Sentences with phrase «as a hunter of»

This came in really handy with its original job as a hunter of puffin birds and their eggs.

History: Chinese Crested origin is China (since 13th century) and was often used as a stomach warmer to drive out sickness and also used as a hunter of vermin as a «Chinese Ship Dog».

Developed in the 1500s as a hunter of wild boar, it also became useful as a herding dog and guardian of the flock.

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

The Saluki was bred as a sight hunter and was frequently utilized as a hunter of antelopes and hare in rough desert terrain.

The Beagle is counted as a member of the Hound group by the AKC, and has been used throughout the years as a hunter of rabbits and other small game.

During the mid-1800s, the development of Yorkshire terriers originated in Yorkshire, England, where the dogs were employed as hunters of rats and vermin in the textile mills.

Although gaining notoriety as the hunter of the King of Beasts, basically, the Ridgeback in Africa was an all - purpose dog, kept by farmers to guard the home and herds and to do a bit of hunting.

These feisty little terriers originated in the Scottish Highlands, where they were renowned for their abilities as hunters of rats and other small prey like rabbits.

The Airedale's outstanding performance, both as an efficient farm dog and as hunter of «big game» such as bear and wildcat, soon shaped the breed's reputation.

He's a Hunter — wielding the Triforce of Power just as the Hunters of old thirsted for power in their own violent way.

As a hunter of the Fifth squad (pretty much the fifth batch of reinforcements to the new world), you and your handler are destined to assist in the research of a somewhat newly discovered land (about 40 years of research have already passed).

Not exact matches

Some of the concepts will piggyback off of existing TV brands such as House Hunters or Chopped, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The cool hunters of the 1990s focused on the increasingly individualistic generations X and Y, and the audience from which Internet - based research dredges its data skews young as well.

But Bouchard plans to stay on as executive chairman of the board, which will allow him to continue in his role as bargain - hunter - in - chief.

With Hunters, you need to pay them a higher portion of their compensation in commission - perhaps as high as 100 %, but certainly no less than 50/50 of salary and commission or you risk losing their aggressiveness.

That's how you get a more balanced culture as well since Hunters tend to break a lot of china in order to land a deal at any cost while Farmers tend to be far more steady and reluctant to make waves inside the organization.

The partnership got its start four years ago, when Ian MacLachlan, head of research at Protiva Corp., which later merged with Tekmira, cold - called USAMRIID's Tom Geisbert, who had become famous as a «virus hunter» in Richard Preston's bestseller The Hot Zone.

VANCOUVER — Christmas Day tranquility turned to buzzing excitement on Thursday as stores across much of Canada filled with the sounds of eager Boxing Day deal hunters and ringing registers.

The textbooks that documented the history of these people, known as Ainu, told us they were primitive hunters and gatherers.

Dalton McGuinty's opponents welcomed a report from the Fraser Institute last month as hunters welcome fresh boxes of ammunition.

And retailers have been jockeying to nab those bargain hunters, with stores such as Walmart, Toys «R Us, and Gap open on Thanksgiving, and Macy's, Kohl's and Target planning to open at the stroke of midnight.

They may not think of themselves as bargain - hunters, but if that discount code really worked, it's good to know.

Darren DeLuca auctioned off B.C. bear hunt for Safari Club International fundraiser As a professional guide outfitter, Darren DeLuca has helped line the coffers of a U.S. political action group waging a global fight on behalf of trophy hunters.

In and around Sitka, Miller can see the impact of oil price swings first - hand as he interacts with local hunters.

Here at International Living, we know a bunch of people who travel the globe and make a very good living as treasure - hunters.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

(A prominent industrialist, Bettencourt frequently has business in the U.S.) Pressed on whether it is accurate to describe Bettencourt as a war criminal, Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld stated at a New York news conference, «He's guilty of writing.»

Because no legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.

This seems almost predatory to me, like God is some hunter who's hiding in a blind, admiring the deer who aren't fooled while taking the heads of the rest as trophies.

In the case of the creation story you must read it as if you were a hunter / gatherer (caveman) who did not have a concept of time (no watches, no calendars, most likely someone who didn't keep track of how old he was — think about indigenous peoples who had no contact with western civilization until the 20th century).

He was a terrible subjugator, defiant before the face of Jehovah; wherefore it is said: Even as Nimrod, the giant hunter, presumptuous in the presence of Jehovah.»

One might go so far as to suggest that this «trauma» at the hands of his father explains Isaac's subsequent shortcomings as a father of his own sons, Esau and Jacob, including his preference for the strong, ruddy, earthy, present - centered hunter, Esau (whom Isaac loved, we are told, because he loved to eat of his venison), and his apparent indifference to the paternal work of transmission.

your delusional if any of it doesn't sound like an explaination of a natural event or something like death where all we have is to guess... its all stone age beliefs and some people are still as smart as ug the stone age hunter who says thank you to the gods of the plains and stars for providing animals to hunt and light to hunt by.

I don't dismiss the possibility of demons, possession, hunters named Sam and Dean who are too gorgeous and may show up on my doorstep one day carrying salt shotguns and holy water... * ahem * but I digress... I don't dismiss those possibilities, but I do see them as infinitely rare to the point of almost improbable.

The first is expressed in two hon mots: we «live in the space age with Stone - Age brains»; and we are «hunter - gatherers in pinstripe suits» Both sayings affirm that we were not designed to be alone, our brains evolved as social brains; but at the same time they indicate that this social brain still bears traces of having evolved in the context of surviving in a Stone Age world.

But, as Rubin points out, this attempt to create a post-human hunter - gatherer who lives in mystic harmony with the whole remains deeply reliant upon the blessings of civilization, especially the peace secured by the Enlightenment.

If you look at the remaining true hunter - gatherer tribes left on this earth, the ones we spent most of our existence living as, they are highly cooperative and communal.

He was forever extolling the hunters and field - observers of living animals» habits, and keeping up a fire of invective against the «closet - naturalists,» as he called them, the collectors and classifiers, and handlers of skeletons and skins.

Though this group of heresy - hunters often say they're motivated by concern for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, their practice of labeling every diverging belief as heresy has the opposite effect.

Just as physics generalizes variables of movement so that they can apply not only to a human hunter and his fleeing prey, but also to stars, planets, atoms, and photons, so psychics needs to generalize such ideas as feeling, perceiving, remembering, anticipating, intending, liking and disliking, so that they can apply not only to animals, but even to the real individual constituents of the vegetable and mineral portions of nature.

This arrangement saw sliced head of porpoise occasionally arrive at the table of the Buckland household along with the more mundane delicacies such as mice en croûte and roast mole... The cliffs yielded many magnificient dinosaur specimans to Mary Anning (1799 - 1847), the remarkale nineteenth - century fossil hunter.

If, for example, a hunter - gatherer only ever allows the fastest male dogs to breed with the fastest female dogs, after many years of such selective breeding the resultant dogs would differ so much in body shape, leg length and, perhaps, lung capacity from their ancestor as to be considered a separate breed.

If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?

Unlike food animals which are «produced» on farms, such as cows and pigs, kangaroos are shot in the bush by people ranging from recreational to professional hunters, free of any oversight or scrutiny.

What he didn't realise was that it would be Murray Goulburn at the centre of the consolidation, as the hunted rather than hunter.

Sunflower oil originated in North America and was originally harvested by hunter gatherer societies as a natural source of fat.

A clump of mesquite trees provides shade, humidity, and food for such animals as doves, deer, javelina, and rabbits, which is why hunters like the tree.

I've got to disagree with the 4th place being worth the same as 1st place, 1st place helps in pushing the Arsenal brand and increases fan base due to glory hunters, they may not be true fans but they spend a lot of money combined.

A century ago the herd probably numbered as many as 25,000, but the hunters who closed in on it each year during the winter rendezvous in Magdalena Bay reduced it to 100 or so by the start of World War II.