Sentences with phrase «for cracking the nuts»

There are birds with long beaks good for picking bugs out of holes, and birds with short thick beaks good for cracking nuts.

A. africanus has long puzzled scientists because of its massive jaws and teeth, but they now believe the species» skull design was optimal for cracking nuts and seeds.

I had to let him know that this one wasn't actually for cracking the nuts displayed on our ottoman.

My grandfathers» handcarved wood nut bowl w / mallet (bowl has a center «riser» for cracking nuts).

Not exact matches

«With a massive potential return for whoever can crack the AI nut, VCs will swarm startups in these spaces like sharks smelling chum in the water.

The philanthropist, whose usual focus is on infectious diseases in poorer countries, said Alzheimer's disease caught his interest partly for personal reasons, and partly because it has so far proved such a tough nut to crack.

As for whether a couple of highlight clips are the core of a work like an NFL game, that's a harder nut to crack.

This whole Madonna / whore dilemma is a tough nut to crack - for men and women.

You religious nuts crack me up... Believing in a book compiled, edited, and masterminded by man... You have an excuse for everything..

Grocery chains can prove to be a tough nut to crack for luxury wine brands, but ignoring them is a grave error.

Usually you hang your stocking on the eve of Dec 5th and if you have been VERY good, you get chocolates, an orange or tangerine, an apple, some nuts to crack and perhaps a small gift,, this is for my DH (he will get his favorite CD also) and the kids that live in town here,,,,,,, I was wondering, how would this travel, mailing from a cold state (WIsconsin) to an even colder state (Michigan), our temps have been 30's and low 20s at night and heaven knows WHAT upper Michigan has been,,,, at times, below zero (already!

Pour the filling over the nuts and fruit and bake at 350 F for 22 - 25 minutes or until the top is brown and cracks start to form.

Activating and drying the nuts for the base was pretty fiddly without a dehydrator (and I'm not even sure very successful) and cracking open a couple of young coconuts to scoop out the flesh was a task in itself, especially if you don't have the special little coconut axe!

Kajioka tosses chunks of red snapper in coconut milk and lime juice, then sprinkles on cracked macadamia nuts and sweet pickled onions for a most luxurious poke (see the recipe).

Dry the nuts this way for until they are dry to touch and easy to crack apart.

Put them in the oven and roast for about 15 - 20 minutes on 150 celsius, until the skin is cracked and the nuts begin to show some color.

We all know that the Blues are going to be a tough nuts to crack for the Gunners before they can re - lift the Community Shield.

Remember a few weeks ago, Arsenal fans, when the new manager of West Ham issued us with a stark warning that we would find his team an impossible nut to crack when they turned up at the Emirates stadium next Sunday for our opening game of the new Premier League season?

The Blues will no doubt be a tough nut to crack again, especially as the easing of the FFP rules means that they can spend big money to strengthen an already strong squad, but I am not so worried about our other rivals for a number of reasons.

Getting second goal is always a tough nut to crack for us.

Despite looking smallish, Montari was a hard nut to crack for Liberty.

But Zidane's second string found neighbouring Fuenlabrada a tough nut to crack for over an hour until Marco Asensio broke the deadlock from the spot, and Lucas Vazquez added a late second...

But Zidane's second string found neighbouring Fuenlabrada a tough nut to crack for over an hour until Marco Asensio broke the deadlock from the spot, and Lucas Vazquez added a late second from another penalty.

West Brom are a tough nut to crack so receiving over a full goal this is a no brainer bet for me; take the goals and back the Baggies.

In the meantime, while they still have their valuable assets at the club, Fulham are proving a difficult nut to crack for so many teams.

«For a few years Southampton have been a tough nut to crack,» he added.

But while national Democrats saw their online donations skyrocket, Internet fundraising remained a tough nut for campaign committees to crack.

The 40th Senate district has been one Democrats have eyed for the last several cycles, but has proven to be a difficult nut crack.

Many feel that Derbyshire County Council will be the toughest nut to crack in local government for us on 4th June, but one needs to remember that Labour have not faced us when there has not been a General Election on the same day since 1993... and that was not a good year for Conservatives anyway!Accordingly, we have worked hard to establish a Shadow Cabinet, engage in active but constructive opposition and really get to grips with the workings of the County Council so that we can put our vision for the future in place quickly; to employ a cliché: «to hit the ground running».

It will do Labour no harm to lower expectations about Wandsworth and Westminster because they are both very tough electoral nuts to crack, but this poll still has Labour on course for an astonishing performance in the capital,» he told the Guardian's PoliticsWeekly podcast.

For Atiku, President Olusegun Obasanjo is his major nut to crack.

Some chimps use rocks to crack nuts, others fish for termites with blades of grass and a gorilla has been seen gauging the depth of water with the equivalent of a dipstick, but no animal wields tools with quite the alacrity of the New Caledonian crow.

If a monkey thinks one stone might not be up for the job of cracking the sturdy nuts — say, because it is too light or too likely to crumble — it will not waste time with it.

Either the capuchin will look for a natural anvil to crack the nut with a hammer stone, and eat it immediately, or it will leave the nut on the ground and return to crack and eat it days, weeks, or even months later.

A hard nut for a modeler to crack.

A world - class climber since his student days, Reppy is famous for his invention and promotion of clean - climbing techniques, in which the nuts that hold the rope are wedged into existing, natural cracks in rock faces rather than banged in like pitons.

«If the specific behavior of nut cracking with stone tools is posited for our last common ancestor, then one would expect a series of stone - tool sites that resemble those made by chimpanzees to be found in sediments dating to between 2.6 million and 5 million years ago,» Ambrose says.

THE MEANING «This is an important paper because it provides evidence for the minimum age of the chimpanzee behavior of cracking nuts with stone tools,» says Stanley Ambrose, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

Mercader and Boesch decided to track the chimp nut - cracking habit back in time by digging into the sandy, muddy rain forest soil nearby for evidence of older tools.

The armoured harvestman is too hard a nut for most predators to crack.

IF YOU»RE impressed that chimps can use tools to hunt or crack nuts, wait till you hear what they do when foraging for honey.

Plus, the researchers tested the stones for food residue, including the five nuts chimps are known to crack and eat as well as 24 varieties of nuts and other starches that humans exploit in the region.

The antiquity of the stones means that chimpanzees have been cracking nuts since long before human farmers reached the region — one explanation for the ability of modern chimps to use hammer stones and anvils to open food.

For example, chimpanzees use sticks to «fish» for ants and termites, stones to crack nuts, as well as tools for grooming and communicatiFor example, chimpanzees use sticks to «fish» for ants and termites, stones to crack nuts, as well as tools for grooming and communicatifor ants and termites, stones to crack nuts, as well as tools for grooming and communicatifor grooming and communication.

The record which currently stands at 51 in a minute and is held by Jason Petzold of the USA is a tough nut to crack but well worth going for.

The health coaching business is a tough nut to crack, but not for the reasons you might expect.

The study calculated that not eating enough nuts and seeds was the third - leading dietary risk factor for death and disability in the world, killing more people than processed meat consumption, and potentially leading to the deaths of 15 times more people than all those who die from overdoses of heroin, crack cocaine, and all other illicit drugs combined.

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Predictions for the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations have become a much harder nut to crack recently.