Sentences with phrase «from stopping you dead in your tracks»

Spending time anticipating the hurdles and taking proper measures to keep them from stopping you dead in your tracks is a very rewarding part of the research process.

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I was stopped dead in my tracks by the pop quiz» «Can you name any of his great speeches or written works without citing «I Have a Dream» or the «Letter from Birmingham Jail»?»

Just two or three well chosen lines from the pen of the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein would be enough to stop a materialist dead in his tracks: «What is good is also divine.

Schlafly, again nearly single - handedly, managed to stop the feminist - backed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution dead in its tracks in 1982 — a startling feat, given that the ERA had the backing of nearly the entire political and intellectual establishment, Republicans included, and had garnered ratification votes during the 1970s from thirty - five of the necessary thirty - eight states.

My head is still swirling from the flavors and concept of Singaporean cuisine and when people ask me what my favorite thing was I stop dead in my tracks.

Jason Statham returns in this second action - packed sequel as professional driver and tough guy Frank Martin, this time called upon to deliver a kidnapped politician's daughter from France to the Ukraine while dodging a series of killers bent on stopping him l literally dead in his tracks.

Yet this often comes at the expense of the film's propulsion, not least when a late cameo from Laurence Fishburne stops it dead in its tracks.

At the track, the Tacoma's 236hp 4.0 L engine pulled the truck from a dead stop to 60 mph in 8.3 seconds and through the quarter - mile in 16.5 seconds at 84.3 mph.

We've got our eyes on you: These emerging writers have stopped us dead in our tracks with their unforgettable first novels, from epic historical adventures to imaginative family sagas.

Whether it's an exploding crate or a falling girder from above, all are lethal and, if timed right, will stop you dead in your tracks.

UrthWurm 2002 Urthwurms move differently from earthworms; rather than burrowing through dirt, they seek existing tunnels and are stopped dead in their tracks if they run into an obstacle head - on.

It all starts with the loan application and quite frankly, if the 1003 isn't thorough and accurate from the get - go, it can stop your file dead in its tracks once it hits underwriting.

I wish I had known ~ I would have loved to meet you in person (and I also could have given you my miracle cure for sun blisters... Stops them dead in their tracks before they start looking like pine cones hanging from your lips????).