Sentences with phrase «described as an elephant»

But BECCS is also described as an elephant in the climate mitigation room, criticized both as a false and unproven solution to reduce emissions and for the risks it poses to ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities through the potential for land grabbing and human rights abuses.

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And Lewis at one point has a character's internal monologue describe the «entire history of Wall Street» as the «story of scandals... linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.»

«The problem we have is, we have a president who will use that as fodder to do his mission,» said New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, describing Trump's provocations about kneeling players as «the elephant in the room.»

«I always describe New York as an elephant's graveyard for ovaries,» he said.

Sweden «Breast warmers,» which BabyCenter editor Carina Westling describes as «a cross between a baby elephant's ear and a 1980s shoulder pad, that you stuff into your bra to hold in body heat,» are popular among new mothers.

They described the Job 600 as a white elephant project, when Nkrumah was putting it up to host the 2nd Organization of African Unity (OAU) Conference in Accra in 1965.

The pressure group in a statement indicated that, the President's appointment of what critics have described as «elephant - sized» cabinet will only lead to corruption.

Margaret Thatcher was once described by Tory MP Julian Critchley as «the great she elephant, she who must be obeyed».

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 ouAs 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 ouas an «elephant trap» and a «blunderbuss approach», the Tories point out.

The results of a genetic study described today in the journal Science, however, indicate that the elephants form distinct groups and thus merit recognition as separate species.

By making it easier to see live exotic animals, the menagerie functioned as a «prescientific laboratory» that made obsolete earlier sources of beastly lore: illustrated encyclopedias called bestiaries that described not only elephants, lions, and crocodiles but also dragons, griffins, unicorns, and talking pigs.

One of the elephants has a baby inside of it, which the researchers described as «a rare way to represent a pregnant animal».

Films which seemed to be impressed by their high - profile literary and theatrical pedigrees were famously described by Manny Farber as «white elephant art», technically accomplished but fundamentally hollow spectacles, «films that do not actively use their visual register to produce meaning» (18).

Brandon Nowalk reviews Arabian Nights, which he describes as the blind men's elephant: miniseries and short story cycle, documentary and fantasy, proletarian and prohibitive.

The one who feels the tail thinks an elephant is something like a rope; the one who feels a leg describes it as being like a column, etc..

No fool she, Friedman, who with Harry Bingham mounted a fine author survey led by The Bookseller earlier this year, goes right to those guys at the zoo — «It's the old parable about blind men trying to describe an elephant» (drink)-- and she then points, as must we all, to that other large animal in the room:

As someone who can not imagine life without travel and lives in what can only be described as a constant state of wanderlust while being in a relationship, I felt that it's time to finally address the elephant in the rooAs someone who can not imagine life without travel and lives in what can only be described as a constant state of wanderlust while being in a relationship, I felt that it's time to finally address the elephant in the rooas a constant state of wanderlust while being in a relationship, I felt that it's time to finally address the elephant in the room.

Best described as a cross between iconic sidescrollers Mega Man and the aforementioned Sonic the Hedgehog, TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT is an idyllic combination of a high speed collectathon and methodic platformer.

Sun Tzu has very little to say about attacking an entrenched force that holds high ground, consists of greater numerical superiority and contains elephants, chariots and what can only be described as «great balls of fire.»

Suffocated by his image as the «elephant dung YBA», painter Chris Ofili left 12 years ago to live and work in Trinidad... Here he describes the island's strange hold on him, now revealed in the extraordinary tapestry The Caged Bird's Song

Where so many artists tend to discover a style and then steadily pursue it through endless repetitions, Polke, as one critic described him, «was more like a rogue elephant on the rampage».

Over the past five years or so, as the poaching of elephants has swelled to record numbers, environmentalists and researchers have pointed a finger firmly at China's ravenous appetite for ivory as the main cause for what is now widely described as a crisis.

Unfortunately it is a very large elephant, is charging ahead, and is subject to certain laws of physics as described by Newton: