Sentences with phrase «world by the horns»

But they don't exactly have the world by the horns.

Let's take the world by the horns today and eat kindly respecting hunger and fullness.

You are taking your financial world by the horns, holding firmly to it, and saying, «I'm in control.»

Not exact matches

It's time you take the bull by the horns and step out into the world with an «I don't care about your unrealistic expectations» mood.

Cities all over the world targeted noisy technologies, like the Klaxon automobile horn, which Paris, London and Chicago banned by ordinance in the 1920s.

This stance sometimes led to strategies deemed unrealistic, even foolish, by the ancient world's power standards (e.g., Gideon's lamps and horns).

68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Zechariah realized Mary's Davidic origins when he said: «Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began» (Luke 1:68 - 70).

Shortly before a horn took his life inside the ring on Aug. 29, 1947, killed by a Miura bull, the most dangerous in the world, Manolete had been challenged to a mano a mano duel from Luis Miguel Dominguín, a matador eight years his junior, for dominance over the corrida.

The inclusion of vuvuzela comes after months of exclusion for the annoying noisemaker; since the July Cup final, the horns have been banned by many baseball, football and soccer teams, and recently FIBA announced that they would not be permitted at the upcoming world basketball championships in Turkey.

If there is anyone at Arsenal Football Club who is going to take the bull by the horns, or the Elephant in the room that is the form of Mesut Ozil, it is his World Cup winning team mate from the Germany team, Per Mertesacker.

★ Welcome summer student Laura Neises ★ Welcome new students Helena Ishak, Alexander Kühn and Mareike Bach ★ Thanks for a contribution by the Clas Groschinsky Foundation ★ Meet Simon at the Bridging Worlds Through Science conference ★ Congratulations to Maria Pires passing her MSc defense ★ Welcome new Students Banushree Kumar and Annika Faucon ★ Congratulations to Evan Alsaleem passing his MSc defense ★ Welcome new students Lea van Husen, Daniel Horn, Taotao Xiang ★ Anna - Maria Katsori wins Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation Postdoc Fellowship ★ Simon Elsässer receives grant from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education for establishing an international collaboration for Alzheimer's research ★ Simon Elsässer has been appointed to the Global Young Academy ★ Elsässerlab receives grant from Åke Wibergs Foundation

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG - 13 for profanity, disturbing images and mature themes) Post 9/11 drama about a 9 year - old boy's (Thomas Horn) desperate search for the lock that matches the mysterious key left behind by his father (Tom Hanks) who perished in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

In the new trailer for Nick Kroll's new animated Netflix series Big Mouth, the average American family is introduced to a fantastical world where genitals can talk and teens are visited by hairy, horned «hormone monsters,» imaginatively challenging the ways people talk about puberty.

High in the saddle: set deep in the world of Brazilian rodeo, Gabriel Mascaro's explicit drama grabs sexuality by the horns

WHAT: While on a routine trip around the Horn of Africa, Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) orders his crew to practice prevention tactics against possible hijackers, only for the drill to become a real - world situation when a group of Somali pirates (led by Barkhad Abdi) boards the commercial freighter and takes Phillips hostage.

Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns By Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn & Curtis W. Johnson Published by McGraw - Hill (May 14, 2008) ISBN - 10: 0071592067 ISBN - 13: 978 - 0071592062 Amazon.cBy Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn & Curtis W. Johnson Published by McGraw - Hill (May 14, 2008) ISBN - 10: 0071592067 ISBN - 13: 978 - 0071592062 Amazon.cby McGraw - Hill (May 14, 2008) ISBN - 10: 0071592067 ISBN - 13: 978 - 0071592062 Amazon.com

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

Indie Next # 1 Pick: THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: Dispatches From the Border by Francisco Cantú THE GREAT ALONE by Kristin Hannah HOW TO STOP TIME by Matt Haig AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by Tayari Jones I AM, I AM, I AM: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL by Mira T. Lee ONLY KILLERS AND THIEVES by Paul Howarth RED CLOCKS by Leni Zumas NEED TO KNOW by Karen Cleveland ETERNAL LIFE by Dara Horn HEART BERRIES: A Memoir, by Terese Marie Mailhot FRESHWATER by Akwaeke Emezi MOTHERS OF SPARTA: A Memoir in Pieces by Dawn Davies IN EVERY MOMENT WE ARE STILL ALIVE by Tom Malmquist THE UNMADE WORLD by Steve Yarbrough THE MITFORD MURDERS by Jessica Fellowes THE LARGESSE OF THE SEA MAIDEN: Stories by Denis Johnson FORCE OF NATURE by Jane Harper THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, by Morgan Jerkins WHITE HOUSES by Amy Bloom

The three other bestselling books are Afrikas Horn by Wilbur Smith; En shopaholic i New York from popular chick lit author Sophie Kinsella; and Anden Verdenskrig, Antony Beevor's book about the Second World War.

In addition to writing for young adults, M. T. Anderson also writes for younger readers, including two picture books illustrated by the award - winning Kevin Hawkes: Handel, Who Knew What He Liked, a biography of eighteenth - century composer George Frideric Handel, which was a Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Winner, and Me, All Alone, At The End Of The World, which Newsday called «a persuasive argument for a little solitude and space to think.»

Reprinted from The World To Come by Dara Horn (the full text of chapter 1).

Cruel Beautiful World: A Novel, by Caroline Leavitt (Algonquin Books, 9781616207373, $ 15.95) Recommended in hardcover by Pamela Klinger - Horn, Excelsior Bay Books, Excelsior, MN

The collection features works by many world - renowned artists, such as Vito Acconci, Valerio Adami, Miguel Barceló, Jean - Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Christian Boltanski, Alexander Calder, Cèsar, Guy Debord, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Donald Judd, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Anselm Kiefer, Paul Klee, Jannis Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Cildo Meireles, Joan Miró, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Mimmo Paladino, Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Antoni Tàpies, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol, among others.

This is the subtle, disconcerting magic that's worked again and again in the best pieces by Roni Horn, a 54 - year - old New Yorker who's a star in the art world but not much known outside it.

Durand has selected work by a range of world - famous photographers / artists of the twentieth century, including Berenice Abbott, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Miriam Bäckström, Lewis Baltz, Herbert Bayer, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Frank Breuer, Jeff Brouws, Alain Bublex, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Mike Disfarmer, Stan Douglas, William Eggleston, Olafur Eliasson, Vkhutemas School, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Frank Gohlke, Dionisio González, Andreas Gursky, Anthony Hernandez, Lewis Hine, Roni Horn, Pieter Hugo, Tim Hyde, Isaac Julien, Amar Kanwar, Dorothea Lange, Helen Levitt, Sharon Lockhart, Ray Metzker, Lucia Moholy, Jonathan Monk, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Jackie Nickerson, Albert Renger - Patzsch, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Anri Sala, August Sander, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth, Hannah Starkey, Joel Sternfeld, Thomas Struth, Spencer Tunick and Gillian Wearing.

The Blue Monster was a crudely drawn head with pointy horns, gimlet eyes, and a gaping mouth full of sharp teeth that MacLeod created for some friends at Microsoft, accompanied by the phrase, «Change the world or go home.»

The brazen attack by Morgan and his crew also highlights the increasing clashes around the world between poachers, often backed by organized criminals, and wildlife rangers as demand for wildlife parts such as ivory, rhino horn, and tiger bones sky rocket.

It faced tough competition from concepts for Christmas trees, toilet - paper holders, and lamps, but Megan Bernstein's design for big, colorful earrings beat them all out, becoming the winner of WoZela's vuvuzela recycling competition.The contest, sponsored by two South African advertising firms, drew more than 100 entries suggesting ways to reuse or recycle the plastic horns that blared throughout this year's World Cup matches.

Take note that you can also see these felynes on Monster Hunter World's map, and one of them will even pass by with a horn to let you know that they are willing to help.

The Adirondack Antler Candelabra, 4 Arms, Candle Holders, Rustic, Realistic Reproduction Stag Horns, Bleached and Weathered Vintage Style, Cast Polyresin, 15 Inches High, By Whole House Worlds