Sentences with phrase «held at a distance»

Just giving them crumbs and holding them at distance apart from God with just enough God activity that makes them think their on the right track.

«The people who were in the museum — there were about 250 of them — were held at a distance and confined in secure areas of the Louvre,» Cadot said.

Sugar's journey and destination just make sense, and if the hero of this tender and lovingly constructed film is a dignified young man who holds himself at a distance from us, we'll respect him all the more for it in the morning.

Students in integrated schools are more tolerant and less prejudiced, measured by the tendency to accept and connect with people of other races versus holding them at a distance and turning them into negative stereotypes.

Here's what's wrong: The reader feels held at a distance.

Not exact matches

Not many said this to my face (only one), but their actions of welcoming him back while holding me off at a distance, spoke loud enough.

Consider an isolated system consisting of a reference body held at some fixed distance from test body B1.

(f) Try arguing at a distance with your backs to each other; then turn around and continue as you are face - to - face, holding hands and looking into each other's eyes.

That means a victory in every one of the men's events, to wit: 1) the 500, which takes no more than 40 seconds; 2) the slightly less explosive 1,000, in which Eric holds the world record of 1:13.60; 3) the middle - distance 1,500 at roughly 2:15; 4) the 5,000, which demands both endurance and hard driving, at about 8:20; and 5) the muscle - devouring event that is the speed skater's version of the marathon, the 10,000.

The test sets will help set the times you should hold for repeats at different distances.

Bla, a holding midfielder who is part of the 2019 graduating class at YSC Academy, said the size of the school, its campus and the distance and accessibility by train all factored into his decision.

The Arsenal fan's involvement with the event, which marks the United Nation's World Refugee Day on June 20 and is to be held at Barnet's Underhill Stadium, means Farah won't be running the 3000m at the European Athletics Team Championships, with that distance taking place on the same day as the charity match.

Make sure to help your baby practice the balance and stability by standing at a safe distance or by helping the baby walk while holding your hands.

Between the ages of 24 — 36 months, most toddlers can complete the following gross motor skills: Jump from the bottom step Jump a distance of about 8 inches Jump on a trampoline with 2 hands held Begin to stand on one foot Begin to ride a tricycle Catch a large ball At 3 years old, most toddlers can complete the...

If your baby has developed control of their head and neck, you can try to hold your baby at a slight distance from your shoulder to burp them.

A clever, savvy politician, Faso knows he has to create at least the appearance of distance from a president whose approval rate is wallowing in the 30s, while also holding fingers to winds from the left.

Lamb, however, distanced himself from Pelosi and held national Democrats at arm's length while he easily outraised Saccone in campaign cash.

He said: «Our members held them (the two female suicide) at gun point from a distance, ordering them to remove the explosives stripped on them.

This quadcopter drone towers at the top of our list, due to its high definition camera, altitude hold function, and up to 328 feet of flying distance.

Those cars should officially hold a distance of at least 10 meter, even though in practice they often maintain a shorter gap.

Not all positions are equally available: electrons can only reside at certain distances from the nucleus, with these distances related to how much energy the electron holds.

No one even knows if Newton's laws (which state that the pull of gravity varies in proportion to the square of the distance between two objects) still hold at that level.

String theory is a popular shot at bringing together two disparate scales — the tiny world of quantum particles, where the standard model holds sway, and the cosmic distances over which gravity acts.

Chemical bonds hold each atom at precise distances from its neighbours, forming a recurring -LSB-...]

They came up with the Merton mean speed theorem, which holds that the distance a uniformly accelerating body travels in a given interval of time is the same distance it would travel if it were moving at a constant velocity (with that constant velocity being the average of the accelerating body's initial and final velocity).

Current theory holds that giant planets can form only at comparatively great distances from a star, where cold temperatures allow ice and frozen gases to gather together.

Now the idea that Einstein held out for was that, well the fact that it seemed as though you could have this sort of weird nonlocality, as though things that were extremely far apart, that they might somehow still be in contact with one another that seemed like a kind of spooky action at a distance, and he didn't like that.

Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in the plant kingdom, at least in one respect: It appears to hold the distance record for how far its pollen routinely travels to fertilize other fig trees.

The team reasoned that strong magnetic forces were repelling the stellar wind because gaseous pressures alone would not be enough to hold it off at such a distance, says Vidotto, who presented the findings at this week's meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in Llandudno in the United Kingdom.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

In late 2003, astronomers announced that the latest computer models indicate that the structure of a faint dust disk observed around Vega can be best explained by the presence of Neptune - sized and Jupiter - sized planets orbiting at distances roughly similar to those held by their apparent «cousins» in the Solar System (more discussion below — ROE press release).

When the tip of the microscope oscillates over certain surfaces, in this case over NbSe2 (niobium selenide), peaks of «dissipation» (i.e., loss of energy) can be seen when the tip is at specific distances from the surface, as if it were held back, at certain locations, by some frictional force.

There are two leading theories of Jupiter's origin: One holds that Jupiter formed more or less where it is today, while the other suggests Jupiter formed at greater distances from the sun, later migrating to its current location.

The latter stars invalidate the leading hot Jupiter formation theory, which holds that these planets form at «normal» distances and then migrate inward through some debatable mechanism.

It is held in the form of a distance professional development course that they follow at their existing workplaces, which allows them to put what they learn into immediate practice.

We are proud to be the largest meeting of physician - scientists trainees from around the world and will hold our plenary sessions at the prestigious Fairmont Hotel, within walking distance to the heart of Chicago's cultural district.

Thrusters: Keep the feet at a shoulder - width distance and hold the dumbbells in your hands next to the shoulders.

Stand with feet at hip distance, holding your weighted objects at your sides.

Place your forearms on the mat and hold on to either elbow to measure distance and then bring your hands together with your arms bent at a 90º angle.

A UK runner who once held all four middle distance world records, at the same time... the 800m, 1000m, 1500m and the mile.

Stand with feet hip - width - distance apart holding a dumbbell at chest height.

When applying directly to the face, hold the bottle at a distance of 8 inches, keeping your eyes closed and protecting hair and clothing if necessary.

Eating together at the same table, taking a walk while holding hands, or even smelling each other's hair mean a lot more in a long distance relationship.

At the centre of it all, Enos holds out attention but maintains just enough distance to allow for that uncertainty, to let it breathe.

The cycle, she states, can not continue to hold its subject matter at a distance if it wants to create moments of authentic human connection that are affective (p. 97).

The cinematography at the beginning is much more observational and hand - held, so you really feel like you are peering into these people's lives, but from a distance.

Holding in the B button, you're able to select from several other effective weapons, as well, such as bombs which can be bowled toward an enemy at a distance and a whip, which felt totally satisfying to use against the various enemies.

Using R1 and R2, you can chop and slash creatures with light and heavy attacks then hold L2 to aim and sling your axe at enemies in the distance.

His last effort, High - Rise, was a grim, mind - warping adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel, but one that seemed to intentionally hold the audience at a distance.

If you are holding your event at a venue with which you are not familiar, visit the location a few weeks prior to do a walkthrough of each room to survey its capacity and amenities as well as to check walking distance to parking, restaurants and public transportation.