Sentences with phrase «in plucking»

It's just another example of how the credit bureaus are only interested in plucking money from us and not truly concerned about us.

In Plucking The Daisy (1956) she's a young provincial woman who runs off to Paris to become a famous writer and winds up in a striptease contest (a nonchalant flesh pageant of sexy French misses), much to the consternation of her conservative father.

In Russia, the only time you could get your hands on chicken livers would be by buying a chicken, which came with all of its entrails and a few feathers here and there, that you'd be responsible in plucking.

Once you've fill them in pluck the rest.

Severed is an easy game to enjoy and admirable in its pluck, boldly battling against the current zeitgeist.

In Plucked Goose, 1933, you see a bird with its neck broken.

Not exact matches

After local anesthetic has been applied, the robot arm comes in and plucks a crop of hairs.

He says HR managers have realized that plucking hires from different industries — say, a candidate of color with experience in finance, but not technology, per se — has been surprisingly successful.

He was a teenager when, in 1994, military police plucked him from the streets of Asmara and transported him, by open - bed truck, to Sawa military camp.

Weeks later, Yee realized that he didn't have the equipment he needed to pluck out of Ziskin's blood the rare (perhaps one in 100,000) T cells that could identify the subtle peptide markers on the surface of her cancer cells and attack the disease.

I had done a very successful afternoon talk show in Canada called The Alan Thicke Show, and then when they plucked me to be on TV in the States, they changed it to a nighttime show.

Grams» daughter - in - law was the one who plucked the lucky carrot.

There's so much in this book that for the quote, I just plucked out one that's helped me in my interactions with colleagues and family members.

The queen later plucked a sprig of myrtle from the bunch and planted it in her garden.

As those statutes pave the way for gun owners to bring their weapons along whenever they leave home, some of those owners wind up stowing their firearms in the glovebox, the center console, or under their seats — where they are ripe for the plucking.

I've plucked out 5 of the most - read headlines in recent history (from this list), to show you why these particular phrases are the cream of the crop.

Five years ago in an old Massachusetts mill room 12 workers scurried about with plastic bags, plucking electrical components from shelves.

So instead of, say, plucking a rose and extracting its oil to create a rose - scented perfume, a biologist in a lab can recreate the genomic sequence that's responsible for creating a rose scent and insert it into brewer's yeast.

With «revenue plucked from the air,» in the words of Wilgus, the New York Central transformed its unsightly rail yard — an urban eyesore — into a commercial and residential district that contemporaries called Terminal City.

As Nooyi, dressed in a fuchsia jacket, powers through the aisles, she's also plucking competitors» products to bring back to headquarters.

Or a gardener — how nice to wander around in gardens, plucking a few leaves here and there, adding some fertilizer and generally having a nice old time.

They're not just going to pluck you out of obscurity like Apple sometimes does in the app store.

In that vein, once a quarter, Daniel Lubetzky, the founder and CEO of KIND Snacks, sits down with new hires and asks them to tell funny, personal stories, from which he plucks a common theme that becomes the identity for that «class.»

From being a straight D student in high school, to building a real estate colossus she'd sell for $ 66 million, to reinventing herself in media topped by her star - turns on «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran runs on pluck, gumption, street smarts and lessons her mother taught her, which she shares on this memorable episode of «All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett.»

For start - ups, fewer numbers in the equation mean a projected valuation can be plucked out of thin air.

In fact, one of the most surprising aspects I learned about financial advisers while working for a Wall Street firm back in the day was the enormously diversified pool of educational and professional backgrounds from which managers plucked their team of financial adviserIn fact, one of the most surprising aspects I learned about financial advisers while working for a Wall Street firm back in the day was the enormously diversified pool of educational and professional backgrounds from which managers plucked their team of financial adviserin the day was the enormously diversified pool of educational and professional backgrounds from which managers plucked their team of financial advisers.

Moreover, with the drive for consolidation in the healthcare sector, biotech stocks are ripe for the plucking among those seeking to make major moves in the merger and acquisition market.

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

Translation of Leo the Limpdick's post: «I can't wait to see all of you people who I hate roasting on a spit while I pluck my little lyre in heaven.»

One horse baked in a tin shed, naked poultry lay about dead having been plucked in mid flight

The harpers have many strings to pluck yet a good harpsichord player comes around once in a lifetime!

From the haunting vocal distortions on «Hide and Seek» to the mbira (akin to a thumb piano with metal keys attached to a wooden board) plucking on «Goodnight and Go» to the CDs thrown at a carpet tube on «Closing In,» Heap pulls you directly into her studio, inviting you into her colorful imagination.

She has said in other interviews that she used to shave & wax & pluck these hairs because she was self - conscious.

He may have no eyebrows, but I would believe that was due to excessive plucking he did himself in preparation for the notorious drag balls the Vatican is world renowned for, rather than the results of some botched medical experiment, intended or not.

In so far as this involved the body as a possible enemy of spiritual living, he counseled the utter subordination of the body, saying with characteristic hyperbole that hands and feet were to be amputated and eyes plucked out if they caused the higher life of a man to stumble.

Nevertheless we still leave it to grow as best it can, hardly tending it at all, like those wild plants whose fruits are plucked by primitive peoples in their forests.

If you were suddenly plucked from your life and sent back in time to live with people in Indonesia about 15,000 years ago (or even Ethiopia 150,000 years ago), you would be able to figure out what is going on.

To be sure, it takes pluck, given the current political climate in the U.S., to devote a book to Reno's subject.

They complain about a grain of sand in your eye, when they really need to pluck the bolder from their own eye!

McCarthy plucks people from life and wheels them out in her novels, with a full autopsy report.

Thus, says Suzuki, when Western - Christian - oriented Tennyson looked at the tiny flower in the crannied wall, first of all he plucked it.

The Servant / Messiah is not only the Victim, who «never said a mumblin» word,» giving his back to those who strike him and his cheeks to those who pluck out his beard, led like a lamb to the slaughter; he is also the Victor in a life - and - death battle.

I am sure it was with laughter in his eyes that he confused those who objected to his companions» plucking the grain heads as they passed through the fields on the Sabbath with a reminder of what David, the idealized hero, had done, entering the «house of God,» taking the consecrated bread from the Holy Place, and giving it to his companions because they were hungry.

I covered a similar topic last week in trying to pluck out the linchpin of Christian hate: http://morganguyton.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/removing-the-lynch-pin-of-christian-hate/

In the kitchen the chef was still holding his hands as if about to take hold of the scullery boy, and the kitchen maid was sitting in front of the black chicken which she was supposed to plucIn the kitchen the chef was still holding his hands as if about to take hold of the scullery boy, and the kitchen maid was sitting in front of the black chicken which she was supposed to plucin front of the black chicken which she was supposed to pluck.

That glorious treasure which was just as old as faith in Abraham's heart, many, many years older than Isaac, the fruit of Abraham's life, sanctified by prayers, matured in conflict — the blessing upon Abraham's lips, this fruit was now to be plucked prematurely and remain without significance.

The log in our own eye must be plucked out before the finger is pointed; the alternative leads always to tragedy and needless conflict.

Maybe this is the once - in - a-lifetime moment when they have plucked up the courage to confront some grave sin from the past, or perhaps they are returning to the Church after a long absence, or they are in some other spiritual need.

(CNN)- Eleven years ago, a teenage girl was plucked from a quiet town in southern Yemen and taken first to Pakistan and then on to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.

If they do not simply go away crestfallen, the moment of grace fading in their hearts, they might pluck up the courage to enquire of the sacristan or at the presbytery door.