Sentences with phrase «at the knees about»

Put your feet on the ground so that your legs are bent at the knees about 90 degrees.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

preacherlady said, on December 10th, 2009 at 11:19 pm fishon... what about ``... EVERY knee shall bow... EVERY tongue confess...»?

In the play Ephigenia had leave to weep, really she ought to have been allowed like Jephtha's daughter two months for weeping, not in solitude but at her father's feet, allowed to employ her art «which is but tears,» and to twine about his knees instead of presenting the olive branch of the suppliant.

If some visitor from another planet, knowing nothing at all about this world of ours, should drop down upon us, he would surely find that the biped who was erect had a peculiar characteristic marking his behavior — he would observe this creature on his knees in what the creature called «the presence of the invisible God.»

The case of Paul Boe — a minister found guilty of contempt of court for refusing to testify about what he saw at Wounded Knee — poses some significant legal and theological problems with some wider implications of the clergy confidentiality issue.

I recently posted at my blog about a sweet potato apple bake with a side of wilted greens that made me weak in the knees.

I know nothing about «cooking» — an unhappy childhood meant I learned nothing «at my mother's knee»; heating rations when in the Army doesn't count as cooking by any stretch of the imagination!

I don't know about you, but I'm sort of getting weak at the knees...

The Vikings aren't foolish enough to have doubt about Teddy's knee in any fashion and then put themselves in position to have to depend on that knee holding up for their team to have a shot at being successful.

It does appear to be good news about the knee injury picked up by Francis Coquelin in the Arsenal game at Chelsea, with the early rumours suggesting that the midfielder could be out for a month proving to be wrong.

And in the same interview, Wenger reveals that the knee problem picked up by Mesut Ozil that looks like keeping our record signing off the pitch for months, was known about at halftime in the match at Chelsea.

«He lives for himself, and he lives for Michelle, and he doesn't give a crap about anything else,» Brian said one afternoon last fall as he sat at home, a cup of hot tea resting on his knee.

2 PUT BOTH HANDS on the back bumper and bend your knees at an angle of about 90 degrees.

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

Odds are you'll be OK, at least brain-wise (who knows about your knees and shoulders), but four guys on your team won't be.

He hasn't been able to run much since he retired with arthritic knees, but he has upped his workout regimen (weights, stationary bike, walking with Bobbye) and, despite a voracious appetite, keeps his weight at about 225 pounds on a 6» 5» frame.

For Boutin the weeks leading up to the Prix Omnium had not been without controversy, and at one point he got caught in a media cross fire about the tender subject of Arazi's knees when he was quoted in a British racing paper, the Racing Post, as saying, «Personally, I don't think that his knees are any better now than they were before.

Throw in the questions he obviously had about his knee, and it's completely understandable that he was a bit overwhelmed at first.

If this story about Arsenal sending Mesut Ozil off to the international break with Germany carrying a knee problem that he may have been carrying during the Premier League clash with Chelsea on Sunday is true, it would at least answer the questions about why our 25 - year old playmaker seemed to struggle to influence the game in the same way as the Chelsea midfielders Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas did.

One thing that disappointed me about the knee - jerk reactions was the negativity aimed at our new recruit, Jordan Hugill.

Liverpool's midfielder Lucas Leiva has missed a large chunk of his time at the club through injury and aving recently returned after a lengthy lay - off with a thigh injury which he picked up not long after returning from a cruciate knee ligament injury has been speaking to the website Globoesporte about how he is feeling since his return.

EXAMPLE TWITTER INJURY REPORT POST: NFL Oakland Raiders — Darren McFadden, Knee, Out — will miss 2 - 4 weeks about 16 hours ago from API ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NCAA FB Oklahoma State — Kendall Hunter, Ankle, Doubtful — missed last game, is downgraded to doubtful Saturday (10/10) at Texas A&M about 21 hours ago from API

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has confirmed that the Old Trafford club are in talk with Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic about a possible return for the club once he has recovered from a knee injury which ended his season at United and on his release from the club, possibly even his career at the Theatre of Dreams.

There is the revealing joke about the man who is on his hands and knees under a streetlamp at night, looking for his lost car keys.

-- Preventing parent falls with child in carrier: When moving about, always have a steady stance, hold the rails when walking up / down stairs, bend at the knees not at the waist.

The study looked only at injuries that required the children to be sent to emergency care at a hospital or clinic, so we're not talking about band - aids or scraped knees here.

Hovering around them at the playground and making sure they never fall may save them a few scraped knees, and even a broken arm, but what about the balance, confidence, and experiences they may be missing out on?

But hey, what about that grandson or nephew or young cousin who's listening at pop - pop's knee, or who's playing with their toys on the floor as ole cousin Raymon» spouts off about «heritage and the Confederacy»...

Acknowledge the incidence wherever he was at his next speaking engagement since he was not in the country but still had to show leadership Instead, our president's Twitter account handlers begun a knee - jerk reaction by tweeting on social media about the incidence and in such an infantile and useless manner, this was done on three occasions which demonstrates a lack of clear thought to convey one simple message.

Her position as a talked - about subplot to the saga was duly secured and several grown men went weak at the knees.

Appearing at the commission meeting in a knee - length dress — a more conservative outfit than the short red miniskirt she wore with black pumps last week when she was photographed coming home with Lopez — Battaglia ducked several questions about Lopez and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver but was happy to discuss her $ 54,000 position on the planning board.

I've also talked about better air service for South Dakota, and I've talked about a holocaust museum for Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

Another reason, at least for some of us who think about these things instead of reacting with knee - jerk partisanship, is that it does nothing to address the underlying problems.

Paired with a mentor who aimed to give him a broad look at the intersection of health services research and medicine, Neiman worked on a paper about total knee replacement, a project surveying part of the FDA's drug approval process, and another study about shared decision - making between patients and doctors.

We have known about their double knees since at least 1864, but not why they have them.

Raised on the knee of science — her father taught her and her two brothers from a young age about geology, physics, and natural history — Alice Ting now stands firmly on her own two feet among the faculty at MIT's Chemistry Department, where her objective is to «simultaneously harness the power of genetics and the power of chemistry» using new technologies developed in her lab for imaging protein trafficking, protein - protein interactions, and enzymatic activity.

Seat height: You should have a slight bend in your knee at the bottom of the pedal stroke, and when you fully extend your leg, with your knee locked out, your heel should dip to about 3/4 inch away from the ground.

For example, Halbower - Fenton says: â $ We've â $ ˜ protectedâ $ ™ ourselves right out of one of our natural, survival instincts, proprioception, that instant reaction to buckle at the knee when you're about to turn your ankle.

- Attach a rope to a pulley station set at about chest level - Grab both ends of the rope with an overhand grip - With arms completely outstretched, step back and bend the knees slightly or even better, kneel on one leg - Retract the scapula, squeeze the rotator cuff muscles and pull the weight towards your face - Externally rotate your hands so the knuckles are facing the ceiling - Hold for one second, then slowly return to the original position

Slowly lower your hips until both knees are bent at about a 90 - degree angle and the left knee is close to touching the floor.

• Position the feet at shoulder - width apart, rotate them out about twenty degrees and make sure that your toes are always aligned with your knees.

Bend at the knees and hips as though you are about to sit in a chair, until your thighs are parallel with the floor.

Form: Inhale and bend your knees and hips until you get to about chair height (90 degrees at the hips).

Keep in mind we are talking about a full, deep Back Squat, where the knee angle is at 60 degrees or the crease of the hip is lower than the knees.

Moderate Weight / Moderate Rep (13 — 15 each side) * Choose a platform where the height will put your knee at about a 90 - degree angle.

If that doesn't happen, knuckle implants — like artificial knees — tend to break down after about 10 to 15 years, at which point the finger begins to feel unstable and wobbly, Dr. Weiss says.

Slide down and walk the feet out until your knees are at about 90 - degree angles (or as close as you can get) and hold, keeping the abs contracted, for 20 - 60 seconds.