Sentences with phrase «at catching rats»

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Charles Darwin tells us that his father at one time was discouraged about him and thought that he would amount to nothing: «My father once said to me, «you care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat - catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family».»

Most honor codes at universities fall apart on the assumption that, although I do not want to cheat, if I catch someone else cheating, I will not turn in that person because I do not want to be someone who rats on other people.

The devoted gym rat has developed from a slender freshman who cracked the starting lineup to score 10 points per game with a catch - and - shoot outside game, into the Sac - Joaquin Section's leading scorer at 32 points per game as a senior.

Revealing the kills, Prime Minister David Cameron said that the tabby tom hasn't got it quite right yet — a criticism some may be levelling at Mr Cameron's coalition government — as he's been catching mice instead of the more muscular rats he was brought in to deal with.

After implanting measuring devices to catch neurons firing in the hippocampuses of four rats, they let the animals run up and down a track with food at each end.

The Yorkie was originally employed in catching rats at the various clothing mills around Yorkshire, England.

They are the smallest of the English herding dogs and were also adept at hunting and catching both rabbits and rats.

The dogs became famous as shipboard exterminators, expert at catching disease - bearing rats.

Some cats will find insects, lizards, mice, rats, and other things that somehow make their way into our homes and do a great job at catching them.

While paralyzing partisanship, elections and fiscal throwdowns had most lawmakers spending 2012 doing a good impression of rats caught in a coffee can, legislatures at the state level did appear to find a bit of unexpected common ground.