"He saw Sahil and he was so glad, weeping, and then he just bore down to the earth and prostrated and thanked Allah that he had seen Sahil, " he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.
South Africa, who have played three away matches, were going down to their second defeat of the tournament, coming down to earth after the historic 30-28 win over New Zealand in Dunedin last weekend.
By setting out his spending plans so far in advance, Mr Brown seems to have ruled out using fiscal policy to help bring the economy smoothly down to earth, leaving the Bank to do the job alone by means of interest rates.
In a sense he has separated the quasi-mystical divine function of God's representative on Earth from the very down-to-earth job of administering the world's oldest international organisation, one which has survived two millennia of schisms, would-be reformers and wars, as well as territorial, family and political ambitions.
It takes forever for Benjamin to notice that the pretty, down-to-earth woman with the keys is staring at him in a certain way.
The problem is that the outside hatch on the space station points down and it points down 200 miles to the Earth.
Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.
The article in Down to Earth claims that the area covered by glaciers would drop from 500, 000km2 to 100, 000km2 by 2035, a claim found in the IPCC report but not in the WWF report.
This suggests the Down to Earth article was itself a source for the IPCC, though Murari Lal, a retired Indian academic, now a consultant, who was one of the four co-ordinating lead authors of the chapter, says this was not the case.
The man portrayed in the Rolling Stone article as arrogant comes off as far more down to earth in the book.
Just 10 companies have access to this upper echelon, but everyone else can spring for the more down-to-Earth Pro tiers today -- and with the new discounts, that's not a far-fetched possibility.
So clear are the steaming pools that to stare down into them is like staring down into a cave that leads to the earth's core.
It's the untold romance between a down-to-earth mom and the man who calls her 'my rock.
Other supporters of the broadcasts to Iran and Iraq say the government has more down-to-earth reasons for not wanting them at this time.
Despite all this, I have to say Dakota is one of the most down-to-Earth guys that you will ever meet.
Despite his success and the boyish good looks that landed him in Cosmopolitan magazine as "Bachelor of the Year" in 2008, the down-to-earth Montana native has always had a greater purpose: To use his passion for the sport to help young adults with cancer.
Beckett said the "down-to-earth" Flowers had been a good friend over the past few years.
Outside of actual treatments, the spa excels in its other offerings, particularly the cooking and nutritional counseling provided by the refreshingly down-to-earth Laurie Erickson (late of Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, she's tried to wean the resort's kitchens off bacon fat, with some success).
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And now a new partnership in Colorado is poised to leverage space and energy technologies to bring down-to-Earth economic benefits to the Rocky Mountain State.
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After a surprising meteor shower sent meteorites crashing on sonic speeds in the Ural mountains of Russia, injuring thousands, the Russian military said Wednesday it will develop technology to shoot them down before the hit Earth.
In doing so, he brings the giants of modernism down to earth, observing their sweat and strain as if in the same room.
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Where the silhouette of the Virgin is an upside-down V, rooting her to earth, the slim-hipped, broad-shouldered bullfighter is an upright V, opening to the sun and sky.
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To bring things more down to earth, we decided to assess the profit-making ability of small businesses in a variety of more traditional industries.
Ironically, the value of such high-tech achievements might be laid low by down-to-earth political disputes between the allies.
With the royal-wedding circus over, London is refocusing on its more down-to-earth pleasures, making the sunny days of early summer a strategic moment to pop over.
The AMS will collect 7 gigabytes of data per second and beam the information down to Earth for analysis.
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With that, it's back down to earth with only the slightest of bumps.
Science fiction inspired him though his first job after leaving school was in the down-to-earth British civil service, which gave him plenty of time to think and write.
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Round the corner things are more down-to-earth at a hostel and day-centre for the homeless (the largest in London, it is claimed) set up by a religious order, the Daughters of Charity.
Otherwise, the emerging narrative of a down-to-earth man, thrust into power but mostly indifferent to the trappings of his position, driven by a special concern for the poor has proved especially encouraging to many frazzled Catholics, especially as, in a cynical time, it just may turn out to be the tale closest to the truth.
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