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This is where all those deeply weird keywords come home to roost.
Mostly they roost, or sleep, together.
During the day, the bats roost in a number of sub-groups in different boxes.
What the model told us is that, in a nutshell, each bat knows a few other colony members as her friends, and is just slightly more likely to roost in a box with them.
Now, this idea of changing, of creating a perceptual shift, as it were, came home to me to roost in a very personal manner about 10 years ago.
In the lush rainforests of Australia, birds roost in the low branches and amble across the forest floor, enjoying the shade and tropical fruits.
What do we do going forward as a country and as citizens in relationship to the world's worst places, the world's worst suffering, killers, and the kinds of killers that could come home to roost sometime in the future?
Governments snatch short-term opportunities and, by the end of the conflict, the chickens have come home to roost.
Back when Michelle Bauer, Linnea Quigley and Brinke Stevens ruled the roost.
Then,there's Barbara Stanwyck, the real ruler of the roost.
This is the movie that made the Starz Networks what they are: the place where bad movies come home to roost.
Based on the story of Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City who ruled the roost there succeeding brother Jim from World War I until the outbreak of World War II, John Payne delivers a riveting portrayal of a political boss back in the day when these guys were at their heights running our nation's cities.
I'm not one to endorse crooked cops or domestic violence, but when you see these birds in action, you understand why Cagney rules his roost the way he does.VERY underrated,very fast and colorful.
The performances throughout the film are spot on with Shah Rukh Khan ruling the roost once again with his stupendous and sincere portrayal of Asoka, his myriad emotions and thoughts shining like a mirror in every frame.
And now the chickens are coming home to roost with a vengeance (if chickens could be vengeful).
Now the global economy’s chickens may be coming home to roost.
Pakistan – another major state sponsor of terrorism – is also seeing its chickens coming home to roost, with a spate of terrorist attacks.
The big question is whether the rich countries that have long ruled the roost at the Fund would actually surrender some of their power.
The effects of his contradictory statements will come home to roost later this month, when South Korean President Moon Jae-in visits Washington, DC.
In area after area, including global climate change, public health, international debt relief, financial system reform, the neglect of the rich countries, and especially of the U.S., will sadly come home to roost.
In mid-August, I had the temerity to predict that risks had come home to roost, and that a large US investment bank might soon fail or be forced into a highly distressed merger.
Unfortunately, the chickens of Obama’s first term have already come home to roost.
The previous destruction of productive capacity has come home to roost.
Now, the costs of the soccer jamboree, coming on top of the country’s ongoing economic slowdown, are coming home to roost.
Sustained lower prices may bring chickens home to roost.
With the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, however, the chickens came home to roost.
The siloviki, the grey men who emerged from the security and military apparatus, have ruled the roost in Russia for the last generation.
But it is no coincidence that Obasanjo removed Okonjo-Iweala from a job for which she has proven competence and, more importantly, in which she ruled the roost: she had led the opposition from within the government to the constitutional amendment.
Japanese manufacturers rule the roost in home video games.
But now its chickens are coming home to roost, with a growing number of countries imposing antidumping or punitive duties on Chinese goods.