Sentences with phrase «than your elbow in»

(Nothing «smaller than your elbow in your ear,» they said.)

Not exact matches

Harnessing innovation and sharp - elbowed tactics, BlackBerry s bosses outsmarted powerful international competitors and built a global business in a little more than a decade with an addictive phone that changed the way we communicated.

Depending on the company I'm in I try not to slouch or reach and, while my elbows end up on the table more than they should, you can take me pretty much anywhere without the risk of a Neanderthal fist grip shovelling of food or overzealous plate scraping.

It's also different than the usual elbow macaroni salad drowned in mayo and punctuated with a little bit of celery and onion.

a good indication of the harshness of the tackle is the commentary on MOTD where whoever it was just saw a clumsy tackle and nothing more... the elbowing in the face of mustafi (twice) was actually way more violent and went unpunished... though i hate the blaming the ref mentality of wenger the guy yesterady was worse than poor

More than 10 images of abrasions to her neck, back, arm and elbow were used as evidence in the courtroom on Tuesday.

Their car is full in the way that only a car of very young people can be: somehow more elbows, more half - full Gatorade bottles, more skinned knees and dibs for the next song than one sedan could possibly hold.

Walton's connections help the program too, fie got more than 120 golfers to pay $ 225 apiece in May to rub elbows with his old NFL buddies Joe Namath, Franco Harris and Joe Theisman.

At the 18:15 mark of the second half, Ellis — who averages more points than anybody on the team besides Andrew Wiggins and leads the Jayhawks in rebounding — got inadvertently hammered in the head by the elbow of Nate Lubick:

The Man City full - back decided, quite intentionally, for no apparent reason other than basically being a bit of a psycho, to lead with the elbow in a challenge that left poor Mendes hurtling towards the advertisting hoardings.

To neutralize him Joseph Chesire of Kenya led at a speed slower than what the women had run, and his Kenyan teammate, David Kibet, stationed himself off Morceli's right elbow, boxing him in.

We're used to the idea of the Dodgers as a financial behemoth, rushing in to give Yasiel Puig $ 40 million more than anyone expects him to get, or elbowing the rest of baseball out of the way to sign Zack Greinke away from their cross-region rivals.

Indiana smashed all opposition with more - than - expected fierceness and would have done even better had Tom Stock been awarded a judgment over Ensign Charles Bittick (who, at 23, is in his swimming dotage) in a very close 200 - yard backstroke event and if Indiana's medley swimmer Ted Stickles had not been suffering from what swimmers call tennis elbow, which curtailed his training.

But, as I've stated in the WSC piece, Foxes have been far more responsible than the likes of Forest and QPR in particular so full power to their elbow.

In this case, you will use your hand rather than the crook of your elbow to support baby's head.

This position is good for premature babies and newborns as it allows mom to have more control of baby's head since it is resting in her hand, rather than in the crook of her elbow.

I pull much rather use this in the shower than kill my knees and elbows bathing my little one in the tub.

Surgeries related to overuse elbow injuries — Tommy John Surgery — are more common among youth athletes than previously believed, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., recently.

Little League did not institute a ban on curve balls, and, in light of new research suggesting that the pitch does not, contrary to conventional wisdom, put more strain on a young pitcher's elbow than other pitches (indeed, the research suggests curveballs place less stress on the elbow than a fastball), was perhaps correct in not doing so.

The IDC claims to have a progressive, pro-women agenda, but that is nothing more than a facade built to keep them in good standing with their voters while rubbing elbows with conservative colleagues.

Your butt microbes have more in common with mine than they do with your elbow microbes.

«Our findings suggest that throwing a high percentage of fastballs rather than off - speed pitches puts more stress on the elbow,» says Robert Keller, M.D., chief resident in Henry Ford's Department of Orthopedic Surgery and the study's lead author.

It's far easier to find ways to remove «crud» by scrubbing kitchen tiles with abrasives than it is to remodel a kitchen, but it's still costly in terms of time and elbow grease spent.

However, keep in mind if your grip is too close, or less than 6 inches apart, you'll end up placing too much stress on your wrists and elbow joints instead of the triceps.

A study in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery found that six weeks of eccentric exercise improved strength and reduced pain and disability in people with chronic elbow tendonitis better than traditional treatments such as icing, stretching and massage, while another study found that eccentric strength training significantly reduced the symptoms of Achilles tendonitis and tendonopathy of the Elbow Surgery found that six weeks of eccentric exercise improved strength and reduced pain and disability in people with chronic elbow tendonitis better than traditional treatments such as icing, stretching and massage, while another study found that eccentric strength training significantly reduced the symptoms of Achilles tendonitis and tendonopathy of the elbow tendonitis better than traditional treatments such as icing, stretching and massage, while another study found that eccentric strength training significantly reduced the symptoms of Achilles tendonitis and tendonopathy of the knee.

When you get under the bar the elbows should be kept at less than an inch in front of the bar.

Next, get yourself in the starting position by grabbing the bar or handles with a close and reverse grip, bend your elbows slightly, which will put a greater stress on your lats rather than the biceps and start pulling down.

Rheumatoid arthritis patients tend to need more rehab than those with osteoarthritis, because they usually also have to work on problems in their shoulders and elbows, Dr. Weiss says.

According to many bodybuilding experts, curling with an EZ - bar is better than a straight bar because it naturally puts your wrists and elbows in a more comfortable position than the latter.

By twisting the hand from the start, the arm and elbow will naturally want to pull in closer to the body than if you weren't applying any force through the hand.

* A consideration when choosing your weights: Bicep curls with the elbows braced by our sides are generally easier than those done with the elbows lifted in front of your body.

A simpler possibility is that knee strength is more important to mobility (e.g. getting in and out of chairs) than ankles or elbows.

Align the elbows no wider than shoulder - width apart and roll the flesh of the forearms out or in so as to lock the forearms down.

Make sure to drive the elbows more in front of the body rather than the sides.

In other words, your elbows should be higher than your back in final positioIn other words, your elbows should be higher than your back in final positioin final position.

Notice: hands are a little more than shoulder width apart, body is straight from head to toe for the entire movement, elbows are tucked in and core and glutes are tight.

On triceps pushdowns, avoid using momentum or shifting your body position forward in such a way that you're pressing the bar down (i.e. using chest and shoulders with elbows out) rather than pushing the bar down (i.e. using just your triceps, keeping elbows in).

To me wide grip pull ups always cause more harm than gain — I cant count how many times this one excersise caused lateral epicondylitis in one of my elbows (aka tennis elbow) Now I tend to avoid wide grips — I perform neutral grip pull ups (wide and medium width) and it seems it works best for me.

Your elbows are actively retracted rather than letting the steel mace fall down, you are keeping it in a horizontal configuration aiming it towards your lap, behind your knees pulling your elbows back as far as you can.

Simply build up your strength in the exercise by having less of a bend in your arms preferably with them bent less than 90 degrees at the elbow and increase the distance as you build up your strength and control over a period of time.

That said, as I mentioned in the video, the elbow plank is slightly more challenging than the TOPP plank.

Looking closely at the videos, it seems like the model in the «American» video is performing the movement incorrectly (on the downswings at least), flexing the elbows and allowing the KB to «drop» rather than swing.

Keeping just a slight bend in your elbows and knees, jump your legs apart so they're a little wider than hip width (b).

Be sure to draw your elbows in so they are no wider than your shoulders — this is the hardest part, and the part that most people fail to do.

Start a diet and less than a month later find yourself elbow deep in a bucket of Haagen - Dazs, alone at your own pity party?

Sure, the Vieux Carre has some pretty cool stuff, but it's teeming with tourists, and most of us would rather enjoy our beignets and café au lait in peace down on Canal Street than elbow our way into Café du Monde.

No doubt all of this, and a little dig at DisneyWorld, were inspired by feelings DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg has nourished since his painful departure from Disney — but the elbow in the ribs is more playful than serious.

With more limited screen time than they're used to and even more limited elbow room, the actors and characters (in what at least some knew would be their swan songs in these costumes) snap off one - liners and sharp remarks with an extra edge of sarcastic disdain.

In establishing this matrix of border crossings, Touch of Evil «s celebrated opening shot — mercilessly parodied in Robert Altman's The Player and sometimes vilified as mere Wellesian exhibitionism — is in fact an entirely appropriate bit of audacity, and one that earns its place, more so than such progeny as the opening shot of John Carpenter's Halloween, the tracking shot from the sidewalk to the stageside nightclub table in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the elbow - to - the - ribs opening of The PlayeIn establishing this matrix of border crossings, Touch of Evil «s celebrated opening shot — mercilessly parodied in Robert Altman's The Player and sometimes vilified as mere Wellesian exhibitionism — is in fact an entirely appropriate bit of audacity, and one that earns its place, more so than such progeny as the opening shot of John Carpenter's Halloween, the tracking shot from the sidewalk to the stageside nightclub table in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the elbow - to - the - ribs opening of The Playein Robert Altman's The Player and sometimes vilified as mere Wellesian exhibitionism — is in fact an entirely appropriate bit of audacity, and one that earns its place, more so than such progeny as the opening shot of John Carpenter's Halloween, the tracking shot from the sidewalk to the stageside nightclub table in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the elbow - to - the - ribs opening of The Playein fact an entirely appropriate bit of audacity, and one that earns its place, more so than such progeny as the opening shot of John Carpenter's Halloween, the tracking shot from the sidewalk to the stageside nightclub table in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the elbow - to - the - ribs opening of The Playein Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the elbow - to - the - ribs opening of The Player.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.