Sentences with phrase «over a desk for»

Terrible posture is easy to develop, especially if you're slouched over a desk for the majority of the day.

They can become tight and uncomfortable for a number of reasons, one of which is slouching over a desk for long periods.

That detailed hand - scrawled map hung over my desk for years.)

I've had the following Mark Twain quote pinned to the board over my desk for more than a decade: «All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.»

The quality of work produced by those hunched over their desk for ten hours a day is unlikely to be anywhere near that of those who have returned to the office after a short break, feeling reinvigorated and refresh.

I immediately affixed it high on the wall over my desk for all to see, and inserted the credit - card sized copy in my wallet in case someone requested to see it when I was away from the office.

Not exact matches

Nope, it's not easy to extend your empathy to that woman two desks over who's complaining to you about the same pointless thing for the sixth time this week.

Mine your ticket history for these questions (something that's really easy to do if there's a help desk) and see the kind of queries received over the last holiday season.

The business operates Circle Trade, one of the world's biggest «over the counter» trading desks for cryptocurrencies.

They shadowed the managers at meetings, followed them around the office as they dropped in on subordinates, and sat for hours at their desks looking over their shoulders, recording their phone calls and e-mails.

As that capability is refined, your PC might get you what you need even before you think to ask for it — the location of the file you left on your desk but that was borrowed by a colleague, perhaps, or an ambulance when you slump over clutching your chest.

To take advantage of these amenities, you will need to fork over $ 350 for communal workspace or $ 450 for a dedicated desk a month.

Yup, he says, but that's the point: «As long as you adhere to the rules you've created for yourself, over time you'll find that the strength of the habit fields keep you in place — the act of getting up, walking over, and getting situated in the chair becomes just tedious enough to keep you at the desk, leading to a prolonged work period.»

Consider keeping dumbbells at your desk and pumping iron while reading over a report or brainstorming for an upcoming presentation.

Grey dusk hangs over everything: our grate laid for a fire, books on the desk, the clock, the cold, black, silted tea the strainer holds.

Spacious classrooms, a crucifix over every door, and rows of desks for little children whose last names contained an excessive number of consonants» that was their second dream.

I've got a pinecone on my desk which I have had for over ten years.

I've got only a few days this week when I'll actually be at my desk for lunch, so this recipe will tide me over through next week.

A child of 5, looking for sand crabs and starfish at low water, works his toes into the wet sand and bends over his little black hunting shadow in an attitude that is timeless, and when a full - grown and city - bred man, pale and desk - ridden, takes off his shoes and walks with the child, his shambling gesture repeats, atavistically, that of the child.

I'm sitting at my desk in a building next to the Flatiron looking out over Madison Square Park and dreading how long the line will be for whatever overhyped lunch spot I choose to go to today.

For the next 50 minutes, Alumbaugh will sit at his desk and look over some notes he's made as well as notes left by assistant coaches.

It was another night when little Joe was sleeping over and at quarter to ten I had to tiptoe into his room and prop a card on the bedside desk that said won 3 - 2 for when he woke up.

I worked from home while she was an infant and the Boppy was perfect for nursing at my desk — and then letting her sleep curled around my belly while I went back to work typing right over her.

Hang them over your desk as a reality check for when your fantasies turn sour.

Elsewhere, over at Yahoo Voices, Lisa Riggs explains how to make a semi-permanent office of sorts out of cardboard boxes (think boxes as the desk and computer) and over at Parenthood 360, Kristen M. Anderson suggests setting up «a mini office for your toddler» complete with crayons and scrap pieces paper, to keep your little one occupied while you work.

You also could create a standing - desk on a bottom shelf in your living room or kitchen (Jennifer Latch of Our Urban Playground offers some inspiration for transforming bottom shelves into playzones over at Rookie Moms, and you can find more kitchen - play area ideas in this hint).

At a City Council hearing on criminal discovery practices in February chaired by Queens councilman Rory Lancman, Sergio de la Pava, a supervising attorney for New York County Defender Services who has been representing indigent defendants in Manhattan for over 20 years, described a typical experience in the borough's courtrooms: After waiting six months or a year for trial, he said, «The DA comes in with a cart and drops about six inches of material on your desk.

Citi News» Latif Mahama who confirmed this, says he encountered a contractor from the Assembly working on some desks over the weekend for the pupils.

On the very day when I was planning this uprising and voting for leadership change, there was a resolution which contained over $ 2.7 million for various organizations, more than 25 that I sponsored, on my desk.

Internal cues, such as a feeling that you need to move after sitting for several hours at your desk, form the strongest habits, Phillips speculates, but are harder to train in people and must develop over time.

Nambu arrived at the University of Tokyo as a research assistant and lived for three years in a laboratory, sleeping on a straw mattress spread over his desk (and always dressed in military uniform for lack of other clothes).

«The desk has been around over one and half billion years and many have studied it for decades, but we figured out how to trigger the opening.»

If you're shopping for an under desk treadmill to complement your existing standing desk, do keep in mind that you'll need approx. 6 feet for the entire length of the treadmill and over 2 additional feet of clearance behind the treadmill.

It is common sense really if you have been slouched over the desk all day and you have forgotten to eat or drink for a long period of time.

Over the last year or so, I've experienced pain and stiffness in my legs when I get out of bed in the morning or get up from my desk after sitting for a while.

Plus, as somebody with a desk job, I find your practices extremely helpful for strengthening those muscles that become tight and weak over time.

Melissa has been part of the EcoHealth family for over 3 years and assists at the front desk with educating patients on EcoHealth services, detox programs and spa amenities.

Slumping at your desk, reaching for your mouse, hunching over your keyboard, can all put extra strain on the shoulder, neck or back and may be the cause of your shoulder pain.

We all know a typical day for me is more like sitting at my desk banging my head against the table and crying over the fact that I still never manage to start any of my assignments more than a week before they're due.

It takes A LOT of courage to put this skirt on and not throw a jacket over it, or just go home for lunch and stay hidden behind my desk all day.

Growing up in a very artistic space, coinciding with over a decade of intensive professional ballet training, I came to realize (after a lot of trial and error) that having the type of desk job that I had gone to college for wasn't something that I would be happy with professionally.

We all took so many snacks throughout the course of the day that I had snacks at my desk in my office for almost over 3 weeks!

To be honest, the only pieces I've really «invested in» are my Ikea desk (which I obsessed over for months before buying) and our grey headboard from One Kings Lane.

We got the rug moved back up here and then moved the desk over onto this wall to make room for the white sofa that was down in the den.

A sketch of Kiki hovers over an artist's desk and concept art for Nausicaa rests ominously above the workplace; Kingdom's contemplative tone renders them not as symbols of past accomplishments, but as totems of the high expectations facing down Miyazaki and his team.

Standards Over recent years, BESA's furniture group has successfully campaigned for the introduction of a new British Standard for classroom furniture, BS EN 1729, which ensures that tables, desks and chairs made for school use are properly shaped, sized and developed.

It also makes it difficult for students to quickly peek at their text messages because they'd have to turn the phone over and move it from its correct position — which is more difficult than when cell phones are hidden under desks.

You might, for example, tell students to clear their desks, face forward, keep their eyes on their own paper, and remain seated and silent until the test is over.

Over the last two years, Pennsylvania's Classrooms for the Future program has put 100,000 laptops on student desks in high school English, math, science, and social studies classrooms.

For over 100 years, classrooms have been organized around desks in rows.