Sentences with phrase «against the wall as»

30 seconds: Calf raises (push against the wall as if you are being arrested; should get 20 to 30 reps before fatigue) 30 seconds: Deep squat thrusters with 20 - pound dumbbells.

Well, the Cubs are about as up against a wall as you can be in this here game of baseball, down 3 - 0 to a Dodgers team that had everything go right in Game 3.

People scatter, some crouch against the wall as he veers towards them, and stare.

I try to think of it as I'm spending the energy now while she pays attention to me so I don't have to beat my head against the wall as much when she's a teen and refuses to hear I word I say.

She also told officers that her husband grabbed her cellphone and threw it against a wall as she tried to record their heated argument.

Side - views of a gecko - inspired wall - climber (left) shows hand - held plates of adhesive tiles sticking against a wall as the climber's foot bears down on a step dangling from the plate.

One helpful pose is savasana, propping the legs up against a wall as you lie on your back with support from pillows or yoga blocks.

(Pressing your feet against the wall as you lie down will help you to keep a neutral foot, and to lightly stretch the plantar fascia and calves.)

Press the small of your back against the wall as you walk your feet forward and slide down into a sitting position.

In this first exercise, you'll be pushing against a wall as alluded to above.

And I love the idea of a door leaned up against the wall as a background behind a reading nook.

► A man suffering from radiation poisoning coughs and gasps in bed and has a nightmare at night that causes him to shake and hit the headboard against the wall as he wails.

Instead of switching on the hall light, she steadied and guided herself down each step by pressing her fingertips against the wall as she had done a thousand times before.

Be careful not to leave bicycles lent up against a wall as rabbits can become entangle in the chain or even knock it over.

Be aware not to lean against the walls as the red and blue dyes will stain your clothes!

So, with Hitler's back up against the wall as the Allied Forces march on Berlin, he decides to pull out his one last contingency plan — a «Plan Z», if you will.

Usually with games of this genre I will find myself banging my head against a wall as things get more complex — with The Bridge, however, I found these moments few and far between, a puzzle never frustrating in its difficulty.

I sat, half - crouched, my back pressed against the wall as the Pawn stepped to the corner.

Even Bert Stern's Marilyns are leaning against the wall as gracefully and effortlessly as one might imagine Monroe would have done had she been there herself.

When, at first, drips extend the outline of a curve, they arise from the action of gravity on a picture leaning vertically against the wall as he worked, not from brushwork or chance.

by Stephanie Cristello «Press as much of the front surface of your body (palms in or out, left or right cheek) against the wall as possible.»

Separating itself from the grouping, one brass piece with a faded - pink fringed lampshade gently leans against the wall as if tired of the scene.

TED: Jenny, your paintings all lean against the wall as well.

Minimalist sculptor John McCracken seemed like an artist without relevance by the time of the go - go»80s, but now his peaceful and refined jewels lean against the wall as a quiet haiku in a punk rock world.

Simple sun - bleached plywood panels lean against the wall as if Josef Albers were in the house.

Another amusing image titled Fowl Play depicts five different types of birds lined up against a wall as though they were suspects in a crime.

He has me thinking that the GCMs run up against a wall as time increases, that their predictive value may have peaked or even declined with their increasing complexity.

Also I go without a headboard or a footboard and use 3 euros against the wall as my headboard...

Perfect to be placed against a wall as its back side is carved flat, this whimsical table is made of teak wood,...

We tried the desk against the wall as well.

Not exact matches

Just as in your personal life, there will be times when your business is up against the wall and you find yourself facing major difficulties.

As U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Comey once brought charges against Quattrone in 2003 that threatened to ban Quattrone from Wall Street.

«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.

SAO PAULO, April 30 - Latin American markets were mixed on Monday as a positive morning session on Wall Street and solid corporate earnings were balanced against commodity price worries and a strong dollar in thin trading.

«But as a small company, you've got to throw the spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks.»

For the past three years, the Mirzas say they feel as if they have been hitting their heads against the wall.

Break your work up into chunks so that you can feel as though you're making progress, not just banging your head against the wall.

But recently, as Bernie Sanders has upped his rhetorical attacks against Wall Street, and Clinton's perceived ties to it, Clinton has started to sound like she wouldn't nominate a Wall Streeter either.

Jordan Belfort, notoriously known as the «Wolf of Wall Street,» has also warned investors against buying into the bitcoin frenzy.

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.

On August 4th, 2013, The Wall Street Journal reported on the growing subculture of Weird Twitter in an article titled «Some Twitter Users Push Back on Ads,» describing the trend as a reactionary movement against the influx of corporate brands and advertising campaigns on the popular microblogging network.

Recently, the Twitter customer service account at Bank of America received bad press for confusing an Occupy Wall Street activist, who was protesting against the bank, as a customer in need of help.

As such, many traders bang their heads against the wall in weak markets because they are buying the best chart patterns, but at the wrong time.

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.

He touched on his past opposition to free - trade agreements, his support for heavier regulations of Wall Street and the nation's banking industry, and his vote against the Keystone XL oil pipeline as a preview of his campaign.

Does O'Leary have a shot against party stalwarts such as former cabinet ministers Peter MacKay, Tony Clement, Kellie Leitch, Jason Kenney, Lisa Raitt or Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall?

Less than two months after The Wall Street Journal broke the story of alleged sexual misconduct against Steve Wynn, he's quit his jobs as CEO and chairman of the board of directors and sold all 12.1 million shares he held in the company he founded.

Battles over priorities in a huge governmentwide spending bill are essentially settled, leaving a scaled - back plan for President Donald Trump's border wall and a huge rail project that pits Trump against Capitol Hill's most powerful Democrat as the top issues to be solved.

It is easy to feel as though your back is against the wall and you have no way to overcome your financial stress.

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.