Sentences with phrase «than arm length»

Distance is slightly less than arm length.

I am now usually never more than an arms length away from a camera.

No more than an arms length away as usuall.

Not exact matches

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled its long - anticipated smartwatch Tuesday, introducing a device that transplants the features of an iPhone onto a smaller screen that's never more than an arm's length away.

According to the Wall Street Journal, people who had shorted SolarCity stock will have to scramble to rebuy shares that have gone up because of the potentially less - than - arm's - length acquisition offer.

Millennials are always connected and seldom more than an arm's length away from their phones.

RBS had also contemplated seeking to keep Henry Bath as a merchant deal after buying into the Sempra Commodities business in 2008, but ultimately decided that it would be better to divest Henry Bath than hold it at arm's length, according to a person familiar with the decision.

At the same time, mobile has become the first advertising medium that lives with your consumer, and is rarely more than an arm's length away.

In other cases, to achieve the complementation benefits requires investments or knowledge exchange that would put one or both firms at more risk than they are willing to bear in an arms - length contract.

According to the Finance Minister «The CIDB will be accountable to, and partner with, government, but will operate at greater arm's length than a department — working with provincial, territorial, municipal, Indigenous and investment partners to transform the way infrastructure is planned, funded and delivered in Canada».

No sooner had I finished my piece for Faith magazine's last issue (in which, my readers may recall, I encouraged Polish Catholics to keep themselves at arms length from the secularised and indifferentist ethos of many English dioceses) than news emerged that one English bishop at least had done something to try to address the problem, and that he had in the process aroused the kind of secularist hostility which is, I strongly suspect, — certainly in this country — the only really reliable sign that the Catholic Church is being faithful to its vocation.

Compassion is the determination to oppose suffering; it functions at arm's length, basing itself on the rejection of suffering rather than the acceptance of it.»

Obviously these dubious characters must have liked his company a good deal better than they would have liked that of his critics, even if these had not held them at arm's length.

The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old - fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm's length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring, — scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair's - breadth further for respect of power, — while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame.

Arm length is more advantageous than height.

Last Saturday's goalless draw against Lazio enabled Spalletti and co. to stop the rot they had fallen into and keep the Biancoceleste at arms» length in the race for Champions League qualification, but with no win in over a month and just 1 goal scored in the last 6 games (in all competitions) the risk is that it does little more than delay the crisis for a few days.

It was no more than Chelsea deserved, as they controlled the match from the off, keeping Villa at arm's length.

You'll never be more than an arm's length away from your child but both of you will have your own separate places to sleep.

No matter which type of bath seat you choose, never be more than an arm's length away from your baby and be sure she is always in your line of sight.

There's some truth in that — it allows us to slide into a system which has worked out all the mistakes of an arm's - length relationship with the EU over decades rather than making them all over again ourselves.

«And since the Igbo have virtually infiltrated every nook and cranny of Northern Nigeria where they have been received with open arms as fellow compatriots, we strongly believe that the region is no longer safe and secure in the light of the unfolding threats and the fact that for a long time, the Igbo have gone to extra ordinary lengths to ensure that in their domain in the South East, Northerners and Westerners are as much as possible disenfranchised from owning any businesses whereas in Kano alone, they own not less than 100, 000 shops across all the business districts.

And he needs to instill the confidence that he's more than arm's length away,» Chaffetz, the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in an interview with POLITICO.

Teixeira snips, staples, and stitches, maneuvering a pair of two - foot rods designed for obese patients whose girth keeps the surgeon more than an arm's length away.

Regarding baseballs, the problem is that the fovea can focus on only a very small area — only about 2 degrees of the visual field (or an area smaller than your thumbnail held at arm's length)-- so as a pitched ball moves closer it can easily slip into your peripheral vision as it becomes larger.

At first, it appeared about the size of a basketball held at arm's length, but as Apollo 8 sped moonward it dwindled rapidly; 11 hours into the mission it looked no bigger than a baseball.

As a gravitational wave passes it will compress one arm and stretch the other while an interferometer where they meet attempts to measure the minute length difference — less than the width of an atomic nucleus.

They range from less than an inch in length to the giant Pacific octopus, which weighs in at 100 pounds and spans 20 feet from arm tip to arm tip.

The squid has ten thin tentacles that stretch six to eight feet, nearly 10 times their body length and far longer than arms in any other known squid.

A change in the lengths of the arms smaller than one - ten - thousandth the diameter of a proton (10 - 19 meter) can be detected.

Rather than keeping nature at arm's length, more fundamental changes that promote richer, healthier ecosystems may have more lasting effects.

In other words, XDF is no bigger than, say, the period at the end of this sentence, viewed at arm's length.

The technological challenge is to detect minute changes in the length of the arms as small as 10 - 18 meters (many times smaller than a proton!)

For instance, astronomers believe that gravitational waves also exist at much lower frequencies than what is detectable by the LIGO and Virgo instruments, but in order to sense these waves, the length of the interferometer arms will need to be much, much longer.

Keurig says it's OK to use the brewer while you're waiting for the repair kit, as long as you stay an arm's length away and don't make more than two cups back - to - back.

To perform it, grab a barbell with an overhand grip that's wider than shoulder width apart, then let the bar hang at arm's length in front of you.

Comparing the effect of squats with different stance widths, Escamilla et al. (2001a) reported no differences in hip moment arm lengths between the narrow, medium, and wide stance width squats at any point in the lowering and lifting phases, except at 45 degrees of knee flexion in the lifting phase, when the medium and wide stance width squats displayed greater hip moment arm lengths than narrow stance width squats.

Comparing different squat variations, Swinton et al. (2012) reported that peak ankle moment arm lengths were greater in the traditional squat variation than in either the powerlifting or box squat variations.

Lumbosacral moment arm lengths are greater in the traditional and powerlifting squat styles than in the box squat style.

Comparing different squat variations, Swinton et al. (2012) reported that peak lumbosacral moment arm lengths were greater in the traditional and powerlifting squat variations than in the box squat variations.

Hip extensor moment arm lengths are greater in the traditional and powerlifting squat styles than in the box squat style.

Ankle moment arm lengths are greater in the traditional squat style than in either the powerlifting or box squat styles.

In other words, one head did not always display a greater moment arm length than the other (s) at any given joint angle.

However, the adductor magnus displayed a much greater moment arm length in 90 degrees of hip flexion than in full hip extension, which may indicate that this muscle has an important contributory role to hip extension moment in this position.

For example, Lunnen et al. (1981) studied a much greater hip flexion angle (135 degrees) than many of the other researchers (e.g. Mohamed et al. 2002; Guex et al. 2012) and it is possible that the large stretch in this position moved the muscle up the passive arm of the length - tension curve, thereby reducing neural drive.

Indeed, the pectoralis major has longer moment arm lengths for shoulder horizontal adduction (also called shoulder horizontal flexion) than any of the other chest muscles, indicating it is the prime mover for this action (Keuchle et al. 1997).

Avoid family - style dining When food is within arm's length, it's easy to refill my plate and eat more than I need.

The superior and inferior fibers have greater peak moment arm lengths than the middle fibers.

They reported that the hip extension moment arm length of the gluteus maximus was around 8 cm and was greater than that of the other hip extensors (adductor magnus and hamstrings).

In this plane, the superior and inferior fibers seem to have greater peak moment arm lengths than the middle fibers, implying that the superior and inferior fibers are most important for scapular plane shoulder extension.

The moment arm length displays a plateau region between 120 and 80 degrees measuring less than -5 mm.