Sentences with phrase «of pressure point»

Traditional Indonesian massage techniques use a combination of pressure point therapy to release pressure and long stretching strokes to soothe tired muscles.

Kingsdown mattresses are known for giving exceptional body support and elimination of pressure points.

This is achieved through the stimulation of pressure points, glands, nerves, muscles etc..

He did this by working on countless patients at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, who he used to experiment with reflexology occidental works like iridology (iris - reading), endonasal reflexology (activation of pressure points near and around the nose), and auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture).

Often standard on model - year 2000 or older models, conventional blades have a limited number of pressure points against the length of the blade.

This day is the pressure point of all pressure points.

This technique is a traditional Asian practice that includes the manipulation of pressure points in the feet to encourage healing and renewed energy flow along the body's meridians.

A lot of those pressure points are currently being strengthened for release,» said Hannes Seifert, Studio Head at Io - Interactive.

New technology, new rules and investor satisfaction are just some of the pressure points facing business leaders this year.

It has 1,024 levels of pressure points, and it delivers an excellent experience when sketching or writing.

It has great sense of pressure points and it's beginning to feel more and more realistic.

If you've read past reviews here on SlashGear about OnePlus devices, chances are you were reading a review I wrote — and I care very much about one of these pressure points and very little about the other.

Not exact matches

Walking in most other sneakers comes with a lot of resistance — there are pressure points on certain parts of your feet, the material creases to try to move with your feet, and as the day goes by, the shoes get increasingly uncomfortable.

One of my favorite statistics is pointed out by Jason Benderly, who suggests that households headed by a male adult with spouse present is a sector whose unemployment rate can be most consistently used to determine when wage pressure is beginning to rise.

Applicants can point to several kinds of experiences to demonstrate the above, including denial of equal access to institutions of higher education; exclusion from social and professional associations; denial of educational honors; social pressures that discouraged the individual from pursuing education; and discrimination in efforts to secure employment or secure professional advancement.

The one - and - a-half-inch layer of foam beneath the quilted top layer helps to minimize pressure points.

Emotional pressures to succeed can strain trusted and intimate relationships to the point of breaking.

The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

Chad O'Carroll of the Korea Risk Group says there is some pressure for both the North and South Korean leaders to stress key negotiating points.

It's gotten to the point that there is considerable pressure for him to resign (although many doubt it will happen) because of the league's ongoing domestic abuse and discipline problems.

Other data last week had painted a somewhat mixed view of the economy at the start of the year, with inflationary pressures easing — possibly pointing to softening activity — but better - than - expected import and export growth.

Almost always the public pressure becomes so intense companies eventually break down and offer some sort of response, but by that point the damage is done and even the best crafted public message rings hollow and appears forced.

Given growing doctor shortages and increasing pressure for cost control, more medical care will be pushed downstream to nurse practitioners, mini-practices inside retailers» locations, and in mobile - van and in - home practices and via online, where diagnosis and issuance of prescriptions is an evolving business very near the tipping point of a boom.

Dutton's book rambles through the annals of neuroscience as he interviews lawyers, con men and expert interrogators, and brings his own expertise to bear in mapping the brain's pressure points and the locations of people's psychological blind spots.

The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield rose 5.2 basis points to 3.035 percent on Wednesday, driven by worries about the growing supply of government debt and inflationary pressures from rising oil prices.

In addition to the lighting devices that immediately come to mind in the wake of a power outage and the tools highlighted in «Island Without Power,» Arteaga also pointed to glucose monitoring devices for diabetics, hearing aids and blood pressure monitors as a few other critical devices that needed power to function.

To help motivate Mr. Lo to cooperate, the agents had discovered a pressure point: He had a high - school aged daughter, whom he desperately wanted to have the opportunity to attend university in the U.S. (not unlike millions of other Chinese parents).

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a pressure -LSB-...]

Goldman also pointed to some technical factors producing headwinds that are normalizing, including pressure on short - term funding markets due to repatriation of cash parked in short - term credit, and reduced appetite for selling equity volatility.

When critics like Brian Riedl, the campaign economist for the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio, fret that offering everyone a good job will lead to «pressure to introduce a higher wage or certain benefits that the private sector doesn't offer,» proponents say: Yeah, it will; that's exactly the point.

This suggests perhaps a bit more pressure than the annual growth numbers reveal, which is, of course, what we'd expect at this point.

Pockets of weakness persist for some less advantaged groups and in some parts of the country, a point Chair Yellen herself recently made, and even nationally, there's not all that much wage pressure.

The members of the central bank apparently think the recent slowdown in price growth is transitory, and that at some point, price pressures will reflect the tightening of the job market.

These «failures» he added, which were based off of an overreliance of media agencies to reach each platform, will result in reaching a point of diminishing returns for marketing effectiveness, all of which has added pressure on budgets due to the increase of platforms and of media costs.

Older versions of the plane, the A through D models, have problems with cabin pressure whereas the newer Super Hornet and Growler issues «would appear to point to the onboard oxygen generating» system to which the Navy» has already made changes.

Taken together, the responses point to some firming of pressures, albeit from low levels in resource - intensive regions.

I personally believe that the above are good enough reasons to add pressure to Treasuries, but if we want more food for thought, we can not forget that China is the largest holder of US government bonds after the Fed and if the rhetoric around a trade war escalates we can assume that this point would most likely be touched by Chinese counterparties.

Shares of Palo Alto Networks Inc (NYSE: PANW), Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) and Proofpoint Inc (NASDAQ: PFPT) have been under pressure over the past month.

Reflecting indications that US economic growth remains robust and concerns that inflationary pressures may be building, markets are now expecting the federal funds rate to reach 3 1/4 per cent by August, which implies 25 basis point increases at three of the next four FOMC meetings (Graph 17).

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand increased the overnight cash rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent in late April, in response to domestic inflation pressures and the strengthening global economy.

Subsequently, with continuing strong activity indicators, stretched labour markets and signs of possible pipeline price pressures (although core consumer prices remain benign), the Federal Reserve tightened monetary policy by 25 basis points to 5 per cent in June and then 5.25 per cent in August (Graph 5).

This is well below the high of 4.9 per cent seen in June 2004, despite the 150 basis point increase in the federal funds rate since then and signs that inflationary pressure may be building.

It is also worth pointing out that downward pressure on the price of «paper» gold that was not supported by the «physical» market would inevitably result in the price of «paper» gold making a sustained and substantial move below the price of the physical commodity, which hasn't happened.

U.S. producer prices unexpectedly rose in November as the cost of services increased, but the underlying trend continued to point to weak inflation pressures.

Given an absence of inflationary pressures and weak economic conditions, the ECB cut its key policy rate by 50 basis points to 2 per cent in June.

The founders, under some pressure, agreed to top up all the friends and family investors with an allocation out of their shares (and they had lots given the fact that both the high initial valuation and convertible had protected their pool) at the price point mandated by the VC.

This is arguably the most important of the points listed above regarding downward pressure on commodities.

Citing emerging domestic price pressures and stronger - than - expected household spending and housing market activity, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its policy rate by 1/4 of a percentage point in January to 5 1/4 per cent.

Manufacturing sector surveys, such as the ACCI - Westpac, Colonial State Bank and Australian Chamber of Manufacturers» surveys, suggest there were sharp increases in input costs in the first half of this year, and point to further pressures in the September quarter.

If the deflation deadlock is ever broken and yields are rising several 100 basis points, the resulting mark - to - market losses of bond and swap portfolios could lead to systemic pressure.