Sentences with phrase «away from bats»

I do spend most of my time in the mines running away from bats in terror, but these modifiers give me a reason to take my time.

Smooth surfaces act as acoustic mirrors, the team says: Up close, they reflect sound at an angle away from the bat, producing fuzzier, harder - to - read echoes than rough surfaces do.

Baseball legend Satchel Paige, one of the greatest pitcher in the history of the sport, had a simple philosophy when it came to pitching: Keep the ball away from the bat.

Smooth surfaces act as acoustic mirrors, which could present a problem for a bat: They reflect sound at an angle away from the bat, producing fuzzier, harder - to - read echoes than rough surfaces.

Not exact matches

«The Bats proposal would impair this valuable system by diverting flow away from the central auction and adding another challenge to investors seeking liquidity.»

Johnson says they established close working relationship right off the bat, recalling that, when she started, their desks were «literally two feet away from each other.»

(a)(1) He runs more than three feet away from his baseline to avoid being tagged unless his action is to avoid interference with a fielder fielding a batted ball.

This group is 1 or 2 bats away from being atop the Co-Ed Mountain..

Quarterback Scott Frost threw over the middle to receiver Shevin Wiggins at the goal line; two Missouri defenders were there to bat the pass away, and it fluttered away from Wiggins.

In his last 60 innings he has given up only seven earned runs, luckily coming away with a 3 - 1 record despite a curious silence from Texas» bats.

Jones, who has 24 homers and 78 runs batted in on the year, took a home run away from the Rays» Matt Joyce and then turned a double play at second.

While Miller's illegal bat was more of a scoop than a punch or hit of the ball, he told King that he wasn't trying to recover the ball, but just get it away from Newton so a teammate could recover it.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been in demand recently with a number of clubs rumoured to be interested in taking him away from Paris, though there has been only one club that he's batted his eyelashes at, Sky Sports reports.

He finished the first week batting.440 with six home runs in 25 at bats — as many homers as he had in 127 at bats away from Coors Field in 1996.

The three - team pursuit of Berahino was over before it had started as West Bromwich Albion batted away bids from Newcastle United and Stoke City, and Tottenham Hotspur never came to the party.

The reigning player of the year is a pretty tough colleague to measure yourself against right off the bat following 300 days away from the game, but Tiger held his own against Thomas on Thursday.

Coleman had a particularly anemic year at the plate in»89 -LRB-.254,.316 on - base average), and despite an off - season tutorial with appropriately named batting coach Steve Braun, he might have to steal time away from the Cards» other regular outfielders — moving left to right, former MVP Willie McGee, Milt Thompson -LRB-.290, 68 RBIs, 27 stolen bases) and Tom Brunansky, who hit at least 20 homers in each of the last eight seasons.

But Lawrie's true value is that he took at bats away from Carlos Sanchez.

«We say it every year about Arsenal, in big games — not normally these sort of games — they go and play their normal game away from home and get batted 3 - 0 or 4 - 0.

Once they can control their little bodies to move a head toward and away from stimulation, bat their hands with intention, and roll... I think it is ok in my book.

Until a baby is able to clearly indicate that he or she is full (either by turning away from the spoon, batting the spoon away or clamping the mouth closed for example), the risk of overfeeding solids is high.

I'm also prepared to physically prevent someone from touching them by batting their hand away or blocking.

11:48 - Theresa Villiers (Northern Ireland secretary, seemingly brought back from the dead) is batting away the uniquely difficult challenges of Northern Ireland questions.

A former editor of the Sun has been forced to bat away questions from MPs over how much the media pays police for information.

«Moreover, the technique hurts the animal minimally and bats fly away after providing data for research,» said Natalia Martinkova from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

The monks put plastic sheeting in their attic to protect the floor from bat droppings, instead of chasing the creatures away.

Ultraviolet Light UV light is not discernible to humans, but many bat species are sensitive to it, so several researchers and companies are studying how to use the light to keep bats away from turbines.

The drones the duo have been experimenting with can hear the bats from around 20 metres away, so they aren't thought to pose any danger to the animals.

After hearing the FMB, other bats increased their distance from the caller and moved away from the prey.

Led by Biology Research Associate Genevieve Spanjer Wright, a five - person team from the University of Maryland found that male big brown bats can produce a special sound, called a «frequency - modulated bout» (FMB), that tells other bats with whom they are foraging to keep away from their prey.

«Foraging bats can warn each other away from their dinners.»

You should mount a bat house 12 - 20 feet off the ground, attached to a secure pole or building, and secured away from predators.

A simple one to follow right off the bat is to consume coffee and fruit away from meals (approximately ~ 45 minutes away).

Their new, next - door neighbor, Mr. Stine (Black), is a reclusive grouch who warns the boy right off the bat to keep off his property and to stay away from his home - schooled daughter, Hannah (Odeya Rush).

Then when the last one came up to bat, they would all walk away from the table entirely.

Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT): coined by Grisha Steward, is a behavior modification program where the dog is allowed to move away from a trigger (and is also given treats) when it performs an appropriate behavior under threshold.

When my 8 year old daughter tried to pull her away from the fence, our pit bull locked onto her forearm (she only got her forearm because my daughter threw it up to protect her face, she was going for the face) and it took 8 minutes for my husband to beat her off, he eventually wound up using the weed whacker, after a baseball bat broke over the dog's back without even being noticed by her.

In the shallows, bright corals will steal your attention away from the many lionfish and bat fish.

True, Bats doesn't shy away from using his gadgets but this doesn't mean he can't do hand to hand combat.

Through experimentation, you'll find the best way to deal with them is to grab a hapless ninja by the arm and slam him from side to side, smacking away surrounding mecha - canines with a human baseball bat.

Other games were announced but seem years away, including Xenoblade 2, a new Shin Megami Tensei, a new game from the makers of Bravely Default (called Project Octopath Traveller, which is either genius or bat shit crazy), A no More Heroes sequel and a new Bomberman.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

The gameplay remains the same so you can expect the same high expectation as portrayed in the Wii title, whether it's swinging from vine to vine, blasting out of barrels, rampaging through obstacles on the back of a rhino, speeding down tracks on mine carts or rocketing on a rocket barrel away from a giant gorilla / chimp eating bat, there is always that fun aspect in every moment and level of Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D.

Asked about Red Dead Redemption 2 specifically, CEO Strauss Zelnick batted away the question with an assertion that: «Any updates about any of our titles will come from our labels.»

Moving away from the people of the sport, you can design your own bat or even stadium.

Researchers are working on high - frequency noise generators that would be audible to bats and drive them away from wind turbines, ultraviolet lights to illuminate towers and repel bats, and behavioral studies that would help the industry fine - tune when it should feather turbines.

I believe there is a simple solution to bird and bat fatalities also, by mounting cheap passive ultrasonic «whistles» on turbine blades, to create a sound warning shield, keeping flying wildlife away from any spinning turbines.

Research is also investigating new ways to minimize impacts, such as identifying the wind speeds at which turbines can generate power with minimal impact on bats, the use of devices to deter bats from coming close to a turbine, and whether certain turbine colours are more effective in keeping bats away.

The lush green landscapes of the Emerald Isle look calm and peaceful from far away — but Ireland's species — from a gorgeous barn owl to a toad that runs instead of hops, to a bat no longer found in the rest of Europe — are in as much danger as those in the rest of the world.

Bats in the lovely gloaming sky are one thing — a bat darting about in a panic mere feet away from becoming entangled in one's hair is another.