Sentences with phrase «giant elephant in»

Of course, there's the giant elephant in the room — tons of research indicates almost nobody can consistently beat the market.

Of course, the giant elephant in the room I am not talking about is your debt.

Let's mention the giant elephant in the room right now shall we?

A team of Barcelona's talent doesn't simply stop playing great football and stop scoring goals because of one singular factor, though there is one giant elephant in the room regarding Lionel Messi and his teammates» inability to step up when he isn't at his best.

What the religious never understand is that it makes as much sense to believe in the giant elephant in the sky as it does that some mystical all - knowing creature is actually paying attention to all of this.

Not exact matches

It's been a while since I've been to a game, and I confess that the vast sea of people, the music and singing and food, the giant elephant statue making it's way down the boulevard in the back of a pickup truck, and general religious fervor of the whole enterprise reminded me a bit of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in India, which honors the Elephant deity.

We won't mention the giant green elephant in the room that these raw treats are decadent and delicious minus the E-numbers and preservatives found in commercial bars.

No, but typically one addresses the giant glaring elephant in the room before discussing the mouse crapping on the floor in the corner.

I understand that this site takes great pains to aim criticism everywhere else rather than the giant French elephant in the room.

My doula came over Sunday afternoon to give this giant pregnant elephant a pep talk to help get me out of the headspace I had ended up in.

... these Labour ministers are pressing ahead with their vast white elephant, their plastic poll tax, twenty Millennium Domes rolled into one giant catastrophe in the making.»

There were also fairly large losses in Europe and Asia, including a number of elephants, rhinoceroses and giant deer.

The extinction of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest elephants and giant deer, and tropical species such as giant cape buffalo and some giant sloths.

Many of the species Darwin discovered in the fossils were previously unknown to science, including several giant ground sloths, compact car — sized relatives of armadillos called glyptodonts (SN Online: 2/22/16) and ancient kin of horses and elephants.

Subsize humans living in caves on a remote, forgotten Indonesian island, hunting dwarf elephants and giant rats?

Elsewhere in the Indonesian archipelago, a similar array of pressures conspired to produce huge lizards like the Komodo dragons, giant rats, and tiny elephants.

About two dozen national parks are planned, and the first four mentioned by state media aim to protect charismatic mammals: Asian elephants, giant pandas, Tibetan antelopes, and, here in the northeast, tigers and leopards.

Northern Central African Republic historically supported some the most pristine wilderness and intact and abundant wildlife assemblages in Africa, including species of global importance such as elephant, Kordofan giraffe, hippopotamus, lion, giant eland, and more.

Regarding your ultimate guide to the multiverse (26 November 2011, p 42), it looks like Terry Pratchett was right: somewhere in the multiverse there is Discworld, supported on the backs of four elephants, standing on a giant turtle swimming through space.

Mammoth bones were first thought to be the remains of biblical giants, until the physician Hans Sloane identified them as the remains of elephants in 1728.

But lo, to bring a whiff of excitement into their lives, a werewolf is terrorizing their little hamlet, leading to the arrival of werewolf - hunter extraordinaire Father Solomon (Oldman), who has, among his ornaments and trinkets (like a silver sword and a mute Chinese guy played by ace stuntman Paul Wu), a giant bronze oven forged in the shape of an elephant.

The film opens in grand fashion as King Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) defends Camelot from an army of giant elephants under the control of the evil sorcerer Mordred (Rob Knighton).

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In the next house, a giant elephant stares from the window, and in another, one very madcap, Carroll-esque tea party takes placIn the next house, a giant elephant stares from the window, and in another, one very madcap, Carroll-esque tea party takes placin another, one very madcap, Carroll-esque tea party takes place.

September also marks the release of Sara Gruen's follow - up to the smash hit Water for Elephants, Ape House, (Sept. 7), Ken Follett's first part in a new trilogy, Fall of Giants (Sept. 28), another love story from Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven (Sept. 14) and Michael Cunningham's first novel since Specimen Days, By Nightfall (Sept. 28).

St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary: September 2012: 64 - 65 Houston Zoo, Saving the Orangutan: October 2012: 64 - 65 Saving the Lions: November 2012: 62 - 64 Saving Lives in Central America: December 2012: 60 - 61 Saving Sea Turtles: Jan / Feb 2013: 62 - 63 Saving the Borneo Elephants: March 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation Corner: April 2013: 64 - 65 Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: May 2013: 62 - 63 Conservation Corner: June 2013: 64 - 65 Protecting the Ethiopian Wolves: July 2013: 66 - 67 Saving Rhinos from Extinction: August 2013: 62 - 63 Saving Animals from Extinction: September 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of the African Painted Dog: October 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation of Chimpanzees: November 2013: 64 - 65 Conserving Attwater's Prairie Chickens: December 2013: 64 - 65 Traveling to See Animals in the Wild with the Houston Zoo: Jan / Feb 2014: 64 - 65 Blue Billed Curassow Conservation: March 2014: 62 - 63 Houston Toad Conservation: May 2014: 60 - 61 Lion Conservation: June 2014: 58 - 61 Giant Armadillo Conservation Project in Brazil: July 2014: 58 - 59 Conserving the Gorillas: August 2014: 58 - 59

Giant elephant seals haul out in huge colonies on beaches near Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, north of Cambria.

Having developed a global reputation for the way in which the park cares for elephants, visitors are able to learn more about these giant animals whilst interacting with them in a comfortable and safe environment.

In the watery tomb, divers also found many bones of creatures that were later identified as puma, sabertooth, giant tapir, boar, coyote, bear and gomphothere — a distant elephant relative.

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

Somalisa Camp is set in the heart of the Hwange National Park which is known as the land of the giants because of the big elephant herds that inhabit it.

Helping Elephants in Need Tour Volunteer or just visit these gentle giants at Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang.

Giant elephant seals bask on the sandy shores, and gray whales migrate past in the deep indigo waters twice a year, while this untouched terrain remains as wild and exhilarating as always.

An eclectic lineup includes John Russell's giant backlit digital collage that stretches across the space and literally places a (sightless) elephant in the centre of the room; American artist Cecile B Evans» miniature recreation of the study of a fictional architect whose severed head sits on his desk chair while ectoplasmic smoke billows from a corner; and several filmed episodes from the life of American artist and sound designer E Jane's online avatar (who also has a successful musical career and clothing range).

It is, after all, a giant marketing exercise for the Tate, and the institution has benefited rather than otherwise from the barrage of indignation it has engendered over animals in formaldehyde, lights switching on and off, and elephant - dung paintings.

«Play Dead, Real Time,» which is now in MoMA's permanent collection, consists of two giant projectors and a smaller monitor displaying a silent video of a circus elephant.

«The elephant in the room, culturally, is the giant and growing Latino population,» Govan said.

Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]

Led by global paper giants APP and APRIL, the pulp, paper and palm oil industries are driving Riau's Sumatran tigers and elephants to local extinction in just a few years by destroying their habitat, the study found.

In July, Japanese internet giant Rakuten announced a comprehensive policy change to end all sales of elephant ivory.

The little car is a common sight, zipping around the «elephants on parade» (freight trucks) and ducking the giant Mercedes and Audis plowing down the left lane without an upper speed limit.Only a limited number of Smart fortwos will be offered in the USA, and Daimler is taking advance orders if you want to reserve yours.

The tallest cactus species in the world is the Pachycereus pringlei, also known as the Mexican giant cardon or elephant cactus, which can reach heights of up to 63 feet (19.2 meters).