Sentences with phrase «work as a duck»

The French word for poodle, caniche, is said to derive from the French word for a female duck («cane») because of the larger - sized poodles» work as a duck retriever.

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It should have felt cheap to have Howard the Duck show up out of nowhere as the guy who saves the day, but somehow it worked!

Most recently, Stephen worked as a Sous Chef at nationally acclaimed restaurant, Odd Duck.

I remember working as a server in a Middle Eastern festivities hall when I was a teenager, and during busy shifts, ducking into the freezer and stuffing my face full of pistachio - filled cigars and baklawa... As delicious as they were, the heartburn that followed was anything buas a server in a Middle Eastern festivities hall when I was a teenager, and during busy shifts, ducking into the freezer and stuffing my face full of pistachio - filled cigars and baklawa... As delicious as they were, the heartburn that followed was anything buAs delicious as they were, the heartburn that followed was anything buas they were, the heartburn that followed was anything but.

I used duck eggs instead of chicken and, embarrassing to say, I used Caesar Rim seasoning as I had no celery salt... but it worked!

Working with ingredients sourced from the best purveyors in France and Mexico, Peraza's menu will feature dishes such as Hay smoked Foie Gras made with jaggery, plantains, pepita and coconut; Lobster Bisque en Croûte with traditional French - style bisque, Mexican - inspired vegetables and black jalapeno ash; Enfrijoladas with homemade cilantro tortillas, duck confit, crispy duck skin and crema; and Plantain Empanadas featuring steamed plantain casing filled with braised oxtail, capers and chives.

As soon as you lose the ball you closedown the other side forcing them to do something rather than let them have time on the ball You get to the ball before the attacker not amble back allowing them to win it You get between them and the goal You don't duck and turn your back on the ball if it's hit hard You work together as a team which requires constant communicatiAs soon as you lose the ball you closedown the other side forcing them to do something rather than let them have time on the ball You get to the ball before the attacker not amble back allowing them to win it You get between them and the goal You don't duck and turn your back on the ball if it's hit hard You work together as a team which requires constant communicatias you lose the ball you closedown the other side forcing them to do something rather than let them have time on the ball You get to the ball before the attacker not amble back allowing them to win it You get between them and the goal You don't duck and turn your back on the ball if it's hit hard You work together as a team which requires constant communicatias a team which requires constant communication

Then in 2012, growing food led us to a 45 - acre ranch where we worked as caretakers and raised pigs, goats, turkeys, ducks, and chickens.

Duck down is the ideal blanket filler because it works with your body to regulate your temperature as you sleep.

The pig, cow, and chicken each make their own animal noises when they are squeezed, and the duck works as a rattle.

NY GOP teabagger gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino's gay nephew, who was also working as a campaign aide, is ducking the furor over his uncle's homophobic comments and trying to stay out of the glare.

But because it's difficult to set up measuring devices in the surf zone, as they did at Duck, the pair is now working on a way to measure wave properties using a single offshore buoy.

It stresses that conservation works, pointing out that wetlands species, such as ducks, are thriving thanks to extensive protective legislation for those regions.

As for flipping ambiguity, such as the duck - rabbit illusion, there are two theories about how they work: either the brain tires of one image and switches to the other, or there are two perceptions vying for centre stagAs for flipping ambiguity, such as the duck - rabbit illusion, there are two theories about how they work: either the brain tires of one image and switches to the other, or there are two perceptions vying for centre stagas the duck - rabbit illusion, there are two theories about how they work: either the brain tires of one image and switches to the other, or there are two perceptions vying for centre stage.

The basics: - EAT nourishing, nutrient dense food: meat (organic and free range is best), seafood, vegetables, eggs, nuts, fruits, fat (such as ghee, coconut oil, beef tallow, duck fat, olive oil), as much or as little safe starch as works for you (potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, etc.) as much or as little full fat dairy as works for you (butter, cheese, cream, yogurt, sour cream) and dark chocolate of course.

Not only will you get an abdominal, shoulder and triceps workout from punching, you'll also work on your cardio as you duck, dodge, and move your feet.

Working with his once - rival Secretary of State Henry Seward (a low - key David Strathairn), he hires two proto - lobbyists (James Spader and John Hawkes) to woo as many lame - duck Democrats as possible to the amendment's cause, using the promise of government appointments in their home states to sweeten the deal.

Javier has been accompanied in Cannes by Penelope Cruz who has remained very low key, declining to walk at official functions, preferring instead to let her boyfriend work the carpet as she has ducked into the palais without fanfare, sitting beside ma in the theatre.

Released in 1995, mere months after the fan favorite In The Mouth Of Madness, Village Of The Damned is an odd duck, a bad film that never comes close to working as horror, but which features enough unusual touches and flourishes of staging to put it several notches above dismissible.

As the president points out to his secretary of state, William Seward (David Strathairn), the recent election has turned 64 Democratic congressmen into lame ducks — men who'll be out of work soon and might sell their vote for a government job.

The pack contains: Display materials including colour pictures and arrows and a title page A long colourful display banner Power point A life cycle wheel to make Various life cycle sequencing worksheets such as a cut and stick sheet, a drawing worksheet and different writing worksheets Templates for craft work Writing pages which can be made into a book with a cover Duck fact worksheets A started worksheet to see what the children know and what they want to find out Vocabulary flash cards and also cards with words and meanings A themed word search A colourful picture bingo game A duck life cycle headband to make Labelling worksheets Photos of ducks and ducklings Photos of the different stages of the life cycle of a duck Various number activities Various other worksheets including describing a duck, missing words, sentence scramble, sequencing sentences etc Plus mDuck fact worksheets A started worksheet to see what the children know and what they want to find out Vocabulary flash cards and also cards with words and meanings A themed word search A colourful picture bingo game A duck life cycle headband to make Labelling worksheets Photos of ducks and ducklings Photos of the different stages of the life cycle of a duck Various number activities Various other worksheets including describing a duck, missing words, sentence scramble, sequencing sentences etc Plus mduck life cycle headband to make Labelling worksheets Photos of ducks and ducklings Photos of the different stages of the life cycle of a duck Various number activities Various other worksheets including describing a duck, missing words, sentence scramble, sequencing sentences etc Plus mduck Various number activities Various other worksheets including describing a duck, missing words, sentence scramble, sequencing sentences etc Plus mduck, missing words, sentence scramble, sequencing sentences etc Plus more!

Features Manipulatives for students working in pairs or as a small groups of four to six Storage tote to easily manage materials Includes 72 Bug Counters 100 Foam Base Ten Rods 200 Foam Base Ten Units 12 Foam Geosolids 72 Frog Counters 100 Snap Cubes 100 Unilink Cubes 100 Baby Bear Counters 250 Foam Pattern Blocks 1 Pound of Assorted Buttons 200 Foam Two - Color Counters 48 Duck Counters 192 Coins in a Bag 200 Bean Counters 6 Foam Dot Dice 4 Geared Clocks 5 Blank Spinners 6 Grouping Circles

For this reason, the Aussie is often chosen to work unusual livestock such as ducks, geese, and commercially raised rabbits.

The Kooikerhondje was developed by the Dutch as a working breed, however, it has also been used in duck hunting.

Despite the long coat, some of these dogs are trained and work well as duck retrievers.

For example, a breed that was designed as a Man - working (police) breed has a higher potential for biting strangers than a breed that was designed to hunt ducks (Retrievers).

The Kooikerhondje is a small spaniel - type breed of dog of Dutch ancestry that was originally used as a working dog, particularly in an eendenkooi to lure ducks.

First there should be exceptions to when the dog IS allowed to threaten or bite, which would be considered provocation... those would include: a.) Legitimate self defense; b.) Defense of territory; c.) Defense of pack — human family, other home pets, and such; d.) Establishment of a reasonable pack order within the home; e.) Mouthing (which is not the same as being aggressive); f.) While being trained during lessons, and in the midst of long term maintenance training, to teach a dog to contain it's drives and aggression; g.) For legitimate police work — if a police force obtains ownership and control of the dog, then the court order should be rescinded and the dog be given a fresh start; h.) Legitimate hunting purposes (such as duck hunting).

Training Necessities Anyone with a dog that hunts waterfowl knows that to get and to keep a duck and goose retriever in good working order takes lots of training from the beginning to the end of a dog's career as a hunter.

When not at work, Dr Martin stays very busy with other interests, such as gardening, canning, and caring for her cats, dogs, chickens, and ducks.

They've worked as military dogs, duck hunters, service dogs, and circus performers.

As well as being a working station, Blue Duck has a strong conservation ethos, where many programs are underway to eliminate damaging pests, restoring native bush and protecting endangered bird species, including their namesake the blue ducAs well as being a working station, Blue Duck has a strong conservation ethos, where many programs are underway to eliminate damaging pests, restoring native bush and protecting endangered bird species, including their namesake the blue ducas being a working station, Blue Duck has a strong conservation ethos, where many programs are underway to eliminate damaging pests, restoring native bush and protecting endangered bird species, including their namesake the blue dDuck has a strong conservation ethos, where many programs are underway to eliminate damaging pests, restoring native bush and protecting endangered bird species, including their namesake the blue duckduck.

Though what is interesting with these new ratings is not Dig Dug 2, it is actually Hogan's Alley that I find to be the most intriguing game to come of this news, interestingly Hogan's Alley works in the same vein as Duck Hunt using the now dysfunctional Light Gun peripheral for its gameplay.

We knew that we were going to have a standing experience, and it needed to work with PlayStation and Oculus (and of course on Vive as room - scale), but for health and safety reasons, we don't want people actually physically ducking for cover in their living rooms.»

Long - haired high - heeled budding Asian collectors noted down work by new names such as the charming light - as - air butterfly oil painting at the Grosvenor gallery by Senaka Senanayake and took selfie - souvenirs in front of Love Struck, wrought by D * Face with «enamel and pigment based paint on medium grain cotton duck canvas».

On the other hand, after Smith had made his statement with the black cube, he quickly moved on to the tetrahedrons and parallelepipeds, thus challenging himself with a rigorous complexity, as seen in Duck (1962) and Amaryllis (1965), and later with ever greater rigor in works such as Smoke (1967) and One — Two — Three (1976).

Wall texts lay out his basic themes and motifs, from strange meditations on Donald Duck and the «tent paintings» in the 1960s to later works that took up symbols from Germany's Nazi past, and repurposed them as surreal «dithyrambs,» a term borrowed from Greek poetry but reinvented by Lüpertz as a catchall for his not - quite - abstract forays into abstraction and not - quite - figurative exercises in drawing real things in the world.

On the occasion of Cosima von Bonin's new exhibition in the Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Daffy Duck, who has hitherto played a subordinate role in her work of, makes a new appearance as the publisher's imprint on the invitation card.

And while Roy Lichtenstein's Look Mickey (1961), his near - faithful reproduction of a Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoon strip, was basically formalist commentary (produced as Lichtenstein had grown weary of the spiritual grandstanding of Abstract Expressionism), and from our contemporary list of artists, Housley's repeated use of the Snoopy and Woodstock motifs are receptacles for the artist's process - based experiments in the possibilities of paint; many of the artists working with toons seem to be engaging in the opposing struggle to pull the characters out of their own pictorial world and into our own.

Lichtenstein's early works during the 1960s were comments on American Abstract Expressionist paintings by artists such as Jackson Pollock but it was his later brightly coloured prints inspired by popular cartoon imagery and comic strips, incorporating figures such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, which became characteristic of his oeuvre.

Hoeber's quest to combine conceptualist strategies (mind) with the physical desire to create that which is experiential (body) points to his larger desire to «have it both ways», or as essayist Luc Sante noted recently about Hoeber's work, to have «both the rabbit and the duck».

These works highlight Nauman's fascination with Wittgenstein's language games, such as the duck / rabbit conundrum, in which a single image can signify two different objects.»

Aleksander Hardashnakov (b. 1982, Toronto, Canada) has exhibited his work at such galleries as The Loon, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Tomorrow Gallery, Martos Gallery, New York, USA; Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium; and Croy Nielsen, The Duck, Berlin, Germany.

He pointed to Eddie Martinez, Allison Schulnik, and Joyce Pensato as artists who have made inspiring duck - based work, and gave respect to Chuck Jones's classic representation of Daffy Dduck - based work, and gave respect to Chuck Jones's classic representation of Daffy DuckDuck.

The show is the outgrowth of a project Lerner and Ortiz - Torres worked on together earlier, a 1995 film called Frontierland / Fronterilandia; one piece of found footage had theme park performers dressed as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse doing an interpretation of a traditional Mexican hat dance.

Under the leadership of Ducks Unlimited, the project successfully enrolled 114 eligible landowners and 50,000 acres in this cutting - edge program, and worked with partners to create an environmentally robust accounting methodology to quantify the carbon that remains in the soil as carbon offset credits.

Marc Gracie, of Garden Couture, ducks as sand flies over his head as he works with Eduardo Ramos, center, Connor Klutz, right, as they remove sand from a beach patio near North Ocean Blvd. and Atlantic Avenue in... Greg Lovett / Greg Lovett

As Walt Disney himself once did not say, «Having a scruffy 18 - year - old working in my theme park might offend guests who've come to see a 5 - foot - tall, shirtless mouse and his pal, the duck with no pants.»

Choose a powder - toned pastel as a gentle backdrop to your child's room — duck - egg blue, pastel pink and pale green all work beautifully.

My daughter and middle son decided to switch rooms the other day to do their own makeover of sorts, (still working on it) and I noticed my daughter still had the original «temporary» carpet remnant with purple duck tape binding as her main rug in her room under her little table and chair set.