Sentences with phrase «of animal figures»

Predominant themes in her work include the physical and brutal presence of beings; the violence of human relationships, in which children play a major and ambiguous part (fetishism, sadomasochism); a strong sense of mise en scène; and the importance of the animal figure.

Not exact matches

A computer program can be designed (the word deserves emphasis here) to do just about anything, including to mutate stick figures that look vaguely like animals (or trees) into all kinds of shapes.

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

Most of these animals I have not seen in real life so I figured I would ask.

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

There are more picture books about St. Francis of Assisi than any other religious figure, including Christ; Francis» love of animals is rich fodder for an artist.

We assembled a team that figured out how to use traditional cheese - making techniques but using nut milk instead of milk from an animal.

I almost didn't include this one, because I figured it was a no - brainer, but then I figured that if several people are asking about the suitability of animal skin on a Primal eating regimen, it's likely that a lot of people are avoiding it just to be safe.

According to figures quoted in the report — recorded up to November last year - Australia exported eight million head of livestock to 18 countries in 1139 consignments, with only 22 incidents of animal welfare concern, since ESCAS's introduction.

I've been putting off posting this recipe for apple pie for weeks because I could not for the life of me figure out how I was going to squeeze into one blog post exactly how much a celebration of imperialism and genocide over a feast of dead animals makes my heart hurt.

All animals have a language of their own and just because we can't figure it out does not mean they don't count.

As the kids grew, the pancakes changed shapes from zoo animals to dinosaurs to sports heros (picture stick figures with blobs of batter for baseball hats or basketballs.

My acrylic work is built up of several layers of pattern and colour, using my own handmade stencils, stamps or printing with bits of material, using scraping tools, sometimes adding usually my own collaged papers, and then I'll work on the figures or the animals, birds.

She loved princesses and little animal figures and all manner of collectibles.

Beyond diapers, you'll love the charming selection of totally affordable and Earth friendly fun stuff for your little one, including dump trucks, modeling clay, wooden animal figures, books, puzzles and more from manufacturers that share Earth Baby's philosophy.

Toys - Games, Puzzles, Educational Online retailer of kid's toys including stuffed animals, action figures, and sports toys.

At the other end of the party space, place two sets of figures that need to be rescued, such as dolls or stuffed animals.

Other dolls that will stimulate new types of play are miniature dolls or figures like small people (such as the Fisher Price Little People sets) or farm animal sets.

Our Crewmates combine the adventure of an action figure with the emotional connection of a favorite stuffed animal.

Search Wolbach Farm for signs of hungry critters as you figure out what animals eat and how they find and store their food.

Have your child help you gather a cast of dolls, stuffed animals, and toy figures.

Senior Labour figures have become increasingly aware of the government's vulnerability on animal welfare issues.

New figures from the Home Office published in July 2011 showed there had been a 3 % increase in the number of scientific procedures carried out on living animals, much to the dismay of the animal charities.

In July 2010, figures published by the Home Office showed that experiments on animals in the UK had fallen by 1 % to just over 3.6 million, with a 10 % decrease in the number of toxicology tests carried out on animals.

To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).

To test the claim, Murray teamed up with Easter, Sasa, and others to nab as many of the animals as possible and figure out what was going on.

Somehow Wolfe manages to claim that he and he alone has figured out what no one else (at least, «no licensed savant») ever thought of, that speech is the «cardinal distinction between man and animal.»

His interest in Eros figures — he possessed several, including a 2,200 - year - old 15 - inch - tall winged statuette from Myrina, in Greece — underscores his fascination with the libido, the sexual driving force of animal life.

The proposed institute would engage a dozen or more research groups in the task of figuring out how human or animal behavior springs from information processing at the level of neural circuits.

Co-author Mark Loewen noted that, «We're still working to figure out how so many different kinds of giant animals managed to co-exist on such a small landmass?»

Using genetic data from modern animals to figure out what went on in the past is like flipping to the end of a novel and reading only the ending; it shows how things ended up but doesn't indicate how the story started or unfolded.

Subsequent analyses of the brains of these animals revealed that the drug reduced the plaques and tangles in the hippocampus, which is known to play a key role in learning the water maze, but not in the amygdala, which figures importantly in the dark chamber test.

Her destination is Delicado Shelter, one of some 300 shallow caves in the region known for paintings of human figures, deer, canines, felines, birds, rabbits, snakes, and other desert animals.

But the Sumatran evidence shows that some of the earliest people to depart from Africa figured out how to survive in rainforests, where detailed planning and appropriate tools are needed to gather seasonal plants and hunt scarce, fat - rich prey animals, Westaway and colleagues report online August 9 in Nature.

Certainly the figures didn't warrant the claim that «a rapidly increasing number of animals [have been] killed illegally in Kenya since the onset of the ban in 1990».

«We want to figure out why animals go to certain areas, what affects their decision - making,» Jeremy Sterling of NOAA's National Marine Mammal Laboratory says.

Information theory can find out what those pattern are, which parts of a whistle are important, helping behaviourists figure out what animals are communicating.

This painting shows six humanlike figures and two bristly animals of no known species, one led by a thong attached to its nose, the other being approached by two men with spears.

The figures do not include most mice, rats, birds, and fish, which make up 98 % of lab animals but are not covered under the 1966 Animal Welfare Act (AWA).»

«All of their contemporaries figured that any stone tool must be an example of culture because they thought that humans are the only animals that make and use tools and humans rely on cultural transmission to do so,» said Premo.

The most important advancement in medicine in the last 25 years was the development of genetic modeling in animals, enabling us to figure out how fundamental mechanisms of physiology and disease work, such as in bone loss.

If one applies the ratio of BPA intake to excreted values in hosts of published animal studies, concentrations just reported by CDC suggest that the daily intake of most Americans is actually closer to 100 micrograms (µg) per kilogram bodyweight, he says — or some 1,000-fold higher than the industry figure.

If scientists can figure out how animals like bears, bats, and mice survive the low - oxygen effects of hibernation, D'Allesandro says, it could lay the groundwork for human journeys to not just the mountains — but maybe to Mars.

These tiny figures show not only the craftmanship of the Oxus people, but also the importance of animals in their culture.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Butler's 2007 figures didn't take into account the fact that we throw out a lot of the animal mass produced because we consider it inedible.

The trick is to figure out exactly how those pieces of DNA control animals» lives.

To figure out when land plants and fungi originated, the team analyzed 119 such molecular clock genes common to living species of animals, plants and fungi.

«To figure out how the jaw fit together and how the animal actually fed, we bought some children's clay, kind of like Play - Doh, and rebuilt it with toothpicks to represent the teeth,» says Rieppel.

Researchers are trying to figure out how a plant or animal makes different cell types from the same set of genetic instructions.