Sentences with phrase «from thickets»

The buffalo lowered and raised its head, snorting in its efforts to free itself from the thickets in which its charge had unexpectedly ensnared it.

No ram was heard bleating from the thicket.

Researchers working at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda spotted an adult female mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) using a thick bamboo shoot to help her distressed infant climb from a thicket on the jungle floor to her higher perch (shown above), the team reports this month in Behavioural Processes.

I emerge from the thicket of twirling branches and creepers to be faced with a burnt orange sandstone cliff face.

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We again thank for their patience and appreciation our customers in our Spring Branch service area who have endured among the longest outages resulting from the catastrophic flooding brought by Hurricane Harvey including the subdivisions of Fleetwood, Meadows of Memorial, Memorial Thicket, Nottingham Forest, Nottingham Oaks, River Forest, Talia Trails, Thornwood, Winchester, Yorkchester and others in the Memorial area.

CAYO COCO, Cuba — Uprooted mangrove thickets are still piled up behind the beaches along Cuba's north coast, interspersed with shards of concrete and steel and other flotsam left over from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.

Some of these agreements have resulted in significant market opening; others have been of lower standard and have dodged the tough issues necessary to maximize income gains from trade; still others have resulted in trade diversion rather than trade creation and have created a so - called «noodle bowl» of overlapping and sometimes contradictory agreements that have become a thicket of regulations that businesses often find difficult to understand.

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

There is a visual hint that Chagall connected the last words of Jesus from the cross with the ram «hung up on the thicket.»

The perimeter consists of the hottest chiles interspersed with thorny thickets of sissal, from which poles and cord fiber are made.

Well, one day a letter arrived at this magazine, unsolicited and buried deep in the envelope thickets of a mailbag, from a Yates Center barber.

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

Witness Geishas darting from one liaison to the next, or amble through one of the famous bamboo thickets.

A few miles from their base was Dzanga Bai — a rare gathering spot for forest elephants, which spend most of their lives hidden in the jungle thickets of central Africa.

Rules meant to protect the United States from sharing important scientific secrets with its enemies have created a thicket of red tape that is hindering the work of high - tech companies, scientists who want to collaborate with foreigners, and even efforts to equip U.S. soldiers with up - to - date weapons.

Alan Organschi, a Connecticut architect who teaches at Yale, wants to turn four blocks of downtown New Haven into a thicket of wooden mid-rise buildings ranging from six to eight stories.

Each one sprouts a thicket of pipes and tubes, and under the udders, plastic trays catch drips from ice that sheathes the joints between teats and tubes.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

He'd been studying plant diversity, and this flower, curiously emerging from a twisted thicket of vines, seemed to defy all rules.

Spanish scientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal then used Golgi's stains to demonstrate that the brain is a thicket of branching cells, and he hypothesized that electricity jumped from one neuron to the next.

The guava trees form a dense, mid-level thicket that blocks most light from reaching the ground and stifles young native plants.

ML Monique Lhuillier Blushing Envy Dress and Lulu Frost Thicket Cuff via Rent The Runway hat borrowed from Anna

Everything from grand, sweeping shots of undeveloped forest to gorgeous lens flares in fields of rich yellow hues, to the visual irony of seeing the boys pop out of the thicket and right back into civilized society, adjacent a restaurant where they'd be foraging for roasted chicken.

Adapted from English novelist Thomas Hardy's desperately romantic 1874 novel, this remake stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong beauty Bathsheba Everdine who rejects a marriage proposal and makes her way through a thicket of sensual encounters — all set against the wild English countryside.

Taking their cues from a variety of high / low pop culture — The Fantastic Four, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Welles,»70s kung fu, Elvis Costello — Richter and screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch create a complex world and then have the confidence never to over-explain it, instead allowing viewers to comb through the thicket of gags on repeat viewings.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.

(Don't worry, I know you have no time, just thought I'd mention it) He also wrote The Thicket with the lead character being a dwarf and they are soon to make a film of it with a European director and the actor from Game of Thrones (who happens to be a dwarf and is an excellent actor).

Jane Krentz stepped away from the elementary classroom and into the thickets of state lawmaking 10 years ago after deciding that students were shortchanged by education policy she had no control over.

Now a new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social and emotional learning programs and decide on an approach.

The walls were singed and sodden, garlic hung by muddy stems from the charred beams, thickets of soot clumped batlike upon the ceiling.

Capital Montgomery Entered Union 1819 (22nd) Origin of name Possibly from a Choctaw Indian word meaning «thicket - clearers» or «vegetation - gatherers» Nickname Yellowhammer State Motto Audemus jura nostra defendere («We dare defend our rights») Residents Alabamian or Alabaman U.S. Representatives 7 State bird yellowhammer State flower camellia State tree Southern longleaf pine State song «Alabama» Land area 50,744 sq. mi.

In Dollscape II, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, and a brown - skinned, egg - shaped Weeble toy were running (and wobbling) through a swampy thicket from a pack of plastic German shepherds leading an armed lynch party comprised of my G.I. Joes hooded in Ku Klux Klan sheets.

Did You Know: Marana takes its name from the Spanish word «maraña,» which means jungle or thicket, largely due to the dense brush that covered the landscape when the town was first founded.

Some credit Spain as the origin of hunting dogs that work thickets and flush their game, with the breed name derived from the French word for Spaniard.

Able to slide open the zipper, several of the capuchins ripped bags of food from the opened flaps and swooped back into the thicket like a child jumping from a swing mid-air, all while shocked tourists shouted after them.

Instead you'll stay in a 1900s style white safari tent fitted out with military campaign style furnishings, in the midst of sub-tropical thicket covered ridges, just 45 minutes» drive from Port Elizabeth.

Only 45 minutes» from Port Elizabeth is a secluded valley awash with sub-tropical thicket.

Stretching from fynbos covered peaks to Karoo thicket; Kleinrivier is bisected by two rivers, each cutting a deep gorge... more

These rock formations are covered with hard and soft corals with excellent shelter between staghorn thickets from predators and curious divers.

Continue on into the jungly highlands where you'll find lodges tucked alongside rivers and hidden amid the thickets, including everything from no - frills hammock - swinging cabins to opulent rock - star retreats.

Once established, mangrove thickets protect the shoreline from erosion due to normal storms and tides.

James Price Point — Aside from its obvious outstanding natural beauty with its 20 metre - high red pindan cliffs, white sandy beaches and monsoonal vine thickets, from an Aboriginal cultural point of view, this headland is an integral part of the renowned Lurrajarri Heritage Trail.

The Shamwari Reserve covers 25,000 hectares of savanna, thicket, and woodland habitat, and is accessed from the city of Port Elizabeth.

Here is Louise Bourgeois's pink marble woman turning into a frond - headed plant, and one of Raoul de Keyser's most airy blue abstracts; here is Karla Black's cellophane cloud hanging in one of the high Georgian windows, bearing green traces of the gardens beyond, and a thicket of marvellous historic paintings from the gardens» collection, showing palms and peonies to semi-abstract perfection.

In her latest show at Blue Mountain Gallery, which opens on October 5th with a reception for the artist October 7th from 5 - 8, Margaret Grimes shows three large canvases and a series of small ones all depicting woods and thickets.

«Blue Thicket,» for example, starts from the top of the canvas with a splendid array of wild untamed gestures followed by a mass of colors huddled together in active conference coming to a serene close as blue streaks seep down drawing one's eyes to rest in just the manner Carol is so proud of.

Over the few months leading up to the performance, Beasley traversed the High Line, recording sounds from around the park — from crickets chirping in the thicket at West 21st Street, to the evolving sound of various construction sites, to the meandering traffic on the West Side Highway.

Moving from one drawing to the next the viewer will also discover thickets of angled sticks; lightly rendered floating lozenges; surprisingly colored vortexes; compilations of line passing as broad brushed symbols; hermetic compositions repeating within the same drawing; forgotten hieroglyphs becoming form; atmospheres menacing and combative and others lighter than the last wisp of sun - dissipated fog.

The image selected by the artist represents the moment that he disengages from the actress, sometimes near the beginning of the film, creating a simple drawing; but just as often near the end of the film, creating an aggressive thicket of marks that almost obliterate the filmic image.

For his debut solo show with Cheryl Hazan gallery, «Thomas Sayre: Cynefin» presents paintings from his «Barn,» «Thicket» and «Earthcasting» series, evoking an intense relationship between human - made objects and the land.