Sentences with phrase «examples as sticks»

When we think of the ordinary things that make up the world, we are most likely to give such examples as sticks and stones and tables and chairs.

Not exact matches

Seely Brown brought up the car as the best example — it's a piece of technology into which we stick a key, and it works.

For example, if you can make top - notch cinnamon rolls, then stick with that instead of trying to bake something that you're not as skilled at.

Quick example: managers of actively managed funds investing in international stocks will use the EAFE index as their measuring stick and try to beat it.

Under Reporting Organic Reach We'll stick with the same example as above.

I'm curious, what is it about sticking with it for 3 years (as opposed to 2, for example) that you chose 3?

I also would have used The Spaghetti Monster as an example but Olsen used Bigfoot so I stuck with that.

It is easy for Christians, for example, to get stuck on abstract issues, such as whether the believing community ought to be — in terms borrowed from H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ - and - culture typology — «above» the political order, «in tension» with it, «transforming» it, «of» it or «against» it.

As with the «fire» example; you really can't have that arrogant knowledge that we believers in Him have unless you stick your hand in the fire so to speak.

If any of you are enemies of what our ancestors used to brand as enthusiasm, and are, nevertheless, still listening to me now, you have probably felt my selection to have been sometimes almost perverse, and have wished I might have stuck to soberer examples.

(For example: American recipes might say «one stick of butter» - this translates to 8 tablespoons or 100 grams) You might find it worthwhile to invest in some «cups» and «measuring spoons» as well as a small kitchen scales (all readily available in most asda, tesco, etc) to help you get to grips with correct measurements.

Box ball, for example, is played within boxes formed by the cracks in the sidewalk, and sewers or manhole covers are integral features of stick ball, as are cornices, fire escapes, lampposts, even trees.

I feel really down when I see how the fans easily change their minds game by game... You can not define who is class and who is sh*t either because of your ignorance or because of your biasness... As an example, I have been saying Giroud is a bad option to lead our majestic attack (is it so difficult to see that) and I got so many sticks for saying that, but after one bad (bad is usual but really bad) performance from Giroud all of sudden all of you calling for his head... Another example is Mert, he is far to be good enough, it is only Kos who makes him look good... If Kos had a bad day with Mert playing good, I give Mert credit, but I never change my mind that he still not good to be starter...

While I don't agree that the church's «message should be one of... finding a partner, getting married and sticking together» — given the many ways to live well today, that's an extremely narrow and heteronormative view — the book does speak to the ways the church is a place of support, friendship and guidance for men, whether by offering engaging activities (at the risk of sounding cliche, group sporting events for example) or teaching classes to build marketable skills or acting as an employment center to help them find meaningful careers with decent wages or offering essential mental health counseling.

As long as you tune into the child, learn all you can about good fatherhood, follow the example of other dads, give up or spread out a few of your favorite non-family activities and stick to a few key principles of effective fathering, you will do finAs long as you tune into the child, learn all you can about good fatherhood, follow the example of other dads, give up or spread out a few of your favorite non-family activities and stick to a few key principles of effective fathering, you will do finas you tune into the child, learn all you can about good fatherhood, follow the example of other dads, give up or spread out a few of your favorite non-family activities and stick to a few key principles of effective fathering, you will do fine.

Ensure that snacks are nourishing; for example, offer finger foods such as toast, chopped fruit, cooked carrot sticks or a slice of fruit loaf (brack).

They also tend to be very sticky and stick to baby's teeth, so we don't recommend offering them to your baby to eat «as they are» (as a finger food, for example) on a regular basis.

The best indication that this is the case is the fact that, in the YouGov poll for the IPPR, for example, 96 % of Tory and 97 % of Labour voters are assumed to stick with their current parties as first preference.

As the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris moves closer, New York can either lead by example or continue to cling to policies that keep us stuck in the past.

In the example above, simple plurality voting produced an anomalous outcome because the alcohol drinkers stuck together: wine and beer drinkers both nominated the other as their second preference and gave milk a big thumbs - down.

For example, she says that older participants were less inclined to like and use bolder spices and herbs like cayenne pepper or cilantro and tended to stick to milder flavors such as paprika or garlic.

The gold particles could have stuck to the leaves after being blown there as dust, for example.

Instead, they struggle with words, often repeating the beginning of a word, for example «G - g - g - g - g - ood morning» or get stuck with single sounds, such as «Ja» for «January» although they know exactly what they want to say.

For example, as Jack was saying, we can stick a quantum dot onto various molecules to identify compounds that bacteria will regularly ingest.

For example, chimpanzees use sticks to «fish» for ants and termites, stones to crack nuts, as well as tools for grooming and communication.

For example, if you're stuck at 150 lbs for 10 reps on the bench press, instead of doing the same thing forever, try loading 165 pounds on the bar and perform as many reps as possible with good form.

Looking to them as an example, we see the value of sticking with a new recycling routine.

What I mean is, sticking with the same 3 sets of 6 - 8 reps example, if you did 7, 6, 5 on an exercise, your goal next time is NOT to just bring that 3rd set to 6 reps and just maintain the other two as they are.

Sticking with the bench press as an example, it may only consist of the pectoralis muscles, the deltoids and the triceps but the pectoralis is a massive muscle (comparatively for the upper body) but this explains why it is one of the best measures of upper body strength there is available.

For example, bread doesn't stick around in the archeological sites as well as bones.

This could be, for example, when you hit a plateau or sticking point, or when you want to use a special occasion as a stimulus for improving your body composition.

For example, when spotting on bench, help just through the sticking point, then, as the leverage improves, reduce your help as the bar comes up, letting up completely as the bar comes to the top.

(Guys who, for example, write as if they failed third grade English, who send form letters to girls, who like to photograph themselves taking muscle poses in the mirror, and guys who have an affinity for emailing girls pictures of their meat - sticks.)

Well the film was wide release, so it makes sense there wasn't an entirety of focus on the specifics, but I still think it would have worked better if it was more like the trailers professed intentions; doco style, with vignettes of alien / human scenes that emphasized and helped explain, not found footage either, like for example, after talking about Wikus in the past tense, it could focus on him for a bit then move on, but it stuck with him, and the film changed gears, I just thought it would have been better to focus on other things, as opposed to dumbing the plot down to one man and his battle against the evil government / corporation, and still stay in the doco style, it could have worked, no?

For example, I watched as Romney connected a Wii - style nunchuk controller with one thumbstick to one of the control stick jacks and a pair of pedals to the trigger ports.

Perhaps for their future efforts, Vaughn and Wilson, as well as director Levy (Night at the Museum, The Pink Panther), can learn from the example of Google itself by trying to innovate with their material rather than stick to the same old ideas that were popular a decade ago and think they will always work.

Spielberg had played down his Jewishness as a child, and judging by his films, the habit stuck: in the Indiana Jones films, for example, all religions get equal time, with Christian and Jewish relics (the Holy Grail and Ark of the Covenant, respectively) given equal billing, while Nazis figured as comic villains as recently as 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

For example a fast ball is straight back and forth where as a curve will have your rotating the right analog stick.

This is no bad thing though, because Super Pang was quite frankly a brilliant example of furious arcade shooter action and though it serves as the core inspiration for The Bug Butcher, the developers have done a cracking job of modernising the concept and sticking on the sorts of bells and whistles to bring it kicking and screaming into 2016.

It was a time of «seat - of — your - pants, barely - making - it, scrappy - renegade, throw - enough - stuff - against - the - wall - that - you - hope - something - sticks» filmmaking, and thankfully, we have Used Cars as one of the better examples of this short - lived comedy movement.

I saw an example of the power of making this last school year when some of my students, who'd normally struggled in a traditional class, created things such as a working catapult fashioned out of popsicle sticks, rubber - bands and cardboard.

I used the extra examples as a chance for pupils to improve their independence if they got stuck!

For example, 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have now enacted legislation which allows groups of parents and teachers to create charter schools, which are not stuck with having to fulfill as many of the myriad of state regulations and can create their own individualized approach.

Getting on for 14 years old and with 87,000 miles on the clock, it nevertheless seems like a remarkably honest, unmolested example, carrying a predictable ragbag of minor niggles that would be easy to put right: a dodgy sunroof seal that generates a gale of wind - noise at speed (alleviated by raising the tilt action of the sunroof an inch or so); an adjustable steering wheel that seems to be stuck in a rather low - slung position (not a problem for me or, presumably, for Mark as it's his daily driver); and, perhaps unsurprisingly, a slightly tappety tickover.

Simultaneously, via the two USB ports in the centre console storage bin, you can listen to music from a different source (from a memory stick, as an example) and still make phone calls and receive navigation prompts from the phone.

(I will stick to copyediting in this case for the sake of example, but the principles apply to developmental and substantive editing as well, sometimes more so.)

All I will say is that amateur blogs such as this are good examples of why folks should stick to reading professional news sites and magazines that are properly curated and edited.

Sticking with Mark Dawson's book descriptions as an example, here is part of a blurb from another one of his thrillers:

We will stick with «romance» as our genre example for the purpose of this post.

For example, it is your job to send in any documentation that your creditors send you, and you have to stick to the program contract and payments, in order for the program to work successfully, therefore make sure the company describes your obligations as well.