Sentences with phrase «shut on»

I had a pretty intense finger smashing incident last night though (think: the tip of my index finger + our back door slamming shut on it), so the rest of this project definitely just got a little more challenging.

Less than a month after X Factor winner Sam Bailey slammed the door shut on her old life to follow her dream of becoming a * cough * successful recording artist (and presumably move into slightly smaller digs), the house she shared in the show with her fellow warbling wannabes is back on the rental market.

Unfortunately, this door is slammed shut on most agent sites.

Once an employer pulls in enough job candidates for interview, the door pretty much gets shut on others who apply later.

Knowing the person with whom you will be speaking has the opportunity to either keep you in the running or slam the door shut on the «perfect - fit» job opportunity is intimidating, for sure.

Interestingly, the RBI isn't nailing the coffin shut on cryptocurrencies entirely: it's actually looking into creating its own fiat digital currency, which it hopes to circulate alongside paper currency.

Jason Cho, an adviser at Bitcoin Center Korea, says young people are «in a system where the door is constantly being shut on them, and the benefits of this society are going to the very few at the top.»

Once he'd replaced the filters, he opened the hatch to go down the ladder, but as he closed it, it slammed shut on his right hand.

These records create a stigmatizing taint that crushes employment opportunities and slams the door shut on immigration and travel.

Rep. Don Beyer could have kept his mouth shut on who is writing rebuttals to use against skeptic climate scientists.

Consider how one particular US Congressman couldn't keep his mouth shut on who was helping to draft a fact - checking rebuttal to the recent House Science, Space, and Technology Committee testimony of Drs Judith Curry, John Christy and Roger Pielke Jr..

He really should have the door shut on him more often, in my view.

Simon Kent — Breitbart News — July 12, 2015 Australia has slammed the door shut on any new government - funded investment in renewable energy schemes as Prime Minister Tony Abbott extends his «war on wind power».

The Doha gateway leaves the door wide open to irreversible climate change and slams the door shut on equity.

The «shock wave» will be subtle — hardly as marked as a valve slamming shut on a closed pipeline — but never the less it will have sent its message, and the message will have been received loud and clear by every element of the ThC stream.

It is like trying to read a book that asks for money every 10 pages and slams shut on your fingers if you refuse.

And that's mainly why I'm still playing Assassin's Creed III and why I'm worried that once I reach the end of the final sequence, the game will slam shut on me.

Imagine a lavish, beautiful storybook world... that slams shut on your stupid, bleeding fingers for seven brutal hours.

As the tube doors slid shut on an era, I did not imagine that it would be near Sagres, Portugal's most Southwesterly tip, -LSB-...]

In female pets I spay them through the defect at 5 - 6 month of age and sew the hernia shut on my way out.

If you snap your hand shut on a puppy's snout, or right next to it, you can cause the puppy to be wary of hands.

He's been stepped on, hair pulled, door shut on him..

At The Bookseller, the questions we began asking ourselves as far back as December last year — when the doors shut on the FutureBook Conference 2014 — were what led us towards the event this year: what kind of industry does publishing want to be?

You need to slam the door shut on that voice.

Ziller snapped the cap shut on his pipe and replaced it in his waistcoat.

Well, you could still do it technically, but if Aston Martin catches you - a good chance it will - you'll not only lose your reservation slot, but you'll also get the door shut on you on any future Aston Martin special edition models.

A loose ground will cause the instrument panel to shut on and off all the time.

Wavy body panels, missing paint, runs in the paint, doors that don't seal up, misaligned body panels, the cheapest hardest seats in any half - ton, the cheap hard plastics, the cheap sound the doors make when you slam them shut, the cheap door latches that might not latch shut on the test drive.

Yet today, those windows of opportunity are slamming shut on our at - risk children.

But in his column for the New York Post, Adam Brodsky says Rosa's appointment is «nailing the coffin shut on school reform and on the dreams of thousands of New York school kids — particularly poor blacks and Hispanics.»

We estimate from experience that well over half of school facilities are currently shut on evenings and weekends.

And all of this is before you even get to the fundamental fact that, when 3.5 million classroom doors swing shut on a Tuesday morning, those teachers are pretty much free to teach (or not teach) whatever they like, regardless of thunderous commands, incentives, pleadings, and resources from district, state, or Uncle Sam.

It's been hard to keep my mouth shut on this.

Together these women, under the direction of Tate Taylor, produce a riveting piece that unfolds with humor, tears and a generous helping of sass — thanks mostly to the outspoken Minnie who finds it impossible to follow her own advice about keeping one's mouth shut on the job.

In the film's final image, a soundstage door in the bottom right of the frame clangs shut on one of Wada's bad jokes.

I figured it would scare all the men away and I could slam the door shut on online dating once and for all.

We'd love a Berkey because we live in a small farming area, surrounded by farmers who spray so many chemicals on their crops that we have to keep our doors / windows shut on days when they spray.

The gaping jaws of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) are famous for snapping shut on any creature unlucky enough to wander too close.

It is known that the Strait of Gibraltar was shut on a temporary basis during the Messinian Era (more precisely, from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago) and that the Mediterranean Sea was isolated from the Atlantic.

For starters, let's nail the coffin shut on the whole tail - dragging thing.

Keeping his mouth shut on the primary date is probably one of the prices Cuomo paid for his «big ugly» back in Mid-March.

Public and private schools in Ebonyi shut on Jan. 18 to check the spread of Lassa fever outbreak in the state have reopened.

Yet when the Libyan regime choked the calls of its citizens in 2011, the U.S., Europe and UN had the mechanisms to close the door shut on the Gadhafi regime, and sanctions snapped back.

But if the opposition parties are stupid enough to walk into what May hopes is her trap, make sure it snaps shut on her by an electoral pact to oust the Tories.

With my fourth in a hospital because they refused me home birth, they pulled on the umbilical cord the cord snapped, the uterus clamped shut on the placenta and I lost 2500mls of blood.

Once there, after numerous attempts to open the door to the store and maneuver the stroller in before it shut on the kids (I eventually learned to go in backwards — duh), we made our way into the restroom only to find that the changing table was broken.

He can also slam the door shut on his hand or fingers, causing damage.

Many new toy chests now come with a spring - loaded hinge on the lid to prevent the lid from slamming shut on your child's hand.

The Spanish stopper slammed the door shut on Liverpool a stupendous six times at Anfield.

The transfer window slams shut on Wednesday but City are hopeful of concluding the switch for the French centre - back.