Sentences with phrase «pushing against»

«I'm OK pushing against the constraints society expects me to be in,» she added «I think I've always been that way.

Vicky Krieps plays Alma, a woman who becomes the celebrity dressmaker's latest model - muse - assistant - lover, and who soon begins pushing against the arcane rules and restrictions enforced by...

After turning the Korean thriller on its head with The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong - jin has reinvented himself again, aggressively pushing against the boundaries of genre cinema with The Wailing.

He's a stubborn, prideful man, undisciplined in the eyes of his faith, knowingly pushing against their expectations while also attempting to fulfill them simultaneously.

Over the course of The Wolfpack, the audience practically watches them in the early stages of their maturity into independent adults, pushing against their overbearing father, growing increasingly brave and bold as they come of age.

We can't have balance without pushing against something.

When you support your body peacefully rather than pushing against it, you feel good.

He basically said, «What is sitting on a padded seat pushing against weight - stack resistance going to do to help me be strong enough to push a car out of a ditch?»

I don't think it would be as good as walking and running for slimming legs (because you're pushing against resistance, it will build more muscle).

High blood pressure occurs when the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries is consistently too high.

Injury can be caused by pushing against or pulling the head or neck with hands.

There is a fibrous tissue which thins, widens and stretches around a women's growing belly in response to the uterus pushing against the abdominal wall.

Blood pressure is the measure of the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries.

It was pushing against my aorta.

He might use overcoming isometrics even — which means pulling or pushing against a completely immovable force.

This type of isometric is called, Overcoming because you are pushing against a force that is immovable.

In this first exercise, you'll be pushing against a wall as alluded to above.

The best example, which I'll go into in more detail, is pushing against a wall.

The door opens inward, pushing against the rolled up towel that sits at the bottom attempting to block out the raw boreal wind that whips by on the other side.

This acts to wipe off the toxins and dehydrate fat, which reduces fat cells pushing against skin and lessens puckering, says Karlene Karst, a registered dietitian in Vancouver.

You should feel your lower back filling up with air, pushing against the ground.

For example when pushing against a heavy object or holding a wall sit position.

One example is pushing against a wall.

Brace your core and lift the hips so that your body forms a straight line from head to toe, while simultaneously lifting the lower leg that's underneath the bench and pushing it against it (if possible).

Try this workout again 3 - 4 days later to see how you do — your body will get stronger fast, and pushing against the clock will help you get more out of it than you think you can.

It was so long, he could feel her hair pushing against my cervix.

When we feel like we are constantly pushing against the grain, we must ask ourselves why we are working so hard, burning ourselves out.

The idea behind this gadget is that you add pressure by pulling and pushing against the bar and foot board, allowing you to get more out of the stretch or strengthening move you're doing.

Pushing against that resistance «tells bone, «Hey, you're still being used,»» Rubins notes.

Or imagine a cat falling from a one - story building, let's say, snapping it's legs out and around and back so that it can land on its feet; it too is moving through space without pushing against anything.

Now this comes from a, this piece of it comes from a 2003 paper by a planetary scientist named Jack Wisdom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and what he discovered is that you can move, as you [were describing] through curved space by moving, [let's] say, your arms and legs, or if you're an alien as it is described in the article, a tripod alien — just for the simplicity of demonstrating how the movements are with, sort of, heavy feet and a ball at the end of the tail that helped to move the [weight] around, just to make it kind of simple to look through — you can move through curved spacetime without pushing against anything, and this is the key here.

Bacteria propel by pushing against the tiny fluid corkscrew - like appendages called flagella.

How does this compare with how you feel when the wind is pushing against your back?

But pushing against this is the fact that bigger stars also shine brighter, to the point that their sheer radiance should eject their own outer layers.

Hyder Jinnah of Emory University and colleagues used functional MRI to scan the brains of volunteers as they activated their head - turning neck muscles by pushing against pads.

When a person lifts weights, pushing against resistance, their muscles eventually get bigger.

That is, dark matter is pushing against itself, a totally unexpected behavior for the ethereal material.

The device tells the physician the precise direction of the catheter and how hard it is pushing against the heart wall.

Hunters who wear eyeglasses will love that they can make the eye relief extra long, so he or she won't have to be uncomfortable with glasses pushing against his or her face.

BP, under fire nationally for all the obvious reasons, was a player pushing against an Albany bill to reduce the level of of sulfur in home heating oil sold in the state to the levels in diesel trucks - a measure that narrowly passed the state Senate after a party - line vote against it by the GOP minority.

«This sets a very bad precedent and so that's what's we're pushing against.

Last week, the party's pols were on the steps of City Hall and in the Legislature, pushing against the Bloomberg administration's plan to charge rent to some people in homeless shelters.

We are actively pushing against it.

He was arrested in 2010, at 16 years old, for punching a man, pushing him against a fence and taking his backpack, The New Yorker reported.

I am 15 wks 4 days and I have been feeling the baby pushing against the front of my skin.

Soon, I feel her pushing against the wall of my vagina, her door to the world.

The combination of the seat belt pushing against her stomach and the angle of the seat worsened the reflux.

A similar arrangement involves taking off one side of the crib and pushing it against the bed.

In other words, it's great to teach kids where food comes from, but is it really enough to help guide them into making good food decisions on a lifelong basis, when there are so many societal forces pushing against that outcome?

If he is wiggling, pushing against you, or pops on and off several times in a row, he may be having difficulty staying focused on the task at hand.