Sentences with phrase «higher than the nose»

«The rest of the body is pretty well understood, but once you go higher than the nose, we're in uncharted territory,» he says.

Not exact matches

They often suffer from both mental and physical health problems at a higher rate than workers in other industries as a result of their working conditions, which include operating under hard - nosed management practices and getting yelled at all day by irate customers.

A former high school wrestling star, Phillips is much more than just the nose guard he played last season at Stanford.

Because Wendiceratops is more closely related to a different group of ceratopsians than Triceratops — one that includes the recently discovered «Hellboy» dinosaur — the discovery suggests that the tall and high version of the nose horn evolved twice in the ceratopsian family.

The authors dwell on current building concerns such as «sick building syndrome» (buildings associated with higher than normal absenteeism and sickness rates, complaints about air quality, headaches, eye problems, dry mouth and blocked nose), legionnaires» disease and radon.

Interestingly, the monkeys placed their nose longer towards odor samples of an animal from a group that ranked higher than their own.

The concentrations of Sandalore used were a thousand times higher than those needed to activate a receptor in the nose.

In one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primate.

Although the National Toxicology Program said formaldehyde is «known to be a human carcinogen» in 2011, after studies linked it to cancers of the nose and myeloid leukemia, that research looked at manufacturing and funeral industry workers, who are exposed to higher levels of the substance than the general population, explains Laura Beane Freeman, PhD, an epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute.

It doesn't push the period setting too hard (a use and reprise of Sly & The Family Stone's «I Want to Take You Higher» seem a touch on the nose), but it does a good job of recreating the not so distant past (one prominent Sony logo notwithstanding) with tactful costuming and facial hair plus a well - assembled international cast bigger on talent than fame.

In fairness, Edgerton is guided by Cooper's hand and Jez Butterworth and Mark Mallouk's script, and like so many other movies set in Bahston, their concept of the provincial dialect boils down to clichés: drop your Rs, speak through your nose at two octaves higher than normal, and communicate primarily by saying «fuck.»

I'm not a hard nose parent, but in high school and middle school the grade is as reflective of effort than anything else.

The new Sportage certainly displays a more aggressive face than its predecessor, with a version of Kia's corporate «tiger nose» grille flanked by high - mounted triangular headlights.

While having the familiar, sloping nose and minimal grille treatment of other BMWs, the four - door 735i's sides are flat and high - looking, and its trunk looks even larger than it is, giving it a bulky silhouette.

The price varies for watching a loved one die, a funeral, surgeries, root canal, breakups, firings, quittings, nose dives in the stock market (priced higher than some deaths).

The lure should be raised no higher than his standing nose level or he may sit before you can reward the stand position.

The nose is set higher than the rest of the muzzle.

Dogs are walking ears and noses and it is well known that they hear higher frequencies than humans.

Note that drainage discolouration of the skin starts in moderately affected cats; and that the tip of the nose is located at a higher level than the lower eyelid in profound and severe degrees of brachycephalic.

Each enclosure must be at least three times the length of the longest dog in the enclosure, from tip of nose to base of tail, and 6 inches higher than the tallest dog.Â

By breathing from there, rather than your nose and mouth, you can imbibe a higher ratio of nature's own sedative, C02 and chill out 100 % organic - style.

Note that the sensor detects aerosols in high - altitude plumes more readily than lower plumes, so this map does not reflect air quality conditions at «nose height.»

They are designed with a long, pointed nose more like that of a supersonic plane than a conventional high speed train.