Sentences with phrase «just off of the ground»

You start by standing on one foot with the opposite leg fully extended and foot hovering just off of the ground.

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JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

But are failures like these — small groups of people throwing wrenches into the works, just for laughs — why exciting projects like artificial intelligence or hitchhiking robots sometimes don't make it off the ground?

Just like when the company was getting the original Airbnb platform off the ground, there are likely to be rough spots: a refugee that doesn't assimilate well with his or her host, a bad actor who tries to sneak into the system to get free housing, or any number of routine cultural clashes.

Unlike in past years, says Stewart, most were just getting off the ground in 2005, with baseline revenues that barely surpassed the minimum requirement of $ 50,000.

When your startup is just getting off the ground, leading large numbers of people isn't at the forefront of your mind — survival is.

If you're getting a business off the ground, you may think that pulling all - nighters or always being on call will inspire confidence in your employees, but that lack of sleep really just makes you less of a charismatic leader, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

You have lots of free social media tools at your disposal if you're just getting started, but once your presence is off the ground and in flight, a social media partner isn't a bad idea.

Some of the vocal tracks were just recorded onto the computer.For the most part, the whole thing was on four - track, giving it a scratchy feel.The new album will probably cover the whole experience of trying to get my thing off the ground, losing hope and finding hope.So, I think there will be a theme to the whole record, but it won't be as story - driven as the last one.Like in The Novelist, there's a specific «on this song this is happening, and on the next song such - and - such is happening,» along with the character building.

Groups such as Catholics United and Faith in Public Life got off the ground during and just after the 2004 election when a Catholic Democratic presidential nominee - Sen. John Kerry - was hard - pressed to find Catholic support in the face of condemnations from some Catholic bishops over his support for abortion rights.

But Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee for president, slapped the effort down before it even got off the ground (and the Super PAC's leaders insisted the Wright campaign was just one of several ideas).

Just like the man who reviews his life between the time he's jumped off the top of a building and before he's reached the ground.

As for upsetting the apple cart, I myself am tired of always picking the apples back up off the ground and putting them back in the cart, only to have it tip over again... My current series on Calvinism is to allow me some times to just let the applies lie on the ground a bit.

Just stop at any ol' pastry (can't spell in French), bakery, vegetable stand, restaurant — one of my most memorable meals was an Ethopian off on a side street with another being fresh bread, an avocado purchased from a Bengladeshi street vendor, butter and fantastic pepper (just ground black pepper that was so pungent) from a small marJust stop at any ol' pastry (can't spell in French), bakery, vegetable stand, restaurant — one of my most memorable meals was an Ethopian off on a side street with another being fresh bread, an avocado purchased from a Bengladeshi street vendor, butter and fantastic pepper (just ground black pepper that was so pungent) from a small marjust ground black pepper that was so pungent) from a small market.

I am not sure I can find ground ginger (I live on a small island off the coast of Honduras), but I can always get fresh ginger, just wondering if it would work and?

Sometimes I add a generous pinch of roasted and ground cumin, just to round off the flavors.

Our selection of A / V equipment rentals and full access to all of the meeting and breakout facilities are just the tools you need to get your meeting or event off the ground.

I started off just throwing them in there to but the grind and season is the way to go cuz it really mimics the texture of breadcrumbs.

It feels like summer is just barely getting off the ground here in Portland, but I can happily say that I got my first (mild) sunburn of the year last weekend at the Portland International Beer Fest.

Leicester was just end to end knowing we could outscore them, United was the perfect early storm and foot sensibly off the pedal thereafter, Watford was the waiting game, wear them down and then deliver the rapier blow (s) nearer the end, Bayern was sit - off all day, ultra organisation with two banks of defenders and take your chances on the counter attack and Everton was just a spirited grind on the back of a heavy schedule.

I think that just happened in the 2nd and 3rd period of the last game, and think that we'll grind out a win tonight off that momentum.

See Golden may have been beaten initially, but he got his ass right back up off the ground made a beeline for Goff instead of just laying there and feeling sorry for himself.

College football was just getting off the ground at the University of Texas and Texas A&M.

Yes Giroud did block Verratti originally, but when he stood up he was pushed from behind by Marquinhos, towards the back of Verratti, but there was no contact at all and the PSG man just through himself to the ground, causing the referee to stop the game and come over to deal with the situation, which resulted in both players being sent off.

But just then, luckily, another wave came along, a twin sister to the one that had grounded him there, and it swept Brojen off like a splinter and hurled him headfirst into the face of the cliffs.

In a grit and grind kind of game that had to be decided in overtime, Team Hanessian just didn't have enough in the tank to pull off the victory.

For the Darlington game a crowd of 17,057 (paying record gate receipts of # 2,179 16s 9d) packed into the Feethams Ground and witnessed the hosts take the lead after just 20 seconds despite West Ham having kicked off.

Available around the ground for just # 3.50, the latest issue is packed full of all things Everton, kicking off with our January additions.

The amount of strength it must have taken to not only fend off Marco Parolo but also even make contact with the ball before going to the ground is just amazing.

For a savvy player who does his homework, many of these offerings are almost free money to be picked up off the ground just by bending over.

The 32 year old star started in the bench for Real Madrid and when he came on for his side he made diffrence as he scored in the 80th minute to give real madrid the lead but he was shown a his second yellow of the game as he made a dive to the ground in the penalty area just two minutes after scoring and was sent off.

And whilst it's a shame that so many young players will never get off the ground with Liverpool, that's just the nature of football.

On a terribly cold evening at the Motspur Park training ground, Jody Morris» youngsters kicked off knowing that closest title rivals Arsenal had reduced their advantage at the summit of the Southern section to just three points with a 5 - 1 win over Brighton earlier in the day, but a resolute performance was capped by Brown's opportunistic 67th - minute strike and ensured the Blues go into their Youth Cup clash against Fulham in confident mood.

You will also note there is a grassy area with sunbeds at the back of the baby pool that is also cordoned off — we learnt that this was due to an incident that happened a couple of weeks before — the ground had become very boggy and gave way and a little boy sunk into it again luckily he was o.k but it took a while to get him out — again they've cordoned this off but just be vigilant

«You're probably looking at a minimum of about $ 10 million just to get off the ground,» estimates Dan Garbez of Dao Health in El Dorado Hills, CA, which brought the Freemie, a pump with collection cups that can be worn discreetly under clothing, to market in 2013.

«If the pool project is to get off the ground, it has to serve members of the community, not just the high school.»

I think the most important thing from my perspective is that my grounding in normal helps me recognize the abnormal... it's like a line, the straight line of normal and if there's a wavering off to one side or the other you just try a little tiny subtle intervention to nudge it back to normal... like if the baby is malpositioned you know, ideas and ways, and position changes, manoeuvres we can do to try to get the baby into a better position, things like that... so you know if she's dehydrated, hydrate her.

Our new classic range of pacifier / soother clips are just the thing to keep them off the ground and at close range!

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo (a coward / in my opinion) has the obligation to the people of our state to investigate all off these allegation's in a public forum and remove this tyrant who is quick to call a deceased 9/11 responder who had died from breathing in the toxic air at ground zero «not a hero» should be removed from public office and sent packing to his corporate headquarters were he and his cronies could abuse more pregnant women.I have a friend who was a 9/11 responder and was just notified that something was growing in his lungs.

It can sit up to 18 inches up off of the ground, and it is 78 inches by 31 inches, making it large enough for just about everyone.

A camping cot can keep you off of the ground and makes camping just a little more comfortable.

Featuring a design that keeps you just an inch off the ground, you'll be amazed at how efficiently this unit helps you get to even the tightest of spaces!

It was a leap of faith for Heald, who was just getting her lab off the ground, and for Barbara Meyer, the geneticist at UC Berkeley who also took Skop into her lab.

Add critical credibility factors to the mix and it's as though that same milk has been spilled just as one end of the table is being lifted off the ground.

It just so happened that a pair of optical telescopes on the ground was observing the last GRB, 080319A, which had gone off 30 minutes before in the same part of the sky.

Futuristically sleek, with a roof just 40 inches off the ground, Urbee is the first car with a body printed from plastic instead of crafted from metal or fiberglass.

In a fume hood in a lab designated just for ancient DNA work, she cleaned the bones and scraped off the outer layers to get rid of as much DNA contamination as possible before grinding up a portion of each of the bones and conducting the DNA extraction.

And outside China and Japan, the other Asian groups are expected to contribute minimal amounts of sequence data because their genomics efforts are just getting off the ground.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

finally got off the ground just after noon EST on Saturday, November 20, after a number of delays.