Sentences with phrase «knots trying»

It seems like we are tied in knots trying to work within all the legislation that binds us and the fact that one government bureau creates an impossibility for us to work under another (RECO for example).

Candidates can tie themselves up in knots trying to disguise their weaknesses.

With multiple types of life insurance and modifications to each of those types you can easily tie your brain in knots trying to keep them all straight.

The truth is that the law society can't guarantee articling positions now, although it does twist itself in knots trying to place students through cajoling, wheedling and other persuasive methods.

You tie yourself in goofy knots trying to figure everything out at the surface without having a clue as to what these «overeducated intellectual thugs» might have learned that would make your life easier (although, disappointing, it might also not allow you to lead yourself as easily to the conclusion that you clearly desire, which is that the greenhouse effect, while real, is basically negligible).

What is strangely fascinating is watching clever people tie themselves in knots trying not to understand the obvious.

My audience are street smart independent thinkers who do not tie themselves in knots trying to explain * away * conflicting data instead of try to actually explain it.

Australia has tied itself in knots trying to figure out how to clean up a coal - fired export economy without killing it.

I enjoy most of your posts, Bob, but sometimes you tie yourself in knots trying to maintain that words are better defined than they are.

Carmack has been tying himself in knots trying to appease the fanboys on all sides of the divide all through Rage's dev process.

That's right: $ 1,000,000,000,000, a number rarely spoken out loud until Congress started tying itself up in knots trying to deal with the budget deficit and national debt.

You get invested in things — love affairs, politics, con games — and you tie yourself in knots trying to make reality match up to what would make you happiest.

It constantly amazes me the way these folks continue to tie themselves into knots trying to explain how e-books are bad, or are a passing fad or a way for writers not good enough for traditional publishing to get their works into the hands of readers.

On the Radio 4 Today programme this morning Justine Greening tied herself up in knots trying to argue that grammar schools represented increased choice, an argument which falls apart when you consider one fundamental, and uncomfortable truth, which is that, for those children who fail the 11 +, there is little or no choice at all.

The script sometimes ties itself in knots trying to explain all the theoretical physics and horology that drive the plot, but in the early going, it hangs together pretty well.

Women can get tied into emotional knots trying to figure out what unclear comments really meant, when they really mean nothing.

I believe finding your modifications instead of tying yourself up in knots trying on poses the way everyone else is doing them is both positive and empowering.

So when facts are presented that don't agree with your fairy tales, you have to tie yourselves into knots trying to stop from admitting your book is wrong.

So we do not need to tie ourselves in mental knots trying to connect the Mass with Calvary, for it is the Eucharist that went to the Cross.

U.S. regulators are tied up in knots trying to figure out how to write laws for equity crowdfunding to prevent fraud.

«We realized a while ago that if we tied ourselves in knots trying to make all the «story days» line up between all the characters the momentum would suffer,» Cogman concluded.

Not exact matches

Clearly rattled, Drake gamely tried again and again to work his will on the screen, his face a knot of concentration, his arms reaching out plaintively.

It features an ingenious weighted knot that anchors the cable and keeps it from falling off your table, so you'll never have to fumble around trying to pick it off the ground.

... and, it's no one person or post or thing, and its not that I have all the answers, or that I live my beliefs the way that I aspire to... I just see lots of really great - hearted people tying themselves in knots, feeling shame and guilt and depression and anger... and at times it seems it is because they are trying to differentiate between seas and lakes and rivers and oceans... instead of just going for a swim.

They are wrong and holding that they are both wrong and write is not good thinking or «integrative thinking» — it is just sloppiness that someone is trying to valorize with word - knots.

I lived with my stomach in knots, trying not to put a foot wrong, trying to make it right — without understanding that I didn't have a hope.

God loves thinkers and searchers, He had no time for the religious as they tried to tie Him up in knots as they did with their earthly kings.

I don't think we'll be able to wait until morning to try it — I think a little knot will be torn off and devoured this evening!

We're big proponents of the salad spinner — one of the few single - purpose kitchen items that are absolutely worth it — but if you don't have one, try this trick: Line a plastic shopping bag with paper towels, throw in your greens, and knot the bag.

There was so much detail in the lines that I internally groaned at the future mess of knots I'd be untying, and instead, I tried to steer him towards a different project entirely.

Also helps for baby to sleep on their side (using bolsters to keep them there - we use men's tube socks filled FIRMLY with white rice and then the ends knotted - they're heavy enough to keep a small baby from rolling over and also work as hot / cold packs via microwaving or freezing)- just like sleeping on their left side helps some with indigestion / heart burn during pregnancy (letting gravity pull stuff in / toward the stomach organ and anything trying to go back up has to get past the gravity pull).

If you are in hospital, try putting the hospital gown on backwards, tying the bottom edges together in a knot to support your baby's bottom.

If the thought of trying to figure out how to swaddle with a blanket has you wrapped up in knots, a swaddle sack may be just what you are looking for.

So, we tried a regular old Glad Tall Kitchen trash bag, putting it in around the inside basin and securing it with a knot (see the image below).

The knot look is so on trend right now, but like the previous comment I too feel challenged every time I try!

Generally pleased with the disposability of my toddler daughter's diaper waste (knotted like ineffectual sausage in the diaper pail), I reluctantly tried the cloth option.

Try JOHNSON»S ® baby shampoo & conditioner to help unlock knots and tangles.

Some moms - to - be are really excited about all the babywearing gear that is available and are willing to try each and every carrier, the different ways to position their babies and all the complex knots.

Yet, the longer the West tries to back Mubarak to manage an orderly transition and to avoid an immediate election in which the Islamists come out as dominant force, the more it spins itself a Gordian knot that may prove impossible to cut in the future.

So, public sector reformation seems a Gordian Knot: trying it may lead to massive protests and it will significantly lower the popularity, so very few politicians will have the courage to really implement it.

He tries the sex argument on for size, to which another Labour MP asks why her marriage was considered legitimate, given she was already getting on a bit when she tied the knot.

Jeremy Corbyn tied himself in knots on Radio 4 trying to remember the figures relating to a manifesto promise on universal childcare.

Existing legislation could tie politicians in a knot if they try to introduce a British Bill of Rights.

To examine and display what we truly know (and what we don't) about the entirety of nature, we turn to a tried - and - true approach — the simple premise of a 10-fold zooming view to tour the universe, from the edge of the observable cosmos to the innermost knots of reality.

Now, Mitchum's team is trying to find how this key gene might work differently in other nematode types, like root - knot nematode as part of a new National Science Foundation grant.

Try attaching it to the skewer by tying a tight knot or using hot glue.

For at least a century, mathematicians have tried to find effective ways to distinguish between different knots.

Next time you feel super sore, or have a knot in your back / neck / leg / body — try giving myofascial release a try to loosen up your muscles and get you back to moving normally again.

You ask, because you want to know more than what everyone thinks they know about yoga — that thing you do when you go into a room with a bunch of girls in very stretchy clothes and try to tie yourself into very complicated knots for an hour.

After I tied the knot in 2011 at age 27, my husband and I started trying right away.