Sentences with phrase «hunkering into»

I also had the opportunity to play the game in the public area afterwards; this was the brief section we've already seen in the previous trailer, where the team faced a horde of Swarm creatures and then the WildStorms before hunkering into a tower.

He'll position pupils at the foul line, instructing the shooter to balance on one leg before hunkering into their motion.

So Liu, the director of MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and his colleagues across the United States and China, hunkered into the task of showing how pandas in the mountains of southwestern China affect the globe, and vice versa.

Not exact matches

Only a serious recession can clobber both sales and profits, sending everyone into hunker - down mode and making trouble for marginal participants in the market.

Hogan and his team then hunkered down to slice that vision into a series of 90 - day action plans — such as ramping up sales to the robotics segment of the automotive industry and expanding into burgeoning markets such as China.

The company's board decided to exercise its authority and reassemble the tracking stocks into a single ticker, FON, by exchanging shares of PCS for it, hunkering down to try and make it through the storm.

You can hear life, forced into a slow - down; life less - deliberate; life lived as it was for centuries, before the busy inventiveness of the last five decades: life acquiescent to uncontrollable nature, and hunkered - down.

I hunkered down into research mode and discovered some rather convincing facts.

And then I hunker down and bury myself in figuring out how to make it into gluten free bread for us.

As the end nears, the NFL has turned into the NFL — the National Arithmetic League — and the American public is holding its breath as Commissioner Pete Einstein hunkers over his calculators, trying to figure out whether Tampa Bay's first victory in history last Sunday will qualify the Buccaneers for a wildcard spot when the playoffs begin on Christmas Eve.

It's been a super busy week so I've got to hunker down and tackle a huge to - do list today so I can slide into a happily unscheduled weekend!

Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Wednesday, cutting power on most of the US territory as terrified residents hunkered down in the face of the island's worst storm in living memory.

But «one day we saw an adolescent orang - utan called Sif wade into deep water, hunker down and then lunge forward making simple paddling movements with her arms and legs», says Russon.

After hunkering down for six weeks to ride out a planet - spanning dust storm, the Mars rover Opportunity got back to work in September and began a drive into Victoria Crater, the largest, deepest crater it has yet explored.

As the hurricane roared into Houston, Mary Robinson hunkered down at the University of Texas Health Science Center downtown.

A number of studies have shown that random fluctuations in microbial genes trigger some microbes to hunker down into a dormant, drug - resistant state.

So root vegetables, they give us that sense of being grounded even if we think of fall when we tend to have more of those root vegetables we're tending to go more within and we choose those root vegetables they tend to act more as warming foods, as stabilizing foods, and that kind of gives us that cozy feeling to really anchor and hunker down into our physical body.

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Enough of the cutoffs and flower crowns — it's time to slip back into your favorite pair of jeans and hunker down for autumn.

Hunker down out of the cold, order something from their fantastic wine list, and make your date last late into the night.

There's nothing quite like hunkering down at one of their iconic plastic tables, ordering a couple of ice - cold beers and watching the sun melt into the sea.

It's exciting and comically incisive that the first discernable thing about The Hateful Eight is that it's shot in 70 mm — a wide, uncommon, high - res format — and, after an opening salvo of John Ford - like panoramas of snow - flecked landscapes the story hunkers down into what is essentially a pocketed one - room chamber film.

Dinner at the Wolseley flowed into after - dinner drinks, before they hunkered down in the honesty bar of a smart Covent Garden hotel and helped themselves to copious amounts of gin.

A determined, widespread effort to weaken or destroy the institution teachers are counting on to protect them economically will force them into retirement or to hunker down and wait in brooding resentment for a change in the political weather.

More impressive still is that the S doesn't lose even a scrap of accelerative force to wheelspin; it simply hunkers down and rips angrily into the tarmac, shrink - wrapping distances in the process.

That you're into 6th by about 35mph is at odds with the Golf's tight damping and hunkered - down stance.

2 seconds: Car hunkers down after running into line - locked front tires.

My torso lurches against the four - point harness, and the car hunkers down into the pavement as the ground effect produced by the rear diffusers takes, well, effect.

You need to be working the chassis hard, but mid-corner you'll feel subtle messages about the weight distribution filtered through to the seat of your undergarments, and when you get on the throttle there's that lovely sensation of the rear hunkering down onto its big 295 - section rubber, squeezing the tyres a little more firmly into the warm tarmac and driving you forwards with supreme traction.

But throw it into a turn and the whole car hunkers down, the 265 / 35 - series Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires providing incredible grip, the traction control strict enough to keep everything copacetic, but not so castrating that it won't allow for a little bit of playful slip.

And the instant you hunker down in the welcoming driver's seat it's crystal clear that Porsche's meticulousness with mechanistic performance has leeched into not just intuitive technology, but the way it's presented.

You'll love how the car hunkers down when accelerating quickly to merge into fast - moving traffic.

As ever, the dual - clutch gearbox works well enough once you are up and going, though a lack of full manual over-ride can grate when exploring some of the curvier roads that should see the hunkered - down GT suspension tune come into its own.

Though the softer ride does result in a slightly less hunkered - down driving experience (which translates most noticeably into marginally noticeable body lean in the bends), it does result in a deliciously cossetting and comfortable ride that, even on the standard suspension setup, places the Mercedes in the higher echelons of this class.

The Mercedes - Benz Concept A-Class is not only making its global debut during both the New York and Shanghai auto shows, the hunkered down little two - door hatchback is also tasked with pushing the German automaker's previously staid - looking family vehicle into a bold new direction.

Enter into a corner and Giulia hunkers down with little body roll and gives you the confidence to push a little bit further.

Back in the present, St Oswald's is entering the age of technology and some of the old guard, especially anachronisms such as classics teachers, are hunkered down in their offices like soldiers in the trenches, defending themselves against the new guard who want to bring the school into the 21st century.

Next, Rory and I hunker down, add or take away components, and finally mix them (sometimes 50 - plus tracks at any one time), so that they blend into a production that acknowledges the lead character and the narrator's central place in the mix, but at the same time ensure the supporting cast of music and sound effects enhances the overall auditory experience.

All through that night into the gray light of dawn and on until the shadows disappeared in the midday sun, the three of them hunkered down in the living room, the old man sniveling and stuttering and saying things like Jesus, I wish I still had my gun, I ought to just go ahead and kill myself, and Mike — who would not even got into the garage, who point - blank refused — trying to force the reality of the situation into some less horrible shape.

They are scared, probably have never been touched by a human before and want nothing more than to run into a small hiding spot and hunker down for the long - haul.

FaxView went into production in late 1995, but it failed to take off, so the firm sought more investments and hunkered down into research mode.

Late into the night, when the streets are eerily still, he hunkers down and gets to the task at hand.

So I'm grateful to be hunkered after the first snowfall since we moved into our old brick house in Nelsonville, N.Y., in the Hudson Highlands that I treasure (see my song above).

The class split into teams mirroring the blocs of countries and interest groups hunkered in Paris — from the United States to the «climate vulnerable» nations, from Greenpeace to the World Coal Association.

We see that the moment you sense a real - life threat to your pay - off trough - privileges you drop all your other - worldly snake - pretenses and morph — not into a rat, like you promised, Gates — but into a frankly gross and unattractive, frantic, beserker sow, pig - headedly hunkered - down in a fortified - sty, do - or - die, flared - snout defense of her (your) CO2 - swill bucket.

For # 50 a night, you and five friends could hunker down on the Alexandra Lifeboat and enjoy a peaceful stay on the waterfront — and not bump into a soul for miles.