Sentences with phrase «of ostrich»

Despite the prevalence of the phrase «here be dragons» in popular representation of medieval and fantasy maps, the phrase only appears on two known historical maps: the 16th century Hunt - Lenox Globe and on a globe engraved on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs (dated to 1504).

As recently revealed by Samsung's Chief Marketing Officer Marc Mathieu, the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco forced the firm to put more effort into promoting brand trust and not individual products themselves, and the award - winning «Dream of an Ostrich» ad that can be seen beneath this writing is one of the first examples of that newly adopted strategy.

The city is known for its annual Ostrich Festival, which celebrates the history of ostrich farms in Chandler.

The end result is inevitably a string of revelations, on all scales, that make the pages more intuitive and cleanly jerk your head out of the ostrich hole.

He warns of The Ostrich Phenomenon, which was described by Patricia Sue Heil, in «Tending the Bar in Texas: Alcoholism as a Mitigating Factor in Attorney Discipline» (24 St. Mary's L.J. 1263, 1278 - 79 (1993).

Sure, you can still find a few Tyrannosaurus Rex firms feasting on a couple of ostrich - head - in - the - sand clients, but you'll soon find more petrified dinosaur bones than living, breathing, traditional firms billing by the hour.

In his opinion in Gonzalez - Servin v. Ford Motor Co. in November 2011, Posner included photos of both an ostrich and a man in a suit with their heads buried in the sand to reinforce his point that» [t] he ostrich is a noble animal, but not a proper model for an appellate advocate.»

Furthermore, the pictures are insulting and demeaning and do not accurately depict the behaviour of an ostrich in protecting her young.

It is hard to imagine a more compelling operational definition of the Ostrich Principal / Theorem!

Granted, those gains were not all due to the warming, but our contemporary group of ostrich researchers haven't been able to find the causal connections between warming and social and economic improvement.

There is nothing less than national security and national survival that is being put at risk by this kind of ostrich - brained thinking.

Similar to the myth of the ostrich burying its head in the sand, the protection this offers is, of course, illusory.

The third work on view, a sculpture of an ostrich in snakeskin by Glenn Kaino, was not sold.

In his Hatched in Prison series, Batle carves incredibly detailed scenes of prison life into the shells of ostrich eggs.

Better still, the vehicles the series is so famous for have been bolstered with a host of new ways to destroy the Rebel forces, be it from the back of an Ostrich or Elephant, or on a Rocket in space.

13 years on from Syberia II, it's finally time to rejoin lawyer Kate Walker on her journey through the wilderness, as she joins with a band of Ostrich - herding nomads to overcome their common obstacles - and escape a tricky past.

Oudtshoorn is the largest town in the Little Karoo, and boasts the largest ostrich population in the world, featured at a number of ostrich show farms around the town.

Roast meats are typically popular and in addition to lamb, beef and pork, kangaroo meat is not uncommon and, in some restaurants, cuts of ostrich or crocodile.

You enjoy a tour of an ostrich farm with the opportunity to hand feed the magnificent birds.

Aloe Eden is approximately 10 km from Hartenbos, 15 km from Mossel Bay, and 50 km from Oudtshoorn the home of ostrich farms and the Cango Caves.

An example of the Ostrich Syndrome gone malignant can be found in my own breed, the Australian Shepherd.

The custom interior created by Performance Choice, showcases new upscale textures of Ostrich leather and Alcantara synthetic suede, with the look and feel of suede without the maintenance issues.

Designed as a showcase for Custom Shop, Mid America Motorworks and Sony, the supercharged, fibreglass beastie features a custom interior of Ostrich leather and Alcantara suede, vertical doors, 650 horsepower (478 kW), and 5600 watts (5.6 kW) of Sony electronics.

Côté is able to mine a wry humour from his animal subjects in places, as when the enormous eye of an ostrich flicks about the screen, or a solemn bull transfixes us with its glare.

My name refers to my previous ownership of an Ostrich farm.

The geo print on these reminds me of an Ostrich for some reason.

Standout pieces included a bronze pleated lame halter gown with scarf - tie neck that breezed down the runway, a half - dozen options in a bold leopard print which also emphasized movement, including a beaded slip gown covered in a flurry of ostrich feathers below the knee and then there were some gorgeous looks featuring a sheer jet honeycomb beading that highlighted Khan's desire to push the boundaries in needlework this season.

Sensual black lace MILLY cocktail dress knee length and dropping at the back in a luscious froth of ostrich feathers!

In the two and a half seasons I worked with him he managed to take me from being an overweight, un-mobile Tight Head Prop with very poor functional strength to the modern day rugby player where I can run with the elegance and stride of an Ostrich and move with balance of a cat.

Hieroglyphics in the tomb of Haremhab, located in Thebes, Egypt, depict men carrying bowls of ostrich eggs and other large eggs as offerings.

He died, however, from a brain tumor the size of an ostrich egg, which we think may have been linked to environmental exposure near the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

This article appeared in print under the headline «The century - old mystery of the ostrich's four kneecaps»

What was toothless, may have been the size of an ostrich, and lived alongside the dinosaurs?

He is not completely sold on the evidence for shafted feathers — though he does find the comparison to the patterns of ostrich feathers apt.

After looking through the ornithology literature, Therrien says, the team concluded that the spacing of the dark marks looked very much like the distribution of the large, shafted feathers on the wings of an ostrich.

Why is a type of ostrich found only in North Patagonia, and the others are found only in the south?

Two days before the game, the team was taken on a sightseeing trip that included a tour of an ostrich farm that bordered an orange grove.

That is a triumph of hope over experience and a clear case of ostrich like, burying their heads in the sand.

NO Plan Bad Management Wenger reminds me of an Ostrich he has his head in a hole in the ground.

Clearly «otricity» was meant to be «ostrichicity» which is the mass killing of ostriches.

Butler Philbrick Gordillo & Associates is out with a great new post «Triumph of the Ostriches» discussing the market's current level of overvaluation.

Guests and day visitors are welcome to join in on our ostrich tours where you are able to learn about the history, production and breeding as well as nesting habits of the ostriches.

Guests and families can enjoy watching the feeding of ostriches and watch the working dog's herd the sheep.

It is all a bit like the EU, corrupt individuals and and a bunch of ostriches with their heads in the sand.

Read Lynne Cherry's NY Times blog about climate messaging: NY TIMES dot.Earth Blog — «On the Allure of Ostriches and New Paths in Clilmate Communication» Lynne Cherry guest blogging for Andrew Revkin talks about how people are motivated to avoid hearing about troubling problems if they feel they are intractable — that they can't do anything about them.

«The fact is the banking sector can't act like a bunch of ostriches and stick their heads in the sand and pretend these digital currencies aren't a real thing that's heading their way — it is.

Senator Sam Dastyari, the chairman of the Australian Senate's Economic References Committee, kicked off an investigation by telling the Australian Financial Review that banks can not act like «a bunch of ostriches.»

Not exact matches

You got your head so far in the sand like an ostrich that you can't see how self - absorbed that way of thinking is.

«This is an ostrich situation where the ostrich just pulled its head out of the sand,» says Harry Kargman, CEO of Kargo, which helps manage ad campaigns on mobile devices.

Most business owners behave suspiciously like ostriches when it comes to the topic of crisis planning.