Sentences with phrase «of land mines»

I've stepped on a lot of land mines, and I can work on helping you avoid them.

There are a handful of land mines in the mortgage approval process.

The legal profession has more than its share of land mines for would - be bloggers.

The winner will face plenty of land mines in its attempt to stay in front.

«It's definitely a case study of the land mines out there for male politicians who are trying to talk about this issue,» the consultant said.

More than 100 000 students aged five to 12 have benefited from the project, which teaches them about the risk of land mines.

But this new world, just as the old one, also has a lot of land mines that can send you spinning away from your dream.

Karpiel has dedicated the last five years to supporting the Carmel - based Freedom Fields USA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the humanitarian removal of land mines in war - torn countries.

Since hundreds of land mines still litter the forest on the side of the main road into Osijek, authorities worked quickly to pick up the refugees on route.

Parts of the terms of settlement read, «That the Federal Republic of Nigeria undertakes to complete the de-mining and destruction of land mines and bombs in the Nigerian Civil War affected states of South - East, South - South and part of the North - Central geopolitical zones of Nigeria as contained in Schedule 1 to this Terms of Settlement.

This «O.P.E.,» as I call it, coming at the right time, can steer you clear of land mines you might otherwise run into.

The challenging part: Because of the possibility of land mines, abductions, and banditry, the U.S. State Department reports that «travel in the Afar region towards the Eritrean border is generally discouraged and permitted to Embassy personnel only on a case - by - case basis.»

Potential victims don't have that long to wait, and so researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have come up with a new kind of land mine detector, the Timed Neutron Detector (right).

Dating a younger woman is not complicated, but there are a handful of land mines that well meaning men often stumble into unknowingly.

Land of Mine (R for violence, profanity and grisly images) Fact - based World War II drama, nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, recounting how Denmark forced thousands of German POWs to defuse millions of land mines buried on its beaches during Nazi occupation.

An African giant pouched rat sniffs for traces of land mine explosives at a training facility run by APOPO, a nonprofit that trains the rats to detect both tuberculosis and land mines.

Did you know that bees can actually sense the location of land mines or that a honeybee can move its wings about 11 ~ 400 times a minute?

Among losses in human lives and material goods, and danger from billions of land mines in war regions all over the world, there is one more, hard, long term legacy of war: trauma — present on both individual and communal level, creating traumatized, dysfunctional societies which capacities to recover and progress are inevitable lessen, according to some authors even lost in genetic degeneration trauma could have on generations of human population long - term.

The author is a former member of the British armed forces, well qualified to describe the conditions in that small country where, during three decades in the 1970s, hostile political groups planted thousands of land mines that have victimized the native population to the present day.

MacLeod: I've stepped on a lot of land mines over the years.

In another room, two chairs were poised in front of Epiphanias an Stühlen (2011), encouraging a dialogue with this bulbous pink mound reminiscent of a land mine, a virus or the satellite Sputnik.

Yet while nearly every frame carries the memory of war, his work is marked by an overwhelming humanity and sensitivity: careful portraits of soldiers, peasants, farmers and refugees, all rendered with equal compassion, whether a muscular fighter posing with a grenade launcher or the damaged body of the victim of a land mine.

Cambodia remained heavily forested until relatively recently, thanks in part to lingering battles with Khmer Rouge guerrillas and massive use of land mines during the Vietnam War.

Learning to effectively manage your time, obsessing over work at all hours, and dealing with difficult opposing counsel are just a few of the land mines.

So it is critical that web designers hired to create a law firm's website, which most states consider a form of advertising, be informed of the land mines of legal advertising ethics.

And Hong Kong madman Tsui Hark's Jean - Claude Van Damme / Dennis Rodman buddy movie Double Team is one of the most delightfully strange Hollywood movies in existence; it ends, after all, with Van Damme fighting both Mickey Rourke and a tiger in a Roman coliseum that's full of land mines.

«The removal of the land mines is really the first step to help the economy in Cambodia grow.»

«It helps having worked on the C5 and C6,» he jokes, «because you know where a lot of the land mines are.»

That experience in the trenches was helpful during the design of the C7, he jokes, «because you know where a lot of the land mines are.»

Investment portfolios can be full of land mines, and debt can fatally exacerbate risk.

It just shows where some of the land mines are buried, and gives direct and unapologetic advice on how to avoid stepping on them.

«We tell clients that if they want to look at the Internet, they should approach it with caution because there are a lot of land mines that can blow up,» says Lester Rosen, an attorney and president of background - checking firm Employment Screening Resources.

In the beginning of our work, she'd learned how to cope with her ex-husband and kids and to avoid some of the land mines in the divorce process.

Go into Baltimore with a mentor who knows their way around, lots of land mines.