Sentences with phrase «as albatross»

The Vic - Maui Race covers 2,308 nautical miles (4,275 km) «as the albatross flies», from just outside Victoria's Inner Harbor to Lahaina.

Her wildlife photography covers subjects as diverse as albatross on Midway Atoll to grizzly bears along Alaska's coastline to coyotes living in crowded cities.

This is important to figure out early on, usually before you even arrive, because the last thing you want to do is end up as an albatross on their busy schedule, or, conversely, come off as being rude, treating them like some sort of one - night stand.

Note that Penguin Random House, which used to own AuthorSolutions, sold it off in January 2016, unloading what was probably seen as an albatross.

Instead, this past year, and especially the last quarter, finds it as the albatross around the retailer's neck.

The July 6 letter by David Pace painted charter schools as an albatross, a corporate tool meant to «put public schools out of business.»

«When squid populations change, it often impacts other animals such as albatross egg production or fisheries production.»

The tax law has typically been portrayed as an albatross for New York by the governor.

This connection has come under fire from his his opponents, who describe it as an albatross in light of top Nassau Republican Dean Skelos» arrest earlier this year.

While the forward has won more than either man at club level, he hasn't won the World Cup — falling at the final hurdle with Argentina in 2014 — and failure to do so risks remaining as an albatross that looms large over the player's legacy.

It acts as an albatross around the neck of the economy and hinders growth.

Unlike other birds that travel over the sea, such as albatrosses, their feathers lack waterproof oil, so they can't take a break on the water.

It is an excellent example of the value of long - term demographic studies for long - lived species such as albatrosses,» according to Oregon State University's Robert Suryan, a seabird ecologist who was not involved in the study.

So the mathematical model developed in studying the ants is applicable not only to very different kinds of animals which share just the feature that they have a home to return to, such as Albatrosses.

As these albatrosses kill themselves off, technology and economics will come to the rescue.

Not exact matches

Today, however, speed and agility are everything and their sheer size is often an albatross that these companies have to drag forward as well as an impediment to course corrections and competitive responses.

BuzzFeed: Americans Don't Know Anything About Romney's Religion — Yet Armed with fresh survey data and a counterintuitive thesis, a new Brookings Institution study released Wednesday makes the compelling case that Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, long pegged by pundits as a political albatross for the candidate, won't actually hurt him at the polls in November — and it could even help.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Baltimore Orioles (Last Week: 21): Many talk about the Albert Pujols contract as baseball's biggest albatross.

instead they upped his wages and he's now just an albatross around the neck of the club... Should be offered out at whatever the market will pay in the summer... Might just have to go on a free as not many clubs outside of Middle East or china would pay this guy 7 m a year for his average skill set

of course walcott is staying as no one will buy him unless we knock price down to 10m given his absurd wages... half whippet half albatross... good for league cup and thursday nights if he stays... which idiot upped his contract a couple of yeqars ago....

Some individual Democratic candidates have begun to use the Affordable Care Act as a positive in their campaigns, but most seem to have internalized the chattering class's dominant narrative, that Obamacare is a Democratic albatross.

The New York Post recently quoted people close to Bloomberg, who was an albatross in the Democratic primary to his preferred candidate, Quinn, as saying the outgoing mayor would oppose de Blasio, whom he loathes, if the Democrat emerged as the nominee.

But any party with Ed Balls as Shadow Chancellor has a millstone, an albatross and a London bus round its neck on that score.

As their name suggests, these albatrosses wander aimlessly around the oceans, hunting fish.

The distribution of wildlife on Earth is changing with the climate, making conditions more favorable to odd species such as trumpeter swans, beetles, marmots, albatross, killer whales and white - tailed deer

TRANSMITTERS attached to the backs of albatrosses have pinpointed the places where the great birds go fishing — and found that they choose the same spots as rogue fishing fleets hunting for tuna and other valuable fish.

THE wandering albatross, long a sign of good luck and source of superstition for sailors, could become a latter - day boon to them as the inspiration for a low - energy scouting aircraft.

One threat to albatross populations is the mosquito - borne disease known as avian pox virus.

Husband - and - wife team Eric VanderWerf and Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation spent 14 years banding 477 Oahu albatrosses as chicks and monitoring what became of them.

Stuart Leslie suggests that infidelity may be normal for humans, as it is for albatrosses (18 August, p 33).

Contrary to the prevailing belief that young albatrosses remain at sea until they're ready to breed, VanderWerf and Young found that 2 % of birds first returned to the colony as one - year - olds, 7 % as two - year - olds, and 17 % as three - year - olds.

«As more albatrosses relocate to higher islands like Oahu in response to sea level rise, where mosquitoes are more prevalent, this disease, and perhaps others, will become a more important threat to the species, so we need to understand more about it and how to prevent its transmission.»

As a result, albatrosses in genetically mismatched partnerships will do best to copulate with other birds on the side.

From the famed Dodo, through the lesser known Guam Flycatcher, to the near - extinct Albatross, the exhibition combines beauty with more hard - hitting images that really bring home the devastation wrecked on these fragile creatures, often as a direct result of human behaviour.

As the mother of an estimated 36 albatrosses, she is a symbol of success in the face of declining seabird numbers worldwide.

Previously, scientists had suggested that pelagornithids, as the birds are known, were related to pelicans and albatrosses, but recent studies hint that the group is more closely related to ducks, geese, and swans.

The island is home to a range of animals such as fur seals and macaroni penguins that depend upon krill, and others, such as black - browed albatrosses, which eat substantial amounts of krill as well as fish and squid.

The Center for Biological Diversity and allies petitioned to list this albatross as an endangered species in 2004.

Black - footed albatross: A large, dark - plumed seabird that lives in northwestern Hawaii, the black - footed albatross is threatened by longline swordfish fisheries, which kill it as bycatch.

Are you tempted to work in a unique environment where soils support habitats for wildlife such as sea lions, elephant seals, albatrosses, penguins, sooty shearwaters, white - chinned petrels, prions and rare and endemic passerines and wild flowers?

Among Laysan albatross, pairs of females may stay together as «socially monogamous» couples for more than 10 years, during which time they return to their shared nests every year to raise their chicks.

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A group of boys learn about life and death during their senior year as the crew on the ship Albatross.

The project will be Akiva Goldsman's (THE DA VINCI CODE) directorial debut, and it will feature Jessica Brown Findlay (ALBATROSS), as well as a strong supporting cast, including Russell Crowe and Will Smith.

It becomes his albatross, toted around unexamined, as Wilson descends on a spiral of juvenile addiction (gasoline huffing) and avoidance.

Jim Jordan does an excellent job at playing Orville the albatross, and Eva Gabor is perfect as Miss Bianca.

Jessica Brown Findlay (seen in Albatross, Winter's Tale, The Riot Club, Victor Frankenstein) stars as Bella Brown, an awkward, shy young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children's book.

The actress shone from the first as the most progressive, contemporary character on the show, and aside from further TV roles on «Misfits» and alongside one of our male picks, Daniel Kaluuya, on «Black Mirror,» the show also landed her the lead role, alongside Felicity Jones, in the British film «Albatross.»

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.