Sentences with phrase «lumbering giant for»

«The Texas Education Commission office has been a fairly unresponsive, lumbering giant for more than 20 years.»

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The Asian giant may still accounts for only 15 % of the province's lumber exports, but exports to China are up 71 % in just one year, and many believe it's only a matter of time before China, and not the U.S., becomes B.C.'s largest forestry customer.

And then add as well the question of whether this strategy for expansion will end up making the whole system into a lumbering bureaucratic giant that stifles innovations, and etc..

We have long been shouting out loud for wenger to sign griezmann long time ago, but for his ignorance, take a look at griezmannnnnnnnn now, golden boot is his unless our lumbering giant thinks otherwise and scores 4 goals.

Instead, he simply wants to strip the giant locomotive — and his star's lumbering frame — for parts, finding Hitchcockian tension in each padded seat, empty corridor, and nervy patron.

These gentle giants were used for hauling in nets, carrying boat lines to shore, retrieving anything which fell overboard and rescuing shipwrecked and drowning victims; Newfoundland dogs were also used to haul lumber, pull mail sheds, deliver milk, and carry loads in packs.

Look for big stuff — giant, lumbering whale sharks, barracuda tornadoes, huge groupers and clouds of tropical fish.

They had giant lumber trucks full of big pine trees that had been cut, and they're covered with monarch butterflies, and they're hauling them out for timber.

That all changed, however, when the Haida Nation of British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands — known across Canada for its colourful totem poles carved from red cedar — took issue with a tree - farming licence the provincial government had issued to lumber - giant Weyerhaeuser Co., allowing it to log on land claimed by the Haida more than a century earlier.