Sentences with phrase «at my heels in»

They earned an important W, over Team James - Hagari, who were nipping at their heels in the Standings on Sunday and in impressive fashion.

And so this is why they would do that as opposed to kind of nipping at its heel in the water.

Luxury is typically close at heel in the large SUV segment — but even though the competition is tough, Toyota Land Cruiser holds a number of key advantages.

This can pose a problem with small children as some Corgis will slightly nip at the heel in order to herd them in the right direction.

The ps4 is at or very close to it's peck yearly sales and switch has been nipping at its heels in its first year.

And if change was nipping at your heels in 2008, make it happen in 2009.

The Pixel XL have nipped at its heel in some instances, but the OnePlus 3T was able to pull ahead, reaching the end with an impressive one minute and 53 seconds finish.

I always seem to have a kid or two at my heels in the bathroom!

My husband used to give me a hard time because I'd be nipping at his heels in September (and it took all of my patience to wait until then) to tell me what he'd like to do giftwise for his family.

Not exact matches

He said people would «dig in their heels and double down on the insanity,» adding that «it may already be systemic at this point.»

Off the heels of TechCrunch50 and just in time for the Inc. 500 conference, which starts tomorrow in Washington, DC, Michael Arrington has 8 tips on how to steer conversations at conferences, without letting ego or sloppiness get in the way.

It was a self - congratulatory speech that, but for one gentle jab at those in the room who supported Hillary Clinton, completely avoided provoking his well - heeled audience.

Despite the higher stack height, the heel to toe drop is at a slight 4 mm and even with all the cushioning the Bondi 5 only weighs in at 10 ounces.

The meeting — which had not previously been disclosed and came on the heels of Kushner's meeting with Kislyak at Trump Tower — caught the eye of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election and whether any members of Trump's campaign were complicit.

Aircraft engines have gone from an unreliable Achilles heel on planes in the 1950s to devices that can operate for millions of hours without so much as a hiccup, said Steven Wallace, the former head of accident investigation at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Dack's Shoes was born in 1834, when Irish immigrant Matthew Dack opened a shop for the well - heeled at the corner of King and Jordan streets in downtown Toronto, then a settlement of some 10,000 souls.

And did it ever: Scoop's Meatpacking outpost is at one of the event's hubs, with designer Zac Posen DJ «ing next door, an Alexander McQueen boutique scavenger hunt across the street, and hordes of revelers walking by decked out in sequins and their highest heels, treasure - hunting the coolest limited edition goodies (and the next free cocktail).

We're either slightly hunched over (this is becoming more common thanks to all the time we spend looking at screens), in a «pelvic posture,» with hips trust forward like someone wearing high heels, or in what he terms «the heart posture.»

Some stretches include making circular motions with each ankle clockwise and counter-clockwise or standing up in the aisle and bending at the waist to reach for your toes to stretch hamstrings or standing on one leg bending the opposite knee to bring the heel to your buttock and holding for 15 seconds while grabbing onto a seat for balance support.

The incidents come on the heels of contamination outbreaks from other pathogens at the chain's restaurants in Minnesota and California this summer.

Nightly rooms at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Nashville start at $ 359, but includes a penthouse viewing party, and in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the well heeled will take a gondola up to the top of the ski mountain for a viewing party at 10,450 feet, complete a resident astronomer, telescopes and mimosas.

This news comes on the heels of an $ 80 million funding round for Stripe announced in late January that valued the startup at $ 1.75 billion.

Hot on the heels of Apple's big iOS 8 and Yosemite reveal at its WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) in San Francisco on Monday, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum dispatched a prickly tweet to followers:

On the heels of Harvey and Irma, Hurricane Maria has created devastation in the Caribbean, killing at least one person and ravaging sections of Dominica.

This news comes at the heels of fellow online company Udemy's $ 65 million funding round in June, LinkedIn's acquisition of Lynda.com in April for $ 1.5 billion, and a partnership between Udacity and Google to teach people skills like Android development, among others.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai talks with CNBC's Jon Fortt at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain about global mergers and acquisitions on the heels of Comcast's bid for Sky.

On the heels of President Trump's surprise victory in the U.S., the far - right French candidate Marine Le Pen has seen a surge in opinion polls — and yesterday's shooting at the Champs - Élysées is helping her case.

«If Airbnb is not at least somewhat flexible on their part, cities will just dig in their heels,» said Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, referring to the company's changing tone with municipalities.

On the heels of its acquisition of BG Group at a time when everyone else is offloading assets in these days of dismal oil prices, Royal Dutch Shell is banking optimistically on $ 50 oil to make this work, and hoping that a much leaner BG will do the trick.

It took broad aim at Whole Foods, criticizing everything from its cozy board and wilting produce to its pricey real estate in well - heeled neighborhoods like Columbus Circle, where Whole Foods has a store in the Time Warner Center — one of the most expensive retail spaces in New York City.

On the heels of this morning's news of Dieselgate going international, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is out at Volkswagen and has been replaced by Matthias Müeller, the current CEO of Porsche, according to a report in German magazine Der Tagesspiegel that remains unconfirmed.

On the heels of a record - breaking year for investment in Canadian life science companies, over 200 international investors will descend on Toronto to scout startup innovation at RESI on MaRS, Canada's largest health investor conference.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — True to their «live to work» reputation, some baby boomers are digging in their heels at the workplace as they approach the traditional retirement age of 65.

Breaking it down by state, the most successful tax - free side hustlers live in Pennsylvania, pulling in an average $ 5,759, with New York ($ 5,284) and Florida ($ 4,187) nipping at its heels.

You know how to walk in heels, how to tie a necktie, how to give a good toast at a wedding and how to make something for dinner.

He rose to fame as bandleader at Harlem's Cotton Club, run by gangster Owney Madden, where well - heeled white patrons would go «slumming» and enjoy (in the words of a Harold Arlen song that made its debut at the club):

As I surveyed the sea of white platform heels, the most popular girl in our grade caught my eye, glancing down at the floor where I was self - consciously attempting to wedge my feet further under my backpack to hide my obviously uncool footwear choices.

When a writer repeatedly proclaims that he has left faith behind in childhood» in fact, never had it» and then proceeds to write book after book in which a crisis of faith plays a central role, we may reasonably wonder if he is not engaged in his own evasive maneuvers, conscious of a pursuer at his heels.

Coming off of the heels of the acclaimed Manchester By the Sea, Casey Affleck returns in this dramatic look at the power of legacy, grief and the gift of memory.

At crossings she always entertains the possibility that a cab could be running the light; she is constantly aware that her high heels could get caught in a sidewalk grate; she carries her purse in a defensive mode, being quite aware of the possibility of finding herself jostled in a robbery attempt; etc., etc..

If we would glance back at where we are, we might see in order to have rubbernecked so hard and so far we've been standing with high heels ground down on top of the hand painted, one - of - a-kind life art crafted for us.»

We are at the point where we HAVE to make a choice, and get on that side, dig our heels in and fight for it.

... But I think that every pastor or priest who intends to perform wedding ceremonies should as a prerequisite spend at least 50 minutes standing perfectly still in a pair of three - inch heels.

It survives now on philanthropy plus whatever its down - at - the - heel families can afford in tuition and donated personal services.

No was injured in that incident, either, but on the heels of the carnage at the Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee, and the burning of the Joplin mosque, Muslims in the United States were fearful.

Far too many of the people who were ending up in the brokenness of life were being driven off the cliff by dogs yelping at their heels.

I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like cynicism follows me through every church door, nipping at my heels like a pesky dog as I find my place in the pews.

Sir Thomas More, Under - Sheriff of London, kicking his heels during a long stay at Antwerp, on behalf of the merchants of the City of London in 1515 had written his Dialogue about Utopia (a pun in Greek which could mean either Nowhere, or Good Place).

But there were those with resentments in society at large, some poor and ill - paid, who regarded all those committed full time to the Church as part of a well - heeled world into which they were not admitted.

His resignation comes on the heels of a controversial post on his website, sakeenah.org, in which he claimed that «an enormously overwhelming percentage of people struggle with homosexual feeling because of some form of violent emotional or sexual abuse at some point in their life.»