Sentences with phrase «even by elephant»

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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.

Where birds have flashy colors and some flowers even eat meat, where lions rule and snakes bite too, where elephants roam above them all yet get terrified by a little mouse.

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

He attends a festival arranged by Kamsa, the bad king, bends and breaks a bow which not even the gods could bend, tears out the tusk of a great elephant which sought to trample him, and kills the beast, and finally slays Kamsa himself.

The thought of fermenting coffee beans by feeding them to small cat - like civits or large elephants only to collect them again at the other end of the digestive process sounded unappetizing and cruel to Edgar Salgado — even if it produces a less bitter...

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»

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.

Thus, the authors overemphasise the importance of funding by failing to stress that other factors, such as the size of the area surveyed, the number of vehicles used and even whether the ban was in force or not, were also statistically significant predictors of the number of elephant carcasses found.

Sadly, the information gathered by Dublin and colleagues was limited in terms of quantity and quality and the report gives an unsatisfactory picture of the situation in some countries, sometimes even excluding the most important elephant populations.

Even without the palm oil, it faces a myriad of other threats, from raids by bush meat hunters trapping and shooting primates, antelopes and elephants, to incursions from illegal loggers and miners prospecting for iron ore.

Males will vary their fruit diet on occasion by driving their hardened, fruit - piercing mouthparts into mammals, such as cattle, tapirs and even elephants and humans, for a drink of fresh blood.

A HUNGRY elephant is normally too big, tough and smart to deter, so can devastate crops and even end up being killed by humans.

Researchers have discovered that African elephants can tell certain human languages apart and even determine our gender, relative age, and whether we're a threat just by listening to us.

Steroids are like the pink elephant in the room that everybody ignores, even though it's no secret that they are regularly used by all of the top bodybuilders.

Bad guys are bludgeoned, blown up and even crushed by an elephant, and the two duffers take a lassez - faire attitude toward disposing of them.

Patty Jansen presents Before you even start self - publishing posted at Must Use Bigger Elephants, saying, «I recently attended an event for extreme newbies in self - publishing, and came away with a couple of thoughts that are fundamental to anyone considering self - publishing, but don't seem to be understood by some people who are just dipping their toes in.»

You can sit, listen to the silence and watch fishermen drift by (and maybe even the odd elephant).

Take morning and evening game drives accompanied by expert guides, and choose two of the following activities: go on a bush walk, join a photographer in a hide to capture close - ups of wildlife (select departures), take a game drive, or mountain bike along elephant trails.

I arrive in late afternoon and am rewarded by the sight of over 250 elephants milling around on the edge of the lake, some of them taking the opportunity to have an early evening bath, as the sun sinks on the horizon.

The evening included a performance by traditional Bollywood dancers, a sit - down Indian banquet and even a mechanical elephant parading up and down in front of Tower Bridge.

There have been almost 9 months since the game was conceived and, even though human babies see the light of day by this time, baby games tend to be more like elephants and stay in development for quite a bit longer.

In this Legend of Zelda inspired game, players take on the role of an adorable elephant named Yono, to solve puzzles with their trunk and fight enemies by spraying air, water, and even fire at them.

Even by the standards of a prize that has been contested by Chris Offili's elephant dung paintings, Tracey Emin's soiled bed and dirty knickers and Damien Hirst's sliced and pickled animals, Creed's work is widely considered exceptionally odd and is likely to quicken debate about the prize's future.

There's a certain gee - whiz aspect to research hinting that old elephant matriarchs, during severe drought, lead their kin to distant watering holes at locations that were evidently seared into memory from dry times in their youth decades earlier — even as elephant groups led by younger females stay behind and suffer.

From what I understand, even elephants are on the fast - track out of the Bronx: the zoo's «herd» will apparently be thinned out by attrition and ultimately rendered extinct.

CITES actually permitted and even encouraged China's domestic market by allowing a «one - off» sale of African ivory to China in 2008 — a decision that clearly ignited the massive surge in elephant slaughter, which is growing more devastating each year.

Even better, according to another study by the same University, elephants can tell whether a human is friendly or a threat by their scent and color of clothing.

«Living next to you,» Trudeau told an American audience in a speech to the National Press Club in 1969, «is like sleeping with an elephant; no matter how friendly and even - tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.»

I'll begin by addressing the elephant in the room: iDriveSafely has very low pricing compared to many competitors including even classroom based defensive driving courses.

Where birds have flashy colors and some flowers even eat meat, where lions rule and snakes bite too, where elephants roam above them all yet get terrified by a little mouse.

The one elephant in the room when recommending this phone is that the Nexus 5X from LG has arguably better — or similar — specs (the Snapdragon 808 probably being its most marked difference), and is blessed by Google to get its updates at least 15 days before even the GPE - ish unlocked version of the One A9.