Sentences with phrase «bent on sticking»

Kasapa FM «s Leticia Ohene Asiedu has been speaking to some traders at the Abossey Okai facility, which is home to shops that deal in car spare parts, and reports that the traders are bent on sticking to their demand for justifiable taxes.

I'm hell - bent on sticking to my grocery budget this month, which means by the end of the week its slim pickings in our kitchen!

There are many more issues of more weighty importance that they might talk about in the debate, but CNN moderators seem bent on sticking to the gotcha questions.

Not exact matches

He'd put his weight on a shot and you'd see his stick bend, bend, and all of a sudden — boom — he'd shoot it.»

«He'd put all his weight on his stick and you couldn't read when the puck was actually leaving his stick, because it would bend so much like a slingshot.

When you push down on the milk bottle top, the lolly stick catapult arm bends, giving it energy, when the arm is released the energy is released and transferred to the ping pong ball which flies through the air.

- Kim Conner (Check out Kim's blog, Inspiration Made Simple, for a step - by - step tutorial on bending popsicle sticks!)

The news stories that stick in my mind on the issue concern France and Germany using their clout to bend the rules when it suits them.

«The hand - outs offered today are a sticking plaster for the enormous challenges that families across Wales and the UK will face once this Government, hell bent on a hard - Brexit, pushes the eject button.

On the other hand, if the two plates were stuck together by friction, strain would build up in the rocks and the upper plate would bend down along the outer edge and thicken inland, humping upward until the rocks along the fault failed.

If the judges stick to their brief, it can not possibly win the prize, but it is a cracking good book and I am all in favour of bending the rules to put it on the short list and draw it to the attention of a wide audience.

What it also means is that it has a tendency to get stuck on things and bent out of shape.

Some seniors just stick to certain factors like strictly vegetarian or are hell bent on the age criteria.

They're hell - bent on delivering their outlandish argument with straight faces to the poor bastards stuck in Jacobi's dinner theatre.

About a month after I bought my car, I stuck the jack on the metal right next to the lift point so I could get the jack stand under there, and bent the heck out of the metal down there.

You've gotten stuck in the ditch on the left side so the odds are that there is a damaged or bent component on that side.

But with all the M Performance parts already stuck on, the lower centre of gravity, wider track and 50:50 weight distribution, I'm not sure this car could possibly do any better around the bends.

However, right now today, Russian gadget - maker Wexler is showing off its 6 - inch Flex One eReader, which has a screen that bend back ever so slightly to avoid breakage when you stick it in your pocket or drop it on the ground.

Threatening behavior — some examples: • Bending over a dog, or rousing him from his sleep • Reaching to touch a dog's head (when he doesn't want to be touched) • Staring into a dog's eyes (worse, at eye level, like toddlers do) • Trying to touch or remove a bone, a toy, a bowl of food or anything the dog wants • Screaming near the dog's face or producing other startling noises in his proximity • Running toward, past, or away from a dog • Walking too close to a dog on leash • Entering a protective dog's territory • Being afraid in the presence of a dog • Sticking a hand or finger (especially children) inside a dog's enclosure • Making threatening gestures, like raising a fist or wielding a stick • Causing pain, injury, or subjugation to a dog • Overexcitement during play can cause a friendly dog to nip or bite as he would a playmate.

In Vostok Inc., you play as a corrupt, narcissistic yuppie, hell - bent on raking in as much money as possible in a greed - driven, twin - stick shooter without a conscience.

The game bends over backwards to make sure the player never gets stuck on a problem, even providing multiple sets of online help systems to this end.

If I found $ 60 laying on the ground, the hardest work I'm going to do is bend over, pick it up, and stick it in my pocket.

You'll still have to use the «Monster Hunter Claw (controlling movement with your thumb on the analog stick and bending your pointer finger around the PSP to control the camera with the d - pad)» when shooting and targeting, but an upgrade allows for ranged weapon lock - on a little later in the game.

If the idea of swerving round precarious bends and navigating labyrinthine tracks on the stubby little thumb - stick irks you, however, we're pleased to report the Hori - built Mario Kart 7 steering wheel will be making its way to the UK this December.

Basically, a sharp hooped blade on the end of a long stick, these beauties allow you to easily weed large areas without bending over by simply dragging and / or pushing the end blade along just under the soil surface, slicing through plant stems and severing them from their roots.

Wang described the impact of the next inevitable great quake on a host of schools in the state that were built of unreinforced masonry before the danger was recognized: «They'll snap like candy canes instead of bending like licorice sticks.»

The beginning of the modern hockey stick on the revised Easterbrook (editied for 1855 - 2013 by Tom Curtis here and moved over 50 years by myself (sorry I don't know how to post that here) the temperature appears to bend upwards in the late 1700's, perhaps 1780.

As I've said over and over, I don't think that concerns over AGW stands or falls on the Stick; as I've also said over and over (and as bender says above), I think that AGW advocates over-rely on the Stick and its cousins as a cheap promotional tool and that they should work much harder at proper public expositions of their «real» arguments.

bender, the attempted analogy (# 392, # 397) between the decadal hockey stick shenanigans and your own intemperate response to David Stockwell's obscure and tentative blog posts here and on Niche Modeling in the last five days would I think be hilarious to everyone, if you alone did not take yourself so seriously.

«Nearly a decade after the crash, the mainstream media still seems hell - bent on portraying people born between 1982 and 2004 as a bunch of decadent and «fun - employed» narcissists who piss their parents» money away on matcha green tea lattes, spend too much time Instagramming their pets, and are thus responsible for the economic rut they're stuck in.

For trim, room corners, and edges, use a spray adhesive on the underside of the stencil, then position the stencil, overlapping the pattern edges, so that one part sticks, and the part that needs to bend is free.