Sentences with phrase «against the resistance of»

During these first three weeks of life, reflexes are present which allow them to clear their heads to breathe and also to breathe against the resistance of the floor.

«At that time this was against the resistance of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

In heart failure the diseased muscle can't pump blood effectively against the resistance of the blood vessels.

With toes pointing up, push the foot against the resistance of the band until you feel a solid tension.

Attempt to pull your leg down toward the floor against the resistance of the band.

In addition to stabilization, multifidus also assists with extension of the spine — otherwise known as backbending — especially against the resistance of gravity, as in belly backbends like bhujangasana (cobra pose) and shalabhasana (locust pose).

You will then rotate the ankle internally against the resistance of the band and return in a smooth motion to the stretched externally rotated starting position.

And it makes sense... We evolved to move through our environment dynamically by pushing, pulling, tugging, crawling, running and squatting against the resistance of gravity on our body.

As you are moving your whole body against the resistance of the water, it not only tones muscles and builds strength, but also builds endurance and cardiovascular fitness.

Repeat the isometric push against the resistance of your arms 3 times and each time stretch the leg a couple of inches further when you relax.

He pushed the door against the resistance of a stiff hinge and swiveled slowly on the worn vinyl seat and planted both feet flat on the road.

Having the capacity to represent the onslaught of technology against the resistance of history is an element of the Zen - like approach to Colvin's studio practice.

In each genre, her gestures create an implication of dance — movement and energy — transposed against the resistance of fixed squares and rectangles of color.

Not exact matches

It is an online community of gamers that are upset that people are speaking out against the objectified way women are portrayed in gaming culture on - screen, and the community has also provided some resistance to the growing number of female gamers.

In his first - century context, Jesus engaged in active, non-violent, political resistance against that oppression, and he died on a Roman cross because of it.

Behind the low deal count is a deterioration of relations between China and the US and more resistance against China's acquisitions of US technology.

Cryptocurrencies still face looming regulatory uncertainties, though they have shown strong resistance against regulatory tightening out of China.

According to Ken Jaques, a senior analyst with EPFR's sister company Informa Global Markets, «The 10 - year Treasury note is banging its head against a significant resistance level of 3.05 percent.

Key PointsBitcoin cash price gained upside momentum and broke a major resistance at $ 1,500 against the US Dollar.Yesterday's highlighted key connecting bearish trend line with resistance at $ 1,370 was breached on the hourly chart of...

Key HighlightsETH price started an upside move and recovered above the $ 640 resistance against the US Dollar.There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance at $ 674 on the hourly chart of ETH / USD (data...

Key PointsBitcoin cash price started a recovery and traded above the $ 1,300 level against the US Dollar.There is a key connecting bearish trend line forming with resistance at $ 1,365 on the hourly chart of the...

Key HighlightsRipple price recovered nicely and moved above the $ 0.8100 resistance against the US dollar.There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance at $ 0.8200 on the hourly chart of the XRP / USD...

Q: There's a lot of pressure and a lot of expectation that the young Prime Minister of Canada will lead the global resistance against Trump.

CDC's stake and dominance of the board would seem to preclude any outcome against their interests, but their brazen disregard for other shareholders could act as mobilising force for a resistance.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed executive orders advancing the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) and Dakota Access (DAPL) pipelines, prompting a tsunami of outrage and vows of bold resistance from the Indigenous activists, climate campaigners, and countless others who have fought against these projects.

Ocampo issued the ICC's first indictments against five leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), including its commander, Joseph Kony, who are responsible for the abduction of more than 20,000 children (and perhaps many more), mutilations, rapes, and the displacement of some two million Ugandans.

Her empathy for others and her response to suffering became acts of creative resistance against a life - denying political order.

If we must win the war against the traumatic corporate tornado, then we as the Asian Community, must unite and wage a resistance movement with conscience and conviction, with the masses of the largest Continent being roused for counter-attack.

All of a sudden, «The soul knew in its very depths that it was living a lie, and this knowledge, together with the will to perform could only be communicated to the body as a resistance against its law of total obedience to the universal law of the Good and the True.»

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.

On the one hand, there is a strong resistance to the use of military power, rising in some Roman Catholic documents and papal statements to a «presumption against war» and the suggestion that recourse to military power is always bad.

Resistance of life and people against oppression has been the mark and sign of times.

Tens of thousands of Germans, many of them later executed, were actively involved in various forms of resistance against the Nazi regime.

Solzhenitsyn, on the other hand, has given up seeking the theoretical high ground from which to build a new philosophical system and instead articulates a strategy of resistance against any and all metaperspectives.

It is instinctive self - respect — the resistance of a man who holds a high opinion of himself against the profanation of his holy things.

Any effort to prevent violence or harm, to heal or prevent disease, to alleviate poverty and misery, any protest against wrongs of any kind, is resistance to evil.

In the early 1960s, Soviet intelligence launched a multi-pronged smear campaign against Pope Pius XII with the aim of undermining the authority of the papacy and with it the authority of the Catholic Church (which at that time was the main focus of resistance to communism in Eastern Europe).

6, a certain Judas of Galilee had led an abortive rising against the Roman government, an underground resistance movement remained in being, and broke out sporadically from time to time, until at last they succeeded in precipitating a full - scale rebellion in AD.

But their faces showed resistance to authority, not love of peace; they were screaming No in the same way they fight deadlines for term papers or rules against pot - smoking — to protect what they perceive as their autonomy.

Walter Cardinal Kasper, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, put it very well last May when he said that the Catholic Church had weakened itself by «cutting itself off from its Jewish roots for centuries... a weakness that became evident in the altogether too feeble resistance against the persecution of the Jews.»

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

It chooses and sets in order... [Creation is the] conflict of energy and resistance, a struggle of life against death, from which the word takes its impetus....

Mistrust of the White House fueled intense resistance to watering down the sanction provisions against religious persecutors.

The man who had united millions as a symbol of revolution and resistance had united them again as a symbol of the good mankind can achieve against overwhelming odds.

Over 250 people were slaughtered, and Israeli propaganda spread the news of DeirYassin to other Arab villages as a warning against resistance.

The objections to fasting — the resistance of the flesh and «evangelical liberty» — must not deter one from fasting as a form of discipline.31 When the Christian has failed in obedience, is guilty of sin against others, has lost the joy of Christian grace, and has come to little or no prayer, he needs to fast and pray.

It becomes Gegenstand, not Objekt; that which stands over against us as resistance, opposition, and tension, as opposed to the passive recipient of a scrutinizing, active subject.

Hence he must become more conscious of transcending what is individually determined; he must accept this transcendence — perhaps against much resistance — and finally courageously defend it.

The story of Islam in the Soviet Union is the story of four hundred years of struggle against Russian tyranny and oppression, a resistance which has been as tenacious as the oppression has been merciless.