Sentences with phrase «death grip of»

The classic Bluetooth death grip of the Google Pixel, for example, will interrupt transmission, but otherwise these are very reliable wireless cans.

The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching ebook price fixing lawsuit between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.

The few schools that remained were in the death grip of aging parish populations, increased costs (the number of nuns in Memphis had dropped from 160 to 80), and dwindling enrollment.

I concentrated on everything I could in the moment to stop my mind from bossing me around and keep it from dragging me back to the death grip of anxiety.

«Perhaps the Labour front bench believes that having been mercifully released from the death grip of G Brown, it is now under no obligation to accept responsibility for his errors: that expunging the chief perpetrator was itself an absolution.»

I believe that God is enough, for me, and for them, and so I am learning to relax, unclench my hands, no death grips of control are required to teach and live a life of grace.

Not exact matches

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip.

Relax the death - grip of comparison on your own soul; it's crushing, isn't it?

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

It was through reading his works that I was first stirred from my religious slumbers and made aware of the unconscious despair that holds our culture in a veritable death grip.

As Dr. Tillich has pointed out, the Latin theory of the satisfaction of the divine honour through the death of Jesus has always gripped men because it meets the burden of guilt, the experience of moral failure, and the impossibility of «making up» for what we have done.

It's difficult to critique this in a spoiler - free way, but to use the example of A New Hope, while the Death Star was a looming, terrifying presence throughout, the big threat to our heroes in this film seems to appear quite late in the day, and seems more important as a plot device to bring key characters together than a genuinely gripping menace.

When the early church came to grips with the problem presented by the extraordinary career and the tragic fate of its Founder, it turned for elucidation to these passages of Isaiah, which speak of a life of service and a martyr's death.

In a gripping passage of Infinite Jest, one character observes that for recovering alcoholics, pathetically unironic and gauche expressions like «one day at a time» can make the difference between life and death.

Jesus sees the whole picture, and sees his priority as a victory over the spiritual forces of darkness, which enthral mankind in the grip of sin and death.

He knew that hers would be invisible stones, the kind she'd grip tighter each time she saw the man who once shared her bed but not her public humiliation, each time she heard the whispers of her neighbors or the loud, pretentious prayers of the men who had grabbed her and surrounded her and threatened to kill her, each time she heard rumors that the person who saved her would himself be put to death.

Boldest: Shari Johnson with «My Lesbian Daughter, The Bible, and Sex» «When I hear terms like «God's design» and «Biblical marriage» I have to wonder who decides these things... We keep a death grip on the scriptures that suit us — and the translation of those scriptures becomes more a matter of tradition, opinion and convenience than the Word of God.»

When he saved you from the grips of death and gave you an actual life worth living!

The Nobel Committee that gave him the 1957 Prize for Literature already felt him to be a significant moral and spiritual presence at forty - three (only Kipling won at a younger age): «Even in his first writings Camus reveals a spiritual attitude that was born of the sharp contradictions within him between the awareness of earthly life and the gripping consciousness of the reality of death.»

Their often too dreary attention to the reality of the death which awaited them and everybody else was for those ancestors of ours a way in which they made themselves come to grips with things that really matter.

And after his heart beat no more, he rested in the earth while the devil sang shrill victory songs, only to hear his whiny whimper when the God of Everything rose again, thrust away death's icy grip, and revealed afresh just who God was and is and is to be.»

I think an appropriate response to this analysis is an attitude of humility, a willingness to release the death grip I personally have on certain theologies and interpretations of Scripture.

After winning 16 straight division games over the past three years, the Colts have now lost two in a row, and face the real prospect of losing their death grip on the division.

I now realize that he's so used to the visuals of anew woman every night (through porn) and death - gripping that is why he had a difficult time.

Even when he finally drags himself out of their death grip, it's just to flop down three feet away, which invites more squashing.

T got both of our necks in a tandem death - grip and sat there terrified but refusing to leave while everybody jumped, shook and shimmied their wiggles out all around us.

For many the death of David Bowie from cancer in early January began a darkness that has yet to release its grip.

A 57 year - old teacher in Bimbilla in the Nanumba North district of the Northern Region, Tia Musah David, is in the grips of the police for allegedly beating his wife to death.

Ten years: That's how long Poloncarz expects it will take before the county's overdose death toll stops being considered a public health crisis, before the number of people dying of fatal overdoses falls and no longer grips the public consciousness.

Three Police officers are currently in the grips of the Ashanti Regional Police command over the death of a 27 - year - old man, Osei Tawiah, at Krofrom, a suburb of Kumasi.

It may look like this bird was gripped by the icy hand of death, but scientists will explain that it was actually calcified in the caustic waters of Tanzania's Lake Natron.

The death of these reptilian giants continues to exert an extraordinary grip on the human imagination.

Like most westerners, my image of North Korea was not a good one: a backward, totalitarian state, gripped by famine and ruled by fear, and in a state of uncertainty after the recent death of its leader Kim Jong - il.

In the iron grip of the military, drones have acquired a reputation as flying dealers of death.

As strange as anything from a novelist's imagination, black holes warp the fabric of spacetime and imprison light and matter in a gravitational death grip.

The fights between stingless bee colonies are epic in scale, according to John Paul Cunningham of Queensland University of Technology in Australia, with «swarms from the attacking and defending hives colliding midair and fighting bees falling to the ground locked in a death grip from which neither combatant survives.»

When the hold of the ego - mind feels like a death grip, yoga nidra, often translated as «yogic sleep,» can help.

So much so that even blood pressure was found to be a weaker predictor of cardiovascular health and death than grip strength.

The connection that grip strength has with future disease / disability, death, and the likelihood of cardiovascular disease in adults has been documented in other research.

Interestingly, grip strength was a better predictor of death or cardiovascular disease than blood pressure.

I may or may not have had a death grip on Russ while threatening his life if he went too fast, turned too sharp, or hit too big of a wave.

Furthermore, that comment is rooted in a fear of the future, and has a death grip on the past because at least those were «the glory years.»

The trailer for The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman really gripped me.

10:00 pm — TCM — Forbidden Games A young girl orphaned in an air raid on her French village gets taken in by a young boy's family, and the pair of them attempt to come to grips with the death and destruction they've seen, but don't have the age or maturity to really understand.

Hugely successful upon their original release, thanks in part to the skilled direction of Duccio Tessari («The Bloodstained Butterfly,» «Death Occurred Last Night»), the Ringo films proved influential on the Italian Western, spawning numerous unofficial sequels, due to their gripping set - pieces and unforgettable musical scoring by Ennio Morricone.

Along with a weary, but compliant Uncle «Red» (Sam Shepard, «Mud»), Russell embarks on a gripping, life and death journey across the underbelly of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Hence, all the marketing for Love Happens, from the trailer to the ads to the title itself, veer steeply away from the very real premise of the movie into the romance that happens amidst the movie's core story of a man coming to grips with the death of his beloved wife.

The film follows corrupt cop Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) as he loses grip on reality in the midst of the investigating the death of a Japanese student.

The tree in front of the Lisbon house contracts Dutch Elm disease, and the girls surround it with a death grip when construction workers come to take it down.