Sentences with phrase «than birds of»

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

The cranes symbolize the lovers» hope for skies filled with natural beauty rather than birds of war — namely German warplanes.

In New Guinea, Wallace found peril rather than birds of paradise (Image: BlueGreen Pictures / SuperStock)

Not exact matches

Despite all the changes in technology and the fact that they should be looking at end products rather than face time, managers still reward the early birds and consider late risers as slackers, regardless of actual work done.

«There's a lot more to the story of Angry Birds than has been seen yet, and infinite possibilities for storytelling.»

But for anyone who's not an early bird, setting the alarm an hour or two earlier than usual can feel like a mild form of torture.

There have been 11 versions of the game in between the two releases and three spin - offs, but Rovio is calling this one the «sequel,» referring to it as Angry Birds 2 rather than Angry Birds 13.

• Throwing barrels: Angry Birds maker Rovio, which raised over $ 40 million in VC funding, yesterday announced that it was cutting more than 30 % of its workforce (i.e., 260 jobs).

Assessing the size is also difficult: even though the perspective might be a factor here, the object seems to be smaller than the F - 16s, but probably much larger than a micro-drone as the bird - sized Perdix drones, 103 of those, launched from three F / A -18 F Super Hornets, took part in one of the world's largest micro-drone swarms over the skies of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California on Oct. 25, 2016.

A crowd of more than 40,000 people packed into the city's Olympic Bird's Nest stadium to watch the South Korean gaming stars Faker and CuVee go head to head.

Asked about these matters, Kevin Heine, a Bank of New York Mellon spokesman, said, «We believe an $ 8.5 billion bird - in - the - hand settlement with significant servicing improvements is a far better result for all investors than the likely outcome following years of costly litigation.»

This is a good year to throw precedent out the window, so I don't imagine that Three Billboards» lack of a Best Director nomination hurts it any more than the relatively low number of nominations for Get Out or Lady Bird hurt them, or Dunkirk's lack of acting or writing nominations hurts it.

Part of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Yasuní has more species of trees in a single hectare than all of the US and Canada combined and has more species per hectare of birds, amphibians, mammals, shrubs, and insects than anywhere else in the world.

If you're a dividend growth investor who prefers a bit more of a bird in the hand (rather than two in the bush), this stock offers one of the biggest safe dividends out there.

Backed by more than $ 250 million in venture capital funding, Bird, LimeBike, and Spin have dumped hundreds of scooters for adults on the city in recent weeks, much to the chagrin of regulators.

The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

if your theory of no god were truth, then we are a bunch of living garbage and deserve to be nuked to ashes, birds would have more right to exist than us, but since god does exist life really has a purpose, unlike your view of life which to me seems like an empty story.

The kind of people who swear that what the saw in the sky was an alien UFO, rather than something more realistic (flock of birds, planes, helicopters, falling star, kites, etc..)

But these have a different kind of hip structure than birds.

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — a cicada shell, one...

Warren Bird is a primary researcher and writer for Leadership Network and has more than 10 years of church staff and seminary teaching experience.

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

This implies that «male and female» mean something different, richer, among human beings than among the beasts of the field and the birds of the air.

I mean the burning passion of lived awareness that we occupy a precarious existence on this planet together with the soil and its flowers, the water and its fishes, the air and its birds, the fire and energy sources; that our fellow human beings are truly brothers and sisters with whom it is better always to make love - justice than war; and that gentleness lasts longer and touches more deeply than other kinds of power.

With peace, the land grab is expected to intensify, straining even further Colombia's delicate environment, one of the world's most biodiverse, with more bird species than any other country.

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

Charles Hartshorne has devoted much trained attention to bird song and argues that song requires «something like an aesthetic sense in the animal,» though it may be more a matter of aesthetic feeling rather than aesthetic thought (BS 2, 12).

Its enfilades of steel spurs are notoriously less suggestive of the intended bird of peace than a monster out of Jurassic Park.

Hartshorne had more than a passing acquaintance with science, and with biology and evolutionary theory in particular — I have already mentioned his work in the psychology of sensation and on the aesthetics of bird song.

If this was a product of a designer building all birds in a day rather than a product of evolution over the course of millions of years, why would they have those internal nasal structures with no external outlet for them?

Even a hummingbird is more aggressive in defense of its nest than our national bird.

In the first of four poems which the Misanthrope addresses to his own soul, his name is unjustly abhorred by men, more than the odor of birds, or the stench of fish or crocodiles.

@Godpot... (God — pot... I'll have to try that... seems Dad has been holding back...) and that Moses character... I'll wager there was more than just a bush burnin» up there... (wouldn't know... me and that bird were trying to figure out the physics of stuffing «God» into a human womb right about that time... I'm thinking all these characters, not just me, were a bit «touched» as my child «Reality» likes to say...: 0)

I find this is not right as a friend mentioned many Bald Eagles have been killed by by the hands of humans to use Windmills for energy, they save them why cant they be used rather than murder a innocent bird souring in the freedom of the sky just saying theres got ta be another way, why do they have to kill them use the reserve the humans have killed from these windmills

Sad to say though; it's better to believe in a bird than any of the BUSHES you worship or their ideologies.

In this case, we get something like e. e. cummings's famous couplet «I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing / Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance» — or even, more memorably, Keats's complaint in «Lamia» that «cold philosophy» (Newton's optics) threatens to reduce the rainbow to «the dull catalogue of common things.»

In addition, fantastic new specimens of birds have been found in Spain and China, which are some 30 or 40 million years younger than Archaeopteryx, and they are more bird - like, exactly as an evolutionist predicts.

These extra items left on the bay are one of its biggest threats for Jamaica Bay, a national park that's home to more than 325 species of birds, invertebrates and sea life, Krause said.

When he spoke to his disciples later (Mt 6:26, 28: Lk 12:24, 27) about the lilies of the field, clothed more gloriously than Solomon, and the birds that lived by God's loving care and did not store up goods for the future, it was surely not the first time that these thoughts had come to him.

I think of HSPs as «canary people» — like the caged canaries that the minors used to take down into the mines with them because the birds were more sensitive to toxic air than humans.

One of the biggest dilemmas for those who want to believe that dinosaurs evolved into birds is that the so - called feathered dinosaurs found thus far are dated to be about 20 million years more recent than Archaeopteryx.

Specifically, we pop in a DVD titled Winged Migration, Jacques Perrin's Oscar - nominated documentary that follows dozens of species of birds on their amazing migratory trek — some covering more than 2,000 miles.

The final reflection is a parable within the parable: even as the earth shines more richly when plowed and embers from a fire turn gold and red when they fall; so — the death of the bird is more brilliant, more lovely, and more dangerous than its life.

I kind of beat my chest for reasons other than what Larry Bird did, or the Patriots do.

But, there is a ton of cool facts about chicken including the fact that mother hens show empathy for their chicks and that the birds also have complex communication systems with more than 30 different vocalizations.

Regarding the birds, the Audubon Society apparently recommends drawing cross-hatching on your windows with document highlighter that is largely invisible to you (and washable) but visible to birds, who see higher wavelengths of light better than we do.

While the Government has retained thresholds that enable an exemption from the requirement for development consent — for those farms with less than 1000 birds or 200 pigs or 20 sows — the introduction of a 500m setback from neighbouring dwellings or environmentally sensitive areas that triggers a Development Application is a major barrier for pastured pig and poultry farming on small acreages.

3 cups butternut squash, cubed 2 cups green beans, trimmed and cut into 2 - inch pieces 1 cup, packed, baby spinach 1 package extra firm tofu, cut into 1 - 2 inch cubes 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 5 garlic cloves, chopped 1 tablespoon chopped ginger 1 small shallot, finely minced 1 serrano chili, chopped 14 oz (1 can) coconut milk salt and pepper to taste pinch of chili pepper flakes (I used bird's eye chili flakes, which is hotter than regular red pepper flakes.

There are more than a couple of us early birds at the University Farmers Market every Saturday morning.