Sentences with phrase «of prey as»

My daughter's three - year old nursery school class mascot was an owl and I always thought having a bird of prey as the mascot was kind of creepy.
But if you're now worrying that the world might be inherited by spiders, remember that in turn, they are a source of prey as well.
Dolphins feed on anchovies and other small fish, and follow schools of these prey as they move around the channel.
Transfixed by books and birds of prey as a girl, Macdonald became a historian, writer, and professional falconer involved in avian research and conversation.
Collider stuck up with Margot Robbie to speak about her upcoming film, Terminal, however they touched on Birds of Prey as smartly, which Robbie is generating.
Anthony Perkins is massively unsettling as Norman Bates, but nothing gets that sense of dread across better than those low - angle shots of him beneath taxidermied birds of prey as he chats with Marion Crane (Janet Leigh).
Anyway, today I am sharing these pretty blush boots that I designed with Shoes of Prey as well as reviewing my experience!
Forty years ago, shooting and poisoning birds of prey was widespread, and the killing invariably blamed on old - time gamekeepers, men born and bred to view birds of prey as the enemy.
During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.
Already accepted as different species by the British Ornithologists» Union, the American Ornithologists» Union and other avian taxonomic committees are yet to classify the bird of prey as separate species.
These movements require that the insect successfully make predictions about the motion of its prey as well as its own body.

Not exact matches

Machers with a vast global web, such as Langone, are much more likely to find a short, strong path to their prey than the poser who lofts a Hail Mary on the basis of a shared alma mater or long - ago internship.
A few treasures, curios and keepsakes have become the stuff of legend, as one owner after another has fallen prey to bad luck — with sometimes - fatal results.
Or, maybe worse, they fall prey to acting as a conduit for some type of organized crime ring looking to make big money by selling or manipulating stolen personal data.
London - based Diageo, represented by Robert Raskopf of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, maintains that the Club is misusing an «obscure and draconian procedural mechanism» which was originally intended to target only fraudsters who «prey on unsuspecting persons by masquerading as charitable organizations.»
If Vice loses touch with its audience, or is seen as becoming more of a traditional CNN - style entity, with all the baggage that brings with it, then it could become easy prey for the next digital challenger.
The Bight's baby white sharks declined for a number of reasons, Lowe says: poor water quality, their decimation as gillnetting bycatch, and the near - extirpation of the prey that adult sharks rely on.
In the same vein as «State of Decay 2,» the upcoming «Prey for the Gods» is a survival game steeped in mystery.
As Americans begin to file their income taxes, regulatory officials are emphasizing caution in the wake of cryptocurrency scams seeking to prey on those investing in cryptocurrency retirement accounts.
With his theory of disruption Christensen offered a compelling explanation for how it was big company managers, equipped with the best education and aided by the best consultants armed with the latest in best practices, fell prey again and again to upstart competitors with seemingly inferior products; technologists took it as a manual.
The reason for Australia's third - ranking iron ore miner traditionally being seen more as prey than predator is a function of its once sky - high debt levels, uncertainty about its ore grade, and a belief that at some point Forrest would be tempted to cash out of the company he created.
Its a sad day when our young black men do nt have the freedom to walk through certain neighborhoods without being harrased are mudered, no one has the right to just take a life just because of the color of your skin we as a people has to stand up to injustices such as this no one wants to hear the truth there is still a racial devide in America and our justice system create laws so that this kind of injustice can continue to happen rather u want to admit it are not our young black men are the prey.
A person falls prey to this fallacy if he accepts a claim as being true simply because most other people approve of the claim.
i go to my town hall meeting quite often and its hard for me just to sit their during the pledge of allegiance, because it would offend my ancestors, to swear an oath under your god no i will have to sit their as you prey death upon me and mine.
Mahaney and board president John Loftness, along with six other leaders, are named as defendants for allegedly failing to report incidents of abuse to law enforcement, encouraging parents to not report them, and «mislead [ing] law enforcement into believing the parents had «forgiven'those who preyed on their children.»
To assume, as many seem to have done, that the logically simple is per se the metaphysically primary is to fall prey in a particularly egregious way to the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.
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If he fears these things, then he is the prey of double - mindedness, just as in this double - mindedness he is the slave of mankind.
Liam fell prey to some of these dubious delights, as the Celtic tattoos on his biceps still attest.
He climbed the tree in the hope that he would see this acclaimed healer and that the man of Nazareth, respected as he was by the folk that Zacchaeus preyed upon, would also see him and affirm the stature he had earned by climbing.
Much of the history of biological life is built on opportunism; and, as evidenced in predator - prey relations, this opportunism is cruel, at least from the point of view of the victims.
To suggest, however, that an individual personality could be discussed in vacuo would be to fall prey to what Whitehead described as the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness» (SMW 75).
Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as real as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reaction on the situation.
This weakening may be the ecclesiastical counterpart of that decline of respect for authority which has occurred among men who first having thought themselves masters of their fate then, as mass - men, became the prey of powers which moved them about not as persons but as things or bundles of conditionable reflexes.
Even when the minister begins as missionary to some people in the world he soon gathers a Church that claims his special attention; even when he begins as a shepherd of a separated flock he is bound to have relations to those who seem to be the wolves that prey upon it or the dogs that protect it.
They repeatedly requested the Massachusetts General Court, for example, to establish a constitution so that the people of the commonwealth would not be left «in a state of nature,» by which they meant, with Jonathan Edwards, «Hobbs state of war,» where men «would act as the wild beast of the desert; prey upon and destroy one another, «35 We are not surprised to learn that Alexander Hamilton said, «We may preach till we are tired of the theme the necessity of disinterestedness in republics, without making a single proselyte.»
I wonder if the wild, nocturnal howl of beasts of prey is ever so dreadful as the inhumanity of the raging mob.
Not understanding the necessary interworking of traditional, Biblical, and contemporary sources (even in a theology that seeks Biblical authority as its ultimate norm), certain evangelicals have fallen prey to a new form of «traditionalism»; others have retreated to a «Biblicism»; still others have found themselves in theological bondage to contemporary standards.
For immediacy doubtless does not know; but never does reflection catch its prey so surely as when it makes its snare out of nothing, and never is reflection so thoroughly itself as when it is... nothing.
Will he regard the title Son of God as a prey to be snatched after?
Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.
And TparTpatriot is UN american because the founding fathers would not only have repudiated all of the tpart's platform, they would have pointed to the TparT as one of the reasons they were founding a new country - to free humanity from the power of the priests preying on the ignorant.
Modern attempts to offer a rational account of the relationship between mind (its rational unity) and nature (understood as the realm of finitude, chance, contingency, and decay) have fallen prey to a seemingly simple yet extremely stubborn dualistic dilemma.
This false Christ makes the transformation of the real world by a true Christianity impossible and so delivers it as a prey to usurpation — to the usurpation of Ivan.
Others have seen this surrender as due mainly to the preoccupation of the divided churches with their fractional apprehension of Christian truth, which left each sect an easy prey to the encroachment of an aggressive secularism.
But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.
It is the suggestiveness, the persuasive likenesses, the manifold make - believe of things as perceived that we are prey to, long before we are plagued by their secretiveness and our curiosity: they too «talk» to us in many tongues, and time and again are found out to have «lied» by «pretending» to be what they are not... [Then we seek to penetrated «behind» appearance — to a truth different from it in kind.
people, really, in common sense, if one falls into prey of fearful, scare tactics like these mind molesting words that don't even qualify as rational prophecy, one forgets to follow ones joy and excitement and one becomes a fear mongerer who loses out in the joy of life, so sad.
Abuse victims from the Diocese of Chichester in the 1950s and 1960s will give evidence, as well as those who were preyed upon in the 1990s during a scandal which «engulfed the diocese in the first decade of the 21?
In the same paragraph he quotes his predecessor John Paul II with effusive approval: «All renewal in the Church must have mission as its goal if it is not to fall prey to a kind of ecclesial introversion» (EG 27).
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