Sentences with phrase «before hitting the wall»

It differs from the regular game in that the ball — eight inches in diameter — must be slammed on the ground before it hits the wall.

Petty, his car fishtailing from the impact with Pearson's, continued several hundred yards before hitting the wall.

If science has limits, then it might be moving at maximum speed just before it hits the wall.

You can only add weight so long before hitting the wall.

However, I'm starting to wonder how long it'll be before I hit a wall and need to straight - up grind in order to progress.

I've honestly never gotten through the first world before hitting a wall and getting frustrated.

Stay on top of the hottest investment ideas before they hit Wall Street.

What makes the shield a game change is that not only does it make you impenetrable to enemy attacks, but that, if you activate it before hitting a wall, floor or ceiling, it makes you bounce.

Sensible people hit the brake before they hit the wall, even when they are unsure what they have seen is a wall.

«Obviously» any technological progress in history (e.g. agriculture) was just another turning of the vicious cycle: Saving the stupid from collapse so they could continue multiply more mess, until right before hitting the wall something new got invented.

Not exact matches

Founders don't imagine the wall before they hit it.

The idea is that before a civilization can make it very far along the Kardashev scale of intelligence, it hits a wall — a filter — and it dies.

Most of us know that feeling that usually rolls around at around 3 pm on a workday, when it seems as if you've hit a wall and need to somehow recharge before going back to work.

And that soon became two after Alexis» amazing run led to a free kich which he hit into the wall before rifling in the rebound.

That was evident in the World Series final when Desaulniers, who earned $ 5,000 for his victory, squelched the tough double boast — a shot that hits the two side walls before brushing the front wall and dying — that Anderson had employed in a 12 - 15, 15 - 13, 12 - 15, 15 - 7, 15 - 11 semifinal win over Khan.

I agree about them not getting the decision in the second half, but Giroud should have won a penalty, you know just before we got that free kick which Sanchez hit against the wall.

But, the 35 - year - old hit an absolutely sumptuous effort, that got over the wall, before kissing the crossbar and bouncing over the line.

His car spun to the left (maybe there was an issue) and hit the wall hard, before sliding across the corner and coming to rest on the other side of the track.

Blackmon came back from the timeout hitting balls real short of the wall, but got back into the swing of things with 30 seconds left and smacked another four before time elapsed to give him 14.

Anticipating the wall to jump the Liverpool playmaker slid the ball under the Brighton wall rather than over it and reeled away in celebration before the ball had even hit the back of the net.

Eric Dinallo is the fifth and final Democratic AG contender to hit the airwaves with a TV ad in advance of the Sept. 14 primary, launching a spot that features John Leguizamo lauding the candidate for, among other things, leading the fight to hold Wall Street accountable «before it was cool.»

At first Modha and his team hit a wall before they reached 40 percent of the number of neurons present in the mouse cerebral cortex: roughly 8 million neurons, with 6,300 synaptic connections apiece.

When the participants couldn't move their heads or torsos, they zigzagged down the virtual hall and were unable to self - correct before hitting a «wall.»

Known as a «test divertor unit (TDU) scraper element,» the component intercepts some of the heat flowing towards the divertor — a part of the machine that collects heat and particles as they escape from the plasma before they hit the stellarator wall or degrade the plasma's performance.

To avoid hitting the wall early, down a carb - free caffeinated drink before you start.

If you lead someone to their threshold — or what they think is too much pain — right at that moment, if they take another breath, it's like hitting a wall just before you cross the finish line in a marathon.

The ball can hit any number of walls, but must eventually hit the front wall before bouncing on the floor.

Similar to tennis, points are awarded when the receiver of the serve hits the ball out or misses the front wall, obstructs the server during the point or fails to strike the ball before it bounces twice.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

This means, if you are a 150 lb man with 20 % body fat, you could (assuming you replenish all the electrolytes, fluids, etc., and that your joints hold up) burn through 49,000 kcals before you hit «the wall.»

And then it was another nine months of this supremely nutrient - dense low - carb diet before I got pregnant, which probably put a great strain on my thyroid, and was the point when I hit a wall in terms of dealing with the eight years of increasingly acute and chronic stress of raising my oldest son who is ASD.

I'm sure you may have answered this question before, but felt like I hit a wall when reading and could use your help.

For athletes, MCTs increased both the level and time of exertion possible before «hitting the wall.»

If you don't, your mind might hit a wall before your body does and suddenly, you're in tears or reaching for the ice cream.

Thus, a possible invader will hit a virtual brick wall before reaching passwords, since using a dictionary attack becomes highly impractical, and, well, worthless.

For example, I was cutting through an alley to an objective when a tank rotated its turret in my direction, shot, missed and hit the wall above me sending debris falling on top of me as a helocopter was unloading rockets into the tank destroying it before my eyes.

His car hit a wall, but track officials suspect Medinger may have blacked out or had a heart attack before the crash.

It runs Windows 8.1 Pro, is powered by a 2.4 GHz Bay Trail processor from Intel and has a battery that should be good for a full day's work before needing to hit the wall outlet.

It runs Windows 8.1 Professional, is powered by a 2.4 GHz Bay Trail processor from Intel and has a battery that should be good for a full day's work before needing to hit the wall outlet.

A comb can be hit on a wall to create a basic shiv, ventilation shafts are good for hiding your most valuable stuff in and contraband can even be hid in a convict's desk before a search if you're quick enough.

Capture a Pokio and cling to the moving walls, jumping before you hit any of the spikes.

Bounce shots off walls to hit lurking enemies before they have a chance to attack!

There's the time I hit an enemy Titan with an Arc Grenade as I leapt over it before pulling out my Archer rocket, spinning round, sticking to the wall and finishing it off.

:P I mustn't have been paying attention, as I was racing around and got to a section I didn't think I could pass - drove into the water several times before thinking «damn, screw this, I'm outta here» and turned the car round to be met with one of the trap walls - that's when it clicked I needed to keep hitting B / circle throughout the level... Or am I just an idiot?

:P I mustn't have been paying attention, as I was racing around and got to a section I didn't think I could pass - drove into the water several times before thinking «damn, screw this, I'm outta here» and turned the car round to be met with one of the trap walls - that's when it clicked I needed to keep hitting B / circle throughout the level...

Heck, you could even just use the ice or fire rod, since their ranged capabilities give you just enough time to merge into the wall before or as the projectile hits the switch.

You hence need to hit the orb and then somehow merge into the wall before or as it spins to be carried to the other side.

The shield opens up tactical options that other games just don't have, and rather than being forced to play conservatively with shoot - and - run tactics, you can choose whether to fire grenades over walls and take cover frequently, or to charge right in and mix it up all the while hoping your Newtype response times will let you activate the shield just before the enemies» shots hit you, and that you can destroy the enemy before the shield overheats.

The purgatory level is haunted by ghosts, who can resurrect fallen enemies and cause them to come back even stronger — the solution is to either keep them away from the ghosts, or hit them towards the snake - like creatures in the walls, which will gobble them up before they can be brought back from the dead.

Usually made available just a few months before a game hits shelves, it can effectively create an unavoidable wall of publicity, creating news, contributing to previews, and giving players some first - hand experience to discuss.