Sentences with phrase «for the dead weight»

I was only talking about Arizona's appetite for dead weight contracts.

The second adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize - winning novel about a populist - leaning stump - thumper modeled after Huey Long, the film garnered attention first for its sterling cast and Tiffany pedigree, then for its sudden disappearance from last year's Oscar slate, only to appear now, without fanfare (save a gala screening at last week's TIFF), in the middle of what's traditionally a dumping ground for dead weight.

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I've used wheeled carry - on bags to hold my laptop and other items for years, mainly because I don't want to schlep dead weight as I rush through endless airport terminals.

The edifice thus erected and defended for twenty centuries gradually has been seen to crumble to ruins under the multi-directional assault against a theism unable to sustain its own dead weight.

Dead bananas vary in weight and size, and measuring them will allow for more precision and similar results!

While, like pubs and restaurants, cruise ships need to keep empty kegs to a minimum for space reasons, these vessels also have to consider the fuel costs of shipping around «dead weight».

Imagine life for us without dead weight noise.

Whilst all other teams strengthen their ranks and at least attempt to make an effort to win things, we are told to expect only challenge for a top 4th position, and then expected to celebrate as if we won the league or champions league... Each year we tend horde our dead - wood / dead - weight who earn too much money for their return in this current climate.

We should have additional squad space with the dead weight of Pod leaving (though I'd like a LW please) but I imagine we'd need to offload 1 midfielder just for play time.

Fire Wenger and sell all the dead weight, especially since we not going to challenge for league once again.

Keeps competition for places hot, reaffirms expectations, and helps cut dead weight.

So the only hope I have left for Arsenal while he's still the manager is that «THIS» summer he gets the damn players we've needed for years now and get rid of the dead weight.

For us, the longer - term view we are adopting in government will help to wipe the slate clean, and ensure that future generations can thrive, without being burdened with the dead weight of our debt, and our failings.

The theory that Cameron threw out a dead cat to distract from the Google controversy is lent weight by the fact that the prime minister devotes a hefy chunk of every Wednesday morning to preparing for PMQs.

This is a pivotal year for a state groaning under economic duress and crying out for leadership that will overhaul a government that's a dead weight on 18 million people - and corrupt to boot.

With Obama looking like a dead weight around the necks of politicans who made deals to support his unpopular though media hyped and frenzied positions, democratic fund raisers will certainally have their work cut out for them as the citizentry «Won't Be Fooled Again».

With 44 pounds dead weight the machine rose and flew for a few hundred yards, but it was unable to make a sustained flight.

The authors note, for example, that if you have used a pillow for couple of years, 10 percent of its weight at this point may be dead dust mites and their detritus.

Today, however, the majority of serious strength and conditioning communities utilize elastic resistance for various complimentary exercises and stretches as well as in combination with heavy free weight exercises (dead lift, squat, and bench press) to increase their strength and power.

It's called the deadlift for a reason — you're supposed to be picking up dead weight, not using the momentum of a floor bounce.

Not only does Overpwr quickly stop hunger dead in its tracks, but it also helps increase your metabolism and reduces cravings for sweet foods, to further enhance your weight loss results.

You can also use it in weight training, like holding a dead - lift for as long as you can is one of the examples.

Again, this seems like an unusual combo for alternating sets, but actually works out quite well, because after deadlifting very heavy weights, performing a high rep «pump» exercise for the triceps is a welcome relief for your body and your mind to help recover and get ready for the next set of heavy deads.

You can also go heavier and dead lift the weight up and down for reps. Typically, I will try to aim for 6 - 10 reps.. Another method to try is to set weight for yourself and just hold it for time until failure and keep track of your time and watch how your it will improve as your endurance increases.

Remember that here we aren't looking for a high volume swing mechanic, but rather one that will challenge our body by making you pull the weight at an angle from a dead position on the floor.

In the film Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead the main character, Joe Cross, drinks nothing but juice for 60 days and loses a lot of weight and calms...

After you jump rope for 1 minute, grab a weighted object (watermelons work great) and begin your single leg dead lift.

No offense to Chris Klein and Mena Suvari, but their characters felt like dead weight by the second film, as did those played by Tara «I'll suck your cock for 1000 $» Reid and Shannon Elizabeth.

Every horror fan worth their weight in blood should be familiar with Lucio Fulci's Zombie (originally released in Italy as Zombi 2 and promoted as a sequel to Romero's Dawn Of The Dead, which had been retitled Zombi for the Italian market).

Of all things, the series ends up feeling light - weight, and the seemingly constant need for Cassar to flash back or forward kills the pace and tension of proceedings stone dead.

Personally I'm going to go for Embry, but only because there's a fair chance that his death — if, indeed he's even dead — was caused by his body imploding under the gargantuan external weight of his own ego.

For all the weaknesses of the picture (the lowness of its humour, the formalist cliché of its plot, the questionable performances of its twenty - something leads), it gains for the jettisoning of dead weight (professional dead weight Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Shannon Elizabeth, and Tara Reid), and for that vague suggestion that it knows how tired and self - replicating it all is by nFor all the weaknesses of the picture (the lowness of its humour, the formalist cliché of its plot, the questionable performances of its twenty - something leads), it gains for the jettisoning of dead weight (professional dead weight Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Shannon Elizabeth, and Tara Reid), and for that vague suggestion that it knows how tired and self - replicating it all is by nfor the jettisoning of dead weight (professional dead weight Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Shannon Elizabeth, and Tara Reid), and for that vague suggestion that it knows how tired and self - replicating it all is by nfor that vague suggestion that it knows how tired and self - replicating it all is by now.

Yet by dumping the dead weight which was Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, and casting a new supporting cast and new director in Rob Marshall (Chicago), On Stranger Tides surpasses its low expectations to make for a fun and moralistic adventure on the high seas.

And he loses the dead - weight ensemble company of pals, only a few of whom were ever funny and all of whom depend on him for a paycheck.

I know it sounds bad, but I actually really enjoy watching the final dead - weight flop of her right arm as she's brought up for the last time and then dumped to the cold, cold floor like a dead fish.

James Noble - Rogers (pictured right), executive director of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, said small bursaries were still needed for initial teacher training, but larger bursaries such as # 25,000 a year were a «dead weight».

It actually feels slightly dead in your hands after the Murciélago's, but the response is incredible, the front wheels responding to the tiniest of inputs with no sneeze - factor and, thankfully, given Audi's ownership, no annoying options for tweaking its weight.

They can turn it on for the first few meters on icy roads, but other than that it's just dead weight.

The re-tuned rack uses a 13.0:1 steering ratio (for reference, the brand's far sportier BRZ coupe's is 13.1), and while there's a bit of a dead zone on - center, steering weight builds progressively, with a nice amount of feedback.

And since we have an Amazon Prime Account (worth it's weight in gold), I never have to pay for shipping (and I mean awesome free, two day shipping, none of this super saver wait for 2 weeks after you've spent over $ 25 and MAYBE get it then crap), making it ALWAYS cheaper to order my dead tree books from them.

In 2006, he won the Tiflos de Novela Award for The Weight of the Dead.

It's time to ditch the dead weight before George Will brings down an empire, because there are a lot of people rooting for your demise.

As someone who owns and mostly leaves home a Kindle DX, which about the size and weight of the Ipad, I am optimistic that there is a market and will be a demand for a 7 inch tablet like the Playbook, Its not like the DX is a burden or dead weight, its just somewhere beyond what I'd like in a mobile device.

If B&N gave up on the ebook market, they would be giving up on the future of books, in which case they might as well just file for bankruptcy now, because in the long run, paper books are dead weight.

Theresa Ragan, who will be my guest for next week's show, is the author of Abducted and Dead Weight, the first two books of the Lizzy Gardner series.

Furthermore, a stock that doesn't pay a dividend is pretty much dead weight for me.

With a takeover complete (and cash preserved on both sides for acquisitions), Moulton could just fire most of the TVC dead - weight.

Other symptoms to look out for are clear, milky or bloody secretions coming from the nipples; open sores that don't heal; ulcerated or necrotic (dead) tissue at the site of the tumor; and weight loss for no reason.

With an above - average introductory bonus, credit statement, annual fee waiver for the first year, and other nice benefits, the Gold Delta SkyMiles credit card won't be a dead weight in your wallet.

HUT also finally allows you to trade in those unused cards for extra rewards so you're not stockpiling dead weight.