Sentences with phrase «pinned down from»

The extended radius of the Shockwave makes it easier to clear out some space around you when enemies are trying to pin you down from all directions.

Not exact matches

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

Given the interest in offshoring business and assets among the ultra rich technorati, it seems unlikely that congress would ultimately be able to pin down tax liability, labor rules or much else if these companies decide to exercise their technical genius to seastead, build a jungle city, or find a nice island to operate from.

Pinning down the thesis that Poulos extracts from all this is more difficult.

Pinning down Hauerwas» theology is a challenge for students studying his work, primarily because his thoughts cover a swathe of theological issues — from pacifism to abortion, politics to disability.

They are working to tear down roadside memorial crosses built to commemorate fallen state troopers in Utah, to strip «Under God» from the Pledge of Allegiance, and they recently stopped a protester from entering an art gallery because she wore a pro-life pin.

Low resolution measurements can pin down the tensor to scalar ratio at the percent level, thereby distinguishing models from one another.

The main issue here is difficult to pin down precisely, but it has to do with the impression one gains from reading Berger that people act like amateur philosophers in constructing their religious views.

A few today, mainly clustered around the Weekly Standard, call for a policy of «national greatness,» which is a little hard to pin down apart from its robust appetite for interventionism in the belief that a little (or maybe big) war from time to time maintains the muscle tone of the nation.

By attempting to pin the resurrection down to something which it, in fact, was not, we are prevented from appreciating the full scope of what the Easter faith is pointing to when it affirms that Jesus is risen.

Personally, knowing I have an expiration date and it's well within 100 years at this point (unless technology unlocks secrets in the genome to prolong life) I feel it's well worth living that life rather than presuming that at one point I'll detach from my earthly existence and spend the remainder of eternity in a knew, unknowable place that's supposed to be the ti.ts but no one can actually pin down what the specifics would be.

It took hours to pin down where this took me and I realized that it conveys the same feeling of the attitude that is many times projected at women in ministry from the male dominated church.

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Debone if necessary by first gently massaging the fillet down the middle from head to tail, feeling for protruding pin bones.

Carefully wrap the pie dough around a rolling pin and transfer to a pie pan, gently press the down, without stretching, so it is touching the entire pan and not just hanging from the sides.

Stopping by from Wine'd Down Wednesday, just pinned your recipe so we can try it too.

If the pin was on the left side, I knew there was no way to get it up and down from that side.

Nichols drove down the middle on the final hole, then caught a three wood a little fat, and the ball stopped on the right edge of the fairway about 30 yards from the pin.

Rodriguez joined Madrid from Monaco for a similar price just three years ago, but with the Spanish giants amazing array of talent he has found it hard to pin down a regular spot in the starting line - up, and was restricted to just 22 La Liga appearances last season.

The referee also caught Cesaro sneakily helping Kidd keep Kingston down with another pin from outside the ring.

He now makes the best of it, especially in Miami where, together with eyes as dark as a raccoon's and a name you can't quite pin down, it gives him a handsome ethnic look that attracts invitations for appearances from the area's active Jewish community.

No one can quite pin down exactly where the team name came from, but a tale goes that the team's then - owner, Barron Hilton, of Hilton Hotels lineage, held a naming contest, opened a letter that suggested «Chargers,» and didn't bother reading another.

Bubba hit bombed fades and low burners off the tees, sniped approach shots right on top of pins, hit a delicate chip or two to get up - and - down, and converted with the putter from both ridiculous distances and clutch moderate lengths.

While some pinheads work the street corners and mountainsides, others will hunker down in either of the Games» two planned pin - swapping centers: one next to the athletes» village, the other downtown, just 50 yards from Olympic Plaza, where each night the Olympic medals will be awarded.

An elegant former left - winger with a superb left foot, Grosso paid the price for a less than stellar season with Juventus, where he was unable to pin down a regular first - team place amid competition from 23 - year - old Paolo De Ceglie.

Before school even started my anxiety about having to prepare a delicious lunch that my kid would actually eat led me down a Pinterest black hole in which I found myself pinning images of flower - shaped lunch meats and bananas sculpted to look like characters from Frozen.

Each day, she wakes up and picks something from my dresser, then we head down to my studio and adjust it all with pins and ties and anything to make it small enough to fit on her and stay on her.

Toss a soft ball back and forth, or roll it down the hall to knock over bowling «pins» made from empty plastic water bottles.

From chicken nuggets made with broccoli to brownies baked with carrots and spinach, your kids will be getting their vitamins and antioxidants without you having to pin them down and force - feed them.

After they are done eating, once you have a kid pinned down for a diaper change, get them dressed from head to toe before you let them go so you can check that kid off the list as «ready for the day».

I had pinned it three times, from three different websites, on my Outdoor Spaces Pinterest board and finally hunted down the original post on The Handmade Home.

Speaking to the Mirror, McCluskey also said Labour needed to pin down its stance on the free movement of people following departure from the EU, after different MPs expressed wildly varying assessments on the need for any change.

And so despite repeated questioning from reporters who phrased and rephrased the question yesterday, Quinn would not be pinned down.

Now, cosmologists using CMB maps from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite have pinned down the timing for one key event in that story — the end of the universe's «Dark Ages,» the epoch that lies between the CMB's creation and the formation of the first stars.

From this, they whittled the list down to six questions and 10 physical tests that included rubbing brushes, safety pins, tuning forks and pencil erasers on the back.

Its origin has been only loosely pinned down: it seems to have originated from somewhere off the west coast of South America, and could be heard from 2000 kilometres away.

The two of us proposed that observations of more high - redshift supernovae could provide definitive proof and pin down the transition from slowdown to speedup.

To try to pin down its role, McCarley and his team first tracked the levels of adenosine by extracting samples of brain fluid from cats throughout normal sleep - wake cycles.

It took another 13 years for researchers from the University of Western Australia and Ph.D. student Gavin Flematti to pin down which part of smoke gives the signal.

Other spacecraft have caught whiffs of methane before, but it has been hard to pin down where the gas might be coming from and what might create it.

Public - health experts — scattered across many state and federal ministries for health, agriculture and consumer protection — are still trying to pin down where the bacterium came from and why it causes such severe symptoms.

Finding so many primordial galaxies allows scientists to pin down crucial questions about the newborn universe, such as when light from early stars and galaxies penetrated the early cosmic gloom.

«We are continuing to observe this unique object,» concludes Olivier Hainaut, «and we hope to more accurately pin down where it came from and where it is going next on its tour of the galaxy.

Yet if the sexual dysfunction stems from a physical issue or might be more psychosocial — with men worrying about transmitting virus to their partners via their semen — is hard to pin down, he observes.

Severely depressed or schizophrenic patients could benefit enormously from tests that reveal which drug and dose will help them the most, but unlike asthma, drug response can be difficult to quantify biologically, making gene - drug relations tougher to pin down.

Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).

All type 1a evolve from a type of star called a white dwarf, but pinning down exactly which white dwarfs are supernova precursors could lead to much more precise measurements of dark energy — and even reveal its true nature.

[6] This is the only way to pin down the precise size and shape of such a remote body — Chariklo is only about 250 kilometres in diameter and is more than a billion kilometres from Earth.

So, if these waves are discovered — and both Scott and I have been part of a group that has been looking at we might be able to do in the next set of satellites that may look for this, and John has been a leader in thinking about building experiments to look for these things — if we detect gravitational waves from inflation, there is a real possibility of pinning things down [enough] so that one could perhaps convince every physicist that inflation happened.

Although scientists know that the tools for reconstructing past climates at polar latitudes are far from perfect, he says, pinning down the relationship between isotope ratios and temperature is essential.