Sentences with phrase «locusts wrought»

«Has such a thing [as a plague of locusts wrought by God] happened in your days, or in the days of your ancestors?»

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Christians can choose from two lifestyles: the simple life à la John the Baptist, who lived on locusts and wild honey in the desert, and the fuller life of our Lord, who prayed all night and worked all day, but who ate and drank with others.

The CIRAD research team is continuing to work on the desert locust, in the aim of improving management of the pest by taking account of its many aspects and considering it as a complex adaptive system.

The locust detects smells with its antennae, and Laurent's previous work had shown that odors excite a group of about 100 neurons located in the antennal bulb to begin firing a rhythmic series of pulses — an oscillation.

While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century ago.

Then a locust swarm swept through the village she was working in as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, and in a few hours it stripped the bark and leaves from hundreds of seedlings she was growing for her forestry project and gobbled almost everything else green in the area.

Whenever you do core work, you have to do back work as well, so I would also strengthen my back with locust pose, held for 20 breaths, 3 times, each day.

Flies, maggots, lice, locusts and big, ugly, skin boils convince the townspeople that it's all the work of a strange, twelve - year - old girl (AnnaSophia Robb) who must be in league with the devil, or who at the very least has been stricken with wide - eyed - vacant - stare syndrome.

The cinematography by Sean Bobbitt (who worked with McQueen on his previous features) is stunning; and the score by Hans Zimmer represents his best work in years, an eerie, discomfiting soundscape that buzzes like angry locusts and drums like approaching thunder.

There's really nothing like completely immersing yourself in the game - calling out positions, communicating, and working together to flank a pack of locust; it's just a truly rewarding and fun experience.