But Peter begins to sink when he starts to notice the wind blowing around him.
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The day is gloriously sunny with a warm wind blowing across the Pearl River delta.
Rather, it is a force, a prevailing wind blowing mankind into the next millennium.
Israel's government, for one, looks increasingly discomfited by the new wind blowing from Washington.
Hearing it is a bit like entering a rickety cabin in the mountains fire crackling, wind blowing.
Which leaves me to once again ask, which way is the wind blowing?
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Except for one thing: There's a demographic wind blowing stiffly at its back.
For some races, the combination of water flowing west and wind blowing east creates a series of choppy five-foot waves.
The wind blowing in on a cool and damp night meant very little hitting for either team, just 10 combined hits.
The direction of the wind matters, too, because wind blowing to shore can drive a storm surge and lead to coastal flooding.
But conditions at Augusta National are notoriously tricky in perfect weather, and the swirling, gusty wind blowing Friday only made them more difficult.
Now, according to popular wisdom, the biggest threat to the robust health of these economies is the cold wind blowing from East Asia.
As U.S. and Malaysian delegates prepare for the APEC summit in Vancouver, they are no doubt mindful of the anti-American wind blowing across Malaysia.
This time, down through Normal, Illinois, from high up in white Minnesota, dead of winter, icy roads, wind blowing sideways across the empty cornfields.
Still, there's now a freezing wind blowing outside and that appears to be blowing away much of the smog, just in time for Sunday's marathon.
At sunset, with a warm wind blowing off the desert, we sail Jelal's felucca, the open boat that more than any other evokes the romance of the Nile.
And then sounds of people relaxing, lovers relaxing on the beach and talking to one another and the sound of the wind blowing and the sea gulls and the waves breaking.
Yet, bending to the chill American wind blowing out of Iraq and through its now-closed offices in Damascus, Hamas has been making conciliatory noises and intends to continue talks with Mr Abbas's government.
Because geothermal produces consistent, base-load power--it doesn't depend on the wind blowing or the sun shining--utilities will pay up to three times more for geothermal electricity than for electricity from an intermittent source, like wind.
Most of all, there is nothing as satisfying as those moments where you step out on a dark night, the wind blowing, the rain beating down, with a long journey ahead - and decide to catch the Tube instead.
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Webb, who got back into contention with a 69 in the second round, made her move early, rolling in a 25-foot birdie putt on the difficult 420-yard second hole that might have been the toughest on the course with the wind blowing into the players' faces off Reed's Bay.
"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp, " said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena.
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Instead of placing our fingers in the air to determine which way the wind is blowing, we enlist the help of others to change the direction of the wind.
While he was in the rain, while it was raining so hard and the wind was blowing, he was praying that God will calm the water, calm the wind, so that he will be able to make it somewhere with his kids.
The Fed may be throwing fastballs, but the wind is blowing out, and toward right field.
Here in Texas, when it gets hot and the demand for electricity spikes the wind stops blowing.
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Wind waves: waves formed in the area in which the wind is blowing.
Luckily, we won't have to wait long to see which way the wind is blowing.
But Microsoft knows which way the wind is blowing, and it's blowing in favor of customers.
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