Sentences with phrase «blind alleys in»

What's more, female ducks have anatomical blind alleys in their vaginas: Unwanted males that can't get very far in end up ejaculating into shallow pouches that keep sperm far away from any eggs.

Because they are not going down blind alleys in their thought.

David Landry can testify that his Tuesday noon downtown group or his Sunday evening sermon forum, while not robbing him of his calling to preach the gospel as he sees it, has nevertheless kept him out of many blind alleys in seeking to ride the trajectory of the text into today.

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In various passages within his oeuvre (e.g. see the conclusion of the last editorial of this magazine) he alludes to the grounds, well articulated by Cardinal Newman, by which one can discern whether the synthesis made between the doctrines of Catholicism and the state of modern learning is authentic or a blind alley.

A metaphysic that is a closed system incapable ofdialoguing with science is, in Holloway's view, a blind alley.

We see paws turned into pincers, paws equipped with hooves for running, burrowing paws and muzzles, winged paws, beaks, tusks and so on — innumerable adaptations giving birth to as many phyla, and each ending in a blind - alley of specialization.

Too often only the final results of a discovery are taught, and no appreciation is gained of the process by which they were reached, or of the failures and blind alleys and first approximations involved in the investigation.

In The So - called Historical Jesus and the Historic Biblical Christ (1896), Martin Kähler described the search for the historical Jesus as a «blind alley».

To give one classic example, which in fact answers Fr Marsden precisely (see his article in theJanuary 27th Catholic Times in which he said, «There should exist thousands of blind alleys and dead ends in the fossil record.

Schweitzer maintained that much of the effort to discover the Jesus of history had ended in a blind alley, for it had attempted to clothe Him in modern dress.

Therefore they do not want to hear that God is magnanimous in the dispensing of His love, or that His dealings with men are not limited to one blind alley which comes to a sudden halt at one point in history.

He can run around in their midfield bursting forward before running down a blind alley or falling over then sitting on the floor with his arms in the air.

It was a process filled with red herrings, blind alleys, rejection, despair — and, in the end, high hopes

• 09 Podolski — Under used, best left foot in the squad, no good at chasing back • 10 Wilshere — Falls over a lot, injury prone, runs down blind alleys, spends more time sitting on his arse waving his arms around than influencing the game • 14 Walcott — Quick, can change games with his pace, improved his finishing, can't wait for him to be back to full fitness • 22 Sanogo — Looooooooool, that is all • 26 Martinez — Haven't seen enough of him to truly judge.

the whole transfer policy is utter bullsh!t, NOW we will be charged over the odds for a CB as everybody knows we are desperate, IF we'd have brought in Adequiet cover last season or two seasons agao this would, nt be a problem but the frugality of the board and manager has lead us up yet another blind alley.

Granted BD had fresher legs but the easy way which they won back the ball by forcing our midfielders in a blind alley was really depressing, if you going to camp out on you 18 yard box you must have a release valve or 2 which i though was ALEX and DANNY.

Walcott runs up another blind alley, Mertesacker doesn't put his head in, Ramsay goes missing, an idiot can see the problems it creates yet I rarely see a player (flamini has done) saying wtf are you doing!!!!

Other times his a complete waste of space, seems to hide from the ball, runs up blind alleys or loses the ball and when faced with goal looks like a rabbit in the headlights.

He has no end product, runs into blind alleys and panics the moment he gets in the penalty area.

For Jurgen Klopp there was that familiar creep of dread as he stood on the touchline with his team dominating the possession but running down the same blind alleys, and the cold realisation setting in that inevitably, inexorably Jose Mourinho was doing his thing.

Somebody needs to explain to me how this kid keeps getting picked because he had yet another shocker comprising of mishit passes, holding on to the ball too long and being dispossessed, running down blind alleys and generally offering nothing in a team that is crumbling apart.

Branislav Ivanovic almost gifted the visitors a free run at Thibaut Courtois goal as he dawdled in possession and sought to turn away down the blind alley he should have been trying to guide Philippe Coutinho down.

Plenty of new blind alleys for him to find in Liverpool.

They had met on a blind date at a bowling alley in the spring of 1963.

«If they become, in a sense, more representative of their membership as a whole, they would not be leading either themselves or the Labour Party down what I regard as a pretty blind alley.»

The Labour party will be led down a blind alley if trade unions succeed in banning Progress, a pressure group associated with Tony Blair, the former business secretary Lord Mandelson warned on Sunday.

If they become in a sense more representative of their membership as a whole they would not be leading either themselves or the Labour party down what I regard as a pretty blind alley.»

I shan't rehearse all the ways we have acted as if (a) is true and what I consider to be the blind alleys it has led us up - you can read my many past articles on the point in the unlikely event that you care what I thought.

Are you ruthless in your own mind, constantly reappraising your research to instinctively weed out blind alleys almost before they've appeared?

Multiple genre cliches are affectionately trotted out — the trenchcoats, the cigarettes, the Venetian blinds, the clattering typewriters, the alleys, the pool halls, the gambling parlor, the clattering typewriters, the shadowy stalkers, the apartment trashed in a futile search, the gun pointed through a pocket — as Hammett pursues both the lost girl and an overdue manuscript which he has foolishly dropped.

Cornered in a blind alley by his ethical integrity he will embrace the armed way to salvation.

Here he charts the brief rise and dramatic fall of Invicta's post-war blind alley / Brasier, part one — Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges begins his in - depth study of Charles - Henri Brasier's racing cars, focussing on the early years of the marque / Pebble Beach — Paul d'Orléans throws caution to the wind and tells us exactly what he thinks of the vehicles on show at the world's most prosperous concours / Amiens GP Centenary — Stefan Marjoram joins a group of British enthusiasts as they head to Amiens to celebrate the centenary of the 1913 French Grand Prix / Goodwood Revival — David Venables brings us his report of all the action, both on and off the track, from another exciting Goodwood Revival weekend

In the GLAM specced ADAM on test, other standard features complement the blind spot assist; such as front and rear park distance control mated with Advanced Park Assist (APA2) which automatically parks the car, either in parallel or alley docking — a system that works flawlessly and even straightens out to avoid parking too far over to either side of a baIn the GLAM specced ADAM on test, other standard features complement the blind spot assist; such as front and rear park distance control mated with Advanced Park Assist (APA2) which automatically parks the car, either in parallel or alley docking — a system that works flawlessly and even straightens out to avoid parking too far over to either side of a bain parallel or alley docking — a system that works flawlessly and even straightens out to avoid parking too far over to either side of a bay.

I think it's helpful to plan a piece of work in a reasonable amount of detail before you start writing, so that you have a structure or roadmap in your head, and it also makes you less likely to go up any blind alleys and get stuck.

He has a B.A. in English Studies from Trinity College, a diploma in Liberal Arts from Liberties College, and has participated in two courses on Fiction and Personal Essay provided by Some Blind Alleys.

Which blind alley that you've gone down in the last seven years taught you the most about how your customers want to read?

Thus an article or book, which tells nothing of these side issues, blind alleys, and false starts, is, in some sort, an attempt on the part of the investigator to conceal his tracks.

Scattered about the map (usually in alleys) are items called: «Stealth Coins» which, once you collect one, makes the police mysteriously blind to your actions for a limited time allowing you to make your escape.

I think if I had stuck to doing just character art, I would have eventually found myself in a blind alley.

Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

Biofuels present the aviation industry with a convenient blind alley, facilitating the industry's expansion plans and avoiding pressure to reduce their fuel use and diverting political attention from the real need to cut air travel in order to reduce climate change.

Extrapolated ten times to the 32 GW of wind capacity proposed in National Grid's Gone Green scheme, it can be seen that this buffer storage concept to use wind power on this scale is another blind alley»