Sentences with phrase «a death grip»

As a consumer, it is quite frustrating, and I've latched on with a death grip to the brands I did find that had what I needed.

Don't mean to sound rude but there's nothing scarier than someone who holds onto there religion with a death grip; christian, islam its all the same to me.

I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip.

It was through reading his works that I was first stirred from my religious slumbers and made aware of the unconscious despair that holds our culture in a veritable death grip.

One might add that at this moment they appear to be bound together in a mutual death grip.

I believe that God is enough, for me, and for them, and so I am learning to relax, unclench my hands, no death grips of control are required to teach and live a life of grace.

Boldest: Shari Johnson with «My Lesbian Daughter, The Bible, and Sex» «When I hear terms like «God's design» and «Biblical marriage» I have to wonder who decides these things... We keep a death grip on the scriptures that suit us — and the translation of those scriptures becomes more a matter of tradition, opinion and convenience than the Word of God.»

I think an appropriate response to this analysis is an attitude of humility, a willingness to release the death grip I personally have on certain theologies and interpretations of Scripture.

It looks like Iaquinta is going to escape, but Nurmagomedov has a death grip on his leg, and eventually flips him down to his back.

After winning 16 straight division games over the past three years, the Colts have now lost two in a row, and face the real prospect of losing their death grip on the division.

Y ’ all will call me a twee hipster fuck but Tyler, The Creator had a dope as fuck album last year with Flower Boy and Death Grips has been making extremely awesome shit for a while now.

It's never clear to me whether this means don't tear up (unavoidable) or don't have campus security come pry your fingers from your death grip on your child (over the top — not to mention an embarrassing introduction to his or her roommate).

So we went down together and that might have been a mistake since my death grip on him caused us both to hit the water at the bottom in a really awkward position.

Even when he finally drags himself out of their death grip, it's just to flop down three feet away, which invites more squashing.

As baby becomes stronger and more comfortable while playing tummy - down on the ball, you can increase the challenge by loosening your death grip on baby's hips (which gives her the chance to use her muscles more in order to maintain a stable position when pushing up), rolling with a quicker pace (just don't act like you're launching baby to the moon!)

All I wanted to do was death grip his hand and it was aggravating me to no end that every time I grabbed for his hand that would take my hand and re-direct it.

If your child has a death grip on a toy truck that his playmate wants, chances are he's thinking, «It's either him or me.»

Fortunately no «donkey kick» accidents yet, but maybe that's because I keep a death grip on his ankles.

They can't be sacked and they have a death grip on power until they, themselves, expire.

New York's 25th district: Rep. Jim Walsh's (R) retirement gives Democrats a chance to continue to consolidate their death grip on the Northeast in the fall.

«Perhaps the Labour front bench believes that having been mercifully released from the death grip of G Brown, it is now under no obligation to accept responsibility for his errors: that expunging the chief perpetrator was itself an absolution.»

«With such a death grip on the government, Andrew had filled his cabinet and lower levels mostly with lesser lights, leaving the occasional first - rater struggling to get anything done.

Once infected, the spore - possessed ant will climb down from its normal habitat and bite down, with what the authors call a «death grip» on a leaf and then die.

Perhaps counterintuitively, when the infected ant bites onto the leaf vein in it's so - called «death grip» this atrophy causes it to have lockjaw, leaving it there to die.

«Without the death grip,» Hughes explains, «the ant would fall to the ground,» destroying the launching point for the fungus's spores.

As strange as anything from a novelist's imagination, black holes warp the fabric of spacetime and imprison light and matter in a gravitational death grip.

The fights between stingless bee colonies are epic in scale, according to John Paul Cunningham of Queensland University of Technology in Australia, with «swarms from the attacking and defending hives colliding midair and fighting bees falling to the ground locked in a death grip from which neither combatant survives.»

Jacked up on sugar, they will rush to fight any foreign ant, curling around it and clenching the abdomen in a death grip with their bodies.

Thankfully, experts agree that you don't have to break up with your phone completely — you just have to relax your death grip on it.

«Finally — A Simple, Natural Way To Flush The Hidden Toxins Bloating Your Gut And Putting A Death Grip On Your Health!»

When the hold of the ego - mind feels like a death grip, yoga nidra, often translated as «yogic sleep,» can help.

I concentrated on everything I could in the moment to stop my mind from bossing me around and keep it from dragging me back to the death grip of anxiety.

And then there's the emotional toll: it's demoralizing to put a death grip on your diet for a month, lose 15 pounds, and everyone's telling you how great you look.

Try easing up on your grip a little - not to the extent that you make the exercise dangerous, but back off on the death grip and see if you feel a difference.

I may or may not have had a death grip on Russ while threatening his life if he went too fast, turned too sharp, or hit too big of a wave.

Because boys will be boys, if you ask them to «put their arms around each other» it turns into a a death grip hug... resulting in one squished cousin.

Furthermore, that comment is rooted in a fear of the future, and has a death grip on the past because at least those were «the glory years.»

Drake with VIEWS (which is debatably decent), Death Grips with Bottomless Pit, and James Blake with «The Colour in Everything, all being released within a close time frame.

Price: $ 29.99 Rating: Teen Genre: Fighter Subject Matter: The next iteration in the storied and fabulous fighter brings with it a dynamic new look and a death grip on classic mechanics.

Patti asks him after a gig, to which he could have responded, «Whatever Death Grips play.»)

It's like we are being starved for decent games, but we have a death grip on this stupid console.

Soon the orphan's right hand takes on it's own evil death grip that's hard to unclench, much like an IRS audit.

The tree in front of the Lisbon house contracts Dutch Elm disease, and the girls surround it with a death grip when construction workers come to take it down.

It appears that we can start expecting a new Death Grips record to arrive this year.

As in, Death Grips are collaborating with the man who directed Shrek and The Chronicles of Narnia, and no, it does not seem to be a joke.

The few schools that remained were in the death grip of aging parish populations, increased costs (the number of nuns in Memphis had dropped from 160 to 80), and dwindling enrollment.

And, like the monkey's death grip on the orange, our beliefs are deeply rooted, often invisible, and highly resistant to change.

The general rule of thumb is that there's no saving the car once it yaws more than about 15 degrees, so I'm constantly making tiny course corrections, and I've got a death grip on the steering wheel.

Keeping things pointed in the right direction doesn't require a death grip.

And lastly... Let's not forget that Toyota has a death grip on hybrid patents.