Sentences with phrase «at the knee at»

Making sure you have the right gear to ride with control and that you have a soft bend at the knee at all times.

Most men go weak at the knees at the first sight of a hot Russian bride and simply find them irresistible.

Hermoine has succumbed to her feelings for Ron, but is unable to tell him because he and Lavender Brown are perpetually snogging, and Harry is finding himself weak at the knees at the very sight of Ron's sister, Ginny Weasley.

«If you had lived for centuries would you go weak at the knees at a picture of a dull clerk's fiancée and lock yourself away in a gloomy castle?

In any event, I tend to agree that it is inhumane to cut the students off at the knees at the last possible moment — the bar exams.

Not exact matches

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

I'm at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, which means I'm going to be knee - deep in everything from 4K TVs to wearable computers and auto technology for the foreseeable future.

But at more than half the properties I visit, I find myself on my hands and knees hunting for places to plug in, or relegating my phone to the bathroom overnight.

«He was very astute at curbing knee - jerk reactions to the much more highly volatile U.S. banking and market conditions,» one CEO wrote.

They should be knee - length at highest, and paired with a cardigan or blazer if the environment is on the more formal / corporate side.

With your back against a wall, lower yourself so your upper legs are parallel with the floor and your knees are bent at a 90 - degree angle.

FEET If your feet don't touch the floor, support them with a footrest, but one low enough that your knees bend at a 90 - degree angle.

Pair tailored cotton - wool - blend shorts that land at the knee with a light jacket.

Everyone needs support, and if you don't invest in the help, you are cutting yourself off at the knees.

At the Sherway Gardens location, the window in front of the women's section featured a mannequin wearing black pumps and a pink dress that hung just below the knees.

Grab a mat and lie on your back with your hips and knees at right angles.

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.

At first, the platform will target individuals who are experiencing well - known health conditions, such as knee surgery, following them throughout the regimen of pre-op, post-op, and maintenance.

«The thing he would do most frequently is he would throw me down on a bed and he would just put his body weight on me and he'd be yelling at me but as he was yelling he'd me grinding an elbow or knee into my body to emphasize his anger,» Holderness told CNN.

In the low - friction ridesharing marketplace, that could cut Uber off at the knees.

Jonathan Knee, professor at Columbia Business School, weighs in on the deal between Meredith and Time Inc..

Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said Trump was having a «knee - jerk reaction» to certain groups of Americans who did not benefit from the past several decades of open trade.

Instead, the training is about using precise modern techniques to break up fights among inmates or to extract prisoners from cells, Garcia said, noting that guards frequently storm into those situations five or six at a time and begin using elbows, knees, batons, or pepper spray to force inmates into submission.

Nothing chops your workday off at the knees like a calendar full of meetings.

«Get down on all fours resting your forearms and knees on the floor,» says Dede Lagree, owner and head trainer at Lagree Fitness Studio who has worked with Ashley Graham, Viola Davis, Elsa Hosk, and Bella Thorne.

It was at the lowest point in his life («My wife and I got on our knees and asked God what to do,» Mike says) that he decided to start High Point.

Shipp's wife, Sarah, pulls fistfuls of promotional T - shirts from a cardboard carton and shoves them at Gibbs, who is on his knees on a table.

«As expected, in the first quarter our performance continued to reflect supply headwinds associated with key brands within our Knee, Hip and S.E.T. portfolios, as well as the ongoing quality remediation work at our Warsaw North Campus facility,» said Bryan Hanson, President and CEO of Zimmer Biomet.

At one point, she gingerly hikes up the legs of her pants to display the sores on her knees from crawling back and forth on her bedroom floor each day — an exercise meant to help her relearn the use of her limbs.

«Ladies,» recommend the Harbus editors, «skirts should hit at the top of your knee.

THIS is our beautiful lilac season where splashes of the exotic colour burst over the suburbs high in the jacaranda trees blossoming their seasonal hue.Down below at about knee - height is the grey / lilac of the wonderful lavender bush.

De drew directly from his experience at the NSA when explaining that knee - jerk reactions to share too much and too little information with the public are dangerous.

Some studied at the knees of masters, like Fadell and Morin did with Jobs, or Zynga's Mark Pincus did with wireless pioneer John Malone.

Nischal Shetty, CEO at WazirX, said «knee - jerk reactions» like these can cause the future generation to be left behind when the rest of the world moves ahead.

The move «could bring PDVSA, and the Maduro regime, to its knees,» Jorge Salazar - Carrillo, an economics professor at Florida International University in Miami, told South Florida - based WLRN Public Radio.

A look at how one low - cost — but high - performance — artificial knee has already changed the lives of more than 7,000 amputees in more than a dozen countries.

Beyond banning HD streaming video and knee - capping mobile - hotspot speeds, the $ 75 Go Unlimited plan reserves the possibility of «deprioritizing» your data if you enter an area with network congestion — even at the start of a billing cycle, before you've burned up any data yourself.

U.S. cavalry, responding to Native American activism to protect their land and retain customs, killed over 300 Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in December 1890.

Before Wounded Knee, in a military action stirred by gold mining on tribal land, Gen. George Armstrong Custer and 200 U.S. troops were killed in 1876 by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn, in what is now present day Montana, about 400 miles west of the Standing Rock battle.

Still, what if, at one point between now and the end of QE tapering, Canadian long - term interest rates were to have the same kind of knee - jerk reaction seen in the U.S. over the summer?

It was exposure that brought Alison Redford to her knees and it is even more exposure that will bring an end to this group of aristocrats that deserve nothing at all.

Another was to do at least half of the full range push - ups rather than relying solely on the knee push - ups.

The knee - jerk reaction of many Canadians, including Industry Minister Tony Clement, is to assume that high gas prices and inflated profit margins are likely to be explained by collusion among the big oil companies to fix prices at higher than acceptable levels.

A woman who worked with me at the restaurant I worked at talked to me often because she saw me as a fellow spirit - filled believer and she felt somewhat like an outcast because she always wore skirts below her knees, her hair in a bun, and no makeup.

your claim of «they change the definition» tries to under - cut the argument itself «at the knees» so to speak... but let me remind you that you changed your self - definition from drunk and unsaved to «drunk with the new wine» and saved (get the Acts reference, i'm kinda proud of that one; — RRB --RRB- things change and when we know better we do better.

He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

Also, morality is not external (if byexternal that you mean something that you can know is right or wrong has to be determined by a larger body or set of policies created by someone else many years ago to be official), and morality does not necessarily flow from religion (plenty of Catholic priests, Islamic Imams, Protestant preachers wave their hands high in the air in the afternoon, at praise time, and when the lights go down they crawl on their bellies, and hands and knees like snakes and dogs).

So Disgusted, I am guessing that tonight you will go on your knees and pray to Jesus to open the gates of heaven for you, to be away from this generation of perverts... But wait, if you kneel down too often, you may be putting yourself at risk of prepatellar bursitis.

And while we're at it, I don't want to pay for your insulin because you eat too much sugar, or your knee surgery because you got fat.

Despite being told he'd never be able to walk, Lucas has found his own way, slipping out of his wheelchair and onto the floor at Trinity House of Prayer, where he shuffles around on thick knee pads as if in a state of constant reverence.