Sentences with phrase «humped camel»

The two - humped camel of the legal industry emerged.

Today, we see a law firm size distribution resembling a two - humped camel.

Camelis Dromedarius — single humped camel, the majestic animals that played a large part in Australias heritage, opening up the inland frontiers otherwise inaccessible.

Following them - wearing crowns and robes that didn't fully conceal jeans and sneakers underneath, - were volunteers dressed as two Wise Men and a Wise Woman, trailed by a two - humped camel and a 6 - month - old donkey (also named Mary).

11) «Both the dromedary (the one - humped camel of Arabia) and the Bactrian camel (the two - humped camel of Central Asia) had been domesticated since before 2000 BC.»

9) «As has already been mentioned, this type of utilization [camels pulling wagons] goes back to the earliest known period of two - humped camel domestication in the third millennium B.C.» See The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p 177

14) «The practice of using domestic two - humped camels spread in all directions from its original homeland... to the west there is an abundance of evidence starting with the second millennium B.C. Mesopotamian cylinder seal mentioned in chapter three.

8) «This conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155

Most of our farmers have Arabian camels or mistakenly known as dromedaries, which are one - humped camels, often used for dairy production.

Not exact matches

High - beta stocks are simply the shares of companies whose stocks trade with above - average volatility — and like the twin peaks of a two - humped financial camel, these stocks carry both above - average risk and, potentially, above - average reward.

Berger used the Geico «hump day» camel ad, that features a snarky camel walking around an office asking people on a Wednesday what the day was.

As St Bede says of Zaccheus: «the camel disencumbered of his hump passes through the eye of the needle.»

We settled on meatloaf, thinking that you could make it look sort of like a camel's hump... you know... if he was wearing a girdle of camel's hair, he had to have done something with the rest of the camel... I modified the linked recipe by adding Worcestershire sauce, garlic and onion, and I thought it turned out a bit dry, but it wasn't bad, especially with a topping of vidalia onions browned in olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and a little more honey.

Like a camel on hump day happy.

You get to be a baseball camel and store it in your baseball - can - still - be-fun hump, where it will sustain you through the darkest winters.

He's looking forward to playing in Europe 2016 and in order to do so he has to make both Vardy and Kane look like Sanogo's... I like Olivier, dude humps harder than any camel in the desert.

He and former Playboy playmate Kendra Wilkinson were tasked with eating 10 gruesome dishes, including cow's lip, pig's nose, fish eye, live grubs, camel's hump, sheep testicle and deer penis.

She asked me as I was checking email on the laptop: «Mama, will you look up some information about the camels and their different numbers of humps?»

In the province of Beni, which experiences seasonal flooding, they built 5 - foot raised beds called camellones («camel humps» in Spanish).

20 Camels have the opposite problem: Living in hot climates, they want as little heat - trapping insulation as possible, so they concentrate their fat in their humps.

Camels are divided into two species, the one - humped dromedary and the two - humped Bactrian camel.

Whether equipped with one or two humps, camels are precious in desert regions throughout the world.

Well - studied due to the abundance of skeletons, frozen carcasses and depictions in prehistoric art, woolly mammoths possessed long, coarse fur, a thick layer of subcutaneous fat, small ears and tails and a brown - fat deposit behind the neck which may have functioned similar to a camel hump.

A team of scientists from the University of Liverpool and institutions in the USA, Kenya and Europe, surveyed 335 dromedary - single humped - camels from nine herds in Laikipia County, Kenya and found that 47 % tested positive for MERS antibodies, showing they had been exposed to the virus.

His traps were like two huge camel humps side by side on the back of his neck and he wasn't «fat» or «overweight» no, he was just fucking huge.

Who knew camel was as good as cashmere?When you're hitting a style slump, rock this bad boy on hump day to feel ultra luxe and stylish.

Some are tossed in the «Hole,» and later they're lined up and told to hump each other like camels.

It also has a hump on its back (like a camel) where it had stored fat to survive the harsh winter months.Scientists say its the second best preserved ever found and the first mammoth to be found in Russia since 1901 The mammoth was named Jenya ~ (Zhenya) the nickname of the boy who found it.Scientists hope to obtain some of its DNA for possible cloning projects.

Llamas are close cousins of camels, minus the hump, and come in very handy for riding and carrying heavy loads.

They remind me of two eyes, or two camel's humps, or something.

Miles I had a 327 with camel hump heads and a 350 Turbo Hydromatic 3 speed tranny.

Camel (centre) is a rescued bearded dragon he was abandoned in a vacant house and after examination it was obvious he had suffered from metabolic bone disease in the past and ended up with a hump like a camel hence the name camel.

Of course, comfort is somewhat subjective, and I soon decided that being jolted around on a pile of blankets atop a camel's hump would have been more relaxing than sitting on a bag that contained the animal's breakfast, with the camel in question following close behind looking for his morning snack.

Celebrate at the top of the camel's hump at Camelback Mountain, Scottsdale's most recognizable landmark.

First stop on your desert rendezvous is a traditional camel farm to see herds of the magnificent hump - backed herbivores.

A fun battle with what looked like a furious two - legged camel — and wouldn't you be if you were a camel with two legs [* I avoided the «got the hump» joke.

In their video, Allora & Calzadilla take the needle to be a tractor tire «miraculously» squeezed between the two humps of a Bactrian camel, an animal known to be first domesticated in Persia.

The interesting features in particular is the camel shaped humps (green & red arrows) that occur every time during Grand Minima and more recently (967, 1005, 1290, 1470, 1650, 1790, 1830, 1970 & 2010).

Yet the camel disappeared in regionally homogenised data sets — I think a Swedish professor took NOAA / IPCC to task on the Scandinavian results which disappeared the first hump.