Sentences with phrase «use of a bat»

Fears of Zika and other mosquito - borne illnesses have led a Long Island town to experiment with the use of bats as a natural alternative to pesticides to pesticides to kill mosquitoes this summer.

Guano aside, it may still make use of the bats.

Just in case you don't know much about cricket - it involves the use of a bat and a ball, and the players play on a specially developed pitch of grass.

[2] Habitat use of bats in relation to wind turbines revealed by GPS tracking: https://docs.wind-watch.org/srep28961-bats-wind-turbines.pdf

Not exact matches

Users of the platform can use BAT's tokens (BATs) to pay both the users seeing the ads and the companies promoting them.

BAT targets the issue of online marketing by trying to create a fair and equal advertising environment through the use of a peer - to - peer token.

Beyond its use as a payment system between parties on the platform, BAT can also be used to obtain a variety of advertising and attention - based services on the Brave platform.

Users who opt - in will also get a share of BATs and can use them on premium products, donate them back to publishers, etc..»

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

Todd Hiestand and Mike Morrell did confess to having used the «bat shit crazy» term, but I don't recall them saying that they did it as part of any deliberate campaign — just that they were passing on hearsay or perhaps reflecting their own opinions at the time.

They not only contained the bodies of the dead, but in time were occupied by bats and rats or used by wandering shepherds to shelter their flocks.

He used two mild words of profanity in his talk, and nobody batted an eye.

When some of the anger and frustration had been dealt with, not only verbally but also physically using foam rubber bats, (2) and Connie and Steve were feeling a little more friendly toward each other, the counselor asked them to try telling each other what they still liked about their marriage and about each other.

When we were children, we used to argue about the comparative batting averages of Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, of Joe Cronin and Jimmy Foxx.

In addition, this particular nullification has a little extra weight, since North Korea cut off its emergency direct phone line to South Korea — a sort of bat signal one could use to call the other and sort things out when tensions got unbearable...

If all the comments on belief blog were a cartoon there would be a Scotsman (not a true one), there would be a straw man on fire, and there would be Hitler (for the Hitler card) and the three of them would be used as tennis balls being batted back and forth between the opposing sides.

The only I know for sure regarding Ms. Bachmann is that every time she uses a microphone, an entire colony of bats flies off course — in Europe.

i also chose to use leeks in place of sweet onions mostly because i bought 3 leeks the size of baseball bats and needed to use them in something, but also because they're a perfect segue to spring!

Transfer frosting to a piping bat fitted with your tip of choice (I used Ateco # 827) and frost cooled cupcakes.

The only thing I change is I use honey in place of the sugar and mix 1/2 C honey with the warm water and yeast right off the bat.

Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.

He's not the hitter he used to be, not even close, but the 40 - year - old still managed 43 extra-base hits in 129 games, and his bat is still capable of crushing a mistake.

Inside the suitcase were four boxes of the special baseballs, a dozen per box and numbered 1 through 48, to be used only for McGwire's at bats.

The night McGwire hit number 60, Jeff Idelson, a public relations official with the Baseball Hall of Fame, went to sleep in his hotel with the bat Maris used to club his 61st home run tucked under the covers with him.

«I told a clubhouse man, «Just shorten a couple of my bats about half an inch so I can use one in a game,»» he says.

Harrah later explained that he had broken the 34 1/2 - inch C243 he had used in the first 14 games and, lacking any other bat of that length, decided to replace it with a sawed - off 35 - inch model.

Harrah now bats second in the Cleveland lineup, a position that makes use of his unselfishness and batting versatility.

Chicago Cubs» Manager Bob Scheffing used his 30th different batting order in 43 games in an attempt to end a dismal batting slump (the Cubs had fallen to the bottom of the league in hitting).

Panthers players say the bat is a symbol the secondary uses for making «home run plays» and «bringing the wood,» and it's something they've done before all of their games this season.

The baseball bat isn't a new thing for the Panthers either, and the team used it as a source of motivation in weeks prior.

Then, just out of the batting box, resting his bat on the ground with the handle end balanced against his thighs, he uses both hands to jostle the helmet correctly into position.

The plate is not moving, so you can precisely identify the horizontal (X-Y) bounds of the space that defines the strike zone; the vertical bounds are defined by the batter when he is in position to hit, which is harder to automatically identify (PitchFX uses manual observers to tag the top and bottom of the zone when a batter first goes up to bat).

Why not lock up DJ for the next 2 - 3 years, they have Rodgers, Hampson, Wall, etc. in the minors — someone will be able to play 3B after «19, and use the potential Nolan money for maybe veteran bats & more pitching help during these next 2 years of contention?

If you've got it, flaunt it — and your hair will remain perfect until the excess energy you used powering two hair dryers will hasten the world's expenditure of fossil fuels to the point where we can no longer afford the electricity to power hair dryers, and instead resort into walking into darkened caves full of bats and allowing the collective heat of their tiny nocturnal bodies to hasten the evaporation of our surplus hair water.

And while he's tasting the sweet pine tar ticks on his bat and tipper - tapping with his feet, the world gets to watch and remember just how much of a presence Puig used to be.

This is more in line with modern use of the DH, as a place to rest position players while keeping their bat in the lineup.

There are two on and none out for Cody Bellinger, who Giles is going to have to hope used up his only hit of the World Series in his last at - bat.

Denard Span is here to offset the addition of Longoria's salary to the Giants, and while his bat was still average in 2017, his glove is not what it used to be.

Despite lifting batting average to.284 last Reds week, he's had a miserable year and could use time to heal; a sore left hip flexor is latest in string of leg injuries that has limited him to 51 games and seven home runs.

«Painting,» meanwhile, is the most rarely used method, the equivalent of counterfeiting, taking a bat known to be illegal and masking the cover to make it look like a known legal bat.

This, then, is what makes the use of illegal softball bats so dangerous.

The ASA has also instituted the use of compression - testing machines at some tournaments, which supposedly make sure bats being used don't exceed the authorized exit velocity threshold.

The bats are out there, manufacturers are making oodles of money off of them, and then using some of that money to sponsor tournaments.

The media batted around innuendos of drug use — rumors that reached Shula, who checked them out with Fazio before the draft.

Utilize our multi use drill stations, multi use training cages, multi use rooms, pitching lanes, batting cages and sports performance gym complete with the top of the line speed & strength training equipment.

One of my dearest friends that I used to date knew right off the bat that I wasn't happy.

And he requested that we make the bat bag big enough so that when he plays in the major leagues (notice the use of «when,» not «if»... love that), it will still hold a larger size bat for him.

We need people to get used to seeing this beautiful part of life without batting an eye.

-LSB-...] Static Electricity Dancing Ghosts and Bats Great for all age groups, this experiment uses the magic of a balloon to make mini characters dance.

This was the first time that I've followed the end quilting instructions exactly by just adding the backing (rather than adding a second layer of batting, which is what I do when using this method on larger, warmth - providing bed quilts, like Adelaide's).