Sentences with phrase «part of the black sheep»

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In his book, Enough Bull, he argues that GICs, long the black sheep of the financial advisory world, should play a much greater part in many peoples» portfolios.

And now the Badgers are part of the black - sheep division.

Genetic material obtained from two pieces of parchment, one from the 1600s and one from the 1700s, show that sheep provided the paper's starting material and that over that century, a big shift occurred in the breed of sheep used in that part of the United Kingdom — from a scrappier, highlands, black - faced variety to a meatier, lowland breed.

Since solid ground is not so easy to come by in a part of the country dotted with black cattle and off - white sheep, the 2017 Jaguar F - Pace must race up and down the same strip three or four times.

Described as «black sheep feminists», their work has been censored, shunned and banished to the margins for the most part of their careers.

should one third of England be so stifled and poisoned with smoke that over the greater part of Yorkshire (for instance) the general idea must be that sheep are naturally black?

He was impressed by the reply to the preliminary enquiry about overriding interests — «Not aware of any sheep walks» — but thought that black marks had been earned by the Mitchells for, amongst other things, failing to date all letters; failing to submit the draft contract until one month after sending the office copy entries; proposing exchange of contracts four days after the draft contract had been received; sending off their part of the contract about one week after contracts had been treated as exchanged and not dating it; and failing to reply to requisitions on title.