Sentences with phrase «feathers by»

Benedict Cumberbatch has ruffled feathers by telling Reader's Digest that the second series of Downton Abbey was «f *** ing atrocious».

You might ruffle a few feathers by asking for cash for a trip, but most people won't mind.

Make sure you do not ruffle your clients» feathers by failing to respond to communications.

from 18 June — 8 September 2013 includes a series of works playing on the idea of the absurd, from a large polar bear covered in yellow feathers by Paola Pivi to a Christmas tree by Philippe Parreno.

Hanging from the ceiling by guitar strings, spent bullet casings embellished with human hair and feathers by Garland Martin Taylor force visitors to «dodge bullets» as they walk through the installation.

Damien Hirst also ruffled some liberal feathers by happily rubbing shoulders with billionaires at the last Davos summit.

Clark showcases the feathers by capturing the intricacies and details in close up views as well as pulled back views to exhibit them more fully.

Fur Before Feathers by Roh Morgon — The choices between right and wrong take on a few extra twists in this coming - of - age tale about a young shapeshifter.

Best First Book Black Bird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel His Perfect Partner by Priscilla Oliveras Take the Lead by Alexis Daria The Thing with Feathers by McCall Hoyle Waltzing with the Earl by Catherine Tinley

Overdrive has been one of the most longstanding primer partners, but the company tends to ruffle publishers» feathers by loaning out the library ebooks to Kindle e-Readers.

Avoid the feathers by running between the clumps then when the Pointy Tucks come in, run to the gaps to avoid them.

Director David Yates clearly has his sights set on franchise country again — since rounding off the POTTER cinematic saga he ruffled the BBC's feathers by putting a new Doctor Who film in development, with TARZAN perhaps forming another opening gambit until that can be finalized.

Yet Schembechler did ruffle a few feathers by saying that a win over the Irish wasn't as important as a win over Michigan State, Ohio State or anybody else in the Big Ten.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department sought on Friday to strike a delicate balance between the use of bald eagle feathers by Native American tribes and federal protection of the nation's symbolic bird.

«What I tell them is, 9 times out of 10, if you've moved assets into some kind of trust at a place like the Cayman Islands and something goes wrong with your business, you will be tarred and feathered by the idea that you've behaved improperly, whether or not you really have.

They just nod and smile and talk about God when asked, because they know they'll get tarred and feathered by the whackjobs if they don't.

The only payment I foresee is the chance to be tarred and feathered by the crazies when the new Lutheran book finally comes out.

The $ 1.3 billion - plus chicken float is feathered by an eye - popping up to $ 200 million cost reduction target.

Ill probably get tarred and feathered by the Arsenal armchair experts out there for stating this but I wouldn't mind seeing Wenger putting in a cheeky $ 30 - 35 million bid for both Wanyama and Mane from Southampton.

If you can do that movement somewhere else, but you're taking up the location of a place where only specific exercises can be done, you might be tarred and feathered by the locals.

However, be prepared to maintain their feathering by trimming periodically.

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The mere possession of an eagle feather by a non-Indian can result in fines and imprisonment, even if the feather came from a bird butchered by a wind turbine: up to $ 100,000, a year in prison or both for a first offense.

Here's how Mclaughlin constructed it: beginning with a wood - based body, he builds this hummingbird feather by feather.

You don't have to apply each feather by hand because it's actually a feather boa wrapped around a wreath ring.

Not exact matches

«Zappos gives us a critical mass,» says Oscar Goodman, the brash former Las Vegas mayor, known for having brokered the deal that brought Zappos downtown and for his tendency to appear in public only when flanked by showgirls in full bustier - and - feather regalia.

Among the changes announced internally this week are revampings aimed partly at improving Canadian Tire's dealings with its store owners, whose feathers have been ruffled by some tech overhauls, sources said.

I personally use a safety razor as I really appreciate that close shave without the risk of ingrown hairs and the amount of money I save by purchasing feather blades is a great plus as well.

A lot of folks who use safety razors swear by Feather blades, which are notoriously the sharpest on the planet.

Some people complain about it being too mild, but it was designed to be used with Feather blades, which are by far some of the sharpest and best blades on the market (check out our review to see why).

Economists are rightly skeptical of moral arguments about market abuse, as such arguments are usually followed by legislation that protects companies of the old, stodgy type from young upstarts or that just feathers a nonmarket or quasi-market nest.

I do eblieve Moses was a hypocrite and an true Joo who took advantage of the opportunity of making a feather bed for himself by taking things he learned from the Egyptian book of the dead and preaching them to his Jooish buddies like a tru Joo his istinct of being a predator came out.

Perhaps you will be confronted by angry Allah (Zeus, Jupiter, Feathered serpent, whatever) asking you why you did not pray 5 times a day to Mecca.

just like a velociraptor was an early form of a bird, we know this by looking at its dna (which we now have), they had feathers and their closest genetic relative alive today is an ostrich.

The Coyotes out my back door eat meat, as testified by the occasionally scattered feathers around my chicken coop, but my dog doesn't eat meat.

To see Plato through fourth - century Athenian eyes as just another young aristocrat, his dialogues a way to attract a following by which to further his own political agenda or feather his nest financially, is to strip away the later accretions of canonicity and to see him for what he was rather than for what the Western world has made of him.

Stirred to rise by a falling foot, feathered seeds graceful on the breeze drift towards the dawn....

Maybe «trouble» is too strong, but I've ruffled feathers, and it makes life uncomfortable, especially when you're challenging the fundamental building blocks of vision, strategy or values, or whatever it is that is held dear by a community.

Unfortunately, I have been «stripped, whipped, tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail» by my own family members for simply STATING that if I found out, or «heard a whisper of a finger being laid on my niece» who was going to stay with my abuser and his enabler, I «would go to the authorities and this time I would and legally could have him put in jail.»

In back of each lodge stands a cedar pole 15 feet high, with colored cloths and a single feather teased by the wind.

Unless it extends to «tickled with feathers», the «degree» of punishment seems dwarfed to insignificance by the length of the sentence.

Yet there is no trace of communication by learned symbolic languages among reptiles, of hair or feathers among amphibians, of the auditory apparatus of land vertebrates, or of legs or wings, among the fish.

They affirm that it was this idol that had commanded them to leave their own country, promising them that they would be the rulers and the chiefs of all the provinces which had been settled by the other six tribes; of a land greatly abounding in gold, silver, precious stones, feathers, and rich shawls, and every costly thing conceivable...

This book is going to ruffle some feathers as I not only challenge the practices of baptism and communion (die to your rites), but also raise questions about the legal rights of Christians to the freedom of speech, to bear arms, and to various other rights guaranteed by the «First Amendment» and the «Bill of Rights.»

By focusing on the boundaries, we might think of wings and feathers and two legs and eggs.

Keep therefore your feathers on and try hard not to be swooned by the ugly duckling's alter ego.

At a recent conference sponsored by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua ruffled feathers, to put it gently.