Sentences with phrase «by clinging»

Drawing upon the science of attachment theory, Amodeo illuminates how suffering spreads when we're disconnected from ourselves and others — and is fueled by clinging to an array of habits and beliefs that divert us from a deeper intimacy with life.

The design affords both comfort by removing the ear hooks and at the same time stability by clinging to your neck instead.

Equipped with a large adhesion disc covering around 25 percent of its belly, this evolutionary trait allows the saltwater - dwelling clingfish (Gobiesox maeandricus) to survive by clinging to rocks and hunt in the turbulent currents of the Pacific Coast of North America.

What's worse, by clinging to growth, we'll continue to give short - shrift to transformative solutions such as localizing our economies and phasing out fossil fuels from our food, water, energy, transportation, housing, and health systems — moves that will only remain viable while we still have the resources to invest in them.

They argue that by clinging to an ideology formed more than 40 years ago, the traditional green lobby has failed in its aims and is ultimately harming its own environmental cause.

In the United States, democrats do themselves little political good for the long run by clinging to absurdly foolish climate cultism.

Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son to be closer to God is religion's equivalent of Feynman's ideal scientist who leans over backwards to prove that he has not been fooled by clinging to a cherished belief.

Squishy Ash makes a fine friend and can recreate scenes from the game by clinging to walls and dropping into crevices in your own home.

Very handy if you're being distracted by clinging illegally to your phone.

In this classic movie musical, a poor dairy farmer named Tevye (played by Topol) tries to keep his balance by clinging to his Jewish traditions while providing for his five daughters.

While trying to scratch out some sort of melody in his life, Tevye (Topol), a poor dairy farmer keeps his balance by clinging to his Jewish traditions while providing for the five daughters he has been blessed with.

Adapted from the autobiography of the woman who ran one of the highest - end floating poker games in the country, «Molly's» is unfailingly intelligent and a good, deep study of a clever female beating an overwhelmingly male game — until she doesn't, then sabotages herself by clinging to an ethical chimera that the movie doesn't convince us is worth the cost.

Somewhat ordinary - looking Genevieve Bujold — ironically in the book her character is an attractive blonde - may escape peril by clinging onto the roof of a moving ambulance, but this makes its rather unbelievable premise of an entire large medical facility dedicated to the organ donor black market all the more plausible.

Rudy pieces together a life by clinging to shreds of dignity, never pandering for sympathy.

Juliette Lewis rounds out the trio of sisters as Karen, a wide - eyed dreamer trying desperately to reconcile her personal issues by clinging to some hopeless romantic ideal.

Although they're seeking a sense of safety and security by clinging to their partner, they take actions that push their partner away.

You can also catch up the badass beauty of Kareena Kapoor by clinging traditional oxidised jewellery with the attire.

First it works by clinging to oils and sweeping them away.

When HIV enters the human body, it typically does so by clinging to only a handful of cells attached to a mucous membrane such as those in the genitals or rectum.

So let me get this straight... Romney is trying to distinguish himself from Obama by clinging to failed policies that only made the world worse?

What's more, while Weiner's crotch - picture scandal has a creepy factor, Spitzer's involved the world's oldest profession, and he did not exacerbate the personal damage by clinging to his office.

Many of the hundreds of Syrian refugees stuck at Calais have become so desperate that they are willing to risk their lives by clinging to lorries leaving the port for Britain.

Julien Chautard spent just minutes in the prison before he escaped by clinging to the underside of the same security van he had arrived in.

This produced mounds of tears, followed by clinging to my legs and then screaming as though the world was ending.

All four of my offspring saved me a huge number of hours» sleep over the years by clinging to their mother all night long, instead of needing me to pace the floor to comfort or feed them.

Unfortunately, by clinging to an outdated paradigm of what makes for success, parents continue to set up the circumstances for all those things that actually get in the way of success — anxiety, depression, a fixed mindset, exhaustion, extrinsic motivation and, perhaps most of all, the complete failure to accomplish the mandatory developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence.

Imo he does the opposite by clinging on to failures like JD, Diaby, Squidge, Rosicky, Almunia, Bendtner, AA, etc whilst the kids go out on loan.

Was i the only one seeing wasting a lot of moves by clinging to the ball way too long till we loose it??

Ranked as a second - division team in the American League before the season started, the upstart Los Angeles Angels have surprised everyone by clinging close to the top of the standings

Arsenal really don't need to appear unnecessarily needy by clinging on to every pepper - grains worth of claptrap spewed from the media.

Yes, we know that our existence (Heidegger's Dasein and Sartre's pour soi) is chaos, nothingness and despair; but we must not flee it either by clinging to a lost moment of the past or by leaping to a hopelessly transcendent eternity.

Simply by clinging to the religious image of transcendent power, the Church has resisted the self - negating movement of Christ and foreclosed the possibility of its own witness to the forward movement of the divine process.

For example, let us assume we understand that the small state of Judah was threatened by an invasion by Syria and North Israel in the eighth century B.C. Knowing this does not keep us from being amazed that Isaiah insisted that the king will exercise his responsibility not by making astute preparations to defend the country but simply by clinging to the conviction that God will make such preparation unnecessary (Isaiah 7:1 - 9).

They are insecure in their own position and seek to overcome that insecurity by clinging to something bigger than themselves.

But I still tried to salvage as much as I could, stave off the humilitation by clinging to as much as I could still convince myself of.

By clinging by these microscopic details you just show you couldn't find anything more important to fight.

It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

Petra Nemcova, who herself was swept away by the tsunami and survived by clinging to a tree for eight hours, established Happy Hearts Fund in 2005.

A man was seen riding a train by clinging on to the windscreen wiper outside of the moving train in Perth on Saturday (September 23).

Not exact matches

It's not just tech: In every company, there's a tendency to cling to an ideal candidate, exemplified by the person at the top of the org chart.

Investors continue to cling to every scrap of hope, and Microsoft offered them a shred by suggesting that revenues might come in about $ 100 million above expectations.

Those who continue to cling to the fatally flawed infinite economic growth within a resource finite biosphere won't have much to cling to as we witness the outcome of the laws of basic arithmitic, physics, and chemistry on this planet overwhelmed by artificially supported human population and resource exploitation.

The minister who took an axe to the CBC this week, cutting its funding by 10 per cent, unapologetically clung to the idea of being a champion of the arts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding cuts.

When I first started investing, I clung on to rules of thumb as beacons of certainty that I could navigate by.

We may not yet be in negative rates territory in terms of the official Bank Rate, what with it hanging on to 0.25 % like a cinematic damsel in distress clinging on by her fingertips to a cliff edge.

You say something in a way I have thought, but could not put on paper: «What I am perplexed by is the (maybe not perplexed, but discouraged) the way some Christians cling to a faith that is, in so many instances, the very seed of their misery.»

Wow, still clinging to lies invented by the Nazis?

What I am perplexed by is the (maybe not perplexed, but discouraged) the way some Christians cling to a faith that is, in so many instances, the very seed of their misery.

This controlling tradition has been carried on by cults that insist on clinging to past fiction and bias.

I wonder just how empty your life is that you need to cling to a make believe religion made up by a small group of people 2000 years ago that has no relevance in todays world.