Sentences with phrase «of a gnat»

Pride comes before a fall, of course, and I was exhausted in the evening, when I had the attention span of a gnat in front of the Picassos and Old Master oils at Frieze Masters.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

They're the NFL's annoying swarm of gnats pissing off every opponent on the schedule — and they may be the most fun team in the league.

«We wish to state that if by July 14, directives have not been issued for the transfer of funds to various public sector schemes, we will advise ourselves,» said Mr Awotwi Nkansah, Deputy Executive Secretary of GNAT in charge of Labour.

After all... we all know Jesus was a WHITE REDNECK with a brain the size of gnat testicles!

Mr William Abedi Boadu, Central Regional Secretary of GNAT, who expressed these sentiments in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, advised that in the expected transfers, GES should ensure that funds are secured to pay the legitimate entitlements of the affected teachers to bring about a smooth exercise.

Shaking it after the Gnats have emerged will cause Watinga to pop out, and swatting it will trigger a harder version of Gnat Attack.

I believe that while God can control all things, down the tiniest detail such as the flight pattern of a gnat, He usually does not.

Addressing a press conference in Accra, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the GNAT, Johnny Akpakli gave the government up to June 20, 2014 to implement the «other decisions contained in the said communiqué we shall inform our members as to the actions we shall take at the end of June 2014».

Tap him to play a harder version of Gnat Attack.

The prototype of this behavioral pattern is the legalist of whom Jesus wryly spoke, who filters his wine to get rid of a gnat, but then gulps down a camel (Matt.

The expression is probably an allusion to the story of the plagues of Egypt (Ex 8:19), where Pharaoh's magicians, unable to duplicate the plague of gnats, say, «This is the finger of God.»

Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations — these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

As someone who lived in the DC metro area for nearly a decade and was there for the birth and rise of the gNats, I came to call them the same thing their fans did as a subtle jab at their team.

That left two choices — Chelsea and Spurs — which is bit like being asked to choose between a sandwich made of gnat's piss or donkey semen.

With electronics as entertainment, then wonder why they gave the attention spans of gnats at school.

Also present to grace the occasion were some professional bodies including members of GNAT - LAS, the Ghana Red Cross Society as well as the Hairdressers and Beauticians Association of Ghana.

«It's impact on the # trillions made each year by the banks and financial institutions would be barely the equivalent of a gnat bite and yet its introduction in the UK would mean that not one single public service would need to be cut and not one job lost.

The president of GNAT, Mr Paul Agyei Boakye, urged the teachers to practise what they had been thought to ensure that the standard of education was improved.

My cute planner hasn't been much motivation and at times I have the attention span of a gnat flitting from one idea to the other until I am completely overwhelmed and decide to hang out on Pinterest for what seems like forever.

But... I have the attention span of a gnat with photoshop.

Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one.

As soon as the light began to fade it was possible to hear the swift footsteps of lizards rattling through the leaves and the hum of the gnats as they came through the windows.

In the short term, though, they have the IQ of a gnat.

I hope you forgive me for getting another little schnauzer he is pure white and we call him the Ghost of Gnat.

On my last day there we try to talk about you, but the field we're walking through is too full of gnats to allow a serious conversation.

Make sure you've updated Super Mario Maker, then play Hard Mode of Gnat Attack.

Other screens capture similarly tranquil moments such as airplanes passing through the night sky, and a cloud of gnats hovering in the dusk sunlight.

That you expect me or anyone else here to take it seriously demonstrates you have the intellect of a gnat.

The First Temperatures The earliest temperature measurements by Derham and others amounted to a sort of religious inquiry: They documented not only the weather, but also the body sizes of gnats and wasps and the dates on which snowdrop flowers bloomed and thrushes began to sing each spring.

I saw cats stationed at living room windows, horses switching tails against clouds of gnats, cows in pastures grouped together like gossips.

While God can control all things, down the tiniest detail such as the flight pattern of a gnat, He usually does not.

Or in this upscale neighborhood, watched various illegal aliens hustle like dung beetles back and forth across the thick St. Augustine lawns through scattershot swarms of gnats.

Addressing a press conference in Accra, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the GNAT, Johnny Akpakli gave the government up to...

Speaking to Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive, the General Secretary of GNAT, David Ofori Acheampong stated that report available to them (GNAT) indicates that the parents of the girl in the video are aware of the sexual relationship between the head teacher and the student.

Whilst I applaud the analysis and time taken to write said article, it is just far too in depth for the average footie fan with the attention span of a gnat.

All the same, many of these essays have the air of someone taking a sledgehammer to a swarm of gnats.

This is my number one tip for photographing your kids: you have to realize that most kids have the attention spans» of a gnat and you may only have mere minutes of cooperation out of them before they're DONE and want nothing to do with your picture taking.

There will be 600 million particle collisions per second, and although the particles themselves are mere specks — less than a million millionth the size of a gnat — their collective energy will be that of an express train.

«You find yourself in a situation similar to a car moving through a cloud of gnats,» Collar explained.

I have the attention span of a gnat, so it's always nice to have new things to add to my exercise repertoire.