Sentences with phrase «just as gardeners»

JUST as gardeners prune unwanted growths from flowers, the brain has its own molecular secateurs for trimming back unwanted connections.

The researchers manipulated a nutrient in the drinking water of mice that is used by malaria parasites during an infection — just as a gardener might manipulate nutrients through fertilizers to favor certain plants.

Not exact matches

Just as Chauncey was a fine gardener so Jose Mourinho is a fine football coach.

These plates don't always slide easily: Stress builds up, and earthquakes occur when they suddenly shift, just as a stubborn weed may suddenly give way when steadily pulled by an angry gardener.

Much as gardeners can distinguish a rose from a daisy just by looking at the flower, scientists can distinguish what kind of plants used to live in a certain landscape by looking at fossilized pollen.

And as the home gardener turns his / her back to gardening duties just for a few moments or weeks, the plants might already have found their way out of the pot creeping around and robbing the gardeners of their initial visual delight.

WET AND WILD Despite a thickness of just a few microns, spider web threads can collect remarkable amounts of water — as any morning gardener can attest.

Well what can I say I'm a friendly easy going single guy who's looking for somebody special in my life and to spend the good times together I live on my own got my own house which is share with my wee pet kitten macey so you must like cats and animals lol apart from that I'm an easy guy to get on with it work as a landscaper gardener with one of the council's so that keeps me busy as I'm an outdoors person and in my spare time I like nice walks in the countryside spending time with my family or going out for a night out with friends to the pub or the cinema or I'm just as happy with a nice night in watching tv or a movie I am willing to try new things tho if I meet the right person tho.I'm also quite an affectionate and romantic person and miss being with somebody to cosy up to at night could this be you?

«I like to watch,» Chauncey says, who spends his whole life in front of a T.V., just as earth must be one big program to god, a couch potato himself, in the sense that all he does is observe the human struggle with the same indifference as the idiot gardener.

Whether as a scarred or just nervous exile in The English Patient and The Constant Gardener, respectively, or as the noseless ghoul of the Harry Potter movies, he's served as the embodiment of human refuse for a long stretch of his career — the English go - to for wanderers, burn victims, and miscellaneous banished men.

But just when it looks as if he has trapped his prey, the gardener suddenly drops dead.

Just as a naive gardener can stunt or kill a sprouting seed by planting it in bad soil or poor sunlight, enthusiasts of blended learning can likewise stunt or kill the disruptive potential of blended learning and turn it into another failed education fad if they approach it in the wrong way.

Lest you think this is for imbibers only, a teetotaler foodie, gardener or naturalist will be just as intoxicated by the dashing wit and detailed lore.

Anna Quindlen's memoir Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake has received rave reviews from BookBrowse readers, but it is just one of her many beloved books; check out the list below for more information on her novels: Every Last One (2010): Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor.

Coincidentally, just started to read a Le Carre novel (http://www.amazon.com/Most-Wanted-Man-John-Carre/dp/B003BVK36Q) set in Hamburg — doesn't strike me as Constant Gardener quality, but we'll see.

And there's probably just as many bad mechanics and gardeners as there are bad financial advisers.

Just as it is for the home gardener, spring means planning and planting seeds for our park nurseries.

The beach is a little rocky but beautiful just the same as the gardener was meticulous in grooming the beach every morning.

Negrón is inspired by workers who are experts in one area — for example, street sketch artists, gardeners, and artisans — and sees their work not just as a paying job, but as a cultural practice.

At Wave Hill, we know him well not just as a frequent columnist in the New York Times but as a member of Wave Hill's Friends of Horticulture, a committee of highly regarded gardeners who actively support Wave Hill's Horticulture Program.

This is why gardeners will put water vapor in the air and water liquid on the ground around their garden on a clear cold night — it protects the local area from cooling as fast because water vapor and liquid both 1) cool much slower than dry air due to their massive heat capacity, and 2) cool even slower because they release their massive latent heat, which means that heat energy is released from them without requiring a drop in temperature — once they're in the latent heat release phase, they just keep shedding energy without dropping in temperature any further.

This guide from North Carolina State University can help you out if you're just starting your journey as a gardener.

Gardener's Supply Lifetime Half - Moon Hoe Handmade in Holland from sustainably grown European ash hardwood, this lets you stand up straight while you work so you minimize back strain as you cut the weeds just below the soil surface.