Sentences with phrase «as noxious»

The alienating parent is obsessed and sees the target as noxious to himself, the children, and even the world.

The reason is that provincial legislation no longer lists the humble (and edible) dandelion as a noxious weed.

It is classified as a noxious weed in Arkansas (along with all Alliums).

It affords the gas which vivifies and warms our frames, and receives into itself that which has been polluted by use, and is thrown off as noxious....

And yet it almost exclusively depicts the fat body, my body, as a noxious threat, a monstrosity, an object of ridicule, something to be dealt with violently.

She's never had typical cat issues such as a noxious litter box or hairballs.

I agree with you here, although I find your use of «privileged elite» to describe gifted learners as noxious.

I know that nut butters are not as noxious as animal fats in that they are better metabolized and in some cases have been shown to exert some protection against arterial plaques.

The findings, which appear in Arthritis Care & Research, suggest that work - related factors, such as noxious airborne agents, may contribute to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.

Just last year, the state of Florida listed crested floatingheart as a noxious weed, which means you have to obtain a permit to have and grow them, Gettys said.

The state government has listed these species as noxious because cattle and wildlife avoid eating them and because the plants tend to outcompete the native grasses, especially after a fire or grazing has disturbed the soil.

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Local officials say the evacuations are a precaution as a plume of noxious black smoke drifts southward from the plant.

Not only can cruise ships generate the same amount of sulfur dioxide fumes as 13.1 million cars in a day, but they also dump boatloads of noxious bilge water into the ocean.

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It also produces noxious chemicals, such as hydrogen sulfide that sometimes makes the lagoon smell like rotten eggs.

Because, as Walker Percy once wrote, «the noxious particles and the sadness of the old dying Western world, and him thinking: «Jesus, is this it?

Mr Russell, Yes, I believe there is such a thing as toxic (virulent, noxious, deadly, dangerous, harmful, injurious, pernicious) Christianity.

«While Ahura Mazda created the universe and mankind, Angra Mainyu, whose instinct is to destroy, miscreated demons, evil yazads, and noxious creatures (khrafstar) such as snakes, ants, and flies.

Although the enemy identified by the Brazilian was undoubtedly a noxious and dangerous threat not merely to the Church but to civilisation as such, I can not help thinking that the target identified by Trower has proved in the longterm to be much more insidious and destructive in the West.

Amber Rudd warned that an overhaul of current guidelines would ensure those who use noxious liquids as a weapon «feel the full force of the law».

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

While some might disagree with the view that «boyhood» is not old enough as an ideal for our body, few are likely to dispute another feature of eternal life, that of «freedom from noxious passions, internal and external.»

Now in summer, when it was hot, and he was very tired and ill from his journeyings, or when he held the office of lecturer, he would sometimes, as he lay thus in bonds, and oppressed with toil, and tormented also by noxious insects, cry aloud and give way to fretfulness, and twist round and round in agony, as a worm does when run through with a pointed needle.

Putin's cynical pose as a defender of traditional Christian values and persecuted Christians in the Middle East is part and parcel of this new, cooler Cold War attack on the cognitive security of the West — and too many Christian conservatives have swallowed that noxious bait.

You can only distract them by applying some extremely noxious stimulus such as holding a flame to them.

For him the goal of universal knowledge is truth, which he defines as «facts and their relations, which stand towards each other pretty much as subjects and predicates in logic,... [from] internal mysteries of the Divine Essence down to our own sensations and consciousness,... from the most glorious seraph to the vilest and most noxious of reptiles.»

I think I was converted to more natural cleaning products when I used half a tub of bicarb down the sink plughole followed 10 minutes later by half a bottle of vinegar and then a while later a kettle full of boiling water, and found it un-blocked the sink just as well as any previous drain unblocker I had tried AND without all the noxious fumes and damage to our septic tank!!

The poisoned atmosphere around the Flyers, for whom bellicosity was as prevalent off the ice as on it, has dissipated with the trade of Eric Lindros, the former franchise player whose noxious relationship with general manager Bob Clarke bedeviled the franchise.

In many ways it was that experience and others like it... such as when I found out how many noxious chemicals are in disposable diapers... that «set me off» on this path.

«It's good to be alerted to the fact that crib mattresses are a significant source of chemicals in an infant's environment,» said Weschler, who noted crib mattresses might one day be analyzed for noxious chemicals as a result of such research.

If it wasn't enough of a warning, as many nail technicians wear masks as they work on client's nails, pregnant moms and babies can breathe in these noxious fumes.

The entire town board needs to visit the airport Sunday afternoon and evening, if they aren't forced away by spent jet fumes burning their eyes and making them nauseous, as it does me just driving by the airport at that time, or when the wind blows it in our direction; when it does, the noxious fumes fill our house.

Johnson will have no truck with the noxious idea that people visit food banks and resort to soup kitchens as a lifestyle choice.

As such, TM provides an inner armor to protect police officers from the noxious effects of stress and negative experiences.

There was a lot of focus about M dwarfs» being bad places to be because early on they give off an awful lot of noxious radiation, almost as bad as pulsars.

They found that species that have evolved noxious sprays as a defense, such as skunks, tend to be nocturnal and subject to predation by other mammals, whereas socially vigilant species, such as mongooses, tend to be diurnal and at risk of predation by birds of prey.

But because the waste has to be constantly stirred to prevent settling of the noxious and radioactive solids, the plan calls for pulse jet mixers — described as «turkey basters» — to keep the solids suspended.

As its temperature varied from pleasant (near body temperature) to painful (49 degrees Celsius), subjects had to rate both pain intensity and pain unpleasantness of the noxious stimulus.

But the bacteria discovered by UGA researchers make antimony trioxide naturally as a consequence of respiration, creating a useful industrial product without creating noxious byproducts or requiring legions of specialized equipment.

«It's good to be alerted to the fact that crib mattresses are a significant source of chemicals in an infant's environment,» said Weschler, who noted crib mattresses might one day be analyzed for noxious chemicals as a result of such research.

Mangrove rivulus, which live in noxious crab burrow habitats, are about 2 - 3 cm long as adults and have a number of unusual adaptations to allow them to live out of water.

The scientists also use molecular biology tools to compare the genomes of spiders that have extremely noxious venoms, including the black widow and the brown recluse, to those of spiders with non-poisonous venoms, such as the house spider.

We're just along for the ride, we seemed to be telling ourselves as we consumed ever more hydrocarbons, releasing the noxious cocktail of exhaust fumes into the atmosphere.

vermin Pest animals that people find noxious or disgusting — such as flies, lice, bedbugs, roaches, mice and rats.

We call a thing «good» because it promotes certain petty human conditions that we happen to like — whereas it is just as sensible to assume that all humanity is a noxious pest which should be eradicated like rats or gnats for the good of the planet or of the universe.

In 2002, she identified another four genes that promote social feeding and which are found on neurons responding to stressful stimuli such as pain and noxious chemicals.

To make life more complicated for the microbes, Rittmann's team also exposed them to some noxious compounds that might exist on Enceladus that are known to inhibit growth, such as formaldehyde, ammonia, and carbon monoxide.

To confirm that macrophages throw an entirely different molecular switch to turn on Nr4a1, the group exposed mice missing the monocyte E2 switch to a noxious toxin found in bacterial membranes, as a way of seeing whether macrophages can still mount normal inflammatory responses.

Summarized by Suzuki (2013), «Disruption of the intestinal tight junction barrier, followed by permeation of luminal noxious molecules, induces a perturbation of the mucosal immune system and inflammation, and can act as a trigger for the development of intestinal and systemic diseases» (p. 631).

The main ammunition of the immune system as it becomes overzealous is to flood the body with noxious chemicals, known as cytokines.