Sentence examples for elephantine from inspiring English sources

In the face of this elephantine boil on the fat buttock of Westminster, we are being treated to prolonged national debate over the layout of Miliband's second kitchen.

Polls suggest that the BJP's confidence is justified; but it may find itself as dependent as in the last parliament on a motley set of partners.Whereas in India elections move with elephantine slowness, in Malaysia they strike like rattlesnakes.

And a Sufi mystic from Fallujah, Mahmoud Eissawi, presides over the elephantine Gailani mosque in Baghdad, urging the country's myriad Sufi lodges to stop meditating and to fight.Many Sunni mullahs and former army officers still say, however, that they would co-operate with the Americans if they were included in the new order and were offered a slice of new business.

India's current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this.

But Rwandan-backed rebels did take Kinshasa once before, in 1997, sweeping away the old dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, and installing Mr Kabila's elephantine father, Laurent.

The idea of an elephantine hanging was opposed by animal-rights activists (though another homicidal elephant, Murderous Mary, was indeed hung in Erwin, Tennessee, in 1916 .Enter Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb.

And though BT swears no employee in Britain will lose his job, call-centre work that it outsources here will shrink.In this section Death of a scientist Mystery man Who said what Poor reception It's bad, but not that bad Terminal Pink in the face The stampede that isn't Cash clash One step back ReprintsBut though there is a move, there is no elephantine stampede.

Like gill slits, which derive ultimately from mammals' fishy ancestors, they betray a watery phase in elephantine evolution.This aquatic period could explain the evolution of the elephant's most characteristic feature its trunk.

But Rwandan-backed rebels did it once before, sweeping away the long-serving dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, and placing Mr Kabila's elephantine father, Laurent, in office.

ECONOMIC reform in India normally moves at an elephantine pace, but on February 5th the pachyderm pounced.

A more apt elephantine expression is found in Swahili: when two elephants fight it is the grass that gets hurt.