Sentences with phrase «life as a breeding»

She showed signs of repeated breeding, and her front teeth had been filed, indicating a life as a breeding bitch for fighting dogs.

I watched her change and overcome all that she had been through in her life as a breeding dog in a puppy mill.

In addition, the dogs who are bred to produce the puppies suffer miserably their entire life as breeding machines.

Not exact matches

Not only that, confidence breeds success at work and in life and how you hold yourself plays a huge part in whether others perceive you as self - assured or not.

As University of Chicago researcher Samuel Perry notes, «Segregated churches breed segregated lives.»

One imagines behind that Scotchman's life such a home as Burns described in «The Cotter's Saturday Night,» where the profound meanings of religion and right living were bred into the very marrow of the children.

He argues that birth, breeding, and death are the features of life that most offend this sense of dignity, and as such are the central battlegrounds for those attempting to help us become more than human.

The prophets after the Exile are of a lesser breed, and most of the authors of the period are anonymous members of the community who give expression to a wide range of religious experience as it comes to individuals living within the framework of a religious society.

That's right: E. F. Schumacher is really an apologetical preacher, one of the rare breed whose experience has made it possible for him to employ effectively the language and concepts of economics as a medium for communicating what is essentially a sermon, a call for readers to repent, believe the gospel and reorder their lives accordingly.

I see this as less of a Gay Debate Problem and more of a Human Problem though: we play the comparison game in almost every area of life and it inflates egos, breeds feelings of inferiority, or causes jealousy (among other terrible ways of internalizing the comparison culture).

I try and cook most of my meals as I am southern bred but live in Hawaii.

On our visit, we met with Alejandro Molina, the farm's administrator, who explained that CATIE only raises livestock breeds adapted to the tropical weather conditions; as a result, they enjoy longer, healthier, and more productive lives.

As someone born and bred in Trinidad, where there are really only two seasons — rainy and dry, I missed out on the joys of fall for most of my life.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

Says LeRoy Jolley, trainer of 1980 Kentucky Derby - winning filly Genuine Risk, «The difference between the two sexes as far as horse racing goes is that a filly only has to win one major stakes race in her life [to demonstrate exceptional breeding potential], whereas a colt, to be valuable as a stallion, has to be a top - rated performer almost every race of his life.

Memorial Day signals the start of warm weather that means prime breeding conditions for mosquitoes and every year, it means health officials throughout the region go on the offensive as the West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis can begin percolating among the insects that live here.

In the next stage of the project we planned to broaden our interests and include markers that were able to distinguish whether a live animal had been taken from the wild or from a captive - bred population, so we were also looking for population, family, and paternity type markers as well.

After controlling for size — big dogs tend to die younger than small ones — Careau's team found the most obedient breeds, such as German shepherds, poodles and bichon frises, tended to be the longest lived, while hard - to - train dogs such as pomeranians and beagles were more likely to die younger.

Typically, when agouti mice breed, most of the offspring are identical to the parents: just as yellow, fat as pincushions, and susceptible to life - shortening disease.

As a result of the thick shell and considerable gravity, Europa's waters are more scientifically interesting as a possible breeding ground for life than a potential commoditAs a result of the thick shell and considerable gravity, Europa's waters are more scientifically interesting as a possible breeding ground for life than a potential commoditas a possible breeding ground for life than a potential commodity.

The other derives from reports of intergroup fighting among hunter - gatherers; our ancestors lived as hunter - gatherers from the emergence of the Homo genus until the Neolithic era, when humans began settling down to cultivate crops and breed animals, and some scattered groups still live that way.

«What it does is remove one of the arguments for it, just as Darwin's theory of evolution made it unnecessary to appeal to a benevolent designer to understand how life developed with such remarkable abilities to survive and breed.»

In fact, the FDA has ruled that because DNA is in every living organism, crops engineered with added genes are «substantially the same» as other foods and are no different from crops genetically modified through conventional breeding techniques.

Previous research showed that animals that breed in this way are more likely to live in harsher climates, such as deserts, than those who go it alone.

Yet body mass, an important component of the physiological state of an organism, can affect key life - history traits such as survival, chick mass and breeding success and population dynamics.

At Al Shaqab in Doha, Qatar, science is bringing a new life to the ancient bloodlines of Arabian horses — the breed that carried historical figures such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and George Washington.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

N. Pulcher lives in family groups with up to 25 individuals, with one breeder pair and several helpers participating in territory defence and raising of offspring — known as «cooperative breeding».

For the study, the researchers classified all 2500 mammalian species for which information exists as either solitary, socially monogamous or group - living (several breeding females share a common range and either eat or sleep together).

In particular, they often defend territories in stable breeding pairs as adults but live in more fluid situations as adolescents.

In mouse models of familial adenomatous, treatment with HIPP significantly reduced intestinal polyps and increased survival while mice bred without the CtBP gene lived twice as long as those with it.

The duskywing doesn't fly as well, and it eats oak leaves only as a caterpillar, so many populations may live in particular Garry oak sites like little islands, never breeding with butterflies from the next savanna over.

For long - lived birds such as Common Terns, adult survival likely drives population trends more than breeding productivity, so identifying causes of mortality is crucial for effective conservation.

Often, as with mice, robins and sparrows, they live briefly and breed frequently, reducing the evolutionary importance of investing heavily in their immune systems.

As one of most southerly - distributed seabirds, the Adà© lie is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast that except during spring when they come on land to breed, are highly reliant on the sea and its ice to hunt and live.

Note: For live mice from a cryo - preserved line, you are ordering at minimum the Resuscition; a quantity of 1 litter is normal as you will receive the resulting litter with at least one mutant carrier for breeding.

I was born and raised as a Texan, married a Nebraska bred Marine and now am a Midwest - living mom to 3.

Own and breed dogs as well.A painter, a traveller, can dress up or down, rough it or luxury, lived in many countries, have a grown family (all boys).

These were the years that bred Norris» Missing in Action and Delta Force franchises, as well as the short - lived Saturday morning cartoon series «Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos.»

As these two breeds of cosmic killers clash in the small - town streets Gunnison, CO, the locals are sent running for their lives.

Since starring in Cronenberg's cult classic, the Montreal - bred personality has lived primarily under the radar pursuing a successful career as a painter in New York.

It was a pretty down - to - earth move for someone who had incited a near - media frenzy as «the next big thing» and appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine, but it was becoming clear that McConaughey — who was living in a trailer park in Malibu — was a breed apart from the usual self - absorbed young stars.

Without giving much consideration to the context that breed such an environment, bar a couple of fleeting scenes where one of the Day's gang attempts to find work as a farm hand, it begs the question as to what the film is trying to accomplish by focusing on the gang; especially when the film's ephemeral style distances the action from reality, laying blame on the gangs for Day's downward spiral into a life of crime and not the faulty idealism behind the myth of American opportunity.

(2015) dir Matteo Garrone w / Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson [133 min; DCP] Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th - century folklorist Giambattista Basile, TALE OF TALES unleashes a barrage of mind - bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the (mis) adventures of three kings: in the kingdom of Darkwood, the King (Reilly) and his Queen (Hayek) attempt to conceive a child through very unusual means; meanwhile, in Highhills, the none - too - bright monarch (Jones) marries off his daughter to a brutal ogre while developing a strange obsession with breeding a giant flea; and, the sex - obsessed crown of Strongcliff (Cassel) is in for a shock when the woman he falls in love with is not quite what she seems.

His partner is played by Alex Rocco, and if Rocco appears to live and breathe his role as a low - level criminal, that's because he came into this world as Alexander Petricone, Boston born and bred, and otherwise known as Bobo.

If you can live with the ride — it's a lot easier to accept now examples of the breed can be found for as little as # 5000 — and don't mind the chassis» deficiencies, the Civic Type R is one of those cars where an ownership case can be made on its engine alone.

She in turn, was caught by his ability to appear standing outside the sphere just shy of what she was accustomed to finding,... the familiarity of what she was bred to understand and what she originally felt she would accept as her way of living.

Having spent his entire life around politicians, Lodge quickly sized up Khrushchev as a master of the breed.

Russell is looking forward to spending some time with his wife and, fantasizing about romance returning to their lives after an absence of almost three decades, urges her to adjust - but Edie, who had a lackluster acting career before starting to breed, doesn't want to adapt, as for too long motherhood has been her shelter from «not risking failure or disappointment».

As a single species bred by humans over centuries into countless sizes and shapes, researchers have been able to study how size affects life expectancy.