Sentences with phrase «head and body blows»

And all of those events — the devices, the ebook surge, the introduction of the agency business model, and the Department of Justice suing most of the big publishers, a very noticeable rise in successful independent publishing, and the increased leverage of the trading partners with whom publishers negotiate their revenues and their costs — were head and body blows to the titans of the industry.

Rousey and Triple H then faced off and Ronda went all out with head and body blows, pinning him in the corner.

Not exact matches

It is caused by a blow to the head OR body that results in the brain moving rapidly inside the skull and hitting the inside wall of the skull.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

An athletic coach or trainer may not allow a student who has been prohibited from participating to return any sooner than the day after receiving a blow to the body or head, and only after they no longer have symptoms or behavior consistent with a concussion or head injury, and receive a medical release from a licensed health care professional.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

The story could have ended there, but Calvin's destiny took a sudden twist when researchers from the University of Oslo found him swimming in a tank, killed him with a blow to the head, and took samples from his body home to their big freezer at the Department of Biosciences.

So there... even if you can't jump right in with guns blazing into the full blown advanced training routines, simply start to use the dietary strategies to get a head start on losing some of that extra body fat, and then slowly increase your workout intensity until you can work up to all of the advanced exercises.

To achieve body, you want to flip your head upside down and blow dry your hair until it's completely dry — constantly running your fingers through the hair to add volume to the root.

Airbags are designed to blow out where an adult's head and body would be, but that's not going to work out well for a kid.

Good little truck, body and interior in good shape, truck will start right up but does have a blown head gasket.

If you're familiar with the height and shape of the different blows, and if the wind isn't too strong, and if you're facing the whale head on, sometimes you can tell exactly what sort of whale you're seeing even if you don't get a glimpse of the body or the dorsal fin or some other telltale sign.

Visually it reminded me a lot of Assassin's Creed Black Flag which is pretty good, but what really blew me away were the tiny details like Drake putting his hand up when his head got too close to the rocks passing through the cave, or when in combat, he gets slammed against the wall and the tiny stream of water going down the rocks made his hair and upper body wet.

Genderless, possessed of pastel - hued Teletubby bodies and gumdrop heads, they live in a verdant valley where they adorably play soccer, blow bubbles, and roll about in the grass.

Negative effects on physical development can result from physical trauma (e.g., blows to the head or body or violent shaking) and from neglect (e.g., inadequate nutrition, lack of adequate motor stimulation, or withholding medical treatments).

We don't know all the ins and outs of his sex life, like whether his wife knows he's using her body like a blow - up doll while getting off on the pictures in his head (or whether she's doing the same).