Sentences with phrase «powerful than the average bear»

Strong - willed and with a body more powerful than the average bear, the Bullmastiff can not be coerced to do something he doesn't want to do.

Not exact matches

The favorable market performance associated with many historical economic expansions is fully accounted for by 1) favorable post-recession valuations, with the S&P 500 averaging less than 9 times prior peak earnings at the recession low, expanding to just over 11 times peak earnings in the first year of the bull market, and 2) favorable trend uniformity, which typically emerges almost immediately in the form of a powerful breadth thrust off of a bear market low, and is confirmed within a few weeks by much broader trend uniformity.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Much is made by Eurosceptics that Brussels is more powerful than our Westminster Parliament, something borne out by your statement in your interview with Sharon Bowles: «She has far more impact on our legislation than your average Westminster politician.»