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The machete cut through Emmanuel's flesh and bones but did not entirely sever them.
There is no telling how African leaders at Davos – many of whom have publicly denounced Trump’s comments, demanding apologies and retractions – will react to the man in the flesh.
The use of the term “slavery” in relation to something that it is wrong to do to animals is especially significant, for until now it has been assumed that animals are rightly our slaves, to use as we wish, whether to pull our carts, be models of human diseases for research, or produce eggs, milk, or flesh for us to eat.
As though it were second nature in French culture, the director presented Shylock's attempt to collect his pound of flesh by recalling the image of the crucifixion.
As a tourist draw, seen at close quarters in its natural habitat, a manta ray can be worth thousands of dollars; dead on a slab at the quayside, its flesh and gills fetch a fraction of that.
And this band of political piranhas decided not to leave the least scrap of flesh on Macron.
That means putting flesh on the bones of the Bali Process cooperation framework, which was agreed in 2011 by ministers representing all of the relevant source, transit, and target countries in the region and beyond, including – crucially – Indonesia and Malaysia (the key transit countries en route to Australia).
With the Greek government thus failing to push through structural reforms, it was unable to earn the trust of its creditors; and, skeptical that the government was committed to reform, the troika demanded a pound of flesh, in the form of front-loaded austerity, as the price of assistance.
The audience’s experience of the world puts flesh on the bare bones of a prosecutor’s or defense attorney’s legal theory.
It boasts a deep purple skin and flesh, and contains levels of antioxidants 200% higher than unmodified tomatoes.
These nasty creatures dig their fangs into the linings of the intestines in order to drink blood and lacerated flesh.
To take one example, while Bill Clinton speaks with warmth, wit, and great eloquence in the flesh, his autobiography is not worth reading.
Stockholders insist on getting their pound of flesh.
We do not feel, after all, that we are just material bodies, mere flesh.
Obama’s policy outline was presented via video to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Governors’ Global Warming Summit, and has again been shown in Poznan, Poland, to leaders assembled to flesh out a global warming roadmap.
It is past time for the Fund to put some flesh on these constitutional bones.
The Minotaur’s intense loneliness was comparable only to the fear it inspired far and wide, because its voracious appetite could be satisfied – thereby guaranteeing Minos’s reign – only by human flesh.
But this will not be of much help, because the flesh is weak, and will find a way to satisfy its needs.
Salmon, seabass, or tuna eat flesh; in ecological terms, they are the wolves and lions of the sea.
In 1924, French physician Jean Frumusan described the “torpid” obese: “pale and puffy, whose flesh is swollen as if by liquids.
So Russian human-rights activists and the environmental organization Baikal Environmental Wave should not have been surprised when, earlier this month, flesh and blood policemen – not Internet bots – confiscated their computers and the files stored within them.
To this end, European leaders must flesh out the rule-of-law initiative that Denmark, Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands proposed last May.
Sometimes, the gunmen force their victims’ fathers, brothers, and husbands to rape them, or the women to eat the flesh of their murdered relatives.
This accounts for why we are often kind to our own flesh and blood – those who share our genes.
A “boring” bank, shielded from competition and knowing that it “owns” its customers, would want to go the extra mile to help them, because it would get its pound of flesh from their future business.
Creditors want their pound of flesh, and debtors want to avoid giving it.
Will even the greenback go the way of all flesh?
The grassroots movement behind the Green New Deal offers a ray of hope to the badly battered establishment: they should embrace it, flesh it out, and make it part of the progressive agenda.
Central European populists also insist on extracting a pound of flesh, in exchange for agreeing to the recovery fund, which requires unanimous support.
Bloomberg’s strategy of entering the race late, after flooding the country with slick and expensive ads, didn’t work once he appeared in the flesh.
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