Sentences with phrase «of knocking over»

Instead of knocking it over, the ball bounced right off the bottle.

Legal Aid in Ontario is never going to pay me enough money to send my kids to that fancy summer camp they've been eyeing so I start rationally weighing the possibility of knocking over the liquor store near my law chambers.

The shift lever and cup holders are placed side - by - side, so there's no danger of knocking over your favorite beverage while shifting.

While on the Ellen Degeneres Show in 2011, the comedian revealed she was diagnosed with an early form of the disease called DCIS after she underwent a breast reduction (because she was «tired of knocking over stuff»).

Never thought of knocking over a 7 - 11 to get money to buy more.

The three women robbed her, she said, and the child was injured when one of them knocked over a stroller during the melee.

Not exact matches

Cruise control is not just the easiest way to make sure you don't get a ticket — I routinely set mine 6 or 7 miles an hour over the speed limit, and (knock on a huge piece of wood) can't remember the last time I got a speeding ticket — but it's also the courteous move, especially on the interstate.

With that sort of attitude, it was no wonder that employees, customers and partners were knocking each other over on their way to the door.

Flood waters might kill some animals and high winds might knock over huge swaths of trees.

One begins with a tiny red toy truck knocking over a row of dominos.

Clinton then knocked the real - estate mogul over the fallout from the release of a video on Friday of Trump boasting about grabbing and kissing women without their consent.

Finding the time to answer emails, handle paperwork and then still have enough energy left over at the end of the day to knock out my own list of design tasks for me personally was and still is from time to time a hurdle.

The meme is made up a of bunch of videos where teenagers pretend to get knocked over by people walking by them.

Over the next week, however, team TrueCare24 met with every instructor, talked to two dozen potential customers, and then knocked their class presentation out of the park.

The Laborers International Union had only had preliminary discussions with Exxon over the union's political spending disclosure proposal when the company proceeded to try to knock the item off the proxy, according to Jennifer O'Dell, LIU's assistant director of corporate affairs.

Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, said on Friday the company would send more battery installers to Puerto Rico to help restore power after Hurricane Maria knocked out all power on the island over two weeks ago.

Verne Harnish, co-founder of Entrepreneurs» Organization, the largest association of top entrepreneurs in the world: «Your job is to find that front domino, that number one thing that if you could accomplish, [that] will knock over the other 98 and get more done than the other 98 combined.»

Boston Dynamics has produced a number of robots that mimic human and animal movement, including Atlas, a humanoid model that co-ordinates motion and balance using its arms and legs and can pick itself up off the ground when knocked over.

I'm aware of at least one case where a skilled adversary broke into an industrial environment, and in the course of intelligence operations they accidentally knocked over some sensitive system that led to visible destruction and almost to multiple casualties.

Structural changes to the equities business over the last several years, such as the rise of electronic trading, have knocked off around $ 15 billion from the equities fee pool, according to a report from Morgan Stanley and management consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

More than 200 days since the Hurricane Maria's 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall knocked over 80 percent of the island's power lines, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still in the dark.

According to Tudor Pickering Holt & Co., as much as 30 percent of the nation's refining capacity could be knocked offline if Louisiana facilities are forced to close, up from 15 percent over the weekend.

Don't go knocking your pencil holder over for the heck of it, but it seems that a little chaos might be what workers need to get their creative juices flowing.

Investors are behaving like an ex-con, whose first impulse after getting out of the joint is to knock over the nearest liquor store... the immediate response of investors to interest rate cuts was to create a two - tiered market.

However, this is changing, and the increase in the level of household debt over the past decade is a major shift, with significant knock - on implications for consumption.

But earning and saving knocks spots of interest compounding over short time scales and is the only way to build up a relatively large fund for late starters, or late higher earners (same thing maybe).

The unfortunate person who declares that they are the work of blind, deaf and innumerable elements and causes and natures, which stream like floods; and the foolish, delirious person who claims that that wondrous remedy poured itself out when the phials were knocked over and formed itself, are certainly unreasonable and nonsensical.

-- High center of gravity with very small footprint, extrodinarily easy to knock a human over.

Surely the all - powerful son of God could come up with a better plan than knocking over tables in a one - time outburst.

I know you all make fun of me when I throw salt over my shoulder and knock on wood but you people have no idea the risks you are taking.

Why not knock up 100's of virgins all over the world and give everyone a chance at eternal life?

While the gunman had paused momentarily and was looking down at his rifle, Shaw rushed at Reinking from his hiding spot near the bathrooms and knocked the rifle out of his hands and over the counter.

Needless to say, I'm throwing a block party very soon — and am knocking on each of our neighbor's doors to invite them over for a bonfire, food, drinks, and conversation.

He does call the two «fools» and says they are «slow - of - heart to believe,» yet he doesn't use some undeniable glory to persuade or coerce, to knock them over or get them down on their knees.

for a crap load of reasons, like, he had his hand over her mouth, she'd been knocked unconscious, he was a soldier, temple priest, person of power.

Have you ever been in the Fatness of God, have you ever been knocked over by God that you can't rise have you ever rolled around like we would expect an insane person to do?

Most of these self - proclaimed scientists have no idea what creationism stands for and are very adept at knocking over a straw man which exists ony in their own mind.

When we knocked on her door just before an afternoon storm blew up over the hills in the east, the 88 year old woman beckoned us straight into her circle of 10 big - eyed, hungry kids.

In an effort to defend your scripturally flawed and biased view of Jesus you are actually maintaining that Jesus» twice cleansing of the temple (with no one having the courage to try and stop him even though there were Temple guards present), as well as His use of a «leather whip», and «knocking over» the money changer's tables, is not a use of «violent» force — ludicrous.

L'Engle gave voice to the particular compress of guilt, compassion, helplessness and pity that knocked me sideways every morning when I stepped over the homeless woman drifting in and out on her cardboard bed.

As soon as we think we have it all together, one of life's greatest lessons comes like the proverbial «Big Bad Wolf» and knocks over our straw - like faith.

To use the apostle Paul's term, this scene provides the word that scandalizes, that makes us stumble over our own expectations and knock down the comfortable prop we have made of resurrection faith.

The priest sex - abuse scandal, a Vatican crackdown on nuns, a head - knocking fight with the president of the United States over contraceptive coverage - none of these would qualify as good news.

Then, of course, you can hide a tablespoon of cayenne chili powder in the sauce to knock off your husband's buddies who come over for Superbowl game and claims your brand new HD flat screen TV as if their own.

You'd walk into the house and the smell of it rising in the bowl just knocked you over and made your mouth start to water.

You could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned that one of the most famous recipes for carnitas has but three ingredients: pork, water and salt.

But, then I'm knocked back down to earth and because I am only human, temptation takes over my body and sometimes I just want some freaking cream cheese, or a jar of peanut butter, or a Reese's Peanut Butter cup.

I just got up from writing this to make a cup of tea and my cat knocked over a full glass of water that was on my desk into my open bag... Anyways, it is now 8 pm and STILL sunny outside!

Because people will start knocking on your door and inviting themselves over for tea as soon as news gets out of this deliciousness in your kitchen!

Managed to remove 1 cup of mostly wheat before realizing it was a lost cause, so I just added 2.5 cups of AP and had some mixture left over...) I also had no instant read thermometer, but read on the comments that one can «knock» the bread for a hollow sound?