Sentences with phrase «gnawed by»

Many lawyers, gnawed by doubt, regularly ask themselves, «What should I charge?»

It is likely the hippos discovered died through natural causes and their bones show evidence of having being gnawed by hyenas.

He considered the ways the boy could have been hurt on this weekly mission of mercy: ambushed by falling timber, gnawed by vermin — Troop 23's version of bait and switch.

These huge discs are gnawed by gargantuan bright yellow 10 - piston aluminium calipers.

Long enough for a person to get really gnawed by the ravenous monster of Ordinary Life, chewed up, spat out again.

In this hope, instead of merely co-existing with the Babylonians, gnawed by memories of former cultural acceptance, the Jews in Babylon were to strive for the good of their city, the growth of the people of God, and their resulting testimony to the glory of God.

The Greek historian Herodotus was told that the Assyrian archers had their bowstrings gnawed by mice.

Illness, old age, anguish, or envy: none of these gnaw by night at his mind.

In addition to ruling out an untimely goring, the researchers also excluded infection, cancer, erosion, and gnawing by animals as the cause thanks to the uniform shape of the hole.

Encourage gnawing by providing your gerbil with appropriate chewables: untreated wood, cardboard tubes, and specially designed chew toys.

Not exact matches

«The bone, which shows evidence of being gnawed on by a large carnivore, provided mitochondrial genetic data that showed it belongs to the Neanderthal branch,» says lead researcher Cosimo Posth of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Naaman can now be what he is, not without questions and repentance, but whole and entire, a man who is no longer gnawed away by leprosy physically, a man who, resting in the peace of God, ceases to be gnawed away by the idolatry of the state which divides and corrupts the innermost depths of man.

God has killed the wicked, whose corpses are being consumed by gnawing maggots and smoldering fire (Isa.

In the spirit of semper reformanda, I stick doggedly to the gospel — revel in it, gnaw on it, savor it, teach it and live it, find it versatile and resilient, highlight the many notes of its one song, bang it into my head continuously — and believe that Christ is building his church and that his church will be a people shaped by the gospel.

Ducks are not equipped by nature to be fearsome biters, but if one is being gnawed on by a huge swarm of them all at once they can be quite troublesome.

Wagner went so far as to write Nietzsche's doctor to say that his protégé's gnawing ill health was caused by habitual masturbation, which men of his unfortunate disposition engaged in when they ought to get married and forget their youthful indiscretions.

He does confess, at one point, that he is «badly oppressed by the gnawing sense of waste.»

But when Trump says we're currently governed by «very stupid people,» he's appealing to resentment and the gnawing sense that our leaders aren't working for us.

The recent indifferent run by the Blues and the resultant media focus on Pep's performance are the anxieties that will gnaw away at my confidence and create growing pre-match-tension as kick - off approaches.

When your baby cries, give him a few moments to self - soothe — by finding a thumb to suck or knuckle to gnaw on, for example.

The three to six month age is often marked by the initial signs of teething; you might notice extra drooling and gnawing on fingers.

This enables little ones to create their own baby food purees by gnawing on chunks of fruit WITHOUT the risk of choking!

The soft rubber on the baby dog tags will soothe your baby's gums by letting them gnaw away with those new teeth.

You can also offer your babies comfort by giving them safe items to chew or gnaw on.

Your baby may exhibit other signs of teething such as drooling (possibly accompanied by a rash from their saliva), is gnawing on his hands or other hard objects, has swollen gums, is acting fussy or irritable, having trouble sleeping, or might even have a low - grade fever, diarrhea, or diaper rash.

For how else can we sufficiently or painstakingly explain this clerical Revolving Door Syndrome that has been gnawing at the soul of a once - progressive nation - sate founded by the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah?

For the past few years, her group has been getting some animals to share cages by providing enrichment: hay - filled paper bags they can «forage» through, plastic keys to gnaw on, and other accoutrements.

The bones lack the gnawing and dragging marks typically left by such scavengers.

That specificity gnawed at her, especially after she heard physicist Roger Penrose calculate that the odds of it happening by chance were an absurd 1 in 10127.

For one thing, a boulder could pin me down in the backcountry, leaving me unable to get through my Kevlar shirt to free myself by gnawing off my arm.

I still followed the same pattern, doing research by day and writing by night, though the e-mail correspondence attached to the writing business was beginning to gnaw a hole into my research time.

It can also be generated by a device used as a deterrent against martens (to keep them from gnawing on the wiring of cars).

Tubes By Andrew Blum After a squirrel in his yard gnawed through a vital Internet cable, journalist Andrew Blum set out to track down the structures underlying the Internet's virtual world.

The remains of a 3 - metre ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at what feasted on death during the dinosaur era

The remains of a 3 - metre - long ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at the creatures that feasted on death during the dinosaur era

Rats wear them down by continuously gnawing on everything around them, including cement, brick, wood, lead pipes, and other small animals.

Nicholas Longrich of Yale University was examining T. Rex bones for signs that mammals had gnawed on them when he found that four bones bore large tooth marks that could only have been made by another big predatory dinosaur.

It's easy to find yourself consumed by it, unable to think of anything other than the constant, gnawing discomfort and a desperate way out.

But with more and more women bringing awareness to the issue — by posting breastfeeding selfies and photos of breast milk itself and getting real about the not - so - glam aspects of it, like gnawed - on nipples and babies who just won't latch on — they're starting to win.

Katniss» rising popularity as a beacon of hope begins to gnaw at President Snow (Donald Sutherland), who has Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) game his own system in a novel attempt to first discredit her, and then kill her by devising something special for the 75th anniversary of the Hunger Games: The players for the games will be selected from among the survivors of previous games, meaning Katniss and Peeta will once more have to fight to death.

Amid this fracas, which Anderson times to comic perfection, Cranston's Chief tears another dog's ear off with his teeth, spits it out, and gently kicks it away, where it's promptly gnawed upon by starving rats.

After Red Riding Hood has embarked on her journey to Grandma's, the infertile bakers are visited by a witch (an enjoyably scenery - gnawing Meryl Streep) who promises to lift the curse she placed on them years ago if they can bring her a few precious items.

Hollywood may have been a sclerotic dinosaur, but inspired in equal measure by European cineastes and America's dharma bums, other eager - beaver bohemians were gnawing away at the system — hanging out at pop art gallery shows and beatnik poetry readings, digging Dylan and the Doors, studying the Method, smoking pot, and finding work at AIP.

Gavin Hood (Rendition), working from a script by Guy Hibbert, thoroughly examines every facet of the arguments for and against the strike, while letting us get to know the characters — before and during the operation — just enough to have an investment in them and feel the gnawing uncertainty that they feel.

Re: Those Who Feel the Fire Burning: a (literally) hauntingly strange vision of Fortress Europe's decimation of those whose plight as refugees sees imminent danger at sea replaced by a gnawing, clawing kind of limbo on land.

On its surface, Refn's film is a horrific allegory about a young, beautiful model who's harassed by her marginally older, surgically enhanced, and less in - demand rivals, whose gnawing jealousy eventually drives them to — well, let's just say nothing good.

Things start off promisingly enough, with Milo (Dylan Schombig), a young member of a Celtic horse tribe, watching his family and friends get slaughtered by a scenery - gnawing, vaguely Brit - accented Kiefer Sutherland, who plays Corvus, a Roman senator prone to shouting, «Kill them all!»

Moore spends the next 350 pages unfolding a gnawing riddle at a teasingly slow pace, but the story is saved by the completely outrageous characters and their seemingly unrelated antics.

In the hard - packed dirt of the midway, after the glaring lights are out and the people have gone home to bed, you will find a veritable treasure of popcorn fragments, frozen custard dribblings, candied apples abandoned by tired children, sugar fluff crystals, salted almonds, popsicles, partially gnawed ice cream cones, and the wooden sticks of lollypops.

Bored or under - stimulated pups will find alternative ways to burn off excess energy, be it by gnawing on furniture or raiding the laundry basket.