Sentences with phrase «as dead wood»

These findings may seem counterintuitive if you've ever made a campfire, as dead wood clearly burns more readily than green wood.

The worst thing to do is to write off apparently poor or mediocre teachers as dead wood, and seek easy administrative solutions in transfers or retirements....

We are not even gonna challenge for the league (maybe at some stage as every season) and Wenger will have to go by the end of it, as well as dead wood like Walcott and Wilshere.

Not exact matches

It has also been tested on items for which the age is known through historical records, such as parts of the Dead Sea scrolls and some wood from an Egyptian tomb (MNSU n.d.; Watson 2001).

One staff member stood, pounded the table and loudly proclaimed «cut the dead wood», as another staff member beat on the table and repeatedly shouted «Amen».

These people are seen as failures, burn - outs, has - beens, dead wood... whatever.

One staff member pounded the table and shouted «cut the dead wood», as another pounded the table and repeatedly shouted «preach it brother».

As has been said, get rid of the dead wood and rebuild... and that includes Walcott (never rated him), Flamini, Arteta AND Wenger.

Like, if you're gonna play dead wood, you might as well play dead wood that might still improve somewhat.

I don't know how the fuck he managed to turn all our players to dead wood... I bet you, if it were any other coaches with same squad as of last 3 years, we would have one the league at least once

It is call planning for the future.Let's get them now as in summer they will be way more expensive and get arid of the dead wood in summer so we just have to focus in another CB.

As for our squad, last season the main problem was lack of pace and injuries + dead wood who ai nt good enough.

As I have said before in my recent comments, all dead woods and mediocare players should be off - loaded from Arsenal squad in the coming summer window.

But the Liverpool manager's hands are tied as he can not improve on his original bid until he manages to sell the dead wood at the club.

Why can't we for once stop criticizing Mesut Ozil and focus on some other dead woods that can never improve even up to Ozil's weakest form as a standard.

Whilst all other teams strengthen their ranks and at least attempt to make an effort to win things, we are told to expect only challenge for a top 4th position, and then expected to celebrate as if we won the league or champions league... Each year we tend horde our dead - wood / dead - weight who earn too much money for their return in this current climate.

This the thing though we have got the money, Not as much as the other oil funded teams but we can afford thee players with a bit of guile and some offloading of dead wood but noooo it wont happen

While it looks like Arsene Wenger sees Chamberlain as an important player, although not to the same extent as Alexis Sanchez, The Mirror has reported that Arsenal may have to consider selling him to Chelsea because of our bloated squad and the failure to trim off the dead wood during the summer window.

OT — it'd be astonishing if we hav» nt sold any dead wood in this window as failure to sell has an impact on our plans to bring in quality players.

it will never change as long as the oldest dead wood is still our manager, even if he signs the players we need he would still play them out of position or not play them at all just so his favourites get game time even if its hurting the team

At the same time we must get rid of d remaining dead woods such sanogo, poldoski, arteta, flamini & cambell so as to give space for atleast 3 world class signings.

He failed to get rid of his dead wood as they are very poor players as he is keeping Debuchy for three years without playing a single game and he bought Lucas few moth ago for # 17m and failed to sell him even for # 13m and sent him on loan.

As such, whilst I would prefer an owner who was more committed to the success of the club, I blame Wenger for not knowing when it is time to quit, all the poor transfer dealings, the dead wood in the squad, attitude issues, tactical problems, injury problems and the like.

That said, with a summer to stamp his mark on this squad, hopefully ridding it of some dead wood, Bruce will feel as though he has more than enough to be challenging for a top six place, if not a top two spot.

because all this board and kroenke are interested in is lining their pockets, every year we get same comment in 2 years we will be competitive they have been saying this for the past 5 years we have sold our best players and wenger has to take part blame in the dead wood we have in that squad and we are very light if players get injured nobody to fill class boots it is about time wenger woke up and smelt that french cheese and realised there are major problems with this squad and he has been the cause with his cheap buys only three palyers can be classed as good players, but ia m convinced we will not finish top four this year and then the question remains what now?

In a time when Manchester United have their weakest team for a decade, Chelsea are «in transition», Citeh are still restricted by the inabilities of Mancini / Platt / Kidd, Liverpool flatter to deceiver - this Arsenal team are incapable of winning any trophy whatsoever.The squad is paper thin as far as real talent is concerned.There are far too many passengers and «dead wood» abounds.Who on earth could do a better job as a manager of a team who are outclassed by Swansea and outplayed by Fulham, cant beat Wolves when almost every other team can!I don't know but sooner rather than later i believe we will find out!But one thing is certain he won't get 7 years of excuses before receiving his marching orders.

Patrick Joyce of Rugby agreed, describing Mr Clarke as «dead wood hanging around» and adding that «nobody takes what he says very seriously.»

«PDP as a vibrant party, especially in Ebonyi State, does not harbour dead woods.

This is not a new phenomenon, as natural debris (dead wood, ash, etc.) have enabled species to move around for millions of years, but the movement of alien species on litter items is potentially a new problem, because of the proliferation of floating — mostly plastic — particles.

«However, more work needs to be done to apply the results to carbon emissions calculations, such as determining how fast the dead wood is decomposing.»

The storm left 5.6 million cubic yards of fallen trees, broken branches and dead greenery in Houston, and Rice's team took first place in the contest with their plan to convert the wood into biomass charcoal, or «biochar,» for use as a CO2 - trapping soil amendment.

«We collected data from more than 70,000 trees and took more than 5,000 samples of soil, dead wood and other components of what is known as carbon stock.

As Radcliffe's dead body springs back to life — through karate - chopping, water - vomiting, and wind - breaking — he becomes the id to Dano's struggling everyman, who is also lost in the woods.

Their car, however, is dead, and as they try in vain to get help, they come to realize they are not alone on these desolate backroads — a terrifying evil is lurking in the surrounding woods, intent on never letting them leave... The Monster is both written and directed by American filmmaker Bryan Bertino, of the horror films The Strangers and Mockingbird previously.

It's a violent and ruthless film as Leo is left for dead after being mauled by a bear in the icy cold woods.

The short scuffle results in a handful of dead warriors on either side (with no clear winner in view) as the naturals head back to the woods and the Englishmen retreat to their forted camp.

Most famously it showed up in Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead as the flesh bound Book of the Dead found in, you've guessed it, a cabin in the woods (much like the one where He and She spend the majority of Antichrist.)

The model also receives aluminum and wood trim, but to my eyes, the latter looks as much like plastic as it does like dead tree.

We see the region through the eyes of young and old - from the inexperienced young woman out hunting «Her First Elk» in an effort to reconnect with her dead father, to the kindly, hardened old men who help her; to the children of a fundamentalist family who meet the same woman many years later as she struggles to maintain her deep - woods lifestyle in the face of chronic illness.

As a loner who's constantly outnumbered by the undead, players must carefully sneak about, scan the environment for collectable goodies, barricade doors with wood to prevent unwanted entry, and take out lone dead stragglers to proceed through areas without danger lurking about.

She hears a scream from deeper into the woods and goes in to investigate herself, as the phone lines are (unsurprisingly) dead.

For me, that puts it in a similar neck of the woods as say, Dexter, Smallville, Heroes, or The Walking Dead.

There's no doubt that Telltale Games» The Walking Dead series has offered one of the most engaging story lines in games in recent years — arguably eclipsing the TV series on which it's based (which was once memorably described by Dan Maher as a show about «some people arguing in the woods near some zombies.»)

Unlike artists including Robert Smithson and Mark Dion, who brought live or dead trees into white - cube gallery spaces, Mr. Oliveira has constructed a tree from scratch, using plywood and other materials, as well as wood brought from Brazil.

In her work City Lights (Dead Horse Bay)(2016), Lena Henke sculpts, in bronze and wood, the New York City skyline as molded by twentieth - century city planner Robert Moses, alluding to what was discarded in the wake of his plans.

As a result, the National Park Service has for the past 40 years conducted carefully managed «prescribed burns» to clear unsafe accumulations of dead wood and for ecological restoration purposes.

as getting rid of dead wood is too hard.

This instrument can distinguish between green vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation — such as wood, dead vegetation and surface litter — and soil by analysing small changes in the colour spectrum of the land.

As a former Latham staffer who was «let go» a few months prior to the latest culling of ridiculously overpaid dead wood, I have very little sympathy for some of the associates given the ax, 6 month's salary and all.

The latter sprout up quickly, as all softwoods do, then rot just as quickly, prior to being cut down, or collapsing of their own dead weight, and they thereafter serve to feed the quality aforementioned survivors with deep roots to boot (unlike the shallow - rooted, soft - wood ground surface feeders that lie dead), thus having their inferior pulp turned into fertilizer, which thereafter serves to nourish the stump - survivors, which continue to win the evolution sweepstakes.