Sentences with phrase «of gaffs»

Hannah had to take quite a bit of gaff, though no more than any woman out of Weimar, Germany, would have taken.

AC Milan Diego Lopez - 7.5: Multiple key saves to keep Milan in the match, Lopez made a bit of a gaff for Joel...

Captain Mitch told me to guide it to the boat's edge, where in one quick motion he leaned over, grabbed the line, pulled the fish into the air, and whacked it on the head with the back of his gaff, stunning it temporarily, then hooking it and pulling it into the boat.

Sunset Cruise 5:00 p - 7:00 p See the green flash 18th Century Replica of the gaffed rigged schooner Liana's Ransom.

Not exact matches

That was when the fish pulled the gaff out of the hands of the guide.

First, with his sharp knife he cut a 12 - foot - tall hazel sapling; then, without allowing it to fall out of line with the others, he drew it down by the root end until it was on the ground, cut a foot off the top, then lashed on the gaff head with the cord.

Much of the war he spent poaching in the uniform of the Royal Artillery, his talents having been recognized in his early training days in Scotland by a perceptive commanding officer, who sent him on leave to Breconshire to collect his gaff, then relieved him of normal duties so that he could get to work on the Scottish salmon for the benefit of the Officers» Mess.

Jack included... We're gettin rid of a top notch stopper and keepin a gaff prone one.

If you knew anything about me, you'd know that on match days I'm as laid back as they come and more than happy to chew the fat with opposition fans as was evidenced on my visit to your gaff last season when I spent a very enjoyable few hours chatting to Arsenal fans over half a dozen or so pints of North London's finest gnat's p*ss, oops sorry beer

Every time I write one of these blogs, I scrutinize every photo I submit just to make sure I'm not displaying to the world some gaff that I, as a brand - new, sleep deprived mother did not know I was committing.

The powerful hint that he could be sacked came after Boris gaffed by saying Britain will make a «Titanic» success of Brexit.

I'm still reading this para (Page 4) as a gaff: «Paleoclimate data permit evaluation of long - term sensitivity to specified GHG change.

All such late - game carving ever really accomplishes is to show the seams in the movie - making process, in Just Married highlighting the weaknesses of a shake - and - bake plot, pasting a terrified look on Murphy's face, and trusting too much in the assumed charm of Kutcher's gaffed shtick.

These skill trees are unlocked by filling soul bars, either by absolving or punishing the wretched souls of Old Nicks gaff, many of which may will be familiar if you read dust covered tomes from the local spooky library.

«House of Cards» starts off at a remove, but it really gets going when its story plunges into something like the real world, one in which Bill Maher and Dennis Miller comment on the proceding on TV and a gaff on CNN gets autotuned into a viral clip, where an education bill is broken down and haggled over in terms of details on charter schools and collective bargaining and the slower moving but responsible reporting of a newspaper is put up against a fast - paced website in which an editor tells a writer she can just post her stories herself as soon as she's done with them.

Zooey Deschanel has received an apology after a TV gaff surrounding one of the Boston Marathon bombers saw one of the two suspects erroneously tagged...

All the same, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams is agreeably substantive and charmingly resourceful, a pleasant diversion for late summer that won't actually make your children gaffed and appreciably stupider.

I certainly agree with the comment above and there have been many gaffs that seem to have been made by Michael Wlshaw over the last year or so but the government turns a blind eye to his comments.Surely there needs to be a royal commission into the state of teacher recruitment as well as the true state of education in the UK?

The interior of each of the four prototypes on our dampened British tour was covered in black felt, but beneath the coverings, it was easy to spot BMW's newest iDrive controller, its faceted rim sparkling like a diamond amongst the gaff tape.

It was a time when everyone felt, rightly so, entitled to an opinion but could not, by virtue of ignorance or innocence, tell the difference between a gag and a gem, between what the showbiz calls «gaffed freaks» and «born freaks» (like the twins)-- in other words, between the fake and the real.

It means the story itself is less important than the delivery... and I disagree with that, as long as the basic rules of grammar & spelling are followed (allowing for a few gaffs here and there — I learned long ago that there is no such thing as perfection, in anything).

There are plenty of people who can spot missing words and grammar gaffs.

In addition to the AWA, the federal law known as the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2007 «amended the AWA to prohibit the interstate or foreign commerce of knives and gaffs used in cockfighting derbies.

The natural spurs of the roosters are sawed off and replaced by razor sharp steel blades or curved implements called gaffs measuring from one to three inches long.

Presence of animal fighting paraphernalia such as: inject able supplements, dog treadmills, written training records, heavily weighted chains used to confine dogs to the ground, knives and gaffs used to attach to the legs of fighting roosters, animal fighting publications that list fights between animals and the sale of paraphernalia used in animal fighting.

The 2007 federal law, Boylan explained, «amended the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit knowingly selling, buying, transporting or delivering, in interstate or foreign commerce, a knife, a gaff, or any other sharp instrument for attachment to the leg of a bird for use in an animal fighting venture.»

On one particular voyage she was a day out of Sourabaya, Java enroute to San Francisco with a cargo of copra when her sails, gaff and halyards were carried away in a heavy squall.

The Block West Point («The Block) is a renowned place to fish for local species (make sure you have a cliff gaff and plenty of lures).

The Liberty Clipper is a 125 - foot beautifully renovated gaff - rigged schooner, a replica of the renowned Baltimore Clippers, made famous over a...

Queen's visit to Margate's new gallery the Turner Contemporary nearly marred by royal gaffs Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has paid a visit to Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery, where she met with gallery Director Victoria Pomery, Chair John Kampfner along with other key members of staff.

As one of this year's selectors I happen to know, and without doing a Lynn Barber and completely blowing the gaff, I think it's fair to explain.

His last idiotic gaff in the media was that the temperature of the Earth 2 kilometers or so down was millions of degrees!

For someone who is a bit «rusty» in the thermodynamics department yet was happy to add his name to a collection of elementary gaffs.

The firm's London gaff, high up in the Broadgate Tower, is one of the most impressive around, with stunning views and generally excellent facilities.

He jokingly gaffs at the idea of him teaching his kids about saving and he says he will ensure they get their own endowment plan at the right age!

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Maintenance of all line work equipment: hoses, blankets, hotline tools, hoists, saws, gaffs, rubber gloves and safety equipment

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