Sentences with phrase «of withering»

I really must stop writing this part of my annual update, which invites emails of withering criticism, but here goes:

The legal profession is a demanding one, and, unless we take conscious action toward maintaining and feeding our most intimate relationships, they run the risk of withering and dying as we pound away trying to make partner.

The most recent judgment by the Supreme Court of British Columbia stayed the extradition proceedings and delivered a number of withering criticisms of the conduct of Cisco and the authorities.

The fleet will consist of 4 whaling ships, including lead vessel, 8,000 - ton Nisshin Maru (which was highlighted in a recent article in the New Yorker); a Greenpeace ship will be tailing it for the entire duration of its expedition.Japan's fisheries officials have tried to defend their decision in the face of withering criticism by citing the supposed progress humpback whales have made and by making the (patently absurd) claim that killing 50 of them will have no effect.

When I suggest we have a polar opposite situation here, enviro - activists appearing to be doing all the racketeering to keep their cause alive in the face of withering science - based criticism, this sort of thing is what I'm talking about — Newsweek «s Sharon Begley practically yelling about the need to stop skeptic climate scientists in their tracks, and less than three years later, Dr Schneider telling policy analysts and media experts at a major symposium exactly how such critics can be marginalized.

One way or another, expect a lot more stories like Mr. Yiryel's in Africa, where demographers expect an additional one billion people by midcentury and science has revealed patterns of withering drought, with or without global warming.

Now, suddenly, there's a sea change, with pro-drilling newspaper columnists and telegenic governors admitting they blew it and shifting their stances on sub-sea oil extraction in the face of weeks (which will become months) of withering headlines and video clips.

Either way, these things are part of an obsolescent flow — material untethered from any sense of functionality, devoid of value, and capable of withering away invisibly in plain sight.

Primarily single - player games are on the decline right now, but Nioh is a strong argument for the merits of this withering form.»

With upcoming mecha - themed titles like the Kickstarter - funded Battletech, Muv - Luv, Titanfall 2, and PlayStation 4 / Xbox One port of Hawken, and rumors that From Software is possibly working on a new Armored Core installment, the mecha gaming landscape shows no signs of withering or stagnation.

If we don't manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a world of withering expectations, we have to rewrite the script of our life.

Conversely, if the driving style is worse, and the lifetime score and stage regresses, then the recognition symbol of a withering plant is displayed.

If Sunset Song, Terence Davies's other recent feature, is a film of the enduring earth, than A Quiet Passion is a film of the withering body, the mortal coil that wheezes and shakes and is finally shuffled off.

In the process, revealing the complexity of human interaction, where genuine affection can be expressed in the brutal honesty of a withering riposte, and a moment's comfort can arrive via a stranger with no emotional investment.

The victim of withering reviews, Pan has also suffered from bad press after Wright cast the white actor Rooney Mara in the role of Tiger Lily, traditionally a Native American character.

How much is he willing to stay with Naoko, if she runs the risk of withering away quicker just by staying with him.

How much is Jiro willing to keep holding onto his dream, even if it runs the risk of withering away.

With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.

At least judging by the enormous antlers she wears to play Hela, Goddess of Death, sister of Thor, and goth girl with raccoon eye makeup and a welter of withering wisecracks.

Sally Field, as Abe's wife Mary Todd, makes the most of a couple of withering, wounded moments that may as well have «Oscar - nomination!»

In Steven Spielberg's «Saving Private Ryan,» thousands of terrified and seasick men, most of them new to combat, are thrown into the face of withering German fire.

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

The 46 - year - old — who has not ruled out a return to the Commons one day - infuriated Mrs May with a series of withering attacks on her via his London newspaper's editorials.

Cuomo, who has endured a week of withering criticism over his administration; s meddling in an anti-corruption panel, holds a double - digit lead and has amassed a $ 35 million warchest.

Facing seven other more conservative candidates, Bennett has been the focus of withering criticism from members of his own party as well as Tea Party activists.

And we've seen a bipartisan process buckle under the weight of these withering forces, even as we have produced a proposal that is by all accounts a common - sense, reasonable, non-ideological approach to target the root problems that led to the turmoil in our financial sector.

On the East Coast, Fall is slowly, belatedly settling in — the sky darkens early now, the leaves show signs of withering, and the mind naturally turns to questions of change.

Fearful of withering on an ivy vine back home, Swimming Coach Peter Daland (below) took off for southern California, where he now manages a classy pack of past, present and future champions

It's been too hot to have the oven on lately, and one day when it poured rain and the temperature dropped below 20, I cranked on the oven and used a half bowl of withering cherries as an excuse to make one.

When he wrote it, my brother had gone through the wars, so to speak, spiritual and emotional, and it has a wry, nightmarish intensity to it, run through by deep veins of both withering cynicism and luminous faith, that I found fascinating and rather disturbing.

CNN: Giglio bows out of inauguration over sermon on gays In the face of withering criticism over a sermon he apparently delivered on homosexuality in the 1990s, the Rev. Louie Giglio has withdrawn from giving the benediction at President Barack Obama's inauguration.

Like the cursed fig tree withered from leaf to root in Mark's passion narrative, the infertility that plagues Atwood's dystopia is a prophetic sign of the withering of a whole culture.

Scientology TV will likely result in very little for the Church of Scientology except to mislead its parishioners into thinking that Scientology is growing and has surmounted decades of withering revelations about the corrupt and abusive practices of this «pay as you go» business that masquerades as a church.

At the end of October, as the road show staggered to a close amidst a welter of withering media commentary, Fitt and other members of the underwriting team met with the Wired team at their New York hotel.

It is comforting to know that the legislative branch can stand up in the face of withering criticism and dire warnings from the media and even the president to take action and keep the government's finances from going off the rails.

And there's no shortage of withered, lifeless lawns littering Long Beach, where McClellan's bootstrapped upstart A Lucky Lawn was born about three short months ago.

In addition, Mark 11.23 has a saying, «Whoever says to this mountain «Be taken up and cast into the sea», and does not doubt... but believes... it will be done for him», set in the context of the dialogue about the meaning of the withered fig tree, and in this he is followed by Matthew (21.21).

What we as American's are stuck with are Republicans and Democrats who swing things to those with the most money that lobby them regardless of wither they are good for the country or not.

Jeremiah employs the metaphor of a withered shrub and a watered tree to talk about trust.

Im Just pin pointing a fact that the financial capability of the sides in the premier league is a lot different to the ones in Bundasliga or La Liga i cant see a side outside the top 4 of wither of those leagues spending 60 plus million a season on players, point being the calibre of their players isn't anywhere near that of Premier league players.

Together, they launched an assault on my poor boobs, reducing them to a tiny pair of withered dugs.

The fact that I sometimes find a bunch of withered Brussels sprouts in the far, far corner of my fridge says a lot about my relationship to these miniature cabbages.

As part of a T - Mobile and LA Angels initiative, viewers will have the option of wither a Galaxy Tab 7 or the LG G - Slate to choose from, both of which comes against a nominal rent of just $ 10 per game.

I imagined she was completely empty in there, her bones rattling inside of the withered sack of her self, like my wooden building blocks in their canvas bag.

Measurements made across the back at the point of the withers, the hound standing In a natural position with its feet well under it.

Upper arm and shoulder blades are approximately the same length, and are joined at sufficient angle to bring the elbows rearward along the brisket in line with the top of the withers.

Length of the leg from elbow to ground is slightly more than the distance from the elbow to the top of withers.

Ideally, when measured from the top of the withers to the point of the shoulder to the elbow, the shoulder blade and upper arm are of apparent equal length, forming an angle of nearly 90 degrees; this sets the front legs well under the body and places the elbows directly beneath the tips of the shoulder blades.

The breed has an average weight of only about six to nine pounds and a height of about ten inches at the highest point of the withers.

The head is wedge - shaped, proportionate in size to the body, (length of head about 40 % of the height of withers) without being coarse or too elongate, in overall appearance dry and moderately broad between the ears.