Sentences with phrase «more than bark»

They aren't likely to do more than bark and behave in an agitated manner in the face of danger to their owner or property, although there are exceptions to this too.

So what do we, as responsible principals acting as the buffer — a filtering system to prevent teacher overload from splintering our personnel into fragments so small they become no more than bark mulch in denim — do to our staffs?

People touring the facility quickly and quietly will not stress out the dogs any more than their barking neighbor.

They are still around, but today's firedogs are much more than barking alarms, and they are doing a lot more to stop fires, and solve them.

Not exact matches

So far the loose populist coalition that swept Trump to the White House has shown more bark than bite on Wall Street, Silicon Valley and «big business» in general — but there's reason to believe it won't necessarily stay that way:

On deck for this year: Taking the knowledge garnered from selling more than 20 million products and using it to develop a Bark & Co. - branded line of toys and treats.

The Millan brand had plenty to bark about, with more than 8 million followers on Facebook and the popular Cesar 911 TV series.

Plank likes his chances, in part because the wide appeal of Under Armour's locker - room aesthetic and barking brand voice could transfer to any number of connected products (think: Future Girl), but also because he now has more fitness data about users than even the leading tech companies.

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

«Despite all the hoopla about how Trump was cracking down, it was more bark than bite,» he says.

Trump was convinced to sell lethal weapons to Ukraine thanks in part to a savvy charm offensive from Kiev — but the deal may be more bark than bite.

«If people are sort of subliminally saying «those Christians are all barking mad», now we're challenging them saying «here we are, this is what I do, this is what I believe in, let's talk about it, let's see where you differ» and more often than not they'll see the message applies to so many of us and people resonate with that.»

The chocolate versions produce a bit more bark since you're adding more ingredients than just the coconut butter.

A monograph named «Cha jing» commonly known as «The Classic of Tea», verifies Shen Nong's work to discover the medical efficacy of more than 300 varieties of grass, roots, and tree barks.

I have made homemade chocolate more times than I can count over the last 2 years, and it never occurred to me to add some almonds to make a scrumptious almond bark.

Nothing is more delicious than dark chocolate, except, maybe, for homemade dark chocolate bark studded with frozen berries and coconut

Nothing is more delicious than dark chocolate, except, maybe, for homemade dark chocolate bark studded with frozen berri...

Bark Thins I think I've mentioned our love for Bark Thins, but a new variety we found in the northeast has me dreaming about it even more than before.

Many fans bark on about Usmanov NOT really eing a fan and while I realise that he is a businessman first and foremost he IS a football fan far more than Silent Stan as has been proved by his giving money to the Russian FA recently.

Despite being roughly a decade younger than most of his Porto teammates, Neves has no issues with barking orders at them, pushing and pulling them into the correct spaces, and generally organising nine outfield players that are vastly more experienced than he is.

I rarely see Wenger barks at his players during the match, very different than the other managers that like to be more involved in the games, like Guardiola, Conte and Mourinho.

But whether he goes the way of New Radicals or Beethoven — who actually had more hits than the ominous tune the dog barked at in the movie — they'll talk Johnny Football 2K12 at the Downtown Athletic Club for years to come.

Guardiola was barking out instructions to his team while Arsene sat looking more unwell than we have seen for a while.

Also contact your pediatrician if your child develops a barking cough, if he has trouble eating or drinking or if the symptoms of congestion last for more than 10 days.

Suddenly, the tree is more than a tree, it's a sapling with smooth bark, or it's a pine tree with rough bark and a sharp pine scent.

To make sure most disagreements end in resolution rather than shouting, tears and a huge slice of parental guilt, Eric Barker, author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree, a book of science - based advice for leading a more successful life, offers four tips for successfully tackling confrontation with your child.

As a rule, they had a bad night: BNP leader Nick Griffin actually managed to decrease his party's share of the vote in Barking, while Esther Rantzen proved little more than a sideshow in the Luton South Labour - Tory struggle.

It's a lot more interesting than either the bland or the barking options on offer from the other main parties.

Just as the finding that tea made from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.

After 43 years and more than 35 generations, involving some 45,000 animals, the farm now has foxes that will follow people around, whining and barking for attention.

For more than twenty years, scientists have known that aspirin and its natural relatives, prepared from willow bark, act by interfering with an enzyme called PGHS.

From Kauffman's perspective, everyone from Newton to Einstein to the latest practitioners of string theory may have all been barking up the wrong tree, and the long - sought theory of everything may be nothing more than wishful thinking.

Thanksgiving isn't just a meal, but a marathon when you have more than 3,000 hungry animals barking, meowing, squawking and hooting for their supper...

Nothing is more delicious than dark chocolate, except, maybe, for homemade dark chocolate bark studded with frozen berri...

An album both more mature and more realised than anything Hop Along have realised previously, Bark Your Head Off, Dog is a deft balance of quiet, folky meanderings and rousing slabs of indie rock, the two combining in to an amalgam that on paper, shouldn't really work, but in practice cements Hop Along as far more than another quirky indie pop band, and elevates them in to another realm entirely.

But «Atomic Blonde» is more bark than bite.

Wonderful as well is the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix — all that over-the-shoulder barking is disorienting in the best way, and the subwoofer is far more exhausted by the end of the show than one expects, not because of the picture's miniscule cost (everybody has ProTools nowadays), but because of its old - school vibe.

Much of the infamous massacre scene goes un-scored, the sounds of screaming villagers, barking dogs, gunfire, and Nazi laughter being more than sufficient to supplement the visuals.

Seriously — their instructor (Jean Reno) is just about the most lovable, laid - back military guy in the world who is more likely to ruffle their hair affectionately than kick their butts and bark at them to grow a pair.

Crowe growls out his lines in a weird accent that sounds more like Boston than New York, and Wright barks his disgust with acid.

This pack doesn't always make the right decisions — including heading straight into an automated trash compacter, a trip that provides more than a few harrowing moments for the bark brigade.

With more U.S. public schools entering the restructuring phase under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, experts convened here last week agreed that the remedies for schools and districts that don't meet their achievement targets have so far had more bark than bite.

In Barking there is a forecast for the primary school population to increase by more than 40 % - the equivalent of dozens of new schools.

The SLS AMG coupe is too flashy, its cabin is too cramped, and its engine note is more barking than operatic; unlike DeMatio and Floraday, I prefer the SLS roadster.

Hardtop retracted (fast, slick, oddly Germanic) the California sounds much more masculine than it looks, the double - speed whirr of the starter igniting an instant bark of high - compression, light - flywheeled combustion, followed by a few seconds of drain - pipey resonance calming to that uniquely clean, flat baritone idle you only get with a flat - plane - cranked V8.

If 4Matic takes any of the fun out of street driving, there's zero chance you'll notice; the fantastic exhaust bark, quick, precise steering and brakes that make you worry more about the guy behind you than the guy in front of you are pure, undiluted AMG.

If you're concerned with whether you can put more than a yard of bark mulch in the cargo area, or how you'll look when you pull up to the front door at the American Legion, there are other trucks that you should consider.

The bark initially feels more than the bite, but a glimpse at the speedo suggests otherwise.

Sometimes claims like that make you wonder, but in this case the sound backs up the claim; the SVR Range Rover Sport emits a harder edged bark pretty much everywhere in the rev range, but never more so than under full throttle at over 3700rpm, with its baffles opened wide so that it can be heard from many hundreds of yards away.

The first round of changes to Canada's mortgage rules were more bark than bite, according to a letter sent to the nation's banks on Wednesday from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions.