Sentences with phrase «act of sitting»

I love the act of sitting things around and just looking at them for a bit, before actually hanging them.

The New York Times reported in April about several studies linking the physical act of sitting itself to a number of very bad health effects.

A complete amateur in that department, it was not the massage, although that was pleasant, that proved to be the calming moment, but rather the act of sitting down and spending a concentrated amount of time with someone discussing our mutual work.

The very act of their sitting upon or standing with an artwork in effect conjures the artwork into existence and in so doing, we, as the audience, are prompted to consider new potentials for our own lived experiences.

This helps associate the act of sitting with the word.

Much like I described, the article says the act of sitting, feeling, and reading print is much more important than we thought.

Meditation is the simple, yet complicated, act of sitting in stillness and silence for a dedicated period of time each day.

By the time we reach dhyana, the mind has quieted to the point where the act of sitting in a state of meditation is effortless.

Now if you're new to mindful eating, the act of sitting alone in silence with nothing but you and your food might feel a bit funny or awkward.

And it appears that the link isn't simply due to the fact that folks who sit for hours each day aren't exercising — there was something about the act of sitting itself that seemed to be key, the researchers said.

I love the benefits that babies get from nursing, the improved brain development, the bond that it creates, the financial savings, but the act of sitting and nursing multiple times a day makes me stir crazy!

The investigators had wondered whether the act of sitting and being approached by a long string of members of the opposite sex made people feel especially desirable and, therefore, justifiably choosier.

If she signals «potty» or goes over to her potty I will set it behind her (touching her calves with the front of the potty) and say «you can gently sit back / down now» so that she actually controls the act of sitting (and standing up at the end when she's done too).

And, perhaps most importantly, there is that powerful act of Sitting that acts as a magnet drawing those I love close by for a snuggle, or a book read, or a check - in and a chat.

I sometimes think that the simple act of sitting in a pew on Sunday morning gives our children a terrible misconception about what it means to worship God and follow Jesus.

The acts of sitting and consciously breathing interrupt angry thoughts, because they focus attention on these tasks.

Not exact matches

Instead of a cream, which tends to just sit on top of your face and act like a barrier, Neutrogena's moisturizer is in gel form.

They sit in their chairs, don't complain, and don't act out — which also, of course, contributes to earning good grades from teachers.

Veritas CEO Bill Coleman, who sits on Sapho's advisory board, called Sapho's product «an operating system for work» that acts as «the connective tissue between systems of record and the end user.»

I myself have been guilty of coming up with a great idea only to let it sit on a shelf and later discover that someone else developed a similar notionand acted on it.

Along with a team of researchers, Knight studied the way groups interact both while standing versus while sitting and has found a surprising distinction: The simple act of standing can improve group performance.

The controversial tax reform bill, also known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, hasn't sat well with more than half of Americans, who say it would help neither their family's financial situation nor the U.S. economy, according to research by Gallup.

Sitting still when we should act, and acting when we should sit still — if we can avoid those two mammoth mistakes, we enormously increase our chances of retiring successfully.

«When you see this type of violent act, you do not sit around trying to rationalize it or make excuses for it or figure out its root causes,» Harper said.

It sits in Wyoming County, which was split off from Luzerne County by an act of the Pennsylvania Legislature in 1842.

President Bush sits down to sign the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which shielded the firearms industry from civil lawsuits brought by victims of gun crimes.

After all how long can you keep a fleet of giant tankers sitting out in the ocean acting as storage for millions of barrels of oil, and there is more supply soon coming online.

The Bill Clinton administration would obligingly repeal the Glass - Steagall Act the year after the Citigroup merger and Clinton's Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, would go on to make over $ 120 million sitting on the Board of the dysfunctional Citigroup over the next decade.

Rena Pacheco - Theard is CEO and co-founder of Prepify (www.prepify.me), a startup offering free, online college guidance and SAT / ACT prep for high school students to increase economic diversity.

I'm thinking Mr Professor didn't actually sit with many people and experience the act of death.

It is also the logical culmination of a process that began some decades ago when the Court untethered itself from the text of the Constitution and began to sit like an omniscient council of elders uniquely empowered to intuit and act upon the aspirations of the people.

There, we have a two - party system, consisting of SAT and ACT.

In the class of 2015, 1.7 million kids took the SAT, nearly two million the ACT.

Whereas the SAT and ACT adopt a value - neutral approach, often because of «bias» fears, the CLT selects passages deeply and frankly value - heavy, ones that ask students to grapple with strong and often difficult moral implications.

It seems to me that mankind sits and waits for a sovereign act of God when each of us need to be offering our bodies and minds daily to be used by the Holy Spirit....

And by sitting, many of us are committing the even worse sin of failing to act when we should be helping others.

«Sitting through an elementary school music program in which volume trumps intonation is a profound act of human love.

Our God is compassionate and full of grace and therefore will attend church at sit through our show - off righteous acts, even as He attends to those that need, Him more; the perishing.

Congregational pastoral care occurs when members reach out through very concrete acts such as sitting by the bedside of someone who's ill, listening as parents describe their fears and grief when a teenager leaves home, offering hope to someone in despair, or praying for those who suffer on the margins of the church and society.

>>... TO NSAIDI:... 1 — the gop must devolve and halt their purpose as A ROADBLOCK to PROGRESS, MOVING FORWARD...... 2 — the republicans must act to diminish the power of the tea party (more than 80 % OF AMERICANS FEEL THAT THE tea party IS DESTRUCTIVE and UN-COMPROMISING due to their innate HATRED OF THE PRESIDENT...... 3 — sit down AND COMPROMISE ON TAXES FOR THE RICH and SPENDING CUTS THAT ARE NOT MEAN and MEAN - SPIRITED...of the tea party (more than 80 % OF AMERICANS FEEL THAT THE tea party IS DESTRUCTIVE and UN-COMPROMISING due to their innate HATRED OF THE PRESIDENT...... 3 — sit down AND COMPROMISE ON TAXES FOR THE RICH and SPENDING CUTS THAT ARE NOT MEAN and MEAN - SPIRITED...OF AMERICANS FEEL THAT THE tea party IS DESTRUCTIVE and UN-COMPROMISING due to their innate HATRED OF THE PRESIDENT...... 3 — sit down AND COMPROMISE ON TAXES FOR THE RICH and SPENDING CUTS THAT ARE NOT MEAN and MEAN - SPIRITED...OF THE PRESIDENT...... 3 — sit down AND COMPROMISE ON TAXES FOR THE RICH and SPENDING CUTS THAT ARE NOT MEAN and MEAN - SPIRITED.....

Because where exactly are all these Christians who sit in non-judgmental silence, or even celebrate his murderous act of terror?

I had never heard of Terry Jones but it was all too clear from where I was sitting how destructive this misguided act would be.

Or, is this some sort of a «test» like he works for the SAT or ACT company?

I've known Jesus for as long as I've known my name, and still I use other people like capital to advance my own interest, still I gossip to make myself feel important, still I curse my brothers and sisters in one breath and sing praise songs in the next, still I sit in church with arms folded and cynicism coursing through my bloodstream, still I talk a big game about caring for the poor without doing much to change my own habits, still I indulge in food I'm not hungry for and jewelry I don't need, still I obsess over what people say about me on the internet, still I forget my own privilege, still I talk more than I listen and complain more than I thank, still I commit acts of evil, still I make a great commenter on Christianity and a lousy practitioner of it.

Surely, though, our tradition offers a much better image than that of God sitting in judgment on our earthly lives and then imposing a final destination as a separate interventionist act.

Because of these acts we know him to be real, accessible, and infinitely gracious, and in that knowledge we find the promise of both the coming of his kingdom and the ultimate fulfillment of our own lives: «Through the tender mercy of our God, the dayspring from on high hath visited us, to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.»

Many of the tendencies we are born with are unhealthy - we crave junk food, would rather sleep in, sit on the couch watching TV, etc. - but we have to, through acts of will, overcome what comes naturally to us.

Unlike the SAT and ACT, the Classic Learning Test rewards familiarity with the great works of Western civilization.

First, by acting as a humble servant he would wash the soiled feet of his disciples, not only to prepare them for the coming celebration but also looking forward to the time when they would sit at table with Abraham in God's banquet in heaven (Luke 13:29).

However, what he said is a TOTALLY understandable level of frustration for people who've sat through one election cycle after another watching politicians of all stripes act like they just HAVE to offer lip - service to the insane religious right of this country.