Sentences with phrase «known for their migrations»

Best known for their migrations between breeding and wintering sites throughout North America, these butterflies are also found in non-migratory populations in places such as southern Florida.

Known for migration, their sweet songs and the tremendous breaching behaviour they exhibit near some coasts, the humpbacks are unique, like many whale species.

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Nephi, for example, who is said to have written the first two books of the Book of Mormon and to have been part of the migration from Jerusalem, already knew all about Jesus: «For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God» (2 Nephi 25:1for example, who is said to have written the first two books of the Book of Mormon and to have been part of the migration from Jerusalem, already knew all about Jesus: «For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God» (2 Nephi 25:1For according to the words of the prophets, the Messiah cometh in six hundred years from the time that my father left Jerusalem; and according to the words of the prophets, and also the word of the angel of God, his name shall be Jesus Christ, the Son of God» (2 Nephi 25:19).

For lack of the necessary historical evidence it is no longer possible to write historical accounts of either the Mosaic migration upon which the faith of Israel was founded, or the rise of the Easter faith on which Christianity is founded.

We all know a secular person or three who converted, a Jew for Jesus, a Catholic who switched, a mainstream Protestant's child who was Campus Crusaded and is born again, but there seems to have been no move of a cohort, no mass migration into evangelicalism and conservative Protestantism.

In the article, Dr. Margot Sunderland, author of the best - selling book What Every Parent Needs To Know, stated that leaving a child in a state of distress for a prolonged period without offering comfort affects them on a cellular level, specifically the «migration» of their cells as they get to where they need to be.

Astorino criticized Cuomo for not taking meaningful steps to reduce taxes which he said has led to an out - migration of New Yorkers and the gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

«The Home Secretary has long argued that freedom of movement rules should be a priority target for the EU renegotiation — not only is she personally committed on the issue, she surely knows that the repeated failure to hit the Government's stated migration target threatens her reputation as a minister.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

Although much research has focused on understanding how animals guide their migrations across large regions of the planet, we know very little about this phenomenon, particularly for large, difficult - to - track species.

Since certain polyunsaturated fats are known to improve flight performance, McWilliams said that this study will have relevance to the type of food birds should strive to eat in preparation for migration and thus what type of foods should be provided to birds in the landscape.

In order for the shorebirds known as red knots to survive their annual migration from the Southern Hemisphere to the species» Arctic breeding grounds, they rely on a series of site along the way to provide enough food for their stay and to fuel their onward flight.

The dragonfly - eating Amur falcon (Falco amurensis) makes a similar journey, in one of the longest - known migrations for any raptor.

«A single storm could potentially throw off an entire year's migration for them, and they would take who knows how many losses,» he says.

What's more, knowing which planets formed inside and outside of the ice line allowed the team to quantify for the first time how much migration took place.

Strict limits no longer fit But for recreational anglers, who typically cast bait close to their home state ports, summer flounder's northward migration is starkly evident.

[Andy Nosal:] Well, we've known for a long time that sharks are capable of long - distance migrations.

Recently published in the journal eLife and featured in a poster session at this year's American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting, preclinical experiments show for the first time that PLK1 promotes the migration of prostate cancer cells by setting in motion a process that induces what is known as the epithelial - to - mesenchymal transition (EMT).

Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are well known for their vibrant colors and their incredible migration through North America, but they are also threatened by habitat loss.

Previously the only known role for Tie in fruit flies was in long - range signaling in border cell migration.

Nor do they know what such changes mean for the food web; for life - cycle events like migration, breeding and nesting; for the amount of moisture that trees will suck from the soil; or for the amount of carbon dioxide stored by plants.

Humpback whales, for example, are a species of baleen whale known for grand migrations from the upper latitudes — like Pacific waters near Alaska — to the subtropics where nutrients are more scarce, near Hawaii and Mexico.

Often times, you can just see 50 to 70 species here in a morning, maybe more, you know, during the height of migration and I've been here where there's been thousands of white - throated sparrows, for example, just passing through the tree tops on a spring morning, you know, really important.

Commonly known as the «winged wanderer,» this species (Pantala flavescens, shown above) may make migrations of 14,000 to 18,000 kilometers as it searches for pools to lay its eggs.

These results, published in PLOS Genetics on the 17th of September 2015, reveal that butterflies, including the Monarch, an iconic species for naturalists and well - known for its spectacular migrations, constitute naturally produced GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) during the course of evolution.

The small GTPase Rac is a key factor known to be involved in phagocytosis and cell migration in mammals and has been shown to be essential for hemocyte migration within the embryo [29], [30].

But then Stainier and colleagues showed that the endoderm was also somehow responsible for the migration of the heart cell buds in the layer of cells above it, known as the mesoderm.

Early in his career, he discovered that previously enigmatic support cells, known as radial glia, serve as guides for the migration of cortical neurons in the developing brain, and showed how this process is critical for the organization of the multi-layered structure of the cerebral cortex.

There is also a curious spiritual element to this film, bookended with «The Migrant's Prayer,» an appeal for faithful travellers to a God who also knew the force and necessity of migration.

Know what you should watch out for and how the measures recommended here will help you in making a successful migration to HTML5.

We know, however, that both state migration patterns and the skills of interstate migrants are likely to differ depending on people's educational background, so we estimate NAEP scores separately for workers with different levels of educational attainment.

However, even though most have left to find a better life, many of the older people tend to long for the life they knew when they were young - a time somewhere in the short period following the northern migration of the children and grand - children of the former slaves, when it was still possible to feel part of a small community in the big city.

Now I don't know if they've got a better end - game plan, or if they're just hoping to slow the migration to eBook vs HB in an effort to come up with a plan for that future.

As followers of this blog know, I've been detailing our migration to RWD (responsive web design) at Outskirts Press for the past several posts.

• With the recent news that a second person has tested positive for Ebola here in North America even after taking all the precautions of a health care worker in a major hospital, many people are becoming alarmed about the transmission of the disease especially considering the uncontrolled migration of people through our southern border and other unidentified viral infections that are known to have come to our contry via this route.

It's nice to know that in the midst of this huge metropolitan area full of traffic and people and all kinds of other things, there is actually a migration going on that's been going on, probably for millennia.

The Bay Area is home to the biggest migration site for hawks, eagles, kites, falcons, harriers, and vultures — collectively known as raptors — in the Pacific States.

Tamarindo is known as a prime spot for sport fishing and surfing, sunning and diving, and where, from October until May, the nesting leatherback turtles are busy along the beaches immersed in their annual rituals and migrations.

The humpback whale is known for making an annual migration of nearly 6,000 miles, one of the longest of any mammal.

If you're on Kauai during whale season (link) then prepare for a real treat as these guides know the migration paths like the back of their hand.

Pismo State Beach is also known for its remarkable Monarch Butterfly Grove, where tens of thousands of the elegant, black - and - orange butterflies stop to rest during their annual migration.

They are probably best known for their extraordinary migration which takes them from the warm, shallow waters of the lagoons in the Baja California to the waters off Alaska.

While the idea of rewarding people for having played past games of a certain franchise isn't something new, Moore explains EA's take on «persistence,» saying, «We recognize [players]-- that's the persistence — and their presence there gets its achievements and carries them from iteration to iteration,» adding that the idea is no longer to buy one game in order to get goodies for its sequel, but rather have a migration process occur from earlier titles to the next and «move it along.»

I suspect you know all about censuses, population models, migration patterns and rates, natural increases, decreases and algorithms for using these different sets of data, yes?

Also known for their varied film works, SUPERFLEX has explored themes including the analysis of art forgeries and migration at the outermost borders of the EU through the film.

Known for her poignant works of art that are as poetic as they are political and biographical, Emily Jacir explores various histories of migration, resistance and exchange.

Machona, who is represented by Goodman Gallery in South Africa, is known for his use of currency - especially decommissioned Zimbabwean Dollars - as an aesthetic material, emphasising the recent migration of Zimbabweans following the country's economic and political collapse.

Various & Gould is a German artistic duo best known for their mural depiction of serious themes like migration, (sexual) identity, death and financial crisis, doing it in a playful, intuitive way.

Known for her poignant works of art that are as poetic as they are political and biographical, Jacir explores various histories of migration, resistance and exchange.