Sentences with phrase «of eyes of my peers»

Thank you for bringing back a long buried memory of standing at the chalkboard with 25 pairs of eyes of my peers trained on me as I did the math problem... WRONG!

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You might as well just close your eyes when you shift into reverse or change lanes in any direction; the windshield is so slanted that, even when peering forward, the view is impeded by the top line of the glass.

While the sharing economy and peer - to - peer platforms are not yet part of the common vernacular outside of the U.S., the concept of social innovation appears to be catching the eye of the international community.

In another, a scruffy bearded man peers through a set of blinds, his sinister eyes burning in anticipation of the evil deeds he will inflict upon the home's occupants — a home he found through a real estate brokerage's website, presumably.

Alongside the features, interviews and data that provide an insightful overview of the year, is our annual awards coverage, showcasing the firms that have, in the eyes of their peers, set the benchmark in the past 12 months.

Also, as I'm wrapping up my doctorate in astrobiology, I will spend a great deal looking at objects I can't see with my physical eye while peering off light years into the galaxy in search of life.

And each time, I peered into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in prayer.

I had not seen him recently and, as he lifted his head at my approach, I was astonished at his appearance: hair uncropped and disheveled, complexion waxen, the rheum about his pale blue eyes making it seem they peered at me through minute pellicles of hoarfrost.

In grotesque fiction we see with special clarity how the foolish in the eyes of the world are the very ones who peer through the veil into another reality.

To those who do not have eyes to see, to those who do not peer behind the curtain, to those who do not see read Jesus back into the pages of the Old Testament, God looks insanely guilty.

All those years toiling on the mound, peering down the long alley toward the plate at those constant disturbers of his sense of well - being settling into their stances and flicking their bats — and then to look down one day and find Henry Aaron there, the large, peaceful, dark face with the big eyes and the high forehead, and to know that one mistake, one small lapse of concentration, would place the pitcher's name forever in the record books as having thrown the «immortal gopher.»

Based on the eye rolls and head scratching I got from Jets players across the locker room when I brought up both names, I truly question how many of their peers in that locker room believe that.

At Peer Level, they learn from one another under the watchful eyes of coach and supportive staff.

They have eyes and can clearly see the quality of work done by both themselves and their peers.

My most recent work, «Resisting the Jaundiced Eye» aims to make breastfeeding visible, explores the polarising aspects of woman's identity, and comments on the censure, peering / leering jaundiced eye of society in its unwarranted criticism of and prejudice against women who breastfeed.

I could do that, but why should I have to ask that of my child, glassy - eyed with envy as his peers sit around him, licking cupcake frosting off their fingers?

The focus of the program will include: verbal behavior, following group directions, imitating peers, play skills, peer interaction, eye contact and waiting and taking turns.

I try to be sensitive to my child and his concerns about how I am viewed in the eyes of his peers, but I can't let it rule my life.

Her youngest who was about 18 months old at the time, jumped up onto her lap while we were talking and latched on while sitting there peering out at me from the corner of his eye.

Although it seems in others eyes I will not get the * faith points * I realize doing so would be more of giving into peer pressure rather than my personal faith.

A senior Labour MP says: «Stop mentioning Chuka's name... You're going to make him unpopular in the eyes of his peers and wreck his career.»

He is now gone from our lives, his Assembly seat as vacant as his eyes, completing his shuffle from Manhattan State Supreme Court, where he began as a law secretary in 1971, to the federal courthouse on Foley Square, where 12 of his peers finally got a chance to judge seven of his felonies.

So it is all the more eye - catching that the Eton - education son of a life peer believes that all MPs will soon have to publish their tax returns.

«The brighter you shine in the public eye, the more disdainfully your colleagues may look upon you,» Clancy explains, citing Carl Sagan as an example of a brilliant scientist who was adored by the public but shunned by his peers.

But other planetary scientists, including Jonathan Lunine of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, note that JWST will also use its infrared eyes to peer at planets both inside the Solar System and beyond.

And as we all know, prestige in the eyes of one's peers derives largely from publications.

By peering into the eyes of mice and tracking their ocular movements, researchers made an unexpected discovery: the visual cortex — a region of the brain known to process sensory information — plays a key role in promoting the plasticity of innate, spontaneous eye movements.

Advances in optics and microscopy over the past millennium have, of course, let us peer far beyond the limits of the naked eye, to view exquisite images such as a micrograph of a virus or a stroboscopic photograph of a bullet at the millisecond it punched through a lightbulb.

Peering into each other's eyes, then, naturally has a strong influence on that most social of activities: creating a personal, shared bond as we fall in love with another.

They point out that somebody with a $ 500 dollar telescope at this point can use this to peer at the reflections in glasses or even just pick up reflections off the surface of your eye in many cases.

Surgeons, once just a notch above butchers in the eyes of their medical peers, still rely on X-rays to operate with less guesswork.

Postdoctoral fellow Dominik Heyers and his colleagues peered into the brains of garden warblers, which travel seasonally between northern Europe and southern Africa, and uncovered a link between neurons in the eye and a region of the brain thought to be involved in migration.

Hooke, an early developer of the compound microscope, used his device to peer at the eyes of flies, the stinger on a bee, hairs, bristles, sand particles, seeds, and more, noting every detail with both words and masterful illustrations.

At an animal shelter a light - colored animal, peering out with big dark eyes, will almost always find a home before the black one, whose eyes, like those of my sister's Angus, disappear into their body.

«Many scientists believe that the eye movement patterns you develop are due to where you live — the books you read and the influence of your family, peers and community — your culture.»

Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3 - D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form.

Conflict is often in the eye of the beholder, she says, and researchers often accept all kinds of funding that doesn't necessarily skew their peer - reviewed publications.

I am watching and peering as usual, with little hope, and there is something off to the corner of my eye, and then there they are.

Scientists have peered into the eye - like structure of single - celled marine plankton called warnowiids and found it contains many of the components of a complex eye.

Using an imaging modality called optical coherence tomography, which gives the ability to peer through layers of tissue, the researchers kept an eye on the developing hearts at a particular stage when the primitive heart switches from a tube shape to a loop - shaped circuit.

But when the researchers added a twist — forcing subjects in two of the groups to learn a new set of word pairs 12 minutes prior to testing — the well - rested radically outperformed the sleepy; sleepers recalled 76 percent of the initial pairs compared to just 32 percent for their peers who had gone without shut - eye.

Ongoing Discover how a bat uses its built - in radar to locate its next meal and peer through the eyes of a model bee head to experience how a bee's vision allows it to see ultraviolet light reflected off flowers.

In particular, our two world - class lead engineering collaborators Dr. Alfredo Dubra and Dr. Vivek Srinivasan have been building the actual instruments that will be used to peer into patients» eyes and image their retinas and optic nerves at a level of detail never before seen.

As seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the Helix Nebula appears to peer out from space in the shape of a giant eye.

One study published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research confirmed that individuals who had a more grateful outlook got better quality shut eye, stayed asleep longer and required less time to fall asleep than their less grateful peers.

This Vitamin C combination is also suggested in peer - reviewed literature to enhance the production of IgE concentrates in tears, the first line of basophil and mast cell defense against invading pathogens and allergens that frequently cause dry eye symptoms.

The interior features the two leopard faces from Our Loss, their eyes peering out of the mug at the world around them.

When I got to his house, there were five sets of eyes peering thru his curtains!

She only wants to exploit it to defend her own sanity in the eyes of her peers.

It is also built around a terrific central performance by Jessie Buckley, who burrows right under the skin of the damaged, inscrutable Moll, whose blank, peering eyes and briar patch of auburn hair are almost certainly meant to evoke Maxine Carr, who furnished the Soham killer Ian Huntley with a false alibi and was subsequently convicted for perverting the course of justice.