Sentences with phrase «often held him against»

The vet's wife often held him against her chest for hours at night to help him through (he wasn't home with us yet) and he has had a very long, healthy, happy and very bossy life!

With the OmniBalance design of Sony's Xperia handsets being something that is often held against its smartphones, moving to OLED displays would help make the company close the gap between itself and its competitors.

Not exact matches

Less often discussed is holding up the values of scientific inquiry and progress against the anti-rational, fact - free messages that Trump has so willingly disseminated since he took the Republican nomination.

During an interview on CNBC, he answered the question why his fund doesn't hold any shares of Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) «I've often said that I don't want to be seen as begging against Mark Zuckerberg,...

Arguments against utilitarianism by other secularists often proceed by showing that the doctrine yields conclusions contrary to our most deeply held moral intuitions.

Those who hold very strongly to the abstinence position often forget that there is another group who are as opposed to excess as they are and who might be allies in developing sanctions against drunkenness.

Premium grade matcha, whilst beautiful as a tea, is often too delicate to hold its own against other ingredients.

Robert Green (West Ham)-- Often the butt of a good bit of ribbing but the West Ham man held firm against Tottenham

Though he only had two headed goals in the league, he was still an extremely effective box threat from crosses often choosing to bring the ball down with his chest whilst holding off grown men who suddenly mirrored Kevin Hart trying to guard against an NBA center.

It doesn't happen often, luckily enough — although I still hold a grudge against the mum who commented on me giving the toddler a biscuit, shock horror — but I think it's happened to most people I know at least once.

Luna is a stunning baby girls name that firmly holds itself against other powerful names that often seem more appealing.

When I held them close and felt their skin against mine the sweet scent of baby often brought tears to my eyes.

The views Bob holds are often warned against as racist, dangerous, etc. by media, academics, large - party politicians, etc..

The District 3 City Council race, for the seat held the past 14 years by Speaker Christine Quinn, pits two passionate and energetic L.G.B.T. contenders against each other for what has often been dubbed «the gay seat.»

They insist that Mario Cuomo got more done than he is often remembered for: holding firm against the death penalty, protecting the safety net in the era of selfishness, and, yes, even passing mundane reforms like a seat - belt law.

In Lord Ashcroft's previous polling in Lib Dem seats he's often found wide variation from one seat to another, and it's the same here — in some seats the Lib Dems are holding on against the national tide, in other seats they are doing very badly indeed.

At a recent debate at the Palace Theatre, Perez Williams said she is against holding a con - con (as it's often known).

Progressive groups, who don't often find themselves on the same side of the Business Council, held a last - minute demonstration against getting rid of the deduction.

Contrary to what the travellers and their legion of often misguided supporters hold to be the truth, the eviction from the Dale Farm site has nothing to do with the abuse of human rights, nor is it a matter of discriminating against a particular minority.

They often work against us, from job prospects to how long we're on hold.

The Kavli Foundation recently held a conversation with the new laureates to learn what led them to study memory and cognition, the challenges they faced in getting the neuroscience community to accept findings that often went against the conventional wisdom of the time, and where they see cognitive neuroscience as a field headed.

We are constantly measuring ourselves up — against often unfair benchmarks — and then we get down on ourselves for not overcoming the obstacle we identify as holding us back.

I also recommend against any type of leg lowering exercise, as the weight of your lower body is quite often too much for your transverses to hold and therefore will increase the pressure forced down on our pelvic floor as the other abdominals take over.

Often random and sometimes offensive, the movie can't begin to hold up against even a generous critical evaluation, though it does manage to amuse.

From that viewpoint, Depardieu was someone cast against expectations, and he holds his own in the role, although his attempts to affect an Italian accent often distract from his performance.

Characters are often in peril and held against their will.

The caustic comedic filmmaker's work can feel a bit nasty when held up against the tripe that often qualifies as mainstream comedy.

Introduced for 2012, the current fourth - generation Subaru Impreza holds its own against the small - car competition, yet it somehow lacked that special feel to it — its Subaru - ness that fans often talk about.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

As I mentioned earlier, a vast majority of forex brokers (not all, mostly MM) often get happy by new traders as they hold positions against their trades.

Most actively managed core bond funds are measured against the Aggregate Index, even though their holdings often sit...

Most actively managed core bond funds are measured against the Aggregate Index, even though their holdings often sit outside the benchmark.

The fact that its leading advocates often make the case against Buy - and - Hold is compelling.

As a farm dog, the Cane Corso was often called upon to hold a bull to be castrated; guard sheep against wolves; fight badgers; guard the vineyards; and pull carts.

Children often become victims of fear aggression when they try to hold cats against their will.

Loud teeth crunching, however, can be a sign that your rabbit is in pain, and this is often accompanied by tense body language (e.g. hunched with ears held tight against her body).

Those who are using him as an example of scientific consensus holding back scientific research are wrong and quite often represent the modern equivalent of the political and theological powers against which Galileo so indomitably fought.

The church holds carbon fasts during Lent and often participates in climate protests, such as those against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.

Earthjustice provides vital legal representation, often free, to environmental groups to «even the odds against powerful special interests and to hold accountable those who jeopardize the health of the planet.»

In addition to helping hold employers responsible for sloppy employee management, hiring, training, and retention, New Mexico personal injury claims against an employer often allow the injury victim to recover substantially more than claims limited to the employee.

If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution... The tendency of those who execute the criminal laws of the country to obtain conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions, the latter often obtained after subjecting accused persons to unwarranted practices destructive of rights secured by the Federal Constitution, should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts which are charged at all times with the support of the Constitution and to which people of all conditions have a right to appeal for the maintenance of such fundamental rights.

McMaster, often described as the army's own futurist, holds a complex view on technology, cautioning against technological hubris as a solution to modern warfare.

As long as you present yourself professionally, they often won't hold this against you.

The observed cross-loadings of individual items as well as items that belonged to other domains than in the conceptual model may reflect that female victims often are not exposed to one form of violence in isolation of the other.32 For example, the sexual violence item «Forced me to have sex against my will by using his / her physical strength (by hitting, holding me firmly or threatening me with a weapon),» which loaded in both the physical and sexual IPV components, is hard to divide into one or the other category.

Contempt often gets expressed in the midst of an intense argument in a last ditch effort to win, but it can also become a rather chronic attitude that defends against deeply held resentment of not feeling valued or good enough in the eyes of one's partner.

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