Sentences with phrase «by biting at»

With some breeds, such as Border Collies, biting or nipping is even more instinctive because of the nature of the breed - they're born and bred to herd livestock, and that's how a 50 or 60 pound dog will control a 1,000 pound cow - by biting at the heels or nose.

Savor your favorites bite by bite at home, or heat and run for quick and easy meals on the go.

I got this right out of Emily Post: «Although it is not bad manners to peel the skin halfway down and eat the fruit bite by bite at the table, it is better to peel the skin all the way off, lay the fruit on your plate, cut the banana in slices and eat with a fork.

In council elections, in Assembly elections, in European elections, in Parliamentary elections, we have increased our support bit by bit at every opportunity.

He believes that scientists have expanded our genus too much in recent years, «adding bit by bit at the end, when there really is no clear definition now of what Homo is.»

Delegates and guests are also encouraged to unwind in the gardens replete with lake and grotto and to make full use of the snooker room, tennis courts, library with fireplace followed by a bite at one of their award winning restaurants.

Not exact matches

Your Skype call goes over by five minutes, the next group is chomping at the bit trying to get into the room for their meeting, awkwardness ensues.

Insinuating that such a task might be a bit much to ask of a technology product, he said he was impressed by fitness trackers and other technology aimed at athletes and people who stay active.

And while no one likes getting bitten by mosquitoes, you might be surprised (and even a little fascinated) at the complex adaptions mosquitoes have developed to locate their favorite food sources.

The Politico co-founder says he is leaving because he has been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug again — according to Allen, he and VandeHei are looking at launching a new venture that will «change the world one more time.»

But just as Twitter has probably eaten into the edges of ESPN's market, by appealing to those who don't want to have to pay for cable just to watch sports, Facebook is going to chip away at that dominant market position as well, bit by bit.

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

It's by no means a comprehensive action plan; but Dimon's statements pull back the curtain at least a little bit.

They found that intense laughter by itself can give you a bite - size cardio workout: An hour of it can benefit you as much as a half hour of hitting it hard at the gym!

So Obama on March 22 engaged in a bit of political puffery at a storage yard owned by Transcanada, the Edmonton - based company behind Keystone.

«Most of our companies are atoms leveraging bits» — lab science aided by computing power — «and they generally take more capital and a longer time horizon to hit those key milestones,» says Lindy Fishburne, executive director at Breakout Labs and managing director at Breakout Ventures.

Even this year, the first big January release, Texas Chainsaw 3D, is every bit as bad as it sounds, at least going by its Rotten Tomatoes score, 18 %.

In other words, consumers» rather modest gains have been far surpassed by the profits reaped by corporations making stuff in China at huge reductions in cost and then lowering the price a bit on the finished retail goods.

The two streaming services pulled off a bit of a coup at Sunday night's Golden Globes, unseating Netflix for streaming supremacy at the awards show by each winning two awards despite only being nominated three times apiece.

Frankly, I don't think they are represented in the Canaccord share price, but they have been improved quite a bit by Canaccord, and they look to be at, or close to, the inflection point, when they could add serious value.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

At today's prices, industry forecasts of three million barrels per day by 2020 are likely to underestimate production by a bit, but the real kicker will be on the value of that production to all concerned — governments, via taxes and royalties, and shareholders will all suffer much lower returns from this development than they would have expected less than a year ago if prices stay where they are today.

It's surprisingly hoppy at the front, followed by a nice, malty sweetness, then a bitter bite at the end.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

«Dyslexia doesn't necessarily make people more open,» Gladwell admits at one point, before soldiering on: «But the most tantalizing possibility raised by the disorder is that it might make it a little bit easier to be disagreeable.»

Ringing today's closing bells are iShares by BlackRock at the NYSE and CNBC's Scott Wapner in celebration of his book, «When the Wolves Bite»

«While more folks are out shopping themselves out as contractors at this economy, you can be their vendor of choice by just being a bit more human,» Clark says.

AUSTRALIA is unlikely to be badly bitten by the Millennium Bug, according to information presented at the first National Infrastructure For - um on Y2K readiness.

«We were a bit surprised by the magnitude» of the cognitive effects, says Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA who oversaw the study, in a New York Times article.

Monstrum, a Copenhagen - based playground firm founded by 2 theatrical set designers, comes at it a bit differently.

Bits and pieces shed by this comet litter its orbit and bombard the Earth's upper atmosphere at 110,000 miles per hour (177,000 km / h).

It can take a customer's order bit by bit, or it can let them connect with a human customer service rep at its virtual contact center.

Over the past few days, we at Morpheus have been doing a bit of housekeeping in the portfolio of our swing trade newsletter by taking profits on winning swing trades, while bailing out of a few dogs.

The fact that this topic is popular on here may serve you well if this was expanded a bit more (which you just did with the couples angle, but perhaps looking at other data sources to help quantify what people's net worth is... and perhaps with respect to geography / cost of living... also how to maximize your relative net worth by moving to a low cost area — which I plan to do (abroad)!.

While «bit» hints at the currency's digital nature, «coin» appropriately captures how the computational instrument is actually used by society — as a currency.

By putting a little bit of money into a company's seed round, they get a seat at the table.

Still I was a bit moved by the point that these guys had «left their clients waiting for months at a time to have the materials they need to verify the existence and value of fund assets.»

By 4:40 pm EST, WTI was trading up a bit after the data, but still down on the day, at $ 51.90 with Brent Crude trading at $ 57.87.

I'd noted that Ferro's trotting out of Tronc had inspired at least oneparody, and this week I'm hearing the L.A. Times» newsroom — bitten more than once by empty business - speak — has been calling the would - be new system «Tronk.»

By the way, this also serves as a voice mail message, with just a bit of tweaking at the end.

Kagan admits to being a bit nervous at first, but by the end of six months the fledgling personal finance application had over 1 million users.

We also have Bitcoin cash which was an initiative by I believe by you know at least backed by a bit made the largest bitcoin mining company which was basically an altcoin.

But if a business is worth x and trading at 1.25 x, and is growing at 15 % for the next decade, you can see why the passivity of the latter is rewarded because the enormity of the growth overcompensates for any valuation that needs to get burned off when you overpay by a little bit.

Other people learn best just by looking at something, observing it for a bit, and then experimenting with it.

Most economists - at least not those blinded by either dogma or an over-reliance on quarterly data - who made a fundamental analysis of the state of western economies, could not help but feel that the sense of escape from calamity was a bit premature.

At that point, you need to check your record by giving a bit of government provided photographic recognisable proof like Passport, Driver's License, and others.

At the end of 2015, another Portuguese bank bit the dust, the country's seventh largest lender by assets, Banif.

They seldom delivered on the fiscal responsibility bit or the money in the bank, but they were pretty good at squeezing public services by keeping a lid on revenues other than user fees.

«The prospect of recession in Canada remains at bay for 2018, but Canadian investors should expect a bumpy ride and a fair bit of uncertainty with the housing market, NAFTA trade discussions and the potential for over-tightening by the BoC representing key downside risks,» Shailesh Kshatriya, a Toronto - based analyst at Russell, said in the firm's global outlook Wednesday.

«By specifically referring to that meeting they are basically testing the waters a bit,» said Aneta Markowska, an economist at Societe Generale in New York.