Sentences with phrase «against a wall by»

Lee Dixon reminded people at the opening night of 1989 the movie that in his first North London derby Tony Adams pinned him up against the wall by his throat and let him know in no uncertain terms that «we can not lose this».

They both investigate how to make the magnets stick against the wall by experimenting with both sides of the magnets.

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The Conservative Member for Brigg and Goole, Andrew Percy, has had his long - term back problem seemingly cured by being pushed against a wall by Joyce.

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Kick up your feet against the wall by catapulting one leg up and pushing off the ground with the other one.

It was up against the wall by the ping - pong table, and balls always seemed to get caught underneath it.

Only in the last half - hour do the usual Emmerich absurdities pile up: I laughed outright at the character who, past 65 and diagnosed with a massive brain tumor that will kill him within months, can not be stopped by a ferocious beating, being stabbed in the neck with a sharp implement, then being crushed against a wall by an SUV moving at a minimum of 30 mph.

A group of corrupt, turncoat cops and detectives in Atlanta are pushed against the wall by Russian mob boss Irina Vlaslov.

Now Evan moves into the room, heads over to the desk, the chair pushed back so hard against the wall by the paramedics that it left a dent in the plaster just under the window.

There's a psychological cost to buying a print book that includes where we will store the book, the fact that we have a massive TBR [to be read] pile leaning against the wall by our beds, and that we'll have to box up and move these books.

They will be filled with seawater, which gets thrown against the walls by centrifugal force, producing a smooth, vertical surface on which the ripples can be generated.

23 year old Simon Mason suffered the injuries when his skull was crushed against a wall by a delivery truck in March 2010.

If you think your mattress is fine sitting up against the wall by itself, think again.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurs «sometimes slap money up against the wall thinking that just by spending money, it is going to create a profitable situation and that is the furthest from the truth.

«Survivalism,» or preparing for societal collapse, has become serious business among some of America's super rich, as illustrated by a recent article from The New Yorker which takes a look at the great lengths to which some of the richest from Wall Street to Silicon Valley have gone to protect themselves against cataclysmic civil unrest.

By using their own models, big Wall Street banks can, for instance, minimize their capital requirements by combining the potential risk of two trading positions that offset one another, rather than holding capital against the risk of each one going souBy using their own models, big Wall Street banks can, for instance, minimize their capital requirements by combining the potential risk of two trading positions that offset one another, rather than holding capital against the risk of each one going souby combining the potential risk of two trading positions that offset one another, rather than holding capital against the risk of each one going sour.

She regularly hurt herself by banging her head against her cell wall or cutting at her wrists with broken light fixtures.

Camden Fine told CNBC that comments by JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon on the economy and regulation «reflect Wall Street's inability to take responsibility for the economic crisis it caused and the taxpayer - funded guarantee against failure it continues to enjoy....

While so many entrepreneurs bang their heads against a Web and social media advertising brick wall, GreenRoad has applied common technology to an industry technology has largely passed by and — voila — they've got a business that's growing and saving lives, money and the environment.

The drop was sparked by Tuesday night's second - quarter report, which beat Wall Street's earnings targets (as usual) but also delivered a rare miss against top - line revenue estimates.

The Japanese yen is the overall winner against the greenback, underpinned by another bad day in Wall Street.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

What they do not realize is that by fighting against government power to check financial hubris, they are paving the road for centralized financial planning by Wall Street.

Here's a discussion of a paper, «Regulating Against Bubbles: How Mortgage Regulation Can Keep Main Street and Wall Street Safe - From Themselves,» by Ryan Bubb and Prasad Krishnamurthy (disclosure: my law school classmates), that sort of takes the idea of a housing bubble seriously as a bubble.

The portion of the program that likely galvanized the White House was the startling report by prosecutors that had worked under Breuer in the criminal division of the DOJ that there wasn't even a pretense of a real investigation against the major Wall Street firms: no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

Wynn, chief executive and chairman of Wynn Resorts, said that accusations of sexual misconduct made against him that were reported by the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 26 were «preposterous.»

In a story related by comedian John Leguizamo to several media outlets, Seagal actually picked up Leguizamo and slammed the much smaller man against a wall.

Accusations of sexual misconduct against Wynn were reported by the Wall Street Journal in January, and he resigned as chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts on Feb. 6.

I learned by beating my head against the wall.

By the time I was five, I could tell as soon as we entered someone's house if the owner was an artist or not: most people had a picture or two on the walls and some ornaments on the tables; the artists had paintings stacked against one another all over the room or scuptures in various states of completion on every available surface.

Not really... I guess that I'm just tired tonight... and lazy... and put off by beating my head against brick walls refuting misconceptions and fallacies, so I passed it off onto the researcher writers.

Once he turned the corner, Nava reports that he was grabbed by someone else and thrown against a brick wall.

Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion to another... in the words of Jefferson, the [First Amendment] clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect «a wall of separation between church and State»... That wall must be kept high and impregnable.

We beat our head against a wall trying to find rationality in those that are blinded by faith.

Society must thus be secured against the intrusions of the Good, or of God, so that its citizens may determine their own lives by the choices they make from a universe of morally indifferent but variably desirable ends, unencumbered by any prior grammar of obligation or value (in America, we call this the «wall of separation»).

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

Douthat believes that there is a full scale war being waged by secularists against the free expression of Judaism and Christianity (in particular) outside of house of worship walls, and gets into some reasons for the attack on the first liberty area mentioned in the First Amendment.

We measure them up against the wall, they're growing by leaps and bounds now, I'll never be able to keep them in jeans.

There can not be an indefinite line of intermediary causes with no first cause, just as a nail can not be knocked into a wall by an unending series of hammers, each knocking against the next.

All this, not because he became acquainted with convictions of his brother which he then and there adopted; not because he made any new resolution in his soul, but merely because the words spoken by his brother were like the light push of a finger against a leaning wall already about to tumble by its own weight.

Jesus stands, side by side, with those who have «their backs against the wall.»

There the poet killed himself by pounding his head against the damp stone walls.

And sometimes it seems like I'm just feeling my way blindly against the walls, stumbling over furniture, knocking over vases, and stubbing toes on table legs by feeling for a light switch that doesn't exist.

Make sure the crust is sticky enough to hold shape by pressing the crust up against the walls of the food processor with a spoon.

«We put this stadium up against a wall and projected a video map around it approximately 12 by 35 feet, so the whole wall was consumed with this Cleveland Browns stadium, along with the soundtrack, which is crowd noise,» Schoeffler explains.

Ogama Onsen's open - air pools are ringed by worn concrete steps and weathered wooden decking; against the wall of a beautiful old house was a stand filled with long - handled utensils, bits of vegetable fiber still caught in their mesh.

With Arsene Wenger once again driving the average Arsenal fan up the wall, going against conventional wisdom and baffling football pundits everywhere by sticking to his guns and refusing to get drawn into the ever increasing spending frenzy that is the summer transfer window, the odds against the Gunners ending the 12 year wait for a title get smaller by the day.

For Team Berzon, they were facing elimination for the first time this season and with their backs against the wall they rallied to take Game 2 by a score of 25 - 22..