Sentences with phrase «group of larger bodied»

Another is that a group of larger bodied hominins — H. erectus — reached the island of Flores about 1 million years ago only to shrink because of a lack of predators and scarce resources, a process called island dwarfing.

Not exact matches

While Phillips acknowledges that representatives of Jesuit schools get together, he notes that similar gatherings occur among other groups in business education, including large meetings among members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the primary U.S. B - school accreditation body.

The Belgian group specialises in the research of novel drugs based on nano - bodies found in the immune systems of llamas and alpacas, for which it partners with several of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies.

Like all religions especially the larger the body of human involvement the more corruption there is in fact no group on Earth that isn't corrupt to one extinct or another.

A large body of women (and a small group of men) is committed to equality.

Norwegian Lutheran groups united into one body, but a larger union was that of the United Lutheran Church, 1918.

the Greek word for body here is strong's # 4983 meaning large group of men in this instance, not substance as some translations have it.

But behind each group, and providing a considerable degree of moral support, is a much larger body of nationalists.

The largest Pentecostal body, the Church of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congregations.

This was most definitely true of the inner group which drew together out of the larger body of those who adhered to the cause of Jesus in a general way.

Hundreds and hundreds of African men huddled together in groups in large wire netting compounds, with grey blankets held tightly round their bodies.

Religious groups, expecially if they include signigicant cultural diversity within themselves, can be islands of civility, settings where, as Richard Mouw says, democratic interchange can be modelled, kept alive for the larger body politic.

There is a great difference, however, when (as at Union) the largest denominational student group (which happens to be Presbyterian) totals only 17 per cent of the student body.

The group that cuts itself off from the larger Christian community and sets its behavioral norms out of its own limited experience will be like the hand that is cut off from the body.

Our assembly as the Body of Christ is primarily a spiritual gathering into Christ, and so whether we gather in large groups or small, we can still know that we are assembled with all other saints around the world and throughout time (For more on this understanding of church, see my book, Skeleton Church).

The BMI, or body mass index, was explicitly invented to compare large groups of people.

That's a good thing in terms of physical development, because it's the repeated movement of large and small muscle groups that builds and refines how well these parts of the body work.

The «media council bill» and associated legislation empowered a quasi-governmental body to impose large fines of up to $ 230,000 on media groups and up to $ 10,000 on individual journalists found guilty of transgressing a rather vague set of guidelines.

Brooklyn Councilman and co-chair of the body's gun violence task force Jumaane Williams told Metro he thought the overall program — which designated groups to work within 40 - block areas inside their larger police precinct — does invaluable work on a ground level.

CIHT recognises the concept of a group of local transport bodies working together on larger schemes.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Europe's largest engineers» body, with 150,000 members in 127 countries, has commented on the recent summit held by Prime Minister David Cameron, and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne, with the six biggest power firms, consumer groups, and the regulator Ofgem.

The final recommendation of the All - Party Parliamentary Carbon Monoxide Group report «From Awareness to Action: Bringing Behavioural Insights to Poisoning Prevention Efforts», reveals how organising «default» safety requirements and recommendations through large, national bodies is an effective way of highlighting issues to people.

The Progressive Caucus Alliance, the political arm of a large group of left - leaning council members that now dominate the 51 - member body, wants to push through a minimum wage hike in the city that Senate Republicans do not support.

Despite having a low metabolic rate, leatherbacks — the sole living species of turtle in a once larger group — have a core body temperature that ranges between 25 °C to 27 °C (about 77 °F to 81 °F).

«The extreme selectivity of the modern extinction threat with respect to body size is best explained by the size bias in human hunting and fishing activities, which often preferentially target the largest animals in the oceans, or the largest animals within their respective taxonomic groupings,» said Payne.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.

It is one of a large group of proteins that sculpt the skeleton and control growth of other body tissues.

The two oldest and distinct groups of squid eaters, sperm whales and beaked whales, grew large body sizes because of the physiological demands for diving to the great depths where their prey lives — a pattern that pilot whales repeated.

A control group of six animals, which were inoculated with SIV but not treated with PMEA, were all found to have large amounts of virus in their bodies.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

The larger lumps (think of Tunguska - sized bodies, say 50 metres, and larger) will remain quite closely grouped.

The apparent extinction of this group of pachycormids at or near the end of the Cretaceous is also intriguing, because it occurs shortly before the earliest records of large - bodied, ram filter - feeding chondrichthyans (rhincodontids, cetorhinids, mobulids) in the earliest Paleogene (Shimada, 2007).

A large milky - white nebula, on the body of the Great Bear, with a small star at its sp [south preceding, SW] apex, and an 8th - magnitude preceding [W] it at double the distance; there is also a brightish group in the np [north preceding, NW] quadrant.

Pull - ups are one of the hardest exercises you can do, but the benefits they come with are amazing — by engaging a big number of your larger muscle groups and joints to work together, this devastating compound movement will tremendously strengthen your upper body, fortify your core, improve your grip strength and increase your overall functional strength.

Compound exercises performed with moderate to heavy weights and repetitions in the range of 5 - 8, will activate multiple joints and the larger muscle groups, which causes the body to produce testosterone and other anabolic hormones, important for gaining quality muscle.

Since squats primarily target the legs which are a large muscle group, they create an anabolic environment by triggering the release of testosterone and human growth hormone, which stimulates muscle growth in the entire body.

You can also use running for recovery between sets while using high rep ranges to hit large muscle groups — this will improve your recovery and speed up the detoxification of the entire body.

Your chest is a part of a larger group of «pushing muscles» found in your upper body, and as such it enables you to perform a variety of daily activities and functional movements at the gym.

Since one - arm presses give you the ability to train each side of the body individually, they can easily expose the weakest links in your shoulders and help you strengthen every muscle of this large muscle group.

One of the largest group of muscles in the body and a structural focal point, a strong back is also vital to proper posture, plays a part in breathing and helps protect vital organs.

As one of the body's largest muscle groups, your gluteus maximus, medius and minimus can withstand a great deal of training, and have the potential for amazing growth.

The push up is a full body exercise, and when performed properly, it will activate a large number of muscle groups in your body.

The majority of your time should be spent focusing on big multi-joint exercises that work the largest muscle groups of the body like the legs, chest, and back.

In order to really get lean, the workouts should have a high intensity, with short rest periods, working the largest muscle groups of the body, instead of trying to isolate specific small muscles like the biceps, triceps, or calves.

It allows you to actively release tight muscles by reciprocal inhibition, work systematically and safely through your range of motion, activate large muscle groups, and raise body temperature.

Like yoga, pilates («puh - la - teez») links breathing with movement and strengthens the body's core — the large group of muscles that includes the abs, glutes, lower back, and hips — without adding bulk.

The chest is part of a larger group of «pushing muscles» found in the upper body.

After all, most of your fat loss and metabolism - boosting results come from lower body based exercises anyway, as they burn more calories due to the larger muscle groups involved.

This exercise will target your entire body, with a focus on the large muscle groups of your quads, hamstrings, glutes, chest, shoulders, and core.