Sentences with phrase «oxen in»

Until now.This week, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released a list of» «unsung» species under stress from climate change,» from musk oxen in the Arctic to amphibians in Peru.

Dr. Berger has studied musk oxen in Alaska for nearly a decade, and on Thursday in the journal Nature, he and his colleagues reported a disturbing finding: Musk oxen are unexpectedly vulnerable to rapid climate change in the Arctic.

You start hearing about the pioneers and the covered wagons from the oxen in like third grade.

You're probably familiar with the concept of a yoke as a piece of heavy wood or metal used to steer two oxen in the same direction while they are plowing.

Leaving the cave... (Elijah) came upon Elisha son of Shaphat plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he with the twelfth.

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When Abraham enters into the covenant with Yahweh he slays oxen and parts the beasts in two, creating a corridor drenched in the blood of the sacrificed animals.

The manger scene began to take shape during the last week of Advent, when we cut fragrant pine branches and spread them on the hall table, then placed figurines of oxen and cows in the center.

There was a temple to Jupiter in Lystra, and its priest fell in with the populace, bringing with them garlands and oxen to make sacrifice to Barnabas and his companion Paul, believing as they did that they were Jupiter in and Mercury.

Pagels points out how promiscuity and immorality in the late Roman Empire resulted in widespread infanticide and abortion, as well as a slave trade in child prostitutes who were treated, in Justin's phrase, «like herds of oxen, goats, or sheep.»

They shall make you eat grass like oxen; and seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.»

Xenophanes (approximately 570 «500 b.c.) has earned for himself a perpetual place in undergraduate philosophy textbooks with his famous line that «if horses or oxen or lions had hands they could draw with and thus could accomplish such works as men, horses would draw the figures of the gods as similar to horses, and oxen as similar to oxen, and they would make the bodies of the sort which each of them had.»

Oxen are still used for plowing, water may have to be carried from the tank, and pujahs are still said at the local shrine, but the oxen are tied with nylon rope, not hemp; the water is carried in plastic, not earthenware or brass, pots; and the donations for pujah are broadcast on a PA sysOxen are still used for plowing, water may have to be carried from the tank, and pujahs are still said at the local shrine, but the oxen are tied with nylon rope, not hemp; the water is carried in plastic, not earthenware or brass, pots; and the donations for pujah are broadcast on a PA sysoxen are tied with nylon rope, not hemp; the water is carried in plastic, not earthenware or brass, pots; and the donations for pujah are broadcast on a PA system.

The parable of the Great Banquet in Luke 14 recounts the excuses given by those invited: One of them says that he has to go look at his newly bought piece of land; another says that he has to examine his five yoke of oxen.

I discovered that the oxen and people were drinking water from the same source and that they were sleeping on bunks that had no mattress and were living in absolute squalor.

In that day the Lord Yahweh of hosts, called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth; and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine..

In such a case, the man should not try to boost his own profits by muzzling his neighbor's oxen so they can not eat while treading out the grain.

But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.

The poor are not oxen - like workers ordained to be subservient to the rich but dignified human beings created in the image of God.

This opposition by the Amalekites, at that time, is given as a reason, that the men, women, infants and sucklings, sheep and oxen, camels and asses, that were born four hundred years afterward, should be put to death; and to complete the horror, Samuel hewed Agag, the chief of the Amalekites, in pieces, as you would hew a stick of wood.

Many who were here on earth are called nobles shall blush in deepest shame at that Judgment - seat, when around their necks they shall carry, before all the world, all the sheep and oxen and the beasts of the field that they confiscated or seized and did not pay for.52

To the word boucan belongs the term boucanier, bucancir, given to the French hunters of St. Domingo, from their preparing the flesh of the wild oxen and boars in this way, and applied less appropriately to the rovers of the Spanish Main.

On this memorable occasion, however — to be exact, on October 18th, 1876 — two fine and bulky oxen were led through New York on their way to Myrtle Park, in Brooklyn, where they were killed in the afternoon.

But back to the pages of TRADE - turmeric for health, cooking with seaweed, cultivating mushrooms, fiber in Tajikistan, sourdough recipes, farming with oxen, scything, an embroidery pattern, a crochet sweater, canning jar labels, oh and so much more!

Old Sturbridge Village Curator Tom Kelleher notes that snow in early New England was actually welcomed by travelers, saying, «Instead of plowing roads clear after a storm as we do today, in the 1800s teams of horses and oxen were driven out to trample the snow down, leaving a hard packed surface for sleighs.

Oxen like education and health care are rarely gored during even - numbered years in Albany, even with deficits.

In Ancient Rome, slaves were described as oxen.

Before, we did work with muscle power, animal power (horses, mules, donkeys, oxen, camels), wind power on the oceans and in gristmills, a little hydropower, and open fire.

The National Rifle Association's executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, speaks during the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Oxen Hill, Md., on Thursday.

In preliminary work, European archaeologists had fired reproductions of Upper Paleolithic points made of antler at the carcasses of oxen and deer, then studied the marks that they left on the bones.

It belongs to the Caprinae subfamily, being more closely related to goats than to oxen, but is in its own genus, Ovibos.

Some humanitarian organizations facilitate livestock donations to poor households in developing countries, but does giving a cow, a pair of oxen, or a herd of goats to a poor household really benefit the recipients?

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My one complaint is that those 19» diameter 45 series tires are not the friendliest on the oxen trails that pass for roads in my state.

A lion used to prowl about a field in which four oxen lived.

To climb and cross what is now Donner Pass, in the central Sierra Nevada, you had to lead your oxen one at a time up a narrow trail, unload your wagon, then take it apart and haul the pieces up with block and tackle, then put the whole thing back together again.

Salt Lake City, with streets so wide that back in pioneer times a team of four oxen pulling a covered wagon could make a U-turn with room to spare.

Green tripe, in its raw, natural state, is the stomach lining of ruminant or grazing animals such as cattle, sheep, bison and oxen.

We are working in rural areas to provide veterinary care for working animals, especially oxen, which are heavily depended upon by communities to pull ploughs and transport produce.

In centuries past it was used to control oxen for butchering, as a guard dog, and for hunting.

It represents an important era in the progression of log hauling techniques, complementing the interior logging exhibits that include oxen hauling and early skid roads.

In the late 1800s, steam technology replaced horse and oxen hauling and increased logging production enormously.

Built in 1640 as an oxen - powered rum distillery, the historic cottage colony has all the thoughtful touches of a traditional Caribbean inn — island - inspired watercolors hand - painted by Jinx herself, lush tropical gardens, and 23 ocean - view rooms with balconies and kitchenettes — plus plenty more that most hotels don't have.

Here you'll be sharing the dirt roads with oxen, chickens and the occasional motorbike to the village of Ban Nakham, popular for sugar cane and Kaolam, a local delicacy of sticky rice and beans served in bamboo.

This beautiful old building that was once used as stabling for oxen and horses in the early 1900's, has been lovingly renovated to offer comfort... Flexible Cancellation!

He connects with the material because he grew up in rural Henan province and during his childhood he used to ride oxen.

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.

In a warming landscape, pregnant female musk oxen may struggle to find enough food for their unborn calves, the researchers found.

In places, musk oxen may disappear altogether.»

At the center of it is a way of managing a cattle herd virtually unique in modern farming (though it wouldn't have been far out of place in pre-industrial times): No cows, bulls or oxen are killed at all; all cows are hand - milked; cows suckle from their mothers; and bulls are given work.

Niq» a, mother of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, who is now ill, and on whom the «hand» of god Iqbi - damiq was placed in extispicy — will it pass by unto sacrificial sheep and oxen?