quarters of the earth

About three quarters of the earth's surface is covered with water.

Three quarters of the Earth's surface is water, so most likely, nobody will even see it.

Water forms three quarters of the earth's surface, land only one quarter.

You have had considerable experience in strange quarters of the earth, and you're just the one to help me.

Validations over the ocean are important because three quarters of the Earth's surface is water.

It is three times bigger than the earth but has only three quarters of the earth's mass.

She thought of her dream; of the wind that had come from all quarters of the earth.

This was the hub of world trade, where the quarters of the earth came together in a frenzy and babble.

Illuminate all the quarters of the earth.

The same four figures, cast in bronze, look out over the four quarters of the Earth from the base of the steeple.

The quotation, "We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth", is widely attributed to Lubbock.

His eyes are those of a ram looking into the distance; his mind is that of a king of the four quarters of the earth.

Evidence suggests that about three quarters of the Earth's animal species -- including dinosaurs -- were wiped out in that cataclysm 65 million years ago.

That deity, after having taken away the evil of those deities, viz. death, sent it to where the end of the quarters of the earth is.

We are the descendants of all those generations that emigrated out of Europe over the last three centuries to populate the emptier quarters of the earth.

He quotes, for example, an "account of the Zuñi War Gods" which explicitly links divination, the 4 quarters of the earth, and games.

Abstract: The Archaean corresponds to one third of the Earth's history and three quarters of the Earth's continental crust were produced during that time.

During the long silence which precedes the lighting of the fire, the hosts of the angels and of the dead gather from the four quarters of the earth.

Scientists from all quarters of the earth, under the chairmanship of Prof. James McCarthy of Harvard University, has been appointed to lead the effort.

Mound rebuilding episodes are construed as rituals of burial and renewal, while the four-sided construction acts to replicate the flat earth and the four quarters of the earth.

He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth."

Experts say, with three quarters of the earth covered in water, there's a one in four chance the satellite's remnants will hit land, and only a one percent chance it will hit a populated area.

They have the faces of men; each one has four wings; and the shape of their feet enables them to go to all four quarters of the earth with equal rapidity and without having to turn.

In the Egyptian example the 4 rams heads of Ammon-RA look to the 4 quarters of the Earth and above the heads sits the plumed crown of Ammon RA.

Alexander envisioned the base, with its inner cross, as an emblem of the quarters of the Earth representing the drama of human experience, and he envisioned the tower as Earth's gnomon representing human ideals.