Sentences with phrase «at the knee of»

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.

Titans wide receiver Harry Douglas sparked outrage on and off the field by diving at the knee of Denver Broncos cornerback Chris Harris Jr. in Tennessee's 13 - 10 Week 14 win.

«Now the Dawgs have hired Kirby Smart, a relentless recruiter and defensive coordinator who studied at the knee of Sith Lord Saban.

Brother Jim, channeling the lessons learned at the knee of Glenn Edward Schembechler, Jr., shows no mercy while leading the 49ers to victory, 42 - 10.

Like his father before him, Rohan learned to take care of himself at the knee of Cedella Marley Booker.

Lions center Dominic Raiola pulled a totally scumbag move and dove at the knees of a Patriots player and that was followed up by Ndamukong Suh and Darrelle Revis exchanging some words during the post-game handshake.

Youthful, handsome, title - winning, Europe - conquering; both raised at the knee of Bobby Robson, one worked for the other.

When researchers peered at the knees of the Papuan weevil recently, they had a surprise coming to them.

Two methodical slits at the knees of skinny blue jeans makes the whole outfit extra-modern.

Details at the knees of these jeans keep the look interesting.

Show off your curves in skinny jeans, or you could opt for fishtail shapes as the kick at the knee of the fishtail can help keep your look balanced.

Like Foy — from Boleyn, to the young Elizabeth, to a succession of major movies and this year's Hollywood cover of Vanity Fair, sprawled at the knee of Jessica Chastain.

You enlisted beta readers for your manuscript, you sent it to agents, you sat at the knees of Writer Unboxed resident gurus.

The Great Northern Express by Howard Frank Mosher Crown, $ 25, 256 pages As a young boy, Howard Frank Mosher would sit at the knee of his honorary uncle, Reg Bennett, and beg him to tell stories.

As a young boy, Howard Frank Mosher would sit at the knee of his honorary uncle, Reg Bennett, and beg him to tell...

There's even free fiction there from time to time, as I learned at the knee of the master, Jim Baen, «the first one's free...»

«Warren Buffett came to investing at the knee of Ben Graham, who ran a Geiger counter over the detritus of the 1930s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Right4: «Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;»

Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

And thank you for my knees, how they bend easily, at last, to Creator, and thank you for these eyes that see beauty in the strangest places, for the mother - blue of them, and thank you for the very physical and very real self of it all, thank you for helping me to worship and see and know beyond my brain and my heart, and reminding me that this, the created self is good.

Madden also mentions that within a month of September 11, 2001, former president Bill Clinton lectured the students at the Jesuit institution Georgetown University that «descriptions of the [Crusades] describe soldiers walking on the Temple Mount, a holy place to Christians, with blood running up to their knees.»

And if the liturgical movements of the Christian community at some time and place seem not to move or stir, bending no knee, bowing no head, drawing no tear, lifting no heart, the intent of the liturgy is not served by abandoning it.

Someone Who Is Holy isn't pacing down the grocery store aisle with three tinies hanging off the cart and coupons in her purse, she isn't running the dryer again to «fluff» the clothes that have sat in there too long, she isn't snorting while she laughs at television shows on Netflix, she isn't on her hands and knees wiping up someone else's vomit, she isn't locking the bedroom door and throwing a saucy look of promise at her husband because clearly good sex isn't included in the holiness life, she doesn't sweat, she doesn't turn on cartoons for three - minutes - of - peace - for - the - love.

Where did we learn the stories of Abraham and Sarah if not at our mother's knee?

Before the nail was driven through the victim's feet, the legs were bent at the knee so that the bottom of one foot was flat against the vertical beam.

Suggesting that taking a knee at the national anthem is «harming» the team or the league isn't merely nonsensical, it reduces the role of the players to that of the analogy: criminals and derelicts.

Hey dog, in ten or twenty generations no one will even know you ever existed, but at the name of Jesus every knee will bend and every tongue will say «Jesus is lord» People have loved Jesus for over two thousand years and his sheep (Including me) know his voice and follow him.