Sentences with phrase «pelt of»

In 2006, Ray Pennings and Michael Van Pelt of Cardus think tank published a piece in Policy Options which stated that the previous governing party reflected an emerging Canadian polity that transcends «the current reality of Canadian diversity» that reflected «an aggressive rights - based polity that identifies with tolerance over definition.»

In the thin light his new body looks ridiculously narrow and soft, its skin beneath a pelt of hair as pale and shriveled as a molting nymph's.

In the 1980s, molecular biologist Allan Wilson of Berkeley managed to clone gene fragments from the 140 - year - old pelt of a quagga, an extinct brown - and - white - striped relative of the zebra.

At the time, George had begun collaborating with molecular biologist Allan Wilson, a colleague at Berkeley who had just cloned gene fragments from the 140 - year - old pelt of a quagga, an extinct brown - and - white - striped zebra relative.

David Day, a Canadian author of a book on extinct species, recalls that what affected him most profoundly while doing his research was viewing the actual relics: the aurochs's horn, the pelt of the Bali tiger, the weathered rib cage of a Steller's sea cow.

Shah had spoken out against violence and condemned the stone - pelting of security forces in protests last year as un-Islamic.

We have already stripped to our shorts, securing our shirts and trousers in a big wooden chest to keep them dry during the downpour, and the pelting of the rain is like a monstrous needle shower.

Pineapple was unbothered by the constant pelting of rain and exhibited enough energy to keep the fans cheering through the team conceding 2 goals at home.

The images have a sour, battery taste and feel like the pelting of a hot summer cloudburst.

The main goal of breeding mink is to produce pelts of a high quality and good size — and preferably as many as possible per breeding female.

During the numerous and severe storms of last winter, the new lighthouse stood exposed to the merciless pelting of the waves of the wild Atlantic, without a stone or joint having been disturbed.

I can't picture his face anymore, but I do remember that he had pitched his booth at the top of a wide, stone staircase, and that, draping down from the top like water, were the pelts of maybe two dozen brown bears of all shapes and shades, mouths agape.

Fur - covered figurines may contain the pieces of pelts of several animals, or may just be the pelt of one unlucky victim.

The island Chumash performed a fox dance and probably used the pelts of foxes to make articles like arrow quivers, capes, and headdresses.

Ruth Marshall knits sculptures based on the pelts of wildcats.

These are hand - sewn rugs made from the pelts of stuffed toy animals.

Not exact matches

Drew Van Pelt, the head of Larson Juhl who was hired by Cool in 2011, says she connected him with other chiefs at sister companies like Johns Manville and molding - maker Marman Industries.

She had named Drew Van Pelt, her HBS classmate, as the CEO of Larson Juhl, which makes customized frames for pictures.

In NewFront news, ESPN, among other moves, is rolling out a daily, digital version of its «SportsCenter» flagship on the newly revamped ESPN app hosted by Scott Van Pelt and a rotating cast of other anchors.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

The banks should be nationalized, at least temporarily, and every person and institution involved (otherwise known as the elite banksters and politicians who served and supported the government and «quasi» government decisions) in each of the bailouts and heists of the taxpayer's (i.e. the «common» mans) money, should be divested of their personal assets and earnings and put in a stockade for public viewing, smack dab in the middle of Wall Street, to be pelted with rotten vegetables.

Since badger hair used in shaving brushes is harvested from various parts of the animal's pelt, the hair itself displays characteristic differences depending on precisely where on the animal the hair is procured.

It is also strange that he quotes the letter to his curate, Bloxam, in 1841 on the conversion of England by missionaries going barefoot and being pelted and trampled on, and does not make the connection with Blessed Dominic Barberi.

As he drove to the stage in the popemobile, Francis was pelted with T - shirts, banners and flags from the increasingly adoring crowds being held back by barricades on both sides of the street.

Awesome, so if you have never sinned you can pelt the crap out of somebody with huge rocks and it's all cool?

For the recalcitrant, there was death at the hands of the community - commonly by the brutal method of stoning, that is, pelting with rocks until the poor wretch went down under them, and then was finally pounded to death.

One of my Redeemer University colleagues, Dr. Kevin Flatt, is quoted here, as is Michael Van Pelt, head of the Hamilton, Ontario, think tank, Cardus, for whose publication, Comment, I write on occasion.

Anyone ever notice that when someone represents «the status quo», i.e. orthodox Christian teaching, he gets pelted with insults, on the very thread that accuses others of being obnoxious.

Fur - trapping is a specific kind of consumptive trapping in that the primary goal is to capture animals considered valuable for their pelt rather than for their meat or to resolve a predation issue.

After a brief interval, his son Alexander Jannaeus ruled from 104 until 78, in spite of popular hostility which resulted in his being pelted with lemons at one feast of Tabernacles, and in turn Alexander's wife Alexandra was queen from 78 to 69, while their son Hyrcanus became high priest.

yesterday, while the rain pelted down, I sat in my apartment with your cookbook and let out a series of sighs, giggles, and squeals, that I'm sure made my neighbors wonder what was up.

While I fit in a quick workout before many of the other bloggers flew in, I listened to the heavy drops loudly pelting the gym's windows like the constant drum roll of a snare.

At the end of that first meal, a server asked if we'd like to have a hot cocktail on the large outdoor patio, where there are a few benches draped in animal pelts, arranged around a roaring fireplace.

I suppose you are English so therefore if a player is not running full pelt the lenght and breadth of the pitch, throwing himself into tackles and generally running himself to the ground with very little technical or skillful ability then he is useless

They'll need to come out and say as much when Wenger next gets pelted over our lack of good signings.

It's amazing how many of them are only electric when running at full pelt into open space.

Indeed, he held the lead three times after starting the day tied with Van Pelt at 6 - under, one shot back of their third playing partner, Brendon de Jonge, only to watch Van Pelt roll in birdies to reclaim a share of first place.

With a front - row seat to his playing partner's third win of the season, Bo Van Pelt watched Woods grind out his 74th tour victory, surpassing Jack Nicklaus along the way, and pronounced him better than most.

«No offense to any of those other guys, but I think he's the only guy to win three tournaments on tour this year,» Van Pelt told reporters after finally blinking on the 17th hole, allowing Woods (8 - under) to win the AT&T National by two strokes.

At the end of the 3 - 1 loss to Reading, Brunt was pelted in the face with coins by frustrated West Brom fans.

See how poor nacho monreal was today yet people never criticize him.Gibbs should start over him next week.Yet people would say things like Gibbs is shit despite him being very consistent for arsenal.The only problem to me with Gibbs is that sometimes in some matches he gets caught out too much apart from that he is a better left back than Monreal and when both are at full pelt Gibbs is still better.I just do nt get it i watch the two of them play and i do nt know what makes Monreal better than him.

He even had a look to see who it was on the ground, he then had to slow down so he could rake him, instead of going full pelt after the ball.

That sentiment has been echoed by many of his confreres recently, since a barrage of batted balls has pelted pitchers in the opening weeks of this season.

If, perchance, a bear takes offense at being pelted with stones and pinecones, Riegelhuth says, «Move out of the way and let them have all your food.»

John Buccigross and Scott Van Pelt were in a giddy mood on New Year's Day and had quite a bit of fun with the fact that they cleared off their desk of all scripts.

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

I was looking at some data last night and the concept of «pelts taken» came to me.

The start of the second half is delayed while the referees, civilian security, and LWF try to calm the crowd, which began pelting Okapi's goalkeeper with rocks.

Since Gutekunst took over as general manager in January, the Packers moved on from quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt and made a change to the wide receiving corps by releasing Jordy Nelson, one of Rodgers» favorite targets.

At the AT&T National at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., the tournament Woods hosts, Tiger quickly erased all doubts, winning in style by outdueling Bo Van Pelt for his third title of the year.