Sentences with phrase «backed stretch of»

The narrow, bluff - backed stretch of sand has a nearby reef popular with snorkelers and divers.

Not exact matches

Although there is a long history stretching back to the 1990s of legislation aimed at protecting religious minorities, a new batch of bills has cropped up in reaction to state movements to grant LGBT people the right to marry.

Why it's effective: Repeated, prolonged sitting at work typically causes the hip flexors and muscles of the lower back to tighten, allowing the hamstrings, gluteals and abdominals to stretch and atrophy.

The two hedge funds» frustration with United's board stretches back to August 2015, when the airline's well - liked chief financial officer left to join PayPal Holdings, one of the sources said.

There are plenty of ways to describe the stretch of time from September to December: it's back - to - school time, it's fall, it's the pre-Christmas rush.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), is Hong Kong's oldest tertiary institution, with a history stretching back over a hundred years.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

Lexus called it «the mastery of vehicle packaging» in a press release, but the company basically stretched a standard RX by 4.3 inches in the back.

The move comes as Sears tries to bounce back from a five - year stretch during which it lost more than $ 8 billion as it closed hundreds of stores and sales dropped sharply.

But Sonoma County, which stretches across nine cities and three times the land area of Napa County, is stealing visitors thanks to its laid - back atmosphere and affordability.

Kraft's comments on Fox News are part of an ongoing saga stretching back to 2005, when Kraft and other executives, including News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch and then Citigroup chief executive and chairman Stanford Weil met Putin in the Kremlin, allegedly to discuss business.

A couple of earlier models — notably a mountain bike and a stretch bike with room on the back for children — targeted younger riders.

While use of these RFRA laws has been part and parcel of the judicial landscape since the 1990s, the controversy over them is part of a long history of discrimination in the U.S. And the attempts to end that discrimination stretch all the way back to the Civil War.

He stretched his arms out behind him, then relinquished them to the force of gravity to swing around and smack his back.

The specifics of what evidence the DOJ provided were redacted, but were related to Page's ties to Russian officials and entities that stretch back to the early 2000s and the Russians» attempts to recruit Page as an unwitting agent in 2013 and earlier.

When that happens, «I analyze my outstanding obligations, look for a couple of bills that I can stretch out slightly longer, and get on the phone with my customers to get money back into the business as fast as possible.»

The decision to sell Wired as an Internet play — already a stretch of the imagination — now looked like a liability: even the stock of Yahoo!, whose price had more than tripled during its first day of trading, had since tumbled back to its offering price.

It's a striking change for a bank that has roots north of the border stretching back to 1864, before the confederation of Canada in 1867.

Whatever lies ahead for biotech in 2016, we can now look back on a 3 - year - long stretch of good times for the industry.

By looking to Europe, which has meticulous data collection practices and a history of paid leave stretching back to the 19th century, researchers have been getting a better and better handle on the extent to which varying amounts of paid leave can save kids» lives.

«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.

In 2012 Huawei surpassed Ericsson to become the world's largest maker of telecommunications equipment — and in the words of one recent report it «threatens firms with histories that stretch back more than a century.»

If venture investors across the spectrum could pull back just a little — resist investing in that marginal deal, maybe not stretch quite as much on valuation or perhaps provide a little less capital to a financing (giving the entrepreneur a chance to build a business with more capital efficiency); it certainly would be of significant help.

A tuck, a pulse, and a bend - stretch may have been a part of your day - to - day language in the past, but as you get back into regular routine, brush up on the Pure Barre lingo.

The principle behind Pure Barre's proprietary technique is to use precise, focused movements to work each major muscle group — including arms, thighs, seat and abdominals — to the point of fatigue, and then stretch the muscles back out to create a strong, lean and toned physique.

This amount of debt can be a massive burden for Americans in retirement, when most individuals need to cut back on expenses to stretch savings.

Between the trend away from pensions, some hard losses in the past few years (Dot Com and Housing crashes and resulting fear of stocks) and the emphasis recently on «give your kids everything» (private education, expensive colleges, etc etc etc), it does not seem like a stretch that retirement savings are put on the back burner.

Labor market tightness, on the back of previously strong gains, and the softening of corporate revenues and profits have made it hard for the jobs market to continue its long stretch of historic strength.

The company has strong brands, decent diversification, and a long history of consecutive annual dividend growth stretching back to the 1970's.

My firm, 720 Global, has repeatedly urged caution as valuations are currently stretched on the back of reckless Federal Reserve monetary policy and poor economic fundamentals.

In 2002, Lockheed debuted the Atlas - V, the latest installment in a storied lineup of related launch vehicles that stretches back to NASA's Mercury program.

After a run of weak inflation reports stretching back several months, there was a slight uptick in the October reading of the Fed's favored inflation measure, the core personal consumption expenditures price index.

Granted, stock prices rallied strongly in the final two weeks of our measurement period, which stretched from September 16th to October 28th, bringing most of the leading benchmarks back to within a percentage point or so of the heights reached in mid-September.

We've played back a lot of what we've written in the past and we realize our songs are starting to lose something when we stretch it out over a certain amount of time.

The study has been stretching back over the past few decades, and following the lives of 1500 intellectually «gifted» people.

Calling this guy a scientist when he is only a system administrator (back in the 80's we called them computer operaters) is a bit of a stretch.

Hey, if you can bring yourself to believe in a magic man in the sky and that people come back from the dead after three days, that particular flavor of Christianity isn't that much of a stretch.

And in just that apparent consensus about the ridiculousness of it all, amid all those ashes scattered over a Christian teaching stretching back two millennia, arises a fascinating and in fact exceedingly amusing modern morality tale — amusing, at least, to those who take their humor dark.

At this point, the first movie is set to come out this Christmas, and the second will hit December of 2013, but Warner Bros is definitely interested in exploring options for stretching things into a third movie, provided all the actors are willing to come back on for another round.

When the back of Jesus is bared and stretched tight, a Roman legionnaire steps forward with the flagrum (sometimes it is called a flagellum or cat - of - nine - tails) in his hand.

Jesus is stripped of His clothing, and His hands are tied to a post above His head so that the flesh of the shoulders and the back are stretched to the limit.

Obviously, it ends up being more about the state of America, since the Bible has a pretty good track record stretching back to oh, roughly, the beginning of time.

Nay, we must ever recall to mind, (which I have before adduced from the passage in Joshua,) that he was plunged into the filth of idolatry; and now God freely stretches forth his hand to bring back the wanderer.

Together, they reveal a culture of normalized whiteness, a pattern of microaggressions and institutional resistance to diversification efforts stretching back decades.

If the traditional beginning of the Japanese Kingdom, some twenty - six hundred years ago, be accepted as true, that would mean that it came into being about the time of Confucius, and Chinese culture stretches many many centuries back of Confucius» time.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

On the other hand, certain prominent forms of liberalism, with roots stretching back to the beginnings of modernity, have elevated privacy to the foundation of all rights and duties.

The task was not to defend the particular stream of Christianity in which my students had first touched the waters of baptism, but to show them that it was fed by a vast river stretching back two millennia.

«There is no real education without personal responsibility, and there is no responsibility without freedom» If true education is an education in the virtues then we can begin to see a link between the work of the Jubilee Centre and the work of the Benedictus College of the liberal arts, which places itself in a tradition stretching back through Blessed John Henry Newman, St Thomas Aquinas and St Augustine to Aristotle.