Sentences with phrase «poised like»

It was an influential essay that left artists and writers poised like Descartes, slumped over his desk, staring at his hands wondering if there was a way he could be sure they were his.

This brown glass greyhound is poised like a rubber band, ready to snap into high gear.

On the second one, I became fascinated by a guy who stopped walking 10 feet from the top and stood poised like he was about to jump out of an airplane.

Despite the complicated drivetrain with its electric motors and three - cylinder engine, the BMW i8 is balanced and poised like the M1 yet also as ready to thrill to the throttle.

She's a platinum blond with a cool but fetching smile, elegantly poised like a flamingo in her expensive plumage.

Once construction is complete, the male performs in the courtyard for a visiting female, who — poised like a critical American Idol judge — evaluates the routine from the middle of the corridor.

More than 300 staff were working across the country and, as one regional director wrote: «the organisers are poised like coiled springs, ready to go».

Only, you know how slow it is until suddenly your bag is right in front of you, and unless you are poised like an Olympic swimmer diving into a pool, it goes right by you and you are left jogging after it.

Thanks to the example of this old man grown thin by so many fasts and sacrifices, poised like a flaming target in front of the circle of suffering faces which his fire continues to light and to search out, the spiritual values of man are not defeated by the totalitarianism of nations.

Not exact matches

What seems clear is that Canada's planning profession is poised to continue along its brisk growth trajectory, even if there's a contraction or correction in the red - hot property development markets in cities like Toronto and Vancouver.

The small - business sector in particular is poised to benefit as it becomes safer and easier to connect real - time transaction data to third - party solutions like QuickBooks, Xero or a host of other applications.

Big auto dealers, like AutoNation Inc., are also poised to do well because they are focused in the U.S. and pay high tax rates.

While it's important to identify a market poised for growth, to solve a pain point and articulate a customer acquisition strategy, investors want to work with people they like.

She likes IHS Markit (info), a London - based firm that provides business services to the energy industry, among others, and which is poised for a boost in business from oil and gas clients emerging from their slump.

Conrad says the company is poised to expand beyond HR into IT provisioning — for example, automatically creating employee accounts for services like email, Salesforce and Box, then instantly deactivating those accounts when an individual exits the organization.

Icahn's statement about Souki's termination also refers negatively to his stock sales and makes it plain that he thinks an entrepreneur like Souki had no business running Cheniere, which is poised to become a real energy utility.

DC is poised to be the only comic book company with a successful female - led movie in its arsenal, where competitors like Marvel are lacking.

In fact, this is the very thing that a company like Airbnb seems poised to help out with.

As Feinstein wrote on Lux's analyst blog, «Downstream participants like SolarCity, SunRun, and Verengo are expanding operations in the U.S. Installers, developers, and integrators are poised to capitalize on U.S. market growth, and in doing so, will succeed where Solyndra failed.»

«However, the first cabs off the rank like Inchant are stil well positioned to establish themselves in a market that is poised to grow rapidly.»

The deal - reviewing committee has warned that foreign titans like Huawei and ZTE Corp. are poised to take the lead in 5G unless the U.S. takes steps to defend its silicon might.

Like business leaders, these men understand the importance of grit, tenacity and poise in high - stakes situations.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

She has amassed 190,000 followers on her Instagram account @theslowtraveler through sharing perfectly poised photos of cosy - looking settings involving copious cups of coffee and stacks of books — the one below has been liked more than 10,000 times.

Companies like Disney and Fox are also poised to make more money from new streaming services, too, thereby supplementing revenue from their traditional cable businesses.

Bernanke was asked after his keynote how bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies like Ether might be poised to affect the monetary policy of central banks.

But like the iPhone, Netflix and other history - bending innovations, electric vehicles, or EVs, are poised to rewrite the book on transportation.

Auto 2.0 is poised to bring more than just tech innovations like long range electric cars, shared mobility and driverless vehicles.

With the demand for data sharing poised to accelerate and major data breaches exposing more and more people to greater risk, the time is right for secure data sharing solutions like Fidelity Access that use open technology standards.

But once its shares are available publicly, it is very well poised to act like one — a proxy ETF you may say.

However, while many may view VIX as a bargain at this time, we would like to remind investors that VIX is cheap only if it poised to rebound soon, as trading VIX exposes investors to significant risk.

Now you know why everything is becoming (or has become) expensive in America and why countries like China, India, and Brazil are poised to become future world economic powers.

With albums like Howlin» Wind, Heat Treatment, Stick to Me, and Squeezing Out Sparks, Parker seemed poised to launch a long - haul star career.

We like to paint Mary in the softer hues — her robes clean, hair combed and covered, body poised in prayerful surrender — but this young woman was a fierce one, full of strength and fury.

That's just a lazy cop out like the people who wouldn't even shoot a serial killer who is poised to kill again because it wouldn't fit with their self - image.

He saw twelve cellos once in silent choir, like bathers poised and dripping by the wall to leap beyond a lifeguards beckoning.

Although such depictions are obviously of Jesus as a very small toddler or baby, he tends to sit upright and poised on the Blessed Virgin's lap, like an adult, with a strikingly all - knowing gaze radiating through his babyish features, centred on a pair of piercingly prescient eyes.

By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.

They call us out of sleep into wakefulness, out of darkness into enlightenment — eyes open, fists clenched and punching, poised on tiptoes like high - strung boxers bobbing and weaving before the hell.

A Hittite empire arose on the ruins of the older kingdom, and from the highlands of Asia Minor stood poised to swoop when it might upon wealthier lands, or sent wandering emigrants afar, like those who sold their cave at Hebron to Abraham.

Like the psychologist, he has his personal problems, and like him, if he is to do his work he must have some basic health and mental poLike the psychologist, he has his personal problems, and like him, if he is to do his work he must have some basic health and mental polike him, if he is to do his work he must have some basic health and mental poise.

Its progress, like every progress of love, must be an angular progress — in which each step is a precarious step into the unknown; in which each triumph contains a new potential of tragedy, and each tragedy may be redeemed into a wider triumph; in which, for the making of that which is truly an «other,» control is jeopardised, lost, and, through activity yet more intense and vision yet more sublime, regained; in which the divine creativity ever extends and enlarges itself, and in which its endeavour is ever poised upon the brink of failure.

Like the wings of this beautiful butterfly, somehow a light shines through you to inspire others to poise themselves for change.

The giants swing their triple arms or poise, frozen like hazmat signs, on every hill: alien prayer wheels of unending noise or monuments to birds and bats they kill; Shivas, whose dance preserves us and destroys a landscape that no longer can stand still.

Creative development, like the evolution of life, can be based only upon soundly poised structure, otherwise the mutation will be a decadence.

«I continue to watch our leaders in government, and like all Americans, I continue to be hopeful that our leaders exhibit poise, perspective and the ability to bring our country together during these tough times — which I don't feel our presidency is currently doing — so that's where I'm at.»

The Toffees celebrated what was poised to be their first win in four, but, just like they were against Bournemouth and Stoke City prior to the New Year, they were caught napping at the death.

Looks like the Oregon Ducks draftees are poised for a big impact this year.

I just get very weary of prospects who are talked about like «he's got the perfect size and physicals, if we can just get him to fix his accuracy / footwork / poise / throwing motion...» those are all pretty important things and usually if they haven't done it by now, chances are they aren't going to improve that much.

If you like games where Ronaldo is poised to absolutely dominate, you'll enjoy the possible scoring show he puts on against the Swedish giants.