Sentences with phrase «elephant as the elephant»

Watch the elephant enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and than meet our head mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephant get saddled up for the explorer or adventure treks.

Watch the elephants enjoy their morning or afternoon bath and then meet our Head Mahout to learn about the daily life of a Sumatran elephant as the elephants get saddled - up for the «Explorer» or «Adventurer» treks.

Not exact matches

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.»

Grocery shopping shouldn't set you back more than $ 150 a month at one of the country's western style supermarket chains such as Lucky or Thai Huot or well - stocked minimarts like the famously named 7 - Elephants.

The original Hadoop remained an active toy for Cutting's son for years, the entrepreneur was always mindful of the yellow elephant's potential as a brand name.

It's unclear whether vendors view changes in buying behavior as the elephant in the room (not to be discussed) or are aware of the shift but have concluded nothing can be done.

The added mythology that the elephants are seen as gods by the other animals adds gravitas to the scene.

«A wise teacher from India shared this insight: The elephant keeps walking as the dogs keep barking.

Or as Steven S. Hoffman asserts in his new book, you have to «Make Elephants Fly,» and that requires getting outside of conventional thinking.

For the non-unicorn-obsessed, there are also T - Rex and elephant versions that stand just as tall.

At this year's Tribeca Film Festival, audiences can walk alongside the rangers protecting elephants in Africa, see what it's like to be a tree, ride in an automated taxi transporting passengers, or follow a Holocaust survivor's steps as he visits the concentration camp he was held in for the last time.

Plus there's the «$ 100 - million elephant in the room,» as Don Iveson, one of three city councillors to oppose the deal, calls a lingering gap in funding.

Besides inflating the largest real estate bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also financed many white elephant projects, such as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.

Even before The New York Times reported that the White House was considering running Sessions as a write - in candidate, it would've been pretty hard to avoid the elephant in the room: the accusations of sexual misconduct swirling around the race to fill Sessions's old seat.

«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.»

As readers might know, our particular interest is in the silver space, and that is where we see an elephant in the room that hasn't made headlines yet.

Interpol's research focused on the trade of rhinoceros, elephants, and tigers, as all international trade in those endangered species is prohibited.

When you merge your money as newlyweds, debt can become the elephant in the room.

And he's relying on friends from both camps in preparing for Sunday, when Gross will use the Super Bowl as a way to get churches around the country talking about pornography, a subject he calls «the elephant in the pew.»

The 53 - year - old has worked among elephants, lions and rhinos on several game reserves in the Kwazulu - Natal Province as a safari rest camp supervisor.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.

Chinese Christians also see in Bonhoeffer a man who dared wage war as an ant on an elephant.

There were also many mammals of the same time period which were a great deal larger than todays elephants such as the Wooly Mammoth.

Some atheists definitely cross that line, and then it becomes another faith - based belief since you can't prove the negative, that there definitely isn't a God, just as you couldn't prove definitely that there isn't an invisible, intangible elephant in your garden.

So we all marveled over this, much as you might marvel over an elephant standing on a washbucket.

Someone in the Christian meditation group I go to sees the elephant god as an an expression of God.

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.

Talk about a dying and rising Messiah was just as ludicrous to a first - century audience as talking about a purple - polka - dotted elephant.

Doing so would be like me telling you about a purple - polka - dotted elephant appearing in the sky as a way to prove to you that I had French Toast and coffee for breakfast this morning.

According to J.R. Briggs, «the elephant in the room for pastors is that many of us are afraid of failure, and we don't feel as though there are safe spaces to talk openly about it.»

Missionaries treated Africans as cartons containing souls, just as poachers reduce elephants and rhinos to carcasses: carrying tusks and horns.

Victor Paul Furnish in The Moral Teaching of Paul (1979) contrasted those who treated scripture as a sacred cow and those who considered it a white elephant.

Also, just to add, with the example for ants and elephants... animals do not have the same concept of morality as humans do.

You can learn about as much science from the quran as you can physics from «Horton Hears a Hoo»... now your sure that nest can fit an elephant?

One manuscript reads: The Cartesian idea of an animal as just a machine insults not only the elephants and whales, it insults the merest fly or plant cell.

did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier religious and cultural studies as well...

In a striking example combining metaphor and humor, Koko made a joke about being a «sad elephant» because she was reduced to drinking water through a thick rubber straw as a solution to her constant nagging one morning for more drinks of juice (IULG 534).

As the Jewish soldiers watch, their counterparts prepare elephants...

This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds of other species, all of which, while not as large and fearsome as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other living land animal.

What the religious never understand is that it makes as much sense to believe in the giant elephant in the sky as it does that some mystical all - knowing creature is actually paying attention to all of this.

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.

And the dashboard of his Toyota Prius is adorned with a small metal statue of Ganesh, an elephant - headed Hindu god known as the remover of obstacles.

The elephant, though famed as beast judicious, While on his own account he had no wishes, Pronounced dame whale too big to suit his taste; Of flesh and fat she was a perfect waste.

Let's turn our attention for a moment to the elephant in the living room, or should I say the «alleged» elephant, since Cardinal Dulles refers to «the alleged increase of homosexual tendencies among younger members in the Society of Jesus as well as in other religious orders and diocesan seminaries.»

Rabbinic Judaism knows well the imagery of an elephant going through the eye of a needle as a symbol for the impossible, (Billerbeck, Kommentar I, 828.)

There was green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born The loveliest of all was the unicorn

You'll see green alligators and long - necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born You're never gonna see no unicorns

So many smaller difficulties & I suspect several long term problems that have crippled & twisted us into our current deformity would be healed, if a few leaders used their platforms to address the elephant in the sanctuary, as it were.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

Their action suggests that, despite their recognition of elephants as pests, they also recognized that elephants had intrinsic value and had a right to live.