Sentences with phrase «people at arm»

Even though it's mostly an act, he hides behind his persona to keep people at arm's length.

I know no perhaps one person who has any interest in current theological trends, and he uses it to keep people at arm's length.

Too often we keep people at arm's length because we fear what might happen if we find out too much about them.

We set up boundaries so that we don't burn out, hold people at arms length... and yet Jesus just poured out, and poured out, and poured out.

Yes, that is as long as you keep people at arms length and manipulate audiences to that aim of being worshipped.

In the old days, we'd labour for hours over a finely crafted letter rather than speak to someone in person; more recently, the advent of email and voice mail and even texting has allowed us to happily delay and defer direct contact, keeping the other person at arm's length.

Not exact matches

Citizens of the country have even developed a reputation for having their guns ready in the closet at a moment's notice, which has led some people to wonder if the Swiss are all required to own arms in order to protect their state.

Unexpectedly, the news - gathering industry is receiving at least a short - term shot in its ink - stained and digital arms courtesy of a president who has labeled it an «enemy of the people.»

The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

Although JPMorgan operated HenryBath at arm's length on a corporate level, the commercial ties ran deeper, according to a person familiar with the matter.

RBS had also contemplated seeking to keep Henry Bath as a merchant deal after buying into the Sempra Commodities business in 2008, but ultimately decided that it would be better to divest Henry Bath than hold it at arm's length, according to a person familiar with the decision.

Like it or not, most people have some kind of device within arm's reach almost every waking second, giving them the ability to flit between apps or social networks at the tap of a finger.

The two hit it off, and soon after they teamed up at MIT's Media Lab, armed with a near - million - dollar National Science Foundation grant, to prototype a sort of emotional hearing aid for autistic people — essentially a wearable camera that scanned people's facial expressions to interpret social cues, in real time, for the person wearing the device.

Eagles of Death Metal was in full swing at the Bataclan concert hall on November 13, 2015, when armed men wearing explosive belts stormed in and killed 90 people.

The president was doubling down on his criticism of an armed sheriff's deputy who did not confront the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 people were killed earlier this month.

The Alert Carolina system at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill likewise includes an outdoor emergency siren that serves as an alert for various security threats, including an «armed and dangerous person in the area.»

Mr. Trump also spoke at length about the standoff with armed protesters who last Saturday seized the headquarters at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, suggesting that he would have called the leader of the group to try to make a deal to end it — and would have acted against them if negotiations failed because «you can not let people take over federal property.»

It allows arming some school staff at the discretion of school superintendents and sheriffs; provides $ 400 million for mental health and school safety programs and permits seizure of firearms from people who make violent threats to themselves or others.

A gunman armed with a semiautomatic AR - 15 assault rifle and «countless magazines» killed at least 17 people at his former high school in Florida in February.

«It's already fielding pitches from banks to handle an IPO for its music arm that could raise at least $ 1 billion next year,» the report citing people with knowledge of the matter.

One person is dead after an armed student shot two other students at Great Mills High School in Maryland on Tuesday morning, according to St. Mary's County Sheriff Tim Cameron.

Kyrgyz Republic By Simon Watkins Kurmanbek Bakiyev After a week of defying a provisional government that seized power in an armed uprising that left at least 84 people dead, the Kyrgyz Republic's ousted president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, resigned and...

We in this country must take a closer look at how we are not respecting the dignity of all persons when we ask our men and women in the armed forces to lie about who they really are.

I know a huge number of them and as individuals they are usually good people, people are people after all, but they are as a religious organization to be watched and carefully kept at arms distance.

Does it also say: «Thou shall ban arms when we get upset over 4 psychopaths with mental illnesses and blame the entire Gun industry instead of looking at the Mental Health field and how we are dealing with these sick people.»

Now that millions of people around the world are armed with cell phone cameras, you'd think we would get at least one picture of the tooth fairy, a unicorn, a UFO, or an angel by now.

(a) A person who pulls you (or pushes you) out of the way of the train (possibly inadvertently causing you to skin your need or even break your arm if you fell)-- but ultimately saving your life — knowing full well you might get angry at them because you didn't understand why they just pushed you and caused you to break your arm; or (b) A person who lets you walk in front of the train because he or she believes wholeheartedly with great conviction that doing anything else would be interfering with your free will to walk where you want to walk and forcing their thoughts and wishes on you

Any skilled gunman with a semi-automatic could pump bullets into at least 5 people before an armed citizen could get their gun out and aim.

If, on the other hand, you imagine yourself inside the body of the swimmer, such that your arms are moving in front of you and water is splashing at your sides, you are assuming a first - person perspective.

I know a lot of people are eagerly awaiting 6 p.m. this Saturday, either to greet the rapturous return of Jesus with open arms or to snicker at the idiocy of the followers of radio host Harold Camping, the evangelist behind all this holy hoo - hah.

Just like God, we sit around with our arms crossed and a scowl upon our faces at all the sin in other people's lives.

On that day in 1993, a 51 - day standoff between the armed Davidians and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended in a fire and the deaths of at least 76 people.

There is a hungry baby, blinking eyes at the light of life and a mama longing to nurse, open mouths and wonder at what you have just done, arms that suddenly don't feel quite attached to our body unless there is that little person in them.

Patrolmen were armed with whips, and in some cases guns, and were given the discretion to beat and even kill black people — even compliant ones (it was not illegal at the time to kill a black person since they were deemed non-human).

There will always be people that abuse rights, but the vast majority of gun owners are very responsible and would have avoided, or at least minimized, some of these terrible incidents had they been armed.

For example, the functional paralysis of a middle - aged man's arm expressed the immobilizing conflict between the unconscious desire and the fear of striking out in rage at a person on whom he felt passively de-pendent.

The person doesn't walk away — despite hard work, despite prayers for a miracle and bargaining with God, despite making vast improvements in learning daily living skills from a wheelchair, and even despite, at times, some measurable return of arm and hand function.

We're going nuts in this country over this notion the the second amendment now 200 + years after it was written at a time we needed able bodied persons armed to to deal with «the British are coming».

I would rather have 2 armed people at the doors of ALL schools than NO ONE at all!

I am so grateful — for all these opportunities, of course, but mostly for the kindness of other people: the reader who shoved a $ 50 Starbucks card into my pocket at a signing; the flight attendant who gently patted my arm; Dad's idea to make my favorite comfort food for dinner and Mom's faithful execution of pork loin, rice, and fried apples; Marvin and Brandon at Belk; Dan's shoulder; a call from my sister; readers who pile into minvans and drive many miles just to talk, friends who understood why, with all this good publicity, I would just need a good, long cry.

Her words puzzled me at the time but weeks or months later, numbed by lack of sleep and overwhelmed by being the whole world to this one little person, my maternal feelings retreated and I was left feeling confused and empty, with a mewling infant in my arms.

People are still so up - in - arms over the religion tossing that stank up this last election, that they are wanting creationist to just stop talking... but at the same time, I don't think anyone REALLY thinks science knows the EXACT age of the Universe or the planet.

Berrigan's complaint, in short, is that the reestablishment of a Jewish state (a justifiable goal) has come at a tremendous cost in human suffering, armed violence and moral decay; that the course of the new state has been a betrayal of everything the term «Israel» has stood for — justice, compassion, succoring the humiliated and injured; that a «settler state» was established through the expropriation of the people of the land, followed by an imperialist venture, based on the subjugation and exploitation of the conquered; and that, to add moral insult to physical and spiritual injury, the spokesmen of and for the state claim for it a special virtue and glorious achievement which may not be criticized.

But for me, coming from a culture of independence, armed with a battalion of reasons why giving money to every person who asks is imprudent at best and destructive at worst, these conversations always leave me tense, my once genuine smile now forced as I agree to think about the request and then make my escape as quickly as possible.

At this point I was basically in the front row, charging toward the field involuntarily (getting charged toward the field, I guess), one of the only people around me to see the official's arms in the air.

just reading around and all if not most rags are saying our net spend is # 46 million how can they tell that when they do nt even know what our real budget is if it was # 100 million then we are in profit by quite a bit i do nt really know what they base there assumptions on this is where you could do with swiss ramble to dissect what really was spent from what i could see most of our 5 transfers were covered by out goings and c / l monies earned debuchy - vela deal, chambers - vermalen deal, ospina - cesc and miquel deals sanchez c / l monies and other monies recovered from wages and old installment based deals this is the same with welbeck i would imagine if not then poldolski will be sold in jan to cover this as i think he was going to be sold and this would have covered welbecks transfer more or less also and people do nt always realize that arsenal have money coming in from more than one source to cover transfers not just puma and emirates deals we have property arm of the club which makes money for transfers also outstanding debts we are owed of old transfers we receive each year on song cesc maybe van persie and all other structured deals in installment payments sales we just flogged miquel as an example and all the monies from released wages and youths sold its a bit to complex to just say we have a net spend of xyz when arsenal do nt even make the budget public so they have no starting point from which to go from i bet you we have broke even or even made a slight profit as we are self sustaining it would make sense that we can break even or at least make the net spend under # 10 million each year at least screw then all we are the arsenal we do thing our way

A lot of people came away impressed with Allen's cannon arm at the combine.

And then that baby is born, and you look down at this little person, part you and part mom, with arms and legs and fingers and toes and a great set of lungs.

Every time we're back visiting Canada and I get looks if my kid yells in a store, or we walk into a restaurant and people look at me like I'm the grim reaper because I've got a child in my arms, I can't help but feel uncomfortable.

In 2009 we were just trying to get him to wait se4ven moer moths for a vacation we arranged in midwinter We were taking one to europe at the rime on the orient express, the year before he had started attacking people forcing him into work so this time he had told me if I touched hizs passport and reservation numbers he would break both my arms.