Sentences with phrase «neck and neck around»

Whether it is Swaps dropping his head over the rail at old Washington Park, his muscles shifting supplely beneath his golden coat; or Seabiscuit and War Admiral straining neck and neck around the turn for home; or Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths; or the seal - coated Ruffian racing on the lead, right to her grave — they all cast a curious spell.

Not exact matches

At the upper portion of the seat pouch is a padded flap that can be folded up to offer an infant neck support and used as a hood for sun shading or folded down to let the older baby see the world around him.

You get a neck strap to carry the AT - AT around, and the middle hatch opens up to place your popcorn container in.

This is a fact that is lost on most people, Greensfelder said: Medals only started being awarded with the ribbon around the neck in 1960, but that adds value, as does the decorative box or wrapping that each medal, both winner and participation versions, come in.

«It's a «collar» that you wear around your neck with an airbag system inside, together with electronics and sensors,» Haupt told CNBC.com in a phone interview.

It acts as an albatross around the neck of the economy and hinders growth.

Some models can be worn around the neck and tucked under a shirt, others fit inside your waistband.

The collar should sit properly around your neck, the shoulders should appear smooth and the waist shouldn't have excess fabric.

Phelps helped arrange the medals around the necks of both Biles and Ledecky — something he has clearly had a lot of experience with.

If someone says, «We're getting crushed in the media by our competitor... and our CEO is really breathing down my neck about it,» I know that I should orient my pitch around how we can help him build share of voice, but also how we can help him measure and report on results to his CEO.

And same thing around my neck.

The albatross around Microsoft's neck is its insistence on bundling the Kinect motion and voice sensor with the console, which adds to the overall cost.

When the women's race was over Phelps received his gold medal in a ceremony on the pool deck, took it from around his neck and dashed under the stands to prepare for his 100 - fly semi.

In Kabul, I had a camera around my neck, which I was hiding with my chador, and a truckload of men from the Vice and Virtue Ministry — the hardcore Taliban who would go around and stop people from doing anything illegal — saw my camera and stopped me.

This is wise advise for so many reasons, but it's also key to avoiding getting caught up in the status rat race, according to Casnocha: «If everyone around you is on the more status, more status, more status track, and straining their necks to check the leaderboard, it'll be hard to resist doing the same.»

She said she did not think it was very helpful to ask for the noose to be tightened around the necks of the Greek people and government.

Magnets in the earbuds allow you to clip the Latitude around your neck when you aren't using it, and the eight - plus - hour battery life will get you through more than a week of hour - long workouts before you have to recharge.

Finally, American troops fastened a rope around the neck of Saddam Hussein's statue and attached the other end to a tank.

By leading the effort to re-confirm him, the Corporate Democrats (but not most of their colleagues who had to face voters this autumn) removed this albatross from the Republican neck and put it around their own.

«I wanted to compete as if I'd never won anything and I would go as the underdog, even though a lot of times I was not,» says Ohno, dressed in a shimmery gold tracksuit, the medals slung around his neck to complete the look of an exaggerated version of himself: the spokesman obsessed with gold.

And as Jesus said in Matthew 18:6, «if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.&raqAnd as Jesus said in Matthew 18:6, «if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.&raqand to be drowned in the depths of the sea.»

And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sAnd whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sand to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

6) But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.»

If you as a Christian had to live and work in Iran, how often do you think you would go out and proclaim your faith, wear the cross around your neck to work?

The female leadership and spokepersons of the left are so ugly they'd have to tie a pork chop around their necks to get a dog to play with them.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck and he be cast into the river than that he should offend one of these little ones»

«Any one who harms one of these little ones, it would have better for them not to have been born or to have a millstone tied around their necks and drowned in the deepest sea.»

If it were up to the Jewish leaders they'd have stoned him and Christians everywhere would be wearing rocks around their necks.

I think the rosary around your neck is a bit tight, and cutting off oxygen to your brain.

They've been used in other movies and there's the misconception that that was the reason US Marines wore strips of leather around their necks (ie - leathernecks).

One of these nights the Flying Spaghetti Monster is gonna wrap his noodley appendages around your neck while you are sleeping and squeeze really hard because you are just too stupid to acknowledge his wondrous presence.

Mat 18:5 «Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, Mat 18:6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

The RCC will fall because it has worn a millstone around her neck for as long as it has harbored abusive priests and turned it's back on the innocent.

Scripture says that anyone that causes an innocent child to suffer and fall would be better off having a millstone around their neck and cast into the sea than face God's judgement.

If it means anything (and probably won't to anyone) after reading all the comments I dreamed Shiva was in a big muddy river with no skin on his body and the snake around his neck split into two heads and one bit me... and then I woke up sick.»

While there is no parallel in Christian theology, there is ample parallel in Christian folk - belief — a consecrated communion wafer worn around the neck has been thought to be the best defense against Dracula, and crosses and medals are put to similar use against modern dangers.

Neuhaus had cancer in his lymph nodes, especially in his neck and around his lungs, but it was not clear exactly what kind it was.

I know the skulls around your neck and the blood dripping from your mouth frighten a lot of people, but somebody has to lord over the cremation grounds, and I'm happy to have it be you (really).

Oh, you mean like burning witches at the stake, or tying ropes around woman's necks to see it they float and are witches to then be burned?

It's horrific, and didn't Jesus say something about tying huge rocks around their necks and drowning them in the sea?

A witness told police Dollar grabbed his daughter around her throat and choked her, creating a scratch on her neck, Fayette County Sheriff's Office spokesman Lt. Brent Rowan told the TV station.

Heaping condemnation and guilt and fear on the heads of the suffering is akin to tying a millstone around someone's neck.

The video, released Friday to CNN by Idaho State University, features a man dressed in all black, with brown hair, a beard and a crucifix hanging around his neck.

You read and soak until your hair is damp and curling around your neck.

I've been watching people with golden crosses around their necks and on their lapels shout at the TV about how serving gay and lesbian people is a violation of their «sincerely - held religious beliefs.»

She threw herself against me, wrapped her arms tightly around my neck, and whispered, «Thank you, Mama.»

«Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.»

Bill, that is exactly what Noah's contemporaries were saying until Noah and his family were safe inside the Arc and the waters were rising around their necks.

I'm wondering; if Jesus had been born later and killed by gunfire execution, would we all be wearing guns around our necks?

Since November 9, anytime he leaves his home, he gears up with headphones and a sign around his neck asking people not to share the news.