Sentences with phrase «racket on»

Sony's been running the racket on that for a while — let's see what another Japanese OEM can do.

Turn a corner on the third floor and Dawn Kasper's lilting voice — along with the whirring of a spinning tennis racket on a motorized stand — carries through the hushed gallery.

Not since the construction of City Creek Center has there been such a racket on West Temple.

Even Gamespot and IGN have slowly upgraded their little broadcast cubicles to run a full - time racket on the floor.

People looked up, startled, wondering what in the world was creating such a racket on this quiet October weeknight.

After the player blew the final point, he walked over to a low mesh fence, smashed his racket on it and then stalked off, carrying the racket as if it were a dead chicken with a broken neck.

He ran for a ball he should have let pass and managed to get his racket on it, at the same time making a sharp stop and scrambling to get back into position.

Then, the next morning, the player nicknamed Gentleman Tim slams his racket on the court without apology and with a gratifying crack, turning its elegant frame into something that looks like a car wreck.

If that is so, then the racket on this fortieth anniversary must be prodigious.

Not exact matches

Afterward, she leaned over near the net, while Gavrilova dropped to her knees on the court, letting go of her racket.

But a few years later the New York World's exposure of the racket behind the Klan had had its effect, the Coolidge boom had given the paraders something else to think about, Henry Ford had apologized and retracted, and the Protocols were on their way to the judicial examination which eventually stripped them to the fraudulent skin.

Babolat, who manufactures smart tennis rackets, boasts intelligent built - in sensors on its rackets.

Frenchman Gael Monfils slumped to a surprise first - round defeat by Mirza Basic in Munich as he made his return from injury on Tuesday, after seeing his rackets broken in transit.

The chapter on the civil rights establishment, and its fulfillment of Eric Hoffer's maxim that every cause eventually becomes a business and then a racket, is also effective, as is his critique of the «world citizenship» fantasies surrounding the UN and cognate institutions.

I had just placed my open Bible on our wobbly old communion table when a racket in the main entrance stairwell interrupted.

«For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket — by making life on earth unbearable, then charging you for consolation and relief, by forbidding all the virtues that make existence possible, then riding on the shoulders of your guilt, by declaring production and joy to be sins, then collecting blackmail from the sinners.»

Those darn Free Methodists, who insisted on «free pews» for everyone, have really ruined the salvation - mongering racket.

/ Another anger - releasing exercise is to pound a bed relentlessly with your fists or a tennis racket or kick the bed while lying on it.

Or if you take «paying the penalty,» not in the sense of being punished, but in the more general sense of «standing the racket» or «footing the bill,» then, of course, it is a matter of common experience that, when one person has got himself into a hole, the trouble of getting him out usually falls on a kind friend.

Church religion turns into a political power racket every time, here in the South every second horse trader with a big mouth, soft hands and few hard skills opens up a «First Church of SomethingOrOther» that he can skim money off of and not pay taxes on.

AA is a racket, the courts have been sucked in and now require mandatory attendance, it's gone as far now that you can't even get on the organ transplant list unless you cowtow to this religious whackyness.

There he vanished into a stone mansion with canopied porches, gabled roofs and greenhouses; into gin rummy dens, «sociable» golf games and country club obsolescence; into pictures processed by his wife's family photography business, where he took on the role and appearance of a John P. Marquand executive: The Late George Apley perhaps — with racket.

Why, it almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.

Should she eventually decide to expend 100 % of herenergy on television, her handling of the microphone could become as sure asher grip on her tennis racket.

Even before the first little shop on Clay Avenue, Ron was stringing rackets in his garage and selling tennis shoes out of the trunk of his car.

Some players have even been known to sabotage an opponent's racket by pouring a soft drink on the strings just before a match.

On the satellite trail, an inordinate number of players use oversized Prince rackets because, as with vitamins and religion, there is no evidence that they hurt you, and there remains the possibility they will help.

Think about the power needed to jump high for a dunk in basketball, to swing a baseball bat, to increase agility & sprint speed, to accelerate mid-sprint to catch up to someone in soccer, to hit someone as hard as possible in football, to shoot from the hips in wrestling, to swing a racket or golf club, and the list could go on and on.

they're still using their normal rackets they just have different brands logo's painted on them depending on which company sponsored the particular countries team.

Volley tennis balls off a wall, bounce them on the ground with the racket, or bounce balls and birdies up from a racquet held horizontally.

For example, if Johnny hits his mother on her leg with his tennis racket, his mother can say «Johnny, when you hit mommy or anyone else it hurts, so you can either play nicely with your tennis racket, or mommy will have to take it away.»

And despite the law, the NYPD — reeling from an era of widespread corruption in the 1970s — continued providing disciplinary records on officers to assure the public they were not returning to a time of covering up protection rackets and other types of untoward conduct.

Defending champion Roger Federer argued with an umpire, but mostly let his racket do the talking, beating Tomas Berdych for the ninth time running to reach the Australian Open semi-finals on Wednesday.

Ballard testified that over one quarter of his Highway Department staff were involved in gathering absentee ballots for the ultra-left Democratic Working Families party, assisted by Republican Legislator, Frank Sparaco, and assisted by John Perrotta, the putative «Chairman» of what has been called the «legal racket» and «corrupt» Independence Party, to have Republican Ballard run on the Democratic Working Families line.

However, it has become increasingly clear that he will not receive the Republican Party's nomination for the 2015 race and will have to depend on either Legislator Sparaco (whom Ballard fired after his recent arrest) to get the «legal - racket» Independence Party line or the Town's Clerk of the Works, Ed Lettre, who runs the «one - man - band» Conservative Party.

In the coming elections in November 2014 Governor Cuomo's name will be on the «legal racket» line as will Barry Kantrowitz who is running for County Executive Ed Day's old seat in the County Legislature.

Cuomo, however, did not heed the call and will run on that line thus ensuring that it will probably continue as a «corrupt» and «legal racket» for another four years.

From the past behavior of the Independence Party one has to suspect that the individual on that line may be in some way beholden to the leadership of the non-indepenDENT «legal racket» IndepenDENCE Party.

A White Plains federal jury deliberated for less than an hour and a half before finding the disgraced Queens Republican guilty on all five counts of bribery, wire fraud and racket eeri ing charges that he faced.

When Stardust approaches Wild 2 in a few months, the spacecraft will raise a tray of ice - cube - size chunks of aerogel on an arm shaped like a tennis racket.

The flecks of dust had streaked into a tennis racket — sized collector on board a spacecraft named Stardust, and scientists announced their existence at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in March 2013.

He and his colleagues tend to do work that's centered on products: tennis balls, tennis rackets, footwear, clothing, and so on.

On 22 February, Stardust extended just the backside of the racket into the dust stream.

Hooting and hollering, he gallops up to the giant buttress root of a tree, grips its crest with his hands, and beats on its wall - like surface with both feet, making a racket that can be heard more than a kilometer away.

A vibration element enhances the feeling of realism by changing its frequency depending on how the virtual ball «strikes» the racket.

Superstrong BMG has already been used in the manufacture of high - tech golf clubs and tennis rackets; in 2001, the collector on NASA's Genesis spacecraft, which caught particles from the solar wind, was made of BMG.

Played on a four - walled court with a racket and small rubber ball, squash is one of the most cardio - demanding sports you can compete in.

But even if you don't play baseball, don't swing racket sports or anything like that, you now have a body that's capable of snapping into powerful action on both sides.

On the functional strength and sport specific side, these types of workouts allow you to customize the movements to your natural motion, such as swinging a tennis racket, or maneuvering for a pass.

Whether you are a racket sport athlete, weight lifter, golfer or just on your computer all day — incorporating wrist strength and mobility into your fitness routine is extremely important to your physical health.