Sentences with phrase «by wriggling»

After an hour of amusing your rabbit by wriggling your arms just out of reach of him, your pet might give you renewed hope by finally making a move in your direction — only to give your hand a sniff (did she bring me a snack yet?)

These reptiles, real and robotic, are sidewinders — they move forward not by slithering, but rather by wriggling their bodies perpendicular to the direction of travel in a undulating S - shaped wave.

Ask Barclays about ABN Amro, or Energy Transfer, which recently preserved $ 6 billion of much - needed cash by wriggling out of its far larger purchase of rival pipeline operator Williams.

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So don't try and wriggle out of that by claiming a comfortable win was just cause for acting like a moron pre-game.

Minutes later Holloway appeared to have been stopped by several tacklers, but each time he wriggled free and when he was done he had run 20 yards for another TD as the Volunteers held off Tech 20 - 14.

Los Angeles is a specter to these fans, something that has wriggled into their heads by its mere possibility.

Mane then wriggled away from Michael Keane to feed Solanke for a low shot blocked by Coleman.

He may even react by turning his little head, wriggling or jumping as his startle reflex kicks in.

Try to ascertain the baby's proper size by reading the weight chart, or checking the fit of the diaper when baby is asleep and not wriggling around.

It also comes down to how you feel about sharing your bed with a wriggle - meister, and some parents are put off by a whole range of downsides:

Try having your little one «teach» their teddy to use the loo by sitting it on the potty, and watch for cues that they may need to go as well, such as wriggling or holding their crotch.

Some mums swear by spending time on all fours and wriggling their hips to encourage their baby to turn, while others gently bounce on a birthing ball to help get the pelvis to open.

They are also much more likely to try to undress themselves by this age, so firm fastenings mean the parent isn't always redressing their child, but remember too that this age group wriggle a lot more whilst having their diaper changed so ease of fastening is a must.

As regards the life jacket itself, it should fit snugly but not tightly, ensuring that it can not get snagged on branches or underwater hazards, but, also that the child does not feel overly restricted by the life jacket, and also that they can't wriggle out of it.

The buckle, a critical part of the restraint, should be secure enough to contain a wriggling child, yet easily operated by an adult.

11:28 - Ian Davidson, the Labour MP for Glasgow South West, kicks off by backing the bill because «the government can not be trusted and therefore it is necessary to put this down in legislation to allow them no wriggle - room whatsoever».

Evidently May calculates that delivering to pledge to «leave» the EU by March 2019 will give her some wriggle room with those aching for an even more macho approach than the UK government has already unwisely taken.

Will No. 10 try to wriggle through it somehow, perhaps by rebranding their customs partnership?

He made Cabinet ministers wriggle by reading out their rebellious quotes until being interrupted by speaker Michael Martin.

It allowed the government to wriggle off the hook on the day it lost a safe seat in a by - election.

c. Gifted with exceptional communication skills — strongly biased towards conveying detailed requirements, in writing, without any ambiguity or loop - holes which could be exploited by Defence Contractors for their own advantage later on, in the contract performance phase, to wriggle - out of contractually binding commitments.

By amplifying electronic waves instead of light waves, a novel device wriggles around the size limit for conventional lasers

They do this by bending their heads, angling them through the opening, and wriggling their bodies back and forth, after which they form a loop with the part already past the opening.

In seven videos made by remotely operated vehicles (one off the California coast, six near oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico), the researchers observed G. bonplandi wriggling the fleshy clubs on the ends of its tentacles in a way that resembles the undulations of a small, swimming animal (see video).

For the sites with natural night, researchers measured pollination by patrolling set paths and catching any insect wriggling on a flower — in complete darkness, of course.

The nematodes without magnetic nanoparticles continued to wriggle forward, completely unaffected by the magnetic field.

Wriggling like a garden hose, each southward kink in the wind tends to be balanced out by a northward bend somewhere else.

Larvae wriggle violently if disturbed and drop from the leaf suspended by a silken strand.

The Family Stone (20th Century Fox) directed and written by Thomas Bezucha, is a very heavy - handed home - for - the - holidays romantic sitcom with cancer thrown into the mix — which makes it both a would - be crowd - pleaser and a wriggling hunk of Oscar bait.

As hazel, dogwood and wild cherry go in, there's a shriek, as a worm is picked up by one of the boys who lets it wriggle across his palm.

He has to wriggle out by offering a cover for a cowardly act?

It's easy to get swept along by this prototype because it gives so much feedback — the steering wriggling and writhing around under power, weight ebbing and flowing with the road and your progress through any corner, and the engine providing really accurate response all the way from 3500 to 6000rpm.

Ken wriggles down into the now cushion-less seat and looks about as happy as I would if I was about to be hurled around by some bloke I hardly know.

A Siberian will climb fences, leap fences, dig under fences, wriggle under gates, even eat through fences, slip through doors and windows, slip out of collars and harnesses... all in the name of an opportunity to explore the world — and get into whatever trouble he or she can find: hit by moving traffic as the Siberian Husky has no street sense or homing instinct whatsoever, free to chase and kill cats and other small pets, get into dogfights, chase horses and cattle (thus being at risk for injury by kicking or being shot by livestock owners), find poisoned or spoiled meat, pick up ticks and other parasites.

It's tempting to treat a small dog as a toy, but most dogs are very uncomfortable being carried by a child and many learn to wriggle (and sometimes snap) as a way to be put down.

In other sculpture, the artist's forearms become wings, pierced only by feathers — and in one those feathers, motor driven, get to wriggle.

They writhe and wriggle, each tubular body created by a swerve of Long's mud - stick.

The Italian artist Carol Rama's subversive, sexually explicit body of work included a painting of a woman with a snake wriggling out of her vagina, so it is perhaps no wonder that her first exhibition, in 1945, was shut down by the Turin police.

Intestinal forms in baby pinks and blues wriggle and quiver like serpents hypnotised by a snake charmer — though arguably the fibreglass supports detract from the effect.

In Caughtinmoment Lorna Mills continues her explorations of the gif as an iconic visual form of the online environment by breaking down images of sunrises and sunsets into pixelated components that wriggle and twist in mechanical, jerky motions.

JEQU3001 GALLERY AT UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTSLike a good tagline, the final phrase of the wriggling, poetic manifesto accompanying «BLEU,» the latest exhibition by...

You will not wriggle out of this by closing your eyes, ignoring the result of the calculations or lying about what I have said.

You are wriggling by trying to introduce distractions.

The IPCC can't just wriggle away from its responsibility by pleading that the review was written by an «independent guy, and any consequences are nothing to do with them.

Yes of course Titley would like us to believe that the peer - review process is credible and robust because that way, he and his similarly slippery colleagues might be able to wriggle out of the proposal currently being touted by EPA chief Scott Pruitt that there should be a Red Team / Blue Team reassessment of the state of climate science.

So Mr Chris H - S, keep on pointing out that on a close reading of subsection 7, clause 7 para 16 (as amended by subsequent resolutions as needed) means that what the IPCC said wasn't exactly what they meant and so they have suddenly invented academic wriggle room.

By letting Member States wriggle out of doing their fair share, MEPs have seriously failed in their duty to hold them to account.»

He wants to say it is settled that man is causing major global warming, but when accurately reported as saying this, he objects and wriggles out of it by saying some mere details of this consensus are not settled.

If we are going to get this arbitary 80 % reduction by 2050 then an agressive kick - ass cap and trade with no loopholes for corporate lawyers and / or accountants to wriggle through is essential.

So ever since Galileo spotted the moons of Jupiter and van Leeuwenhoek watched his animalcules wriggle around, the rest of us have been fascinated by this invisible world made present for us by clever scientists and engineers.