Sentences with phrase «against trees as»

Male palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) in northern Australia refashion sticks and seedpods into tools that the animals use to bang against trees as part of an elaborate visual and auditory display designed to seduce females.

His corpse was later discovered in the forest, resting against a tree as if he were sleeping, pale but apparently quite at peace.

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Too often, protecting the environment is couched either as a partisan issue or as one that pits idealistic tree - huggers against business - minded realists.

In Corpus Christi, the major city closest to the storm's center, wind whipped palm trees and stinging sheets of horizontal rain slapped against hotels and office buildings along the seawall as the storm made landfall.

everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.

As I gaze out my window, for example, the data of my experience include people and cars, rocks and trees, the breeze against my face, the ideas I am entertaining, and the sensation of my elbow against the table on which I lean.

For example, there is the distinction which men make between themselves as souls, selves, or thinking beings, over against the inanimate world of rocks, trees, and mountains.

A flock of birds exploded out of a nearby tree, I watched them dark against the purple sky as they scattered and soared out.

Though there be critical ones thinking among the topmost branches of civilizations trees of disparagement offerings: the rooted labyrinths of reasoned deducing ways offers little minded goodness to be availed unto the soulless seekers whose only wisdom is found within travesty's demonic exuberances laying ever wastefully towards all graven worded reconciliations that the demonic do behest against many a Holy Believer in and of God's most unrighteous beneficiaries as being an unholy divider in search of disenfranchised souls to devour and chew upon...

This is it, I thought as I stood up, back straight, because this is my favourite sight: the inky blackness of pine trees, black lace relief burned out against the western sky as the last guardian of this date on the calendar cedes.

We are keenly sensitive to the problems of childhood; we have thoroughly learned the proverb that just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined; we feel confident that if we can give a boy a good beginning we can insure him against a bad ending.

At the beginning, Yahweh is pictured, not only as indignant at man's eating of the «tree of the knowledge of good and evil» (Genesis 2:9) and so becoming conscious of sin, but as being anxious lest man should «take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever,» and, in order to guard against this event, man is driven from Eden and its gates are guarded by «the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.»

And in his argument for faith as against the Roman Catholic law, Luther used Jesus» figure of the tree and its fruit.

2:15, and to Jews as the natural branches and Gentiles as cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted against nature into a cultivated olive tree in Rom.

I sit down, lean against a tired tree and watch the water as I crunch an apple.

Pros: Good body control, creates a good catch radius despite an average frame and snags the ball away from his body, uses body to shield defenders from ball Understands how to find the holes and sit down against zone coverage Nuanced route runner, uses head fakes at the stem and on release where he also uses feet well to beat press Has special teams experience (though I never thought of him as a standout from the broadcast) Has experience running full route tree, from multiple alignments with multiple personnel packages

But it's not uncommon for statistics sites and TV networks to misinterpret formations (for the second leg against Spurs, for example, WhoScored listed Juve's formation as a 4 -1-2-1-2 with Khedira in the hole and Costa as a mezz» ala), and I think a lot of games where Juve has been listed as using a 4 -3-3 or 4 -4-1-1 have seen them behave far more like a Christmas tree in actual practice.

* While there are, as of yet, no clinical studies to confirm the results, a laboratory study conducted at the College of Pharmacy at Oregon State University (OSU) presented at a December 2007 meeting of the American Society of Health - System Pharmacists found that an ointment containing benzethonium chloride with tea tree and white thyme oil worked best against all four tested MRSA strains, while ointments containing neomycin, polymyxin, and gramicidin also had some antibacterial effectiveness.

Originally, the resin has served these trees as a type of antibiotic to protect against plant diseases.

Cradleboards were used during periods when the infant's mother had to travel or otherwise be mobile for work... The cradleboard could be carried on the mother's back... The cradleboard can also be stood up against a large tree or rock if the infant is small, or hung from a pole (as inside an Iroquois longhouse), or even hung from a sturdy tree branch...

He used the opportunity to call on corporate Ghana, celebrities and all Ghanaians to come on board the «ONE LOVE ELIMINATION OF SCHOOLS UNDER TREES» project and help put smiles on the faces of children in communities with such schools by replacing them with befitting structures as we compliment the effort of Central government to win the war against schools under trees as GhanaTREES» project and help put smiles on the faces of children in communities with such schools by replacing them with befitting structures as we compliment the effort of Central government to win the war against schools under trees as Ghanatrees as Ghanaians.

Speaking to the president of the foundation, Mr. Adomako Fred Williams he said that the foundation is made up of young Ghanaians who believe that bringing together the little energies of all the people in various areas where schools in bad conditions not conducive for learning can help compliment the efforts of Central government in our quest to win the war against «schools under trees» as a nation.Ghanapoliticsonline.com

Boscia, whose cell phone shows an olive tree from his father - in - law's grove as its screen saver, is leading an epic battle against a mountain of bureaucracy and funding cuts to institute an open - air research center to study the disease and eventually find a way to stop it.

The acacia ants she studies, Crematogaster mimosae, use their fearsome bite to defend their host trees against large animals such as elephants and giraffes that eat the trees» leaves.

The researchers believe the red squirrels acquired defenses against predation, such as better tree - climbing skills, as they coevolved with the pine marten, giving them a leg up on their non-native competition.

She points out that there are alternative explanations for why trees in New York were bigger, such as defensive reactions against pollution in which the plants produce antioxidants.

Alternatively, it might be possible to develop a vaccine, as was developed to protect elm trees against Dutch elm disease, but this is a distant goal.

«These specimens were most likely blown into the tacky resin, or were plucked from an animal as it brushed against resin on a tree trunk,» lead author Ryan McKellar told Discovery News.

«Whether we are leaning against an isolated tree in our neighborhood or fully immersed in natural landscapes on a backpacking trip, our brains are able to return to a more primitive rhythm as it connects with the angle of light from the sun and calms with the physiological release of the happy neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine.

Elderberry: Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, once referred to the elder tree as his «medicine chest» due to its extremely powerful antimicrobial and antiviral abilities specifically against the flu.

I told her that I also did the same thing when I was younger but instead of looking at the horizon I would often close my eyes and feel how the tree was gently swaying as the wind pushed against it.

Tea tree oil is great for killing p.acnes as well thanks to its antibacterial terpinen 4 - ol compound and it's widely acknowledged as the safest natural weapon against mites:

Gene, as usual, plays Gene Autry, this time the son of a Georgian cattleman (Charles Middleton) waging a war against the areas «turpentiners,» harvesters of pine tree sap.

Bayona reveals Lewis MacDougall as a talent to be reckoned with, whether we're watching the wan tyke square up against his formidable grandmother (Weaver) or, indeed, that giant tree - man.

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, in his fifth feature presentation, tackles the loneliness and despair of single - hood, an approach that dovetails nicely with the sacrifice of being in a relationship and he does so with a conviction as forceful as an avalanche against a lone pine tree.

Many parts of 12 Years a Slave are particularly hard to watch, but none was so impacting to me as when Solomon Northrup is strung up to a tree to hang after defending himself against an overseer who wrongfully attacked him.

And the trees stand still, the wind whipping through the leaves as a constant reminder that whether we live or die, no matter what we do with our short time on Earth, the universe will go on, never even deigning to notice us as we rage against its silence.

As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.

«The Tree of Life» and «Beginners» shared the honor, against competition such as «The Descendants,» «Take Shelter,» and «Meek's Cutoff.»

Few would argue against The Tree of Life being one of the very best films of the year, but it remains the biggest wild card of awards season, a massively beloved masterpiece whose impressionistic style and ostensible inaccessibility have presumably prevented it from surging forward as a sure thing.

Weirdly stylish, at the same time as being grotty and gaudy, the film features an insane climax set against a Boschian landscape of burned tree trunks, which the final shots of The Neon Demon appears to echo.

If you think of a game environment, such as MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role - playing games), players competing against the computer is how most interactions take place, whether through combat, racing, or navigating dialogue trees.

The monkey flattened itself out against the tree, spreading its arms and legs enthusiastically, and then, reaching around with both hands as if trying to scratch its back, it tumbled down to the ground.

The long branches of the trees leaned against the ground and something as dark as oil dripped from their tips.

The Fig Tree not only binds communities through these shared beliefs, or «eco-spiritualism» as it has been labelled, but practically upholds the land against environmental degradation.

That would protect you against damage due to disasters, such as a fire, a falling tree, or theft.

Your Christmas tree should be against a wall or in a corner, as opposed to in the middle of the room.

They want to be able to stretch out completely, as though they were stretching out against a tree, which is a favorite scratching post of cats in the wild.

Even if your cat doesn't actually scale the tree, he'll almost definitely rub against it, he might bump into it while playing, and he may decide to use it as a scratching surface (trees are nature's original scratching post, and they work as well as ever).

Also known as Makena Beach, the golden sands are situated against a backdrop of lush trees that provide privacy for beachgoers and shade for picnickers.