Sentences with phrase «leech which»

this painter is a parasite leech which sucks up the amorous essence out of its female hosts to accomplish his great art pieces.

Islam is like a leech which sticks on the host and kills it at the end.

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Mr. Leech would run as an Independent candidate in 2008 and as a Wildrose Party candidate in 2012, during which his controversial comments would become a flashpoint of the campaign.

The family's response is more than a reaction to the social stigma which still clings, leech - like, to mental illness.

And in helping them, I wonder how to create a relationship — not a religious one, but a genuine one — yet not a relationship in which they turn from a needy person to a leech; but share with them the genuine joy, trust, and faith I'm blessed to have received so that I have the strength in this dark world to keep pressing on and having hope.

The authors speculated that the microwaving and boiling methods allowed water - soluble antioxidants to leech into the cooking water, while the stir - frying method (which involved sunflower oil) did not.

At night he gets his lavender lotion which has been pushed as relaxing... now I find out it may make him sterile?!? it's bad enough we had to worry about lead in toys and plastics leeching chemicals to the point where I am leery of every sippy cup — but now the lotion I have been using on him is dangerous?!

The delay may be related to the development of kidneys, which start to process sodium at about that age.l In medieval Europe, leeches were commonly used to treat babies» -LSB-...]

Many canned items are still being packaged in materials with BPA, which slowly leeches into the foods contained within over time.

«I'm rarely happier than when I'm out on the trail, because it's exciting... In terms of casework load, which is a real indicator of how hard you work, I think the only harder working MP in the country in terms of case work - and that's my team as well as me - would be John Leech.»

Finance blogger, Jerome Kuseh, captures the context in this tweet: «The failure to properly contextualize why Africa needs aid is to play into the historically and economically conservative western ideology which portrays African states as leeches of European nations.»

You may even want to check out the gift shop, where turn - of - the - century ointment jars and drug bottles are offered for sale, along with the official museum T - shirt, which carries the slogan «I'm a sucker for leeches.»

This development, which is part of the land's recovery process, has raised new fears that the trees will leech water out of the ground, threatening water resources across areas such as the Edwards Plateau.

Next, his team collected 25 leeches from a remote tropical forest in Vietnam which is rich in rare but shy species.

Likewise, sequencing blood from mosquitoes or leeches, known as invertebrate DNA (iDNA) sampling, can reveal which species they have been feeding on.

The duo allowed leeches to feast on sheep's blood until they were full, measuring both the change in the length of their segments as they fed and the rate at which they spread as they crawled.

They used a star - shaped molecule called AEEP (aminoethoxy ethanol substituted phosphazene), the arms of which act as dynamic and mobile hydrogen bonding plasticiser molecules while being connected to a central core, effectively preventing migration and leeching of the starch molecules from the resulting plastic.

So you may want to cook up your own tomato sauce or choose tomato paste (in a jar rather than a can since the acids in tomatoes cause the unhealthy chemicals used in can linings to leech into the product, which then find their way into our bodies!

Tomatoes are particularly notorious for this process as they are very acidic, which encourages the leeching.

In addition, brewing an acidic drink in stainless steel vats, which is the typical commercial method, can leech carcinogenic nickel as well.

Not only are fats are ideally combined with acids like vinegar, but when it comes to making broth, the vinegar helps leech all those valuable minerals from the bones into the stockpot water, which is ultimately what you'll be eating.

Phytic acid, which is found in the coatings of nuts and seeds, is an «anti-nutrient» responsible for leeching vital nutrients from your body.

Dark amber is the colour which keeps the most wavelengths of UV radiation out, while plastic tends to melt in the sunlight and leech chemicals, meaning that glass is preferable.

One of Ms. Wedgeworth's best appearances in this vein was in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), in which she portrays the fading «baseball groupie» who hopes to leech off dying ballplayer Robert De Niro.

Clarke mostly becomes a fulcrum point around which Turing's character evolves but is never substantial in herself, much like upper - decker officers Mark Strong and Charles Dance and inside team members Matthew Goode and Allen Leech.

Rami Malek, Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee, Joseph Mazzello, Allen Leech and Lucy Boynton star in the film which looks at the band's...

Pond snails: Worksheet in which students are led through the idea of natural selection - reproduction, inheritance and survival - using pond snails and leeches as an example.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.

And if it falls ill, «anoint it with the clarified fat of a snow leopard's leg and, in a thrush's egg shell, give it to drink the juice of custard apples, into which are added three pinches of shredded rhinoceros horns, and apply piebald leeches; and if it dies, remember that man is not immortal and thou too must die».

The mountainous highlands of Bali are field with streams, rainforests which house prehistoric tree - ferns, wildflowers, creepers, orchids, leeches, butterflies, birds and monkeys, while tall pines and cypress grow high above the mountain villages of Kintamani, Penelokan and Bedugul.

In fact the game offers up a steady stream of gear for you to outfit your character with, allowing you to equip helmet, gloves, main armor, melee weapon and ranged weapon, all of which can then be further tweaked with a selection of Patches and Strap - Ons that let you do things like inflict fire damage, leech health or boost your magic.

You will see the words «Ticks & Leeches» which references the song.

These are not «climate scientists», they're leeches, they've found a nice armpit in the climate - science world from which to suck money.

Or do you mean «risk management» in lowercase, by which you mean gambling and hoping you don't have to resort to the social safety net, leeching off your family, getting government bailouts because you're too big to fail, or going bankrupt and leaving your creditors in the lurch?

That is the sort of rush to judgment which resulted in leeches, burning «witches» at the stake, and ritual human sacrifice.

Members of the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe Tribe harvest wild rice on their reservation, which the new Line 3 pipeline would pass through.

Folks see Goldman Sachs and the other leeches lining up to cash in on «carbon credits» which is the biggest load of horseshit tried to stuff down the people's throats in decades, and they are sick of it.

Fruit juices, carbonated beverages and drinks such as Gatorade can increase BPA leeching, but the study did not place restrictions on which beverages students could drink from the bottle.

Law firms — rather than being perceived as entities that are bigger and more important than the sum of their parts — are viewed as disposable shells; mere life support systems upon which lawyers leech until retirement.

Some people and / or some organizations who / which come along like Johnny - come - lately's and conveniently suck up the benefits of the hard work and money spent by other people and / or organizations (who have developed / own their own systems of business ventures) via highjacking maneuvers assisted by government bureaucracies are indeed leeches.