Sentences with phrase «of chain saws»

I mean: before the all the smart, knowledge - seeking people of this world all go mad with the realization that we're in the slow (but time is relative) process of destroying the living habitat of ours, by means of oil, gas, and coal; as well as a terrible lot of chain saws.

Sometimes the human impact has been as direct as the bite of chain saws toppling ancient trees to make way for cattle pasture or nets corralling schools of giant bluefin tuna for the sushi trade or gunshots felling elephants for their ivory.

But with the scale of his sculptures continuing to expand and neighbors in his relatively ritzy environs (known in some circles as «the Boulders») complaining about the sound of chain saws on Sundays, «I might have outgrown being able to work.»

They shared everything from a phobia of chain saws to one of letting down their families, but one stopped the class in its tracks.

The sound of chain saws began to fill the silence that spread across San Juan late Wednesday afternoon as firefighters began to remove trees and used small bulldozers to lift toppled concrete light posts.

Here, together with two Iban tribesmen and a guide — all of us caked in mud and sweat — I come to a place where the familiar clamor of birds, monkeys, and bugs is being drowned out by the sound of a chain saw.

Lots of chain saw sharpener reviews will tell you to look for a seller that is confident in their product.

But in 1993 Henkel, at the urging of Chain Saw» co-producer Robert Kuhn, returned to his roots, writing and directing The Return Of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Inspired by the pull starter of a chain saw, which I modified, I developed the first prototype.

Ms. Comte, who may be as fond of wordplay as a motif as she is of the chain saw as an artistic implement, described the phrase «NOW I WON» as «really one of the best palindromes that exists, I think, with great geometrical proportion.»

We all know it is not climate change that threatens the rain forests but the uncontrolled use of the chain saw and the quest for bio fuels.

Not exact matches

Arshad Chowdhury founded an international chain of urban «nap centres» called MetroNaps after seeing his investment banking colleagues sneaking off to doze in bathrooms.

Garrett See, CEO of DV Chain, a boutique Chicago firm whose biggest cryptocurrency deals reach $ 5 million, says early adopters are typically the sources of the largest blocks for trading.

JPMorgan is particularly concerned about weakening iPhone orders, a trend its supply - chain team sees continuing through the end of the June.

Here's Paul taking a chain saw to the tax code in a campaign video, to Jimi Hendrix's electric guitar version of «The Star Spangled Banner»:

Many in the finance sector have been weary of Bitcoin's price volatility, but see the block chain as a promising technology.

The chain has seen nine consecutive quarters of growth, with profits up 60 % compared to a year ago.

A huge, well - capitalized rival already on the inside track and a ticking clock on the deal — you can see why Target, in the heat of the moment, wound up overpaying for the dowdy Zellers chain.

So some of the off - price chains have seen growth stall.

The coffee chain's drop in score is part of a wider trend that Canada's big brands saw this year, according to the institute's research.

The logic: In a battle of big and slow against small and fast, give me the speedsters and let me see that beautiful turnover chain a few more times before 2017 comes to an end.

«On Instagram, we saw everyone was catching up,» Ryan Rimsnider, the chain's senior manager of social strategy, told Business Insider last year.

Occasionally I see people sitting on the back deck; on those occasions that happens, she's always standing at the limit of her chain, as close to them as she can be.

Regency Centers, which operates a portfolio of strip centers anchored by Kroger, among other traditional chains, saw its stock falling more than 5 percent at one point Friday afternoon.

In contrast, the retailer's online sales plunged 12.5 % because of a botched site relaunch, making it one of the rare chains to see its digital business shrivel in this day and age.

The parent of the Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic chains also saw comparable - store sales rise by 5 percent.

Such screens are standard at drive - through lanes of many fast - food chains, such as McDonalds (MCD), Burger King (QSr), and Sonic — but the Starbucks screens will have a twist: customers will see their barista's face when they relay their order.

The consumer electronics chain had struck a deal just before its Chapter 11 filing in Delaware, which will see a sale of up to 2,400 of its stores to the U.S. wireless provider Sprint and its biggest shareholder Standard General.

(Sometimes you'll also see the plural, principals, used to refer to executives or relatively co-equals at the top of a particular food chain.)

The operator of the Circle K convenience store chain in the United States is seen as a likely bidder to buy the retail assets of oil and gas giant Hess.

With three months still remaining in 2017, we've already seen seven straight months of year - over-year auto sales declines and over 6,300 retail chain stores shuttered.

«I see healthy alternatives picking up more and more [in quick service restaurants],» says Mike Weinberger, CEO of smoothie chain Maui Wowi, which was featured on Entrepreneur's 2014 Franchise 500 list.

«It's a very good way for small publishers to be seen by buyers and gain credibility,» says Gary Kusin, president of Babbage's, a Dallas - based chain of 247 software stores.

Dumbfounded, they watched the guy fire up the chain saw and lop off about a third of the couch.

(Sometimes you'll also see the plural, principals, used to refer to executives or (relatively) co-equals at the top of a particular food chain.)

The nation's largest chain of drive - in restaurants saw system - wide same - stores sales rise 2.2 percent during the first quarter, powered by a 2.3 percent increase at franchise drive - ins, the corporation reported Monday.

In light of this, we may just see more small retailers sprout from the ashes of the big box chains.

And the risk of losing money also falls less on Mylan than it does on those at the end of the supply chain, with the pharmacy having to dispense EpiPens while accepting less in copay money upfront, then applying for a rebate and waiting to see what trickles back.

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

But how long before some larger chain sees the benefit, both from operations and public relations standpoints, of converting to an automated workforce?

«We are starting to see an emergence of low - cost chains in Canada,» says Graham Longwell, editor of Fitness Business Canada magazine.

Even before the consolation prize of a deal last summer that saw Walgreens Boots Alliance (wba) buy 2,200 Rite Aid stores instead of the entire chain, Rite Aid was languishing.

«You're seeing almost every major retailer, almost every major fast food producer and restaurant chain committing to phasing out the use of battery cages and / or gestation crates,» ASPCA Farm Welfare director Daisy Freund tells Business Insider.

The grand opening saw customers buying bucketfuls of the crispy chicken and taking photos with the chain's mascot, a red and yellow bee.

«Any time you see softness in the economy, you see some mode shift where customers reevaluate their supply chains and look to see if they could rely on a slower mode of transportation in some cases or the lack of a timedefinite service.

«If you are a city or state with a rising concentration» of chain stores, or branches of existing businesses, «you see a faster decline in your startup rate,» says Litan.

But that's still a far cry from the high of 5.5 % the chain saw in fourth quarter 2011.

«They're seeing a kind of leaching of the classic «Tims run» behaviour» that should be a concern to the company,» says Doug Hunter, author of Double Double, a new book on the chain.

Sports Authority finally filed for bankruptcy after weeks of speculation and with that, the chain joined the ranks of the largest retail bankruptcies the industry has seen in the past decade.

And as with avocados, the price gets marked up at each link of the delivery chain (see «The Cocaine Trail to Chicago»).