Sentences with phrase «for by a hunter»

But Gobo had for a time been cared for by a hunter — pampered like a domestic animal, fed, but made to wear a halter.

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«For the last couple of years, we have been hunted — this turns us back into the hunter,» explained Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb at a June 11 analyst conference on the company's new concept 365 by Whole Foods.
The gospel advocates the sharing of resources; the hero - hunter mentality nourishes itself by amassing and quantifying things for the self or its immediate extensions.
your delusional if any of it doesn't sound like an explaination of a natural event or something like death where all we have is to guess... its all stone age beliefs and some people are still as smart as ug the stone age hunter who says thank you to the gods of the plains and stars for providing animals to hunt and light to hunt by.
Though this group of heresy - hunters often say they're motivated by concern for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, their practice of labeling every diverging belief as heresy has the opposite effect.
If King's conception of the Deity or deities that inhabit our solar system is that possessed by a primitive tribe of hunter - gatherers or by one of the earliest of civilizations, one of half - human gods (chimeras) or monsters, little concerned with the fate of humanity, both capricious and threatening («As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport»), that is interesting from an anthropological perspective, but what does it have to do with «first things»?
While the «quality hunters» employed by the airline fed back to their bosses a growing appetite for tasty and healthy vegetarian meals, it seems it wasn't enough to persuade them to go the whole MFM.
Each year this private game preserve used to be invaded by armies of hunters who, along with shooting the geese, pheasants, deer, et al., shot up her NO HUNTING signs for good measure.
Dogs, pickup trucks, campfires and an occasional howl in the desolate night are the background for hunters» tales of wily predators made even more clever by civilization
By Sunday night 155 bucks had been killed, one hunter had shot himself in the foot, a $ 12,500 forest fire was burning briskly, 50 citations for illegal fires had been handed out, another six had been given for illegal discharge of firearms within a quarter mile of campgrounds and roads.
Hunters who can afford it are flying by plane into safer and better country for their sport.
The rich American client's wife is on the steps of the plane for home when, seized by heartfelt regret, she turns and flees down the ramp and into the white hunter's arms.»
A FOUR - TIME GOLD GLOVE WINNER, HUNTER, 29, HAS A TEAM - HIGH 12 STOLEN BASES FOR THE TWINS (25 - 17), WHO TRAIL CHICAGO BY FIVE GAMES IN THE AL CENTRAL
This poses a problem for the hunter which is generally best solved by baiting.
The actor is set to star in a film directed by veteran stunt coordinator Nick Powell (The Bourne Identity, X-Men: The Last Stand, Cinderella Man), which centers on Frank Walsh (Cage), a big game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white jaguar.
But if would - be outdoorsmen had to pass a test of hunting knowledge and skills to qualify for a license and then were charged $ 25 or $ 50 for a permit, most of the opening - day drunks and road hunters would stay at home where they belong, and landowners» problems would be cut at least by half.
Part could be earmarked as compensation for landowners who cooperate with the state by opening their properties and suffer property damage by hunters.
Gray and Anderson note that the old view of the hunter - gatherer family — that fathers hunt to provide meat for their kids — has been overturned by recent research on contemporary foragers.
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Exempt hunting can only take place either on land which belongs to the hunter or which he has been given permission to use for that purpose by the occupier or, in the case of unoccupied land, by a person to whom it belongs.
Hunters show their respect for the 12 - foot tall animals, which weigh 1,500 lb, by doing their best to eliminate them.
The proposal would reduce fees paid by hundreds of thousands of hunters, anglers and trappers while maintaining support for the States fish and wildlife programs.
The town also has been making it easier for hunters and hungry Long Islanders to put venison to good use by delivering deer taken during bow - hunting season to Long Island Cares, which donates the meat to food pantries.
Towards this end, states governments have been given a 21 days ultimatum to disarm vigilantees and neighbourhood watch group, hunters and watch - night men or any group or association under any capacity or guise other than statutory security agencies recognized and gazetted by the Federal Government of Nigeria to bear firearms of specified category; who are currently possessing and using prohibited / illegal firearms such as Pump action gun and the likes for whatsoever purpose.
In a letter sent to The Friends of Hunters Point Library on Jan. 27, Queens Library president Thomas Galante — who has been under fire recently over questions about his salary — said the budget discrepancy was due in part to the «complexity» of the designs for the building, conceived by well - known architect Steven Holl.
Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.
For example, narwhals in northwest Greenland have long been hunted by subsistence hunters, notes study co-author Fernando Ugarte, head of the department of birds and mammals at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk.
By testing all those samples, I identified microbes inhabiting the animal reservoirs and focused on those that showed up in the hunters» blood, making them candidates for firing up human disease.
Two wooden stakes found during excavations in east London, for example, are thought to have been part of a timber pathway used by hunters across the wetlands that covered the area 3,500 years ago.
Goja, named by Jane Goodall and the poster bird for a project to save northern bald ibises from extinction, was killed by illegal hunters
Sequence of causal and timing factors According to Hill, who has studied hunter - gatherers in South America for nearly 30 years, whether by shell beads, other kinds of gifts or through female transfer, the traits of cognition, culture and cooperation would eventually lead to specializations and government.
This boom - and - bust scenario also lines up well with arguments by some that human immigration from Europe may have artificially swelled the ranks of the passenger pigeon by eliminating their Native American hunters and foragers, who competed with the birds for nuts and other forest foods.
The study also refutes claims by Norwegian and Japanese whale hunters that hunting is necessary for scientific reasons, Clark argues: «This research shows that you can study these animals better alive than dead.»
Likewise, another popular origins trope, «Man the Hunter,» depicts evolution as driven by an early dietary shift and a dependence on males for precious meat, implying that women mated only with males who were successful hunters.
While national and international laws protect the Critically Endangered western lowland gorilla and the Endangered central chimpanzee, both subspecies continue to be threatened by hunters and traders seeking to supply the illegal commercial market and demand for bushmeat, particularly in urban areas.
By including members of a farming community that inhabit a common forest environment and speak a similar language, the new study indicates for the first time that the cultural practices of hunter - gatherers help enhance their odor - naming ability — and possibly their smell - detection skills — relative to settled peoples.
It was found by a nomadic meteorite hunter in Morocco (hence «NWA,» for Northwest Africa) who sold it to a local dealer, who sold it to a major collector named Jay Piatek, who finally donated it to the institute.
For example, red deer used to hearing rifle shots will remain relatively impassive when another deer is shot dead by a hunter.
I'm standing at the baggage carousel in Genghis Khan airport in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, accompanied by paleontologist Jack Horner and his team of dinosaur hunters, preparing for an expedition out into the badlands and way back into time.
Members of the Planet Hunters citizen science project were the first to notice it when they scoured Kepler's data for transiting worlds overlooked by professional astronomers» automated planet - hunting algorithms.
For instance, sleeping less than six hours per night may increase appetite, as some studies suggest, but a sleep - deprived office worker surrounded by fast - food joints is more likely to become obese than a physically active hunter - gatherer faced with a limited food supply.
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.
The traditional call for cooperation increased the probability of a hunter being led to a nest by a honeyguide to 66 % from 33 %, and increased the overall probability of being shown a bees» nest to 54 % from 16 % compared with the other sounds.
Led by Thomas Cucchi of National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, France, and Lior Weissbrod of the University of Haifa in Israel, the study set out to explain large swings in the ratio of house mice to wild mice populations found during excavations of different prehistoric periods at an ancient Natufian hunter - gatherer site in the Jordan Valley of Israel.
Waters thinks the sharpened bone came from the tip of a weapon that was thrust into the animal by a hunter who was aiming for the lungs, but missed.
«It is likely that they lived side by side with local hunter - gatherer populations for a period of time — centuries or even a millennium or two — with increasing contact and mixing among the two communities.»
For much of human history, our ancestors were hunter - gatherers, mostly nomadic people who lived by hunting, fishing and harvesting wild food.
Planets like Kepler - 1647b in orbit around binary stars are known as circumbinary planets, and planet hunters spot them by looking for a dimming in the light from a star as the planet transits, or passes in front of the star from our perspective.
«What is interesting and surprising is that Stone Age farmers and hunter - gatherers from the same time had entirely different genetic backgrounds and lived side by side for more than a thousand years, to finally interbreed,» Mattias Jakobsson says.
The motive for the HDST is driven in part by the discoveries of NASA's prolific planet hunter, the Kepler space observatory.
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