Sentences with phrase «than a sheep»

I've been fortunate, too, to have pastors who respect the people in their congregations as peers rather than sheep in perpetual need of guidance.

I'd rather be a cat than a sheep in anyone's flock.

A quality cashmere sweater will keep you significantly warmer than sheep's wool.

The intestinal tract of a human being is more like that of a dog than a sheep.

And did you know that the average size of land animals is just larger than a sheep?

We should judge him to have been a townsman, and less completely out of sympathy with the civilization of his time and country than the sheep - farmer of the Judaean wilderness.

There are larger significances to the Arambel case than a sheep - country judge's leniency or a sheep - country people's distorted code of ethics.

Finer than a sheep's wool, cashmere is soft, very luxurious and can be expensive, but there are good reasons for this.

This simulator manages to avoid all the traps of confusing the representation with that of the inferior «Ovis aries, or sheep (after all, goats tend to display less clumping behavior than sheep).

The road had narrowed to a single lane scarcely wider than a sheep track and was bordered by dense hedges.

VIP Fibers, a company that spins dog fur into yarn — Yes, Virginia, there really are dog fur spinners — suggests that unless you live in a really, really cold climate you not make entire garments out of dog fur yarn because it's up to 80 % warmer than sheep wool.

He is faster than tractor, stronger than sheep, a paragon of creation, the Platonic Form of mascots.

The minibar refrigerator in our hotel filled up quickly with delicacies like that one here — a kind of Pecorino, but made from cow's milk rather than sheep's milk.

In money terms, Utah's horses mean more than sheep, swine and turkeys and are beginning to rival our dairy industry.

He watched them with interest but honestly he was much more interested in playing with his buddy shepherding dogs than the sheep.

Inuit people in the Far North have used dog fur in clothing for thousands of years, and apparently it is 50 percent warmer than sheep's wool.

Don't bring back the thumbs up / down, please — it fosters the herd mentality, and I for one want to be more than a sheep — trying to get thumbs up by the majority like a pathetic tool.

If we really want innovators and independent thinkers (rather than sheep) I suggest a major rethinking of «education».

They are also bred for working cattle rather than sheep, and not as feedlot dogs but as dogs on large spreads.

The thought of elephants crossing the road rather than the sheep we get here in Scotland is just something special.