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Threats to the traditional hefting system from environmental schemes to reduce stock numbers exacerbate the difficulty of making a living on the commons.

His businesslike manner as he stooped to pick her up, spin her around, and set her down suggested he'd spent a lifetime hefting ladies around.

Feed blocks, say manufacturers Rumenco, could help to accelerate hefting behaviour but in many areas in order to take maximum advantage farmers will have to work together.

Just think--you won't have to stand at the closet door hefting first one running shoe then another trying to remember which shoes are best for which distance in which weather.

In an emblematic image taken from a comic-book cover, Superman hefting a car has stiffened into a downcast prance, and the famous imprint's name has been changed from Action Comics to Act On Comics.

This helps to explains their hefting behaviour, which allows individual sheep to recognise their own patch of hillside without need for walls or fences.