Sentence examples for cheat nature from inspiring English sources
But as Canute who called the sycophants' bluff by having his throne carried onto a beach to conduct the experiment they suggested knew all too well, you can't cheat nature.
The second, and more important lesson, is that you can't cheat nature.There will probably be a lot of finger-pointing at the system of peer review, in which journals send papers out to independent experts to be evaluated.
The chtB knockout behaves as a cheater under the conditions that we have used, but it may not be able to cheat in nature.
In third place, Nick Davies's Cuckoo: Cheating By Nature (Bloomsbury), the perfect combination of science and folklore.
You do it by cheating Mother Nature into offering up one of my favourite flowers out of season: lilies.
International Alert is exploring the resilience of these communities to climate change, asking whether they are being cheated by nature or by the adverse consequences of poor resource management and governance.
Cuckoo by Nick Davies (Bloomsbury, £16.99) is subtitled "Cheating by Nature" and is a riveting account of how the creature of the title outwits other birds to lay its eggs in their nests, even while the "host" species are trying to evolve defensive strategems.
One of the authors (John Krebs) has been at the heart of the debate about badger culling (he's against); another (Nick Davies, Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature) has just published a superb account of one of the most extraordinary evolutionary arms races that we know about.
So "she's got to be a fantastic birdwatcher, knowing exactly the stage of nesting of all the reed warblers in her territory," says Dr Nick Davies at the University of Cambridge in the UK, author of the recently released book Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature.
Having said that, it has to be admitted that one of the contestants cheated by giving nature a helping hand just before every take.
