Scientists also take advantage of the fact that babies will slow down their sucking when something interests them and resume their fast sucking when they get bored.

In most species, their pelvic fins are modified into a sucking disc.

They pad along barefooted, with the mud sucking at their heels in the wet parts.

Their position is clear the state is a parasite, sucking the lifeblood of free enterprise.

They can literally turn from green to white because of the sucking, piercing mouthparts of those spiders.

Most species of lice are host specific, with the sucking lice being more host specific than chewing lice.

This adult pierces the thrips, sucking it within just several minutes, just going to the other prey, continuing all over the place.

Yes, it helps that Siberia turned out to be a giant oil well, with the government sucking up much of the money.

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel and the LORD heard him.

But Bangladeshi President Hasina Wajed s remark that Yunus had spent years sucking the blood of the poor echoes similar charges being made in neighboring India against companies and banks that sought to emulate Grameen.

Americans are rightly focused on the fiscal cliff looming at the start of 2013, when, under current legislation, virtually all tax rates will rise, sucking more than 3 of GDP out of households and businesses.

Japan s diplomatic isolation strengthens those in the Chinese leadership who have long sought to marginalize what is economically and militarily still Asia s most powerful nation, while sucking other states in the region deeper into China s shadow.

Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?

For the past five years, the US has been sucking in more than 2 billion a day of other countries savings, as the easy provision of domestic credit on an unprecedented scale has allowed households to spend more than they earn.

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and as evidenced by YouTube videos entertaining cats.