Sentences with phrase «upon one's back»

This all stems from an affordable housing court order that was agreed upon back in 2009.

Though my bottom line is black, I am flat upon my back, My cash flows out and customers pay slow.

As someone has put it, «Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite - em, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.»

Add to that the presence of mechanized steampunk golems, knights riding upon the backs of giant insects, and a spell system that's based on psychic powers instead of Merlin - style magic, and you realize you're a long way from the usual Tolkien retreads... 4 / 5.»

They clamour about with much regularisms upon the backs of the religiously rational and even still, the unwaiverable commodities proclaim the yet unleavened in their bread - baskets of Blemished Faith!

Candy was not frowned upon back then.

A permanent contract had already been agreed upon back in February for Jansson to stay on at Elland Road, so it was a bit surprising to see that there was a dispute between the clubs in regards to an already agreed upon transfer fee.

The recent results in the English Premier League should force any sensible manager have back up plans upon back up plans.

The only people I remember him challenging were the religious authorities, those who presumed to speak for God and at the same time placed heavy loads upon the backs of the people.

Certainly no one less than God could carry the weight of God's church upon his back; thus Jesus referred to Peter as well as Himself in that verse.

when touring the vatican I was appalled at the opulence and luxury of the religious oligarchy built upon the backs of the faithful.

Siegfried bathes in the dragon's blood, but a lime leaf falls upon his back and leaves one unprotected spot.

Sethe's tree is carved upon her back, «the decorative work of an ironsmith too passionate for display,» and Paul D «rubbed his cheek on her back and learned that way her sorrow, the roots of it, its wide trunk and intricate branches,... and he would tolerate no peace until he had touched every ridge and leaf of it with his mouth.»

I was never so appalled as when I visited the Vatican and saw first hand the opulence and luxury amassed upon the backs of the faithful.

The Scourging at the Pillar Sinners have wrought upon my back, They have prolonged their evil - doing.

TAKE an Hog of five or fix Months old, kill it, and take out the Inwards, so that the Hog is clear of the Harslet [heart and liver]; then turn the Hog upon its Back, and from three Inches below the place where it was stuck, to kill it, cut the Belly in a strait Line down to the Bottom, near the joining of the Gammons, but not so far, but that the whole Body of the Hog may hold any Liquor we would put into it.

The Spanish international has been splashed upon the back pages almost everyday.

Saddle the bottom of your C pillow between your legs while you rest your head at the top of the C. Ensure that your back nicely nestles into the curve of the C to help relieve the pressure placed upon the back of your spine (and prevent back pains / sores from occurring).

With the Stevens pack [after A. Leo Stevens, a parachute pioneer] upon his back, Lapham was to drop a mile from a Wright biplane.

The problem, of course, is that no new thoughts are expressed by the terribly insubstantial script, so Megamind ends up being an impossibly inferior product, which has been mass - marketed and shoveled into theaters upon the backs of a bunch of A-list voices.

They were not the only films to break out; one of the others that managed to cultivate quite a bit of excitement was the first English language film from Iranian director Marjane Satrapi, whose Persepolis thrust the spotlight upon her back in 2007.

This has obviously caused widespread loathing among indie authors who depend upon the back matter in their eBooks to generate more sales.

I absolutely adored the self - guided cycling adventure along the Adriatic coast from Venice to Porec I embarked upon back in 2012 so much that I've been keen to do another one ever since.

A girl awakens in a castle void of color and time, affixed with the Curse of Thorns upon her back.

Here you're gonna find yourself running across massive beasts known as Titans, and the continents of this world literally rest upon their backs.

In Bigger and Boulder, you follow Atlas, the Titan from Greek mythology who was forced to hold the sky upon his back.

Thus, a two - headed animal bears castles upon its back; a gigantic camel straddles mountains.

Installed upon the back wall of the gallery, partially hidden by the mezzanine above, the work can be viewed from multiple vantage points.

Lying upon her back, she twists in the pose figura serpentinata (a stance termed in Italian painting and sculpture to elicit dynamism in the figure): spiraled on its central axis, her lower body pushes in one direction while her torso turns the opposite way.

And for 10 days, I was able to share this intimacy: I depended on the wood collected from these trees, the water that was siphoned from melting glaciers above me, the cabbage and potatoes grown in small family gardens, and the rice and lentils carried upon the backs of my Tamang hosts.

After all, as Jo Nova's blog well demonstrates, climate change dogma certainly doesn't ride proudly upon the back of hard science.

As Allison touched upon back in March of 2011, Google search algorithm changes have had a significant impact on many lawyer websites & blogs.

«Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them,» the old saw says.

When first they put the cross upon his back and he stumbled down the narrow, ill - smelling lanes of Jerusalem amid the gaping, mocking crowds out toward Golgotha, to have sung about the cross would have been unheard - of madness.

They clamour about with much regularisms upon the backs of the religiously rational and even still, the unwaiverable commodities proclaim the yet unleavened in their bread - baskets of Faith!

Oh She Glows was one of the very first vegan blogs I stumbled upon back then, and one that inspired and encouraged me to follow the path I am on today.

Astorino has long claimed that the county is in full compliance with the terms of the affordable housing settlement, which was agreed upon back in 2009.

We hope you will step into this magical world and behold the wonder of staring up into Trico's beautiful eyes, of calling out to it, and of the thrill of riding upon its back.

Federal Judge Denise Cote, who has been presiding over the affordable housing case in Westchester County, issued a ruling today stating that the county breached a portion of the settlement that was agreed upon back in 2009.

Upon the backs of the hordes do the rich clamour and they will not reach their goals!

Or upon your backs will fall our fate, as swift and ill as the whim of the weaving Norns.»

Iknow it's a mule»cause it snorts when He lays me upon its back, likeit's tired of me already.

The Tricolour Anemone is quite agreeable to letting one species of hermit crab put it upon its back, thus becoming a passenger on the hermit crab.