Sentence examples for pygmy from inspiring English sources

Ron Austin Hadleigh, Suffolk David Cameron's closing comments perfectly illustrate the paucity of vision of today's pygmy politicians.

You'll visit the world's largest orang-utan sanctuary, investigate where bird's nest soup comes from and where thousands of bats live, snorkel on Tiga Island and, best of all, take jungle walks and river cruises through the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary - an area crammed with unusual creatures, including Asian pygmy elephants, sun bears, proboscis monkeys and the sublimely serene orang-utans.

What chance had we, the lost 'province' cut off from the national affairs of the emerging Irish Free State and ring-fenced from the traditions of Westminster by a sectarian parliament at Stormont, but to be subjected to nothing more than pygmy politics and politicians?

In 1906 the chimp cage at the New York Zoological Society included a pygmy man, until objections from black clergymen led to his withdrawal.Thankfully there were pioneers to move zoos out of their dark age.

They include a giraffe, two lions, four zebras, a rhino and a pygmy hippo.

That is also the age at which they become sexually mature about three years earlier than taller people.The other part of the argument is that all observed pygmy populations have a short life expectancy.

A mathematical model used by the team confirms that, given pygmy life expectancies, their growth and reproduction patterns have indeed been optimised by natural selection.

Saving the pygmy hogs had been touch and go; he had drawn up his first action plan in 1977, but was unable to get the state of Assam and the government of India to agree to protect them properly until 1995.

Given that last weekend's match attracted a sell-out crowd of 27,000, Mr Vergara's point—"Passion is contagious"—is surely proven.Meanwhile, MLS remains a pygmy in American sport, with an average match attendance last season of just 15,600 compared with over 60,000 for all but two teams in America's 32-strong National Football League.

ITALY has long been an oddity: economic giant and political pygmy.

Mr Bush, who has described North Korea as part of an "axis of evil" and Mr Kim as a "pygmy", will certainly move no faster.The new working groups, which are due to meet within 30 days, could rapidly get bogged down in bickering.