Sentences with phrase «of the needle thing»

Whatever happened to that rich man eye of the needle thing?

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Many categories are at a stage of evolution where things are pretty good now and incremental improvements don't move the needle.

In a couple of years, we will be able to do also on an organic - based things that are moving the needle.»

This led to a big split among those that latched on to the words that having faith in Jesus is what is needed to get to heaven vs words that say things like how it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into heaven or help the poor.

As a certain guy you doubtless feel had some important things to say; Take the rafter out of your own eye before you pick at the needle in your brother's eye.

Oh man... not me... that thing looks like it could come to life in the middle of the night, scoot it's way down the hallway, dropping needles along the way, leaving a trail of tree sap, and squeeze you to death right in your bed.

It is too difficult to give up everything, and so we take the easy way out, and leave things the way they are, or at least sift through the hay - stack of our beliefs with a needle, when we need a pitch - fork or a fork - lift.

No, DavidE7, you are completely wrong, It IS impossible to pass a camel through an eye of a needle, and, it is even more impossible (if such a thing is possible) for a rich man to enter «heaven».

I alone can't move the needle much, but there are plenty of guys like me who aren't sponsoring corporate suites at events (I do business with them) or paying for meet - n - greet cocktails and those sorts of thing.

She's the director of attractions at the Stratosphere, that huge, space - needle - y - looking thing that rises above the Strip.

If you are pregnant, or haven't had enough time post pregnancy to be eligible to donate blood (or maybe you just can't stand the thought of big needles - I hear you), there are still other things you can do to help.

Things you'll need to get started: a pair of long nose or «needle nose» pliers, jump rings, lobster claw clasps, and something to hold your beads in so you can easily access them without spilling them on the floor.

I got a syringe - type thing from my pediatrician that had a tube instead of a needle on the end.

When knitting with circular needles, the key thing to remember is that you are always working from the right side, or what will be the outside of the work when it is worn or used.

I have to add that things like needles and strangers in the room won't seem to matter unless you have an understanding that these sort of things DO disrupt a rather complex and delicate experience that is labor and birth.

He says while there are a lot of things that need to be done to improve community relations with the police, «This is one of the things that is needed, and I believe it's moves the needle in a positive direction.»

Here's a sampling of some of the other things that come in this kit: tattoo needles, grips, practice skin, transfer paper, and even the Allen wrenches you need for maintenance.

In speech it's very difficult to get at a lot of things that we want to understand, because humans aren't willing to have needles and probes stuck through their vocal tracts.

«In fact, all of the needle puncture marks were therapeutic — drawing blood, IV's, that sort of thing,» Lauridson said.

If you hold the compass horizontal, the needle will do one of three things: point to the same spot as the last time you used it, spin slowly before stopping at a random point or point to anything magnetic that you happen to be wearing.

«The failure to implement needle exchange programmes is the worst thing that has ever happened in terms of the federal response to AIDS,» he says.

«It's like looking for a needle in a haystack when the haystack contains many other things that resemble a needle,» says Alfred Mann of the University of Pennsylvania, a former member of the Los Alamos team who supervised the dissenting physicist's PhD.

You could in theory stick your finger in there and then rip out the seed, but if you do that you get all these needles into your fingers, this is actually what the birds do because birds of course have Keratinous beaks, so they don't have to worry about those things.

A magnet might be just the thing to pull the proverbial needle from the haystack, at least when it comes to plucking a specific DNA molecule from a vat of the stuff.

The other thing I'd say about the diary is one thing I very much liked is that the diary, like the needle in the eye, those are tools of investigating the perversities of the self.

Matthew Stanley: One of the things I always liked about the needle experiment was that it's not an experiment all by itself but it sort of demonstrates and important part of his character that Newton sort of sat down one day and said, «Now, I'm going to figure out colors.»

The only thing I remember about those years is riding up and down on Danielle's hospital bed, frequent trips to the movies with my Aunt and Uncle when my parents were too busy, and a kitchen counter full of needles.

Just an idea to change things up and tilt the needle more in the direction of strength training.

And what makes everything worse is that there is a cornucopia of product options for us to choose from... expensive creams, terrifying needle injections, weird spiky face roller things... By the time you've finally found the right products, you've spent WAY too much money, probably questioned your judgement a few times, and before you know it, your beauty routine takes longer to complete than it takes to watch Gone With The Wind.

If there is one thing I really despise in a sewing machine, it is a couple of stitch selections with preset needle positions (left, center, or right) rather than the ability to move the needle to 5, 7 or 9 different needle positions during sewing.

When I think about this modernisation my fingers already hurts — of course I have a special needle to pierce a thick leather, but still — it would be a hard thing to do.

If the Internet is good for anything — and, actually, it's good for lots of things — it's good for finding a needle in a haystack.

I would argue that if the goal is to provide more instruction that taps into students» individual needs and personal interests, then school and district leaders should focus on doing specific things that might actually move the needle, such as making sure: 1) that teachers know their students well; 2) that they assess student learning carefully; 3) that they provide students with rich and diverse materials in a range of media, and 4) that student and teacher assignments are flexible.

Last month, CREEED held a Choose to Excel summit with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, with the goal of discussing the state of education in El Paso and to find ways to «move the education needle forward» by, among other things, recruiting charter schools to the area.

@user14218 Seriously though, wear gloves and maybe a dust mask, when you drop that thing it may be full of 16 years of leaves, sticks, mice... «stuff», pine needles, dirt, fungus, hair... in various stages of decomposition.

The engine would be firing smoothly and then as the needle dropped near idle the engine bay would shake and the needle would surge up slightly and then fall to idle and things would rapidly settle after about 1 second of shudder.

It gets off the line well enough, but when the tach needle sweeps through the middle of the rev band, things pick up quickly.

There are lots of things you can consider, but playing with pricing can be a huge trigger to get that needle to move.

A curse implying unspeakable things done to the mother of the needle.

Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert have been waiting on pins and needles for her next book, The Signature of All Things, a 19th - century historical novel due to hit bookstores on October 1.

One is heartfelt — but the other is darkly funny: «I am the dog you put to sleep, / as you like to call the needle of oblivion, / come back to tell you this simple thing: / I never liked you — not one bit.»

Sometimes I get down on the floor and see things at their level and I'll find needles, I'll find all kinds of things.

Since Christmas tree needles are not exactly the greatest things in terms of digestion, your poor pet might throw up a lot after taking any of them in.

Then there are the totally unexpected, downright weird things that happen no matter how healthy the animal, he adds, like the dog that had a cactus needle enter the back of its head and eventually migrate out through its eyeball or the cat that was impaled when a ceremonial sword fell off a wall.

Although the prospect of having to inject your cat once or twice a day is very daunting for most owners, it can actually be very easy to do with practise, and because insulin syringes and needles are so small, the cat usually does not feel a thing.

I typed «14ers.com» into my browser — the go - to website for all things pertaining to Colorado's storied fourteeners — and balked at the terrifying photos of Crestone Needle on my screen.

Daedalic's past games have been a little too quick to delve into the realms of «needle in a haystack» puzzle solutions, although Deponia and its sequel got things largely right.

If I asked a lot of gamers for a list of things they'd rather stick hot needles in their eyes than have to deal with in a game, I can almost promise that water levels would be on it.

Locating the necessary paperwork to lay a claim on the assets of a deceased person usually involves going into someone's house and rummaging through their things — a process agreed by probate professionals as akin to finding a needle in a haystack.

The leaders of corporations and other organizations who want to improve their diversity efforts have taken deliberate steps to push the needle, and law firms could do the same thing.