Sentences with phrase «measured by lying»

The condition is measured by lying on your back, knees bent and doing a curl up.

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In his first State of the Union address, President Donald Trump flicked at a lie about the US coal industry that he began telling early on the campaign trail: that there was a «war on coal,» that coal's jobs will return, that regulations by the Obama administration are responsible for its ills, and that the measures he has taken in office can reverse its fortunes.
I do not give up on the hope that, after some years of penance, a chastened Rembert Weakland might write a reflective memoir, having by then discovered, please God, a measure of the wisdom that was so conspicuously absent from a brilliant career built upon prideful foundations that now, through a combination of tragedy and farce, lie in ruins.
But it is a temptation which is only now entering its critical phase, now that Man has raised himself to the point of being able to measure both the immensity of the Time that lies before him and the almost limitless powers made available to him by his concerted efforts to seize hold of the material springs of the world.
Paul taught in Ephesians 4: «11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;» Without apostles and prophets we can not come to a «unity of the faith» nor be perfected in Christ.
«We hold that if the incompetent APC administration had not continued to issue false security assurances, these compatriots would not have believed a lie and dropped their guards when they would have adopted more precautionary measures; only to be slaughtered as soft targets by insurgents.»
Affordable Warmth Solutions (AWS) is a Community Interest Company (CIC) established by National Grid to help fight fuel poverty by providing new gas connections and investing in energy efficiency measures in homes that lie within the most deprived areas of its gas distribution area (Midlands, the North West, North London and East Anglia) For further information, please visit https://www.affordablewarmthsolutions.org.uk/.
Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.
Eastport - South Manor school officials, whose district is among four on Long Island identified by the state comptroller Thursday as fiscally stressed, have begun notifying residents that belt - tightening measures — including staff and program cuts — may lie ahead.
Goldstein told jurors that Silver took extraordinary measures to hide his scheme, including hiding money he earned by placing it under his wife's name, lying to the press and lying to the firms involved in the scam.
Speaking at the launch of the National Democratic Congress» 2016 manifesto at Sunyani, Mr. Amissah - Arthur said the NDC had the «knowledge to respond in equal measure» all the lies by the major opposition party, the New Patriotic Party.
Mobbs measured the skin conductance of his players by rigging them up to a device similar to a lie detector.
A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.
Though partly justified, this objection can be dealt with by including lie scales or measuring a subject's response against the profiles of known liars.
But I have grown increasingly exasperated over the years by postdocs who whinge about universities as employers, the research councils and others as funders, governments as policymakers — yet fail to recognise that in large measure the future lies in their own hands.
Here you can crank a handle to generate electricity to electrolyse water into hydrogen and oxygen (and recombine them with a bang), operate a miniature chemical plant or a gas scrubber, measure the pH of various common substances, or discover your personal hot spots by lying against a large sheet of liquid crystals.
And herein lies progress, for what can be measured has a much better chance of being understood by us than does something that can only be argued about.
By measuring where a face lies along each of these different directions, the brain can then perceive the identity of the face.
Other imaging surveys like the Dark Energy Survey and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope measure dark energy in a different way, by observing how matter that lies between observed galaxies and us distorts that light.
Specifically the kinds of movies that seek to elevate our sporting heroes (both real and fictional) to superhuman status by perpetuating the popular belief that true greatness is not measured by one's physical attributes but by the presence of a deeper - lying, infinitely more powerful strength that is less easy to quantify yet at the same time undeniable.
Film Reviews: Air Force One by Richard Schwartz The Devil's Own by Leslie Rigoulot Star Wars by Leslie Rigoulot What Lies Beneath by Andréa C. Basora Partial Filmography: Air Force One Apocalypse Now The Devil's Own The Expendables 3 Extraordinary Measures Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Star Wars What Lies Beneath
Its traditional structures and governance arrangements have more than proven their inadequacy, and the causes of these unacceptable deficiencies may simply lie too deep to be resolved by measures commonly thought of as «reform.»
Two weeks later, Minnie and Allison moved into an assisted - living facility way down in Key West, I suppose so they could have their vitals measured by actual professionals while lying on chaise lounges and drinking Hemingway daiquiris.
But the true measure of that sickness lies in endless stories of stupidity, manipulation, and betrayal, by a once proud and noble industry, and related by its many victims: the struggling authors who sustain it.
Married people are happier by many measures, yet many marriages are unhappy or fail because couples bring to the partnership significant debt, including student loans and credit card balances, as well as self - deceptions and outright lies about...
Married people are happier by many measures, yet many marriages are unhappy or fail because couples bring to the partnership significant debt, including student loans and credit card balances, as well as self - deceptions and outright lies about money.
The exact dimensions of the box will vary from dog to dog, but you can get a good idea of the size necessary by measuring your dog while she is lying down.
Traveling in business class has improved by a huge measure in recent years, with lie - flat seats and direct aisle access becoming the rule rather than the exception.
By the mid-70s, when Plimack Mangold began depicting rulers lying on a linoleum floor, she was offering a viable, non-literal alternative to Minimalist sculpture, Stella's hard - edged brand of Minimalism, and Mel Bochner's conceptual practice, in which measuring the width of a window within a gallery space was integral to the project.
**** The wind industry has known about, attempted to cover up and lied about the adverse health effects caused by incessant turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound for over 30 years; and knowing full - well that the dB (A) weighting is irrelevant to measuring the low - frequency noise spectrum, wrote their own «rules» that even make the risible -LSB-...]
That's why the people pushing for «high - regrets» measures need to scare them by distorting / lying about the science.
This route of consideration entails the inference of what we'll call each respective warmist's primary and secondary gain motivating his allegiance to this objectively insupportable (and factually unsupported) damnfool contention about the adverse effects of anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide and — much more importantly — the political measures being pushed by each such statist sumbeech in order to allegedly ameliorate the tissue - of - lies «externalities» nonsensically asserted to be associated with the complete combustion of petrochemical fuels upon which all of industrial civilization depends for its function.
I have a mapping of a 2d plane to 4d space, and the appropriate 4 parameters just happen to lie on the projected 2d submanifold described by the set of points (T1 / 2, T2 / 2, T2 * T1 / (T2 + T1), T2 * T2 / (T2 - T1)-RRB- which has measure zero in that 4d space.
Early studies found EPQ - RSC to have high reliability and validity as a measure of personality traits in China.47 48 The total score for the extraversion subscale indicates introversion when it is less than 43.3, intermediate when it is from 43.3 to 56.7 «and extraversion when it is greater than 56.7.48 For the psychoticism subscale, tough - minded is defined as a total score greater than 56.7, intermediate is defined as a total score between 43.3 and 56.7 «and mild is defined as a total score less than 43.3.48 For the neuroticism subscale, a total score of less than 43.3 defines emotional stability, whereas a total score from 43.3 to 56.7 defines intermediate «and a total score greater than 56.7 defines emotional instability.48 For the lie subscale, a total score of 60 or greater indicates that information provided by the respondent might be unreliable.48 In this study, Cronbach's α for EPQ - RSC was 0.903.
Their concern lies in terms of the need for governments to take adequate measures (including through the allocation of adequate resources) to overcome, in a time - bound manner, the disparity in rights experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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