Sentences with phrase «of sabre»

This case will also be watched by those in the copyright community in the educational system, since Access Copyright («AC») has recently increased the volume of its sabre rattling in the fallout from its great defeat on fair dealing in the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, and the resulting hit on its revenues with much more decline to follow.

There has been a significant amount of sabre rattling in this country by those who find their properties and even their images appearing on the Google facility, but, what are the prospects of success against Google as a result of Streetview in the UK?

Lots of sabre rating but nothing else.

For her second sculpture in this exhibition, Donnelly worked with both a locksmith and blacksmith to create a blade that encapsulates the «warrior spirit» of a sabre.

Each level requires logic, precision, agility and lots of sabre rattling.

Where on earth do you think most of the sabre - rattling with Iran is coming from?

But hey, at least we don't have to put up with massive avalanches, exploding lava pits and vicious packs of sabre - toothed tigers.

Because of the distortions and lies spread by fundamentalists about fossil: Smilodon; sabre - toothed tiger A discussion of California fossils — notably those of sabre - toothed tigers and the Smilodon — in the University of

In the age of sabre - toothed tigers and mammoths it was wise to be stressed, tense and alert; after all, being hypervigilant could save you from being eaten, but if your biggest stress right now is ensuring the bills are paid and your dishes are done, it would be seen more counterproductive to stress and worry.

There are suggestions that the clouded leopard may show a primitive form of sabre - toothedness — although there is some debate over whether or not its teeth are large enough relative to its skull for it to qualify as a true sabre - toothed cat.

Children's brains have adapted to modern times though so instead of sabre - tooth tigers it is now monsters which haunt our young children at night since these are the threatening figures that our little ones are exposed to in books and television shows.

Not exact matches

Muhammad's doll has a sabre and fencing uniform, athletic legs, and even her style of eyeliner.

Of course, Ross's sabre rattling could be the precursor to some gunboat diplomacy (although the White House claims that President Trump was just joking about sending in U.S. troops in his call with the Mexican President).

In August, Pyongyang threatened to shoot intermediate range missiles towards the vicinity of Guam, a target frequently subjected to sabre - rattling from the North.

If there's one word that defines the Canadian economy at the moment, it's uncertainty — what with the shaky housing market, towering household debt loads and, of course, a certain orange - hued world leader rattling the sabre of trade wars.

I'm sure a there were a lot of prehistoric parents telling their kids «NO Son, DO NOT pet the sabre tooth kitty!».

The governor has been sabre - rattling for some time about calling the Legislature back to Albany between the primary and general elections in hopes of getting lawmaker to act (in some cases yet again) on his property tax cap proposal.

Given the sabre - rattling among some Yoruba ultra-nationalists, the atavistic romanticization of Yoruba mores and ethos and the impassioned ethnic hate from a section still very bitter at the election loss of 2015, it is not easy to say.

And the same would be true if Russia started sabre rattling on the Eastern borders of the EU.

In Britain, the Falklands tend to be viewed through the prism of Argentine sabre - rattling − of which there has been plenty since huge oil reserves were discovered in the seas around the islands.

Nick Clegg is standing firm over the future of Lord Rennard, saying basic decency requires the peer to apologise over harassment allegations before having the party whip restored and that he does not believe this is the time for legal sabre rattling by Rennard's supporters.

Its kind of like how planned parenthood actually benefits from sabre rattling in congress about defunding it by exponentially increased donations.

And the sabre - rattling from a section of the Ijaw, threatening war and destruction should Goodluck Jonathan fail re-election, nicely keyed into that gung ho narrative, which certainly was not without sympathy in the South East.

Sources told The Mail on Sunday Mr Hammond was «furious» that the Commons Defence Committee had announced its visit in advance — therefore leaving the UK open to allegations of «sabre - rattling».

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

Sabre - teeth, for example, turn out to be convergent, and Conway Morris explains why it is that the clouded leopard of Asia, Neofelis nebulosa, has developed features that could, as it evolves «presage the emergence of a new sabre - tooth,» although sadly it looks set to become extinct before this happens.

Giant Ice Age species including elephant - sized sloths and powerful sabre - toothed cats that once roamed the windswept plains of Patagonia, southern South America, were finally felled by a perfect storm of a rapidly warming climate and humans, a new study has shown.

To judge the opossum's sabre - toothed credentials, Ernesto Blanco at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, and his colleagues collected 44 South American marsupial predators, including four specimens of the short - tailed opossum.

My favourite is one of a herd of gemsbok galloping across the Kalahari sands, their horns shining like silver sabres in the low light.

A sabre - toothed cat that sported the fearsome teeth of felines also had the body and gait of a bear, making it a «super-predator».

So says a team led by Stephen Wroe at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, which found that the ferocious marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) shared the same super-predator body plan as Smilodon fatalis, North America's ice age sabre - tooth cat.

If you're carrying a «backpack» full of sorrows, regrets or fears you need to lighten the load so that your immune system knows the sabre - toothed tiger has been vanquished (see blog 2 LINK) and it can stand down.

The CP system would rip him off the couch and get him flying in the direction of the exit and then when that immediate energy source was burned, some five or six seconds later, he'd have to rely on one or other of his other two energy systems; this is exactly the same process used by our ancestors when confronted head - on by a sabre - toothed tiger.

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The final image is an enduring one — in the days since I've seen Gone Baby Gone, it's hardly left my mind — and where bits of jingoistic garbage like Rendition are rattling bleeding heart sabres with patronizing, simpleminded zeal, here's a movie that takes the sobering, mature stance that even things that are black - and - white are never black - and - white.

Then there's the sabre - tooth tiger couple Diego (voiced by Denis Leary) and Shira (voiced by Jennifer Lopez), who this time do little more than briefly discuss the possibility of having a child (a discussion that lasts maybe a total minute of screentime).

The players will also get to use some melee weapons such as shovel, sabres, trench clubs etc. and take control of vehicles like tanks, biplanes, battleships and ride horses.

At a time when Russia is once again rattling its international sabre, and clamping down on civil liberties, a documentary exploring one Soviet writer's persecution at the hands of Stalin and the U.S.S.R.'s secret police feels all - too timely.

But sabre - toothed bunnies are not, of course, the only creatures these cave men and women have to worry about; this is a time when prehistoric beasts like dinosaurs and woolly mammoths are roaming everywhere.

The vicious street war between two neighbours, in Berkeley, has taken a dramatic twist after one of them was arrested for dressing up as Vader and allegedly waving a light sabre around.

Lopez is Shira, a sexy sabre tooth who wins the heart of Denis Leary's Diego.

So, you can imagine you're on the African savannah in the Palaeolithic times running away from a sabre - toothed tiger, your face would go into this kind of rictus grimace, and then the sabre - toothed tiger breaks their leg as they're running after you.

The styling, by British designer Andrew Cowell, is something genuinely new and different, with its bright - metal «sabres» slashing along the tops of the front wings and into the windscreen pillars, the airflow - improving vents ahead of the front wheels, the deep flanks and the rear window cut far into the sloping roof, bisected by a spoiler.

The car retains a few of its quirks, including the interesting, borderline gaudy «sabre line,» a stretch of chrome trim reaching from the front light all the way to the C - pillar.

A sabre saw will do 75 percent of the work, but you will need some sort of cutoff wheel or angle grinder to clean up the remaining bracket pieces the rest of the way.

At 10:30 a.m. on the sultry morning of Wednesday, 26 June 1907, in the seething central square of Tiflis, a dashing mustachioed cavalry captain in boots and jodhpurs, wielding a big Circassian sabre, performed tricks on horseback, joking with two pretty, well - dressed Georgian girls who twirled gaudy parasols — while fingering Mauser pistols hidden in their dresses.

And the rattling sabre of the price wars then passes to Weinman's colleague at Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader.

A Cossack sabre becomes an icon that sustains the protagonist through bullying, disruption, evacuation and the shock of war.»

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.