The implications of this ostrich-like behavior are grave. From Wordnik.com. [Iran Sanctions Are Failing. What's Next?] Reference
And two oddballs: struthious: ostrich-like formic: ant-like. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
Therefore, many a family will suffer from their ostrich-like positions. From Wordnik.com. [Boston’s alternative future « BuzzMachine] Reference
Nothing will be learned about the ostrich-like attitude of the citizenry. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on April 4] Reference
And ostrich-like, we wonder, incredulously, why many in the world do not like us. From Wordnik.com. [Randall Robinson: Our Leaders - Dumb, Blind, or Both?] Reference
Mariano Rajoy, the opposition leader, for years of ostrich-like denial of budget problems. From Wordnik.com. [Spain Is Simply Shifting the Problem] Reference
The time for placing our heads ostrich-like in the ground and thinking only for today has to end. From Wordnik.com. [Mitchell Bard: When "Yes We Can!" Meets "No We Won't!"] Reference
If this is truly an ostrich-like business, then you need to outline the process with more detail. From Wordnik.com. [New news: The fear factor « BuzzMachine] Reference
I suppose such ostrich-like behaviour is what a Dhimmi does when he knows who his masters are. phil. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"The minister's response is typical of the government's ostrich-like approach around controversial issues.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
We are just prolonging the inevitable as we keep our heads, ostrich-like, deep in the Middle Eastern sands. From Wordnik.com. [Americans worried about price of gas] Reference
Or how about just reading the latest literature on Origins, and ceasing the ostrich-like burying of the head?. From Wordnik.com. [Geological Society of America Meeting on ID/Creation. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
We're used to women showing more sense and compassion, and less mean-spirited, intransigent, ostrich-like hubris. From Wordnik.com. [Diagnosing Sarah Barracuda; Borderline? Bipolar?] Reference
So, ‘crurotarsans did it first’, evolving gracile, vaguely ostrich-like body-plans long before theropods did. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Western companies 'responses to the problem have ranged from "very concerned to positively ostrich-like," said Mr. Brenner. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Fears Threat of Cyberspying at Olympics] Reference
The governing body of Cape Town's Mikro primary school had adopted an ostrich-like approach to the changing needs of the new. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If the DPP continues its ostrich-like stance toward these historic talks, it risks losing much of its existing popular support. From Wordnik.com. [Chairman Ma’s Challenge] Reference
"Those who refuse or are stubborn, who stick their heads ostrich-like in the sand, we will have to deal with them in terms of the act.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Such ostrich-like behaviour is not going to go anywhere near solving a problem that, as the Italian experience demonstrates, can only intensify. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
"They are ostrich-like -- their head is in the sand of squatter sovereignty, and they do not know their great, ugly, ragged abolition body is exposed.". From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Despite occasional ostrich-like protests to the contrary, U.S. policy makers have been aware of Iran's potential nuclear weapons program since at least 2002. From Wordnik.com. [Eric C. Anderson: Learn to Live with the Iranian Nuclear Program] Reference
Chancellor Klein reacted to the rally by performing an ostrich-like maneuver, planting his head firmly in the sand: "I don't accept your numbers," said Klein. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
In fact, the velociraptor conveyed precisely the same impression of deadly, swift menace Grant had seen in the cassowary, the clawed ostrich-like bird of New Guinea. From Wordnik.com. [Jurassic Park]
By comparison to people on both the left and the right who would like the government to do something, libertarians can seem either ostrich-like, pollyanna-ish, or both. From Wordnik.com. [The Consequences of Pessimistic Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Turkey's 12,000-year-old stone circles were the spiritual center of a nomadic people Image: carved pillar, two boars and what the article calles "ostrich-like" birds on the top. From Wordnik.com. [Göbekli Tepe - Oldest Constructed Place of Worship Yet Discovered] Reference
They claim to speak for working people, but their membership is disappearing, and their ability to negotiate sensible agreements falls foul of their own ostrich-like world view. From Wordnik.com. [MOBILIZE THE QUIET MAJORITY] Reference
As for the rest, our Press had always an ostrich-like tendency. From Wordnik.com. [The Double Four] Reference
Iceland, the dront on Mauritius, and the large ostrich-like birds on. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
In contrast to their ostrich-like approach to matters, David Horsey has. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics] Reference
"It would be ostrich-like to say everything's fine with the ethics code.". From Wordnik.com. [Maryland Daily Record] Reference
The music industry's ostrich-like attitudes are the topic of another rant. From Wordnik.com. [Booksquare] Reference
Norquist offered a strong endorsement for continuing the GOP's ostrich-like. From Wordnik.com. [Grist - the Latest from Grist] Reference
I smiled at Boyce's ostrich-like faith in the invisibility of his hinder bulk. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
They can, when the Truth is all too-horrible, stick their heads ostrich-like into what sheltering. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Some white-feathered and familiar birds, displaying their soft plumes, which looked ostrich-like in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer] Reference
Here the curassow, the jacu, the jacami, and the unicorn resemble as much the bustard and other ostrich-like birds as the hen and pheasant. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
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