Sentences with phrase «against the wind at»

It is graded against the wind at a 7.

It features low - rolling resistance tires to reduce road friction, has grille shutters and sits lower to the ground, making the car more aerodynamic and slippery against the wind at high speeds.

Not exact matches

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

The Lions are going to be cold and still licking their wounds from blowing a chance at the playoffs last week with their loss against the Bengals.

If tax policy should be doing anything to change the income distribution, I would prefer it lean against these strong winds of inequality rather than making life still easier for those at the top.

I take a «pound cost averaging» approach: I invest money at regular intervals from month to month and year to year, so that sometimes the macro-economic winds will be in my favour and sometimes against, but over time it will cancel itself out.

Those of us who have been trained to make rhetorical peace with the congregation marvel at the freedom of Jesus to preach over their heads, to wound in order to heal, to use their own beloved texts against them.

I know that John Paul II takes a dimmer view of American society than would totally gladden my heart; and I must confess that I have felt a certain cold wind at my back as I listened to him caution people in Latin America who do not even yet own shoes against falling into the trap of materialism.

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.

Snow White is the heroine, and at one point, winds up pregnant against her wishes (she was under a spell when she conceived).

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Standing at 10,000 feet, people huddled in blankets against the 50 - mile - an - hour winds from the East.

At Samara, where Marco Polo waited five months for favorable winds, he had to protect himself and his traveling companions against the cannibal peoples of the area by building a fortified stockade.

His 1956 compilation Let Us Compare Mythologies contains poems like «For Wilf and His House,» which opens: «When young the Christians told me / how we pinned Jesus / like a lovely butterfly against the wood, / and I wept beside paintings of Calvary / at velvet wounds / and delicate twisted feet.»

As usual with such texts of Luther's, the letter gathered momentum as it continued: «Your Electoral Grace should not think that Luther is dead...» The letter wound up with a straight ultimatum: «I beg and expect Your Electoral Grace's definite and speedy reply to this letter within fourteen days; if after this appointed fortnight no public answer should appear, my little book Against the Idol at Halle will be released... Written in my wilderness... 1 December 1521.»

A separate probe of alleged bullying tactics by the supermarket chains against suppliers is expected to be wound up by early next year or at least at a stage where the ACCC can make a public comment on the sensational investigation.

Tottenham should also have been excited at the prospect of closing the gap on the league leaders Chelsea, but they also couldn't bring the required game needed to beat, or even score against relegation - threatened Sunderland, and they will also have to lick their wounds at such a missed opportunity.

DISPATCHES Mystery in Seattle: The Sea - hawks say they will do nothing out of the ordinary to prevent puncture wounds to players in this week's game against the Broncos at the Kingdome.

It is about wagering, rich and complicated wagering, with more than $ 100,000 at stake each day on Nassaus, presses, do - or - don «ts (making a particular score), proposition bets and Wolf (a money - sucking venture in which one golfer can wind up going against — and covering the wagers of — the other three players in his foursome).

If the above three scenarios were to play out (also assuming Illinois (OSU) and Maryland & Penn State (MSU) don't pull off the upsets) Michigan would wind up playing on December 5th at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (likely against Iowa).

Liverpool's Lazar Markovic had an off - target shot against Olympiakos at Chicago's Soldier Field on Sunday, that wound up hitting a security guard.

The star winger went down early in the first half of the Capital One Cup match at Britannia Stadium with a hamstring injury — a wound that will keep him out of two vital fixtures against Arsenal and Manchester United just as the Reds had managed to gain consistency in the top ten.

He was leaning heavily against a towel rack at the time and, when the rack broke, Longley suffered arm wounds requiring 16 stitches.

I think that looking at those results we can safely assume that the Hammers are not very good at all, no matter how much the wind, snow and fixture congestion conspired to give them a result against the Champions last week.

The boys at the back looked really strong against a team who usually bully and wind Arsenal up into losing their shape and game plan.

Leading 2 - 0 at half - time, Arsenal could have played quite conservatively in the second half and just let the game drift away, but they seemed buoyed by news of Ludogorets leading in Paris and seemed determined to kill the game off against Basel as soon as possible, as that would put more pressure on the Parisians if PSG got wind of the fact that Arsenal were in no danger of dropping points.

Chelsea to win: The Blues have a bit of wind in their sails at the moment and therefore can be trusted on home soil against Arsenal.

After their 0 - 0 back at Anfield against the Championship side, Liverpool, who are licking their wounds after crucial Premier League defeats recently, have one final shot at salvaging something for the season.

Last season's in particular rubbed salt into the wound, pitting them against Bayer Leverkusen, Monaco and Tottenham Hotspur, despite the Russian champions at the time being amongst the top seeds.

BBC Sport looks at what the latest winding - up petition dismissed against Bolton Wanderers means for the English football.

The ugly truth is that they believe the prescriptions and proscriptions to be a wind at the child's back in the ongoing race in which the mother is competing against her peers.

The report by the National Transportation Safety Board said the unidentified camper watched the plane struggle at an altitude of about 11,500 feet against strong winds.

We are exempted from the same sex marriage act, showing that our vioice is still heard against the prevailing wind of our society, and at much cost to ourselves, by the way.

«Will she [media secretary Maria Millar] stand up against commercial competitors who are lining up to attack and wound the BBC at this moment of crisis?»

Two days after a 38 - year - old man was killed by a crawler crane that collapsed onto a Lower Manhattan street as workers tried to secure it against accelerating winds, Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City was lowering the wind - speed threshold at which such equipment must be shut down.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Feeling the political wind at his back after years of reversals, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer pointed to Tuesday's Democratic electoral victories and predicted a momentum shift against the GOP tax bill.

We are entering uncharted seas, and our leading politicians are either tacking against the wind or floundering - or refusing to take to the water at all.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER In the face of shock, chagrin, and some withering criticism both on social media and from past executive directors, top staff and board members at the Empire State Pride Agenda pushed back against the notion they had declared «Mission Accomplished» in their December 12 announcement that they were winding down major operations -LSB-...]

A pair of Staten Island GOP lawmakers have lodged a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration to prevent him from purging the records of his municipal identification program at the end of the year — records believed to contain the information of thousands of undocumented immigrants, and which advocates fear could wind up in the hands of President - elect Donald Trump.

On the basis of the speeds Min of the Desert reached on its experimental voyage, Ward estimates that the endeavor would have taken at least four months, and probably more: a month to assemble the ships, a month to sail to Punt, a month and a half or more to sail back against the prevailing winds, and a month to disassemble the ships and prepare for the trek back across the desert.

At 55, Sakurai considered himself steady in a storm, the embodiment of his favorite poem by Kenji Miyazawa, with whom he shares an alma mater, Iwate University: «Strong in the Rain / Strong in the wind / Strong against the summer heat and snow / He is healthy and robust / Unselfish / He never loses his temper / Nor the quiet smile on his lips / That is the kind of person / I want to be.»

By now the blast should be knocking at the heliopause, the boundary where the solar wind rubs up against a countervailing flow of interstellar winds.

At least 50,000 civilians have been killed or wounded during the conflict, with the belligerent parties committing a litany of war crimes and violations of humanitarian law against the civilian population.

Brad Fedy, a professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, and Jason Tack, a PhD student at Colorado State University, took nesting data from a variety of areas across Wyoming, and created models using a suite of environmental variables and referenced them against areas with potential for wind development.

I told her that I also did the same thing when I was younger but instead of looking at the horizon I would often close my eyes and feel how the tree was gently swaying as the wind pushed against it.

When you move at this pace without slowing down you are adding more strain onto the muscle groups which keeps the elliptical in motion thus recreating an environment similar to running against the wind or uphill if you were outdoors.

The door opens inward, pushing against the rolled up towel that sits at the bottom attempting to block out the raw boreal wind that whips by on the other side.

I remember one particular segment of the run, at about 16 miles in — I was running uphill, against the wind, and on soft dirt surface.

For a person running at a typical casual runner's pace of 2.5 meters per second (9 km / hr, or 5.6 mph) it can be shown, based on data collected by LG Pugh for the study titled «The influence of wind resistance in running and walking and the mechanical efficiency of work against horizontal or vertical forces,» that the energy cost of air resistance while running on solid ground is roughly 0.84 calories per kilometer (this is equivalent to approximately an extra 1.2 % calorie burn relative to a runner on a treadmill).

The wind worked against us at times, and made for some cool movement in others.