Sentences with phrase «black back as»

«The 30 - tonne creature broke the surface a mere stone's throw from my kayak, the sun glistening on its huge black back as its 40ft body arced gracefully up and over as if in slow motion.

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Within two days I put a big ol' scratch on the back of my Jet Black review unit, and yet I have no idea as to how it got there.

So says new research conducted by Google as the retail industry enters the ever - critical back - to - school shopping season — the second most lucrative moment on retailers» calendars after Black Friday.

A policewoman holds back a «Black Lives Matter» supporter as she shouts towards supporters of Donald Trump, who said they were members of «Bible Believers» during the Republican National Convention.

Amazon earned itself something of a public relations black eye as a result of the strong - arm negotiating tactics, causing a backlash among authors, many of whom backed a boycott of the online retailer that was led by television host Stephen Colbert.

As for Target, it is trying a new tactic to get customers to come back later in the holiday season and ease the shopping lull that frequently happens between Black Friday and Christmas Eve.

These fans have already backed up the money truck to Activision's front door (the CoD franchise has sold 56 million console units in the U.S. alone, with the November 2010 - released Call of Duty: Black Ops, topping $ 1 billion in sales in just 42 days) and see Elite as more money grab than value - added proposition.

When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

Of course, electronics are the cornerstone of promotional events like Black Friday but just as was the case with department store chains Kohl's (kss), Macy's (m), and J.C. Penney (jcp), which all reported strong Black Friday business too but weak overall Christmas sales, Target shoppers held back outside of that period.

The Atlantic Wire reported Thursday that two former interns at magazine publisher Condé Nast have hired the same attorneys as the «Black Swan» plaintiffs and have filed suit for back pay.

Clad in all black, hair pulled back, she moved with the grace of a woman who points and flexes her feet as effortlessly as most people text.

What others see as boring — swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours, say — they find peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or therapeutic.

And a few, like Conrad Black, fire back with caustic ripostes, lambasting their pursuers as unjust wretches or worse.

Tall and affable, he looks equally as comfortable in jeans and black cowboy boots, addressing a group of Marriott execs in Dallas, as he does in a suit back in his office.

LePage's latest outburst came after a newspaper reporter told the two - term, Tea Party - backed governor that state Representative Drew Gattine had described the governor as racist for focusing on black people as bearing primary responsibility for the drug trade in the state.

This year, it's back with a premium version: Pebble Steel has the same features as the original Pebble watch (ePaper display, weeklong batter life, waterproof design), but it comes in a smaller, thinner package with a subtler finish (brushed stainless or black matte).

Backed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the rule, believed the first of its kind nationally, requires restaurants to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning symbol next to any menu item with more than 2,300 milligrams (0.08 ounce) of sodium

Instead, the CEO suggested trimming the executive team as a quicker way to bring the company back into the black.

But as a prominent black Republican, he «wears a target on his back regardless of the issue or crisis at hand,» writes Tim Alberta.

CBP says agents noticed one of the subjects carrying a black duffel bag, and as they approached the subjects, they dropped the bag and fled back to Mexico.

It's shortly before sunset at a joint Tesla — SolarCity product launch, held last October at Universal Studios» back lot in Los Angeles, and Musk, wearing a Gray sweater and black jeans, is perched on a platform erected in the center of the manicured suburbia that served as the set for Desperate Housewives.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Shares of Netflix, known for its original shows such as «House of Cards» and «Orange is the New Black», plunged about 15 percent after the bell, before clawing back to trade down 2.4 percent.

As we wrote back in June about the systemic threat created by passive strategies: «If a key sector failure, a geopolitical crisis, or even an unknown, black box bias pulls an algorithmic risk trigger, will the herd run all at once?»

The Dogs have followed this pattern, as well, with the April advance putting the group back in the black and ahead for the year.

If they showed up in black hats, braids, with pre-torn toilet paper for the sabbath, & insisting that women sit at the back of the bus & walk on the other side of the street you'd have the same reaction to them as you have to the other groups.

Justin, as much as this would be a completely black & white, rational decision for you on the subject, the majority of humanity floats in a gray area on this, drifting back and forth between atheism and strong spiritual beliefs (usually rooted in the culture they were raised in).

As for bills that would protect unborn children from abortion after twenty weeks, APP notes that «Hispanics are more likely to back the restriction than either blacks or whites, by a 39 point margin.»

Here goes; Back in the early days (what... 200 years ago) here in the United States, and in Europe, Blacks were held, against their will, as slaves, private property if you will.

They can now climb back under their very expensive rock (under which blacks may be allowed in certain sections under the rock, and where women need to know their place under the rock as well).

That said, like the appearance of most Greeks that I just mentioned, if you brought Jesus back to this country today, you'd be able to classify him as «white» at least as much as «black»

Like the American Negroes who adopted the word «black» from the enemy and flung it back, or the feminists who accept «witch» and «bitch» as badges of honor, Dobson and Hindson are in a mood and movement that take fundamentalism back as a banner for pride and boasting and wave it in the faces of the, in their view, waning evangelicals.

There were days when I wanted to go back, to go back to thinking in a black - and - white manner, to see myself as the hero.

How many Clam marches in black or Jewish areas have been UPHELD as protected speech, NOT provocative?!! This is just one judge's choice to strike back against atheism.

Her curly black hair was pulled back from her face, and she shifted nervously as her daughter, Sewwandi, took a seat in the circle with us.

The capitol building was built on the backs of slaves, and tomorrow a black man will stand on its steps and be sworn in as president of the United States.

It's easier (and I find the tendency in myself almost every day) to fall back onto the black and white rules that we're often offered as answer to our struggles instead of doing the hard work of encountering our own desires and longings in relationship with God and others.

Every time I hear it, I get an image of an inlecdibry old and creepy man, eyes glinting as he rocks in a chair, staring directly at the camera as the scene pulls back to reveal him sitting inside the house from the Black Sabbath album cover.

I would do the same thing your doing right now, but I would urge everyone that doesn't know it to look it up there are plenty of back and forth going on with the comments as expected but the APA has a bit of a black eye from it so you know they wont be liking it.

If you look back where I first (I think) explored the analogy of performance, in a piece titled «Performing the Scriptures» (first published in 1982, reprinted in a collection called Theology on the Way to Emmaus in 1986), you will see that I contrast the notion of interpretation as performance not with the historian's craft but with the supposition that a text (any text, although it is with scripture that I am most concerned)-- a set of black marks on white paper — tells you how to take it, without any interpretative labor on the reader's part, a labor for which the reader must take personal responsibility.

Black Panther was not a guaranteed success, but as reception came back positive and box - office estimates speculated nine - digit figures, people began to assume it would make a lot of money.

Much more recently Eldridge Cleaver has pointed out that the splitting tendency in American culture, which we have traced back to the early Puritans, tended to make the white man a mind without a body and the black man a body without a mind.20 Only when the white man comes to respect his own body, to accept it as part of himself, will he be able to accept the black man's mind and treat him as something other than the living symbol of what he has rejected in himself.

The parks came, settling into place one by one as they were described, free of the darkness under the night — from tiny paved vest - pocket niches to the lake - set expanses of Central Park, they all came, thrusting the black fog back.

Has it made a difference or slowed the gunning down of young, unarmed black men who brandish mobile phones that officers mistook as firearms, resulting in six shots to the back?

Even as King Arthur and «Patsy» trot off (yes, with their coconuts... if you don't understand, you have to watch the whole movie), the Black Knight screams after them, «Come back here!

In catholic school, as vicious as Roman rule I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black And I held my tongue as she told me «Son fear is the heart of love» So I never went back

We, of course, look back and recognize that the Black Plague had simply ran its course, as it did everywhere else.

This is it, I thought as I stood up, back straight, because this is my favourite sight: the inky blackness of pine trees, black lace relief burned out against the western sky as the last guardian of this date on the calendar cedes.

As a matter of fact, your ancestry can easily be traced back to Africa, where your direct ancestor was black.

You're wrong here too, and one day, people will look back on people like you exactly as they look back on s l a ve owners and bigots who didn't want blacks and women to vote..