Sentences with phrase «pelting on»

Have you ever fallen asleep with the rain pelting on the roof?

The Giants are the Penn State of pro football: Linebacker U. Three of their starting four, Lawrence Taylor and Brad Van Pelt on the outside and Harry Carson on the inside, are Pro Bowl fixtures.

Careful not to upset the applecart in any way, Chicken Little posits the titular fowl (voiced by Zach Braff) as a victim of cranial upset, twice pelted on the bean by pieces of the sky.

Not exact matches

In NewFront news, ESPN, among other moves, is rolling out a daily, digital version of its «SportsCenter» flagship on the newly revamped ESPN app hosted by Scott Van Pelt and a rotating cast of other anchors.

Since badger hair used in shaving brushes is harvested from various parts of the animal's pelt, the hair itself displays characteristic differences depending on precisely where on the animal the hair is procured.

It is also strange that he quotes the letter to his curate, Bloxam, in 1841 on the conversion of England by missionaries going barefoot and being pelted and trampled on, and does not make the connection with Blessed Dominic Barberi.

David Day, a Canadian author of a book on extinct species, recalls that what affected him most profoundly while doing his research was viewing the actual relics: the aurochs's horn, the pelt of the Bali tiger, the weathered rib cage of a Steller's sea cow.

However... binding people to stakes and burning them, pelting them with rocks, ripping limbs off via drawing and quartering, holding under water to see if they live (in which case they are a witch and must then be burned), the list goes on and on and on.

As he drove to the stage in the popemobile, Francis was pelted with T - shirts, banners and flags from the increasingly adoring crowds being held back by barricades on both sides of the street.

One of my Redeemer University colleagues, Dr. Kevin Flatt, is quoted here, as is Michael Van Pelt, head of the Hamilton, Ontario, think tank, Cardus, for whose publication, Comment, I write on occasion.

Anyone ever notice that when someone represents «the status quo», i.e. orthodox Christian teaching, he gets pelted with insults, on the very thread that accuses others of being obnoxious.

At the end of that first meal, a server asked if we'd like to have a hot cocktail on the large outdoor patio, where there are a few benches draped in animal pelts, arranged around a roaring fireplace.

Now in retaliation, if it can be assumed that Buckner's assailants were sufficiently literate to read his remarks, the fans were pelting him from on high with garbage, Frisbees, even whiskey bottles.

That came after Colorado State had tied the game at 35 on a 30 - yard run by senior QB Bradlee Van Pelt.

It's hardest on mid-majors, especially when it comes to trying to coax power - conference teams onto campus, and then smaller teams end up with few impressive pelts to show the March Madness committee, as NCAA snub Illinois State dealt with on Sunday.

«No offense to any of those other guys, but I think he's the only guy to win three tournaments on tour this year,» Van Pelt told reporters after finally blinking on the 17th hole, allowing Woods (8 - under) to win the AT&T National by two strokes.

Laettner was on the Scott Van Pelt and...

«Nobody will expect Forest to win, there will be no expectation on the players» shoulders so they can relax and go out there at full pelt,» added Birtles.

We have a formation where we can «sit deep» and not get pelted like MNUFC on a Saturday.

He even had a look to see who it was on the ground, he then had to slow down so he could rake him, instead of going full pelt after the ball.

John Buccigross and Scott Van Pelt were in a giddy mood on New Year's Day and had quite a bit of fun with the fact that they cleared off their desk of all scripts.

On homecoming eve the freshmen climb up the mountain to party and whitewash the big rocks that measure more than 100 feet long and form a «W» and, though that is about the extent of any traditional activities, the school is not so new that a few guys could not come down from Idaho last month and pelt the statue of Weber's founder with some well - chosen eggs.

«I've worshiped these guys all my life, and now I'm on the same stage with them and getting pelted with rocks.

As well as sport personalities Scott Van Pelt, Colin Cowherd, Darren Rovell (unfortunately) and Simmons regularly chiming in on sports betting topics amongst their other duties at ESPN.

To add insult to injury, as White turned around and sat on his butt watching Smith celebrate, he was almost pelted by two penalty flags that were thrown at him simultaneously.

Singh will play with Bo Van Pelt and Tim Clark on Saturday.

Since Gutekunst took over as general manager in January, the Packers moved on from quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt and made a change to the wide receiving corps by releasing Jordy Nelson, one of Rodgers» favorite targets.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola questioned the organisation of his side's arrival at Anfield after City's team bus was pelted by bottles and cans ahead of their highly - charged Champions League quarter - final at Liverpool on Wednesday.

He also said a major component of the SIDS data was from New Zealand where the babies were not just put on their stomachs to sleep, but face down into a lambswool pelt.

NYC Kids PAC, a progressive consortium of public - school parents, pelted de Blasio with three F's, four D's and three C's in its annual report card on mayoral navigation of the school system.

An angry female fan has allegedly pelted controversial musician Mzbel, with an egg while she was performing on stage.

He had pelted eggs at the Tory peer while on a walkabout with Luton South's Conservative candidate Nigel Huddleston last November in Luton's Bury Park area.

But a youth protest against him, stones pelting one of his delegation's vehicles and a botched grenade attack on French troops, hours before his arrival in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, showed the hostility that still lingers after decades of an often tense France - Africa relationship.

On this note we wish to congratulate our teaming youth across Gonjaland for the display of political maturity by neither hooting nor pelting stones at Nana Addo in return for what happened to President John Mahama elsewhere in Nana Addo's backyard.

Ed Miliband was pelted with eggs today as he sought to move on from a difficult two weeks for his leadership.

Media reports on Wednesday, June 29, 2016 indicated that Mahama's convoy was hooted at and pelted with stones during his tour of the region.

Faced with a blizzard of criticism from angry parents forced to trudge with their kids to school through a nor» easter that dumped up to three inches of snow an hour on the Big Apple, a seemingly out - of - touch Chancellor Carmen Fariña defended the call to keep classes open Thursday — blindly declaring it «a beautiful day out there» as wet flakes and freezing rain continued to pelt New Yorkers.

It also defeated a US bid to remove restrictions on bobcat pelts, as well as Japanese efforts to engineer support for dolphin and whale hunts.

The big cats were represented, with pelts from tigers, leopards, ocelots, and jaguars popping up on eBay and on other sites.

Since the correlations are positive, it means that selection for confident mink has a favourable effect on the quality of the pelt.

But according to new research on vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus, seen above), the behavior may also improve a pelt's insulation by fluffing it up like a duvet, scientists report in the American Journal of Primatology.

Life appeared on Earth around 4 billion years ago, about the same time that the planet was being pelted with large meteorites — an event called the Late Heavy Bombardment.

Their results shed light on how beavers use similar pelts to stay warm while diving through water.

In trying to understand the formation of the early Earth, some researchers have suggested that the planet was dry and inhospitable to life until icy comets pelted Earth and deposited water on the surface.

A professor involved in the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) has invited people to huddle for a three - hour event focused on preserving «uncrawlable» data on the sixth floor of the University of Pennsylvania's Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library.

Previously used for pelting other children on the playground, for adults the seed of Aesculus hippocastanum is a fabulous cure for hemorrhoids and varicose veins.

After sipping on this you will feel as if your inner turbo power has been turned up full pelt.

Instead, I had to freeze on Chiltern Street by myself, minutes before the snow started pelting down!

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Former Fashion Director at Cosmopolitan magazine, Shelly Vella received the Influencer Award for her work leading many anti-fur campaigns and for implementing bans on pelts and exotic skins in photo shoots.