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Basking in sentence

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We're very lucky in Ireland, we have plenty of basking sharks and plenty of opportunities to study them.
"Sunfish" is one of the words for basking sharks.
The importance of basking sharks to the coast communities is recognized through the language.
And this represents their habit of basking on the surface when the sun is out.
There's great concern that basking sharks are depleted all throughout the world.
They're not protected in Ireland; in fact, they have no legislative status in Ireland whatsoever, despite our importance for the species and also the historical context within which basking sharks reside.
I only found out last year, at a conference on the Isle of Man, just how unusual it is to live somewhere where basking sharks regularly, frequently and predictably come to the surface to "bask."
It's a fantastic opportunity for a scientist to see and experience basking sharks.
We thought basking sharks were temperate animals and lived in our latitudes, but in actual fact, they're obviously crossing the equator as well.
So very simple things like that, we're trying to learn about basking sharks.
So when they looked at the genetics of basking sharks, they found that the diversity was incredibly low.
But if you look at nucleotide diversity, which is more genetics that are passed on through the parents, you see that basking sharks, if you look at the first study, was order of magnitude less diverse even than other shark species.
Before 2006, we had no idea of the genetic variability of basking sharks.
They found that there was no genetic differentiation between any of the world's oceans of basking sharks: even though they're found throughout the world, you couldn't tell the difference, genetically, from one from the Pacific, Atlantic, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa.
They amplified it and they tested it, and they found, yes, this was actually basking shark DNA, which was got from the slime.
Being able to tell the gender of a shark is very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through the sightings, because it is illegal to trade in these sharks.
While you are basking in the glow of having won your first massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling game, let's do a quick recap on the positive emotions.
This is a year when Einstein is basking in the glow of having discovered the special theory of relativity and decides to take on a new project, to try to understand fully the grand, pervasive force of gravity.
Her twin sister, Carol (also portrayed by Danielle Cormack) is basking in the media limelight as she represents New Zealand in swimming at the Olympics.
'Gregory's Girl' was clearly filmed between Spring and early Autumn and there's one enduringly beautiful scene where Dorothy plays keep-up with a soccer ball, shot against the maternally basking backdrop of urban Glasgow, whilst a haunting saxophone laments and chases the fading daylight, bemoaning the inevitable and eventual closure of our younger years, brief and fleeting as the scene itself.
It is an extremely sentimental movie, but the sentiment is balanced by Woody's light touch and by his humor, and so you can enjoy basking in the bittersweet without feeling like you've been played.
Europe in WonderlandBERLIN – Europe and its national governments are basking in their new capacity to act – and not without reason.
The point of my report, which was credited with spawning the political and media effort to rebrand the UK known as Cool Britannia, was to recognize Britain as a “silent revolutionary” that constantly renews itself, rather than basking in tradition.
The moment we stop building institutions that embody them (and resort to basking in feelings that sentimentalize them), they cease to exist.
As it is, both are basking in the aftermath of interest rate cuts.
Since Modi came to power, India has been basking in the adulation of major powers like Japan and the United States.
Instead of basking in its own superiority, he advised, the US should learn from the mistakes of its enemies, including Russia.
Delhi, where the air quality index typically exceeds 500 (the World Health Organization’s safety threshold is 25), is now basking in blue skies and sunshine, with the AQI below 30 most days and, after a rain shower last week, even coming down to seven.
Was it here that this strange man came to revive himself, basking in historical memories, reliving that bygone life, he who had no desire for our modern one?
Koznyshev loved to lie basking in the sunshine, talking lazily.