Sentences with phrase «armed band of»

In Arizona, Tim «Nailer» Foley takes his armed band of volunteers into the desert to intercept drug runners and human traffickers.

Added to the mix, a heavily armed band of mercenary vampire hunters crashes the party.»

Imagine a community of Middle East Christians under assault from a ferocious, well - armed band of terrorists.

Not exact matches

I joke that all I do is do the coin toss at the start of the game and wear an arm band.

U.S. sprinter Trayvon Bromell has tweeted a photo of himself wearing the USA - themed band of red, white and blue on the same arm as his Olympic rings tattoo.

The Myo arm band allows users to control digital devices with a series of hand gestures.

Myo is an arm band developed by Thalmic Labs of Kitchener, Ont.

The band is involved with To Write Love on Her Arms, a non-profit organization aimed at helping spread awareness and support for victims of depression and self - harm.

Similarly, Garrison Keillor («Companion» host, writing in the liner notes to the anniversary record album) comments that his own earliest memory of radio, from his childhood in Anoka, Minnesota, is «sitting on my uncle's lap, his arm around me, my head next to his, as a tiny band played, and a man in New York said it was true, the war was over.»

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

One of the most miserable of them, Liberia, goes back to the 1840s (Haiti to the 1790s): its cry for help was voiced by a desperate Liberian, when three rival bands of heavily armed savages were engaged in slaughtering (and in some cases eating) civilians as well as each other.

The first few moments I dimly recall, the thermometer being stuck into my mouth, the gray band being wrapped around my arm to take blood pressure, and the series of annoying questions being asked about my health insurance policy (which I thankfully reassured myself, even in that debilitated state, would very soon be a thing of the past).

a knee - level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs, coughing from your steel - banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.

Bands of peasants, armed and on the move, were taking over control of part of the Black Forest in the south - west, by the middle of August.

The quarterback with the golden arm and the Entourage - like band of buddies owns the spotlight.

At the least he seems to be one of those players whom leads without actually needing / wearing an arm band.

He is one the best in PL and is of the right age to wear the captain's arm's band.

Jan 04,2016... Armed with stopwatches, kickboards and the latest Speedo swim trunks, a growing band of senior citiz...

And on top of that, how good was that to see him wear the Captain's arm band yesterday..!!

Kos has struck me as a player with leadership qualities — communicates well, has the respect of the team, reads the play, fierce intensity, confident — and who should wear the arm - band.

This time, Demyanenko showed the worth of his arm - band by making a timely clearance.

Keith Andrews, Vince Grella, Phil Jones, Steven N'Zonzi are all out long - term while centre - back Christopher Samba, who recently lost the captain's arm - band after revealing he was desperate to leave the Lancashire outfit following the sacking of former manager Sam Allardyce, is a doubt with an ankle complaint.

The sight of Squillaci with the arm band & the substitution of Jay Emanuel (who?)

His leadership and adept marshalling of the defence has earned him the captain's arm - band.

Their creations have ranged from the very practical - mittens, baseball fields, «cases» for everything from Uno cards, box cutters, knives and Leathermans; to the fabulously ornate - like Ezra's line of hats, arm bands, and leg wraps («I'm going to make a whole bunch of clothes that don't even exist yet!»)

To strengthen the muscles in your back, try this exercise: with your arms straight out in front of you, spaced about shoulder with a part, hold a resistance band with both hands.

In addition to containing dual chambers for added safety, the heavy duty arm bands are constructed of soft polyester that makes them comfortable to wear on little arms.

In 2008, a group of retired four - star generals, admirals and other senior military leaders banded together out of a growing concern that a significant segment of America's youth are unfit to serve in the armed forces, presenting a serious long - term... [Continue reading]

For those unfamiliar with the term, «lunch shaming» refers to practices in the cafeteria that single out children with school meal debt, such as making the child wear a special wrist band, stamping the child's arm or hand, throwing the child's meal away in front of peers, or even making a child do chores, like wiping down tables, in exchange for a meal.

With your arms straight out in front of you spaced about shoulder width apart, hold your resistance band with both hands.

Keeping your arms straight, pull your hands apart stretching the band and bringing your shoulder blades together in the back, keep going until your arms are straight out to your Return slowly to the starting position and repeat for two sets of 10.

A slight hint of the day's warm sun is about to wrap it's arms around the horizon in a band of soft salmon orange and navy blue.

In 2008, a group of retired four - star generals, admirals and other senior military leaders banded together out of a growing concern that a significant segment of America's youth are unfit to serve in the armed forces, presenting a serious long - term threat to our national security.

Forde combines his take on the week in politics with interviews, armed with his house band, MP4, comprised of Pete Wishart (SNP), Kevin Brennan (Labour), Sir Greg Knight (Tory), and Ian Cawsey (former Labour MP).

The Coalition first banded together in April 2012 to recruit and train approximately 300 candidates for the Kings County Democratic County Committee, the grassroots arm of the Brooklyn Democratic Party.

The drivers, clad in red arm bands and headgears drummed and chanted war songs while they paraded the streets of the northern regional capital.

In a second comparison, Testaverde posted and shared a photo of Hogg with a black mourning band on his arm, next to a picture of a Nazi solider with a swastika on his arm.

Sir Paul Kenny, general secretary of GMB, said he would be prepared to go to prison if measures such as fining pickets for not wearing an arm band become law.

In lieu of that, I'm opting for super thick and stretchy fabric bands that I'll staple and tape to the arms of the glasses.

After the first Homo sapiens arose in Africa, several bands walked out of the continent about 60,000 years ago and into the arms of Neandertals and other archaic humans.

Another arm of the SLIMM - T2D trial examines the use of an alternate approach to bariatric surgery, the adjustable band procedure, which inserts a band around the upper stomach whose tightness can be modified.

The study involved 7 days of wrist actigraphy to measure sleep, food diaries to measure caloric intake and dietary patterns, and SenseWear arm band monitoring to measure physical activity.

NOT so long ago, in a galaxy really rather close by, a small band of rebels has taken up arms to overthrow a dark empire...

This means there is a translocation between chromosome 9 and chromosome 22, with breaks happening in region (3), band (4), sub-band (1) of the long arm (q) of chromosome 9 and region (1), band (1), sub-band (2) of the long arm (q) of chromosome 22.

[2](Some cases are confounded by either a cryptic translocation that is invisible on G - banded chromosome preparations, or a variant translocation involving another chromosome or chromosomes as well as the long arm of chromosomes 9 and 22.

Both M81 and M101 were observed with the Far - Infrared Surveyor (FIS) aboard AKARI in four far - infrared bands at 65, 90, 14... ▽ More We assess the relationships between the surface densities of the gas and star formation rate (SFR) within spiral arms of the nearby late - type spiral galaxies M81 and M101.

The far - infrared four - band images reveal fine spatial structures of M101, which include global spiral patterns, giant HII regions embedded in outer spiral arms, and a bar - like feature crossing the center.

From barre moves that lengthen the lower body to curls that target the arms, resistance bands can be used for almost any type of activity and muscle group.

Wear this water - resistant band on the top of your arm (taut around the bicep).

Stand up and hold one of the handles in your right hand, letting the band pull your arm across your body towards your left pocket, thumb pointing backwards.