Sentences with phrase «pressed against the wall»

11 On another occasion the Sage likened a man who did not know the first two books of the Odes to one who had his face pressed against a wall.12

As the rotor dances, it keeps each of its three corners pressing against the walls of the epitrochoid chamber in a gastight seal.

As much as I understand your feeling which is same as all true Gunners worldwide, we seem to perform well when we have our back pressed against the wall.

Keep your buttocks, back and head pressed against the wall.

Lift your feet up, so that the legs are straight and pressed against the wall.

Engage the abdominals and move the hips forward as if they were pressing against a wall.

Keep your right foot pressed against the wall.

Go stand against a door or wall, making sure your feet and buttocks are pressed against the wall.

Squat down so that your back presses against the wall.

If you stand upright and place your hands pressed against a wall and take a step backwards, you then, without bending your hips or leaning forwards, you then stretch out your arms as far as they can go in front of you trying to touch the wall.

If you are especially stiff, do this pose with the bottom - leg heel pressed against a wall.

There are two options: either raise the ball of the foot on a sandbag or thickly folded blanket, or work against a wall, with the ball of the foot pressed against the wall.

Back up if you need to until your heels press against the wall.

Bend your arms and raise them above you, so they are at a slightly less than 90 - degree angle, pressing against the wall.

He had pressed me against a wall so I couldn't easily disengage without pushing him.

When the fiber they ate presses against the walls of their stomach and cecum, it sends a signal to the brain that causes the muscle contractions that push waste out of the body.

A few clinical signs of portosystemic shunt include abnormal behavior after eating, pacing and aimless wandering, head pressed against the wall or constant rubbing of his head (the blood not being filtered causes ammonia buildup, which makes his head feel funny), and constant illnesses (since the liver is not filtering the blood, it causes toxicity in the blood, making your dog constantly ill).

Her family returns Lana to an animal shelter with her head hanging low and her face pressing against the wall.

For the entire flight, my right shoulder was pressed against the wall and my left shoulder was pressed against the gentleman in the middle seat.

I sat, half - crouched, my back pressed against the wall as the Pawn stepped to the corner.

Placing your ear against the bottom of a drinking glass pressed against a wall, you hope to overhear voices or distant sounds in the unseen space opposite.

Once I've deposited the felt pads on to my bare skin, I begin a series of extemporaneous movements; walking, jumping, reclining, pressing against a wall, etc..

With their backs pressed against the wall they will now have to take the...

With their backs pressed against the wall they will now have to take the final call regarding the fate of Bitcoin trade.

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Recently, the Twitter customer service account at Bank of America received bad press for confusing an Occupy Wall Street activist, who was protesting against the bank, as a customer in need of help.

When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, she pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against it.

Make sure the crust is sticky enough to hold shape by pressing the crust up against the walls of the food processor with a spoon.

With our backs currently pressed firmly against the wall, to have the club's «X Factor» signing operating on light duties has rightly drawn the ire of the paying punters.

«I guess they're not pressed with their backs against the wall to make a deal for me and they're content on sitting on me».

In 1998 he captured the attention of the World's sporting press after curling a free kick around the wall and past his opposite number during an international against Argentina in Buenos Aires and in 1999 he became the first goalkeeper to score a hat - trick in the history of the game (for Velez Sarsfield against Ferro Carril Oeste).

Gently but firmly press your thumb and fingers back against the chest wall, then roll your thumb and fingers toward your areola over and over to help push the milk down the milk ducts.

If the leg cramp interferes with your sleep, then it might help when pressing the feet hard against the wall or stand on your leg.

Rubber bumpers on each side serve to protect your walls against damage, and as long as you face the locking bar away from your child, they'll be hard pressed to pull this gate off the wall.

The group ended up shoving into an elevator with her — pressing the congresswoman against the wall — to try to talk to her.

The challenge is to press the catheter firmly enough against the wall of the heart so that sufficient tissue is destroyed, without pushing so hard that the catheter punches a hole in the heart.

It gives us the English word «anxious», signalling a place that presses against you, where the walls are tight, and you might be too big to get through.

As the stomach swells, it presses against the abdominal wall and pushes against large blood vessels.

They climb slowly down the stope to another railroadtunnel and begin hiking out, pressing tight against the wall a coupleof times to avoid passing ore trains.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Dewayne Schaaf is at the top of the courthouse steps with his two children on a perfect spring night, looking down the hill to the riverfront where almost 46 feet of water is pressing up against the flood wall that keeps the Mississippi River from pouring into the historic downtown.

«It could be that in some cases the active site, the part of the enzyme that needs to be in contact with the chemical to be converted, was pointing the wrong way and pressed tightly against the walls of the pore,» Ackerman said.

Standing with your back pressed up against a wall (or standing and gripping a chair for support) can make you feel dominant and empowered, as your partner squats or rests on his knees below you.

• Handstand → Invert yourself against a wall, lower and press back to lockout.

To begin assume the normal press up position but place your feet against a wall the same height as your extended arms.

Exhale and bend forward into a standing forward bend, then inhale and raise your left leg parallel to the floor and press the left sole against the wall.

(Pressing your feet against the wall as you lie down will help you to keep a neutral foot, and to lightly stretch the plantar fascia and calves.)

For example the humble press up can be done on your knees or leaning against a wall if you don't have the strength to do the standard version.

Press the small of your back against the wall as you walk your feet forward and slide down into a sitting position.

So some might just hold themselves in a handstand hold against the wall for a period of time, or they may do seated dumbbell presses or if they have shoulder issues they may do shoulder mobility drills in place of that movement.

With the ball up against the wall, you can even do incline presses on them.

As you begin to release your thighs slowly toward the floor, rotate them internally, press your shins and feet back against the wall, and firmly move your tailbone down and in.