Sentences with phrase «by elephants in»

Make of it what you want, but the guy is all Arsenal — quick feet, sharp mind, slick passing, he was excellent, but of course overshadowed by the elephant in the room.

Perhaps it's the embers flying about for no apparent reason, the sinister Single White Female vibe given off by the elephant in the background, the tightrope walker up above appearing out of thin air or the humourous direction of Robert Pattinson's eyesight.

Not exact matches

«Almost by definition, huge infrastructure projects, especially those in the developing world, are white elephants,» says Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

Brandon Spear knew he had his work cut out for him the first time he visited Rustenburg, a mining town in northern South Africa that has about 100,000 residents and is surrounded by free - roaming lions and elephants.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's biggest event of the year, its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, by wasting no time addressing the elephant in the room: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

No discussion of present market conditions would be complete, of course, without discussing the elephant in the room, which is the continued policy of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.

A term coined by Michele Wucker, an American policy wonk, it refers to a «highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan.»

In fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanisIn fact some of the evidence you didn't mention which was popular fodder in the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanisin the past has already been proven incorrect (horses in the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanisin the americas before the spanish, and the BofM reference to elephants) Both considered ridiculous errors by Joseph Smith until elephants appeared on ancient Mayan / Incan temples and horses from the Brea tar pits were dated before the spanish.

@David The Book of Mormon mentions several animals, plants, and technologies that are not substantiated by the archaeological record between 3100 BC to 400 AD in America, including the following: ass, cow, horses, ox, domesticated sheep, swine, goats, elephants, wheat, barley, silk, steel, swords, scimitars, chariots and other elements.

Another «elephant in the room» problem with the «virgin» business, is the question of why, if the point of the text in Mathew is that Mary was a virgin, (to say nothing of the problem raised by the fact that the gospels say he had «brothers», ie James etc), but why does Mathew spend so much time going througn the geneology.

Indeed, in the short run there can be little doubt that the poor could profit from the slaughter of the remaining elephants by selling the ivory and farming the land.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

The problem is many Christians want to think it's been defined by their god but all social animals, from ants to elephants, have modified their behaviors, by restraining selfishness in order to make group living worthwhile.

«This has never been done by a committee,» but «it's been an elephant in the room, an unaddressed issue for years: What are we doing with respect to the sexual health of our children?

I deeply admire whales and elephants, and a person in a coma, or an early fetus, is less impressive by far to me.

We are then very pleased, as part of the debate strongly requested by the Pope, to have stirred up discussion, as exhibited on our Letters page, concerning one particular elephant in the room: namely the Church's traditional emphasis upon the primacy of the procreative end of the marital act.

From the story: Beginning in May, the government will lift a 13 - year ban on elephant culls, which are usually carried out by shooting entire herds, including....

Innovative Bites is expanding its savoury snack range by launching of «squeezed» elephant pretzels in the UK.

On New Year's Eve, Fay and the group he was leading through a national park in Gabon were charged by a female elephant.

These ranged from Trump's sons, The Donald Jr. and Eric - photographed in 2012 sawing off the tails of elephants, hanging 13 - foot crocodiles by a noose off from branches, and clinging gleefully to the carcass of a slumped leopard, to Wells Tower's searing 2014 GQ account of an elephant hunt, to more recent viral outrages, such as the woman who posed with the giraffe she shot and called it a «very dangerous animal» and Walter Palmer, the dentist recently vilified for killing Cecil, a beloved Zimbabwe lion.

The days of players of such limited ability paid millions of pounds of OUR (by this I mean supporters) money are coming to an end.For this Wenger has himself to blame as his tired broken down ways have been found out.Yes of course we want our players to be loyal but the players who we have called out over the years SÁNCHEZ RVP THE BLOKE WHOOSE DAD WASHED ELEPHANTS NASRI were all Wenger signings and showed as much loyalty and gratitude to him as much as the Club.Sign the right players and put them in a winning team is the first step.Win trophies and Pay them well and then you will see Loyalty.

Whatever the encouraging indicators provided by medical research, those signs of progress are of minor import compared with the elephant in racing's living room, around which most everyone steps gingerly in various states of denial: drugs at the track.

Side by side we moved in crouched position toward the elephants.

From the moment I saw my first elephant in Africa, I was frightened by its size and the unpredictable things about it which I didn't know.

The Elephants» Graveyard, unkind Europeans called the NASL, but a parallel closer to home might be those stud farms in Kentucky where the great horses of the past, the Secretariats and Spectacular Bids, the Alydars and Affirmeds, can be seen by the curious, peacefully grazing.

«I am remembering that if I shoot this elephant with this cartridge, using a 300 - grain bullet at 3,000 feet per second, that it will be the first elephant ever shot by a bullet traveling at that speed, for no other elephant rifle in the world nearly approaches this speed.»

The African white hunter's confidence in the ballistic sanity of Yankee riflemakers has been restored recently by Winchester's introduction of its.458 Model 70, The African, designed to take care of elephant and rhino with a heavy bullet of the kind the African hunter knows and respects.

It is the elephant in the rom at the moment, and yesterday Arsene Wenger tried to justify it by blaming «other factors» for the defeats.

The glowing potential has long been overshadowed by the presence of players such as Sebastien Squillaci, Marouane Chamakh and Andre Santos, who all help to make up the worryingly large number of Elephants in The Gunners» dressing room.

Remind yourself of all of the places you've traveled by repurposing a decorative globe and elephant to serve as artistic bookends and corral your treasures in a unique storage box that can be disguised as a weathered book.

Some they guess based only on facial expressions like a tongue flickering in and out indicating a snake or an arm in front if the nose to signify a trunk accompanied by elephant sounds.

No fewer than 62 Elephants have been slaughtered by suspected park rangers over non payment of salaries in Zimbabwe.

Their German counterparts, by contrast, scattered their work among many projects and tended to prize engineering virtue above practicality, yielding tanks like the Tiger that may have been individually superior in battle but were few in number and often «white elephants» that broke down in the field.

The NPP, has a shared doctrine, the elephant symbol and red, blue and white colours of the Republican Party, whilst the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), has been linked to the Democrats in the US currently led by former First Lady, Hillary Clinton.

And Cambridge Analytica is one point of focus through which we can see all these relationships in play; it also reveals the elephant in the room as we hurtle into a general election: Britain tying its future to an America that is being remade - in a radical and alarming way - by Trump.

DA Fitzpatrick says he also sees some problems created by the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which he calls the «elephant in the room».

Commenting further, the NPP firebrand said the elephant family is poised to winning all the 47 parliamentary seats in the region, insisting that all the four seats currently being occupied by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) will be won from them.

The sacrifices many dedicated men and women endured to give our party life and succour has been abused and trampled upon by some in a manner even the elephant will be envious of»

But then elephants are being shot at by Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who is in turn hit with liquid rainbows.

Fitzpatrick says he also sees some problems created by the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which he calls the elephant in the room.

Mr. Bagbin who was speaking in Tamale at the campaign launch of the Tamale South Constituency played up the infrastructure built by the NDC government and appealed to the electorate to reject the elephant party because it symbolizes destruction.

As a result Liberal Democrat peers have described amendments whipped by their colleagues in the lower house as an «elephant trap» and a «blunderbuss approach», the Tories point out.

In his State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did, indeed, tout the same sort of white elephant already being chased by states and cities across the country.

The fiscal «elephant in the room,» Mr. Trotta said, «is the 28 percent pay increase in an eight - year contract» agreed to by the Bellone administration.

«Making reference to projects like «the multibillion naira Opon Imo, a contract that was allegedly awarded to or co-ordinated by the governor's son, N20.9 billion garment factory, RLG factory, white elephant Osun Airport that has gulped billions of Osun people's money, it is unfathomable how Aregbesola is able to sleep in the night knowing full well that his government is running on deceit.

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A Window on Eternity chronicles Wilson's exploration of the recovering wilderness (now a national park) by helicopter, in an elephant - proof Jeep, and even on hands and knees.