Sentences with phrase «tottering at»

For quite sometime, my credit score had been tottering at around 785, vacillating between a high of 803 to a low of 777.

Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

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If labor and indeed government must demand some recompense for the four decade's long downward tilting teeter - totter of wealth creation, and if GDP growth itself is slowing significantly due to deleveraging in a New Normal economy, then how can stocks appreciate at 6.6 % real?

Index Portfolio 50 is shown at the fulcrum of the teeter - totter, and the period - specific expected return can be estimated based on 50 or 86 years of simulated historical returns, the Fama / French Five - Factor Model, or any reasonable method an investor chooses.

It's also a talent notably absent from the current Canadian political scene — except in the person of one Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, who sits at precisely the opposite end of the ideological teeter - totter from O'Leary.

One former worker at the Genesis plant is 32 - year - old Marie - Bénie Clerjo, a mother of three sons who lives in Solino, a slum of tottering shacks and crumbling apartment blocks.

Truths slowly totter out with Scripture texts at their elbow, as unable to walk alone.

A huge tottering edifice has been erected on top of a fiction for which there is no objective evidence at all.

Unconsciousness of despair is like unconsciousness of dread (cf.. The Concept of Dread by Vigilius Haufniensis): the dread characteristic of spiritlessness is recognizable precisely by the spiritless sense of security; but nevertheless dread is at the bottom of it, and when the enchantment of illusion is broken, when existence begins to totter, then too does despair manifest itself as that which was at the bottom.

At other times his motivational teeter - totter tilts away from being receptive to help.

The book is somewhat shy about defining terms — all the more to be regretted because Miller at times seems to be tottering on the brink of gifting us with creative focus and form in an area that is confusing for the exercise of critical judgment.

Mostly they came, I think, because, he loved them and could tell them so, yes, even those vast, milling throngs; there was a touch, a sense, a spirit moving in, across, among those mobs of eager people, told them here at last they had a man who was concerned not for himself, who was not out to get himself elected, but who cared for every single one of them, and tottering old dames, lepers, whores, soldiers, robbers; I've seen them all transformed by seeing him.

Your beginning to sound like a Tottering Blotspur supporter who's just got a draw at the Emirates and suddenly think their going to win the league.

«I ran down the runway, went up and balanced at the top, teeter - tottered in the wind and then started going backward.

The Gunners endured a tough time of it last weekend at the Stadium of Light against Sunderland, another tottering Premier League side, but managed to come away with a clean sheet and all three points.

The boy stopped directly above Clyde's catcher, began to totter, regained his balance with a furious flapping of his arms, and then just stood there, watching, his arms outspread, while below Clyde warmed up in preparation for a night game at Wahconah Park, home of the Pittsfield, Mass..

Best of all, instead of functioning exactly like a traditional teeter totter, this toy can hold up to three toddlers at once for safe group play!

This product can come in at the top of some budgets, so is it worth it to spend the kind of money it takes to bring home this teeter totter?

This teeter totter can seat up to seven children at a time, making it perfect for your child to have a kiddie blast at home and improve social skills!

Then, by offering to attempt to secure Taylor's release from the Zintanis in exchange for an apology from the ICC, the NTC is still grasping at her as a means to prop up its tottering legitimacy.

I was at a transition point when the internship came up: My technician position was in the teeter - totter space of termination if the granting agency didn't renew the laboratory funding.

NEWBORN piglets may totter slowly at first, but within 8 hours they are trotting with confidence.

When the researchers looked under the microscope at catalyst material formed with alpha - aluminum oxide, platinum atoms formed balls that tottered around on the surface instead of tidy rafts.

In fact, we have seen studies where the ratio of calcium to phosphorus also teeter - totters in favor of phosphorus without increased bone risks, except at levels where phosphorus intake exceeds calcium intake by a ratio greater than 2:1 simultaneous with calcium intake below the recommended daily amount.

The teeter - totter balance between Tracy and Brooke moves Mistress America beyond clever updates of Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Crash followed a group of individuals, including Matt Dillon's glorious forehead, as they tottered across the faultlines of their various prejudices, each eventually arriving at something on the spectrum between an epiphany and just deserts.

It's a shame, because there's a moment where Jay is skating off a pier at sunset that has the apocalyptic feel of tottering on the brink of adulthood without a clue.

He totters around the streets of Victorian London, waving his umbrella and harrumphing at the people he meets.

Perhaps the most misguided moment in the movie comes near the end, when Kelly, tottering to glory, knocks»em dead at a concert in Dallas.

As we do, the hood teeter - totters down, the red - rock trail again comes into view, and the Cherokee begins walking itself down the steep slope, at a controlled 0.6 mph.

He enjoyed his time at Hallie Hill and spent his geriatric years tottering around the barn or sunning himself in the yard.

Yet, when I look back at my growing up years, I remember the two dogs (one succeeding the other) that tottered behind me and unknowingly taught me a whole lot of things that would later change the way I look at our world.

Dogs will learn agility course one obstacle at a time, each week adding new challenges including Jump, Hurdle, Weave, Dog Walk, Tunnel, A-Frame and teeter - totter.

However, I find that our body needs to function at both ends of the teeter - totter.

The chips fringed the edge of a dinner plate (as opposed to being piled in a tottering heap atop a large platter as per usual) with three over-sized bowls occupying the vast amount of space in the middle; a sore attempt at inflating the appearance of the portion.

In The Adventure Pals, the boy doesn't just look mildly concerned at the prospect of falling; he looks terrified, his unhappy face and wild teeter - tottering greatly exaggerated to show off just how much in danger he is of falling to his doom.

At first sight, his tottering towers of spun discs, or unbalanced stacks of plates, seem totally abstract; but in this exhibition, his drawings reveal their figurative origins and send you back to look again and notice the distorted faces, like people trapped in the warped material, that spookily populate his restless universe.

At its most basic level, the imagery of balance doesn't work — the teeter - totter with our work on one side and something else on the other as we strive to keep them in perfectly equal weight.

He began to experiment with imbalance, fashioning ever larger works which increasingly appeared to totter, lean, seemingly collapsing but frozen in time at the moment of their disintegration.

Enacting further mandatory limits on emissions would be especially unwise at this time, as the U.S. economy totters on recession and consumer confidence sags from rising food and energy prices.

A rider would ride their bike to ascend the structure to its pivot point, at which point the teeter - totter would dip down and the rider would descend down to the ground.

The only one not laughing was our host's wife, who'd stayed at home with the baby and had to listen to us cackle endlessly about nothing when we finally tottered through the door.

I tottered out of the canteen after five hours at the coal - face feeling about as punch - drunk as I did after five hours volunteering at the school disco on Saturday night.

But I'm hoping tottering around in 31C heat at Papeete yesterday afternoon might have done some sauna - like good.

When we finally arrived at our hotel we tottered next door for some suburban Chinese by the sea.

As we waited at the glamour Canberra Airport terminal (no joke, it's very fancy) for our flight we had a bit of an oooh - errrr moment as a very ancient John Howard tottered off the plane, followed by Bob Hawke in a wheelchair.

We oohed and aaahhhed, then tottered off to bed at 10.30 pm, just as the Spanish were getting their night started.

I tottered home a blithering mess, raved at Husband for a while and passed out in bed.

After polishing off the strawberry - infused vodka we tottered down the hill to the party at our local bowlo... and ordered more champagne.