Sentences with phrase «than the mutterings of»

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(a name which, combined with the group's penchant for posting scarcely any actual scientific material but a lot of pictures of natural phenomena, has prompted more than one actual scientist of my acquaintance to mutter under her breath, «What you truly love is pictures»).

... and, since unlike most ethnicities of their age, the Jews were forced by events to constantly move and resettle all over the known world, they were more likely than most peoples of 2000 years ago to be «mutts» (ethnically speaking).

Reaghan - I'd really love to hear the specifics of your story and why you think muttering those words had any direct causation, rather than just correlation, to you not being murdered.

They take longer than everybody else's food, so you imagine that the cook is back there with some culinary book of spells, muttering magical incantations to conjure up this mysterious glorified pancake.

But even those columnists who dared to mutter out loud about the possibility of a Conservative majority were going on nothing more than a hunch.

The mutt butter is definitely cheaper here than where i get them, but i find that most of the products are more out about the same as the places i shop.

This won't be to everyone's taste, but very quickly became like candy to me — because, of course, by giving each scene and sequence its full weight and measure (there are rich, trenchant dialogue scenes in this movie, several of them; never better than Jesper Christensen's Mr. White having a quiet word with Bond, or Seydoux's Madeleine passing angrily, drunkenly out, muttering to herself in French), Spectre begins to feel like something no Bond movie has ever felt like before: an actual movie.

He had no idea what the hell he was doing, so he'd just make the class do mundane exercises while muttering aloud about how much more he knew than the rest of us.

was at long last being asked in earnest, the worst of these critics used it as an excuse for bombast and dark mutterings while the best sat idly by, carping on the standards rather than using the occasion to guide thoughtful implementation.

«Nothing makes me happier than to watch a pupil pore over a tray full of tiny pond creatures and mutter to himself «this is just the best day ever».

The book is interspersed with ink drawings of Mutter's patients and other relevant pictures, and is an exhaustive (if overly effusive) account, the culmination of more than a decade of research.

• • • The young Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter had arrived in Paris less than a year earlier, in the fall of 1831.

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Several online publications have challenged PW «s coverage, most notably Publishers Marketplace and Shelf Awareness (which, ironically, had its first incarnation as PW Daily for Booksellers; when the management laid off editor John Mutter and closed the publication, they effectively set up a competitor), but PW still does more original reporting than any of them.

According to Mutter's blog, he seems to praise the idea of having someone «with a native digital background» lead the traditional newspaper business rather than repeating the cycle of approaching «an old - time businessman» who would try to restore The Post to its earlier heyday and treat it «like 1953 Plymouths in Cuba.»

What better way to celebrate Mutts Day than to give one of these often overlooked dogs a forever home?

Mixed breeds on the other hand or mutts as people call them could have been done out of experimentation to produce a breed which could be better and stronger than the two breeds.

As a practicing veterinarian I am aware of the commonly held perspective that mutts are healthier than pure breed dogs.

And with the 6 best dog toothpastes you're now more than capable of providing optimum dental care and oral health for your mutt.

Although the news of his passing was sad, Thise said the free - spirited canine led a fuller life than anyone could have expected of a mutt from Weirsdale.

At the event, Petco Foundation unveiled a huge photo mosaic in which more than 30,000 photos of adopted animals and their people were arranged to form artwork from the MUTTS comic strip.

A multi-million dollar fundraiser benefiting hundreds of humane organizations with similar events across the country, Strut Your Mutt had its largest Los Angles presence to date with more than 2,000 participants.

Mutts are often healthier than their purebred counterparts and typically adjust more easily to a variety of living conditions due to breed specific traits being minimized.

This is a term that was developed by hobby breeders hoping to drive up the price of puppies that are technically nothing more than mixed breed dogs (also known as mutts).

Mixed breed dogs, often referred to as «mutts,» are dogs who have genes from more than one type of purebred dog.

If you can not decide between purebred and mutt, consider one of each if your lifestyle is fit for more than one dog.

Mutt lovers may therefore be more easy going and accepting of imperfections than those who prefer purebreds.

Although more than 30 % of dogs that enter service training don't graduate due to behavioral and health issues, Sylvia is confident the pups selected will have everything they need for Nancy and her team to succeed in turning these Animal League America Mutt - i - grees into highly skilled service dogs.

Experts say that this incessant desire to dress up our mutts in the same way as we dress ourselves is nothing more than a projection into our pets of our inner desires.

GROVELAND - A chorus of happy yapping mutts with their 16 wet noses and wagging doggie tails greets Rhonda Cline each day when she rolls up the dirtdriveway at her 20 - acre home site.Three cats round out the menagerie, but all but one make themselves scarce when the dogs run up to Cline.A third cat, Stash, joins in the daily dog parade because, well, he thinks he's a dog.It's not his fault, Cline said.The white - and - black tabby cat was raised with more than a dozen canines at Cline's house in rural south Lake County.

There's nothing better than rescuing a Mutt - i - gree ®, one of the wonderful companion animals available at shelters.

It is very difficult to gather reliable data on breed, as more than half of the dogs in the country are «mutts» and breed is just a guess.

Mutts tend to be healthier, live longer and are less given to weird psychological problems than dogs that have been inbred to achieve some special appearance or, as in the case of puppy mills, to generate a quick profit.

Adopt an Amazing Mixed - Breed Mutt - i - gree ® While a mixed - breed dog has a more diverse genetic makeup than a purebred dog, the size, appearance, and temperament of most mixed - breed dogs can be well predicted.

With more prodding from my wife than from me, I took our former Roanoke SPCA mutt (priceless now, of course) in to work with me, only to find out that her white blood count was twenty times the normal range?consistent with leukemia.

It would be put to better use there than rewarding the overwhelming number of unscrupulous breeders using the poodle's supposed - hypoallergenic coat as an untrue selling point for the mutts they're producing.

If you have a mutt that weighs more than 100 pounds, it is often recommended to give two doses of the correct or appropriate size.

In hopes that potential adopters will find a «Chiratoodle» or a «golden Chinscher» more appealing than a plain old mutt or «Chihuahua mix,» an animal shelter in California has begun DNA testing some of its dogs to determine their breeds and market them under more exotic names.

Jennifer Cattet Ph.D. from Medical Mutts says, «The Hierarchy of Dog Needs covers far more than the trainer's choice of methods.

«Dogs are capable of so much more than we give them credit for,» Zach Skow, founder of the nonprofit dog rescue group Marley's Mutts, told TODAY.

I \'ve read that even pure breed pets come with certain defects that are inherited from their kind of breed, and can be more prone to health problems because of it.A regular «mutt» is considered to be far more freer from such defects and health problems than any «pure breed».

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against mutts or adopting an unintentional Lab / Poodle mix, just the opposite, I'd much rather see pet adoption from shelters happen than for more dogs to be deliberately bred as we are destroying thousands of dogs each year because there are simply too many to adopt.

Strut Your Mutt 2016 was a success, raising more than $ 2.6 million to save the lives of homeless pets in 14 cities participating nationwide and virtually online.

They get more of both than the average mutt or shelter dog.

Why would anyone pay more to «adopt» a mutt than they would spend to purchase a healthy, socialized predictable purebred from a breeder who has devoted years to the care and study of pedigreed dogs?

These efforts are opposed by the American parent clubs of the Golden Retriever and Poodle, which view Goldendoodles and similar hybrids as genetic gambles that create expensive designer mutts bred primarily to deceive the buying public into thinking that there is something «better» about them than their purebred predecessors.

All of this hard work means that these pups cost more to buy than a mutt.

It is more of a problem in stocky breeds such as German Shepherds and Golden Retrievers We see it more in purebred dogs than mutts.

By the end of the Adoptathon kickoff weekend on Long Island, 577 Mutt - i - grees had found homes, including 198 adult cats and dogs — that's more than one - third!

By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed - breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.