Sentences with phrase «practices and games long»

While my brother and my friends were at sports practices and games long after the dinner hour, I was able to finish both homework and business work in a reasonable timeframe.

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After becoming an incredible sensation his rookie year, he credited his practice with providing focus, mental toughness and stamina for those long games.

If Wenger loves his passing game so much, he should notice it has become less effective and at least advise players to practice their long shots more or something.

The veteran's unwavering work ethic in practices and games — even though Tampa Bay has long been out of the playoff race — has gotten him on the short list to play for Team Canada in the 2010 Olympics.

On top of having to attend counseling sessions twice a week, the guidelines also include placing a midnight curfew on Bryant, no longer allowing Bryant to drink alcohol or attend strip clubs, and also placing a security team in charge of Bryant to take him to practices, games, and team functions.

Around the league it was long known that Sloan was a good bet to have an adult beverage after the game, but he was always at practice the next day and never seemed to give anything less than his all on the bench.

Spring games and practices are a welcome change from the rest of the offseason as long as everyone applies the appropriate amount of skepticism to glowing reports on individual players or the remarkable turnaround of a unit that was a mess on the field just a few months ago.

SAN ANTONIO — We're inching near the long - awaited U.S. Army All - American Bowl, and practices are heating up before the game Saturday.

Don't even mention the mile - long grocery list, the various games and practices you have to chauffer to, or how long it's been since you had some alone time with the hubs.

On the one hand, there appears to be a growing body of research suggesting that playing contact or collision sports for a long period of time likely has, at least for some unknown percentage of athletes, serious adverse health consequences, not just from concussions but from the cumulative effect of sub-concussive blows to the head, blows which athletes in youth football, lacrosse, and, until recently, hockey, suffer on an almost constant basis in both games and practices.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

Long Grove residents are complaining that the center, on 65 acres of the 400 - acre preserve and consisting of a nine - hole golf course, an 80 - tee driving range, a short - game practice area, a miniature golf course and a 35 - to 40 - seat clubhouse, would have a detrimental impact on the environment.

It is important that parents and caregivers recognize the signs and symptoms of a concussion to prevent second impact injury or long - term impairments if your child has experienced a bump or blow to the head during a game or practice.

It seems common practice: After a long day at work, most people sometimes just want to turn on the TV or play a video or computer game to calm down and relax.

Grass - fed cows and wild game meats contain greater amounts of long - chained omega - 3 fats DHA and EPA in comparison to meat coming from farms that employ standard industrial practices.

In theory, it's a decent way to encourage players to keep coming back to the game to try out different maps (or to become more familiar with the ins - and - outs of a certain map), but in practice being limited to so little maps at a given time can feel restricting if you're looking to hop on for longer multiplayer sessions.

It was a cross-gen game, long before that became standard practice and a blight on the...

Following not long after is Father Bill Lombardy (Peter Sarsgaard), a chess playing priest who once beat a young Fischer, and is now on board to help analyze games and practice with him.

There are decent noob quests at the beginning that can help you get into the game, and you can also just run out into the woods for however long you want and practice killing monsters.

- Fun games to get the students to speak in the target language (see explanation under the slide)- A listening activity on what you saw and did not see at the zoo - Vocabulary slides with lovely pictures - Plenty of mini-whiteboard games on colours with animals and on opinions about animals - Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion - Several writing activities about your favorite restaurant - Survey activity on likes and dislikes - Translation exercises - A writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive - Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practice - Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating - er verbs - A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate - er verbs - A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an - er verb - A fun mime the verb game - A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating - er verbs - Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities - Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities - Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities - Games with prices - Dialogue worksheets to build up to role - play activity - A number worksheet - Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role - play activity - A grammar explanation of «il y a» and «il n» y a pas» - Grammar explanation «on peut + infinitive» and other grammar revision - A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video - Vocabulary building activities to teach directions - A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French - An iPhone activity - A grammar explanation on modal verbs - A grammar explanation of prepositions with «de» and exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.

The Sports and Play Association (SAPCA) explains why its Code of Practice is one way schools and facility owners can address key issues that need to be considered when contemplating the installation of a multi-use games area, including how to reduce long - term spending on a facility and how to ensure an installation is delivered to exacting specifications.

This resource is 6 pages long and includes the following activities / games to practice fruit vocabulary in Spanish: - two matching / recognition exerc...

This game - based learning program provides the repeated spaced practice, multiple exposures, and multiple modalities needed to transfer words into long - term memory.

From quick - fire quizzes to competition - based games, a little fun can go a long way in helping to motivate learners as they retain and practice their new knowledge.

Instead of continuing to throw millions of precious tax dollars into the proverbial, but very real, pit of failed education reforms; instead of continuing to enrich test corporations and educational entrepreneurs who game the system; instead of maintaining the false and demoralizing narrative that our students and teachers are failures, our state legislators need to take this opportunity to tell the CSDE and CSBE that it will no longer support expensive mandates that unnecessarily impact our budget health when a re-design of state assessment practices has been encouraged by recent federal legislation.

Flower Long Vowel Game (Advanced Code) This reading activity offers a perfect way to practice high frequency words organized by vowel sound and spelling patterns.

This classroom - tested, game - based learning program provides the repeated spaced practice, multiple exposures, and multiple modalities needed to transfer words into long - term memory.

When driving the Mercedes - Benz Sprinter Passenger Van, the kids (and a few of their teammates and equipment) will all be able to conveniently fit in the van, making it no longer necessary to take two separate vehicles to travel from practices and games or anywhere else.

These days games being announced long before they'll ever see a release is common practice, as is releasing countless trailers, previews, commentaries, images, news snippets and more, flooding the media with a seemingly endless torrent of crap that, quite honestly, often puts me off a given game entirely.

While the music is still great and the characters unforgettable, playing it practically demands constant practice in order to decipher the game's crazy timing, diminishing its appeal to all but hardcore rhythm action fans and making an hour - long game drag on for no good reason.

With the rise of 21st century independent game development this impulse is getting pushed back, however even much of this work is unable to imagine itself further incorporating an artistic practice, since game development is long held to be a drawn out and financially draining process that result in this one shot to make it all back.

This is one of several notable examples of shopping making its way into gun games, which had long resisted the player practices of currency and shops.

So while the current «Black Friday» are objectively hardly better than regular non flash sales, and the vita and PS3 selection is horrific (have them no longer buy games for them so personally not mad despite awful business practice)

I found multiplayer matches even more daunting than the single player game, as I was no longer fighting bots, but it was a welcome challenge that will take lots of practice and skill in order to be a valuable member of the pack.

Citing a bad port and shoddy QA practices, what followed were months of waiting for the game to be fixed, leading to an interim patch promising fixes but failing to deliver, and really at this point the saga had gone on longer than Batman's New 52 run.

Anyone who has read Engaged Family Gaming for a long time knows that we strongly feel that every game has educational value when used correctly, but this partnership takes that belief and puts it into practice.

In this episode we talk about: SNES Classic Game Informer uninformed reader letters Nintendos long history of unfair business practices and ignorance.

The program is 3 months long and provides mentoring for your team to improve their business and game quality skills by over 60 top industry mentors, weekly pitch practice, playtesting, field trips to successful game studios and at the end of the program, demo days where you will get the chance to pitch to our global network of investors and publishers.

Compete against the AI in the game's Arcade mode long enough and you'll have enough practice under your belt to experience the real thrill: human players online (for the first time ever!).

As game creators push further ways to try and make money from games, as seen by Bungie and Activision's rigged XP system for Destiny 2, video game fans will need to think long and hard about their purchases, and whether they want to buy into these practices at all.

Additionally, the game provides a number of interesting modes to help you practice and is quite balanced, letting you win with any strategy as long as you execute it correctly.

This is a title that long time fighting game fans and newcomers to the genre will enjoy as anyone can pick up a controller and take out their opponent with a little practice!

In practice, most players don't take near that long to make their move and I was able to get a couple of games finished in less than an hour.

The story, as translated by Thomas James, a freelance translator who helps localize Japanese games for English - speaking markets, described business practices like limiting employees» email access to use of randomized email addresses and publicly shaming employees whose lunch breaks were too long.

One thing I see lacking in this «longest monopoly game» is discussion of the most well proven, well practiced human strategy in dealing with adverse environments: adaptation and mitigation on a case - by - case basis.

In this episode, MothersEsquire founder Michelle Browning Coughlin talks about how being a parent — especially a mom — can make it harder to practice law, and what firms can do to be more parent - friendly, from paid paternity leave and flexible working arrangements to breastfeeding accommodations and playing the HR long - game.

My assessment: This is a good thing for the longer - term interests of CLOC and its members, and means that there is room for growth and scalable practice management solutions for departments of all sizes — it's no longer a large - law - only game.

The truly great players who want a long career take batting practice seriously and prepare for every game.