Sentences with phrase «thicket on»

Around 1890 contractors came to Ambergris and employed San Pedranos to exploit the extensive logwood thicket on the Caye and on that section of the mainland called Bulkhead directly opposite to the southern portion of the Caye.

Researchers working at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda spotted an adult female mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) using a thick bamboo shoot to help her distressed infant climb from a thicket on the jungle floor to her higher perch (shown above), the team reports this month in Behavioural Processes.

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If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

Namely based on the risk that the thicket of gloomy blog posts / tweets eventually whip up homeowner anxieties enough to precipitate waves of selling in a self - fulfilling prophecy.

Advertising on the web is a thicket of ad networks and middlemen.

«I think the thicket of questions, doubts, problems and wondering were all well and fine until I actually started experiencing grief on a really personal level,» she says.

There is a visual hint that Chagall connected the last words of Jesus from the cross with the ram «hung up on the thicket.»

In 1931, while he was working on his celebrated Bible etchings for art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1931 — 39, 1952 — 56), he first showed a naked Isaac stretched out for ritual slaughter, Abraham with his knife raised, and the angel pointing to a ram caught not in «a thicket,» as the usual reading depicts, but in the roots of a tree.

I had similar feelings about Todd and my wedding, but when it was all said and done I am glad it was larger (and by that I mean it wasn't just the two of us on top of our special cliff spot in a thicket of birch trees, which is where I would have prefered to have gotten married if I knew it wouldn't insult our friends and family).

Beneath the blueberry thicket (yes, it is a full - on thicket this year) there's more oregano.

After washing and peeling, cut off the ends on each side, leaving the thickets part of the carrot in tact while it curls through the spiralizer.

A supervisor congratulates them on an accident - free November, warns about misty conditions on I - 70 and commiserates over new regulations that might add to their thicket of paperwork.

At last the game Alex is watching ends, and he disappears into the thicket of bodies on the court.

The rent is low, a cliché of a California redwood whirlpool / hot tub percolates on the patio and the living room is a thicket of barbells and weight benches.

But he swears he did nothing as brazen as shake the frail and ailing man who was on a ventilator and enmeshed in a thicket of tubes, and who did not awaken to the strange voice in his room.

Once so rare that some people doubted its existence, the tiny key deer is now reported on the increase in the thickets of its Florida isles

I get it that JO has brought more attention to the school food issue, but it is so often the wrong kind of attention, the kind that seeks to blame those lowest on the food chain — the cafeteria ladies, the local schools, the local nutrition director — for problems which are coming from the top — the criminally low Federal funding that forces schools to rely on cheap processed food; the thicket of government regulation which must be followed no matter how senseless, and hoops which must be jumped through to get the pitifully low reimbursement; the lack of ongoing Federal funds to pay for equipment repair or kitchen renovation, forcing schools to rely on preprocessed food instead of scratch cooking, unless they can pass the hat locally to pay for a central kitchen to cook fresh meals.

Bill Hobbie has enthusiastically taken on volunteer duties at Ipswich River, as well as at unstaffed sanctuaries including Nahant Thicket, Marblehead Neck, Cedar Pond in Wenham, and Eastern Point in Gloucester.

It is an unusual role for Helgerson who goes by the handle @policywonk1 on Twitter and has largely stayed above the fray when it comes to politics, even as he navigates the thicket that is Medicaid spending in New York.

On a cold autumn morning, Christner guides his pickup down a two - lane highway in central Louisiana, speeding past pine thickets, swamps, and dirt roads that don't show up on his truck's navigation systeOn a cold autumn morning, Christner guides his pickup down a two - lane highway in central Louisiana, speeding past pine thickets, swamps, and dirt roads that don't show up on his truck's navigation systeon his truck's navigation system.

Working in the Atlantic oak woodlands of Argyll, Kintyre and Lochaber on Scotland's west coast, researchers from the James Hutton Institute, the University of Aberdeen and Scottish Natural Heritage studied plots that had never been invaded, others covered in dense rhododendron thickets, plus a time - series of sites cleared of rhododendron at different periods between 1984 and 2014.

Leandro Silveira, president of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, said the big cats used to be persecuted by cattle ranchers, but his research on radio - collared animals has shown that the cats are able to prowl through cane thickets and find refuge in vegetated watercourses.

Back in the car and up the road, Ripple points to a thicket of young trees and brush on a hillside to our left.

«There's a place in the south,» he says, «where you can stand with one foot in the rain forest being sucked on by land leeches and the other foot in a spiny thicket with baobab trees and a 12 - month dry season.»

«We're conducting monthly pitfall sampling at 19 established sites in the Big Thicket, a national preserve near Beaumont,» said Bengston, an ant expert, co-principal investigator on grant and Huxley Research Instructor of BioSciences.

Hayes takes on the inevitable thicket of specialized terminology gracefully, adding comparisons to make new terms and processes understandable.

I knew that the very next day I'd need to board a plane and return to New York City, where inches of snow had fallen and my new apartment was still a big question mark, on the other side of a thicket of red tape, insurance, and contractors and claims and lease adjustments.

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In his best - known films «The Sweet Hereafter» and «Exotica» Egoyan has peered into ominous symbolic thickets, wrestled with small - town angst and communal guilt, elements very much on display in his latest film, «Devil's Knot.»

Taking their cues from a variety of high / low pop culture — The Fantastic Four, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Welles,»70s kung fu, Elvis Costello — Richter and screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch create a complex world and then have the confidence never to over-explain it, instead allowing viewers to comb through the thicket of gags on repeat viewings.

Nevertheless, on the eve of the release of his latest feature, Gone Girl, it's worth cutting through the hype and taking clear - eyed stock of his body of work up to this point, through all of its technically precise, thematically grim, and blackly satirical thickets.

Now a new guide, Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out, published by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, aims to steer school districts through the thicket of social and emotional learning programs and decide on an approach.

A huge whale skeleton rests alongside the drained skateboarding pool, and a dozen old surfboards line the outside of a small, thicket shack perched on the edge of a 50 - foot - high cliff overlooking the Pacific.

There's not much in the way of jungle thicket to be conquered in my section of Florida, but nonetheless, an impromptu trip to an isolated stretch of beach presented absolutely no challenge to the LX's four - wheel drive system, making me wish for hillier, rockier trails to test it on.

If Amazon can't win in this room — people willing to spend two or three days sitting through sessions on XML and such, people who love books and who want to navigate through the coming digital thicket of their business — then the Kindle ain't going nowhere

But when the path did its last little jink through the thicket of spare mossy trunks and last year's leaves, you stood on the edge of something suddenly spacious.

Fortunately, Sheriff Duncan can count on the assistance of an undersized but tough - as - rawhide Texas Ranger, two physicians, a mechanical wunderkind, and a soft - spoken idiot savant who knows the sloughs and baygalls of the Thicket like his own backyard.

The site for the village had been selected not only for the fact that it was on high ground but also because it was close to the tasiste (palmetto thickets) which was the basic construction material.

Continue on into the jungly highlands where you'll find lodges tucked alongside rivers and hidden amid the thickets, including everything from no - frills hammock - swinging cabins to opulent rock - star retreats.

At first glance, Hong Kong is nothing short of daunting: a thicket of skyscrapers perched on a South China Sea island.

Finally, along the Caribbean shore (mostly on private land outside the park), vegetation is dominated by littoral thicket species such as Cocoplum and Sea - grape.

The incomprehensible thicket of names, thousands of them, goes on for more than 34 minutes.

After the opening cut - scene the demo started out in a thicket of jungle, every leaf on every tree stunningly rendered.

In her latest show at Blue Mountain Gallery, which opens on October 5th with a reception for the artist October 7th from 5 - 8, Margaret Grimes shows three large canvases and a series of small ones all depicting woods and thickets.

Over the few months leading up to the performance, Beasley traversed the High Line, recording sounds from around the park — from crickets chirping in the thicket at West 21st Street, to the evolving sound of various construction sites, to the meandering traffic on the West Side Highway.

Come Into the Garden, Maud, on the other hand, is a thicket of dabs and luscious swipes.

I have standing plans to drive to Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden, Little Sparta, 1966, in the Pentland Hills, and then further, to remind myself that «little walks by purling streams in meadows and through cornfields, thickets etc. are delightful entertainments,» as one work in Finlay's plot proclaims ---- words which certainly complement Geddes's emphasis on locality and contact with nature.

I agree with Paul Raeburn, writing on Knight Science Journalism tracker, who hailed the story for charting «a clear path for us through a nasty thicket.»

I'm thinking / working on such a post, Brian, i just keep getting trapped in the thicket of organizing too much information and opinion.

The other day, deep in a healthy New England thicket of oaks, maples and hemlocks, two young men scrambled around on their hands and knees measuring twigs and sticks that had fallen from the trees.