Sentences with phrase «taken by horse»

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On July 27, Bennett admonished Gantz as he was speaking before the cabinet, telling him that military leaders should be like «galloping horses» that need to be restrained by the government, not like «lazy bulls,» which require prodding to take action.

The Mirzas have entertained executives from Aetna and Bromley Communications, a Hispanic advertising agency, by taking them to races in which Azam's horses competed.

But a large number of dark horses are emerging out of the blue with every passing day and taking the world of virtual currencies by storm.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

friends, my take is, prayer is used by athletes to boost self - confidence, like performance enhancing drug, hoping prayer would make God plant an invisible horse shoe in your glove is stupidity, and sure way to be knocked out flat on your ass, in one punch, ask Pacquiao goons, if you don't believe me.

And now the elder went over the many agonies: to suffer hunger and cold, to all but kill oneself through overwork, to be kicked by a cruel driver, to be abused by unskilled persons whom not a single step you take will satisfy, yet who blame and punish the horse for their own blunders, and then at last some winter, when old age has come on, to be driven out into the bare woods.

Issues facing the new Education Secretary include «Operation Trojan Horse», the alleged plot by Islamic radicals to take over education centres in England and run them according to their agenda.

Friday's announcement comes in the wake of the «Trojan Horse» plot by Islamist radicals to take over state schools in Birmingham.

He says: «Do horses run on the rock, or does one plow the sea, that you should turn justice into gall and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; you who rejoice in a thing of naught and say, «Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?»»

«If,» he says, «the heart of a horse, slain by a witch, taken out of the yet reeking carcase, be impaled upon an arrow and roasted, immediately the whole witch becomes tormented with the insufferable pains and cruelty of the fire, which could by no means happen unless there preceded a conjunction of the spirit of the witch with the spirit of the horse.

Mongol cuisine — or dishes dubbed «Mongolian» — has taken the world by storm, like a horde of horse - mounted warriors galloping out of Central Asia on a global raiding party.

Using GPS by typing in our address tends to take you to lovely fields of hay, sheep, horses, and cows.

Once there, the horses wereisolated from other shipments and placed in quarantine until their bloodsamples were passed by the USDA lab, a procedure that normally takes from 48 to72 hours.

She spent her childhood on a Kentucky horse farm owned by her family (she even took four horses with her when she went to the University of Kentucky), and until recently she herself bred hunters and jumpers on her own farm in Florida.

When the horse arrived by van at Waterford Park, in West Virginia, Diane took one look at Great Redeemer and blurted to her husband, «Yuck!

The handshake is a social multitool: a proffered paw that will stretch to salutation, forgiveness, respect, acceptance, leave - taking, congratulation, agreement, solemnity, the benediction of peace upon a fellow worshipper, and the removal of stones from horses» hooves, as determined by context.

Immediately following a race the horse to be tested is led by his own groom to the detention barn where a saliva specimen is taken.

Some good horses never got a chance in LouisvilleTake Brother Derek, for example: He was hung wide all the way around theracetrack, taken out of his game by a lousy post position (No. 18) and a nastytrip.

So breakdowns, she concluded, do not occur randomly in normal bone; they are ordinarily and tragically caused by horses taking the inexplicable «bad step.»

By the time she was 28, Abercrombie had taken 12 first - place ribbons at the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED had featured her in a story called The Lady Who Won Too Often (Nov. 1, 1954).

Just to add icing to the tasty cake, it turned out that the 95th Preakness was not only the richest race ever taken by a Jacobs horse but also the richest $ 151,300 for winning, out of a gross purse of $ 203,800) ever offered the winner of a Triple Crown event.

Over the next few months and years, the club are planning on taking trips to visit Tinkerbell and the other horses who are looked after by Redwings, based at the Essex centre, in order to become more involved in supporting the charity.

Make the portrait session complete by renting our team of horses to escort you around the Park in an antique carriage while your wedding photographs are taken *.

and most today only think it's «normal» when a baby isn't getting what it needs first... SO THAT IT HAS NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO CRY... and you should read «it takes a village» by clinton... yes parents are people too and yes if you don't take care of yourself first then you can't take care of your baby... just like when you get on an airplane you're instructed to in an emergency put on your oxygen mask first THEN help the child sitting next to you... BUT the only reason it's impossible for most people to keep their baby from crying is because they are trying to raise their babies alone without the help of the «village»... so come down off your high horse and just ask for help... it will not only help you (listed you first because of your obvious selfishness from your post... «we don't stop having needs to sleep and eat and have relations with our peers either») but it will mostly benefit the baby.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

A horse racing enthusiast who owns a racing stable called Brooklyn Boyz, he was appointed by Cuomo in March 2015 as chair of the New York Racing Association, but took a leave of absence just weeks later after Adam Skelos» no - show job was brought to light.

A New York City police horse tossed an officer to the pavement and took off down a busy Midtown street yesterday after being spooked by a loud noise.

Nearly one year after taking office, Mayor Bill de Blasio is preparing to abolish horse - drawn carriages by producing a City Council bill that is expected to be introduced in December, according to two sources who have seen a copy of the draft legislation.

It's not putting people in control of the decisions affecting their lives, it's taking control away and giving it to polticians who use it by exercising their ability to horse trade.»

Hammond's promotion provides Cameron with negotiating cover as well as being there to take the blame if things go wrong with Britain's famous renegotiation — handy when Hammond is tipped by some as the dark horse leadership candidate — John Major to Osborne's Hurd and Boris Johnson's Heseltine blond.

Other mischief - makers seemed intent on trying to set off a political conflagration by suggesting that Smith is really a stalking horse for City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, to take away black votes from former city Comptroller Bill Thompson.

«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

This pursuit has taken him to 45 countries and counting, including Mongolia, Nicaragua, and North Korea, by Russian jeep, motorcycle, dugout canoe, horse and camel.

I get extreme Charlie Horses and I've been taking Magnesium, I take 500 mg by tablet at night and I know that's it's a very, very important mineral, but in the middle of the night because I work so hard on my feet and I have these very, very bad varicose veins and have wanted to do something about them for a long time but I get such extreme Charlie Horses, it'll wake me up out of a dead sleep and it is so phenomenal that I can spray that on me and it'll go away in minutes.

You can do Halasana, which takes its name from the humble horse - drawn plow it resembles, before or after Sarvangasana, (itself referred to in much more regal fashion as the queen of asanas), but there» «s no reason Halasana can» «t be practiced, with a proper warm - up, all by itself.

As a child I took lessons but by the time I reached 14 yrs old, I had to decide between classical ballet or horses.

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I am retired and in my own home with horses dogs cats and almost 2 acres of land here to take care of, I would like a nice friend to do things with and go places, my friend jim jollo married a lady by the mane of vergie and moved to Arizona and is real happy with each other she was from the philipin...

Fulfilling his troth, Robin is convinced by the elder Loxley, Sir Walter (Max von Sydow, hammy), to take the dead prodigal's place as lord of the manor and husband of the distinctly displeased Marion in order to prevent the baronial lands from being seized by the grasping tax collectors of the newly crowned King John (Oscar Isaac, mincingly monotonous), whose chief henchman, Sir Godfrey (Mark Strong, bald), is playing a double game as both John's right arm and a stalking horse for a French invasion of England.

As such, «The Dark Horse» is as good a title as any for a film that takes an overplayed genre — the inspirational mentor story — and still manages to surprise, sneaking up to deliver a powerful emotional experience within a formula we all know by heart: After suffering a nervous breakdown, a Maori chess champ volunteers to coach a group of disadvantaged kids.

Rockstar could stick to real geography better instead of taking huge liberties with the landscape of the USA in order to cram wildly different biomes and environments next to one another, resulting in a desert, a swamp, and snowy mountains all being within 15 minutes by horse of one another, which is far from immersive and realistic.

Albert is promised by Captain Nicholls (Tom Hiddleston) that he'll take good care of the horse.

by Bill Chambers As Tipton, best friend of Matt (Andrew McCarthy), Ben Stiller whispers in Andrew McCarthy's ear, «Look, when the horse underneath us drops, we take a fresh one.»

So she volunteers to take three women who have gone insane hundreds of miles, by horse and wagon, to Iowa so they can be treated.

National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman), France / USA North American Premiere Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman (Crazy Horse, At Berkeley) takes the audience behind the scenes of this London institution, which is inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Aloof to the servants» gossip about her — what she looks like when she dances, rides a horse, takes a bath — Miss Julie invites more wagging tongues by seducing her father's affianced valet John, seemingly more out of tedium than sexual desire.

heroine taking refuge with the Octavia Spencer - run Amity clan; all horses, ploughs and pastel - hued cheesecloth — think Amish Spring collection by GAP — the enemy militia hot on her trail.

A mess of a film this one.Plot lines confused and blurred.It seems to have been made up as they filmed.All the American cliques are there.Ugly brutal men in a one horse town, yet the place is full of emotionally wounded gorgeous women.The men are macho and the women inconsequential.The acting is rather uneven, veering from impressive, going down to Benny Hill.This is Cages best role thus far, but his normal low standards means his acting is still below par.The plots descends into a quagmire of nuttiness and by the end is daft romantic nonsense.A tighter script was needed, the director needed to be replaced to stop the film's plot wandering off in all directions and finally someone with greater gravitas was needed to take on Nicholas Cage's part...