Sentences with phrase «often stand off»

I would often stand off to the side with a glass of water, alternating between great interest and wariness at the jar in their hands.

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Financial services group Nordea, which banned its employees from engaging in off - the - clock cryptocurrency trading earlier this year, said at the time that financial institutions often «restrict the personal account dealing of staff to prevent them taking positions in speculative investments, or which might expose them to a risk of financial loss and therefore impact their financial standing.»

And this «niceness» carries into present day, thanks to the always - smiling Dalai Lama, approachable books on buddhism, like Lodro Rinzler's The Buddha Walks into a Bar which has the nerve to describe how to have Buddhist one - night - stand, and slogan - happy Twitter and Instagram accounts that rattle off feel - good and often times inaccurate buddhism quotes.

Israel had no standing army, but from time to time there was a rallying of tribes (not often all of them) under a charismatic leader (a «judge») to throw off the oppressor's yoke.

To be reminded that «all have fallen short» and that «all stand in need of grace» is often a first step toward getting us down off our high horses and to the table together.

I saw a cake stand about 50 % off on Crate & Barrel and my partner asked, «How often do you make cakes?!»

And to say Chambers doesn't have the pace to do this is wrong imo, he's got plenty of pace, just needs experience in the position, to learn when to be aggressive and when to stand off a bit so he doesn't get caught out as Vermaelen often did and as Mertesacker does from time to time.

He also stood off the attackers far too often, simply allowing the crosses to fly into the box.

Edin Dzeko would stand between the two centre - backs, cutting off the pass between them, while Radja Nainggolan and Patrik Schick would be tasked with pressing them — Schick would generally angle his run so that Samuel Umtiti couldn't pass to Jordi Alba, whereas Nainggolan would make his runs from central areas, as Nelson Semedo would often drop deeper on the right than Alba did on the opposite flank.

I can not stand it, but I don't want to just cut her off while her sister gets to nurse as often as needed.

Persons who stand up against the corrupt and corrupt practices in society are very often either bought off, blackmailed into silence through death threats or forced to face financial ruin and at worst physically eliminated.

Often the only time Colon would stand up during the workday was when she could no longer put off using the toilet.

The movie kicks off with a poorly CGI'd (for Zemeckis) shot of the hero standing in the Statue of Liberty's torch with the Towers looming across the water behind him, talking and talking and talking not to you but at you, often in bizarrely gargoyle - ish close - ups, about the amazing thing he's about to do, or is doing — as if convincing us to buy a ticket to the film we're already sitting there watching.

Still, Pipe Dream is - more often than not - an engaging little comedy that undoubtedly stands as a testament to Donovan's ample talent and charisma (it goes without saying that, in lesser hands, his character surely would've come off as a sleazy scumbag).

When Gerda asks Einar to stand in for her female model friend to finish a painting, she soon begins painting him even more often as a woman and her career begins to take off.

More often than not you need to back off the power, which leads the electronics to stand down, but then when you get back on the power to try and balance the car, the inside rear wheel can begin to spin.

The drawback of going through a nontraditional lender is that the fees and provisions that were set in place before borrowing money often stand whether the loan is paid off early or not.

However, whenever someone in the financial services industry stands to earn a buck off of me or my clients, the facts often very quickly begin to lose their sharpness.

Forward looking analyzes the potential future earnings in order to determine the strength of a student loan; conversely, backward looking decisions are often made based off of a co-signers current standing instead of the student's future standing.

Maintaining a good relationship is often critical to keeping your private student loans in good standing and ensuring that you can pay off your student loans in a timely fashion.

But what makes them stand out are their — «Adventure Walks, which are long hikes in local parks that often include leash work, off leash playtime, swimming, exploring, and doing all sorts of stuff that dogs love!».

He had a hard time bonding and connecting with people and was not trusting of humans — and he showed this distrust with disinterest and calm avoidance, as well as stealing food off the counters, often while standing on them.

Often, to prevent young chicks from jumping off the ledge prematurely, adults stand between the chicks and the cliff edge.

Boats will often also stop at Koh Wai, which is a good spot for snorkeling off the beach and feeding the fish from the pier or whilst standing waist deep in water.

There are barriers and people standing on the sidelines, but you can drive right through them, often not even being penalized for going off track.

So what I tend to do when I get like that more often than not, is understand both sides of argument and relate to them so I come off sincere about what I'm talking about but state where I stand and my reasoning.

I remember one from my Nintendo days where Giles (fellow coder on StarFox) and I had been drinking with the Nintendo staff, this was towards the end of StarFox 2 and Giles had just got the loose leaf documentation (several hundred pages) for the very early prototype of the N64... anyway, I didn't have my bicycle so I hitched a lift on the back of Giles» (it had two metal pegs attached to the back wheel that you could stand on, and this kind of «double riding» was often seen in Japan in the 80s and 90s)... anyway, we get back to town and we're crossing a busy road when Giles hits a pothole or something and we go flying, but so do the 100s of loose leaf pages, all over the road in central Kyoto... and the walk light blinked to red so we were laughing our heads off, completely drunk, frantically scrambling around picking up all this top secret documentation, jamming up the traffic.

Racing through Chicago the world is literally littered with things that can be hacked to cause mayhem and somewhat enjoyment, it is often that I would find myself standing on a street corner setting off traffic lights just to see cars crash into each other for amusement, likewise I would also enjoy hacking bridges to mess with cars.

It's not often that the two artists are hung in such close proximity, a curatorial stand - off that started with their controversial joint commission at the 1980 Venice Biennale, where one of Baselitz's statues was interpreted as giving a Nazi salute.

The show also includes a six - minute sound installation titled «Spiderman,» in which Bradford delivers an off - color comedy routine that lampoons the often crass and macho language of stand - up.

«I often try to find my kindred spirits in the world and usually it's like somebody who's standing off to the side.»

The program, entitled «Stand Here and Listen», plays off the signs that often appear in popular tourist destinations, where visitors are encouraged to stand and look at sights and landmStand Here and Listen», plays off the signs that often appear in popular tourist destinations, where visitors are encouraged to stand and look at sights and landmstand and look at sights and landmarks.

A mediation that would end in stand - off or trial might well be settled by the right mediator (a «non attorney») and often without needing to retain an attorney yourself.

I often find myself standing off to the side while hundreds of people dance or stretch together at the behest of the weekend's «fun coordinator.»

Likewise, we've all dealt with colleagues who draft off of others» achievements, salespeople who don't stand behind their products when the stuff hits the fan, and bosses who pass the buck far more often than they stop it.