Sentences with phrase «of human feet»

One of the best known is the verruca of human feet (plantar wart).

Evarcha also sniffs its way to places where mosquitoes are likely to gather and it's bizarrely drawn to the smell of human feet.

To the malaria - carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae (pictured), the stench of human feet is like the smell of a fresh - baked pie.

Yet few can deny the romantic appeal of human feet treading the rusty deserts of Mars.

A few anthropologists had written about a wide range of shapes and configurations of the human foot, variations that modern textbooks never mention.

Modern human footprints reflect the specialized anatomy and function of the human foot, which is characterized by a fully adducted hallux [big toe in line with the other toes], a large and robust calcaneus [heel] and tarsal region, a pronounced medial longitudinal arch, and short toes.

The scientists tested the response of these mosquitoes to skin odorants by placing them in a wind tunnel with a plate of glass beads that had been worn in socks for several hours to give them the scent of human foot odor.

Then there's the encasement of the foot and possibly also leg, which can be pleasantly intricate or, equally pleasantly, simple, all while conforming to the shape of the foot (not masking or disguising the silhouette of the human foot but still enhancing it).

It was George Bataille who wrote about how the big toe distinguishes men from apes: «the function of the human foot consists in giving a firm foundation to the erection of which man is so proud (the big toe, ceasing to grasp branches, is applied to the ground on the same plane as the other toes).»

Not exact matches

The reactors — six - foot - tall metal and glass boxes that glow seafoam green when at work — mimic what happens to carbon after millennia of pressure, but faster, with less human labor and a carbon - neutral footprint.

At around 10:20 am on Monday morning, a college student in Brooklyn walking along the shore of Sheepshead Bay made a grisly discovery: A human corpse with its feet encased in a block of concrete.

Moreover, signals sent from balloons located at a distance of 60,000 feet will hardly be of any risk to humans.

His 30,000 - foot view examines wealth management in the context of human behavior — a complement to the pragmatic, short - term, and money - centric model that drives much investor activity today.

An Otto video of the drive shows the slightly disconcerting image of a massive 53 - foot trailer filled with 2,000 cases of Bud rumbling down I - 25 with no human in the cab.

After immense preparation and xpense, the ultimate point of human frustration and mortal decision making for climbers on Everest is being several hundred feet from the summit and having the weather turn bad.

You are correct, this world is better off with Religeon because God knows that the average human is not capable of standing on it's own two feet and needs a bit of a cruch in order to act even halfway civilized.

I know that demons can inhabit a human, for I took a lady to church to see a pastor, to take it out of her, I sat there while the pastor prayed over her, finally a black ghostly type, with a person's body, came out of her feet and left the room.

If human brains are like body's cells, there is a natural point of specialization, in which new systems break away and form similar but slightly different branches, as cells in a body become fingers, feet, hands, etc..

Stephen Fry speaking about atheists: «The glory — anything — we take credit for what is great about man and we take blame for what is dreadful about man, we neither grovel or apologise at the feet of a god, or are so infantile as to project the idea that we once had a father as human beings and we therefore should have a divine one too.

He turned his light on it, expecting to see a small mammal but instead, «couldn't quite understand what I was seeing,» That's because human eyes were never meant to rest upon the South American Goliath birdeater — a spider that measures one foot across, with a body the size of your fist and two - inch fangs.

In any case, the biblical contribution to spirituality is not to belittle this world in order to indulge in an otherworldly exaltation but rather to keep our feet in the soil of this good earth and our hands in the soiled workings of human culture and history in order to re-create them.

With a mixture of ape and human features — including long dangling arms but pelvic, spine, foot, and leg bones suited to walking upright — slender Lucy stood three and a half feet (107 centimeters) tall.

Us pagans believe we are endowed with reason which allows us to judge whether or not someone can be trusted to deliver on their promises, if they are dangerous, or harmful — by watching their behavior - We judge — not some other being upstairs - Obama has shown his lack of human compassion and untruthfulness for 4 years, we have seen that his God is re-election money and that is at who's feet he worships.

In some unfortunate remarks Pannenberg laid the responsibility for poverty and human misery in the Third World at the feet of those countries themselves.

The Negroes of central Africa, and Israel's two traditional enemies, the Philistines on one side and the Syrians on the other, as human beings stood on the same footing as the «chosen people» themselves.

The new Gender Architecture - a giant with clay feet standing on sand, not on the firm ground of reality and what is good for the human person, will sooner or later collapse, even if now, it seems virtually impossible to escape the cultural, political and anthropological tsunami it will inevitably provoke.

Through it our small lives can be understood as the arena where God is working out the true revolution, the one that brings human beings back to God, the one that sends us out into the world to wash the feet of others.

This pattern reflects one of the most common narratives throughout scripture — that of God using humans to be his hands and feet in accomplishing his purposes in this world.

All that happens is in some way, either directly or permissively, related to His most holy Will: «nothing walks with aimless feet,» and we shall make hash of human life if we assume that we can evade God or get on well enough with only a casual nod at Him; that is not the way the universe is run.

McLuhan viewed all media as extensions of basic human faculties: the wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye.

During the five years that the Earth has trembled beneath our feet, its vast human masses splitting and reforming, we have begun to be conscious of the fact that we are in the grip of forces many millions of times transcending our individual liberties.

Even if we suppose that, by prolonging its existence on a scale of planetary longevity, the human species will eventually find itself with a chemically exhausted Earth beneath its feet, is not Man even now in process of developing astronautical means which will enable him to go elsewhere and continue his destiny in some other corner of the firmament?

WOW im just trying to figure out how so called religious people even gets the athority over peoples, lives period exspecially when its between them and their GOD, it seems to me that false followers of christ dominate the religious spectrom in this country and are quick to judge before ever setting foot in anothers hardship or goodness forbid have any empathy for another human being that may be different... no instead just sling around sarcastic hurtful remarks and call it being clever or even worse Jesus like.

site the washing of the feet and the drying with the hair... that my friends is a marriage ceremony in Judaic law and custom of that period and yes they did have a daughter named Sarah) but... not it seems to be a shock to many who really did not dig into their own religious dogma... blind faith is great if you can achieve it... normally people today need to inspect... inspect and you find the truths... then you will have faith based on the truth, not twists and turns and the human politics of history that changed historical truth.

We visited the canecutters» living quarters, smelled the stench of human waste, watched the prostitutes cavort, stuck our heads into the tiny rooms crowded with bunk beds, and spoke with an old man whose foot had been infected for several years.

It has been imprisoned in the cells of alien dogma; it has been bound hand and foot in the grave clothes of human tradition; it has been entombed as a sepulcher by systems of theology, and the stone of human power has been rolled up to close its door.»

I turn to the Bible, not for scientific instruction, but for spiritual illumination, to share in the most influential development of religious ideas in man's history, to watch divine deeds that have changed human destiny, to sit at the feet of great prophets, to learn from the insights of the seers, to find guidance in distinguishing right from wrong, and above all to come under the saving influence of Jesus Christ.

Especially not when you're confined to < 200 square feet with another human being who's so tidy his half of the closet looks like an untouched and perfectly-folded corner of Neiman Marcus.

And so I did a victory slide across the floor in those mismatched socks (one of which I'm pretty sure I pulled from the dirty laundry because that's what happens when it's 5AM and your feet are cold and you can't find the match to the sock you had on when you fell asleep) and then I cleaned up the house, got out of my pajamas, and went on a trail run with one of the most kind and generous and hilarious human beings I've ever known.

The human mind can be shockingly stupid sometimes — and all of a sudden the ground was 50 feet below.

Over the last decade lightweight carbon fiber and improvements in the design of the prosthetic racing foot have so improved performance that some people believe a human being without legs could have an advantage over one with them.

• How LeBron James exists among mere basketball humans, while doing things like blocking an Andre Iguodala transition layup out of nowhere and doing so at what felt like 57 feet above sea level

They have been touted as being more efficient, accurate and cheaper than using foot soldiers, with the cost of human lives decreasing dramatically when a pilot can kill his target from behind a computer screen thousands of miles away.

But he's a 7 - foot - 6 giant of a human being and he only needs like an 18 - inch vertical to dunk.

some times i wonder it we human some how had been program are we are just following the script now you can't tell me if i was the manager of arsenal and i want to win the premier league are the champions league because I'm Jamaica i have never smoke i don't religious beliefs an i make decision based information observation Fact not influenced by religion race emotion back to foot ball.

While it's still unclear whether quarterback Zach Gentry will see the field during his freshman campaign in Ann Arbor, one thing is for certain and that's that Gentry, a four - star recruit out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a large human (listed at 6 - foot - 7 and 230 - pounds with a reported 4.6 40 - yard - dash).

Henry is projected to be one of the highest - owned backs across the industry, and for good reason: What other 6 - foot - 3, 245 - pound human is capable of moving like this?

The village is at 7,500 feet and sits in stunning isolation, a speck of human presence in a panorama of raw mountain beauty.

Miller, a mammoth of a human being at 6 - foot - 8 and 290 pounds, said he credits Osterhout with «really like 95 to 99 percent» of the reason why he has been offered by Arizona State, Arizona and Texas Tech among the near dozen schools seeking his services.

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.