Sentences with phrase «sitting at the stand»

The terms «hero», «heroics» referred not to those who played football, but to those who sat at the stands, with their combat medals glistening.

Avoid sitting in a large booth surrounded by people that you already know; aim to sit at a stand up or shared table and leave a few stools free for someone new to join; and get your drinks from the bar where you'll mingle with some new people along the way.

On the return leg the engine failed to start and had to wait 2 hours for it to be fixed whilst sitting at the stand.

Not exact matches

Dutch visual artist Barbara Visser is taking an edgy stand against the dangers of sitting at work all day.

The first photos in the series take place outside of an Atlanta Taco Bell at sunset, and continue with her standing behind the register, sitting at a table with a full meal, and even holding hot sauce next to her baby bump.

As all major US indexes plummeted into correction territory — with the benchmark S&P 500 suffering its worst week in more than two years — share buybacks stood at a standstill as companies sat paralyzed with fear.

Entrepreneur: We now know that sitting all day is terribe for us, but your research seems to suggest there are other reasons to stand at work on top of the health benefits.

Occasionally I see people sitting on the back deck; on those occasions that happens, she's always standing at the limit of her chain, as close to them as she can be.

That applies literally: The simple action of looking at a workstation from the same vantage point (as opposed to sitting or standing across from the trainee) will make your training more effective.

Instead of job hunting from home, people were doing so while standing in line at a restaurant or even sitting on a couch watching the game.

Computers are now only allowed at the espresso bar, where remote workers can either stand and type at the taller counter on weekdays, or sit on hard bar stools.

At a minimum, close all the windows on your screen (or better yet, close your laptop), and clear your desk (or go sit or stand at a different deskAt a minimum, close all the windows on your screen (or better yet, close your laptop), and clear your desk (or go sit or stand at a different deskat a different desk).

«The course involves sitting and listening to a professor who stands at podium for an hour straight.»

Research has shown that sitting at a desk for long periods of time can lead to health problems, yet a surprising number of commercial workplaces still reserve their sit to stand desks for executives only, or offer them on a case basis to employees who request them.

The company is contractually bound to hide work in progress from visitors: We were forbidden to photograph the main activity here — digital artists working at their adjustable sit - stand desks.

She sat close to the microphone, barely having to get up from her chair before she was facing chairman Gwyn Morgan, who stood at the front of the room behind a podium.

If the evidence solidifies that sit - down jobs at typical offices are responsible for shortening and lowering the quality of our lives, workers will inevitably stand up to their employers and ask for solutions.

These ergonomic active workstations pair our popular sit - stand desks with a treadmill or recumbent bike to provide an easy solution for staying active and fit at the workplace.

The overall U.S. rig count now sits at 789, up 313 rigs from this time last year when the count stood at 476, the Houston - based oilfield services provider said.

FILE PHOTO: A Saudi Aramco employee sits near the Saudi Aramco stand at the Middle East Petrotech 2016 in Manama, Bahrain, September 27, 2016.

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

The ovation lasted for several minutes as the brothers returned to their places at the back of the gym, eyes down, faces flush, sitting while each student stood and turned to face them.

I cintend that the bible also calls us to do the same thing — it calls us to action and then says when we have donr everything we can and there is nothing else we are to stand in faith that it will work out — of course i paraphrase — but wht do people think all christians do is sit on their butts and pray and look pie eyed at the sky - this christian worked her butt of on the streets - and look at Mother Thresa - and other christians working for humanity all over the world - i think athiests have the wrong idea about chtistians...

The patriarch sat next to the president in the reviewing stands above Red Square at last year's celebrations of the 825th anniversary of the founding of Moscow.

Standing on my tiptoes, I shifted my view through the bookshelves to the semi-circle of editors sitting at the front of the bookstore.

Because we sit in folding chairs in a rather drafty school gym and our tinies sprawl on the floor at our feet or perch on our hips or stand beside us and watch it all, all, all, taking it in.

«When they all stood and I sat, and I have a hundred eyes looking at me, and questioning what's going on, they think I'm being disrespectful.

«There's one of them,» said the undergraduate sitting next to me, pointing to a large man in a raincoat standing placidly at the rear of the chapel.

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

We all sat around the table — and if an Elder needed to elder, he stood up and did so — but he was not only marked by his depth, wisdom, compassion and love — but his earnest haste — he could not wait to sit down again amongst us and be one of us - all of us at the feet of the Master Builder.

But that was not as bad as the week before, when a seminarian — addressing a congregation where at least a dozen of us were sitting in wheelchairs — exhorted us to stand up for Christ in an increasingly secular society!

The first few times that I went to church at All Saints, I didn't know when to stand or sit.

But I look at the folks who stand in the heat to vote, or sit on the benches at commission meetings scribbling notes, or strategize around seas of coffee at kitchen tables, and I'm humbled.

In contrast, while the priests in the Jerusalem temple were standing and offering daily the sacrifices of bulls and goats, Jesus Christ offered for all times a single sacrifice for sills and he sat down at the right hand of God.

And behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil, and stood at His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head; and she kissed His feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil.

In evil case the army stood, their stores of food were spent: Peter the holy Hermit, he sat before his tent: Then came to him the King Tafur, and with him fifty score Of men - at - arms, not one of them but hunger gnawed him sore.

He sat at his kitchen table nervously drinking coffee while his wife Coretta stood next to the front window.

In our more formal sermon - centered services little is required of the worshiper except to sit decorously, stand, and bow his head at appropriate intervals, and rare indeed is the minister who can capture his roving thoughts all the time from eleven o'clock until twelve - fifteen.

One woman after another, sometimes in the background, sometimes in the kitchen, sometimes in the pulpit, sometimes in a home, sometimes singing a song, sometimes on the street with her stand of mangoes to sell, sometimes at the blackboard wearing a blue uniform, sometimes sitting in the classroom.

Which happened when I sat in an Atlanta public school room tutoring three illiterate sixth graders or when I heard stories of refugees who'd suffered loss of home, family separation and violence or when I stood at the U.S. - Mexico border in Tijuana and looked at the endless crosses adorning the wall with the names of those missing or lost after they headed north to the United States.

JOPLIN, Mo. — Three years ago, the Molina family sat at their kitchen table and decided to take a moral stand: They would no longer patronize any company which had connection to abortions, homosexual rights, pornography or any other objectionable cause.

2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, «You sit here in a good place,» while you say to the poor man, «You stand over there,» or, «Sit down at my feet,» 4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughsit here in a good place,» while you say to the poor man, «You stand over there,» or, «Sit down at my feet,» 4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughSit down at my feet,» 4 have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

I have never forgotten the debt that my family owe you and over the years I have rattled tins, waved banners, written letters and sat in a damp cage for hours at a time — small actions that conveyed my gratitude to Amnesty for standing by my father when he would otherwise have stood alone.

There in the plaza, we sat at a little street food stand — just plastic stools facing a large comal (griddle).

Green Smoothie bowls are a regular visitor to my breakfast table (who am I kidding, there is no table in this equation, I eat breakfast standing up in the kitchen as I prep for shoots, or sitting at my desk while editing photos... but that's another story altogether).

I have a vintage stand mixer that I found at a flea market for $ 12, I rarely use it because I don't bake but I think its just beautiful sitting there!

I was craving to sit at the table instead of standing in front of the stove, is that ok to say on a food blog?

Standing tall above the beautiful Arizona desert is Camelback Mountain, and, at the base of it, sits Camelback Road and the heart of the Phoenix food scene.

In real life, I can barely stand to have my hair down when I'm sitting at my desk... let alone running two miles after a car chase while carrying a giant gun.

When Cadillac Jack Grimm bought $ 10,000 worth of chips and sat down at a green felt table in Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas two weeks ago, he had no real hope that he might stand up a couple of days later as champion of this year's World Series of Poker.