Sentences with phrase «sabres in»

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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Of course, Ross's sabre rattling could be the precursor to some gunboat diplomacy (although the White House claims that President Trump was just joking about sending in U.S. troops in his call with the Mexican President).

In August, Pyongyang threatened to shoot intermediate range missiles towards the vicinity of Guam, a target frequently subjected to sabre - rattling from the North.

«No Tankers» supporters might still wish their B.C. representatives rattled their sabres more aggressively, but remember, in politics (well, in Canadian politics), the person that convinces people that they are the most reasonable usually wins.

The Violets took both the épée and foil team titles and tied Columbia in the sabre event to win the three - weapon title 71 - 58 over Columbia.

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

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.

Children's brains have adapted to modern times though so instead of sabre - tooth tigers it is now monsters which haunt our young children at night since these are the threatening figures that our little ones are exposed to in books and television shows.

The governor has been sabre - rattling for some time about calling the Legislature back to Albany between the primary and general elections in hopes of getting lawmaker to act (in some cases yet again) on his property tax cap proposal.

Compare Ojukwu's sabre - rattling back in 1967 with Kanu's impassioned hate today, against the non-Igbo in what he dubbed the «Nigerian zoo», and you would perhaps realize how little a once - bitten people have changed over a 50 year - period!

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 islandIn 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 islandin the seas around the islands.

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

And the sabre - rattling from a section of the Ijaw, threatening war and destruction should Goodluck Jonathan fail re-election, nicely keyed into that gung ho narrative, which certainly was not without sympathy in the South East.

Sources told The Mail on Sunday Mr Hammond was «furious» that the Commons Defence Committee had announced its visit in advance — therefore leaving the UK open to allegations of «sabre - rattling».

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.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

To judge the opossum's sabre - toothed credentials, Ernesto Blanco at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, and his colleagues collected 44 South American marsupial predators, including four specimens of the short - tailed opossum.

They would not be the first sabre - toothed marsupial to walk this earth, says Virginia Naples, a sabre - toothed cat researcher at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

The sabre - rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence — making nuclear war by accident a real possibility

In the age of sabre - toothed tigers and mammoths it was wise to be stressed, tense and alert; after all, being hypervigilant could save you from being eaten, but if your biggest stress right now is ensuring the bills are paid and your dishes are done, it would be seen more counterproductive to stress and worry.

The CP system would rip him off the couch and get him flying in the direction of the exit and then when that immediate energy source was burned, some five or six seconds later, he'd have to rely on one or other of his other two energy systems; this is exactly the same process used by our ancestors when confronted head - on by a sabre - toothed tiger.

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.

In evolutionary terms, you've successfully escaped a sabre - tooth tiger and that's why the «flight - or - fight» response remains with us today.

Because of the distortions and lies spread by fundamentalists about fossil: Smilodon; sabre - toothed tiger A discussion of California fossils — notably those of sabre - toothed tigers and the Smilodon — in the University of

Russian women fencing team is known to have won the sabre team gold at the fencing World Championships in Paris in 2010.

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.

From were - rabbits to sabre - toothed bunny rabbits, Nick Park returns with a Stone Age adventure featuring characters in the world's favourite stop - motion animation style.

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.

So, you can imagine you're on the African savannah in the Palaeolithic times running away from a sabre - toothed tiger, your face would go into this kind of rictus grimace, and then the sabre - toothed tiger breaks their leg as they're running after you.

Nicky Morgan says MPs have a duty to examine the UK's customs plans and not engage in «sabre - rattling».

Those sabres can be in chrome, dark chrome or even darker chrome to choice.

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.

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

In Primal your goal is to survive and push back the wildnerness, battling mammoths, sabre tooth tigers and other tribes along the way.

Each person will have their own sabre, and you'll be dog fighting in outer space against the AI.»

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.

In one playthrough, I chose Phoebe, a melee based character with a sabre.

Something that never occurs in the original series (at best Amuro only ever managed to take out nine enemies in a single skirmish with the RX -78-2 and that was over the course of five minutes, not in a single beam sabre swipe).

I've spent a bit of time recently in Star Wars Battlefront, and while it's been fun for the Star Wars fan in me, the gameplay itself hasn't really lit my sabre, so to speak.

If you enjoy living in forests, hunting sabre - tooth tigers and murdering absolutely anything that moves, then good news!

Those opting to pre-order any edition of the game will, Obsidian has confirmed, receive three bonus in - game items: St. Drogga's Skull, a flaming sabre; Beakhead the Hawk, an in - game pet; and The Black Flag, a skull and crossbones for their ship.

For her second sculpture in this exhibition, Donnelly worked with both a locksmith and blacksmith to create a blade that encapsulates the «warrior spirit» of a sabre.

In one image, a man with a golden crown belt buckle holds a staff topped with Prince's Love Symbol # 2, where documentation shows the original statue (Pedro Alexandrino, colonial Governor - General of Angola) bore a 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?

This case will also be watched by those in the copyright community in the educational system, since Access Copyright («AC») has recently increased the volume of its sabre rattling in the fallout from its great defeat on fair dealing in the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, and the resulting hit on its revenues with much more decline to follow.

If a person believes in evolution then change is always for the better, but when a sabre tooth tiger evolves to be able to run faster and have longer sabre teeth that means that some other critter may not see that as a change for the better.

I've spent a bit of time recently in Star Wars Battlefront, and while it's been fun for the Star Wars fan in me, the gameplay itself hasn't really lit my sabre, so to speak.

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