Sentences with phrase «old a shell of»

Bushrod — 30 years old a shell of his former self.

-- 32 years old a shell of his former self.

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Publicly funded full - day kindergarten means parents no longer have to shell out for 10 months of child care for their five - year - olds (and, in Ontario, four - year - olds)-- a major cost savings.

Actually i'm glad the religious addicts are spending their energy on this subject instead of trying to convince everyone the universe is only 6,000 years old and god put sea shells on the tops of mountains to trick us into thinking that evolution exists.

I took away with me a piece of shrapnel from a mortar shell that had killed a four - year - old girl just two weeks before.

He is merely engaged in a shell game of his own, giving his non-existant supernatural being extraordinary powers so that it can maintain its centuries old disappearing act.

Performers would prefer to reform Egypt by carrying the lousy bush back there, to create a bright new world in the shell of the old, shine it up, refurbish it a bit, shape it up, and prod it on.

The power of religious nationalism, the revival ot the ancient faiths, the fluid shell of a social culture which can not be penetrated by the arrival of «another religion» or by attempts to replace something old with something new — we knew these barricades are there.

The more the sad shell of what's left of the once Grand, now just Old, Party focuses on changing racial and ethic demographics as «the problem», the more moderates, youth and women — of all backgrounds — they alienate.

When I was eight, I decided that what my nine - year - old sister needed was the savings bank I found on the discount counter of a junk store, a coconut shell carved in the shape of a beatnik monkey, complete with beret, sunglasses, and bongo drums.

I thought back to the old days when I would top my ice cream with «magic shell,» but now that isn't an option since it's full of sugar and other unnecessary ingredients.

Dried mango and pineapple along with cashews are tossed with a hearty pile of old - fashioned oatmeal (and shelled hemp seed for extra protein) and then coated with a packaged light caramel sauce.

Presenting their Cocoa Paper, a product which contains 10 % cocoa shell content, a by - product of chocolate production, the 170 year old luxury paper and packaging specialist caught the eye of jurors including Damien Parenteau of Chanel China and Qilian Wang, President of Richun Tea Ltd..

You can't throw an oyster shell in this town without hitting a platter of fried chicken, but Leon's rendition, which is brined, glazed in Old Bay, and fried in lard, is one to seek out.

LaToya Howell is the mother of Justus Howell, who was fatally shot by police in 2015 at 17 years old: «I'm out here walking egg shells my Lord God, because you said I'm supposed to have justice, right?

A former rookie of the year and MVP, Ichiro has been a shell of his former self this season posting just a.261 batting average, however the Yankees hope a change of scenery — and more importantly, the chance to finally play for a contender — will help the slap - happy lefty regain his old form.

According to Sky Sport Italia's Gianluca Di Marzio, Juventus are ready to shell out a rather large chunk of money to secure the services of Genoa's 16 - year - old striker that has the eye of pretty much everybody else in Italy.

«If Liverpool score first at Old Trafford, they could run out comfortable winners because you can see them picking United apart if they are forced to come out of their shell and chase the game, but I also feel United could be better than they are in the final third.»

I line a plate with shredded lettuce and throw the chicken or beef on top, with crumbled taco shells and assorted toppings and finish off with a big old dollop of sour cream.

If you haven't seen any of The Ring Cycle at the LA Opera yet, please put on some snazzy shoes (unless you're 103 years old, I forbid you to wear sneakers) and shell out some deutsche marks for tickets before the opportunity passes - if only to see Linda Watson knock it out of the park as Brunnhilde.

During Harvest Days weekend October 20 - 21 at Old Sturbridge Village, visitors can take part in all of the activities of an old - fashioned harvest: threshing and winnowing grain, shelling corn and beans, churning butter, and harvesting potatoes, carrots and beeOld Sturbridge Village, visitors can take part in all of the activities of an old - fashioned harvest: threshing and winnowing grain, shelling corn and beans, churning butter, and harvesting potatoes, carrots and beeold - fashioned harvest: threshing and winnowing grain, shelling corn and beans, churning butter, and harvesting potatoes, carrots and beets.

Although eating sunflower seeds may seem like a bad habit of kids on little league baseball teams, they are actually a healthful food that all kids can enjoy — as long as they don't throw the shells on the floor and are old enough so that the seeds aren't a choking hazard.

The top halves of the shells also fit into each other and this is what my 3 year old likes to play with, while my 2 year old enjoys collecting the colors, packing and unpacking the carton.

Most of those car seats also have tall shells and can accommodate a child who is on the taller side for much longer than the bare minimum recommendation, which is two years old.

If the crown of your baby's head is less than one inch from the top of the carrier shell, then it's high time to buy a new car seat as your child has outgrown the old one.

Also, it has a really short shell, so although it goes up to 13 kg, my 6 month old is almost within 1 inch of the top of the shell at 8 kg (he is very tall though) so no way it would last him another 7 kg!

Compared to the organic parties of the 1st and 2nd republics, his post old breed - new breed guinea - pigging has left the formal party system a hollow shell, devoid of any ideological direction, talk less of rigour.

Translation: «I used to care about people and the world beyond myself, until I became a bitter old man who retreated into a shell of hatred, bigotry and callousness.

In addition to pieces of ochre that appear to have been engraved — the oldest such abstract art in the world — archaeologists have found tool kits that included abalone shells used as containers to mix ochre with crushed bone, charcoal, quartz and other material to make paint.

Bone fragments from a 210 - million year - old, land - dwelling reptile from New Mexico suggest that the earliest turtles didn't have much of a shell at all.

It was found etched into the shell of a fossilised freshwater clam, and is around half a million years old — making the line by far the oldest engraving ever found.

A shell etched by Homo erectus is by far the oldest engraving ever found, challenging what we know about the origin of art and complex human thought

1 Dawn of the dump: The oldest trash heaps, called middens, are in South Africa and contain shells roughly 140,000 years old.

Industry hangs on in the form of Nypro, a plastic - parts manufacturer that has filled the old Bigelow shell with gleaming machines that spit out pens, medical tubing, and cell phone cases.

Shells from a fourth Spanish cave, pigment - stained and pierced as if for use as body ornaments, are even older, a team including several of the same researchers reports in a second paper, in Science Advances.

Stephen Munro, holding the skullcap of Trinil 2, aka «Java Man,» discovered the oldest known engraving on shells found near the fossil.

That changed in 2008 with the discovery of Chinese Odontochelys semitestacea, a reptile about 220 million years old, which had a fully developed plastron — the belly side of the shell — but only a partial carapace on its back.

Until recently, the oldest known fossil turtles, dating back about 215 million years, had fully developed shells, making it hard to see the sequence of evolutionary events that produced them.

In 2016, Collins and colleagues published evidence of proteins on ostrich shells that were almost 4 million years old — the connection to human evolution may not be readily apparent, but such shells have been used by hominins for millions of years to transport water and other resources.

Ancient productivity Thousand - year - old mounds of discarded oyster shells, called middens, that line the banks along parts of Maine's Damariscotta River attest to the productivity — and Native Americans» ancient appetite for — local oysters.

Scientists in Britain have identified what they say is the world's oldest fossilized vomit — a collection of shells from an extinct squidlike creature swallowed long ago by an ichthyosaur.

* A South African cave yields 75,000 - year - old pieces of shell - bead jewelry, the earliest evidence of symbolic thinking by humans.

Now, a handful of 480 - million - year - old fossils from southeastern Morocco suggests that those progenitors may have resembled a spine - covered slug that wore a small toenail - shaped shell on its head.

Image: A mussel shell engraved by Homo erectus between 540,000 and 430,000 years ago Credit: Wim Lustenhouwer, VU University Amsterdam Source: Kate Wong's World's Oldest Engraving Upends Theory of Homo sapiens Uniqueness on Observations These scratches may not look like much but they predate the existence of our species, Homo sapiens, and upend any claim -LSB-...]

And although some previous studies suggested that the first mollusks didn't have shells, the new findings hint that the oldest species in the group actually did sport a hardened structure made out of calcium carbonate.

Younger males, who don't have as much home - decorating game as the older bowerbirds, will sneak in to other bowers and steal decorative items, like blue feathers, shells, bright berries, and colorful bits of plastic.

Where researchers expected to find a large mantle plume, the map of the geologic structure beneath Yellowstone instead seems to show a ghostly fragment of an old tectonic plate — a former chunk of Earth's rocky shell — lodged under the western United States, right near the Yellowstone hot spot.

Shells are strewn in front, arranged with some pieces of old glass.

Then last year Cappellini and Matthew Collins, a paleoproteomics expert at the University of York in the United Kingdom, and colleagues managed to identify protein fragments from 3.8 - million - year - old ostrich egg shells, a claim that most of their colleagues found convincing.

Twenty million years older than the oldest known fossil of a direct turtle ancestor, Eunotosaurus africanus has broadened ribs inside its body and elongated vertebrae in its spine compared with other reptiles, but those bones aren't fully fused to form an external shell as is the case in modern turtles.