Sentences with phrase «so off of the ground»

Once your cat is in the carrier, resting quietly with the door closed, pick the carrier up very gently, just a foot or so off of the ground.

It also helps if you have a hard time bending over as the bales lift the plants 18 ″ or so off of the ground.

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JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

Like any business, you shouldn't expect to be profitable right when you open your doors, so make sure you have enough money to live off of while you get off the ground.

In fact, here are three tips to get an employee volunteer program (EVP) off the ground, so your startup can grow its impact right away and make a culture of service part of its DNA.

So what are the consequences for all those hours of snoozing you gave up to get your business off the ground?

Jeff Bezos Even though Amazon is so successful that American cities are actively bidding to host the ecommerce giant's second headquarters, at the beginning of the company's life, Bezos was met with a lot of questions about whether it could even get off the ground.

The concept of hiring a company to pay your bills for you (and argue with the telephone company if it messes something up) is pretty new, and so it's taken some time to get her business off the ground.

Starting a thriving business is massively difficult, so if you've managed to get one off the ground, you've already demonstrated a high level of acumen and skill.

He would grind through the text like a millstone through oats, haul a well - worn cadenza off a mental shelf to get a belated rise out of the stultified audience («Millions of people would give their shirts for our so - called problems») and call it a night.

Now you know why I'm shooting for $ 200,000 in passive income, so that if this property burns to the ground and I can only collect ~ $ 600,000 from the insurance co, instead of the $ 1 - 1.2 M in market value, I'll be able to survive off $ 170,000 in passive income and the $ 600,00 in insurance co proceeds.

Due to cheaper tools, the cost of getting a startup off the ground has markedly decreased over the past dozen or so years.

so this new job came up, i was bitterly disappointed, god waving it in my face, me not being qualified but 15 years of experience in the business and this new ground floor from scratch spin off that will eventually get spun back in, and the job is a lateral move technically, but in reality i was the top of the old ladder, and the lateral move would be to the bottom of the next higher up ladder.

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

So you need an additional premise that god will smile only one those who truly believe AND those that pretend that they do for the sake of winning a wager for this thing to get off the ground in the first place.

Just stop at any ol' pastry (can't spell in French), bakery, vegetable stand, restaurant — one of my most memorable meals was an Ethopian off on a side street with another being fresh bread, an avocado purchased from a Bengladeshi street vendor, butter and fantastic pepper (just ground black pepper that was so pungent) from a small market.

The wind was so strong I was waiting for one of them to be swept off the ground and fly threw the air at the mercy of the oversized Snoopy!

I also had no fresh ginger left so I added 3 small cloves of garlic (minced) and about 1.5 tsp of ground dried ginger to the caramelized onions and gave them a quick stir around the pan for about a minute before removing the onions off the heat.

I usually make myself so sick off of stuffing my face with cookie dough that when the final product comes out, I'm left lying on the ground in a (magnificent) sugar coma.

The thing we're getting the most of off the cow is ground beef, so if we didn't have the burger, we couldn't have found a way to buy the whole cow.»

A note to those who can only find granular erythritol: grind it in your coffee grinder, then let it sit a few minutes so that you don't have a cloud of the stuff when you take the cap off.

If it were up to me, I would take advantage of their relatively weak closing schedule and — rather than keep grinding to get as high a seed as possible — to give Embiid, Simmons and Saric some staggered «load management» games off down the stretch, so that they have enough left in the tank to play a competative playoff series.

First of all, Salka was fighting a Mexican, not an American so we're already off the neutral ground where Wall trunks are some kind of benign statement.

I do nt know why im so disappointed i keep thinking every window he will do it splash big bring back the old days and especially this window with all the abuse he had got last season but no did nothing im the fool for getting my hopes up again you would think id learn by now, if we did pull off lemar and kept sanchez after buying lacazette and kolasanic id be delighted but keeping an unhappy sanchez isnt good hopefully some forgien club will come in for him in January but what happened at Liverpool was a disgrace i cant take any more its ruining my mood im depressed in disbelief at how stupid and soft centred we were making the exact same mistakes for 8 or 9 yrs ground hog day i cant cope we have leaked 8 goals in 3 games very worrying and the clown wont even play kolasanic i wanted wenger to spend big go out in a blaze of glory in 2 yrs time but this is embarrassing to me it looks like a money racket and we are the fools

He appeared to think that the ground would be full again when Arsenal hosted the Russian club CSKA Moscow this week, because the Europa League games are still very important, so if that is true the boss would have been a bit put out, to say the least, at the lack of numbers and the general vibe around the ground at kick - off last night.

As the season approaches the end, we are expecting an avalanche of Arsenal transfer rumours with so many of the Gunners» stars approaching the final year of their contracts, and they are getting off the ground earlier than usual.

All three of our big rivals for the Premier League title have got off to the start we all hoped they wouldn't, so Jose Mourinho at Manchester United is looking as smug as possible and Antonio Conte is looking well suited to Chelsea while Pep Guardiola has hit the ground running at Man City.

Before the game we had a bit of time so we decided to do a lap of the Old Trafford ground, which showed off the spectacular exterior of the stadium.

Newport County have advised us that there are a number of building works around the ground at Rodney Parade, so it is important that fans read the travel and parking information to ensure they enter the stadium in good time for kick - off.

The BBC's Jonathan Stevenson, a Forest fan, spent the entirety of deadline day praying for his club to sign a left - back but it never happened, and so it must have been particularly galling to have to report that former England defender Nicky Shorey had been recalled from a spell at the City Ground by parent club Villa only to be shipped off to Fulham.

There is plenty to keep Blues entertained prior to kick - off at 7.45 pm, so here's a rundown of what's going on around the ground... FANZONE With activity beginning at around 6 pm, the FanZone is the perfect place to get in the matchday mood.

We were so close to making ground on the play - offs before we threw away two points with the last head of the game.

And whilst it's a shame that so many young players will never get off the ground with Liverpool, that's just the nature of football.

You can build your own by nailing a long plank of wood to smaller blocks of wood and standing it on the ground like a table (you only want the plank to be a few inches off of the ground, so use sturdy, but short blocks of wood).

There are two wheels on the base, which makes it slightly moveable, and it's raised off the ground, so you will want to be careful if you have a more active, jumping bundle of joy.

When this happens, the cup holder always pops off, so be aware of this so you don't leave it behind on the ground!

Rolling side to side slowly when changing, helping her slowly transition up and down from sitting to lying down and back up again on changing table, encouraging reaching for toys when on hands and knees so that one hand is off the ground without collapsing, playing «row row row your boat» on your lap moving side to side and having her hold those tricky sideways positions are some examples of things you can do during the day to help her get used to lateral weight shifts.

I think the most important thing from my perspective is that my grounding in normal helps me recognize the abnormal... it's like a line, the straight line of normal and if there's a wavering off to one side or the other you just try a little tiny subtle intervention to nudge it back to normal... like if the baby is malpositioned you know, ideas and ways, and position changes, manoeuvres we can do to try to get the baby into a better position, things like that... so you know if she's dehydrated, hydrate her.

So, there must be major benefits to having the baby high off of the ground and surrounded by bars, right?

Our daughter is a «sleep crawler,» so it's essential that she not be high up off of the ground.

Long term I want him to be on a mattress on the floor in his room, so am thinking of starting him on a cot mattress next to ours (essentially swapping places with my partner) as this would be lower to the ground in case he goes off the edge!

Sadly, the money - making potential of these items pales in comparison to the magazines / cookie dough venture, so my idea never got off the ground.

As Iraqi «Chemical» Ali was constantly on television lying about the imminent defeat of Iraq by the Western Coalition Forces, telling Iraqis that the forces of Saddam Hussein were fending off the Coalition Forces whereas the opposite was actually occurring on the ground, so is President «Comical» Mahama doing to Ghanaians.

THE army of laid - off downtown «dot - commers» wants to get back into action, so there's a ground swell of support for a lobbying effort directed at Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer to establish what they're calling e-WPA — a 21st century version of the agency that created jobs in the Great Depression.

«Given the dire state of the economy, it is nothing short of scandalous that so few projects funded by the Regional Growth Fund have actually got off the ground.

VanBuren says there was a lack of commitment to the project, so it never got off of the ground.

Iain Duncan Smith deserves enormous personal credit for getting our flagship Work Programme off the ground in a year, revolutionising the way we offer support so that it is tailored to individual needs, so that it is in the hands of the experts — the businesses and charities best placed to administer advice and training, so that — at all times — we aim to get people into real jobs, proper jobs so they can stand on their own two feet.

The demand for the treatment is so high that a group of clinics are coming together in an effort to get the programs off the ground

The gate is 30 inches tall, and it can be installed 3 inches off the ground, so you get a total of 33 inches of height.

So no matter how far you end up off of the beaten path, Bogs Classic will help to keep you warm, dry, grounded, and camouflaged!