Sentence examples for held the earth from inspiring English sources

He tells us he dreamed that he went aboard the first Apollo moon landing and held the earth in his hand like a marble.

For starters, there were ample warnings that a large part of the United States could be rendered uninhabitable if people continued to live as they did - in this case, ripping up all the grass that held the earth in place.

When these plants are gone, there are no roots to hold the earth in place.

"Lady Margaret Thatcher was always clear that we hold the earth on a full repairing lease," said Sam Barker, director of the Conservative Environment Network, which co-ordinated the letter.

To hold the earth's warming to 2C will still mean a rise in deadly heatwaves, extreme weather and life-threatening sea rises.

They are using methods like planting in dry rather than prewatered earth, leaving larger spaces between plants and leaving old stalks in the fields even as new plants spring up, a technique that can hold the earth's moisture longer.

On Saturday, a day before Spain and the Netherlands, two nations that have never won the World Cup, were to meet in the final, Danny Jordaan spoke of South Africa as the first African nation to hold the earth's most important sports event.

The exclusion zone is a lush green oasis of shoulder-high grasses and shrubs all holding the earth together with their roots – a stark contrast to the cracked bare mud left by the trampling cows.

Half of me holds the earth in a sympathetic embrace and the other half... Oh, yes.

The banner showed two hands holding the earth and read Protect, Respect, Celebrate.

They may self-identify as witches, Wiccan, Druid, heathen or follow any polytheistic or pantheistic tradition that holds the earth as sacred and sees masculine and feminine forms of divinity.