Sentences with phrase «nubs as»

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The nub of the book for me, as perhaps for many, is the chapter on conception, children and family planning — «The Gift Bears Fruit».

Self - Consciousness as a Competing Authority This is the very nub of the issue.

Maybe I will roll the batter into balls then into some cacao nubs or shredded coconut (OR Enjoy Life chips if I'm feeling very naughty) and have that as a treat.

As if to underscore that point our very old yet vigorous rhubarb plant in the backyard is doing its normal late - January thing, bursting through its own mulch with hot pink nubs of new life.

I think where I went wrong was in leaving little bits of cauliflower stem instead of using strictly the nubs (guests were arriving soon and I was running late, as usual); stems don't mash well, so the chunks were too big, etc..

If you'd like a more official toothbrush for your toothless infant, many stores sell a finger cover with soft short nubs to serve as gentle bristles specifically for this purpose.

Plus, the raised nubs at the top are great for vigorous gumming and can double as an introductory toothbrush for emerging teeth.

The Bunny Dual Nub Teether is the perfect product to buy as a gift for your child or friends newly born maybe.

(I purchased a new bar during their Boxing Day sale as I was very close to the last nub of my first bar.)

There's also a cleaning brush with soft, bite - resistant rubber nubs, and a protective ring that fits on both brushes to prevent you from accidentally pushing it too far back in baby's mouth, which doubles as a brush stand when not in use.

Colorful silicone finger brushes with nubs are a smart way to graduate from a washcloth to a brush; as a bonus, the massaging action helps to soothe irritated gums once teething starts.

The little nubs provide texture and help massage tender gums as well.

The nub of Swayne's position was as follows -

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

Do you remember some 1990s laptops had a small blue nub between the «G» and «H» keys that acted as a mouse?

As the humans figure out whom they can trust, and Seeker gets more out of control, the science fiction nub of the story are two consciousnesses — or souls — inhabiting one body.

One of my other author friends who actually has a handle on this romance thing suggested an anthology and as luck would have it I had a nub of a story that seemed to fit the bill!

Lenovo offers the tablet with a stylus for writing, as well as an optional Folio case with a built - in keyboard and pointing nub.

We are down to the nub - end of the year, with holidays piling on top of each other in a blizzard of family, home, friends, food, gifts, gratitude, and a new perspective gained from looking forward to the new year as much as looking back over the ruins of the old.

These chew toys are naturally flavor - enhanced to encourage chewing, and small nubs make great dental cleaners as the clean teeth and massage your dog's gums.

They clean teeth with their nubs and ridges that act in a similar fashion to toothbrushes and the twist design helps your pooch maneuver the chew around their mouth contributing to clean the back teeth which are hard to reach as well as getting down to the gum line.

You can buy bristle bones which have rubber nubs on each end and nylon bristles in the middle to clean your dog's teeth as they chew on the rawhide.

The patented 360 - degree cleaning nubs on these Nylabone dental treats help reduce plaque and tartar buildup as your dog chews.

Ora - Play Tri-Action bones and chew toys have deep cleansing nubs that reach up to the gum line as well as micro nubs to help remove food and stimulate gums.

The nubs also serve as large bristles that can «sweep» bacteria and «scrape» tartar or plaque off their teeth.

The durable nylon bristles and rubber nubs of the Bristle Bone clean teeth as dogs chew.

If the nub begins to manifest itself as becoming nonexistent, the breeder should take the proper steps to eliminate this occurrence.

The soft rubber nubs on the heart body clean teeth and gums during play, making these toys functional as well as fun.

Let your dog know that oral hygiene is not all bad by providing some chewables, such as rawhide and dental chew toys with raised nubs to stimulate his gums.

I think that the nub could have been left off as the PS4 controller already has two joysticks so a third is just overkill.

Our only real complaint is not even with the game, but rather that the 3DS» nub is not as precise as a real analog stick and can make controlling your ship feel like you're fighting against it.

To move you whip out the fantastic thingy - movement - stick - thing - sticky - thingymajig, or maneuvering tool as it's actually known, and lay it down on the playing surface, lining up the nubs on the side so that they connect to the appropriate place on the base of the ship.

It's not a successor so much as an upgrade of sorts (think «Nintendo DSi to Nintendo DS», rather than «Nintendo 3DS to Nintendo DS»), with just a bit more power, a right - hand analog nub, and a few other features.

a slide pad under the thumb acts more like a mouse as its sliding around as if a mouse ball would or a THUMB NUB on a touch screen

As with a lot of other mobile games, the nub is how addictive it is.

Steering with the Vita's smaller analogue nub simply doesn't offer the same precision as a standard controller, as Head Designer Irvin Zonca confirms: «The changes that you feel are probably due to the different way that the processor processes the physics because the code is really the same.

But as a clear step up from the Vita nubs in this department, the joy - con control sticks take the crown as the best commercially available portable ones yet by default.

Of course, the second analogue pad isn't an analogue pad as such, but a weird little nub or nipple, of the sort we still see on Lenovo's business laptops.

When I say the New 3DS XL, the New prefix is important, as it identifies the 3DS models that are slightly more powerful, have an analogue nub, extra shoulder buttons, and integrated amiibo support — all of which the New Nintendo 2DS XL includes.

The iPhone gamepad case is back with an overhauled design that brings controls to the front, and adds dual analog nubs (the same as the Pandora gaming handheld).

And here is the nub of the matter: abstraction, particularly in its heroic, twentieth century phase, is most popularly understood as a peculiarly masculine domain.

The poll results are presented as an â $ œinverted pyramid, â $ with global warming impacts affecting â $ œYouâ $ just a tiny nub.

But it was comments from my alma mater, the University of Toronto, that really struck me as highlighting the nub of the problem.

The nub was that they followed a consistent line of first instance decisions holding that, in a non-EU-defendant case, a claim in tort may be brought in England if damage is suffered here as a result of personal injuries inflicted abroad.

The nub of the story, which is nicely expounded in a series of Ars Technica Law and Disorder columns (1, 2, 3), is that The Fly, in the business of promulgating market information and rumours, would as a matter of routine obtain and... [more]

Many went so far as to contort their fingers into a «claw» to manipulate the awkward camera controls (thankfully a non-issue on the New 3DS and New 3DS XL, with their extra analog nubs).

The trackpad is just as smooth and accurate as the Carbon's, and ThinkPad purists will appreciate the return of the red TrackPoint nub.

The keyboard, the Precision Touchpad - enabled trackpad, the pointing nub, and the fingerprint sensor are all exactly the same as the ones in the T470s, and they're all comfortable, accurate, and pleasant to use.

I get that they're supposed to blend in — that is, as much as large, black nubs in your ears can blend in — but a little pizzazz wouldn't have hurt.

That's especially true if you look at Nokia (RIP), which made such great bumps as those on the the 808 PureView and the Lumia 1020, which are basically two faces on the Mount Rushmore of camera bulges compared to the little nubs we see today.