Sentences with phrase «pricked by»

Yup... keep those dues a» comin» so we can keep on paying marketing companies to produce slick ads to convince consumers how professional we all are, especially «we» at the top of this pyramid built knowingly upon foundations of ever - shifting dunes of windswept sand (the wind being the hot air escaping from our giant balloons of subterfuge that are being continually pricked by the jabs of reality.

Her self - titled first retrospective, opening this month at the MCA Chicago and touring to the Guggenheim in June, will include new textile - based installations such as Disremembered, a group of raw - silk garments pricked by 12,000 needles.

But with each question she winced inwardly, as if pricked by an unseen needle.

Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with a very special mission... and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel's Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one.

My right leg burned from knee to hip, as if pricked by hundreds of hot needles.

The girls screamed, slipped into trances, crawled on all fours, contorted their faces and bodies, and shrieked that they were being pricked by unseen pins.

Grenville blithely leaves behind his idealism in favor of a more conventional idea of success, only to have his conscience pricked by Dalrymple's unconventional daughter, Charlotte, an activist for social justice, even as he's entering into a comfortable if passionless engagement with Dalrymple's other daughter, the passive, and much simpler, Emily.

As an act of revenge for his betrayal, she decides to put a curse on his newborn daughter, Aurora, who on her sixteenth birthday will fall into a deep sleep after being pricked by a spinning wheel.

It was very impressive: never in my life have I seen so many cacti together (and have I been pricked by cactus needles so many times in a row)!

When touched, the plant releases a chemical through the hairs that can feel like you're being stung or pricked by a cactus.

«When someone gets pricked by a pin, we know how information about that sensation travels from the skin to the spinal cord.

The ears of the Chartered Institute of Taxation were pricked by the debate this week about VAT on energy bills and the EU.

Medical interventions can also cause areas of the body to become numb or feel as though the skin is being pricked by pins and needles.

The curse that impeded Briar Rose occurred in her fifteenth year, when, as predicted, she was pricked by a spindle and fell asleep for a hundred years.

Pricked by this question, delegates from all over the house send up their cards to the chairman, asking to speak.

If pricked by one, they would cause oozing sores and festering wounds.

Having one's conscience pricked by the Holy Spirit is not abuse.

Prick by prick test with cow's milk substitutes may be considered.

Not exact matches

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.

Founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos is now valued at more than $ 9 billion (soon possibly more) based on its push to create blood tests that require just a few drops of blood from a finger prick.

After concerns are raised by the Food and Drug Administration, Theranos temporarily halts its trademark practice of collecting tiny blood samples from finger pricks.

Theranos is a diagnostics company with fast finger - prick blood testing technology that aims to upend the traditional health care establishments by making it easier, less expensive and less uncomfortable to get tested for various conditions.

Theranos, a privately held company founded by Ms. Holmes, 31, after she dropped out of Stanford at age 19, has been trying to swat down suspicions that the capability it has promoted — being able to do a wide range of medical tests cheaply and quickly using only a finger prick of blood — is more hype than reality.

Williams» comments come after recent remarks and actions taken by the US Federal Reserve that have pricked up the ears of blockchain technology advocates in the US financial sector.

No, I believe that tough love means going down deep, to battle our own selfishness, our own anger, our own frustrations, our fears, our temptations to choose being right over being gracious, to give up on having he last word, to stop convincing by arguing and harsh invectives, pinches and pricks, to win at all costs.

The former is the case with some poetic approaches which suggest that God could have saved us by a pin - prick in the hand of Christ and so in fact did something more than rationally required.

Elshtain pricks the conscience by applying the animating ethos of mothering to national and international struggles.

Of course, I might be holding back out of fear of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insulin)

A quick question: in the image showing the dough being placed in the pan, (has a very small depth - of - field and it's thrown the dough - base out of focus), have you pricked the dough base before adding the filling ingredients, or are the dents caused by the fingertips as the dough is pressed onto the pan?

Form a rim by pinching the edge of the dough; prick surface with fork.

If using sweet potato / carrots, check them for doneness by pricking a few pieces with a knife or fork, which should go in easily if the vegetables are cooked through.

Prick the eggplants and, while holding them by the stem, cook directly over a flame until soft (the eggplant will be blackened on the outside).

They are fattier than chicken legs and by pricking the skin before roasting, the fat oozes out, basting them as they roast.

I mean, it's not like growing up in Chino Hills surrounded by entitled pricks makes anyone have a killer instinct.

Take the example of bender who was confirmed to be bid by arsenal... they know exactly which spots are to be pricked, which nerve endings are to be stimulated and were we all tickle... they play to that every year, we fall to that every year...

Dela, if that is true it's a pretty unsavoury way for Rio to be told by that prick that his United career is over.

Stupid prick knows barca got beat well by manure and we were robbed by 2 refs by luckypool.I hope he sits on the bench for the whole season at least flamster has kept silent on his time and thanked arsne for what he has learnt with us and I hope he wins the uefa with milan.

Baby is quickly transferred to a tray surrounded by lights, rubbed down, cleaned, pricked and poked, antibiotic ointment on its eyes.

They will likely want to do a skin test, which involves placing liquid extracts of food allergens on your child's skin, usually by pricking the skin of their forearm or back, and seeing if a reaction occurs within 15 minutes.

Marshall Sidman found it in an innovative diaper pin developed by a friend — one that wouldn't prick parent's fingers or baby's skin.

Newborn Screen / Metabolic Panel: A blood test done by a small prick to the heel, this test checks baby for a number of potential diseases and disorders that require fast treatment to ensure normal development.

This is done by performing a skin prick test or blood test.

A heel prick will also be done so the doctor can run a metabolic screen, depending on what tests are required by your state.

A blood sample will be taken by pricking your baby's heel.

These children should be exposed to peanuts earliest, between 4 and 6 months, but they should first be referred to a specialist to perform an evaluation by blood test, skin prick or oral food challenge.

Mr Obama had to disown him by asserting that the «US military doesn't do pin pricks»» After Mr Kerry had opened the door to «boots on the ground», Mr Obama ruled them out.

Tattoos are permanent designs, pictures or other markings made on the skin by pricking the skin and staining it with an indelible ink.

Actually, like most of the other devices, his must also be regularly calibrated by entering blood - sugar numbers obtained from a finger - prick test.

The test can now be carried out on an amount of blood that is 700 times smaller than previously needed — literally a drop obtained by «pin pricking» a finger — and it now takes less than 70 minutes to complete.