Sentences with phrase «bear pit»

It even has a 500 - year old tradition of maintaining live bear pits, and now a more humane «bear park».

They will be digging out a very large bore pit in the flat portion of the parking lot.

The Canadian city's new law, which was passed on Tuesday, is a terrifying ultimatum for animals whose only crime is being born a pit bull - loosely defined as American Staffordshire terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers, American pit bull terriers or any mix of these breeds.

A fortnight earlier Liverpool had carelessly squandered a three - goal lead in a Seville bear pit.

Of course, there are always competing grievance claims, and perception is everything, but if seeking to balance these competing claims tends toward a kind of political and social nihilism (ie, we don't promote anything as such, in order not to alienate any particular viewpoint) then these grievances from all sides will continue - a kind of bear pit where everyone scraps it out for their own piece of meat.

Recalled the PETA web site, Simon «worked with PETA to close bear pits, rescue an abused elephant in India, send lone roadside zoo chimpanzees to a sanctuary, and find homes for hundreds of chinchillas, a camel,» and many other animals involved in prominent cruelty cases.

THey can't help being born a pit bull.

Have I Got News for You is a bear pit, and we're called to be doves, not bears.

The Oxford and Cambridge players battled it out on the hot courts which show resemblance to «bear pits», with a strong force of alumni and spectators cheering and hurling abuse from balconies above three sides of the courts.

I remember going to football matches when I was a kid, and the racism there was like a bear pit — I stopped going, and only went to the odd international match, yet I can barely recall any racism on the street at that time (not saying there wasn't, but it wasn't apparent to me)-- so I would say a large part of it is down to football gang mentality — they will listen if the club speaks out against it, or the club is hurt.

Especially with it being a 3 pm kick off and without the bear pit of an atmosph....

Down there, in the bear pit, it is hard to overstate how difficult it would be ignore it.

But on the issue of Punch and Judy I have to admit prime minister's questions is a bear pit and you can't change it.

But in the bear pit of the Commons, facing strong opposition, he reverts to defence.

In October 2006, David Blunkett's audio diaries were published in his book The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit.

The felonious former mayor telegraphed for years that he wanted to return to the bear pit that is Bridgeport politics.

When Tony Blair used to do the bear pit, he would minimise the problem with his hands - make it manageable, then split it up with slow chopping motions and address each one.

David Cameron and Ed Miliband will get back to the bear pit today after a couple of months off for the summer holiday.

The Tory leader is studiously avoiding a descent into the bear pit with the Lib Dems.

We took her along to watch the bear pit of PMQs and asked her to share her thoughts...

Forged billet aluminum bodies, stainless steel pistons and competition style high - temperature seals put an end to the rust, bore pitting and seal failures that plague the original caliper design.

Main features are the arcades lining the streets; the Zytglogge (clock tower), the oldest building in the city, be there at least 5 minutes before the hour to see all the effects; the Cathedral (building started 1421); the Bear pits just across the Nydeggbrucke at the end of the main street.

Alice Theobald and Atomik Architecture, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, The Boys The Girls The Political, Lisson Gallery, London; Alice Theobald, «The Bear Pit», Focal Point Gallery, Southend - on - Sea

Recent exhibitions have included: Collective (Frieze Week Exhibition) The Bear Pit London (through Carter Presents).

This may mean that they are further into their career and slightly more expensive — but the return will be much greater than placing an inexperienced person in the bear pit of business decision making.