Sentences with phrase «of a dying breed of»

Sitting in one of the Lane's executive boxes, and still decked out in full Spurs leisurewear, King is one of a dying breed of one - club footballers.

The Illusionist is one of a dying breed of stage entertainers.

Along with John Carpenter, Eastwood remains one of the last of a dying breed of meat - and - potatoes filmmakers, descended from Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh.

It's one of a dying breed of cars being replaced by machines like the new Dodge Stealth, Nissan 300ZX and Toyota Supra.

The Lenovo Thinkpad X230 is part of a dying breed of full - power, small - sized machines in a world where Ultrabooks are sitting pretty in the lime light.

VA financing is the last of a dying breed of flexible and aggressive home loan programs.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One may be the last of a dying breed of disc - based video game consoles.

For example, he gives Bill Gray credit (and rightly so) for the important contributions he has made to our current understanding of hurricane genesis, and shows a somewhat bemused admiration for Gray as a sympathetic relic of a dying breed of atmospheric scientist.

Science plays no role in these computations, only echoes of a dying breed of climate warriors, gasping, choking on their own words, eyes strained for a vision of death and destruction, not evident.

Not exact matches

To say he was the last of a dying breed is almost too on - the - nose.

Asked if his stand against adding to budget shortfalls made him feel like one of a dying breed, Corker answered: «I do.»

It is not that the brash, characterful traders of old are a dying breed.

This is an example of our greatest source of hope, that the old folks who still cling to great prejudice are a dying breed, due to be replaced by their more enlightened grandchildren.

Every piece of research on religion in the UK seems to suggest that Christianity is a dying breed and church attendance is in freefall.

I was born at the Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — a fact that once prompted a friend of mine to say, «You're evangelical born, evangelical bred, and when you die, you'll be evangelical dead.»

Breeding more consumers will simply hasten the inevitable reckoning we'll face when waste production dwarfs food production and a significant percentage of humanity dies off.

Laying hens suffer their entire lives in battery cages where they can't even stretch their wings and millions of «meat chickens» die every year because they are bred to grow so fast that their legs are unable to support them.

If the Giants somehow make it through their best starting pitchers getting raptured and contend for the NL West, will they be the last of a dying breed?

And in Doncaster, England, near - octogenarian Robert Sterling Clark wept unabashed when his horse Never Say Die, a Kentucky - bred son of Nasrullah, won the ancient St. Leger before a crowd of 200,000.

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

Maybe I'm still used to the dying breed of pocket QBs, but if we're going after a mobile QB, I'd want one like Jimmy G — who only scrambles when he has to and can occasionally make throws like Rodgers.

There's no doubt that the three - sport athlete, especially one who competes in the big three of football, basketball and baseball (or track and field), has been a dying breed for many years.

That's no reflection on a wholehearted and committed member of a «dying breed».

Ever since Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira left the Gunners in 2006, fans and pundits alike have been screaming out for dying breed of player: a true leader on and off the field.

The last of this dying breed was John Ravitz, who represented the Upper East Side in the Assembly between 1991 and 2002, when he lost a special election for state senate and walked away from public office.

Dolly died in February 2003, with lung cancer and crippling arthritis, aged six - half the life expectancy for a sheep of her breed.

Improved husbandry means fewer sheep die in the fields, especially during winter when the ravens breed, and traces of sheep - dip on those that do die may poison the ravens.

Even semelparity, the live - fast - die - young strategy of growing quickly and throwing everything into one breeding blast, may serve that end by assuring rapid turnover and regeneration.

It is thought that these processes could have further use in breeds under threat of extinction and for valued horses that have died or in cases where mares or stallions have specific fertility problems.

So any of the animals that are endangered or likely to become extinct because of habitat destruction, we're pulling them into zoospredominantly rescuing the animals that are going to die anywayand housing them, learning every single detail about how we can breed them and establishing satellite colonies of that species so that we're ready when the cure does come, when we can rebuild habitat.

However, ethanol, an alcohol, poisons yeast, and even specially bred strains will only tolerate upward of 20 percent alcohol in their environment before they die off.

Mice bred to carry a gene variant found in a third of ALS patients have a faster disease progression and die sooner than mice with the standard genetic model of the disease, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

When these two genetic variants combined during breeding, 11 % of the embryos died, the team reports in tomorrow's issue of Science.

«He's one of a dying breed,» says physiologist Arlan Richardson, director of the Aging Research and Education Center at UTHSCSA, «one of the [few] people who has really thought about whole - animal systems.»

Myriad's contested patents are part of a dying breed, says David Resnick, a patent attorney at the law firm Nixon Peabody in Boston, Massachusetts.

Scientists are racing against time to save the dying reefs through the breeding of super corals.

It could be that large dog breeds die younger because they have more IGF - 1 — their large size might just be a side effect of having higher concentrations of the growth hormone.

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Also, most salmon breed in a river and the resulting young find their way out to the oceans until they are of breeding age and somewhat miraculously return to the same river to again breed and die.

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The last of a dying breed.

i am what you call last of a dying breed.

Charles and his mother, Mary (Alice Krige), are the last of a dying breed who are able to stay alive by feeding on the life force of young women.

Bad Blake is a dying breed of outlaw cowboy — a shot of Waylon with a George Jones chaser — and Bridges lets us see the shadow of every low point that killed every high.

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Long time friends Ben (Tye Sheridan), Carter (Logan Miller) and Augie (Joey Morgan) are out on a camping trip as the last of a dying breed at their high school.

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Logan and Charles may be the last of a dying breed.

At its core, Halo Wars 2 is a traditional, speedy flavour of RTS that seems to be a dying breed on PC, and never really bred on consoles in the first place (the original Halo Wars being one of the few notable successes).