Sentences with word «sabre»

There has been a significant amount of sabre rattling in this country by those who find their properties and even their images appearing on the Google facility, but, what are the prospects of success against Google as a result of Streetview in the UK?

Each level requires logic, precision, agility and lots of sabre rattling.

Unfortunately we didn't get into a PVP battle nor did we get a chance to delve into the world of dungeons but from all accounts online these two areas are not lacking with plenty of hype bubbling about light sabre battles and expansive dungeon areas!

The last Ice Age, the one that we are familiar with, was the age of the woolly mammoth, sabre tooth tigers and cave painting.

My favourite is one of a herd of gemsbok galloping across the Kalahari sands, their horns shining like silver sabres in the low light.

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Its kind of like how planned parenthood actually benefits from sabre rattling in congress about defunding it by exponentially increased donations.

They can also open their jaws unusually wide but their bite is relatively weak — as modelling studies have suggested was the case with sabre - toothed cats.

Unveiled Monday, the doll was created to honor Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete wearing the Muslim headgear — she won bronze as part of the U.S. sabre team at last year's Rio Olympics.

Her confidence re-honed after a recent slump, defending champion Mariel Zagunis slowed her tempo and outdueled teammate Sada Jacobson to lead a U.S. medal sweep in the women's sabre event

Unfortunately because the internal voice hasn't caught on to modern day living and is still stuck in earlier evolutionary times it doesn't realize that taking a risk or failing at something doesn't mean that a big sabre toothed tiger is about to eat you.

Especially if you have to fend off gigantic predators like sabre - toothed carnivores in order to survive.

India and Bangladesh rattle sabres over the Ganges, which India diverts during the dry season, only to release its waters as the lethal monsoon floods rush down from the Himalayas.

Virtual - On was released in 1996, and brought with it a 1v1 versus fighter where you played as a «Virtuaroid,» a giant robot kitted out with a range of unique weapons from beam sabres to heavy duty cannons.

Edward Korfanty, PORTLAND Fencing Korfanty, 50, took first place in the 50 - 59 age group in men's sabre at the Veteran World Championships in Tampa.

«The blood hasn't dried yet from the first sabre wound and I've got a second one.»

I eat, sleep and breathe UVa, and whether it's sports, academics, student life or anything else, if it's got sabres on it, it's got my attention.

In Britain, the Falklands tend to be viewed through the prism of Argentine sabre - rattling − of which there has been plenty since huge oil reserves were discovered in the seas around the islands.

Twice world sabre champion.

And the same would be true if Russia started sabre rattling on the Eastern borders of the EU.

Romance and procreation issues are also in the air for sabre - toothed tiger Diego (Denis Leary) and his new mot Shira (Jennifer Lopez).

So says a team led by Stephen Wroe at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, which found that the ferocious marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) shared the same super-predator body plan as Smilodon fatalis, North America's ice age sabre - tooth cat.

• The on - again, off - again sabre rattling by the Americans towards Iran and threats to cancel the nuclear agreement and reinstate sanctions

Apparently it's an evolutionary advantage to have had a few practise runs before being chased by a real sabre - tooth tiger.

And guess the pre-war sabre - rattlers?

Nick Clegg is standing firm over the future of Lord Rennard, saying basic decency requires the peer to apologise over harassment allegations before having the party whip restored and that he does not believe this is the time for legal sabre rattling by Rennard's supporters.

Most analysts believe the moves are just sabre - rattling with an eye to later negotiations, but the rhetoric from the capital was nevertheless extraordinary.

What really irritates me though isn't so much the on - going sabre rattling, but the hypocrisy on both sides.

With Dickensian detail, Moore brings to life the likes of Francis Beaufort, with «sabre scars on his arms, reminders of his days at sea,» and the determined Robert FitzRoy.

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

Sabre - teeth, for example, turn out to be convergent, and Conway Morris explains why it is that the clouded leopard of Asia, Neofelis nebulosa, has developed features that could, as it evolves «presage the emergence of a new sabre - tooth,» although sadly it looks set to become extinct before this happens.

Giant Ice Age species including elephant - sized sloths and powerful sabre - toothed cats that once roamed the windswept plains of Patagonia, southern South America, were finally felled by a perfect storm of a rapidly warming climate and humans, a new study has shown.

It's quite a struggle to quell the inner 8 - year - old when faced with a 3.7 - metre - tall, giant short - faced bear on its hind legs on one side and a prowling sabre - toothed cat on the other.

«An [extinct] South American sabre - tooth predator, Thylacosmilus atrox, has been loosely categorised as an opossum,» she says.

Our ancestors were probably familiar with the strategy sabre - toothed cats like Smilodon used to put their impressive canines to work, but for evolutionary biologists the giant teeth have always been something of a mystery: no living predator has anything quite like them.

Large canines may be fearsome weapons, but their size makes them prone to fracture — and yet very few fossil sabre - toothed cats have broken teeth.

Using calipers, the team took a series of measurements from each skull and compared them with each other, and with measurements taken from the skulls of extinct sabre - toothed animals.

The final image is an enduring one — in the days since I've seen Gone Baby Gone, it's hardly left my mind — and where bits of jingoistic garbage like Rendition are rattling bleeding heart sabres with patronizing, simpleminded zeal, here's a movie that takes the sobering, mature stance that even things that are black - and - white are never black - and - white.

Shooting is set to commence at London's Pinewood Studios in a few weeks so it's possible he is brushing up on his light - sabre technique even as you read this.

Partly that's because you can't, as noted, simply get in close and hold the attack button till the world explodes, but mainly it's because Monster Hunter's conception owes as much to Harvest Moon and Phantasy Star Online as prior Capcom sabre - rattlers like Onimusha.

At a time when Russia is once again rattling its international sabre, and clamping down on civil liberties, a documentary exploring one Soviet writer's persecution at the hands of Stalin and the U.S.S.R.'s secret police feels all - too timely.

The vicious street war between two neighbours, in Berkeley, has taken a dramatic twist after one of them was arrested for dressing up as Vader and allegedly waving a light sabre around.

Lopez is Shira, a sexy sabre tooth who wins the heart of Denis Leary's Diego.

The car retains a few of its quirks, including the interesting, borderline gaudy «sabre line,» a stretch of chrome trim reaching from the front light all the way to the C - pillar.

At 10:30 a.m. on the sultry morning of Wednesday, 26 June 1907, in the seething central square of Tiflis, a dashing mustachioed cavalry captain in boots and jodhpurs, wielding a big Circassian sabre, performed tricks on horseback, joking with two pretty, well - dressed Georgian girls who twirled gaudy parasols — while fingering Mauser pistols hidden in their dresses.

My commentary: I didn't want to say this until I saw Courtney's take on it, but I agree with her that this is some badass sabre rattling.

A Cossack sabre becomes an icon that sustains the protagonist through bullying, disruption, evacuation and the shock of war.»

It's a far cry from the market - wobbling sabre rattling not that long ago from barbed tweets about Little Rocket Man: