The left propeller was not only dead, he said, but set flat, rather than feathered -- meaning that it created drag.
More important, the propeller of the far-left engine had been knocked clear of its gears, leaving its blade in a flat, rather than "feathered," position.
Protecting ordinary people means using the power vested in majority ownership of several major banks to force them to give priority to getting the real economy out of recession rather than feathering their own nests.
Solving the problem is not easy, especially in a country with such limited resources, but it should start with a more inclusive style of government where people can feel that the state is at least trying to look after their interests rather than feathering the nests of the elite.
So I wanted to be just like Steve Carrington or Jeff Colby from Dynasty - except I sported the Asian bowl haircut rather than feathered hair.
Phylogenetic analysis and molecular dating show that the evolutionary origin of feathers might have occurred before the divergence of subfamily of feather-β-keratin genes, suggesting that the pennaceous feathers of some feathered dinosaurs could be composed of β-keratins rather than feather-β-keratins (Greenwold and Sawyer 2011).
Our study differs from previous reports on Eurasian H5N1 HPAI virus in domestic duck feathers because we examined mature, rather than growing, feathers.
Second: isn't it time for the banks, especially if we have part-nationalised them, to lend more to socially useful schemes rather than continue to feather their own corporate nests?
Feduccia's frill argument was followed up in several other publications, in which researchers interpreted the filamentous impressions around Sinosauropteryx fossils as remains of collagen fibres rather than primitive feathers.
Rather than use this feather the way that you, I, or any normal person who has watched a Tom and Jerry cartoon would, Josh decided the best course of action would be to saw between my toes with the barbs.
