Sentences with phrase «leaf figs take»

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When they sinned, they tried to take the leaves from the fig tree (the tree they ate from) to cover themselves.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg know that as long as they can be seen to be taking it out on relatively high earners as well as the least well - off then the progressive fig leaf will stay in place.

Italian docs strip for money Maybe U.K. physicists should take a page (but not a fig leaf) from staffers at the Pascale Foundation, a cancer research institute in Naples, who shed their clothing for a new calendar designed to raise money for their research.

Fig leaves, interestingly, have been studied for their antidiabetic properties - they can actually reduce the amount of insulin needed by a person with diabetes who takes... [Read more...]

Fig leaves, interestingly, have been studied for their antidiabetic properties - they can actually reduce the amount of insulin needed by a person with diabetes who takes injections.

And every couple months I'll take a barely damp rag and wipe down my fiddle leaf fig leaves because they catch a lot of dust.

And yet, «results,» or rather, academic improvement, act more like a fig leaf, especially in light of numerous recent studies that show charter schools, taken on the whole, actually do a worse job of educating students than regular public schools.

The artist describes the exhibition and the title as follows: «The word mercy is so all - embracing that talking about it would take the force from it — the fig leaf falls from the loins and the remaining does not matter.

I took a shot of my fig tree at dusk, and while the background leaves look a little fuzzy, the ripening figs look sharp, and you get a nice contrast of colors between the purplish ones and the still - green fruit.

It's time to take off the fig leaves and get to the naked truth.

And every couple months I'll take a barely damp rag and wipe down my fiddle leaf fig leaves because they catch a lot of dust.

They can get quite dusty and then the leaves can't absorb the nutrients from the sun so I take a wet paper towel and wipe down each leaf (and talk to my fig tree while I do it telling it how beautiful it is).