Sentences with phrase «tried holding it down»

I just tried holding down the physical next / previous buttons on the Nook Simple Touch, and it enables fast movement through the pages in either direction.

Also, try holding down the power button until the device turns off.

You may have tried holding down the power button already — but you won't see any results until you hold it down for the entire 30 seconds.

If an Apple TV app freezes, try holding down Menu until you go back to the home screen.

I tried holding down the power button and the volume down button for ten seconds, still nothing.

Not exact matches

Suppressing our emotions is like trying to hold down the lid on a boiling pot of water.

All along, I've tried to sing it so it's easy to sing along to, no speeding up or slowing down — so I held the mic out.

Meanwhile, to keep prices down, Glickman was constantly hitting up every international - phone - service provider he could get a hold of to try to lower what he paid for termination, which accounted for 70 % of Justice's costs.

Iceland and Greenland have approached the company to try to persuade it to build mining operations in their countries which offer «similar power rates, along with tax breaks and incentives... [p] lus, the usually low temperatures there hold down the costs of cooling high - powered computers.»

Theranos, a privately held company founded by Ms. Holmes, 31, after she dropped out of Stanford at age 19, has been trying to swat down suspicions that the capability it has promoted — being able to do a wide range of medical tests cheaply and quickly using only a finger prick of blood — is more hype than reality.

Try to get in at a good entry price then hold for long term while trying to average down like you said.

I still hold some but I really hope they turn around the corner and try to get back on track for increasing revenues and hence the EPS down the line.

And no I didn't report it... you see, I hate talking on the phone and the only down side to Personal Capital has been that for about 2 weeks after I signed up I've had a financial advisor try to contact me to discuss my holdings, etc..

The people within it held fast to their beliefs, even as the LDS Church tried to shut them and their practices down.

It's all happening — what next — prayer times set aside for Muslim students during school, wash basins like at University of Minnesota so they don't try to wash their feet before praying in the school basins for washing hands, demands for special cafeteria food, demands that girls cover their heads, then faces, then disappear from school altogether, wake up New York and hold on to our great city before they knock down the rest of the buildings!

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

but try this: hold ctrl & 0 down at the sane time to reset sizes to normal

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

I would much rather spend my days on a sinking ship with those who love me, knowing that no matter what the future holds, I tried my hardest to lift people up and not slam them down.

Every time they put prayer in schools, presenting it to people's kids as the norm, every time they manipulate health policies, every time «payer breakfast» is held which is really a government meeting... time after time people still try to shove their religion down others throats.

Reporters and journalists who hold one political party to a different standard and try to tear republicans down are terrible people.

Try and experiment... find a male friend of yours and walk down the street holding his hand (don't worry, all of us on here know you're not gay)... but, walk down the street... watch the others around you, look at how they stare at you like you're doing something wrong, listen to see if any of them make comments about you and your friend walking down the street, see if they're nice comments or not.

Though if you really want a good workout you could always get out a whisk and try it yourself... I beat the egg whites until they just passed the «hold the bowl upside down over your head» test.

I would really like to try this, the only thing holding me back is how to clean the shower plug hole / waste - pipe, as I don't think hot water would flush it all away — it's bound to cool down and solidify at some point, leaving the worry of blockage.

If not, try gently teasing the donut sides while holding the tray upside down.

The recipe works best because everything is ground down, which helps it all hold together — however, goji berries may still work a treat... I've not tried them with this particular version of power balls.

If you don't want to use full - fat coconut milk and you want to get nice, crisp layers, you can try pouring holding a spoon over the fruit layer and pouring the chia mixture over the spoon, which will slow it down and give it a chance to spread out a bit instead of sinking down.

It seems that Bob Sutton's plan against PIT is to let them run up and down the field and try to hold them to FGs to keep the passing game from getting any rhythm.

Johnson said Raymond «obviously thought it was funny because, at first, he stood up on the chairs and held it up for literally 3 seconds, either realizing what he was doing or when he saw the reaction from some of the fans, and got down and tried to hand it back.

The guys who have been trying to hold down the fort are slowing down, and Washington is slipping far enough for this season to fall apart.

Molterer and Schranz, openly using and endorsing the product of one of the two great Austrian ski - making firms, were trying to hold down some other members of the team, who just as openly were using and endorsing skis made by the other firm.

And yes got to try and look for a positive it's holding and ox down the flank ad far as I'm concerned.

But whenever it comes, he must try to hold on to it as nailing down a starting position between Debuchy, Bellerin and himself will be most competitive.

Let's face it goalkeepers tend to march to the beat of a different drum and Szczesny certainly fell into that category, but most of his antics were relatively harmless and simply reflected a certain level of immaturity that isn't uncommon for someone thrust into the limelight at such a young age... lord knows we've seen that happen with numerous players throughout the years and very few were ever banished for such behaviour... the only on - field action that drove me crazy was his inability to take a deep breath and not try to rush the play with an ill - timed throw at certain points in the game when common sense suggested holding the ball and slowing things down... the fact that he continued to do this probably had a lot to do with the glaring lack of coaching time spent with the goalkeepers... ultimately he made the fateful decision to take his frustrations out into the public sphere and paid dearly for it... in the end, his services were wanted by several of the best Italian squads, which is significant considering the historical importance placed on the defensive side of the ball in Serie A... all I know is that if someone asked me to pick the most athletically gifted goalkeeper we have had in our squad since the arrival of Wenger, without hesitation, he would be my pick and for that reason his departure is more than a little disappointing... what else is new though

He didn't ever try to be clever like Bellierin, Holding or Chambers and bring the ball down, make a ridiculous play or pass from the back and get caught.

But most of the rest of their team stayed fresh enough to press on, and easily held off Real's last desperate tries to break the deadlock while getting forward themselves — though they failed to break down rivals in the end.

He was trying to hold onto his podium spot and just managed to do so, before saying on the cool down lap: «I'm too old for that, guys.

It is fine to disagree with him but instead explain why you hold a different view rather than trying to shut down people with your abusive comments.

Yes, there's good arguments as to why this cold streak shouldn't hold him down as well, but trying to use that comparison as an example, even an «extreme example» as you put it, is ridiculous at best.

We really need Santi back NOW... Le Coq is trying his best to hold it down, while Ramsey is still trying to play «Ozil»...

With one foot in the air and his putter held like a window - washer trying to scrape water off a pane of glass, Goosie tried to rake the ball down to the hole.

These days you have to put the money down cause if you don't someone else will, Wenger can't go around sitting on his hands holding out to try to save # 2 or # 3million pounds.

Browns left tackle Spencer Drango accurately assumed that Ngakoue was trying to set him up for a cross-chop-to-a-rip move, so Drango tried to get cute and punch only his inside (right) hand while holding his outside (left) arm back so Ngakoue couldn't chop it down.

To be fair to White Hart Lane chairman Daniel Levy he isn't one to merely lie down and accept defeat, he deserves a great deal of respect for the way in which he doggedly retained the services of Luka Modric as well as garnering a world record fee before considering allowing Gareth Bale to join the Croat at Real Madrid, however the fact remains the north London side face a next to impossible task trying to keep hold of young forward Harry Kane.

It must be immensely stressful, trying to hold down a job that a voice - to - text application could manage with twice the accuracy and 100 percent less random malice, and when one couples that stress with looming layoffs - a threat that their own inherent worthlessness has precipitated - the rank and file of the media must be under some serious strain.

Telling me players are not to blame is absolutely rubbish, they are to blame, yes Monaco mission was to relax and repell Arsenal and if possible shut them down completely, this gam was ours to take, First the pressure was on Monaco, they didn't know how to go about it, whether to defend their 3 - 1 advantage or press us, we had more than enough clear cut chances but as usual we were clueless in front of goal, we tried to open them apart which is impossible, Carzolla and Alexis played as if we lead 15 - 0, holding balls, try to dribble every time they have the ball and and reduce the pace and any chance of other to get through, losing balls carelessly, poor crosses is now our style, it doesn't threatened even Charlton athletic coz everyone now knows our crosses is poorly delivered and our attackers also don't have a clue how to do it even if one get through it will be wasted, this game should have been won by range attempts which was only tried once by ÖZIL and was blocked.

The title race will definitely go down to the last game this season, it may even be won on goal difference, So we really do need to start hammering teams from now on, instead of trying to hold on to one goal leads.

When you try those triangles without someone to hold off a defender with his back to goal your success rate goes way down.

Liverpool had been holding out for # 30m but after turning down # 22m plus # 3m in add - ons on Wednesday - Palace's third offer - the Reds decided to cut their losses on a player whom they have been trying to offload for a year.