Sentences with phrase «by sticking up»

Critics like Clement Greenberg and Meyer Schapiro earned their intellectual chops by sticking up for American art.

He doesn't quite fit in among his peers, but gains their respect by sticking up for himself.

Trying to argue for intellectual diversity and good faith by sticking up for kink is like trying to get high - school students excited about reading Romeo and Juliet by comparing it to Fifty Shades of Grey — it's not just ridiculous, but dishonest.

Not exact matches

Before you enter into any partnership, you should be willing to take the vow: Will you stick by this person through the ups and downs, the successes and failures, in good times and in bad?

It would be hand done, Chaulk explained, by men wearing gloves: a giant game of pick - up sticks, bit by bit, with the family looking on.

The problem is starting to reek of the mortgage crisis, when banks made oodles by selling bad loans to hedge funds that were layering on leverage to bolster returns — just before the loan market dried up and banks were stuck with the bad loans themselves.

That's not by design, but if you stick a couple hundred people with multiple Wi - Fi devices who all want to stream Netflix, YouTube, and Spotify, it's impossible to keep up.

According to a CNBC report, RBC Capital Markets analyst Joseph Spak wrote to clients, «By owning the asset, we believe [Tesla] may be trying the investing partner approach they have taken with shareholders and asking them to stick with them for something they potentially didn't sign - up for.»

But studies are piling up that show, by and large, we're stuck with the rhythms we're born with.

People stick their money under the mattress, they don't put it to work,» says Leo Piccioli, who used to work at Officenet, a stationery and supplies start - up bought in 2004 by Staples, the US office supply chain store, and is now that company's Argentina country manager.

Those kids products named by EWG include Banana Boat Kids Sunscreen Lotion, SPF 100; Coppertone Sunscreen Lotion Kids, SPF 70; and Up & Up Kids Sunscreen Sticks, SPF 55.

Some made «crack sticks» by crushing up a filter from an electronic cigarette, coating it with Orajel pain reliever, and smoking it.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

One of the most common reasons that traders never make it to the top of the trading «mountain», is that they get stuck in an insane cycle of placing trades, obsessively watching the price of the instruments they're trading as it moves up and down, and fiddling with the trade while it's live, typically by exiting too early or too late.

When Dan's relaxed — comfortable — he's vulgar... like what you'd imagine [for someone] in an investment community: «By the way, shove this — stick it up his ass.»

Vacuum growth was driven by Stick and Robotic Vacuums, with Stick up 28 % in during the two key holiday months.

The transaction started out as a hostile takeover bid, with Aurora entering into a lock - up agreement with four major CanniMed shareholders.CanniMed's management retaliated by adopting a tactical shareholder rights plan, which was in turn challenged in court (and ultimately stuck down as an improper defensive tactic).

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And if Trump sticks to his campaign promises, his administration may very well end up swimming in red ink: according to reputable estimates, if carried out, Trump's spending and tax plans, including his plans for infrastructure spending and wall - building, and his promise to retain some of the most expensive parts of Obamacare, will boost government borrowing by roughly a third within a decade, and could double it by 2036.

Not much... he could've done the same thing by going in front of his congregation wearing flesh - colored underwear, sticking his tongue out, standing up on the baptistry and twerking... then crying foul when he gets fired... what this tells me is that we're all idiots for being so predictably drawn into these types of stories... this is shameless self - promotion, plain and simple... and he wins because we're dupes...

The world is black and white and anything else is seen as soft... I can tell you for a fact that he is viewed positively by a large majority of scheme people who find his views odd but like the fact he sticks up for himself against the posh establishment.»

Actually the MAJORITY DO N'T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE that why you had to have the peoples will overturned in court and in every place where gays needed a vote for marriage it was overturned or the heads of gov rammed it down peoples throats and why are sticking up for Tom you aren't US citizen by birth either?

When you make the greatest virtue of «standing up for your faith,» people judge their faithfulness by using conflict as a measuring stick.

From the aisle seat where I was sitting I could have stuck out my foot and tripped him up, and might easily have done so, had my attention not been arrested by a still, small voice, as it were, asking, «Coffin, what part of that sentence are you objecting to?»

If you could rewrite your life, which would you choose: First, you could go with what you have now, and the relationship with God you have now through years of sticking by Him, and struggling with questions and fears, and fighting off temptation, and making wise decisions (that sometimes turn out to be unwise), and persevering through temptation, and learning what you know about God, Scripture, and theology, but ending up as a relative «nobody» in the Churchianity.

Steve, if I was gay, I'd control my urges by greasing up my pole and sticking it up butts, or have the reverse done to me.

I happen to have met Bill Nye, in person, and in my opinion he's a conceited stuck up arrogant jacka $ $ who's managed to convince himself that because he had a «science» fair gig on a local comedy tv show in Seattle (Almost Live) that then got picked up by the Disney corporation that he now has qualifications that greatly exceed his actual faculties.

All my time has been sucked up by THE PUBLIC POLICY DIMENISON OF BEING STUCK WITH VIRTUE CONFERENCE, which was a huge success.

Once bumped out of the groove in which we have been stuck for decades, it will be easier for parish priests to take up some of the reforms which have been encouraged gently by Pope Benedict, to be frightened no longer by traditional vestments and vessels for Mass, by the possibility of at least some celebrations of Mass being ad orientem, or by gently moving away fromanti - liturgical informality.

So as you are snuggling up by the fire in your Christmas footie pajamas and stirring your homemade hot chocolate with a sweet smelling peppermint stick, here are some fun facts about the Christmas story to make your appreciation that God came to Earth that much sweeter:

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

I've been accused of sticking my head in the sand or giving up too easily or being naive by my more political - minded friends.

Why is anyone surprised by Bill Nye, The Science Guy, sticking up for science?

In my effort to clean up a shelf, as per usual I got stuck in the effort by some of the reading material.

Almost as good as god commanding somebody be put to death for working on the sabbath by picking up sticks..

The Franciscans who had so enraged Luther before Leipzig, stuck to their guns, drew in Eck and got Luther's bishop to speak; in a letter to Staupitz, Luther wrote of his bishop, «He is only a wretched bladder blown up by Eck's wind».

I opened up all my cupboards, thought about what kind of nutrition I wanted to get out of my snack (fiber, vitamins, minerals, protein, carbs, heathy fats), chopped a dark chocolate bar in half, turned on my hob, added some water to a small pot, took out a bowl and threw in a bunch of seemingly random ingredients, rolled that dough into truffles, dipped them in what was by then melted chocolate, stuck the truffles in the freezer for 8 minutes and BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were ready!

I might not be sticking up notes as lovely and set out as yours; but I know the pain of being surrounded by paper note walls.

By the way, it is perfectly okay for some ham to stick up over the edges.

Add the wine to the pot, scraping any stuck bits off the bottom, then turn the heat all the way up and reduce it by half.

Although originally a Cantonese dish, it is usually served up in our Chinese restaurants and oftem utterly massacred by including those awful fish sticks rather than delicate and sweet white crab meat.

Growing up everyone went to a church or was involved with God in some way, you sort of stuck with your own religious group, nobody I knew was gay or queer in any form (minus one guy that was brave enough to be himself and was constantly bullied for it), the only people of color I knew personally could be counted on my two hands, and about a third of them were adopted by white people in my church.

What if, by creaming sticks of butter into sugar to make cookies and mixing up pots of spiced wine, we could somehow infuse the essence of hygge into our own lives?

Interestingly, as they froze, the sticks were pushed up a bit by the freezing liquid.

These brownies look AMAZING but, as a British follower, could you tell me how much butter is in a «stick» I don't want to mess it up by using too much / too little.

«We're not looking to create any sort of hockey stick growth profile, but are going to keep up that growth pattern by moving into the best, coolest, fun markets in America,» League says.

Now add the chicken stock and deglaze the pan by scraping up the browned bits stuck to the bottom of the pan.

If there's room in the fridge, you can speed up the process by sticking the food processor bowl with the chocolate into the refrigerator for about 10 minutes, but no longer.

Ishida says the system can reduce breakages by 30 % compared with similar salt stick systems while delivering a top speed of up to 110 bags per minute.