Sentences with phrase «of a weasel»

More importantly, promiscuous use of these weasel words corrupts the English language.
Canine distemper actually effects all dogs, wild canines such as foxes, coyotes, and wolves, raccoons, skunks, weasels, ferrets, and most other members of the weasel family.
This small member of the weasel family endears itself to owners with its fun - loving personality and silly antics.
Their support made it happen and no amount of weasel words will change that.»
It's quite a bunch of weasels with whom Upstate America must contend.
I hate to hammer you anymore about the whole escrow / title thing but what kind of weasel clause, If any, is built into that process?
«Currently» seemed like a bit of a weasel word, because of course members can not currently transfer points to airline miles, and Dan said that would be coming in the future, on April 1.
Presumably Loblaws thinks they can get away with this because of the weasel words they use: words like «potential» presumably mean they're dodging making any specific claim about cause and effect.
We won't be fooled again by the smooth dulcet tones of this weasel.
Difficult though recovery from addiction has always been, it has always had this on its side: It is a rigorously truth - focused and euphemism - free endeavor, something increasingly rare in our era of weasel words.
In fact, an eagle was once found in the wilds with the dried skull of a weasel still anchored to its neck.
When we studied some of these reports, we found an amazing number of weasel words but no real proof of anything.
I couldn't help but think of weasels this morning when I saw the front pages filled with David Cameron's hyperbolic warning that Brexit will trigger world war and genocide.
A fisher — a type of weasel whose body is about the size of a housecat's — is a denizen of deep woods.
By BILL O'NEILL When Toad escapes from prison dressed as a washerwoman, or so the story goes, he eludes the posse of weasels and ferrets by jumping aboard a steam train and then a horse - drawn barge, before finding refuge with Mole and Badger in Rat's house deep underground.
, pika and marmot (two small ground mammals that can provide a snow leopard with snacks), scat of a roe deer, sign of weasel and a couple of foxes frolicking in the morning dew.
Same with Vincent Kartheiser, who we don't see enough outside of weasel...
The smaller smooths went to ground in the smaller den tunnels of weasels and rabbits.
According to a Vietnam travel guide, there is no explanation as to why the «evacuation» happens, but it is known the gastric process of the weasels alter the beans to provide a vastly unique and superior taste.
From the very beginning where two monkeys are tossing golf balls at you to later in the game where a boy is trying to keep a couple of weasels from being hit by soccer balls while on a date, everything in the game simply oozes with charm.
Upon arrival, he must sneak in with the help of his friends and get back the deed to his manor from the evil Mr. Winky and his horde of weasels.
Latest lot of weasel words (after realising they'd inadvertently shot themselves in the foot, so to speak)--
Conjecture is fine if the consequences are not larded with piles of weasel words like «could be» «might be» «will be if... and if....»
And although wild polecats, mink and other members of the weasel family are strong predators, pet ferrets seem to have lost the ability to hunt or survive in the wild.
The Pacific fisher, a house - cat - size member of the weasel family, lives in some of California's remotest forests.
That's why they love the passive voice so much in addition to the use of weasel words.
As anyone who knows their times tables will be able to tell, that amounts to real terms cut in funding — and no amount of weasel words can hide that.
There's lots of intrigue involving the animation studio, the greedy and evil Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd), not to mention a bunch of weasels.
Walton Goggins is a very reliable Hollywood character actor who excels at playing varmint - like cops (for example in TV's The Shield) or the kind of weasel - faced cowboys who will always shoot you in the back.
We also meet Henry's real dad (Clark Gregg), who is a bit of a weasel, having left Adele to marry his secretary.
The use of the weasel word «suggests» doesn't convince either.
SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is doing research on fishers, a member of the weasel family, using trail cameras.
This member of the weasel family is also the smallest marine mammal, with females weighing about 60 pounds and males weighing up to 90 pounds.
sea otter A member of the weasel family, sea otters have the densest fur known among animals.
We found that three canids (including the red fox and feral dogs), seven members of the weasel family or mustelids (such as stoats), five rodents, two primates, two mongooses, two marsupials and nine species from other families negatively impact threatened species.
This means that ferrets are meat - eaters and one of the members of the weasel family.
Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) are small members of the weasel family that have been domesticated for more than two thousand years.
It can also infect pet ferrets, skunks, mink, badgers, black - footed ferrets and other members of the weasel family.
Southern sea otters are the smallest marine mammal in North America and the only exclusively marine member of the weasel family.
The rare fisher is a member of the weasel family that, despite its cuddly looks, is a high - on - the - food - chain predator, important in helping control porcupine populations in the northern United States and much of the boreal forest in Canada.
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