Sentences with phrase «by albatross»

I would like to see if over this 19 - year interval the amount of plastic ingested by the albatross chicks at Midway has changed.

These structures are shedding toxic lead - paint chips that are then eaten by the albatross chicks.

These structures are shedding toxic lead - paint chips that are then eaten by albatross chicks.

Sometimes they are carried by Albatross and then thrown on the ground.

This is why it might make sense that Musk has reportedly decided to start his own satirical publication, rather than purchase a crowning jewel weighed down by albatrosses.

Not exact matches

By leading the effort to re-confirm him, the Corporate Democrats (but not most of their colleagues who had to face voters this autumn) removed this albatross from the Republican neck and put it around their own.

BuzzFeed: Americans Don't Know Anything About Romney's Religion — Yet Armed with fresh survey data and a counterintuitive thesis, a new Brookings Institution study released Wednesday makes the compelling case that Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, long pegged by pundits as a political albatross for the candidate, won't actually hurt him at the polls in November — and it could even help.

Can others really not see why he is considered an albatross of a contract by the rest of the league and we couldn't move him without giving value away with him?

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

When you commit that sort of term and money to a player in the modern NHL, it's because you expect surplus value immediately by taking on what's likely to be an albatross down the road.

By contrast, the poisonous locker rooms, albatrosses of aging, but still - powerful stars and unstable coaching situations that currently trouble the other two clubs in the running could also conceivably be off - putting.

The tax law has typically been portrayed as an albatross for New York by the governor.

But a key argument of his from 2014 campaign — winning 2 - to - 1 in the Democratic heavy suburban county — is now hobbled by his being unseated in a race in which President Donald Trump proved to be an albatross.

Represented by his deputy, Mr. Agboola Ajayi, the governor said the forum should be an opportunity for Nigerians to remove the «albatross which the present position in the constitution of Nigerian constitutes on the country.»

Twenty years ago, Cahill was a first - term assemblyman, running with an albatross named Mario around his neck, his base in Kingston divided and distracted by Mayor T.R. Gallo's drive to overturn charter revision in the city (city manager).

Swansea University scientist, Professor Luca Börger has therefore been working with partners in Switzerland, France and the USA on a study led by PhD student Tina Cornioley looking at the body mass of the wandering albatross.

In contrast, migration ranges of soaring birds, illustrated by raptors, vultures, and albatrosses that migrate globally with minimal energy consumption, are larger than those of flapping birds and independent of body size.

Those garbage - bag ball gowns are now married in my mind with a photo of a Laysan albatross whose belly, slashed open by biologists, was jammed with 306 pieces of plastic flotsam — a surreal bird version of a junkyard.

The albatross's ability to fly for thousands of kilometres over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship - launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird's lift - generating techniques.

I am disturbed by some of the language in your story on breeding albatrosses (21 July, p 16).

This poster by Peter Hodgson highlights the crux of BirdLife International's Albatross campaign — populations are nearing extinction because of deaths caused when the birds accidentally eat fishing hooks left in bait or discarded after fishing trips.

Pelagornis sandersi was twice the width of a wandering albatross — the largest living bird — but was nevertheless dwarfed by the biggest pterosaurs

Black - footed albatross: A large, dark - plumed seabird that lives in northwestern Hawaii, the black - footed albatross is threatened by longline swordfish fisheries, which kill it as bycatch.

Albatross by NARS is still my favorite - but because im addicted to illuminators inhad to try these out.

Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic — the character functions like any number of old Asian man archetypes from martial arts cinema, but, transplanted to American pop (his arrival softened by Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back), Miyagi becomes something like an albatross for Asians in modern Western culture not for its incompetence, but for its tonal perfection.

For what it's worth, James Spader does nice work playing against type as an intellectual nebbish, and Russell incorporates what could've been an albatross — the death of his character's young son — into his every delayed gesture without seeming merely thrown by the film's premise, whose machinations are so befuddling as to deter one from inspecting Stargate for political and allegorical angles.

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Caroline Goodall, John Savage, Scott Wolf, Jeremy Sisto, Ryan Phillippe Small role: Balthazar Getty, Ethan Embry Director: Ridley Scott Screenplay: Todd Robinson (based on the book, «The Last Voyage of the Albatross», by Charles Gieg Jr. and Felix Sutton) Review published January 3, 1998

The July 6 letter by David Pace painted charter schools as an albatross, a corporate tool meant to «put public schools out of business.»

The federal standards forced upon us by an ever intrusive department of education have resulted in no shortage of controversy and has become an albatross around the necks of many a governor who agreed to adopt the system.

Despite being burdened by the matrimonial albatross of five husbands, Panchaali is no man - hater, and on the contrary, finds the women in her life to be equally, if not more difficult, to appease, and above all, to trust.

In the Classroom: Using Thunder Birds, by Jim Arnosky, and Wisdom, the Midway Albatross, by Darcy Pattison, as mentor texts, ask students to observe birds in the wild by visiting a bird webcam online.

Ruth Bonetti has been published by a large publishing house (Oxford University Press published Enjoy Playing the Clarinet with its accompanying piano book) and a smaller Australian niche publisher (Albatross Books) and a music publisher.

As an example, the albatross is a sign of good luck if seen by sailors.

Framed by breathtaking views of Kaua'i's north shore, Hawaii's endangered birds are seen nesting in the cliffs, including the Hawaiian Gallinule, red - footed boobies, tropicbirds, albatrosses and frigate birds.

This stunning introduction is usually followed by good views of Indian and Atlantic Yellow - nosed Albatross.

Cruising the islands by boat, you can walk among marine iguanas basking in the sun and observe the elaborate mating rituals of boobies, albatrosses and frigate birds.

You can choose to play as either of Interpol's finest - Leila or Albatross - or side - by - side in two - player mode.

In the seascapes in the Washed Ashore Series, debris including discarded plastic, styrofoam, rubber, computer chips and nylon fishing line is camouflaged as it is to sea turtles, albatross and dolphins, who think the plastic is plankton, are caught in the fishing line, grow encumbered and strangled by six pack holders or become immersed in rusty colored oil slicks.

«When the stock market collapsed in late 2008, the damage already promised by the plan's failure was greatly magnified, and transformed the entire project into an albatross,» the petition alleges.

The uptick in U.S. sightings conincides with two successful Short - tailed Albatross breeding efforts, one in 2011 and one in 2012, both by the same pair of birds on Midway.

By clarifying the movements and habits of a host of species, from black - footed albatrosses to great white sharks, the tagging study could help scientists and governments focus attention on particular regions to give species the best chance of persisting even as human pressures crest.

Early this week I was sent an encouraging update from a conservation group on the status in the Hawaiian Islands of the short - tailed albatross, a remarkable ocean - roaming bird that once numbered in the millions but, devastated by the feather trade and other impacts, nearly vanished early in the 20th century.

Here's an excerpt from the release, followed by some valuable context from the biologist (and frequent Dot Earth voice) Carl Safina, whose books include the marvelous «Eye of the Albatross ``:

Birds nesting on low - lying islands being inundated by sea level rise — black - footed albatross, laysan albatross — and even the Hawaiian honeycreeper, which lives at higher altitudes, is being threatened by climate change too, in weird ways.

One nest with a couple of eggs inside was found on the Kule atoll, accompanied by two female birds; the other, on Midway atoll, contained fresh eggs and was guarded by both a male and female albatross.

Commercial fishing boats also kill tens of thousands of albatrosses and hundreds of thousands of other seabirds, mostly by longline fishing.

«Breeding albatrosses could initially benefit from these changes... However, in the long term these benefits may be offset by increased energetic costs of reaching distant foraging grounds.»

The entire region faces problems, in many cases driven by overfishing, and there has even been alarm about the condition of the albatross as it circles the southern ocean.

The photo revealed the decayed carcass of a baby albatross who'd starved with a belly full of plastic, plastic it had been fed by its mother who mistook lighters and toothbrushes and bottle caps floating in the ocean for food.

Probable extirpation of a breeding colony of short - tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) on Bermuda by Pleistocene sea - level rise