Sentences with phrase «of long jumping»

Dogs are also capable of long jumping — clearing distances of up to nine feet over a series of low obstacles — in competitions.

Also out in the field and New Zealand's shot put star Valerie Adams extended her unbeaten streak to 55 competitions, her first throw of 19.96 m her best to claim victory ahead of Germany's Christina Schwanitz, while Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor leapt his best in the final round of the long jump to move from fifth to first and beat Commonwealth silver medallist Zarck Visser of South Africa by just one centimetre — 8.09 m to 8.08 m. Britain's Greg Rutherford — gold medallist ahead of Visser in Glasgow — leapt a best of 8.04 m for fourth as just eight centimetres separated the top five.

Serbia's Ivana Spanovic enjoyed her best ever season's opener as she jumped a meeting record of 6.95 m in the first round of the long jump to claim victory ahead of Canada's Christabel Nettey who leapt a best of 6.75 m in the fifth round.

Tianna Bartoletta needed to do no more after her world leading 7.02 m in the second round of the long jump competition as no other athlete could also break the seven metre barrier.

World and Olympic champion Robert Harting threw a best of 68.24 m in the final round to secure his victory in style, with Moscow Worlds silver medallist Piotr Małachowski again runner up behind Harting with 65.45 m. Jeff Henderson called it a day after his personal best leap of 8.33 m in the fourth round of the long jump.

Having bounced back from two no - heights in Ostrava and Braunschweig to win the British title last weekend, Steve Lewis again failed to register a height having entered the competition at 5.45 m. Lesueur's personal best of 6.92 m in the third round of the long jump competition secured her the win ahead of world and Olympic champion Brittney Reese with 6.87 m as Britain's Shara Proctor leapt 6.70 m for fourth, while Compaoré won the triple jump, beating Olympic champion Christan Taylor by one centimetre with 17.12 m.

Archaeopteryx and Microraptor — feathered dinosaurs that likely flew or glided between trees — would have had the most success at boosting the range of their long jumps by 20 %.

Eight rounds of: 20 Seconds of burpees 3 Second transition 20 Seconds of jumping jacks 3 Second transition 20 Seconds of long jumps 3 Second transition 20 Seconds of thrusters 20 Second rest

I'm confused by the likes of long jump, however, which has a net at the end of the landing zone and thus a maximum distance that can be regularly reached and never beaten.

While Starship Troopers» effects on the Real Robot genre can not be denied, the mecha in Lost Planet are very dissimilar to the novel's powered armor, which were extremely mobile through the use of long jumps powered by thrusters, and were capable of controlling square miles of territory through sheer firepower.

My focal position was recording distances of the long jumpers.

Not exact matches

Eastern State Penitentiary has a 16 - foot - high bar graph, showing the dramatic jump in the prison population, due to expanded definitions of crimes and longer, mandatory sentencing for nonviolent offenses, notes Sean Kelley, Eastern State senior vice president.

Much as advisers cling to the long - term view of portfolio management, there's something to be said from jumping out and in of over - and underperforming asset classes, at least with money you can afford to put at greater risk.

People will jump into balloons or boats and take enormous risks when they're in their 20s and 30s with a long life ahead of them.

For Twitter, which has long struggled with introducing new users to its confusing world of hashtags, @ signs, and followers, the NFL games present a unique opportunity to jump start growth.

Shares of Long Island Ice Tea Corp. tripled in price after it renamed itself Long Blockchain last month, and those of a franchisee of the Hooters restaurant chain jumped last week after it said it would move into the space.

Shares in the 230 - year - old Ladbrokes jumped 26 percent in early trading, while GVC shares rose 6 percent on confirmation of the long - rumored offer, which is in cash and shares.

Shares in the 230 - year - old Ladbrokes jumped 26 percent in early trading, while GVC shares rose 6 percent on confirmation of the long - rumored offer.

James Hahn, who won his first PGA TOUR event last year, was looking for an edge when he jumped to PXG in January: «I didn't feel the need to switch (from TaylorMade) but a small part of me was thinking, «I can't compete with a guy who hits 30 yards longer than me and one or two clubs longer than me.»

And, of course, there was also the week - long gadget showcase right here on the blog, in which I looked at the June sun sensor, the DoorBot front - door video - conferencing tool, the Magnadyne jumper - cable emergency flashlight, the Roku TV and the Matterform 3D scanner.

Asus has long offered a number of great laptops at a reasonable price, and it was pretty quick to jump onto the Chromebook train when Google launched Chrome OS.

Again, putting money into the market involves taking on a certain amount of risk so this isn't a strategy you should jump into if you're not comfortable with the possibility of losing some of your money or waiting a bit longer to see a return.

Average pay for long - haul truckers jumped 17 percent since the end of 2013 to a record average of $ 57,000 in 2015, according to the National Transportation Institute.

I realized at age 32 that «a job» was NEVER going to get me to my «freedom number»; that is, the amount of money in passive income that allows you to jump off the grid — or, if you will, no longer rely on «earned income.»

U.S. oil inventories declined for 10 straight weeks as of January 24, the longest stretch ever recorded, before jumping again in the week ended January 31.

When New Jersey announced a $ 7 billion package of tax incentives to try to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Newark, local officials saw a chance to jump - start a city that has long struggled with poverty and joblessness.

One of the best - known examples of a disorderly jump in U.S. long - term rates occurred in 1994, immediately preceding the Mexican financial crisis (Chart 4).

He cited Wanda Cinema Line, which jumped tenfold last year, as an example of the value of holding a good company for the long term.

But as we continue to see improving price action in the broad market, as well as new breakouts among leading stocks, we will more aggressively start jumping back into the long side of the market.

Home prices jump in Nassau and Suffolk as available inventory drops Home prices in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties rose in February compared to the year before, according to the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island.

Dell, which has a long history of supporting growing businesses and women entrepreneurs, jumped on the opportunity, and Alice was born to help women entrepreneurs build more scalable and sustainable businesses.

Future commodity price levels might certainly be different, on average, in the future than they were in the past, but we should not jump to the conclusion that the long - term boom - bust dynamics of commodities have vanished as a result.

Entrepreneurs there tend to work longer hours daily, but are wary of niche markets — they're 30 % less likely than other areas to jump into those.

The value of social selling is no longer a secret and even organizations who were slow to jump on the social media bandwagon are now firmly entrenched in its ecosystem.

San Diego's Dexcom posted a 30 percent jump in revenue for the March quarter as it prepares for a major launch of its next generation continuous glucose monitors that no longer requires finger pricks for calibration.

He had long dreamed of jumping the border to get into the lucrative U.S. market.

If you can make rational investments, you can avoid jumping the gun or dragging your feet, both of which can cost you a lot in the long run.

Eschewing the «long speech» method of earnings calls, Amazon jumped right into analysts» questions after briefly recapping the figures.

One in six said they would have trouble making mortgage payments if interest rates rise (long - term interest rates jumped following the November election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, while the U.S. Federal Reserve earlier this month raised its trend - setting rate for the second time since the 2008 crisis).

As long as we're on a roll, let's address two final obstacles that keep savers on the sidelines instead of jumping in and reaping the major benefits of setting up an IRA:

You have to give them credit for maintaining such a disciplined approach for so long when everyone else around them was jumping in and out of the most recent short - term performers.

Like a lot of firms, the 41 - year - old venture firm Menlo Ventures has decided to jump into healthcare investing after a long hiatus, hiring new partner Greg Yap to lead the charge.

The LDS church has a long history of influence peddling and jumping into politics.

If they Pope said jump, I guarantee you the vast majority of Catholics wouldn't even take notice (I'm one of them, 4 years with Franciscans, 4 years with Dominicans), but if the LDS Prophet said jump, you better believe every church going Mormon is jumping — and they won't ask why, just how high and how long — they'll do it blindly like robots.

Other forms of physical training included the long jump and the high jump, running, carrying heavy packs, swimming and vaulting onto a horse.

If you have been a believer for long you have had these experiences: First, a day or season of reading the Bible where the verses jumped off the page and nourished your soul.

A long series like this is probably not the best way to use a blog, since readers come and go, and miss a post or two, and since the argument builds from post-to-post, if someone is just jumping in or misses a few post, they won't understand the flow of thought that brought us here.

If, as I believe, we are choking on our own progress, perhaps we can agree with Max Horkheimer that what we need «is no longer the acceleration of progress, but rather the jumping out of progress [der Sprung aus dem Fortschritt heraus].»

To make a long story short, by the end of the night we had 17 kids crying, praising God, speaking in tongues, jumping up and down in the spirit.

The fact that a great many theological schools» curricula long ago fragmented, in H. Richard Niebuhr's phrase, into «a series of studious jumps in various directions» [5] is beyond dispute.