
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Surge can be measured directly at coastal tidal stations as the difference between the forecast tide and the observed rise of water. |
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Two different measures are used for storm tide and storm surge measurements. |
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A tsunami can occur in any tidal state and even at low tide can still inundate coastal areas. |
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Hence a change in MSL can result from a real change in sea level, or from a change in the height of the land on which the tide gauge operates. |
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During neap tides, they exhibit much longer closing periods than during the spring tide. |
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It achieves this by losing solutes as the tide goes out and gaining solutes as the tide comes in. |
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It is accessible, most times, at low tide by crossing sand and mudflats which are covered with water at high tides. |
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At low tide it is possible to walk across the sands following an ancient route known as Pilgrims' Way, but see the note above. |
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Generally a beach is wet during falling tide, because the sea sinks faster than the beach drains. |
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Prior to nourishment, in many places the beach was too narrow to walk along, especially during high tide. |
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Historically, tide mills have been used both in Europe and on the Atlantic coast of North America. |
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When the sea level is raised, water from the middle of the ocean is forced to move toward the shorelines, creating a tide. |
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When using tidal barrages to generate power, the potential energy from a tide is seized through strategic placement of specialized dams. |
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The archipelago comprises 365 islands at low tide, compared to only 52 islands at high tide. |
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Every August, the Chausey Regatta takes place on the first weekend of the neap tide. |
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A bank in the centre of the Solent, Bramble Bank, is exposed at low water at spring tide. |
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There is an annual cricket match on Bramble Bank during the lowest tide of the year, but games are often cut short by rising tide. |
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At 6 pm, Tourville was able to use the tide to gain a respite, and Shovell used the same tide at 8 pm for a fireship attack. |
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On 31 May the French fleet was anchored against the tide off Cap de la Hague. |
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As the weather deteriorated, these ships began to drag their anchors and were forced to cut and run before the wind and tide. |
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They built their strongholds on coastal eminences, which were islands when the tide was in, and peninsulas when the tide was out. |
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The blockships were sunk in the wrong place and after a few days the canal was open to submarines at high tide. |
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The Germans were then able to move submarines along the channel past the block ships at high tide. |
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The yacht was refloated on the afternoon tide and brought away 165 men, as other vessels took other casualties. |
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They would also have been used to carry supplies directly ashore during the six hours of falling tide when the barges were grounded. |
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In the windy conditions, the tide came in more quickly than expected, making manoeuvring the armour difficult. |
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A lock keeps the tide out of the canal and lets large ships navigate up the canal to Caen's freshwater harbours. |
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Especially east of the Palace Pier, a flat sandy foreshore is exposed at low tide. |
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Backed by three escort boats and smeared in porpoise oil, he set off into the ebb tide at a steady breaststroke. |
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The footprints were found in sediment, partially covered by beach sand, at low tide on the foreshore at Happisburgh. |
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Short astronomic cycles can be the difference between the tides or the spring tide every two weeks. |
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Again, the Wrath of Achilles turns the war's tide in seeking vengeance when Hector kills Patroclus. |
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When large tidal flows enter the Strait and the high tide relaxes, internal waves are generated at the Camarinal Sill and proceed eastwards. |
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To make accurate records, tide gauges at fixed stations measure water level over time. |
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The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack water or slack tide. |
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But there are locations where the moments of slack tide differ significantly from those of high and low water. |
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The changing distance separating the Moon and Earth also affects tide heights. |
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Attempts were made to refloat her on the following tide which failed, but the tide after that lifted her clear with ease. |
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The first tide table in China was recorded in 1056 AD primarily for visitors wishing to see the famous tidal bore in the Qiantang River. |
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These points of no tide were confirmed by measurement in 1840 by Captain Hewett, RN, from careful soundings in the North Sea. |
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The tide heights are expected to follow the tidal force, with a constant amplitude and phase delay for each component. |
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The Highest Astronomical Tide is the perigean spring tide when both the sun and moon are closest to the Earth. |
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Tidal flow timings and velocities appear in tide charts or a tidal stream atlas. |
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To calculate the actual water depth, add the charted depth to the published tide height. |
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Other phenomena unrelated to tides but using the word tide are rip tide, storm tide, hurricane tide, and black or red tides. |
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A midden, by definition, contains the debris of human activity, and should not be confused with wind or tide created beach mounds. |
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To protect Ys from inundation, a dike was built with a gate that was opened for ships during low tide. |
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St Agnes joins the island of Gugh by a tombolo, a kind of sandbar, called the Gugh Bar, which is exposed only at low tide. |
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Innovative buildings specifically for this purpose were built at West Quay, with baths that were filled and emptied by the flow of the tide. |
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Southampton Water has the benefit of a double high tide, with two high tide peaks, making the movement of large ships easier. |
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The two Roman legions guarding the baggage train at the rear finally arrived and helped to turn the tide of the battle. |
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In 2016, Slovenia adopted a new elevation benchmark referring to the upgraded tide gauge station in the coastal town of Koper. |
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The number includes islands, islets, and rocks of all sizes, including ones emerging at ebb tide only. |
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Along the coast they lived on artificial mounds called terpen, built high enough to remain dry during the highest tide. |
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He was in the process of attacking the Chauci when his vessels were trapped by an ebb tide. |
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The two legions who had been guarding the baggage train at the rear arrived and helped to turn the tide of the battle. |
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During low tide, visitor can view a wide range of coral reefs, fish and many sea species. |
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She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in. |
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Red tide has been an issue on the southwest coast of Florida, as well as other areas. |
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The delta of the Tumbes river is shallow, and when the tide is low, little sandy keys show up, which get covered by mangrove vegetation. |
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His greatest battlefield accomplishment was the defeat of the Ottoman fleet at Lepanto, which turned the tide against Turkish aggression. |
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There are approximately six hours and thirteen minutes between each high and low tide. |
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Here the changing tide causes alternating strong upriver and downriver flows several times a day as the tidal cycle changes. |
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During low tides the harbor offers a tide pool area at the east end of the beach. |
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Generally, a marooned man was set on a deserted island, often no more than a sand bar at low tide. |
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Notable areas include De Slufter, where the tide comes in and meets the dunes, forming a marshy environment rich in both fauna and flora. |
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Although the Qing emperors emphasized the importance of the Manchu language again and again, the tide could not be turned. |
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German Zeit means 'time' but it is cognate with tide, and only the latter is relevant here. |
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Failures in both the East and the West began a tide of events that was to overwhelm Asquith's Liberal Government. |
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This is a list of some of the surviving and demolished watermills and tide mills in the United Kingdom. |
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Outside the hall, a 24,300 tonne capacity shiplift allows completed vessels to be lowered into the water independently of the tide. |
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The most recent occurrence involved the Celtic Endeavour being aground near Gunness for ten days, finally being lifted off by a high tide. |
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The Aegir occurs when a high spring tide meets the downstream flow of the river. |
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The site was chosen because it was on an ancient trackway which forded the river at low tide. |
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Jordan sat tight against Mom's legs, the nightly position for her mandatory hundred strokes, because time, tide and snocksnarls wait for no man. |
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The news report stemmed the tide of concerned calls, but didn't stop them altogether. |
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Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model. |
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The advancing storm surge combines with the normal astronomical tide to create the storm tide. |
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At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads. |
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Sensing the turning tide, the admin is ratcheting up the rhetoric. |
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This is called the season or tempestivity of time, when time, tide, and wind meet and clasp together. |
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Images captured by the photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths in Vietnam helped turn the tide of public opinion against the war. |
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The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round. |
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Because the tide had been right to go, bedding had been stripped from the springs, food left about, water left unemptied to rust the kettles. |
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Best time for gummy sharks is on moonlit nights when they will move into knee-deep water on a rising tide to feed. |
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The Kelvin tide of the Atlantic ocean is a semidiurnal wave that travels northward. |
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The north coast is unusual in having four high tides each day, with a double high tide every twelve and a half hours. |
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The difference of cotidal phase from the phase of a reference tide is the epoch. |
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Although the tide was out and the ships still beached, Commius ordered the sails raised. |
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The one ship that escaped managed to do so only because all of Alfred's heavy ships became grounded when the tide went out. |
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The Danes, heavily outnumbered, would have been wiped out if the tide had not risen. |
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This declaration resulted in a series of defections from the rebel movement, and the tide of the conflict swung in Henry's favour. |
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On that evening, the English fleet was trapped in Plymouth Harbour by the incoming tide. |
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Thus they passed twice in sight of the English fleet, which was unable to intercept because of the adverse wind and an unfavourable tide. |
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Napoleon won a series of victories in the Six Days' Campaign, though these were not significant enough to turn the tide. |
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Nixon capitalized on this changing tide of voting behaviour, and hence won a landslide victory in the 1972 election. |
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London Bridge is now used as the basis for published tide tables giving the times of high tide. |
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High tide reaches Putney about 30 minutes later than London Bridge, and Teddington about an hour later. |
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Boats could be swept up to it on the rising tide with no need for wind or muscle power. |
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It has been shown that the tide and weather at the time were capable of generating such a surge. |
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The tide will outstrip the vessel but by timing the journey correctly, a barge can reach Gloucester at high water. |
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A tidal bore takes place during the flood tide and never during the ebb tide. |
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There is also a boat link to Falmouth along the Rivers Truro and Fal, four times daily, tide permitting. |
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This tide has ebbed and flowed in response to politics, economics and social conditions of both places. |
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This is, however, absurd, since its shore might arbitrarily be increased and in any case varies with the tide. |
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He then lost them and made it back to his ship quickly before the tide came back in, leaving them all to drown. |
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The coaching role was passed onto the former first team mates Budge Pountney and Paul Grayson to tide the team over. |
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However, the tide turned against Khan very late in the third round as Garcia was able to land a hard counterpunch off a missed right. |
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I remember lines of unknown people linking arms and walking down Whitehall, all of us just swept along on a tide of happiness and relief. |
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The tide of modernism and then postmodernism has brought fame to American architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry. |
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The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne. |
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The Allies wanted to schedule the landings for shortly before dawn, midway between low and high tide, with the tide coming in. |
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Some tanks, disabled on the beach, continued to provide covering fire until their ammunition ran out or they were swamped by the rising tide. |
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In the windy conditions, the tide came in more quickly than expected, so manoeuvring the armour was difficult. |
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It is said that at one time it was also possible to walk all the way to Baleshare, and on to North Uist, five miles away at low tide. |
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The archipelago is exposed to wind and tide, and there are numerous sites of wrecked ships. |
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The rust has gathered on the plough, The tide of Autumn here is high, The hills are at their reddest now. |
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I was living in Baltimore, teaching art and sleeping with an artist when, out of nowhere, I was swept away in a tide of baby fever. |
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At high water the runways are under the sea so flight times vary with the tide. |
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Afterwards, his general Marshal Villars managed to turn the tide in favour of France. |
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Some mornings when the tide was right out we went onto the reef with screwdrivers to prise off abalone, which we called muttonfish. |
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Successive English kings did little to stem the tide, instead using Ireland to draw upon men and supplies in the wars in Scotland and France. |
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They compelled the English to lift the siege on 8 May 1429, thus turning the tide of the war. |
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Irvine Harbour is home to a unique and distinctive building which marked the tide level. |
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The Automatic tide signalling apparatus indicated the tide's state in two ways depending on the time of day. |
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However, time and tide has washed broken pieces of ships' pottery and glass bottles into shallow waters and onto beaches. |
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In China, the Flying Tigers also used the same tactics with some success, although they were unable to stem the tide of Japanese advances there. |
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Caissons were used at locations that were either always under water, even at low tide, or where the foundations were to be built on mud and clay. |
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Cofferdams were used where rock was nearer to the surface, and it was possible to work in low tide. |
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At low tide mussels in the middle of a clump will undergo less water loss because of water capture by the other mussels. |
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Commonly harvested in buckets by fishers walking in the intertidal zone on low tide, other methods have been tried. |
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Canal boats could enter the river at high tide to load goods directly onto seagoing vessels. |
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Shipping movements varying from a couple of movements to 10 or 12 per tide, with trade in timber, oil, scrap and containers. |
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The tide was full and the dingey was off keel. The punt nosed the pebbly slope like a terrier, but her stern swung clear. |
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Many, though not all, mangrove swamps fringe estuaries and lagoons where the salinity changes with each tide. |
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There are also commercial docks at Mostyn although their use is limited by the tide. |
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Sheep, Piel, Chapel and Foulney Islands are tidal and can be walked to at low tide with appropriate care. |
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Coastal flooding can occur at high tide at several points, notably the city side of Clontarf and Sandymount. |
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It is found from low tide mark to depths of 50 metres in British waters and 80 metres off the coast of Nova Scotia. |
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Most species live in relatively shallow waters from the low tide line to 100 meters, while others prefer much deeper water. |
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In Roscoe Bay, jellyfish ride the current at ebb tide until they hit a gravel bar, and then descend below the current. |
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They remain in still waters until the tide rises, ascending and allowing it to sweep them back into the bay. |
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This phenomenon is called a red tide, from the color the bloom imparts to the water. |
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At the flowing of the tide the scoters approach in great numbers, diving after their favourite food, and soon get entangled in the nets. |
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Otariids establish territories containing resources that attract females, such as shade, tide pools or access to water. |
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Whales and dolphins who live in pods may accompany sick or debilitated pod members into shallow water, stranding them at low tide. |
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It is also known as the intertidal zone because it is the area where tide level affects the conditions of the region. |
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During a flood in November 1743 the river bed eroded and sea water could flow into the lake at high tide. |
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There, two times in each period of a day and a night, the ocean with a fast tide submerges an immense plain, thereby the hiding. |
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There this miserable race inhabits raised pieces ground or platforms, which they have moored by hand above the level of the highest known tide. |
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Because the levees are some distance from the river, at high tide the Lower Rhine has more room for widening than the Upper Rhine. |
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This meant that high tide formed a serious risk because strong tidal currents could tear huge areas of land into the sea. |
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An amphidromic point is a point of zero amplitude of one harmonic constituent of the tide. |
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Having cotidal points means they reach high tide at the same time and low tide at the same time. |
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In the accompanying figure, the low tide lags or leads by 1 hr 2 min from its neighboring lines. |
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Starting from the shoreline, the littoral zone begins at the spray region just above the high tide mark. |
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This reflection thawed my congealing blood, and again the tide of life and love flowed impetuously onward, again to ebb as my busy thoughts changed. |
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Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago. |
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The back and forth movement of the tide causes erosion of the coastline. |
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It exists in three spatial dimensions and also varies over time and tide. |
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But agitation saw a series of judgments repulse the tide of slavery. |
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A storm tide in 1228 is recorded to have killed more than 100,000 people. |
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From Saint Agnes, Gugh becomes accessible at each low tide, via a tombolo. |
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Annual flooding occurs in late northern latitude winter at high tide when the incoming waters of the Atlantic are funnelled into the Amazon delta. |
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Hooligan are often spotted from the point as they come in with the tide. |
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However, not every architect or client was swept away by this tide. |
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The port was expanded in the 1670s by the construction of a basin that could hold up to thirty warships with a double lock system to maintain water levels at low tide. |
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Though the Type A barges could disembark several medium tanks onto an open beach, this could be accomplished only at low tide when the barges were firmly grounded. |
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In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning. |
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This proverb is related to the area around the island, considered one of the most challenging to navigate in the world with its many rocks and more than ten knot tide streams. |
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If the landings were to be made at the same time, methods would have to be devised to disembark men, vehicles and supplies at all states of the tide. |
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The combined Mexican monarchist and French forces won victories up until 1865, but then the tide began to turn against them, in part because the American Civil War had ended. |
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In contrast, the littoral zone covers the region between low and high tide and represents the transitional area between marine and terrestrial conditions. |
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The new jacked up triple-barrel cannons helped turn the tide of the war. |
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On 24 May 2013, Scillonian III ran aground in St Mary's Harbour after being caught by a gust of wind, while attempting to berth by normal approach at low tide. |
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It allowed vessels to enter and leave the canal on any tide. |
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At high tide the gates were closed, and with the ebb of the tide were opened to release water, which scoured the silt from the entrance to the locks. |
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But the city on the River Clyde can justly claim to have turned the tide. |
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The French were never able to concentrate all of their forces effectively, prolonging the war until events elsewhere in Europe finally turned the tide in favor of the Allies. |
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Offshore salvage may provide only a short window of opportunity for the salvage team due to unusually high tide or inclement weather for instance. |
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As tide current pulled the boat, the spikes scraped seabed material loose, and the tide current washed the material away, hopefully to deeper water. |
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The current south of the lakes changes with the tide at Suez. |
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Parts of Fleetwood, especially to the north and west, are barely above sea level at high tide, and a large retaining sea wall runs along much of the western edge of the town. |
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The Bay has treacherous bogs at low tide amongst the otherwise firm sands. |
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On the Gower Peninsula, at its western extremity is the Worms Head, a headland of carboniferous limestone which is approachable on foot at low tide only. |
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Two days later, in the lower tidal reaches of the river, the peak of the flood combined with a high spring tide to flood villages and 2,000 properties in Gainsborough. |
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Being the onset of the flood tide, the bore is accompanied by a rapid rise in water level which continues for about one and a half hours after the bore has passed. |
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The lake is topped up from the sea by opening a sluice at high tide. |
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Descending is more difficult, and barges often needed to start their descent with one tide, lay up before crossing Longney Sands, and finish the descent at the next tide. |
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Because of the softness of the sediment, which lay below the high tide mark, tidal action eroded it, and within two weeks the footprints had been destroyed. |
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Tidal flats and shoals are places that sometimes dry because of the tide. |
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Subsidence, the gradual lowering of the surface of Venice, has led to the seasonal Acqua alta when much of the city's surface is occasionally covered at high tide. |
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In an effort to stem the tide of street Islamisation Bhutto agreed to several demands and banned the drinking and selling of wine by Muslims, nightclubs and horse racing. |
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The strip of seashore that is submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide, the intertidal zone, is an important ecological product of ocean tides. |
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Coastal sediments are disturbed and suspended by wave and tide energy. |
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Several of the most detailed are of Rye, a port for ships to the Continent, suggesting that van Dyck did them casually whilst waiting for wind or tide to improve. |
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The rising tide propelled the barge upstream without rowing. |
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The HWL represents the landward extent of the most recent high tide and is characterised by a change in sand colour due to repeated, periodic inundation by high tides. |
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At extreme low tide a petrified forest is partially revealed in the northern part of Sandown Bay, and fragments of petrified wood are regularly washed up on the beach. |
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Their desire to achieve Test status is in part to stem the tide of Irish players using residency rules to switch to England for the opportunity to play Test cricket. |
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When the high tide came in, the hulks rose and with them the wreck. |
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This, together with the shrinkage on its initial drying and the removal of soil by the wind, has meant that much of the Fens lies below high tide level. |
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Because of the massive size of the new vessels, the outlet from Portsmouth needed to be surveyed to make sure that they could sail no matter the tide. |
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The defence operations at Kohima and Imphal in 1944 have since taken on huge symbolic value as the turning of the tide in British fortunes in the war in the East. |
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In November 2005 the main shipping channels into the harbour and the Port of Poole were dredged to accommodate modern ferries at all states of the tide. |
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There are dinosaur footprints visible in Compton Bay when the tide is low this is one of the best areas to see the dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. |
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There are between 15 and 20 islands depending on the state of the tide. |
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Many of these offshore islands are swept by strong tides, and the Corryvreckan tide race between Scarba and Jura is one of the largest whirlpools in the world. |
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There is struggle for food, accentuated by the fact that small items tend to be swept away by the outgoing tide or to sink down the slope to deep water. |
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The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. |
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The moment of highest tide is not necessarily when the Moon is nearest to zenith or nadir, but the period of the forcing still determines the time between high tides. |
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You can talk to him all day about how good high tide is in extended, or how good necropotence is in a monoblack deck, but he will still never play it. |
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Warning signs urge visitors walking to the island to keep to the marked path, check tide times and weather carefully and to seek local advice if in doubt. |
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For drivers, tide tables are prominently displayed at both ends of the causeway and also where the Holy Island road leaves the A1 Great North Road at Beal. |
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Those tourists staying on the island while it is cut off by the tide experience the island in a much quieter state, as most day trippers leave before the tide rises. |
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As a resort, the town is noted for its expansive sands, which are revealed at low tide, making its pier necessary on the wide beach for a regular passenger ferry service. |
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Every time I'm there, just like any other visitor, you're encouraged to linger a bit longer seeing the tide come in and how many of them disappear. |
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Because the M2 tidal constituent dominates in most locations, the stage or phase of a tide, denoted by the time in hours after high water, is a useful concept. |
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Ryde has its own inshore rescue service which mostly has to deal with people becoming stranded on sandbanks as the incoming tide cuts them off from the shore. |
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Being somewhat shorter than Ryde Pier, it could not be used at all points of the tide, and so offered little competition to the main Ryde to Portsmouth ferry services. |
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The incoming water was contained in large storage ponds, and as the tide went out, it turned waterwheels that used the mechanical power it produced to mill grain. |
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Planes can land and take off only at low tide, so the timetable varies. |
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Blackburn made their third and final substitution with 25 minutes remaining, with Brett Emerton coming on for Dunn as they looked for ways to stem the Newcastle tide. |
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The time taken for the wave to travel around the ocean also means that there is a delay between the phases of the moon and their effect on the tide. |
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The jetty was extended in 1870, allowing sufficient depth for shallow draft vessels to dock at any tide, and soon daily steamers from Melbourne were calling. |
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Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific, fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans. |
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The storm surge is defined as the difference between the observed tide and the predicted astronomical tide and is considered to be the meteorological effect on sea level. |
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These dams can be overtopped at high tide and hold water at low tide. |
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They are collected by raking them from the sands at low tide. |
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It has an unusual double tide that is both favourable and hazardous to maritime activities with its strong tidal movements and quickly changing sea states. |
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For the analysis of tide heights, the Fourier series approach has in practice to be made more elaborate than the use of a single frequency and its harmonics. |
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The crossing passes over mudflats in the Severn Estuary with part of the eastern approach viaduct sited on the English Stones, a rocky outcrop uncovered at low tide. |
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Each tidal constituent has a different pattern of amplitudes, phases, and amphidromic points, so the M2 patterns cannot be used for other tide components. |
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As with tide height predictions, tide flow predictions based only on astronomical factors do not incorporate weather conditions, which can completely change the outcome. |
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At the turn of the tide, Tourville again took advantage of this to cut cables and be carried down channel on the ebb, away from the scene of battle. |
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Aragorn defeats the Corsairs and uses their ships to transport the men of southern Gondor up the Anduin, reaching Minas Tirith just in time to turn the tide of battle. |
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A narrow granite gorge and rocky bottom heavily restricts waterflow and creates strong rapids that flow upriver at high tide, and downriver at low tide. |
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Over the next year the tide was turned and the Germans started to suffer a series of defeats, for example in the siege of Stalingrad and at Kursk. |
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Like Pytheas, Posidonius believed the tide is caused by the moon. |
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Just as the rising tide of cancellations leads the Census Bureau to overreport sales in the short term, it leads the government to underreport inventories. |
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The British experienced a stroke of luck in November 1939 when a German mine was dropped from an aircraft onto the mud flats off Shoeburyness during low tide. |
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