Sentences with phrase «out of my chair in»

It has it's share of lame jokes, as most spoofs do, but for every bad moment there's another that will have you falling out of your chair in laughter.

And I nearly fell out of my chair in the process.

Not exact matches

Watching the last remnants of any energy seeping slowly out of these unwitting captives sitting sadly in their chairs is truly depressing.

In other words: Don't feel guilty for heading out to that afternoon spin class: you'll see productivity benefits at work — and less of a bum print in your chaiIn other words: Don't feel guilty for heading out to that afternoon spin class: you'll see productivity benefits at work — and less of a bum print in your chaiin your chair.

To figure this out the team out of the University of Rochester asked 75 volunteers to do nothing more complicated than sit, alone, in a comfortable chair for 15 minutes without their devices.

They sit in their chairs, don't complain, and don't act out — which also, of course, contributes to earning good grades from teachers.

The risk for the independents is if they play hard to get for too long they'll end up standing out in the cold when this high - stakes game of musical chairs ends.

«Many of these sites appear to have been formed by large credible organizations while others appear to be created by individuals that may be operating out of their basements,» Robert Moilanen, the Minnesota Securities Director and chair of the North American Securities Administrators Association's Internet Fraud Investigations Project Group said in a statement in December.

Army Col. John Hope was the director of operations for the Pentagon's $ 800 million Afghanistan Task Force for Stability and Business Operations — which was designed to focus on economic redevelopment in US war zones — when he complained about a lack of financial accountability, and now says he has been «singled out for retaliation and retribution,» Senate Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) said last week in a letter to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

Just the sound of the word «debt» seems to knock the wind out of Holiday, who sighs loudly and sinks in her chair.

We started thinking about how the typical conference room setup — what would happen if we pulled the chairs and tables out of the room and had people hold that same kind of meeting in a non-sedentary space?

There are quite a few potential market movers this week, as investors will be watching out for a handful of corporate earnings reports — including some major players from the world's of tech and media — as well as U.S. Fed chair Janet Yellen's two - day stint in front of D.C. lawmakers.

«We need zero private offices, and you can just pile all of our desks and chairs in the corner,» Steve Stolt, a product - line manager who represented the R&D organization, told the architects kitting out the space.

In fact, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, then the chair of the intelligence committee, was so incensed by «Zero Dark Thirty's» depiction of torture's effectiveness that she walked out of an advance screening of the movie after only 15 to 20 minutes.

Not necessarily — Wheeler is a former cable lobbyist who was widely seen as a terrible choice for open - internet interests at first, but turned out to be one of the more progressive chairs in recent memory.

You may well hear people point out that there's no evidence that splitting the roles of CEO and chair is beneficial, in the sense of increasing long - term shareholder value (or in terms of any other outcomes, for that matter).

Ajit Pai, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has laid out his strategy for making the U.S. «the best country for innovating and investing in 5G networks.»

Since Schmidt moved to the executive chair role at Google, he would not be considered as «forced out» of the CEO role, according to the criteria used in Taylor's and similar studies.

Since that day there has been so much backlash from him getting hit in the back of the head with a chair, to him getting called bipolar, sensitive, people say n — just to get a reaction out of him...

This includes quarterly press conferences by the Fed chair following FOMC meetings; publishing growth, inflation and short - term interest rate forecasts of FOMC participants on a quarterly basis; and a concerted effort to lay out the guideposts that the FOMC will look at in assessing progress towards our dual mandate objectives.

Today, the following story appeared in The Montreal Gazette, The Ottawa Citizen and The Edmonton Journal: Tory chair storms out of SPP hearing Freezing in -LSB-...]

Founded in 2009, Sparq is a spin - out of power electronics research performed at Queen's University by Dr. Praveen Jain, Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Innovations.

«Protecting the sanctity of our elections is paramount and any violations must be rooted out and punished to curb future efforts to undermine our elections,» state Democratic Party Chair Wayne Goodwin said in a news release.

Gross also observed that «Economists / investment managers are aware of the potency of a flattening yield curve (shown in Chart above)... Only [former Fed Chair] Volcker, with his need to strangle inflation out of the system, persisted into negative yield curve territory for longer than a few months.»

An avid proponent of collaborative communities, during his tenure as Chair, Dr. McArthur reached out to businesses, governments and academia to solidify the Foundation's position as a thought leader and agent of action in Canada's evolving relations with Asia.

Sworn in Feb. 5 to replace controversial Fed chair Janet Yellen, Powell went out of his way to reassure the country and the nation's business and financial industries that his intent is to keep a steady hand on the wheel.

In addition to the public company directorships set out below, Mr. Riley is Chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Winnipeg Foundation and Chair of Manitoba Hydro.

In fact, in her recent testimony before Congress, Fed Chair Janet Yellen laid out a fairly upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy and left the door open for a September rate hikIn fact, in her recent testimony before Congress, Fed Chair Janet Yellen laid out a fairly upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy and left the door open for a September rate hikin her recent testimony before Congress, Fed Chair Janet Yellen laid out a fairly upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy and left the door open for a September rate hike.

So relieved to read the comments (a lot of sensible people here in America are voicing out their thoughts re: this article) following this plastic fantastic comparison of chairs used in the east and the west - a chair is just a chair - like Dionne Warwick sang... people in America know their minds now and hand manipulation of religion in every way possible is out the door.

Move all these chairs back in at the end of the night, pick up all the Bibles, throw out all the trash (no, your momma don't work here, but don't worry, these volunteers will pick up after you).

On a whole wall actually, just kind of wrote it out and it was the whole length of our offices and we would sit on chairs on wheels and we would all slide along, slide on, slide in and that became the overall skeleton structure of the book.»

I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

Mr. Jordan came out of the closet at the University of Notre Dame, where he was engaged in sundry and sordid scandals, and now holds an endowed chair in philosophy at Emory University.

They make me smile, chuckle, sit back in my chair, ponder, get angry, think, re-think, defend, wonder why I'm defending, get perplexed, get confused, get more clarity, get more obscurity, saying YES out loud, saying NO out loud, most of all looking forward to my inbox that says «Naked Pastor» everyday, and opening it like a sneek peek at my Christmas stocking before mom and dad get up Christmas morning.

His article is based on his convocation address in 1996 inaugurating a new academic year in which YDS, under the leadership of its new dean, Richard Wood, set out to develop new curriculum and programs recommended by a review committee, which was chaired by Kelsey.

It was the early spring of 1963, and since I had been in the new Methodist Board of Missions offices at the Interchurch Center only a few months, I still enjoyed swiveling in my desk chair around to look out my picture window.

She told me that every morning she would get up, fix herself a cup of strong tea, wrap herself in her grandmother's afghan and sit in her comfortable lounge chair and gaze out her window at Pike's Peak.

I've come out of services physically exhausted with muscle strain just from sitting as far back in my chair as possible to get away from the verbal assaults emanating from the pulpit.

In Out of Sorts, Sarah pulls up a chair and offers healing words of encouragement and help.

Richard, it's so through... Dominican Republic Sunday morning... moms and dads carrying their kids on their back, some walk more then an hour in the burning sun... Church is... on a piece of land stretched out blankets under the tree... they took of their flip flops... its a holy land... they don't have to fight about the color of the carpet, either the washrooms vanity or chairs style and colors... the have no chairs, no washrooms, no piano, no lights, no AC... they are sincerely seeking God, listening to the preaching and in the middle of the darkness they see the light, they hope for better... they ARE what I call the REAL church.

I am not lessened by those that do not believe what i believe, i served this country and spent a year in Iraq, many of my fellow soldiers were Christian but i served beside Atheists, mormons, Catholics, wiccans, Jews, even a satanist, yes a satanist, and guess what, we were friends, I cared deeply for them and they for me, These were the guys that protected me so i could sleep, my life was in their hands and theirs in mine... I think you all have a very bad idea of what a Christian is, i think you have no idea what you're talking about when you judge us all as a religion... you need to get out of your house and off of your computer chair and learn what people are really about... Maybe then you will understand Humanity rather than just secularizing everybody and hating them... you are sad people, yet my beliefs teach me to pray for you, and hope that you come to reason...

Pope Benedict has indicated clearly that he believes we should receive Communion with great reverence, preferably kneeling - but no more powerful message about that could be given than the sight of John Paul, frail and in obvious pain in his illness and old age, struggling out of his chair and on to his knees to receive his Saviour.

I sit tapping my fingers on my desk staring at the clock at 4:49 and jump out of my chair as soon as the clock hits 5:00 I run (I literally run) to my car, jump in and then it is time to start the million list of things that have to get done.

Last evening before sunset, Mr. B and I pulled our deck chairs out onto the lawn for an hour and watched our little flock of young chickens glory in the green grass outside their coop.

She loved to pull her chair out of the large straight table and she loved to sit down on her chair at the large straight table in the classroom!

But when an avocado is ripe, simplicity is key: «Cut it in half, sprinkle with salt, and eat right out of the shell,» recommends Carol Steed, vice chair of the California Avocado Commission.

And, dear friend, if you were to say it in my face 10 years ago and assure me that yes, I would later eventually move to Argentina, not even for work, but for love, I think I might have just fallen out of my chair from complete shock, surprise and unbelief.

The group is thought to be a believer in the abilities of Treasury chief executive Michael Clarke, who's been in the chair for four - and - a-half months trying to sort out the future of Penfolds, Rosemount, Lindemans and Wolf Blass.

This dessert always makes me feel like I'm at a ski lodge relaxing in a so - comfortable - I - can't - get - out - of - it oversized chair soaking up the warmth of a blazing hearth fire.

Think of the pain you'll miss out on both in the dental chair and at the bank.