Sentence examples for upon the carcass from inspiring English sources

Several Premier League clubs are circling like vultures over central Portugal, ready to feast upon the carcass of Sporting.

The catch was then towed to the whaler, where blubber and baleen were cut away by men either working from fragile platforms or walking with spiked boots directly upon the carcass.

Instead of competitively run utilities, record investment by the private sector and sounder public finances, we have natural monopolies handed over to the wealthy, banks that can dump their liabilities on the public when things get tough, and an outsourcing industry that feasts upon the carcass of the public sector.

In another I'm walking with the rangers through tall grass and we come upon the carcass of an elephant.

15, most bird strikes are not witnessed by pilots, but discovered by the wildlife team upon recovering the carcass.

Dead study crows with transmitters were typically recovered <36 hours after death, as this period was the maximum amount of time elapsed between the last live observation of a crow during radio tracking and recovery of the carcass upon death.

Females can store sperm from these matings for use in future reproduction (Müller and Eggert, 1989) and males commonly gain paternity without attending the carcass upon which larvae are raised (Müller et al., 2007).

A taste: "We live in the declining years of what is still the biggest economy in the world, where a looter elite has fastened itself upon the decaying carcass of the empire.

When they stumble upon the charred carcass of a wild boar they squat and poke their fingers into its side.

When he stumbles upon the wrecked carcass of a certain familiar looking truck, Yeager finds out that it's none other than Autobot leader Optimus Prime (again voiced by the prime Prime, Peter Cullen), on the run from shadowy government forces.

Our estimates of the expected vulture death rate per meal and the expected decline rate of the oriental white-backed vulture population based upon the T1 carcass survey carried out before the ban on diclofenac use was introduced were very similar to those made previously using the same data but with a different method for modelling the distribution of concentrations [7].