Sentence examples for back to terra from inspiring English sources

Last month Hands handed back to Terra Firma investors £70m in so-called "carry" - effectively past profits earmarked for executive bonuses - in acknowledgement of his failings over EMI.

For another, Maxon is worryingly far from home, and like any other human who's been carried beyond the Earth's gravitational pull, "a few pulsing cells" inside a "crazy little splinter of metal," he may not make it back to terra firma, much less return in time to drive Sunny to the delivery room.

And with the growing crowds — 250,000 so far this season, twice the rate of last year — come other signs that an island is not necessarily the perfect retreat and can also fail at being not-the-city: at one recent event the ferry back to terra firma was delayed nearly an hour as it was commandeered to rush a festivalgoer, who had reportedly overdosed on drugs, to a Brooklyn hospital.

Spoiler: The video above shows SpaceX's 100-foot-tall Grasshopper rocket blasting off, hovering in the air for about 30 seconds and then descending back to terra firma.

And though I'd begun to revel in my new life as something other than Mother, I welcomed her back to terra firma gladly, so that she could regroup and rethink under a familiar roof.

The glitchy landscapes jitter along as if under the watchful gaze of some omnipresent being, reinforced by the shots of the starry night sky panning back to terra firma.

At the front of 6, desperate to get up and down, he loops a weak lob into the air, the ball quickly coming back down to terra firma, only a yard or so in front of him, then spinning off and rolling back down the fairway.

As we abseil back down to terra firma, I realise I'm somewhere in between the two – unable to work out if the thrill outweighs the terror, so overwhelming are they both.

Travel posters would become an anachronism; Mundane's soaring visions, so often set in an infinite empyrean, were no longer needed in a world that had, imaginatively, floated back down to terra firma.

The roots of the tradition are also sometimes traced back to the female terra-cotta figurines found ubiquitously in excavations of sites associated with the Indus valley civilization and sometimes interpreted as goddesses.

On Jan . 18 after coming across Amundsen's tent, Scott's men put up a Union Jack and began the 800-mile trip back to their ship, the Terra Nova, on the coast of Antarctica.