Sentences with phrase «other pressure points»

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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.

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.

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).

Other data on Wednesday pointed to steadily rising inflation pressures, with producer prices notching their largest increase in five months in November.

This does not mean that there is a point at which accommodation and neutrality converge (although there may be); it means only that as time and cases go by, the state - centeredness of what we are bold to call religious freedom is more and more apparent, and the pressure on religionists to conform to the expectations of others grows and grows, with the inevitable complicity of the judges who supposedly protect religion's «right» to be free.

What in an older kind of philosophy would have been called the chain - of - cause - and - effect is here seen as being very much richer; it is a congeries of occasions, events, pressures, movements, routes, which come to focus at this or that point, and which for their explanation require some principle that has brought and still is bringing each of them, rather than some other possible occurrence, into this particular concrete moment of what we commonly style «existence».

In the light of considerable pressure to address these issues, Mondelez and other multinational chocolate companies began to engage with ethical certification to the point where most branded chocolate bars in the UK carried at least one logo.

Either way: Surely we can agree that the Sixers were able to engage in a strategy of team - building that no other team was willing to embrace to nearly a similar extent, and that while they eventually got pressure from the league to reform, by that point they had successfully pulled off the Process and set themselves up marvelously for the future.

Both men picked up their fifth bookings of the season and in turn will sit out a game through suspension, but with a nine - point buffer over their rivals, Conte will be delighted that his side have piled the pressure on them to respond with Arsenal and Manchester City facing each other on Sunday.

With City and United playing each other and hopefully drawing, these 3 points are vital to ensure 2nd spot and perhaps put added pressure on Chelsea.

No matter what happened in the other Premier League games set to be played this weekend, there was always going to be a lot of pressure on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players after our side had fallen out of the top four and into the worst position at this point of a season for over 10 years.

At least one (or both) of our rivals will be dropping points next weekend so Arsenal MUST beat Newcastle to keep the pressure on the others.

In my opinion, early kick offs tend to benefit our player as they have slipped occasionally when our rivals had games before us in which they dropped points and we only needed wins to move up ahead.playing manure is tough enough without the added pressure of trying to catch up or go ahead based on result of other rivals.

Ramsey, as expected, played a significant part in Arsenal managing to pick up all possible three points, but it's up to the other players to step up to the plate and alleviate whatever pressure there is on the Welshman to be «the man» for Arsenal.

i personally don, t care, some fans think we should have won the pl i agree this was a good opportunity missed but there are reasons why the other big guns failed this season, maureen lost the dressing room and was fired, man city decided to announce a new manager, united few years ago decided to hire the wrong manager for the club, liverpool decide to succumb to the fans / media pressure and changed manager... it just shows that it all comes down to how a club is run so arsenal should be given credits for running the club the way they do (don, t get me wrong all is not perfect) they could have decided to sack wenger due to pressure but didn, t, wenger despite his flaws & the team going through a difficult patch partly due to injuries managed to keep the players on board and steer us to 2nd place, my point is that winning the pl is not a given right and i truly believe than this time around arsene heard the discontent fans and will make the signings necessary, COYG!!

my point been you can prepare all you like for the inevitable, it will happen if you are up against a team with iron will, strong character and the determination to win, and that is why Leicester has been able to grind out wins... they used to sit back and soak in the pressure before hitting teams on the break and by January team sussed them out and tried to adopt a pattern to negate that but they found other ways to win, mainly by playing and defending out of their skins and standing up to whatever is thrown at them....

The film itself is a bit scattered — in trying to cover so much ground, it sometimes feels as though the story itself is all over the place, and some of the points it makes (like the societal pressure on men to eat meat as a reflection of their manhood) are much stronger than others.

«I think it will give us a hope, because if we keep the pressure on the other teams, maybe they will have an unlucky game or drop points somewhere.

We were supposed to break the financial shackles and strengthen, but even when the other clubs fell down to our level, we decided to keep a nice gap of at least 10 points off top, just to make sure no pressure hits us, because we can't handle it.

«So it puts pressure on the rest, it gives us a good advantage and it is always handy to have more points and to put pressure on the other people.»

Spurs have now picked up more points than any other team in 2018 as Son Heung - Min struck twice to help them keep the pressure firmly on Liverpool.

I've never been a huge supporter of Denilson — I still think that for all of his quick ball movement he has a tendency to put other players under pressure with his passing and his tracking back at times last season was atrocious — but this does firmly underline his good points.

On the other hand we have Newcastle United who are just 1 point ahead of relegation zone and pressure is mounting on the squad and owner Mike Ashley who is in talks to sell the club.

Jose Mourinho has also pointed out how the pressure on Arsenal to fill their trophy cabinet is non-existent in comparison to other big sides in Europe.

Arsene Wenger on the other hand came under massive pressure after Arsenal were ripped apart by clinical Liverpool at the Emirates last weekend and now they are under even more pressure going into the game against Leicester in their pursuit of first three points of the season.

If Barça are able to confirm their status as favorites and get the three points, they'll put immense pressure on title rivals Real Madrid who have one of their toughest assignments of the season away to Real Sociedad, the only other team in La Liga with a perfect record so far.

He found that the body's energy flows through zones, which run from foot to head, and found that pressure applied to a reflex point in one zone of the foot could affect other parts of the body.

When sleeping on your side, body weight may not be as evenly distributed as in other positions, leading to pain at pressure points such as the hips, shoulders and knees.

Although it seems in others eyes I will not get the * faith points * I realize doing so would be more of giving into peer pressure rather than my personal faith.

Spaces between the mattress and pressure points on your body will cause your muscles to contract constantly while working hard to maintain the proper sleeping position, which will inevitably cause pain not only in your back, but also in other areas of the body.

On the other hand, those who lie on their back need a firm mattress that will eliminate pressure points.

Democrats» failure to recruit a competitive candidate in New York's 11th District (which Obama won by 5 points in 2012) puts pressure on the eventual nominees in these six other districts to perform.

Factor in on top of that the serious pressure on the DWP to come up with big additional cuts in welfare payments to reduce the pain on other departmental budgets and keeping things «progressive», living up to the boasts, making the graphs much pointed to by Lib Dem MPs a reality in a five - year retrenchment that leans heavily on cuts over tax hikes... and you see how difficult it will be to secure and hold the progressive mantle through this saga ahead.

In other words, how can organisms resist pressures of a thousand atmospheres, temperatures near boiling or freezing point, or saturated salt brines?

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

As such, hunting pressure is higher in the proximity of villages and other access points.

The high pressure prevents these components, which have a lower boiling point than alloy's other components, from flashing off as a vapor before the crystal can form.

On the other hand, accumulating evidence points to a bigger correlation between a lack of physical exercise and high body fat, measured by the body - mass - index, and high blood pressure.

In a 2014 review of previous studies, people who consumed probiotics — healthy bacteria found in yogurt and other fermented foods — saw their systolic blood pressure reduced an average of 3.6 points, and their diastolic reduced 2.4 points, compared to those who didn't.

This group saw reductions of 6 to 8 points for systolic blood pressure and 4 points for diastolic blood pressure, compared to another group whose treatment focused on other body parts and who saw no change.

On the other hand, most knee pain occurs when your toes are pointed directly forward and the weight is shifted onto your toes instead of heels, causing a lot of pressure on the inside of the knee and allowing the knees to excessively come forward.

Other common causes of set point malfunction are: aggressive and restrictive dieting, which can slow thyroid function and metabolism, illnesses (like chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia), medications (including common antidepressants such as Paxil, Celexa, Zoloft and Lexapro, anti-convulsants, blood pressure medications, anti-seizure or pain medications such as Neurontin or Lyrica), birth control pills, synthetic hormone replacement, and diabetic medications (such as glyburide and Amaryll).

Dr. Timothy McCall, the author of Yoga as Medicine, points out in a recent YogaUOnline interview, Yoga For High Blood Pressure: An Interview With Timothy McCall, M.D., that this and other scientific studies have been small, yet clinically significant in proving that yoga can be an effective lifestyle habit in reducing blood pPressure: An Interview With Timothy McCall, M.D., that this and other scientific studies have been small, yet clinically significant in proving that yoga can be an effective lifestyle habit in reducing blood pressurepressure.

Be sure to never activate this or other labor pressure points prior to 37 weeks gestation, however.

In the meantime, pressure point release with that lacrosse ball every other day.

He advocates ancient traditional Chinese medicine treatments like acupuncture and massage in different points and special Chinese herbal formulas for infertility, high blood pressure, insomnia, obesity and other medical conditions caused by unhealthy and unbalanced lifestyles.

This conversation works for me, because I'm not pressuring the other person to do more than he / she can, but I'm also not doing what our government and the media does all the time — try to soften the message about what is truly healthy to the point that the information about what foods are healthy becomes meaningless and causes great confusion and misinformation.

Use the other hand to bend the wrist and point the fingers towards the floor, applying gentle pressure.

An alternative treatment practiced for thousands of years, massage includes such approaches as Swedish massage (which involves long strokes, kneading, and deep circular movements), deep tissue massage, shiatsu (which focuses on applying pressure to the same bodily points stimulated in acupuncture), and other popular massage styles.