Sentences with phrase «like herd»

People get scared, and people tend to operate like a herd.

We should recognize that alarmism is nothing but the inability to outgrow basic instincts, like herd instinct, clan forming, and establishing a pecking order by showing how brave we can fight the enemy.

At every airport I walked, on every plane I boarded, as I made my way across two continents and two oceans, I looked at the people around me, moving like a herd through security and boarding lines.

People, Agnes Martin once said, are like herd animals; we like to rub up against one another.

It is like herd mentality.

Totally agree about the Yoga Barn... I just don't get why you'd want to do yoga packed into a class just like a herd of cattle.

It can be like herd health medicine, which we usually think of with cattle and pigs, but instead with small animals.

Regardless of their size, cats racing down the hall (often in mad pursuit of something that only they can see) have the uncanny ability to sound like a herd of rampaging elephants.

Like a herd of birds, market is trendy!

When you learn to read and trade from the natural price action on the charts, you inevitably start thinking more like a contrarian and less like a herd - follower.

When they run through the house, they can sound like a herd of elephants.British Shorthairs are rarely destructive; their manners are those of a proper governess, not a soccer hooligan.

Sounded like a herd of little lambies being slaughtered.

Every Maserati interior is slathered with what seems like a herd's worth of leather, but the new - for - 2017 Gran Lusso model goes one step further with accents of wood and silk — silk, of all things.

Coming home, we rode along in what seemed like a herd of crossovers: the Acura MDX, the BMW X5, the Ford Flex, and the GMC Acadia were among the more heavily represented.

Arriving like a herd of glimmering goddesses draped in golden mesh cocktail dresses, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer, Helena Christensen and the former French first lady Carla Bruni all took to the catwalk to reform the ultimate style squad.

If some celeb walks around with the same pants, if Vogue decides oversized women - suits is this years summer trend then we all cheer and follow the trend like a herd.

I have been having creepy crawlies in my feet (like a herd of ants having a party) for months.

Every day on the markets you see traders acting like herd animals following whatever investments seem to be rising or falling - without checking why.

This one sucks way worse being at home, and here's why: At work, when my hunger went from 0 to «holy shit, I need food right now or someone is going to get drop - kicked,» one of two things happened: 1) a sympathetic co-worker may have offered to pick up lunch or share the contents of their snack drawer with me, or 2) they would run from me like a herd of terrified villagers, at least providing me solitude.

Like a herd of untamed beasts, they were unleashed upon the waters.

Furthermore, you people need to keep your contagious vaccinated children away from our unvaccinated daughters, herd immunity, more like herd instant death!

Here they come like a herd of happy elk, down Newgate Street, turning off at St. Andrews, milling past an old cemetery with crazily angled headstones, thin and flat like long tea wafers, past the Northumberland Arms and Richard Charlton, Ltd., which deals in Bass ale, and up the hill to the ground, a starkly simple stadium with stands that are more like big sheds and unsophisticated light towers at each of the four corners.

The 24 - year - old said: «It was mad I remember there was this man — some random guy — who used to walk past us and he had a goat, he had like a herd of goats.

Or in dry hot summer, when clouds dark and heavy gather on the hill, soon thundering like a herd of buffalo across the valley, making glad the gardens and sending out the children to splash in the puddles?

Cision Release List of Top 100 Sites for Marketers Keeping up with digital marketing can feel a lot like herding cats.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

The Church TodayMarch 22, 2013 By James F. McGrath Leave a CommentThe latest cartoon from David Hayward suggests that it is less like tending sheep and more like herding cats.

And some days, it's like herding cats.

Making dozens of loaves and getting them through proofing and baking cycles simultaneously can be a little like herding cats if you don't have precise control of the process.

I've always said that raising kids is like herding cats!

It is like herding cats,» he said.

Getting the laureates to do something in concert «is like herding cats,» he says, but Roberts managed to make contact with 125 of the 160.

«An [autistic] friend of mine says that organising autistics is like herding...

In between attending her client's births, caring for the kids, and shuttling them to school and activities — «it's like herding cats» — there's not a ton of time left over for self - care rituals.

This can be a lot like herding cats.

But I agree the discussion might be too much like herding cats.

But because writers are like herds of very opinionated cats — with indie authors being the prickly calicos of the bunch — drama can ensue.

by Bob Jenkins MLA Scheduling teleseminars with guest experts and interview hosts is like herding cats!

That said, it may be a little like herding cats!

Without technology, managing the draw process and making sure all parties are on the same page is like herding cats.

When something seems to be impossible, we say it's «like herding cats.»

Everybody had their own efforts and was generally moving in the same direction, but it was like herding cats.

Others, particularly like the herding breeds, enjoy games that are chase and be chased.

Behavioral traits involve characteristics like herding or retrieving instincts.

Basically, it's just like herding trials for dogs that do not have access to sheep.

He's a particularly active type of dog (like the herding or sporting breeds) who needs to be occupied to be happy.

Peacan will wait outside until Cyrus comes out and then follow him all around the yard like a herding dog.

Would you like a herding dog with endless energy or a cuddly lapdog?

Collies and retrievers have been bred to perform tasks like herding or fetching birds.

He's a particularly active type of dog (like the herding or sporting breeds) who needs an active lifestyle to be happy.