Sentences with phrase «by a predator while»

In fact, there is some evidence to back up his idea: At least one sauropod fossil displays an injury suggesting that it was attacked by a predator while crouched in a squatting position.

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While predatory pricing technically remains illegal, it is extremely difficult to win predatory pricing claims because courts now require proof that the alleged predator would be able to raise prices and recoup its losses.405 Revising predatory pricing doctrine to reflect the economics of platform markets, where firms can sink money for years given unlimited investor backing, would require abandoning the recoupment requirement in cases of below - cost pricing by dominant platforms.

«For millions of years, humans hunted smaller creatures and gathered what they could, all the while being hunted by larger predators.

While society has no trouble envisioning the violent molester and the child who is forced to submit to a sexual predator, many people are baffled by how adult seducers are able to get young athletes to go along with them voluntarily.

While overall habitat loss is a factor in these declines, research also indicates that even fields of sufficient size, if they are fragmented or interrupted by hedgerows or natural windbreaks, will be passed over by the birds, which may view the linear plantings as cover for predators.

Gianaris» platform focuses on fighting pollution from power plants, preventing terrorism and attacks by sexual predators and consumer protection for airline passengers, while Arcabascio's campaign focuses on job creation, more hospitals, deregulation of insurance companies and education reform.

While you're chewing on that irony, consider that for hundreds of millions of years some animals have avoided the teeth of predators by getting down and dirty.

Tits» antipredator tactics vary in their effectiveness depending on the predator; attacks by Great Spotted Woodpeckers were successful only 60 % of the time, while forest dormice were 100 % successful.

While female guppies are lured by bright colors, predators are more likely to see, and attack, flashier male guppies.

Key to the procedure, he said, was to protect the animals from predators at night while continuing to move the herd during the day, as if they were being followed by lions and other stalkers.

In two of them P. perezi has been co-existing with the red swamp crayfish for more than 30 years (populations of long - term coexistence), in another they have been sharing a habitat for 20 years (population of short - term coexistence), while the last two populations are found in an area which has not yet been colonised by the exotic predator (populations without coexistence),» adds the scientist.

Chemical or physical signals sent by predators can prompt some frog embryos to speed up their breakouts, while others delay hatching in a bid to stay safe.

Similarly, meerkats, Suricata suricatta, respond to aerial predator alarm calls by freezing, scanning and running for cover, and to terrestrial predator alarm calls by moving towards the sound source while scanning the area [3].

«While we were pleased to see such a high level of responsible behavior by online dating companies, an online predator would require no more than one website to act irresponsibly,» Larsen said.

While online dating itself carries less and less stigma allegations remain that it's fuelled a hook - up culture with a beehive of STD - s and is hi - jacked by predators to perpetrate fraud and sexual violence.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wholBy Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wholby Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a wholby sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Producer John Davis recently exclaimed that the next Predator would reinvent the franchise, while we've been told by insiders that it's a direct sequel to John McTiernan's 1987 Predator.

The broad - strokes plot repeats John McTiernan's 1987 Predator: a platoon of humans tries to stay alive while hunted through booby - trapped jungle terrain by hulking laser - armed alien (s); the humans are dispatched one by one until a mano - a-alieno climax.

It's an unfocused, vaguely distressing peg to hang a sketch on, where the real onus is on those silly women for focusing on what are presented as trivial misunderstandings, while they're hoodwinked by the genial, entertaining demeanor of a real sexual predator.

Those who have been following the development of The Predator for a while won't be shocked by it getting the IMAX treatment as well.

The owners destabilize the local eco-system, excavating fields and flooding foxholes, to flush out the wily predator, while the four - legged perp selfishly endeavors to devour rather than rescue the livestock caged by the corporate conglomerates.

While there are plenty of dangers on the road, from stormy weather to predators or plain exhaustion, there's something particularly disgusting about seeing these brave travellers be shot down by hunters or suffer through industrial pollution.

Eve Sherman is twice the age of Josh, and while the story accurately chronicles the way children are often groomed by their predators for sexual activities, the descriptions of what goes on between the two of them are sometimes so graphic that they border on soft porn: «She dropped to her knees and unbuckled my belt, then skinned down my pants, and underpants.

Dark Horse Comics and Archie Comics are combining two popular franchises for Archie Meets Predator, a four - issue series coming in spring 2015 by writer Alex de Campi, that puts Archie and the gang in the alien hunter's sights while they're on spring break in Costa Rica.

By lying hidden in tall grass or snowdrifts, the wild dog protects itself from predators that may come calling while it sleeps.

Fact: While cats are predators by nature, responsibility for the decline in bird and wildlife population falls squarely on the shoulders of the human species.

One of the most dramatic stages for a classic African safari is Tanzania's Great Migration, where mighty herds of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and zebras thunder across the Serengeti plains while chasing the rains in a race for life as they are purchased by a large number of predators.

The aiming controls slow down while sighted, which is great for precision but lethal when being charged by a carnivorous predator!

Further enemies include beasts such as fearsome predators known as Caragors, while Siegebeasts shoot powerful weapons at Talion and his allies but can be temporarily repurposed by firing at weak spots followed by mounting the Siegebeast to aim its weaponry at enemy Orcs and even defeat other nearby Siegebeasts.

«While this is unsettling enough, particularly with the distorted remix of Donna Summer's «I Feel Love» keeping up the soundtrack,» writes Mufson, «Parker cranks the creepy up to 11 by replicating the time - lapse with a brief delay, layering swarm upon swarm of birds until the sky is literally black with the small - brained predators.»

A man claiming he was molested numerous times while in elementary and high school by convicted sexual predator Daniel McCormick filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Chicago Sun - Times reported.

While news articles at the time of the Court's opinion indicated that only one instance of a teenager being targeted by a sexual predator had actually occurred, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) did its own study and found that, in general, the law was not that popular and had not increased compliance by young motorists with the Garden State's laws affecting driving permit holders and those with provisional (now probationary) licenses.

While much of the recent publicity regarding sexual harassment has centered on alleged predators in Hollywood, the media and in Congress, a recent survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association indicates sexual harassment also is rampant in real estate and finance.