Sentences with phrase «tigon specimen»

Launched with an initial 100 «founder kitties,» each specimen can «sire» a new kitten and sell it to other users.

«I wanted to let you know of a few specimens we have an overstock that we are trying to place before the end of the year,» United Tissue Executive Director Alyssa Harrison wrote to a bone research organization.

Today's world of taxidermy isn't exclusive to preserving real specimens.

Bouncing along the lunar surface in a four - wheeled rover, he and Charlie Duke collected 200 pounds of rock specimens.

Hall and her fellow researchers spent the two days before Irma struck finishing essential research and stashing away vulnerable specimens.

«Fortunately, there was a remedy: Cavendish bananas - maintained as interesting specimens in botanical gardens in the United Kingdom and in the United Fruit Company collection in Honduras - were identified as resistant substitutes for Gros Michel,» researchers from Wageningen University and Research Centre report in PLOS Pathogens.

At the University of Hawaii, researchers are trying to breed corals resilient to bleaching by studying specimens that have bounced back from stresses that killed other corals.

The specimens in Mote's aboveground tanks come from massive coral, a slower - growing type that resembles giant boulders underwater and is responsible for building the main structure of reefs.

This unique combination of advanced and archaic features suggests something profound, Hublin said — he's convinced the Moroccan specimens «represent the very root of our species.»

In 2013, paleontologists completely unearthed it, and this week, they have described what is undoubtedly a rare specimen.

«He's a specimen.

This plasmid, however, was a strange specimen.

He's the consensus best player in the NBA, an ageless, physical specimen who controls ever facet of the game in ways nobody else can.

Older customers trust someone who looks like them more than they'll trust the Lycra - clad specimens who haunt traditional bike shops, say many dealers.

He's a physical specimen that captained a 15 - 1 team and is quickly improving all of his weaknesses.

She explains how she herself came up a winner by pitching a 10 - pound specimen of the frozen fish a full 21 feet.

The specimen, coded HST after the site of its discovery in Hohlenstein - Stadel cave, couldn't be carbon - dated.

After vigorously swabbing the inside of my cheeks, I seal - locked my specimen in a plastic bag, overnighted the sample to a lab on the East Coast and awaited the results.

He thought he'd give crew a try, only to meet another crop of perfect physical specimens.

Like the specimen he'll show me, Schulze is something of a hybrid.

And the red peppers, green grapes, and golden pineapple chunks are all perfect specimens — huge, gorgeous, and, of course, much too expensive — because while Kings is a superior alternate universe of freshness, it's also the hub of Short Hills high society.

What scouts like: Wilkins is a great interior pass rusher with a combination of size, strength and explosiveness that makes him a rare specimen.

The grip is subpar but that is the sacrifice you need to make for a beautiful chrome specimen.

Since its maiden flight in January 2011 ten prototypes were manufactured (Note: the two demonstrators 2001, 2002 = now 2004, + the prototypes 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and two static test specimen) and that this type is to be the third stealth fighter jet to enter operational service following the United States» F - 22 Raptor and the F - 35 Lightning II.

All of these are not euphemisms, exactly, but they were powerful signifiers to the Playboy reader: She had been recognized as a perfect physical specimen, and had been rewarded for it in the farm leagues, but while she may have been circling close to the venues where nudity is required, there is very good chance — or at least it was plausible for the consumer to believe — that these Playboy photos were her first experience with the form.

Our pal palladium is a particularly obnoxious specimen, known for spending his Fridays sneaking up on and murdering unsuspecting and by now nearly extinct bears in cold blood with disconcerting regularity and great verve.

Fortunately, there was a remedy: Cavendish bananas — maintained as interesting specimens in botanical gardens in the United Kingdom and in the United Fruit Company collection in Honduras — were identified as resistant substitutes for «Gros Michel.»

Situated next to the North Shore mountains and within 20 minutes of downtown Vancouver, the property is in a forested setting and «features lush foliage of both native and specimen plantings, natural and man - made water features, a custom - built 9,000 - square - foot home, self - contained guest house, working 12 - stall paddock / barn and greenhouse,» says the company.

Now the current specimen rises ever higher carrying new sponsorship that basically sat out what it thought was a bear market from 2009 through 2012.

Lorem Ipsum has been the industrys standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

The company's flagship project, Las Chispas, is a historical mine in Sonora first discovered in the 1600s, and renowned for its world - class silver mineral specimens, many of which are on display in a number of museums around the world.

«The reason it hasn't been discovered before is no right - thinking paleontologist would do what Mary did with her specimens.

Isn't it just exciting to know that an entire species was created with only 2 viable specimens, who had 3 male offspiring?

(A good specimen of her ineptitude in the realm of ideas would be the essay on Kant mentioned by Mr. Marr: a piece that reveals a total ignorance not only of what Kant actually said, but of the most basic problems of epistemology as well.)

Although he often expressed this vision obliquely, he was relentless in his criticism of those who despised faith as an anachronism: «I am not afraid to say that a devout and God - fearing man is superior as a human specimen to a restless mocker who is glad to style himself an «intellectual,» proud of his cleverness in using ideas which he claims as his own though he acquired them in a pawnshop in exchange for simplicity of heart....

Prospective purchasers and readers may be assured - or warned - that the second volume of Systematic Theology is a fine specimen of the genre.

... here one must be blunt, Martin's observations were contradicted by virtually all other anatomists who examined the specimens.»

Even with that being so, there are quite a few fossil specimens from species related to ours.

Frozen specimens!

They disect it like a scientist disects a specimen, and their services are just pep - rallies for Jesus, «We have Spirit!»

An autopsy and genetic tests are now being carried out to determine more about the specimen.

• Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Memories of the Future: The most mercurially gifted of the «Odessa School» writers, Krzhizhanovsky is at last emerging from the shadows to which Soviet censorship condemned him for decades, and these seven stories are among the most attractive specimens of his bizarre, whimsical, frightening, kindly, and endlessly fertile imagination.

• «Lady Sarashina,» As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Actually the work of an anonymous eleventh - century Japanese noblewoman, this is one of the most delicate specimens of classical Japanese literature (which already surpasses almost all other literatures in delicacy).

«Walking Whale» Fossil Discovered In Peru: 40 - Million - Year - Old Specimen May Be Link Between Aquatic and Land Mammals

Probably as good a specimen of rationality and logic and rhetoric as anyone.

Ruskin, a rich man, questioned the identity of progress and wealth: were these wealthy shopkeepers and shippers better specimens of humanity than the Englishmen of Johnson's or Shakespeare's or Chaucer's days?

And you are the perfect specimen representing your kind...!

I wont go into detail but one example is where one fossil species at a certain older geological strata was compared to another much younger geological specimen.

Our study of them, in short, is restricted to a single specimen, that of our own Earth, which is apparently far from having attained its full development.

Could it be because of our scientific and philosophic method of examining things as specimens, forms?