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Caring about Animals in the Era of Foot and MouthOn British television recently, a tearful farmer spoke of the fact that his sheep were being shot to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease: "We’re so sorry to see our lambs die – they should be the symbol of spring, of new life.
Before you start weeping in sympathy with the farmer, ask yourself one question: what would have been the fate of the lambs if there had been no outbreak of foot and mouth disease?
The disease causes a temporary loss of production, and once foot and mouth disease is established in a country, other countries will prohibit the importation of its meat and dairy products because they don't want the disease to spread it to their animals.
This makes policy opinions that come straight from the horse’s mouth almost uniquely valuable.
After years of horrendous bombings and torture by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, after adamantly refusing to allow Syrians to escape the carnage by coming to the US as refugees, and after making clear only last week that the US would do nothing to topple Assad, Trump saw pictures of children foaming at the mouth after another chemical gas attack, and changed his mind.
On the economic front, the trade agreements’ defenders tend to talk with both sides of their mouth.
The Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus once said, “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.”
It might be expensive to compensate all potential losers, but we must put our money where our mouth is; if a reform is certain to pay off handsomely, it will pay for the buy-offs, and more.
True, putting cash in the pockets of rich savers hardly seems as effective as giving cash to poor people who live hand to mouth.
In Afghanistan news travels quickly by word of mouth.
He put his money where his mouth was by running for Peru’s presidency, and he became a virtual king-maker by throwing his support to Ollanta Humala, who has apparently abandoned populism to embrace the tenets of the modern Latin American democratic left.
While the well-to-do can manage by using their savings, those who live from paycheck to paycheck, or hand to mouth, are suffering unfathomable hardships.
With his hurt-puppy eyes and slack mouth, Cohen plays that part to perfection as well.
Rich-country leaders have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to put their money where their mouth is.
Shanghai’s geographical location – on China’s east coast, near the mouth of the Yangtze River – has been similarly crucial to its success.
After all, social distancing and sheltering in place are impossible in crowded urban areas with community wells and toilets, where many families live from hand to mouth on a day laborer’s pay.
When people are living hand to mouth in the absence of adequate social protections, a loss of income could mean starvation.
Many lived from hand to mouth before the crisis and now face a choice between starvation and sickness.
Hence, for poor people who live hand to mouth, an enforced lockdown amounts to a sentence of penury and possibly starvation.
And the financial industry put its money where its mouth was, paying salaries so much higher than those in the public sector that any research assistant the Federal Reserve System trained to work on financial issues would be enticed with offers exceeding what their boss’s boss was earning.
The priest helped him out of the difficulty, saying softly, with a smile on his kindly mouth, 'Kiss your wife; and you, kiss your husband!'
But directly she opened her mouth, words of reproach, senseless jealousy, and everything else that had been torturing her during the half-hour she had sat motionless waiting at the window, burst from her.
In spite of the dreadful change on the face, Levin had only to glance at those living eyes raised toward him, to notice the slight movement of the mouth beneath the clammy moustache, in order to understand the dreadful truth that this dead body was his living brother.
One of the most disagreeable features of his position in Petersburg was that Karenin seemed to be everywhere and his name in every mouth.
I knew!' he cried, repeating his favourite phrase, and seizing her hand, which was caressing his hair, he pressed her palm to his mouth, covering it with kisses.
The plump, well-nourished baby, as usual when she saw her mother, turned her little hands – so fat that they looked as if the wrists had threads tied tightly round them – palms downward and, smiling with her toothless mouth, began waving them as a fish moves its fins, making the starched folds of her embroidered frock rustle.
It was impossible not to smile, not to kiss the little thing; impossible not to hold out a finger to her, which she caught, screaming and wriggling the whole surface of her little body; impossible not to approach one's lips to her mouth and let her draw them in, her way of kissing.
He was there in a white shirt, astride a chair, his brows frowning while his mouth smiled.
He was frowning and drawing the left side of his moustache further and further into his mouth, looking askance at the adjoining box.
How do you mean?''Like this,' she said, taking her husband's hand, raising it to her mouth, and slightly touching it with her closed lips.
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