Sentences with phrase «just as elephant»
Just as elephant seals restrict blood flow to their nonessential tissues during deep dives, blood flow is interrupted in humans during organ transplantation, stroke, heart attack and other injuries.
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For the non-unicorn-obsessed, there are also T - Rex and elephant versions that stand just as tall.
Some atheists definitely cross that line, and then it becomes another faith - based belief since you can't prove the negative, that there definitely isn't a God, just as you couldn't prove definitely that there isn't an invisible, intangible elephant in your garden.
Talk about a dying and rising Messiah was just as ludicrous to a first - century audience as talking about a purple - polka - dotted elephant.
Missionaries treated Africans as cartons containing souls, just as poachers reduce elephants and rhinos to carcasses: carrying tusks and horns.
Also, just to add, with the example for ants and elephants... animals do not have the same concept of morality as humans do.
One manuscript reads: The Cartesian idea of an animal as just a machine insults not only the elephants and whales, it insults the merest fly or plant cell.
I have just understood that Arsenal's majority share holder — Stan Kroenke, is launching a TV channel, in the UK, dedicated to the blood sport of hunting endangered wild animals such as lions, rhinos and elephants.
It's interesting that they focus on the technicalities of whether sodium qualifies as a preservative in this particular product, whether the level of sodium in a serving falls within the maximum acceptable range for a toddler, etc., while glossing over the elephant in the freezer - products like this just have way too much sodium to ever reasonably be considered «healthy» or «eating well», and rather than taking real steps to improve their products, Nestle has chosen to hide behind soundbites like «no preservatives!
The baby TriceraTops are just as cute as Dumbo, but perhaps minus the heartstring - tugging associations must of us have with that baby elephant.
I don't read as often as I would like to, I just don't ever have that much spare time, but I did just read Water for Elephants and loved it.
The state Senate has approved a bill that bans circuses and carnivals from using elephants, just as the Ringling Bros. circus closes down its tent.
«I don't think the option is as simple as just «elephants or fire»,» he says, pointing out that some hominins in places like Europe clearly managed to get enough calories from raw game other than elephants or mammoths.
When elephants in the park saw another elephant behaving in this manner, the observers typically responded by «adopting the same emotion,» Plotnik says, «just as we do when watching a scary movie together.
Now, scientists have shown that Asian elephants do indeed get distressed when they see others in trouble, and they reach out to console them — just as we do when we see someone suffering.
Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) just shattered their own deep - diving record — as well as that of elephant seals, which were the previous record - holders.
Other elephant watchdogs worry that DNA tracking will prove too effective and spur more ivory trading by permitting legal sales — just as the South Africans hoped.
In Yoga Mala, Pattabhi Jois quotes a warning from the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, «Just as a lion, elephant or tiger may be gradually brought under control, so is prāṇā attended to, otherwise, it destroys the practitioner.»
To the lovers out there of elephants, fringe and bohemian this post is for you as it contains just that.
Summit just released this brand new movie poster featuring Kristen Stewart as Bella from the upcoming film «The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2» by director Bill Condon starring Robert Pattinson (Bel Ami, Water for Elephants), Kristen Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Runaways), Nikki Reed, Ashley Greene (Skateland), Taylor Lautner, (The Twilight Saga: New Moon, My Own Worst Enemy), Jackson Rathbone (S. Darko, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1), Dakota Fanning and Kellan Lutz.
They are thick communities, where students and teachers celebrate and suffer together; where you know when someone is having a bad day and ask what you can do to help; where in the classroom adventure and risk, cheers, and even embarrassment are experienced directly; where the wrinkle of a brow and what is not said mean just as much as what is spoken; and where disagreement can squat in the room like the elephant it usually is and not be mouse - clicked away.
He also recognizes the financial elephant in the room, rapidly rising pension costs that are draining school district coffers as they've just received badly needed funding increases from Sacramento.
The elephant in the room, of course, is a smaller - capacity turbo boxer four, which is not as rorty as the previous Cayman's atmo six, only just matches its 257kW power output and does introduce a level of turbo lag.
While the cute and goofy - looking aquatic «cousin» of the elephant can be seen all along the gulf coast, you're often lucky to see one just for a few seconds as it comes up for air.
Borders does have a list called «Can't Get These in iBooks» which just seems like an attempt to try to sell themselves as the best e-book store on the iPad and iPhone, while blithely ignoring the elephant in the room that is the Kindle store.
Seeing as we've just mentioned calling, lets deal with the elephant in the corner.
I would have to ask is Hachette competing with Amazon as a whole, or just doing the «book business» better than Amazon (hint: Hachette's trying to bite the whole elephant)?
But just as these financial elephants began trampling on one another in their rush to equities, we entered an era of accelerating inflation and higher interest rates.
Elephants, White and Black Rhinos as well as brown backed hyenas and buffalos are just a few of the many species that Marakele has on offer.
Luckily, the large bull chose a path right between our two caravans of jeeps, and an elephant parade make its way just steps away from us for the next 20 minutes as a golden hue descended around us, an amazing way to end the evening.
We were just as ignorant when six years ago we rode an elephant on safari in Nepal.
South Africa may be best known for elephants, rhinos and its impressive predators, but there is a much smaller world that is just as integral a part of our ecosystems.
I was super upset in hindsight (in the moment I was just happy I didn't have to leave bed), because despite giraffes being my favorites, I really really like elephants as well — promise.
They saw things they'd never see at home, such as herds of elephants in an animal reserve, and other animals standing just feet away.
Tembe Elephant Game Park is just as enthralling, home to the biggest African elephants in the world.
There's a throwaway plot involving treacherous Russians, a rival ace pilot and a twist that literally gets spelled out in dialogue with about as much finesse as an elephant ballerina, just don't go in expecting to be fighting off huge flying fortresses in this Ace Combat title, though.
With traps ranging from the traditional springboard, explosives and tower walls to the absurd such as sticky cows, spear men on elephants or lions dangled from hot air balloons, the defense side will test your wits to see just how you'll impede the other team while you make your mad dash for glory through the treacherous maelstrom of mayhem they've laid before you.
We additionally know you'll play as Luffy, he could have entry to his gum - gum talents just like the gum - gum rocket (which he'll in a position to make use of like a grappling hook to maneuver world wide), the elephant gatling gun, and...
If you want an explanation as to why using elephant dung has historical context surrounding it and is not just a way to piss off Rudy Giuliani, you can read last year's long profile of Ofili in The New Yorker.
What could escape reinterpretation, just as outcries against elephant dung on a Madonna reverse the artist's point?
It's just a shame that they are so rarely advanced in the company of evidence, and are most often used as excuses for ignoring the elephant in the room and squeezing in another two elephants over the next decade.
The loss of Esmond Martin, found dead in his Nairobi home over the weekend, is a tragic development not just for his family, friends and colleagues, but for the entire international community and all those who supported the protection of Africa's elephants as well as its rhinos.
Just as I wrote in «Conflict of Code: What we do about the Elelephant in the Room», one tiny house dweller said, «It's the elephant in the tiny house, we share an unspoken secret about living self sufficiently in small paces.
Until it is statistically significant, it is an artifact, and is just as real as the pink elephants on my lawn.
Just as the three men looking at an elephant through three knotholes in a fence get only a partial picture, so no one perspective, theory, orientation presents a completed picture of the complexities of relationships.