Sentences with phrase «frayed the ends of»

At the end of the day, when you might cozy up with your young child in bed and snuggle — when your child might reach for a thumb to suckle, or the frayed end of a blanket to cuddle with or suck on — these children might nurse a bit.

I LOVE that blouse pattern Daisy — love the fabric & also how you have frayed the ends of the bows.

Invariably as time pushes on we say more goodbyes than hello's and it becomes apparent towards the fraying ends of our patience that we were never meant to get to know the others.

To find the frayed end of the thread of research literature we need to return to the 1990s.

Devotees of this spin - off from the popular podcast This American Life soaked up the insistent, questioning voice of investigative journalist Sarah Koenig as she unpicked the frayed ends of a true - life murder case.

And check out the frayed end of the blade, hanging all sideways and all.

Not exact matches

And even if Benchmark's relationship with Uber frayed at the end, their collaboration still produced billions of dollars for both parties — a success by the standard metrics of Silicon Valley that shouldn't go unnoticed by the current crop of rising star founders.

For most persons less mature, and for many of us who have prayed for years, there is need of something concrete and tangible to direct one's thought and keep it from running out into frayed ends.

Napoli were confident of landing the Pole until Juventus started making their presence felt in the chase and since the Italian champions entered the fray, the goalkeeper's agent ended talks with the San Paolo outfit.

In the middle of it is Robert Kraft, the team's owner, who inserted himself into the fray in a meeting with Belichick this season that ended with Kraft instructing his head coach to trade backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, according to the report.

Last season when Juventus jumped into the Coppa Italia fray, it just so happened to be against a Hellas Verona squad that ended up having all kinds of trouble with what ended up being a «B» squad kind of lineup.

Strootman only returned to the Roma fray prior to Christmas, having missed the end of last season and the 2014 World Cup due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury in his left knee suffered in March.

The best cure for damaged hair, that surely won't leave you sporting frayed ends all summer long, is a bit of deep conditioning from Coconut oil.

Located at the ends of chromosomes, telomeres typically shorten with each cell division, until the end of the chromosome becomes so frayed that the cell dies.

Scientists long suspected they stabilized the structure of the chromosome, preventing the tips from fraying, much like the plastic sheaths at the ends of shoelaces to prevent them from unraveling.

Telomeres are important because they stop chromosomes from «fraying» or clumping together and «scrambling» the genetic codes they contain, performing a role similar to the plastic tips on the end of shoelaces, to which they have been likened.

It helps to lengthen the telomeres — the proteins and DNA on the ends of chromosomes that prevent dividing chromosomes from fraying — and therefore increases the number of times a cell can divide.

Telomeres — repeating segments of DNA on the ends of chromosomes — are often likened to the plastic caps that prevent shoelaces from fraying.

POT1 plays a role in protecting the ends of our chromosomes *, a little like the caps on the ends of shoelaces that stop them fraying.

Telomeres are often compared to the caps on the ends of shoelaces that keep them from fraying.

Keeping evenings low key or employing wind - down yoga may go a long way toward preventing end - of - day meltdowns and frayed nerves.

Telomeres are sometimes compared to the plastic ends on shoelaces that prevent them from fraying, only instead of protecting laces they protect our DNA.

At the tips of each chromosome, at the end of each DNA strand, there's a cap, like the tip of a shoelace, which keeps our DNA from unraveling and fraying.

One of them I cut the ends off for that frayed look.

yes two of them, I deliberately frayed the ends for a nice finish.

On the other end of the street style spectrum, distressed blue jeans were also a thing, from perfectly shaped holes to strategically placed tears and neatly done frays.

* By Elizabeth Gillett * Slightly frayed ends * 74» L x 20» W * Linen / cotton * Due to the handcrafted nature of the dyeing process, color variations may occur * Imported

Our community is built only around the cowboy community, we aren't a subset of a larger community (like other big sites are) whereas you just end up getting lost in the fray.

March 28, 2018 • Seth Graham, who co-runs the experimental music label Orange Milk, makes glitched classical music frayed at the ends of reality.

The only real misstep is an ending that feels altogether too tidy given the film's frayed edges, but there lurks a sense of breath - stealing unease even within its final frame.

She's an ethereal force of nature here, painting a stark portrait of a mentally ill, middle - aged woman fraying at the ends.

Though I felt Duncan's part was somewhat underwritten, «Le Week - End» is a sharp, unvarnished portrayal of a frayed relationship at a turning point in the world's prettiest city.

While Jackman is more than genuine as the father driven to the ends of his frayed tether to find his daughter — and a few particular scenes with his son are heartbreakingly emotional — it's Gyllenhaal as the in - his - world, indefatigable detective that takes over as the heart of movie in the end with an impassioned but controlled tenacity that never asks to be applauded as heroic.

Ford Focus Electric By the end of this year, Ford will enter its first - ever battery - powered compact into the EV fray with a 123 - hp electric motor turning the front wheels of a four - door hatchback.

The rarefied world of the ultra-luxurious SUV has seen quite a bit of activity in recent years, with the Bentley Bentayga proving that shoppers are willing to pay top - end luxury sedan money for a similarly lavishly equipped SUV; the Range Rover SV Autobiography now enters the fray as the top offering in Land Rover's luxury SUV stable.

Nerve endings, loose connections, the frayed wires of lives hung out everywhere.

So it's no surprise that Google is jumping into the fray with the long - awaited Google Editions service, set to launch by the end of the year in the U.S. and first quarter of 2011 internationally.

My only complaint is that the elastic waist band did become frayed (not broken but wavy from stretching - see pic) by the end of the week but as I said, I was doing manual labor, wore a fanny pack over it and there was likely a lot of tugging and rubbing on the strap from carrying buckets of mixed concrete.

Cue Hideo Kojima's desire to enter the mechanical fray with the Zone of the Enders games.

If Richard Serra with his Tilted Arc defies gravity, Tuttle's rope trick consists of a finger's length of clothesline, frayed at the ends and nailed in place.

The piece combines live actors, musicians, and vocalists in a dance of rituals, using video projection to show the «futile struggle to maintain control amongst the fraying fabric of a mind,» and ends with one vocalist singing the title song, a favorite of Biggs» grandfather.

The centerpiece of the exhibition, Trinket, 2008, is a massive custom - made American flag — around 50 by 20 feet — which will be hung from a pole in the middle of the Geffen Contemporary gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and blown about by four industrial fans of such strength that the flag's ends will start to fray.

He dismisses such targets as a «magically safe level of carbon dioxide» — a reductio ad absurdum meant to put him above the fray, allowing him to critique all those trying to avert 800 + ppm — a CO2 level he once told me is where he expects we'll end up.

The collapse of communism has in turn been supplanted by a fraying of the liberal consensus and history is seen to be a never ending string comprised of an indeterminate number of threads.

Few litigants or lawyers would argue that this sort of bespoke justice is anything other than a highly desirable outcome, but the end result is the fraying of the tapestry of the common law with inconsistent and sometimes incoherent case law that becomes increasingly intricate as exception after exception is carved out of general, normative principles to meet the needs of individual families.

As Justin Patten notes today — following up on posts by legal bloggers Kevin O'Keefe and Diane Levin — no less a Net luminary than Sir Tim Berners - Lee, the original developer of the World Wide Web, has entered the fray, asserting that a campaign by telcos to create a two - tiered system of broadband access would end free access for Internet users in the United States.

Kinder Morgan has to get construction of the pipeline underway by the end of May or it will likely lose out on another construction season, which adds significant costs and threatens to further fray investor nerves.

By the end of the year, Apple's HomePod will be competing in the market, and Samsung has indicated it will join the fray as well.

The study then examined the participants» DNA, specifically the length of their telomeres, which are — he explained — repetition sequences of DNA at the end of chromosomes that shorten as one gets older, «like the plastic tabs on shoelaces that fray over time».

To this end, I often state, «Though our initial goal is to help you get along better and repair the hurts that have resulted in a frayed relationship, given what you've each said about what it was like between the two of you when things were good, I'm hoping I can also help you feel happy and lucky to be together.