Sentences with phrase «by this whale of»

As the rhyming text bounces evenly along, young readers will be swept away by this whale of a friendship tale.

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The current market is dealing with one whale of a black eye caused by suspicion over high - frequency trading and its stranglehold on market activity.

Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.

Bruno Mars started out by impressively whaling on the drums, then broke into his hit «Locked Out of Heaven,» and the rest was history.

Speaking at conference hosted by Morgan Stanley and broadcast online, JPMorgan Chairman & CEO Jamie DImon used strong language to emphasize his defense of the bank's disclosures in the wake of the London Whale losses.

In Texas, it was not a sense of guilt over paying money to watch majestic orca whales prevented from swimming freely at sea because they're forced to perform tricks in comparatively small enclosures at the behest of misguided trainers who could very well be maimed when SeaWorld's whales are eventually driven insane by the hopelessness of their situation that kept audiences away earlier this year.

Its cold, deep waters are inhabited by chinook and coho salmon, pods of majestic orca whales and Kinder Morgan's Westridge Marine Terminal.

I started out by owning a small pie of these whale.

In so doing, they rejected government ownership of cod fishery on the basis of Britain's failure to strengthen its whaling industry by nationalization, and they rejected outright subsidies to the wealthy owners who controlled the boats and warehouses on the basis that any government tax credits had to include workers.

A study on humpback whales by ecologists from Denmark and Australia has revealed that baby whales communicate with their mothers in whispers to avoid the risk of attention from predators and other mating whales.

Another term for price manipulation is «buy walls» and «sell walls» often initiated by a group of individuals in the crypto market, known as «whales.»

The late spike was understandable (and debated at the time) as any larger whales would have wanted to try to asses what total percentage of the ultimate supply they were likely to grab by diving in a the last minute — knowing what it was looking likely to be based on the previous 10 - 12 days of inflow — which was public, of course.

Known as the «London Whale» saga for risky gambles in derivatives in London, the bank was the subject of an intense investigation by the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

Several factors contributed to the drop, including a fresh warning from the SEC targeting digital currency exchanges and the unloading of $ 400 million worth of bitcoin by a renowned Tokyo whale.

In 2015, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Financial Research released a report written by Jill Cetina, John McDonough, and Sriram Rajan, which revealed that JPMorgan's London Whale trades were actually a capital relief trade — an effort to gin up its capital through derivatives.

Q. 4 It is only acceptable as an adult to believe childish Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine by magic, mana falling from the sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts, gods and demons in the field of:

I would also question the judgement of a person who believes in a virgin woman giving birth, a worldwide flood where all the animals in the world were able to fit in an ark, a man who was swallowed by a whale for three days and survived, etc..

I remember someone reading me a story about a man being swallowed alive by a shark and surviving after several days, and that this was proof of the story of Jonah and the whale.

It is hard to say just what Moby - Dick, Melville's greatest and most famous work, really is: a metaphysical Romantic tragedy about Captain Ahab's sexual obsession with an enormous white whale; an immense picaresque comedy about sailing; or a serio - comic grand opera that begins with the narrating Ishmael bored by the streaming crowds of New York and ends with him alone in the ocean, floating on the harpooner Queequeg's coffin.

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

Why should we be encouraged by the story of Jonah and the whale?

In the title poem «In the Shadow of the Gourd,» a character very much like Jonah is swallowed by a whale.

The process is already beginning to produce changes in Christian of edited by Frank Whaling).

Literally the people that «think / believe» the Bible says such and such, and have it wrong (again, there is no mention of apples or whales, but many think Eve ate one, and Jonah was swallowed by the other).

Those who are offended by the claim that horses or chimps or whales (OFD; also see OOTM 13, WM 49) deserve more respect than the fetus in the early stages of pregnancy usually resort to a type of question - begging which Peter Singer calls «speciesism»: the human fetus in the early stages of pregnancy deserves moral respect just because it is human.

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

In the play Angels in America, Prior, a character living with AIDS, describes the arrival of his ancestor, a ship captain who made his living by bringing whale oil to the Old World and immigrants to the New World.

If intrinsic value is «measured» by richness of experience, it follows that creatures such as primates and whales have more intrinsic value than worms and mosquitoes.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

As soon as an animal becomes of no more use to humans, as for example when the products now used from whales are superseded by synthetics, then there are no arguments left for the preservation of whales except that we like looking at them.

If any species evolved the ability to speak as we do, things would definitely, be extremely different, by the way it is proven that most species «CAN» communicate to each other among their own species, Whales, porpoises, dogs, birds, etc.etc.etc, and many can tell what the voice and actions of another species mean.

Which judging by the rest of the comments on this topic, is actually a requirement, so I'm in good company (Mark from Middle River take note — It was Sea Shepherd who had their boat run over by the whaling ship, not Greenpeace, and whilst I agree the boat was a beauty, I don't think ramming it is in the same league of destroying works of art (regardless of how bad) the topic refers to)

Erich Fromm has made a very interesting point about the story of Jonah and the whale: When Jonah is swallowed by the whale, he returns to the womb.

In the debate over whether a man could literally be swallowed by a whale, or a great fish, and live therein for three days, the real significance of the book has often been lost.

And much of the early demand driving whaling was for whale oil, which was later superseded by petroleum.

It was 20 November 1978, and the last whale had just been killed by an Australian - based whaling company off the WA coast, after two centuries of slaughter and the deaths of tens of thousands of animals.

Celebrity chefs slated to headline events throughout the week: Rick Moonen of rm Seafood and Rx Boiler Room; Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill; Michelle Bernstein of Cena by Michy; Marcus Samuelsson of Red Rooster Harlem, Ginny's Supper Club, and Streetbird Rotisserie; Cosmo Goss of The Publican Restaurant; Erling Wu - Bower of Nico Osteria; Suzette Gresham of Acquerello; Gale Gand, acclaimed pastry chef; television personalities, Dan Smith and Steve McDonagh, the Hearty Boys; Stephanie Prida of Manresa; Renee Erickson of The Whale Wins, Boat Street Café, The Walrus and the Carpenter, and Barnacle; Steve Santana of Taquiza; Justin Woodward of Castagna; Dean James Max of DJM Restaurants, and Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd.

That's in part because it was driven by rally legends such as Juha Kankkunen, Tommi Makinen, and Carlos Sainz, but also because of that colossal whale - tail rear wing.

At 0925 hours Crewman Jonah of the starboard watch fell overboard and was eaten by a whale.

Jono and Mikey «brothers» Matasar were joined by Colin «stretch armstrong» Rice (aka All Stars of the Suburbs VBall Tourney) and just whaled spike after spike after spike..

Mr. and Mrs. Gwynne Evans of that city live in a famous island showplace, one of «The Three Bricks,» the Main Street mansions built by a prosperous whaling man for his three sons.

Plus, as may happen with other sound machines or apps on your phone, you won't be driven to the brink of insanity by the Dohm, by waiting for the loop to «click over» into the next cycle, or by waiting for that sixth whale tone or bird call, or be totally creeped out at 2 a.m. by the sound of a beating heart (oh yes, that's a sound machine option, too).

Introduce this to your child by reading them the story of Jonah and the whale in your favourite children's bible.

To keep the kiddos from bumping their head on the waterspout, try this whale of a cover by Skip Hop.

When you buy the Fisher - Price Precious Planet Whale of a Tub you know that you are doing the best for your little one during bath time because this product is backed by the trusted Fisher - Price name.

Sculptures of a humpback whale mother and her calf, donated by Shedd Aquarium, greet people entering the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, which opened today.

While Scenic Caves Road provides easy access to the North end of the site, the South end could only be reached by driving down a steep ridge, or «whale's back», from the Scenic Caves Nature Adventures entrance.

Go with one of the fun pools made by Intex, like the Whale Spray pool or the Royal Castle pool.

One of the marine conservation folks at my day job passed along this little critter yesterday — it's an online game that uses the classic Space Invaders model, only this time you're a whale trying to stop Japanese whaling ships by «bumping» them from below with globs...