Sentence examples for stone lifting from inspiring English sources

(The Basques have their own sports they are fond of, including stone lifting, wood chopping, whale boat racing, pelota and so on).

Myra Brodie, a school crossing warden from Leicestershire, became an MBE, as did Valerie Johnson, director of Frankie's fish and chips shop in Brae, Shetland, and Shahzada Saleem, a taxi driver and competitive strongman from the west Midlands, who was honoured for services to the Asian sport of stone lifting.

Spectators are enthralled by coconut tree climbing, stone lifting, spear throwing and outrigger sailing in a Polynesian version of Scotland's Highland Games.

The Mountain completely sliced through the competition by taking first in three different events, according to Gawker, but the greatest highlight came when he completed a stone lifting challenge.

This eliminates damage to the track and rolling stock caused by flying stones lifted by turbulence from the high-speed trains.

Only a contract to sell Russian stones lifts its overall market share to around 55%.That is a painful shift, but De Beers is still the biggest diamond producer.

The fortress is both a serious historical reenactment and an offbeat tourist attraction, allowing the public to watch and chat with workers as they chisel stone, lift blocks with a human-powered hamster-wheel crane, forge tools and chains, and make rope or tiles.

As I walk in, a student is showing him stone tools, lifting them one by one from a zip-lock bag.

The first recorded incidence of strength-stone lifting is attributed to the samurai Kamakura Gongorō Kagemasa in 1089, however the practice itself is much older, dating to before the 8th century.

A huge flat stone is lifted, and the maggots squirming underneath have familiar faces - even beloved faces.

It's amazing, for example, how much a semiprecious stone can lift your spirits when you're swimming in a sea of silver.