Sentences with phrase «over by an elephant»

Almost get run over by an elephant on your way to a book signing?

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Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

And Paleoindians, ancestors of living First Americans, rather handily made the native horses, elephants, and several species of bison extinct by driving them en masse over cliffs and into bogs where many were killed but few provided meat.

The days of players of such limited ability paid millions of pounds of OUR (by this I mean supporters) money are coming to an end.For this Wenger has himself to blame as his tired broken down ways have been found out.Yes of course we want our players to be loyal but the players who we have called out over the years SÁNCHEZ RVP THE BLOKE WHOOSE DAD WASHED ELEPHANTS NASRI were all Wenger signings and showed as much loyalty and gratitude to him as much as the Club.Sign the right players and put them in a winning team is the first step.Win trophies and Pay them well and then you will see Loyalty.

No fewer than 62 Elephants have been slaughtered by suspected park rangers over non payment of salaries in Zimbabwe.

The mud hole where the elephants where trapped was a bomb crater left over from the Vietnam War that had been enlarged by farmers to store water.

In Africa, elephants (Loxodonta africana) mainly browse woody species, changing the landscape by pushing over, breaking, or uprooting trees, creating openings in the forest and helping maintain grasslands.

Over several years studying an elephant seal colony in Año Nuevo State Park, California, the researchers were able to recognize many of the individual animals just by the rhythm of their voices, he says.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

A previous study had shown that when elephants and other large animals are excluded from a patch of African savannah, tree cover increases by 9 per cent over 36 years.

Eventually, by drawing on Georgiadis's tissue collection, Lori Eggert's West African samples, and the gleanings of other on - site collectors, Wasser's team at the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington assembled a bank of 354 tissue samples and 491 fecal samples, collected from 45 locations in 23 countries, that together account for over 85 percent of Africa's surviving elephants.

Research over the last decade, however, has revealed that low levels of carbon monoxide ward off internal injuries caused by such stress, and the team argues that's why elephant seals produce large amounts of the gas.

It is ruled by Taj the elephant genie, but Wizpig, a giant, evil pig from a planet located near the space station known as Future Fun Land arrives and takes over.

Chris Rock launched his return stint as Oscar host on Sunday by immediately and unabashedly confronting the racially charged elephant in the room — the furor over the all - white field of performers nominated for Hollywood's highest honors.

Their elephant herd, rescued by Lawrence, shared Françoise's grief at his passing but over time forged a new relationship with her.

This nonfiction book by the author of When Elephants Weep — which I initially picked up, full disclosure, because he used to be my mother's boyfriend, but I subsequently grew to love on its own merits — is an accessible, intriguing survey of the ways we elevate the human race over other creatures.

I arrive in late afternoon and am rewarded by the sight of over 250 elephants milling around on the edge of the lake, some of them taking the opportunity to have an early evening bath, as the sun sinks on the horizon.

As stated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which is the world's main authority on the conservation status of species, the northern elephant seal has recovered from near extinction and population growth and is expected to continue over the coming decades.

With many different varieties grown all over India, chilli is used by farmers to keep elephants away from crops.

Day 6 Breakfast At 8 am you will be taken by vehicle to Chang Dao Elephant Training Center for a 1 hour elephant ride through streams and over mountains.

Buffelsdrift Game Lodge offers a unique Luxury tented accommodation, guests can experience an array of 22 different wildlife species including Elephants, Rhino, Cape Buffalo, Giraffe, Lions, over 200 bird species, and hippos right by the watering hole.

The auction has an interesting work by Chris Ofili, whose use of elephant dung led to a great controversy recently at the Brooklyn Museum over one of his paintings of a Madonna.

I worked outside on an upturned water trough and carved the wooden horse bought later by the Museum of Modern Art, a cow, a giraffe, a camel, two elephants, another cat, several circus figures, a man with a hollow chest, and an ebony lady bending over dangerously, whom I daringly called Liquorice.

Here are some desperately depressing numbers to consider: 40,000 elephants and over 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in 2014 — a rate that will lead both animals to extinction within 10 years if things don't change.

Over a month ago I exposed the truth that this was simply an exercise in curve fitting as famously stated by Von Neuman: «with four variables I can fit an elephant and with five I can wiggle his ears» and Twain's «three kinds of lies».

The well recognized sound of a Star War's TIE Fighter zipping through space was created by combining the sound of an elephant call with a car driving over wet pavement.

This art piece and the elephant piece over the bed are by the one and only Taylor Crawford.