Sentences with phrase «backed vultures»

Satiated white - backed vultures, Gyps africanus, stand around a warthog carcass after much of the meat has been removed from the abdomen.

A young white - headed vulture, Trigonoceps occipitalis, stands on a fresh warthog carcass, perhaps waiting for stronger white - backed vultures to arrive and open it.

Once a highly abundant bird, today the Oriental white - backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis) is listed as critically endangered by BirdLife International.

Aspiring scientist Ayla Kaltenecker, Greg Kaltenecker's 10 - year - old daughter, uses calipers to measure the length of this white - backed vulture's head.

The Oriental white - backed vulture has experienced a critical decline in its numbers, thought to be due to the veterinary drug diclofenac.

Not exact matches

As Vulture points out, however, Cameron has repeatedly pushed back the first sequel, so the current schedule is tenative to say the least.

It's not that Apple didn't make mistakes under Jobs, but given that this is the company's first iOS release since his death, Cook should have known those vultures in the media were just waiting for him to slip up, allowing them to sit back and uncreatively mock him.

to me we are just watching the inevitable consequences of a bursting football bubble which is what AFC (Arsenal Financial Corporation) has become under the Franco American alliance... to be honest its lasted longer than I expected as the signs of a Ponzi club were visible 5 years ago but somehow the 4th place zombie fans kept the thing going longer than I expected but the bust is, consequently, even more worrisome for the long term health of the club... obviously Wenger should have gone 5 years back but that was not in the interest of the vulture owner... next steps are uncertain but I hope fans show their disgust by not showing up to the emirates next game

As long as we are sitting back and taking this crap we will never see the back of these two vultures.

I really thought that the days of vultures circling had ended, but thanks to Kroenke, they are back.

The football vultures are circling overhead and it seems almost inevitable that a bid will come in the summer, which may force Liverpool to go back to the drawing board with the player's current contract terms.

It's another statement by the club that it can compete with the biggest financial powers in football and also sends the vultures scattering, looking for another right - back carcass to feast on.

Depending on the season, hawks, falcons, owls, and vultures look back at you from their enclosures.

So the government has made permanent the former temporary ban on profiteering «vulture funds», persecuting the most indebted countries, and backed the «Publish What You Pay» campaign to bring transparency to multinational oil and mining companies» payments to developing world governments.

Andy Stone, chairman of Petra, a «vulture investor» whom Crain's calls «one of the godfathers of the commercial mortgage - backed securities market,» suffered massive failures in 2010 when his funds went bankrupt.

When vultures eat lunch they happily strip the rotting carcasses they find back to the bone.

Eventually the birds make their way back, but for researchers like Botha and Kaltenecker, it's unnerving to consider the countless dangers the vultures — some of the most endangered creatures on the planet — encounter when they're outside the protective borders of the park.

Thousands of news articles later, however, Prince Bandar bin Saud al - Saud dismissed yesterday the idea that the device was a spying device, and authorities plan to release the vulture and mail the device back to Israel, Leshem says.

The zone — one of two in Bangladesh, which are modeled on a handful of similar zones elsewhere in South Asia — is just one part of a multifaceted effort to pull the three vulture species back from the brink of extinction.

In 2003, researchers fingered diclofenac as the cause of the sudden and widespread disappearance of three of India's most common vultures: the white - backed, the slender - billed, and the Indian vulture.

JAY - Z joins Beyonce on stage for «Crazy Vulture takes a look back at the «I was 18 when we first met, 19 when we first started dating

The evictor, a Florida - twanged foreclosure vulture named Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), stands with his back to the body, yelling into his phone about how this complicates the process of preparing the house for resale.

Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine — distracted by thoughts of proving himself to be more than just your friendly neighborhood Spider - Man — but when the Vulture (Michael Keaton) emerges as a new villain, everything that Peter holds most important will be threatened.

A Feminist Checks Out Johnny Knoxville and Samantha Bee Conversations Back to Back at Vulture Fest

Also, coming off the back of a Homecoming «s sympathetic Vulture as the primary antagonist, it appears as if Michael B. Jordan as Erik Killmonger is really one to watch.

And backing them up is one of the all - time great Hollywood supporting casts: Claude Rains as the suave and lecherous Vichy police head Renault; Conrad Veidt as the elegant, murderous Nazi commander Strasser; Sydney Greenstreet as the vaguely sinister rival cabaret owner; Peter Lorre as Ugati, the rat with the papers; S. Z. «Cuddles» Sakall as the lovable fat busybody; Marcel Dalio as the nimble croupier; Curt Bois as the ferret - like pickpocket («Vultures everywhere!»)

A well - placed source tells Vulture that script issues have Damon pulling back from his commitment to direct the film, though we're told he's still up for starring in the $ 12 million project.

And Vulture's already declaring the winner which puts a big target on its back.

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Campion got her Palme d'Or back in 1993 for The Piano, and as Vulture noted, she actually had to share the honor with a man, «Farewell My Concubine» director Chen Kaige.

This sounds eerily like the so - called «great schools» the vultures at AF (and AF copy cats) own and control, making money off of the backs of poor, underprivileged, and underserved African - American children and their gullible parents.

Nerdy Birdy and his best friend, Vulture, are back in another delightful installment that celebrates the importance of actual friends over virtual buddies in this age of social media.

Uluwatu is already on the map for surfers and culture vultures, thanks to its unique waters and awesome temple, but the area still retains its laid - back, unhurried feel.

On 3 April, Marion Maneker of Art Market Monitor published a short roundup of recent commentary by Andrew Goldstein, whose interview with Simchowitz on Artspace.com is what originally goaded critic Jerry Saltz to pen a takedown of Simchowitz over at New York Magazine's Vulture blog, and Kenny Schachter to defend Simchowitz in the New York Observer's Gallerist blog by showing how his speculative dealing strategies are just the latest in a long line of such activities that reaches back to Duchamp.

Culture Vulture Kim Howells Praises Writer's Anti-Tate Venue; Minister Hails Gallery's Stand against Art World «Stasi» Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 26, 2003; 700 + words OUTSPOKEN government minister Kim Howells - in backing a controversial art gallery which calls itself... Meldrew of Westminster.

Vinod Khosla & Khosla Ventures, and Al Gore & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are venture capitalists responsible for a lot of failed ventures, laid off workers and untold sums of government money taken and never paid back - but pay no mind... Mitt Romney is the evil vulture capitalist that likes firing people!

«They are the same vultures they were back in the early 1990s,» Lietz says.

Vulture is reporting that Michael J. Fox, the iconic star of Family Ties and the Back to the Future trilogy (and renowned Parkinson's disease sufferer and campaigner) has teamed with director Will Gluck (Easy A) and writer Sam Laybourne (Cougar Town, Arrested Development) on comedy series.