Sentences with phrase «in sheep flocks»

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China is the world's largest sheep meat producer with a flock estimated at nearly 140 million in 2011, but output has been declining as farmable land shrinks due to urbanisation.

There may be some sheep among his flock but for the most part, the nation is made - up mostly, in its immense majority of other animals.

The atheists love calling us sheep and I say... «yes, I am of the flock of the Good Shepherd»; every time I hear them call out «sheep» it reminds me of how Jesus goes out into the desert to find even one lost sheep and to do so He leaves the 99 others... those lost sheep are being found every day... some try to hide in the darkest places but all they need to see is just a little Light and they lose their fear.

I often picture myself as a shepherd with a flock of sheep (excuse the ancient analogy that falls in so many instances, but in this one...) my job is to protect the flock from wolves and weeds.

It is also true that around Bethlehem is the only place in the land of Israel where flocks could be kept, and especially where sheep for the temple services could be tended.

That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep.

and a scholar who lived there for many years suggests that it would be very nice if we could understand the reference to the hills / wilderness as indicating where the shepherd went to look for the lost sheep, assuming that he had left the flock safely in the fold (E.F.F. Bishop, «Parable of the Lost or Wandering Sheep», ATR 44 [1962], 44 - 57.)

A man suffers a loss and panics, and we must remember that in first - century Palestine, constantly on the edge of famine, the loss of one sheep from a flock was a most serious loss.

I keep wondering if your reluctance to lead a flock of sheep is because of the very things you address right now in your cartoons and writings would that be too much for you to face?»

It also seems obvious that many people concerned with declining church membership and attendance saw evangelism primarily in terms of church growth: anything that added sheep to the flock had to be good.

And through teaching, the pastor warns and protects his flock against false ideas, damaging and destructive philosophies, and wolves in sheep's clothing who want to kill and destroy the flock.

Regardless of the bleak condition of the flock, Jesus hangs a clanging bell around the neck of the blackest sheep in the darkest pit, a bell powered by their own lamentations.

Is it just me, or is there more than a little bit of tension in the way we deal with biblical and ecclesial images of sheep and shepherds, pastors and flocks?

Hopefully the sheep in his flock will wake up and realize what this man of Christ is really about.

In John 10, the sheep Jesus is talking to are Jewish sheep, and the sheep not of this sheepfold are the Gentile sheep, and Jesus will bring both flocks together into one sheepfold, the fold of Jesus Christ, the church.

She refers to the Parable of the Lost Sheep, in which Jesus compares Himself to a shepherd who leaves a flock of 99 sheep to go after one that is lost.

I was a naive sheep in this flock until I stumbled upon the elaborate efforts to keep hidden the pastor's porn addiction and infidelity with a congregant.

I'd rather be a cat than a sheep in anyone's flock.

They are, in reality, no more truly one than individual sheep in a flock are, or a pair of Siamese twins.13 Since every substance is one, and every extended object is many, no substance is extended.

So in winter when the shepherd was ahead of the flock leading them, they'd see the snugly sheep clothing of the shepherd leading them.

You and your ilk are wolves in sheep's clothing trying to enter into the flock and lead the children of God astray in strange paths.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently lead the mother sheep.»

His parables reveal a close and sympathetic observation of everyday life: the farmer's sowing and reaping, the shepherd and his flock, the house built on the rock, the leaven in the dough, the lost coin and the lost sheep, the father's joy in the return of a wayward son and the elder brother's peevish jealousy, the mother forgetting her agony for joy that a man has been born into the world, the workers standing idle in the marketplace because no one has hired them, and many other instances.

The market was very different 30 years ago (Australia had a supported wool price, a sheep flock twice the size what it is today and there were different conditions in the Middle East).

In a flock of sheep, everyone looks the same.»

Time for a change All season ticket holders don't go to the stadium the next home game or rock the stadium with chants and banners against kroenke We are.not sheeps that move in flocks after the herdsman

We've had a bit of a rough go in our barn with our own flock this past week, and I've found myself in the barn for more hours than I can count, trying to puzzle it out and nursing one of our sheep back to her feet (I'm happy to say she's well once again, little Thalia).

In a practical sense, though, I think the biggest accomplishment ~ and most satisfying ~ is acquiring my flock of fibre sheep a few years ago.

Professor Matthew Collins, of the Department of Archaeology at York, who heads the University's BioArCh research centre, said: «We believe the two specimens derive froman unimproved northern hill - sheep typical in Yorkshire in the 17th century, and from a sheep derived from the «improved» flocks, such as those bred in the Midlands by Robert Bakewell, which were spreading through England in the 18th century.

How many sheep were in Bo Peep's flock?

His menagerie included a flock of flightless kiwis from New Zealand (which accompanied him to Cambridge when he arrived as a university student in 1887), 144 giant tortoises imported from the Galápagos Islands, a sheep - size South American rodent called a capybara, as well as wild asses, spiny and scaly anteaters, emus, and kangaroos.

To study how the wooly ungulates move in unison, researchers videotaped flocks of sheep entering a barn door to be fed.

Animal health specialists meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, yesterday agreed to try to rid the world of peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a viral disease devastating goat and sheep flocks throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

The beneficiaries: a historically isolated flock of bighorn sheep in Montana.

In Kubuqi, the meaning of «desert» has been redefined: flocks of sheep and cattle are grazing amidst solar panels that pump electricity into the power grid, plentiful local organic produce is supplied across China and the wonder of barren land turned into a fruitful garden attracts many visitors from afar.

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They are wolves in sheep's clothing, preaching meekness while attempting to devour the flock.»

One involved disturbing a flock of sheep grazing peacefully in a field enclosed by a dry stone wall in Wales.

Miss Maple, «quite possibly the cleverest sheep in the whole world,» is ably assisted by Othello, «the only black sheep in the flock» and other memorable ewes, rams and lambs as she sets out to discover who has murdered their shepherd, George.

Nicholas Vestal is working on a sheep farm to earn a starter flock, but before his contract is up, he inherits a house in the village.

They were bred to chase off wolves and other predators in order to protect their flocks of sheep.

A shepherd amid his flock of sheep, or a farmer in a cloud of white chickens, might...

The dogs were used for water rescue, herding, guiding cows and sheep to market and for guarding the flock in Scotland and England.

The initial work has also been done for a weaver who runs a small flock of colored sheep, a farmer storing feed grain in his barn, a flock - owner in wolf territory, a recreational musher, a rabbit hunter, and a pet owner with an interest in any of the characteristics of the herding, guarding, terrier, working, or hound dogs; what remains is to find just the right breed to match the lifestyle and personality of the owner.

Acoustic indication such as whistles are used to command herding dogs mainly because these can be heard over a distance that's generally involved when gathering a large flock of sheep in a vast grazing land.

The Swiss Mountain Dog was developed in Switzerland as a herding breed, typically employed in keeping sheep flocks together.

Whether this be a flock of sheep, cows in a pasture or children on a playground, this dog will round»em up and keep them safe.

A whistle split the air as the sheep ran wide; the dog slowed and moved slightly to the side of the small flock to get them back in line to pass through the gates and up the grade to the starting post.

Creeping and crouching in the field, running wide of the flock at times and close by at others, lying down on a whistled command, waiting, moving, and dropping down again, the ideal Border Collie works in a steady, unruffled manner to keep the sheep calm and in motion.