Sentence examples for raising storm from inspiring English sources

The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, the government's weather bureau, denied in local reports that it had been negligent in warning people, saying it had issued warnings as early as Thursday, even raising storm alert levels the next day.

Readers of Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man won't find it hard to picture them still raising storms on the heath on Walpurgis night.

Belief in such things might in turn lead, not just to the hounding of innocent women for raising storms or cursing a boat, but to the kind of "shocking episode" recorded in 1830, when passengers were landed by mistake on a sandbank in the Solway Firth (already famous for hauntings), and the locals failed to save them, convinced their shrieks for help were "the wailings of Kelpies".

As much as the big showy gestures, like the goat hair or the raised storm collars or the wool coats shaped by rows of buckled straps, the sutures play their part in an excellent collection.

He learns where the waves were created by the wind, the strength of the wind that produced them, how fast the wind is moving, and how soon, if at all, it will be necessary to raise storm warnings along the English coast.

By June 16, PAGASA raised storm signal number 3 for Batanes and the provinces of Cagayan and Isabela; storm signal number 2 for all or portions of nine provinces and for Polillo Island; and storm signal number 1 was raised for portions of four provinces.

The lodos, or southwest wind, can raise storms on the Sea of Marmara.

In every big raid, he says, they tried to raise a fire storm, but they succeeded just twice - once in Hamburg and once, two years later, in Dresden.

Raising a storm of dust and sand, it plunged the streets into semi-darkness, driving roaming goats crazy.

Mr. Sharon announced those withdrawals in December, raising a storm of protest among his most conservative supporters in his own Likud Party.

Yelling blood-chilling cries, the Afghan horsemen of the Northern Alliance raced through a gully, raising a storm of dust, firing their Kalashnikovs towards the enemy.