Sentences with phrase «scavenging in»

The owner of a demolition company that illegally demolished a home earlier this year hired a destitute man, who made his living scavenging in the rubble of razed homes, and promised him $ 31 for each day the «body double» spent in jail.

A vigorous «archeologist» of that predominantly African American neighborhood, Bradford builds each work around a carefully chosen compendium of found materials or, as he calls them, «materials with a built - in history,» that might recall Robert Rauschenberg's creative scavenging in the late 1950s.

With even the idea of creativity relegated to mere legend, the people of Alefgard wander the ruins of their former home, scrounging and scavenging in the dust to survive.

As far as mint green, though, as much as I like the shade, I don't think I could pull it off and therefore haven't done much scavenging in search of it.

Then one day we're scavenging in a forest in Costa Rica, less than a football field apart, when I shout for her in shock.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at the funeral for Timothy Caughman, a black man who was killed in a racist attack by a white Balitmore man armed with a sword on the night of March 20 while scavenging in Midtown.

And I've seen with my own eyes, children scavenging in Kenya on a rubbish tip for something to eat or sell.

If you've got just 1 - 2 things taken care of, whether that's a batch of energy bites, something for breakfast, or simply a good salad dressing or dip for veggies, you're much more likely to reach for those choices than to go scavenging in the pantry.

Amid the hum of the motors on the street, I also hear the clackety clack of hooves hitting the cobblestones, the sound of a legion of cartoneros, people who scavenge in the streets each night trying to fill their horse - drawn carts with old newspapers, packing cartons, aluminum cans or edible scraps.

And, of course, any bugs and things they scavenge in their run.

During sleep free radicals are scavenged in the brain, minimizing its aging.

Gary scavenged in the refrigerator to find what he could make for a light breakfast — Tortillas with Peanut Butter, Apricot Jam and Raisins.

They scavenge in the wild.

They will complete a series of highly participatory, authentic and challenging cultural site - doing scavenges in ten secret countries over a 23 - day circumnavigation between April 14th and May 6th, 2017.

Weapons scavenged in the city range from a broken 2x4 to a baseball bat.

There is also a splendid Robert Rauschenberg work executed with materials the artist scavenged in L.A..

Not exact matches

There's another dimension to scavenging that is more central to the creative process in scientists and innovators — and that's the act of refurbishing physical objects to fix immediate problems.

And everybody knows the type of CEOs who tend to star in such episodes: the tireless searchers who — on top of running their fast - growing companies — never seem to run short of either ideas or new places to scavenge for them.

Many Venezuelans have reportedly resorted to scavenging for food in the garbage, while the crisis has also led to shortages of everything from medicine to toilet paper.

Set in a ramshackle, hilly village run by a group of white - hatted snobs more devoted to cheese - tasting than serving the community, «The Boxtrolls» is a 3D romp about the collision between the village and the subterranean - dwelling Boxtrolls, who scavenge for trash but have been targeted for extermination by a nefarious baddie named Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley).

Google's balloons fly free and out of eyesight, scavenging power from card table - sized solar panels that dangle below and gather enough charge in four hours to power them for a day as the balloons sail around the globe on the prevailing winds.

They will scavenge for thrown - out receipts in trash cans outside an appliance store, enter the store, find the receipted item, and try to return it for cash.

Elders and priests scavenged, and in a verse of horrific and vile disorder, mothers consume their own thirsty children.

Occasionally, mismatched spolia (as these reused pieces are called) give the impression of cost - saving scavenging, but more often sensitive selection has yielded breathtaking results, as in the church of Sant» Agnese fuori le mura (second quarter of the seventh century).

I scavenged my Chinese supermarket in search of this secret sauce, and this was the closest thing I found:

And in the off season, I do a little scavenging at my local Whole Food's dumpster....

If you have the inclination to rustle up a salad to go along with it, you can mark that as a big success in the lunch department even if the rest of the week involved a lot of the aforementioned toddler lunch scavenging.

The third project was to scavenge for food, so I kidnapped Jeff from the beach and beers in hand, we wandered down to the dock.

Microwave a sweet potato, open a can of black beans, scavenge for whatever other taco - type ingredients might be in the fridge (greens, tomatoes, salsa, cheese, avocado — usually it is only one or two of the above list).

Green tea contains potent antioxidants called catechins, which scavenge for dangerous free radicals in the body.

Case Study 3: Scavenging for Protein and Micronutrients — Village Poultry in Timor - Leste Dr Joanita Jong, Director of Veterinary Services in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Coordinator of the Timor - Leste Village Poultry Health and Biosecurity Project

You might ask, then, why I decided to make them for Wendy's, and the answer is that I'm so pleasantly surprised each time I do scavenge a gingersnap from that picked - over platter that I figured they might be up for their hour in the spotlight.

Curcumin exerts both direct and indirect antioxidant effects by scavenging reactive oxygen species (ROS)(38) and inducing the expression of cytoprotective proteins in an Nrf2 - dependent way (39).

Radishes also contain the flavonoid, anthocyanin, which in a study was linked with scavenging free radicals, improved eyesight, lowered blood pressure, and decreased cancer cell production.

In the current that scours the bottom, where scavenging goatfish move easily along through the silt, the divers must fritter away valuable air wrestling to hold the cumbersome dredging equipment in positioIn the current that scours the bottom, where scavenging goatfish move easily along through the silt, the divers must fritter away valuable air wrestling to hold the cumbersome dredging equipment in positioin position.

Oh and the way the scavenging Pikeys ran on to the pitch at the final whistle, what a memorable family night out that must have been for them, I'm surprised they didn't start a bonfire in the centre circle.?

The Orioles second baseman fondly recalls scavenging through the White Sox clubhouse as a grade - schooler in the early 1980s, when his dad was a Chicago outfielder and his favorite player was... Harold Baines?

Limit Vargas and others from getting balls in where he can scavenge and find the net.

He will scavenge on the scraps that's left in that cardboard delivery box, like the odd piece of pepperoni, sweetcorn or olive etc..

With Liverpool sitting in sixth place in the league and 12 points behind the leaders, Man City, the Twitter brigade are scavenging off poor displays from certain players or the team as a whole.

You can make this part of the activity, as your toddler will love to be a big girl / boy and join in with the scavenge hunt.

Nature, nature, and more nature... There is no shortage of family fun to be had on the island of Molokai; it just takes a bit more scavenging than you're used to in order to find the right things to do.

In fact these reasons are exactly what draws pregnant women to the book store scavenging for resources that might help them improve upon the world they are about to bring - forth their child.

There is rampant malnutrition in Yarmouk (about 60 % of everyone there) and desperate residents have resorted to scavenging for edible weeds and eating cats and dogs to survive.

An easy way to escape New York City for an end - of - the - summer adventure while scavenging for art is to travel up the Hudson, starting in the Lower Hudson Valley and venturing as far north as Albany.

The statement read in part, «The statement credited to the former president of Nigeria Chief Olusegun Obasanjo was carefully timed to deliver a devastating blow to the scavenging class of political prostitutes in Igboland that shamelessly went to hawk their wares in Abuja a few days ago.

Eventually, he said, these ancestors used teamwork and stone tools to engage in «power scavenging.»

The way in which the robot stores and releases energy is impressive, says Chris Melhuish, director of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK, who develops robots that scavenge energy from their environment.

Another strategy is to make alternative versions of terminal oxidases, enzymes in the membrane that transfer electrons to oxygen, which use oxygen more efficiently or are better at scavenging oxygen when its concentration is low.

The city birds bested their country counterparts in one other trait: They have more robust immune systems, possibly from scavenging food and water in dirty places.