Sentences with phrase «out of a litter of»

Out of a litter of 6, only 2 made it — but barely.

In other words, I'm willing to do without whatever fun I might get out of a litter of kittens, because I'm not willing to contribute to a problem that is already out of hand.

They just sold three puppies out of a litter of four females sired by Stretch.

Not exact matches

Kids keep up internal environmental initiatives within the school, such as recycling batteries and ink cartridges, monitoring playground cleanliness with a litter metre, and managing a bottle depot (students and staff recently built a greenhouse out of 1,600 2L pop bottles).

And so the world of startups is littered with stories of founders kicked out by their investors.

A singular universe is a scientific lie brought about thru mixed and still yet young educated rationalisms... Our Cosmos is littered full of celestial universes... So much so it will take us practically forever to map out our universally contained cosmos with much certainty... Our Cosmos being filled with all manner of celestial universes is but one Cosmos within a vast sea of multifaceted cosmological universes...

It is precisely now and only now, when in the starving regions people are eating human flesh, and hundreds if not thousands of corpses are littering the roads, that we can (and therefore must) carry out the confiscation of church valuables with the most savage and merciless energy, not stopping [short of] crushing any resistance....

If you can't even figure out the filter here, you're not bright enough to be in charge of anything but cleaning the litter box.

There's the Russian escalation, planes being shot out of the sky, the spectre of people littered in a field without proper care for days, 24 hours news coverage of carnage.

It is a great, great pity Pope Benedict isn't tiyrng as hard to search his organisation, root out and get rid of the paedophiles that litter his Church isn't it?You know that for sure?

You've seen the Cardinals dig pieces of Almond Roca out of overflowing litter boxes.

I jotted the permutations of Little League lineups on Post-it notes, diagrammed basketball plays on pages torn out of my reporter's notebook and littered the house with what I considered my brilliance.

The 33 - year - old's career has fizzled out into almost parody in recent years and recently littered with controversy with the former international only just being cleared by Brazilian prosecutors of having links to a Rio drug lord.

Am never one to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a club which demands trophies and high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are better in small clubs with limited expectations and very neat to no pressure... that is why history is littered with stories of good players who went to big clubs and flopped only to go down a few levels and find their form again....

Not saying there is definitely a savior candidate out there, but you should have your pick of the litter (which is something a small market / quasi-mess of a situation can almost never say).

Spurs absolutely pounced on a Liverpool side littered with mistakes at the back and made a meal out of the visitors scoring four — with Harry Kane leading from the front at Wembley as they went level on points with Manchester United on the league table.

As with any team in crisis, the message boards were littered with criticism from Trotter's fans on a range of topics regarding: the manager's lack of a game plan; misfiring strike - force; porous defence; backwards and sideways passing in midfield; and player's being played out of position.

The 24 - year - old is still fairly young, and he can make up ground when he's caught out of position, but his time in England has been littered with defensive mistakes.

Littered in West Ham's FA Cup history have been numerous «potential banana skins» with sadly far too many of them turning out to be real.

A number of their star performers — the line - up was littered with them, as Klopp named an unchanged team for the first time as Liverpool manager — failed to deliver, but the verdict was out once again for one man in particular.

I had been feeling badly about my not - as - ecstatic pet ownershipness and had the crisis of conscience that my brain was saying, «well life is easier with one less litter box» while my heart was screaming at my husband to «get out there and find our little baby kitty right this d ** n minute or I will throw you out with him you SOB who opened the garage door.»

And I don't love my cat less then my kids, but if she were curling up by my kids face, fresh out of the litter box, I would have some very real safety concerns about it.

Though litter is a never - ending problem at Chicago parks, especially in the summer, Garfield Park stands out as one of the most poorly maintained in the city «s giant system.

Unless you have an outdoor cat (or have actually succeeded in teaching your cat to use the toilet), cleaning out litter boxes is just a fact of life.

Helpful chores may include: Do a load of laundry, fill or empty the dishwasher, wipe down the counters, clean out the fridge, stock the fridge with fresh food, take out the garbage, empty the diaper pail, change the bed sheets, clean out the litter box, walk the dog, address thank - you notes, or most fun of all: Hold the baby while Mom has a shower or takes a nap.

When the baby starts to crawl, keep cat food dishes and the cat's litter box out of your baby's sampling reach.

Other mammals chew through the cords pretty quickly, but I am thinking of cats and dogs that have litters, so there is generally another baby coming right behind, so the placenta of the first one follows it right out usually.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

Based on this «sound» logic, I should also try eating out of the litter box, or drinking from the toilet, or better yet, just lick myself to keep clean, since dogs and cats have been doing that for quite a long time, there must be something beneficial to it.

Up to 25 % expected death rate in any given litter, macrosomic pups that block the canal and kill all the pups to follow, pups that are «too big to birth» so the bitch is euthanized because the owner can't afford a C - section, horrific rectal tears, sectioning dead calves just to get them out and save the dam, uterine atony, hypocalemia... the list of ways that «birth» can kill a dog or a cat goes on and on.

BTW, something like 90 percent of professional law enforcement in NYS is against it, and 50 out of the 62 some odd counties with their respective sheriffs came out, and opposed it... The only people that this benefits are the elitist, that live in gated communities, criminals, thugs, and sex offenders that like a disarmed public... Ohh, and maybe some welfare moms, that don't want their precious litter getting shot when the break into someones home..

«The education manifesto is a patchwork of policies, littered with contradictions and hopelessly out of touch with public opinion.

Binge - drinking is spiralling out of control and our streets are littered with mountains of rubbish.

It is a brave (or foolish) politician that voices opinions about either their constituents or constituency parties but many would find their inner thoughts played out in the numerous scenes that litter political fiction - of a lumpen, apathetic electorate or the zealous bores that attend the average party committee meeting.

Some council's have mounted cameras in bins to spy on people suspected of putting out their rubbish on the wrong day, or obtained telephone records of people suspected of dropping litter.

Since fines for littering on the subway doubled to $ 100 in mid-September, MTA police issued 200 littering tickets between Sept. 14 and Dec. 28, and the NYPD gave out 97 from Sept. 14 to Dec. 17, more than twice the violations recorded in all of 2016.

Dr Claire Melamed, ActionAid's head of policy, said: «The history of development is littered with proposals that looked good on paper but turned out to be an administrative nightmare and to undermine the very thing they sought to achieve.

Retailers are evading such bans elsewhere by handing out thicker plastic bags that meet a statutory definition of reusable but are generally in use for less than 20 minutes, then litter the earth for 200 years.

Meanwhile, in the Bulls Head section of Staten Island, the streets are littered with flood - damaged possessions and soaked cars being aired out with their hoods, trunks and doors open.

The county's next goal is to get litter out of the lake.

Multi-Cat: While there are some models of automatic litter boxes out there that cater to a solo kitty, many of our favorite items handle the load of more than one cat with ease.

There are a lot of options out there when it comes to a self - cleaning litter box, so make sure you pick something that is going to get the job done.

Oliver attributed most of those differences to Southern heat: To avoid it, scapularis nymphs hide out under leaf litter, biting lizards and small mammals instead of questing for larger prey on tall grass or brush.

• Once you've found a suitable patch of leaf litter, measure out an area of one meter squared using the meter stick.

A study carried out in the UK revealed that, in over 71 % of the surveyed harbours and marinas, users had had problems with broken propellers, anchors, rudders and blocked intake pipes and valves caused by marine litter (Mouat et al., 2010).

«The fast growth, high efficiency and specificity of enzymes employed in the anaerobic litter deconstruction carried out by these tropical soil bacteria make them useful templates for improving biofuel production.»

This was confirmed in one of the first litter surveys conducted north of the Arctic Circle, carried out by an international research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Belgium's Laboratory for Polar Ecology.

The universe around us is littered with burned - out galaxies, huge amorphous clumps of 100 billion stars that lack the fuel to form any new ones.

Ninety percent of their roots are in the top few inches of soil, so the trees rely on the litter to keep the soil from drying out.

These sweet whitish / pinkish mid-Atlantic florets (Claytonia virginica) are among the first to stretch out of the mud and leaf litter to add a spritely touch to an otherwise brown woodscape.