Sentences with phrase «up against objects»

Since they are induced ovulators, without a male cat to help the process along, female cats will stay in heat for prolonged periods without intervention and also display the slightly awkward indoor behavior of rubbing up against objects and meowing something fierce.

Having the roof down will solve the regular Evoque's average rear visibility, when backing up against an object.

Not exact matches

I wish we could stand up against corrupt political leaders instead of making the gay the object of our debates.

Chacour might object he does not really intend to set up the disciples as non-Jews, but even setting them up against the Jews is incorrrect.

In one of Isaiah's oracles, his prophetic ire against pride in every form sweeps up for condemnation an astonishing category of objects:

Why don't the women in that church object and rise up against such outmoded beliefs?

An individual in its mode of being is thus unintelligible; it is experienced, bumped up against, reacted with, but never cognized as an identical object.

It was a statement against the prison of growing up poor, and the idea that the goal of life is to live to work and sometimes treat yourself to an empty object that society had advertised as a signifier of success.

Your baby was born with a tongue - thrust reflex that helps protect against choking — when an object ends up in her mouth, her tongue automatically pushes it out of her mouth.

But we also knew that anybody who stood up and objected would have had the black spot against their name for ever.»

The tool reconstructs the response of more than 12,500 nerve fibers with millisecond precision, taking into account the mechanics of the skin as it presses up against and moves across objects.

His point was, that by simply picking up hard - to - grip objects, trying to hold on to things for long periods of time, or maintaining grip against a rotational or torque force, you can improve your grip strength.

Isometric means (putting one muscle or part of the body against another or against an immovable object in a strong but motionless action, like holding a push - up position, or holding a lunge position)

Of the many ways you can warm - up your calves, runners tend to like to push against a wall or other vertical object to get a good stretch and give them a feeling of security, as false as it may be.

I would have this individual stand up, straighten out their arm, internally rotate their shoulder and bring it across the body (horizontally adduct with internal rotation) and press it against an immovable object for about 5 to 10 seconds at about 50 % effort.

The push up involves lowering then lifting the body by pressing against the floor, or an object, with the hands.

Four years ago, Nike Inc. made an investment in a startup based in Sunnyvale, California called Grabit that uses electroadhesion — the type of static electricity that makes your hair stand up when you rub it against a balloon — to help machines manipulate objects in novel ways.

As the physician informs him he'll need more testing, Douglas» face freezes — it comes to a screeching halt, as if it's crashed up against an immovable object — and we're sold.

The implication of risk - benefit assessment is that we should, on contemplating whether some activity or some object ought to be permitted, weigh up its benefits (these might include health) against its risks of harm.

I don't read ebooks out of personal choice (nothing against them, I'm just in love with books as objects) but when I read a blog and the author has a book coming up, I more likely to check it our if the cover is pleasing, daring, etc

The cheerful, bright images are beautifully designed and contrast well against stark white backgrounds, making it easy for young children to point as they add up objects, animals, and kids.

Set your dog up for success, whether in the home or for air transport, by taking preventative measures against object and food - based aggression.

Your pet may scratch, chew and lick their skin, rub up against surfaces and objects, and even lie on cold surfaces to soothe the irritation.

They mount and thrust against other animals, people and objects, such as wadded - up blankets, dog beds and toys.

While children can be warned against putting harmful objects in their mouth, dogs are obliged to pick up everything with their mouth.

If you use this option, please be sure to secure his crate up against the dog door by placing a very heavy object behind it or by using snaps to attach it to eye hooks in the wall.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

Depending on your character, certain objects can be picked up and thrown, structures can be used as a means to boost yourself out of the corner, or you can smack your opponent against the background for combo opportunities.

When up against the wall with the memory budget and a huge world filled with characters and moving intractable objects, we came up with new tricks to squeeze the most out of the resources we had available.

Another example, and one of the more frustrating one is later on in the game you are set with defending a base, don't worry I don't put spoilers in my reviews, from hordes of enemies trying to destroy certain objects that you need to defend, and it is one of the worst missions in the game simply because the game mechanics kept fighting against me with everything it got, but after quite some time, and numerous retries I finally managed to complete the first 4 or 5 parts of the mission, and the game had me then racing up a mountain chasing a plane which I then had to try and get onto, which again, is fine, but when the game freezes up on me and blue screens and puts me back to the dashboard, only to have me reboot the game and starting that mission all over again, that was almost the last straw for me.

Even when you are racing against the clock, you rarely have to worry about it since you gain bonus time for collecting the fallen objects and power ups that add to the time.

Pick - up and throw objects including trashcans, bats, knives, and whips to use as weapons against unsuspecting enemies.

Many enemies and objects can be altered in ways that go against their normal functions in the Mario series: Bill Blasters can now launch coins and power - ups, while question blocks can be turned into deadly traps containing Hammer Bros..

The collage and cut outs of John O'Reilly and Brainard bump up against each other in their juxtapositions of classic Greek sculpture and the eroticized male form, as ideal, object of contemplation and as pop advertisement.

In these paintings, which border on the bittersweet, fragile, and naïve, Schloss lines up vases, teapots, flowers, and other objects and paints them against the Mediterranean Sea.

Before that the stripe monotypes (1994) pushed back and forth, up and down, against the idea of object vs space in a quiet struggle, quasi dialogue that questioned what is real in the spirit of Hans Hofmann, while all the time affirming a horizon over and over again.

Sheets of paper pressed insistently by her pencil up against windows, walls and doors become heavily material objects, while things in the world — windbreaks, found photographs, a fireplace — are redrawn as artworks through subtle alteration.

She sought the «quiet and balance in still lifes of homespun objects lined up against the pageant of the sea.»

It was a new academy almost, it took the position of academic art, and I gather you feel that in part the Pop artists, whoever they may be, were responding or reacting against that, beyond any involvement with life and commonplace objects, these being tools or whatever they may be, that in fact they were responding within a fine arts context to what was then being held up as the way, the correct way to do something.

He takes seemingly mundane objects and beings — a car, a camera, a bird, a poet — and holds them up against the light to reveal qualities that make them reflective of where we are now.

Group Exhibitions 2016 Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, curated by Jesse van Oosten, Tent, Amsterdam Il Flauto Magico, 16 collezionisti per un» istituzione, Museo di Castelvecchio curated by di Andrea Bruciati in collaboration with Ketty Bertolaso, Margherita Bolla and Alba Di Lieto Group presentation at ART - O-RAMA, Marseille Pushing Boundaries Expanding Frontiers, RAM Foundation, Rotterdam Left Hand to Back of Head, Object Held Against Right Thigh, The Bluecoat, Liverpool 2015 Ceramics & Graphite, Chert, Berlin wow!

We are at the wall, now, and already pushing up against this unmovable object.

If the reduction of overcapacity with 25 % suffices for the qualification as a restriction by object, how does this measure up against a reduction of potential competition in the French market for bank cards?

While Dolby Atmos limits objects to 128 per scene in theaters, DTS: X imposes no such limits (though whether film mixers are finding themselves bumping up against Atmos» limitations is questionable).

Simply dot a few on your windowsill, line them up against a wall or use them to highlight your African - style objects.