Sentences with phrase «slowing their descent by»

In the Nordic hamstring curl, the lifter lowers themselves forwards to the ground by extending the knee, slowing their descent by trying to contract the hamstrings muscles.

He behaves much like DK, only he can roll forever just as though he had a partner Kong with him (although when playing as Funky you can never use a partner Kong), double - jump, slow his descent by using his surfboard as a makeshift helicopter, obviously, and also stand stationary on spiked floors without taking damage.

Not exact matches

The opposite is true: they are trying to keep it from falling or are at least trying to slow down its descent with every trick in the book (every intermittent phase of yuan strength since the beginning of the decline was triggered by intervention).

By the time the loaves bake the next day, the oven will be on a slow descent from its peak temperature of 800 degrees, and the heat trapped inside the bricks will shape the shaggy lumps into crackly, crusted loaves.

Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk of infection and takes away your baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your baby gets too tired or sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired of waiting).

Closer examinations of the lander's transmitted telemetry then revealed that the ejection of the parachute and a heat shield occurred earlier than expected, followed by a too - brief firing of rocket thrusters meant to slow the spacecraft's descent.

And the other really fascinating implication of general relativity is that falling through a vacuum in curved spacetime by stretching and contracting but not at the same rate, if you stretch at one rate and contract at another rate, you can actually slow your descent and behave like a glider even though there is no atmosphere.

Furthermore, research shows that when bench pressing, lowering the bar quickly (1 second) and, without pause, then exploding it upward results in greater power gains than a slow descent followed by a pause and explosive ascent.

The tip is, remember to do the full thing, and by that i mean to pull up, but also do a slow, controlled descent, because that allows for more in the long run as well.

A 550 - pound squat is certainly good, but if you can do it with a very slow descent followed by a long pause at the bottom, it's «better.»

Opening titles establish 1925 as the peak of this Barrymore's stage success, then followed by a slow descent into alcoholism, which would ultimately claim his life at age 60 in May of 1942.

Altman cuts from Mary's quiet adoration of Tom in bed to a stained - glass Christ; her upward glance echoed by the upward angle from which the camera begins a slow descent along the church window.

The DAC feature is designed to maintain a constant speed and maintain handling and steering control by reducing wheel lock under braking even at slow speeds on slippery descents.

Off - road in a 4x4 V8, we tried out the hill - descent option, common on most four - wheel drives nowadays, and found it was... like most four - wheel drives with similar hill descent features: It hesitated at first then grabbed the front and rear discs one by one to slow downhill progress to a creepy crawl.

On most tours, the dive involves a rapid descent to 135 feet (40 m), where divers spend no more than a few minutes, followed by a slow controlled ascent to the surface.

By aiming her pair of repeating shotguns while in the air, she can even slow her descent to maximize the death from above.

Despite having the ability to slow his descent to a crawl by holding the jump button, when you're doing so your horizontal movement is cripplingly slow.

The former's nullification of many projectiles and its slowing of Gunvolt's descent makes it useful in many areas, while the latter rewards players for not using Gunvolt's electricity powers by making him invulnerable to most attacks while not using the Flashfield.

«Wood inlay's checkered history in Western culture is one of a regal beginning, followed by a long slow descent into kitsch,» she says.

Commissioned selling is the breeding ground for misrepresentation, smooth story telling, lying by omission, lying by fabrication, manipulation of trusting, ignorant clients who are really marks, for the purposes of that next commission cheque, and for the slow, steady descent by too many initially honest sales people into the wagon rut of slippery dealings for payoffs... in short... corrupt behaviour, which by the way, is woefully dealt with by the in - house supposed police state.