Sentences with phrase «old lions»

Old lions are old because they've got staying power.

Two grand old lions of the screen, Spencer Tracy and Frederic March, play two grand old lions of the law, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan, as they grapple in the historic 1925 Scopes «monkey trial» in backwoods Dayton, Tenn..

Around the corner, Sigmar Polke, Lucas Samaras and Gerhard Richter — the old lions — hold court with insurgent works that run roughshod over such artistic orthodoxies as the viability of the picture plane or the integrity of the negative.

Those fears were reinforced late in the day when Gary Gensler, an old lion of financial services regulation, confirmed for the crowd that in his view, bitcoin's two largest rivals may fit the description of securities in U.S. law.

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

Dick Allen has come to the grandstand to bask in the sun like an old lion.

So when Rivera drew a challenger in the September 9 State Senate primary, the 84 - year - old lion of the US House of Representatives may have figured it was just old - fashioned political payback to support Rivera's foe.

Michael Bloomberg is your typical New York republican in the mold of Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller and of course the old lion himself, Teddy Roosevelt.

With the curtain closing on a man who made his UFC debut all the way back in 1997, Belfort will be hoping there's enough fire in the old lion to muster up one last throwback performance & end his career on a positive note.

«He paces the grotty flat in his sharp suit and overcoat like an angry old lion in a cage, and regards the piece of sweaty cheese that Kyra plans to use in a pasta sauce as if it were marginally less enticing than dog poo.»

Teplitzky sets up Winston Churchill (Brian Cox, in a pantomime performance) as an out - of - touch underdog — «a moth - eaten old lion who has had his teeth pulled» — so as to amplify the effect when he inevitably leads the allies to victory.

How could it, when this spare story of aging and fading memory stars Frank Langella, the old lion of stage and screen who dominates every role he undertakes in the winter of his acting career?

A TYPICAL YEAR OLD LION DOG c. 1923 C.R. Edmonds, Farmer's Weekly, February 7, 1923) Height — 24 inches at the shoulder Weight — 60 lb Colour — Tawny, fawn or brindle Coat — short and hard Tail — Longish and thick, free from feather and carried low (Note: two breeders have advised the writer that considerable difficulty is experienced in the tail as at times varying lengths of tail occur in the same litter, some being only six to seven inches long like a docked dog, others with a kink like a Bulldog and others with long tails as described.

A patrol woman at the Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary - the only natural habitat for Asiatic Lions - nurses a four - month old lion cub after he was abandoned by his mother at three days old.

Matisse was denigrated by Breton as «an old lion, discouraged and discouraging.»

Not exact matches

The 28 - year - old whiz kid and Harvard dropout is the CEO and co-founder of Facebook and he owns the lion's share (24 %) of the company.

If you currently have an older version of Apple's Mac OS X, you might be interested to know the latest version, dubbed Lion, is now available from the Mac App Store for $ 30.

The 53 - year - old has worked among elephants, lions and rhinos on several game reserves in the Kwazulu - Natal Province as a safari rest camp supervisor.

Gorsuch, a 49 - year - old father of two, memorialized his predecessor Antonin Scalia as a «lion of the law.»

The young lion will overcome the older one, On the field of combat in a single battle; He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage, Two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

First, we may not be cub - eating lions, but we do have cougars [a term which, for the benefit of readers not familiar with North American slang, refers to an older woman seeking a sexual relationship with a younger man].

The Golden Fleece: Padraic Colum City of the Golden House: Madeleine Polland Detectives in Togas: Henry Winterfeld Sarah, Plain and Tall: Patricia MacLachlan Happy Little Family: Rebecca Caudill A Lion to Guard Us: Clyde Robert Bulla and other read - alouds, though I'll be having the 7 - year - old do a good bit of «tandem» reading with me.

Judah, also, is presented in the Old Testament in the form of a lion.

In fact, LION Coffee is one of America's oldest major coffee companies, getting its start in Toledo, Ohio, in 1864.

The facilities come with a reputation for being old plants that Japan's Lion could not get to work.

Only Coopers Brewery, which is 151 years old, remains Australian - owned after rebuffing an aggressive takeover bid by Lion in 2005.

I suppose it all depends on just how much they want him and also whether the 27 - year old wants to join the Baggies and play for Tony Pulis, perhaps with an eye on getting some more games for the three lions into the bargain.

The games that the 26 - year old will definitely miss, along with the three lions» clashes with Slovenia and Lithuania, will be the Arsenal home games in the Premier League against West Brom and Brighton, the Carabao cup tie at home to Doncaster Rovers tonight and the trip to Belarus to plat BATE Borisov in the Europa League next week.

Oh and buying in Wellbeck (who has the heart of a lion) but the ability of a four year old child.

Old Phil Percival tells how he went to get a wildebeest to put out for a lion kill.

Joel Campbell The Costa Rican and his representative have been fuming over Wenger's decision to not let the 22 - year old go out on loan, for the fourth successive season, when it is rather obvious that he is «not» going to enjoy the lion's share of game time in this Arsenal squad.

It took the form of a note in neat, old - fashioned handwriting, inviting me to meet Mr. Jones in the Red Lion Hotel in Brecon «to discuss the matter at hand.»

And while most 18 / 19 - year - olds would be overawed by the situation, Arsenal's own young lion went about his work with a strut and confidence which belied his tender years.

Malcolm Glazer's takeover of United, after buying out the lion's share of the club's shareholders between 2003 and 2005, is by now vividly engraved into the minds of the Old Trafford faithful.

Last year we had a lion costume for my son Nick who was 6 months old — my husband and I deparately wanted to come up with coordinating costumes but never came up with anything.

A smiling three week old newborn baby boy wearing a crocheted lion costume.

Incredible 2,200 - year - old Greco - Roman temple featuring a sculpture of a man's head and two limestone lion...

The Old Testament prophet Daniel miraculously survived the den of lions.

As the name implies, psychological warfare goes after people's feelings and thoughts, and intentional psychological warfare is as old as war itself, dating perhaps to the first time a paleolithic hunter / gatherer donned the skin of a lion to frighten a rival group out of a fight for territory or food.

At 88 years old, suffering severe arthritis and other ailments, Molinari is a political lion in winter, relying on Grimm as a kind of health aide, caretaker and more.

She has been part of the Aquarium's sea lion family since she was only two years old.

The Aquarium of Niagara's oldest sea lion «Diamond» shows her support for breast cancer awareness!

He reached back to the Old Testament to remind them that Daniel survived the lion against all odds.

Rangel's endorsement of Cabrera likely reflects political payback against Rivera, who supported the 84 - year - old congressional lion's unsuccessful primary challenger, State Senator Adriano Espaillat, in both June 2012 and June 2014.

The jaguar (Panthera onca)(Brazilian Portuguese: onça pintada) is a New World mammal of the Felidae family and one of four «big cats» in the Panthera genus, along with the tiger, lion and leopard of the Old World.

There was the 15 - year - old who invented a better test for pancreatic cancer, the 18 - year - old who presented his second nuclear reactor design, and the 13 - year - old who strung flickering light - emitting diodes around his family's livestock to keep the lions away.

In the lion - free conservancy, 26 percent of the giraffes were less than one year old.

For years, scientists have hotly debated the age of some of Europe's oldest cave art: Were the stunning images of cave lions, horses, and bulls (examples above) in the Chauvet - Pont d'Arc cave in southeastern France somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000 years old, as some researchers have suggested, or had they been painted millennia earlier?

This week, meteors» hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that came before, and a potential answer to the century - old mystery of what turned two lions into people eaters with Online News Editor David Grimm.