Sentences with phrase «percy sledge»

To borrow Kirby's phrase, the governor switched to «central banking by sledge hammer.»

But you are in love with your belief in God, and when a man loves even an imaginary person, like the Percy Sledge song says, he

Instead of looking at a universal definition of the poor as those who have been deprived, stereotyped and discriminated against, they are on a mission to make the cripple to walk; the blind to see forcibly; the deaf to hear by knocking their ears with sledge hammer; the dumb to speak by inserting tube in their esophagus and the list goes.

The word tribulation means literally «grinding» — derived from the Latin Tribulum, which was a threshing sledge for beating the stems and husks of grains.

Sister Sledge wonders why he's the greatest dancer, and given what the great Albert Murray says in Stompin'the Blues about the likes of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, they are right to so wonder — dancing ability often is a sign of musical intelligence, and is often linked with good fashion sense, even if the latter is a more surface sort of excellence, in that it obviously requires the money and leisure to purchase the clothes, or as Aristotle might say, the «equipment.»

Moreover, in the context of the late 70s disco movement, the dance steps and clothes of Sister Sledge's man all indicate his intelligent atunement to it.

Everything began with images; a faun carrying an umbrella, a queen on a sledge, a magnificent lion.

My reply was that anything or anyone — or any horse — that displayed the beauty of creation, and that embodied the excellence that Peter Berger would call a «rumor of angels,» ought to have some place in the Catholic press, even if the theological point wasn't hammered home with a sledge.)

Reminds me of Percy Sledge's song When A Man Loves A Woman.

The force of each bite was like a sledge hammer with teeth.

Then Araunah said to David, «Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him; here are the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

One member who stayed behind and suffered serious injuries was 18 - year - old Kris Sledge, who's studying to be a preacher.

Believers like these feel superior over a child that believes «childish» stuff like believing in Santa Claus, an man who can perform a miracle every time he squeezes his heavyset body through a chimney opening so small a cat would not even get through there, not to talk about his magical sledge that defies gravity time and time again.

The resulting cookies were hockey pucks, demanding a sledge hammer and considerable liquid to make them only slightly inedible.

Sledge Hammer.

Clarence E. Sledge and Clarence E. Jr., Dallas 6.

While that left footed sledge hammer # 9 bops in 8 by himself.

Another, Ryan Straschnitzki, was paralyzed from the waist down but vowed to take up sledge hockey and make the Canadian Paralympic team.

Sledging with friends, walking to the shop (which luckily had managed to fill their shelves after the panic buying) to stock up on supplies and lets not forget the building of our rather epic snowman family just before the rain came and took away our fun.

Some of the year's baby names were inspired by celebrities who died: R&B star Percy Sledge (who sang «When a Man Loves a Woman»), British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, Civil Rights activist Julian Bond, and singer and TV personality Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Becoming a mom is like being with a sledge hammer out of nowhere.

Alhajia Abdulai said one Sledge Nana Yaw Duodu, the developer and businessman, threatened workers who were excavating the site to shoot them and went ahead to seize keys to the excavator they were using in the exercise.

It was like a sledge hammer.

Using a nuke would basically be using a sledge hammer to swat a fly, leaving lasting radiation damage that affects friendlies, non-enemies, and civilians alike.

Community Board 12 (Jamaica, South Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, South Ozone Park, Addesleigh Park, Springfield Gardens): Jacqueline Boyce, Maxine Brannon, David Bucknor, Kenny Carter, Manuel Caughman, Mary Childs, Barbara Duncan, Patrick Evans, Mabel Everett, Joan Flowers, Thomas Greenaway, Glenn Greenidge, James Heyliger, Richard Hogan, Carol Hunt, Khondokar Tarikul Islam, Audrey Lee Jacobs, Aiysha Jaggassar, Michele Keller, Margaret Kirkland, Greg Mays, Edward McKay, Rodney Pride, Kamal Saleem, Florence Simmons, Yvette Sledge, Geraldine Taylor - Brown, Toni Totten, Bryan White, Benjamin Wright, Jr..

The band gets credit, too, for their several musical interludes during the course of the show, from an original piece of music inspired by the DNA sequence for blue to the conclusion, when the audience was literally dancing in the aisles to the band's account of «We Are Family» by Sister Sledge.

Amundsen himself states that part of his journey was much like a pleasure trip — «excellent ground, fine sledging, and an even temperature.»

From the Chihuahua to the Great Dane, the domestic dog is the most diverse mammal species of all, with over 350 distinct breeds for hunting, pulling sledges, tracking, herding and, of course, companionship.

His first mistake was to depend on hauling sledges by foot.

We did the work ourselves — about five of us — with the help of several very keen vacation students who cheerfully sledge - hammered all one summer.

Similar to the slegdes used by Belgian polar explorer Alain Hubert on his expeditions, our sledges allow expedition members to carry a considerable weight in equipment and supplies when heading into the Antarctic wildnerness on foot.

For the ponies the journey was too difficult and they were of no help to pull the sledges.

(Remember that time she was slamming massive tires with sledge hammers?)

The brutal training regime included sledge drags, tyre pulls and pulling a tractor.

If you can't push a truck or a car, you can always push a prowler or drag a sledge.

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Here's a taste of what strength class involves: deadlifts, back squats, front squats, clean & jerk, snatch, thruster, strict press, gymnastics principles, rope climbs, stone carries, sledge hammers, tire flips, kettlebells, yokes / prowlers, and so much more!

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The Sledge Deadlift involves picking up a Sledge Hammer by the end of the handle while balancing a coin on the head, trying to keep the entire implement level.

I like to just wrap the chain around the sledge handle and tape it on with athletic or duct tape, otherwise it may slide around on you while you are working the movement.

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For years I did Forearm Rotation stuff seated with a sledge hammer, but I have been getting a lot more stimulation recently by doing them standing with my forearm parallel to the ground.

I think these things are great for Baseball and Softball players and I think they would also be great for Football players, especially Quarterbacks and Running Backs / Kick Returners because it requires a more Open - Hand position while maneuvering the forearm than sledge hammers and leverage bars do.

or the second workout, with sledge hammer strikes and sled pushes?

I enjoy reading your blog, and experiment / research as much as possible to find alternatives to BigPharma and the «use a sledge hammer to kill an ant» philosophy.

So stop counting calories and smash your scale with a sledge hammer.