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rhinos and would
`` If you saw the drama called Rhinoceros '', I said, `` think of the effect it would have on an audience of rhinos when the actor on stage suddenly begins turning into a rhinoceros.
Dismissing threats of legal action by the hunting industry, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk said the new law would ban " canned " hunting of big predators and rhinos in small enclosures that offer them no means of escape.

rhinos and help
Running For Rhinos is a 1k or 5k run to raise money to help protect rhinos in the wild.

rhinos and !
In an attempt to stop the rhinos, Homer shouts " Jumanji!

would and panic
The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.
After the capture of the city in June, 1098, and the subsequent siege led by Kerbogha, Adhemar organized a procession through the streets, and had the gates locked so that the Crusaders, many of whom had begun to panic, would be unable to desert the city.
The French commanders were, however, divided as to how to utilise the Nebel: Tallard's tactic – opposed by Marsin and the Elector who felt it better to close their infantry right up to the stream itself – was to lure the allies across before unleashing their cavalry upon them, causing panic and confusion ; whilst the enemy was struggling in the marshes, they would be caught in crossfire from Blenheim and Oberglauheim.
The god apparently felt that the promise would be kept, so he appeared in battle and at the crucial moment he instilled the Persians with his own brand of fear, the mindless, frenzied fear that bore his name: " panic ".
The phalanxes would approach each other in a steady, slow march to keep cohesion or rarely at a run, if the enemy was prone to panic, or if they fought against enemies equipped with bows, as was the case against the Persians at the Battle of Marathon.
At this point, the phalanx would put its collective weight to push back the enemy line and thus create fear and panic among its ranks.
Some historians believe the exchange closed because of a concern that markets would plunge as a result of panic over the onset of World War I.
Alexander called the removal of Longstreet the critical juncture of the battle: " I have always believed that, but for Longstreet's fall, the panic which was fairly underway in Hancock's Corps would have been extended & have resulted in Grant's being forced to retreat back across the Rapidan.
Its purpose would presumably be to create psychological, not physical, harm through ignorance, mass panic, and terror.
Hence, this line of argument goes, the objectively dominant effect would be the moral and economic damage due to the massive fear and panic such an incident would spur.
Some manufacturers have therefore implemented a brake assist system that determines that the driver is attempting a " panic stop " ( by detecting that the brake pedal was depressed very fast, unlike a normal stop where the pedal pressure would usually be gradually increased, Some systems additionally monitor the rate at the accelerator was released ) and the system automatically increases braking force where not enough pressure is applied.
However, during the 1920s, the rapid adoption of the automobile caused a panic among urban planners, who, based on observation, claimed that speeding cars would eventually kill tens of thousands of small children per year.
After the experience of the 1929 crash, stock markets around the world instituted measures to suspend trading in the event of rapid declines, claiming that the measures would prevent such panic sales.
Varro believed that when pressed hard by the Romans ' superior numbers, the Carthaginians would fall back onto the river and, with no room to manoeuver, would be cut down in panic.
If they would stop to reason for a second, the whole performance would go to pieces, and they would be left to panic.
By now, his life was dogged by alcoholism and panic attacks, which he tried to control with Valium ; he would have these problems for the rest of his life.
A radiological weapon may be very appealing to terrorist groups as it is highly successful in instilling fear and panic amongst a population ( particularly because of the threat of radiation poisoning ), and would contaminate the immediate area for some period of time, disrupting attempts to repair the damage and subsequently inflicting significant economic losses.
: The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
When a German soldier would wake up to see that the man on either side of him was dead, he would panic and immediately go for his boots ; only to find that the laces were cut.

would and screaming
The meeting ended with Ribbentrop screaming that if Poland were to invade the Free City, then Germany would go to war to destroy Poland.
She would often take the form of a screaming raven or crow, striking fear into those who heard her, and could also be heard as a voice among the corpses on a battlefield.
During the rest of their supporting tour, Chi Cheng took over vocal duties that required screaming while Moreno sang the softer melodies of the lyrics, despite recommendations by doctors to hold off from singing to allow time for recovery as well as rumors that the band would be cancelling the remaining stretch of the tour with Godsmack and Puddle of Mudd.
Jerry visits him just before his execution and asks him to do him one last favor-to die pretending to be a screaming, sniveling coward, which would end the boys ' idolization of him.
" It quoted Dr. Edward A. Brunner, chairman of the anesthesia department at Northwestern University Medical School, as saying Leuchter's lethal injection system would indeed paralyze a condemned criminal with Pavulon, but far from being humane this paralysis would merely stop the prisoner from screaming at the " extreme pain in the form of a severe burning sensation " caused by the potassium chloride injection.
Olsson called up the Prime Minister Olof Palme and said he would kill the hostages, backing up his threat by grabbing one in a stranglehold ; she was heard screaming as he hung up.
However, Clooney continued to describe the event in later interviews, as well as the cover story of the October 2003 issue of Vanity Fair magazine, in which he states: " I would not stand for him humiliating and yelling and screaming at crew members, who weren't allowed to defend themselves.
SS guards would determine when to reopen the gas doors based on how long it took for the screaming to stop from within ( usually 25 to 30 minutes ).
The thousand-strong audience of girls would not stop screaming and rushing the stage, and fire marshals had to escort Haim from the building amid fears for his safety.
During the original broadcast of the show, a commercial faded in the Nine Inch Nails NIN logo on a black screen while playing a combination of music that started as a solo piano piece and morphed into an electronic / industrial beat ( which would later found out to be the songs " La Mer " and " Into the Void ," which share many melodic components and can be considered variations on a theme ) and ended with Trent Reznor screaming " Tried to save myself, but myself kept slipping away " and the word " ninetynine " in the trademark NIN reversed-N font.
Grenville died of his wounds several days later, screaming that his men were " traitors and dogs ", but the Spanish were not to enjoy their success, nor would Grenville's men survive their deliverance.
I woke up screaming, sure that a dead face would be leaning over me in the dark.
Nothing worked, and Rita would normally take her frustrations out on her henchmen by bashing them on the head with her magic wand or screaming into their faces.
God, if I hadn't loved him I would have hated him after all those ridiculous stories, persuading people I was offering him money to have his name taken off ... that he would be carrying on like this, denouncing me as a coauthor, screaming around.
After a contestant was ejected, he / she would be tormented by stagehands administering various annoyances behind him / her while an unrealistic screaming sound effect played.
Nick, who previously promised that he would battle the aliens himself, runs out of the stadium screaming insanely high-pitched and very, VERY loud.
In Paris, he witnessed Antonin Artaud give a screaming poetry reading — this so impressed him that he would remain a disciple of Artaud for much of his life.
" If any child learned words the way Rico did, the parents would run screaming to the nearest neurologist.
' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming " Goodness, what thick ankles!
The former's music contained, according to Steve Huey, " shifting dynamics, chiming guitar arpeggios, and screaming, crying vocal climaxes ", which would prove to be influential to later musicians in spite of the band's unstable existence.
It references a picture in the room, probably a lighthouse (" There's a picture opposite me of my primitive ancestry, which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck-free "), and states that while it respects the job a lighthouse does, but would cause shipwrecks if it tried to serve as a lighthouse itself (" Though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job, after killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts ").
If this had been a mock charge they would have been screaming to intimidate us.

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