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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

There was a fly buzzing around my head and I brushed it away. When I looked down the ball had moved. I did not think I hit it and my playing partners did not see it.

there's some time involved. It's rather optimistic to get everything done to actually meet the recommendations and expect to fly in anything less than a year.

There's no excuse for saying that fly fishing is too expensive. The top-end rods and reels are costly, no question, but every reputable fly-fishing manufacturer has gone to great lengths to offer reasonably priced rod and reels that provide reliable service.

The tournament there starts March 3, which is earlier than it starts here. It wouldn't make much sense for him to fly here, then fly back.

The trend to travel rods has risen steadily since they were introduced. They now comprise about 60 percent of our sales. A travel rod is a great choice for the plug caster who might want to take a fly rod on a big trip, but doesn't want to go overboard in gearing up. You toss the tube in the the duffle and there it is ready to go when the circumstances are right.

I see people running red lights all the time so they don't have to sit there. People will fly around you and then you get stuck at the light with them and then they will do it again.

I used to have the worst head jerk, my hat would fly off sometimes. That's how violent I was. It was violent, real violent. I was so raw.

Thinking about the politicsthe timingwe need to fly this thing soon. If we want to fly something before this Presidential term is out, we have about two years to build this. Actually, we're starting to get schedule crunched.

The wing spot on the fruit fly is a particularly good model because we know it constitutes a new feature that is gained or lost by evolution in different species. And, since it is a spatial pattern, it gives us a chance to analyze the evolution of a physical trait.

The role-based idea just wouldn't fly here, because I can guarantee you that every person you define -- salesperson, executive -- is going to want some feature that's not in their role

I've seen the most dramatic change you can imagine in the past three years. Fly 30 miles in any direction in the Rocky Mountain West, and you see oil and gas drilling rigs and wells and the network of roads that accompany them. It's out of control.

I've taken a job with the New Orleans Saints as tight end ends coach, and I'll fly to New Orleans to start the job on Monday. The combination of going to the NFL and also to work with Sean Payton is a very exciting opportunity.

I've never seen so many flags fly in a game.

I've really worked on specifics, like my top hand. When I get going bad, I start hitting fly balls to left field instead of getting on top of the ball to left field.

It would be devastating. Delta would not operate. We would not fly and there are no contingency plans. But there?s a long way from now until a potential strike.

The secret to my success was that somehow I always managed to live to fly another day.

The thing that really surprised me is that it was a long nonstop journey, and that she crossed overland over volcanoes. Normally, you would expect the seabirds to fly over the sea.

The thing that really surprised me is that it was a long, nonstop journey, and that she crossed overland over volcanoes. Normally, you would expect the seabirds to fly over the sea.

The thing that really surprised me is that it was a long, non-stop journey, and that she crossed overland over volcanoes. Normally, you would expect the seabirds to fly over the sea.

I usually fly them about 200 to 300 feet in the air, and I've had them up there for two or three days and nights at a time. This time of year, though, I have to watch the weather reports, see if there is a storm coming in.

I wanted to climb in and fly it,

Teddy Roosevelt . . . once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

Ten to 12 kids are coming in early to drop off their gear in the event that they need some seasoning. Then they will fly to Dallas. We can always send their stuff if they get a job in Dallas.

Sometimes we need a fly ball into the wind to give us a break. We were fortunate to win that game.

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

sees a guy not run out a ball or loaf after a fly or not go first-to-third or second-to-home because he's just trotting, it's disturbing. I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

Preferably my own rap artists, Fly and ABM. I also might play a little online poker with my laptop.

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

Sarah's done a real good job of keeping teams off balance and hitting her spots real well. She's a finesse pitcher, more or less. She throws well, she locates and she does the job that we need her to do. She gets the ground balls and fly balls and gets the outs. She's able to get you out and that's the key. She doesn't walk batters. You're going to have to hit your way on in order to get on.

Saints fly only in the eyes of their disciples

Saunders' winning time in the 100 fly was a personal-best by about two seconds - which is a fabulous swim.

Reading the people's lips: 'Where's the food? Where's water?' ... They were there for four days. I mean, drop something out of the sky. Fly helicopters over and drop something, whatever you have to do. That's what killed me, man. I'm cried out. I'm just cried out.

Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Our shows are dedicated to a more narrow target of music, and although a lot of people show up, we kind of fly under the radar.

Our defense played great. Absolutely great. We have a pretty good defense. Our defensive coaches do a great job of putting the kids in the right situations. We fly around and play hard on defense. You won't find many defenses that play like that. We're a handful on defense.

Other countries don't see us as a world contender. But back home, every tournament we play we're supposed to win. After the last Olympics and what happened against Belarus, you could feel in the locker room before the Switzerland game that if we lost we couldn't fly home this summer.

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,/ Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,/ And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.

People are there by choice. It's increasingly unusual that undergraduates are willing to commit their time to something like this. What we do tends to fly in the face of a lot of popular culture. It's being committed to music making of a fairly high order.

People fly down this road, they don't need to cause we've got too many kids on this road that like to ride their bikes down this road.

Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.

The name of the game is we fly to 120 cities directly. You're paying for the service.

The motive for why the shooter shot the victim doesn't fly with what everyone knows about Bryan. Here's a student who is doing well academically. Why would he have any involvement in a shooting with someone he doesn't know?

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

After 12 years of development, we're seeing our dreams come true. It takes less than five minutes to change from fly to drive or back. It goes 60 miles per hour on the road and about 70 in the air, lands in less than 30 feet, and can fit into your garage. You don't need a hangar and you don't need an airport.

The most important thing up here is that we are the experiment; we are learning how to fly in space,

Some only fly for very specific types of training. We need to talk about how we could provide some types of ratings without owning the equipment.

Sometimes I feel if I could fly away like a bird in the sky.Sometimes I feel if I could disappear like a thunder once after lightening the sky.Sometimes I feel if I could vanish like a rain drop falling from the sky.But all these thoughts make me feel that I want to run away from all the questions in my life, dragging me again to the first position feeling that I want to achieve what I need to achieve being in this life itself.Yes that is all my duty during this life time...

On defense, there aren't as many things to do. On defense, I can fly around more.

Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday.

Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.

Defensively, we've got a little more depth, ... We lost quite a few good players Å  but we're deeper this year. We're still pretty young. The guys who are playing got a lot of playing time last year. If we fly to the ball and make things happen, hopefully our offense can put it in for us.

Defenses, you can screw up but if you react and play hard, you can make up for it and you're still fine. That's what defenses traditionally teach early on is run to the football, fly to the football. So when you get into a team atmosphere, they're just flying around. They can screw up, but somebody may cover for them or they may recover for themselves.

Dear Piers, it is with huge regret I have decided to miss your Christmas lunch and instead fly to the Maldives, first class, with people I love, and not have a care in the world. If my mobile works, I promise to send pictures.

Col. Broughton was actually supposed to be in that airplane. He was supposed to fly that plane that morning and got called out to a meeting within 15 minutes of the time the flight was supposed to take off, and asked my father to fill in for him.

Anything is possible in nature. You have birds that fly around the world.

As flies the wind, as flies the mind, as fly the winged birds, so do thou, O embryo,. ten months old, fall along with the placenta! May the placenta fall down!

As for my oblique, everything felt fine. I felt good in (right field). I caught a few fly balls, too. I felt reasonably comfortable at the plate. I'm happy with my day and I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.

Bankruptcy is not the end of the world. US Airways is in bankruptcy, and they fly every day.

Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.

As it turns out if you can measure changes in distance between the two satellites, you can get information about what's underneath and what's causing those changes. And you can get information when you fly over the ice sheet about the mass change of the ice sheet.

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

That's how he is. When he's out on the field, he becomes a madman. I figure that's when he knows it's time to turn it loose -- let out my hair, comb it out, let it be under my helmet, let me fly around like a maniac and get sacks and interceptions and whatever they call me to do.

That's hard starting your first game flying. You've got all of the distractions, and a lot of rookies haven't had a chance to fly out to a game and experience something like that. This is the time the veterans are going to have to step up, especially the first away game.

That's me, contact all over the place. Ground balls, fly balls, that's my game. More times than not, I'll take that. I'll definitely take that with the defense I have behind me here.

Alfie, he can do some things with the bat. He gives us some different options at the top of the order. He played some center field in the minor leagues, he can play fly balls.

You might as well have asked me to fly a plane.

Your actions shouldn't change an animal's behavior. The true test is whether you affect the animals. For instance, if your presence causes a bird to fly away, it may force the bird to abandon their young or steer clear of the area all together.

This is something that he's wanted to do since the get-go. Somebody's got to fly those planes. He is the master of his universe up there.

The upper part of the Clarion River was pretty polluted about 15 years ago. It has since been cleaned up and now there's a black fly problem.

This body at this time has got to look itself in the eye and say these men and women are about to fly ... and I think it's essential that the Congress of the United States be on record as supporting them.

This happens three times altogether, making the treatment last six hours each week. Of course, since many of the same patients are being seen week after week, they've gotten to know each other well. That causes the time to fly by for them.

They've gone up a lot. They fly people and cargo to Brazil. It's a difficult situation.

They've given us the free will to change certain things on the fly and just reach to what's happening in the ballgame.

A lot of drivers are good and slow down, but you can get rogue people who speed through and that can be very dangerous if there's hazard on the road or loose chip that can fly up.

A lot of our customers also fly New York to London. If you look at the flight time, it's about the same.

A lot of the time, I get so involved in boarding that I forget to fly the kite.

They made some mistakes and we were able to take advantage of them. In their defense, their outfielders probably haven't seen a lot of fly balls this year, especially outside.

They must have eight guys who are long, athletic, bouncy and can block shots. It's like walking into a human fly swatter.

They had us mentally before we ever started. We may have been ready to play physically, but mentally there wasn't a soul out here ready to play. That's what killed us in the first inning. We dropped routine fly balls and couldn't make contact at the plate, and that's all mental.

They don't fly to an area. They are established, so we know they caught the virus in this area.

They fly up and down this road. Straight and flat. they like to go fast.

They fly the heck out of their airplanes.

You don't want to recruit a guy who has to change two, three planes to get here. You can get on a plane in Chicago and get here (directly). You can be in Dallas or Houston and fly right here. That's a different recruiting than asking a player from Pennsylvania. He has to stop in Chicago and change planes. You don't recruit Pennsylvania. You don't recruit to Tidewater Beach because the kid from Virginia has to fly to Atlanta first. But the kid from Atlanta can fly non-stop. I look for cities where it's a non-stop flight.

This mission is a dream come true for all of us, not just to fly on the shuttle but to fly on this very important mission.

There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.

There was notification just before dusk that there was some concern. Our helicopters . . . fly during the day, so it was past the normal check-in time for the flight plan.

There will be no demonstrations or mass gatherings, ... We're going into this with the anticipation that Northwest plans to fly and operate normally.

There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: ''YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES.''

This makes it convenient for everyone to learn more about fly fishing regardless of their location or schedule.

They're by far the best defense that we will face (this season). Overall, their team speed is something you just really can't prepare for in practice. They have 11 guys on the field who can really fly and get around the ball.

They're going to Orlando, and I'm going to Palm Beach. If it were just me, I wouldn't do this. But because there are eight or nine of us, it makes sense to fly this way.

They're a good football team. What we need to do is play our type of defense and to be sound. We need to give the quarterback some different looks and we need to fly around the the football and then we've got a chance.

They're not blocking those guys' shots. If they want to fly through the air and do that, they'll be on the bench.

They have their own ZIP code. They fly multiple aircraft out of Springfield-Branson National Airport every day with catalog-ordered merchandise.

There's always oddities that you find. Birds can fly anywhere they want to.

A student pilot certificate - to fly a plane - you must be at least 16 years of age. This boy was too young to be flying.

A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay but a swarm in July is not worth a fly