Sentences with phrase «more pointed head»

The new variety has a narrower, more pointed head, ideal for nibbling insects and larvae from crevices in the volcanic rock, and fat lips to cushion its ventures into these sharp - edged fissures.

Not exact matches

Someday, racing historians will look back and see Dale's concussion — and, more importantly, that he chose to deal with it publicly — as a turning point in the way the sport treats head injuries.

The longer you're in one, the more anxiety - ridden you're likely to be, especially because the promise — and the point — is that you're headed somewhere else.

However, as more astute observers have pointed out, the tablet is not supposed to compete head - to - head with the iPad.

Bobby Cho, the head trader at Circle rival Cumberland, predicts that 2018 will be the inflection point when more Wall Street institutions get involved — lured by client enthusiasm and potential upside.

Leading rounds that include scratching out checks that start about $ 250 million (Slack) and head to $ 10 billion (Uber), its scale has reshaped Silicon Valley in 2017 — and, more to the point, irked the VC community.

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

The problem of tax evasion in Greece has been pointed out many times during the debt crisis: Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, got into hot water over the summer with her comments that she felt more sympathy with children in Africa than tax evaders in Greece.

Google's parent firm Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been working to develop autonomous vehicles on its own for years, but the company's head of its self - driving car project John Krafcik said the firm has reached a point at which more partnerships would be beneficial to the project's...

The second (and more important) point is that the head and shoulders pattern, like all technical chart patterns, obviously does NOT work 100 % of the time.

Given that people can be deluded or more often, allow their desire to believe something destroy their objectivity to the point their conclusions aren't reliable, your claims about private, personal experiences no one outside your head can verify simply aren't enough for anyone but you.

Based on your 10 points, if you grow much beyond 20 - 25 people it will difficult to maintain the «discussion» model, and would move more towards the «talking - head - on - stage» model.

One wishes that Barr had addressed this more fundamental point head - on, and without all the captiousness.

Sorry for not being more succinct (head cold is fogging my abilities)... basically, the point is translation / interpretation is difficult enough, without the contingency of Christians that go on about the Bible, but haven't read it or have mangled versions of what it says.

For I would add, «I have no faith at all, I am by nature a shrewd pate, and every such person always has great difficulty in making the movements of faith — not that I attach, however, in and for itself, any value to this difficulty which through the overcoming of it brought the clever head further than the point which the simplest and most ordinary man reaches more easily.»

But Buchler, again like White - head, does much more than find fault with traditional metaphysics — he elaborates an alternative system of categories.1 Because his alternative categorial scheme is very different, the points Buchler makes in criticism of traditional metaphysics are interestingly different from those made by Whitehead.

Upside is that I can nearly raise my arm over my head at this point in time so a return to yoga is looking more promising every day.

Chicken with Oyster Mushrooms, Portobellos, & Napa Cabbage (adapted from Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop) 3 skinless chicken breasts (~ 1.5 lbs without the bone), thinly sliced ~ 1 lb mushrooms (we used 2 big portobellos and 3 big oyster mushrooms), thinly sliced 1 small head garlic (about 6 large cloves), thinly sliced about the same quantity ginger, thinly sliced 1 napa cabbage (a bit on the small side), cored, quartered, and sliced into ~ 1/4 ″ thick pieces safflower oil (or any other neutral oil with a high smoke point) 2 scallions, green part only, thinly sliced 1 tsp salt more salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste for the marinade 1 tsp salt 4 tsp Shaoxing rice wine (plus more for deglazing the wok, later on) 4 tsp corn starch 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan peppercorn

The players coming in are no mugs either, with Ospina, Debuchy, Gibbs, Arteta, Giroud and Oxlade - Chamberlain all more or less unlucky that they are not regular first teamers already, so as long as they are properly prepared for this game and the boss gets his tactics right, there is no reason for us not to be heading back to London in a few hours with all three points.

Plus, while I'm belaboring the point, his first offensive coordinator hire suggested he might be more of the «just have the offense get out of the defense's way» style of defensive coordinator - turned - head coach — a Will Muschamp, if you will.

It's Steve McClaren's Rams that head in with the better record in the league this season, having picked up five more point than the Hoops over the 46 games that make up the regular campaign.

The ref didn't seem to want to give us anything except yellow cards and that penalty call became even more of a sore point when Kane rose to head his second in the 87th minute.

Now I accept that he wasn't in the more mainstream consciousness until this trip, and I also don't expect everyone to know off the top of their heads that much about global politics (I'm a bit of a nerd for that type of thing) but my point is if you googled him any time in the last 15 years you would easily of found a bunch of horrible stuff, including from well before he was President.

Top of my head, on justarsenal I can point to fatboi, many more on just this one site alone if you care to read.

The No. 5 Badgers have allowed more than 17 points just once all season and head into Saturday's game against No. 24 Michigan with the top - ranked defense in the country, according to Def.

He had one single, was robbed of another and made more points with the fans by easily stealing second on a head - first slide.

At the 18:15 mark of the second half, Ellis — who averages more points than anybody on the team besides Andrew Wiggins and leads the Jayhawks in rebounding — got inadvertently hammered in the head by the elbow of Nate Lubick:

Terribly bad beat on the MTSU / WKU Under 56 — This game was 10 - 3 heading into the 4th quarter, going Under by more than 40 points!

A good performance against Arsenal looked set to be wasted after yet more careless defending, but a late Martin Skrtl header saved a point and gave the side a huge boost heading into a vital run of three winnable Christmas games.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

It's just crazy that at this point in the season, we've only scored 7 goals more than Sunderland... yeah, I mean that Sunderland which is headed for relegatetion.

I really do not understand why certain fans are calling for his head because if you look at a club like City, they have spent a hell of a lot more than us and have a far better squad on paper, yet are only 3 points ahead of us so far this season.

No point in worrying about it.Just sit back and enjoy (or whatever it is we do) the more than likely debacle heading down the tracks.

Middlesbrough head into the game having finally found some form and I fancy them to bag all three points and pile more misery on Bruce.

I've had enough of this crap, look I honesty do think giroud is a good striker and he is a fairly consistant goal scorer, and every time he played for arsenal he gave 100 percent and I think we all appreciated the way he was, a true professional, but to say we as fans were too critical of him or that he didn't have enough of a chance at arsenal is just absolute bullshit, first of all he has scored more headed goals than any other player in the prem since he arrived in 2012 so we did play to his strengths and he was our main striker for four long years and every pundit on sky and motd has at one point said Giroud is not enough for arsenal to win the title ect, but, now we have sold him he is apparently the best thing since sliced bread and the best buy of the transfer window blah blah fuc * # * g blah.

They were the only one of the three to have played Softball this week (worth 5 more points than flag football) and, thus, their lead in the Standings It's been an impressive start for these guys in their debut season and they look to keep it going next Week when they head to the gridiron for the first time to face a hungry ZBT 2 squad.

The Wizards have won seven of their last nine contests and have scored 100 or more points in 10 straight games heading into tonight's contest.

He cost us three points remember he needed to use his head more and keep away after he shrugged costa off off at the first incident..

Head coach Adam Lichter's defensive scheme has yielded more than 22 steals per game on average, many of which lead to easy points for the Knights.

Also I think Jokic has very foot work, he's creative back to the basket player so I don't see the point of him working with Hakeem, he already has shown that he can execute Hakeem like moves without working with him, just ask Draymon Green and some other big guys, especially in the previous season when team played him in the post more, he was schooling great defenders like Antony Davis, he would just shake his head in disbelief.

Win this and Arsene could walk away with his head held high at that point, and this should happen because the club needs a fresh and new approach with a touch more pragmatism, attention to detail and adaptability within it.

But Ronaldo, restored to the starting lineup by head coach Zinedine Zidane, provided a deft flick from Luka Modric's 87th - minute drive to move Real to within three points of second - place Atletico Madrid having played one game more.

United are two points ahead of Liverpool, which makes this head - to - head clash even more important than just bragging rights, and you'll find top notch betting picks across multiple bookmakers as the North West derby promises to be the biggest global game of the weekend.

On the manager, well what can i say, it seems that what ever the outcome he will get a anew deal and for me that's a shame because i still don't think wenger is the man he was when he first came and if we fail to win the league or any trophy for that matter it will only hammer home my point BUT hey thats me!!!! As for the game tonight will more than likely win and so too will chelsea and city because as i sad a while back the small teams have been worked out and Arsenal have always beaten them when they have to so its going to come down to head to head between the top 4 or 5.

While this is evidently a move that suits Nagatomo, in that he will be able to play more before heading to Russia in June, the most plausible interpretation of why this deal is happening from Inter's point of view concerns Javier Pastore, a man Matt wrote about here.

Italian Serie A are heading into its decisive stage with only few matches left in the competition and things are getting much more exciting as teams are all hunting for points and playing some exciting football.

The situation down the bottom is as follows; Deportivo sit on the correct side of the dotted line in 17th place with 35 points with Celta and Zaragoza below them, both on 34 with Celta ahead of Zaragoza due to their head - to - head record, which could matter more come Saturday evening.

And considering sides don't come more combative and spirited that Sam Allardyce's Blackburn, United may well have to rear their ugly heads once again if they're to ground out another invaluable set of three points.

But if what Danny Murphy said on Sky flies over Wenger's head — we will get more of these results making it impossible to get over 85 points.

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