Sentences with phrase «when swatting»

The disappearing message app's $ 16 billion valuation may seem downright puny compared with its other top unicorn peers, but startup founders everywhere admire founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy's chutzpah when they swatted away Facebook's low - ball $ 3 billion offer in 2013.

It all caught up with him in August 2009, when a SWAT team burst into Masih Medical and handcuffed him to a chair while they searched his files.

Five years ago, when the Swat region came under Taliban occupation, Malala wrote a blog in the BBC Urdu website under pseudo name Gul Makai, sharing with the world her innocent tales of fear and helplessness, courage and passion.

When the SWAT team finally arrived on the scene, taking cover behind patrol car doors and the sycamore trees, clutching their assault rifles to their chests, none of them could stop giggling long enough to take the kill shot.

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Also, when you praise one employee at another's expense, you're lifting someone up with one hand, but swatting someone else down with another, resulting in a net draw when it comes to team motivation.

First Lady Melania Trump made waves when she appeared to swat her husband's hand away while walking down a tarmac in Tel Aviv with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, in May.

Yousafzai has been advocating for Pakistani women and children since the age of 11, when she documented in a BBC blog life in the Swat Valley under Taliban rule during a time when girls in the region were prohibited from going to school.

«A lot of this swatting stuff happened when it became feasible for people to get paid playing video games,» Brian Krebs, a longtime cybersecurity journalist, recently told Rolling Stone.

But when an aggressor swats a victim — or knocks her out — he usually means to exert power and control in the relationship.

In taking profiles on perceptual objects, the percipient may be cognizant of his own body by relationship to an attended object and vaguely by adjective, e.g., when focusing my attention on a fly while trying to swat it.

When the craze for poker kicked into high gear, a number of police departments responded by deploying SWAT teams to raid games in garages, basements and VFW halls where illegal gambling was suspected.

And Geller's contest terminated abruptly on May 3, 2015, when two Muslim gunmen opened fire on the building in Dallas where it was being held (the men were shot and killed by a SWAT team).

Something happens when you mix otherwise one - dimensional ground meats up with fresh breadcrumbs, herbs, seasonings and make a great sauce to go with it and that is that I will swat your

When he locked up Steph from the top of the key to the rim, and swatted his weak stuff literally into his face, and then acted like it was just another day at the office, was another «this kid is gonna be legit» moments.

He was drafted as a 17 - year - old, and he didn't stop hitting until he was 40, reaching the majors when he was 21, and methodically swatting his way to 500 homers.

«When I see Manchester United without Paul Pogba I see a team which goes from one who can swat away teams by three or four goals to one that's workmanlike,» Neville told Sky Sports.

Then when he tried to recover, he swatted the ball away from himself and made things worse.

Even when he did not swat away shots, he altered shots and discouraged Weston Ranch from entering the paint.

Within a few days you'll come to accept them, swatting at them with half the effort and one - tenth of the consciousness you paid the pests when you first arrived.

Bridges, Villanova's lottery - bound redshirt junior wing, must not have realized what he was signing up for midway through the second half of the Wildcats» Sweet 16 win over West Virginia when he decided to rumble into the lane on a fast break, rise up and hammer home a one - handed dunk on Konate, the Mountaineers» sophomore shot - swatting ace.

That change when Griffin jumped waaaaay up there to swat a Nick Collison layup in traffic.

(2) Also, I don't think it suits G Neville when he starts to talk as if he was one of the hard men of football, he looks and sounds like he was a swat / twat in the classroom.

Sterling was soon careering forwards again, this time swatting a pass left for Silva when he alighted at the 18 - yard line.

Do all the hard work of swatting aside some of the big boys en route to the final and then simply disintegrate when it matters the most.

He DEMANDS attention and will swat at me when I'm passing him if I don't respond to his meow.

«When (yes I have swatted) I have done so, I vehemently apologized and explained that I was wrong even though their particular behavior was unacceptable.

Even in the animal kingdom the mom will swat at her babies when they do something wrong.

You never know when you're going to have to swat away an imaginary dragon, make a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or help a little guy navigate a busy parking lot.

Does he growl if you go near his food, snap at people who touch his paws, or swat at you when you pet him at an inconvenient time?

In the early months, when baby's play consists primarily of looking, wiggling, kicking and swatting at things, your home is a goldmine of baby toys.

It makes a crinkly noise when kicked or swatted at that our little one loved.

When we see a parent swat the bottom of a kid in the store or hear a dad yelling at her kid in the parking lot, we feel scared for the kid and what might come next for them.

For instance, a picture of Malala's father Ziauddin with late Richard Holbrooke was posted on Facebook, on the very day when a TNSM spokesman in Swat issued a statement holding Ziauddin responsible for «brainwashing» his innocent daughter, thereby making her a tool in American hands.

She underlined the innate hospitality of the Pakistani people, referring to the time when she and her family were internally displaced during the Swat operation, how fellow Pashtun families never let them feel «homeless.»

He holed up inside the club with dozens of people effectively held hostage until about 5 a.m., when a police SWAT team raided the building and killed him.

When more senior Democrats threatened her chances, Schumer swatted them away and pushed the White House to protect her.

Cheye Calvo, the mayor of Berwyn Heights, Maryland is lobbying for the Maryland legislature to pass a new bill that would require every SWAT team in the state to provide a monthly public report on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures or injuries.

Are there mentors out there who, as we sit for hours pursuing scientific excellence, not knowing how much we don't know, will swat us, when our attention wonders and our eyelids droop, with appropriate firmness and kindness, with the bamboo rod of mentorly advice?

Mosquito bites frequently induce a sharp sting in people and some animals, with severe evolutionary consequences for the mosquito when it gets swatted.

People can also unconsciously detect gender, do simple adding problems when «invisible» numbers are flashed onto the screen, or distinguish between depictions of inappropriate and appropriate actions (for example, discerning between an invisible image of an athlete batting a ball with a baseball bat and an image that has been doctored to show the player swatting at the ball using a flower bouquet).

They may look unfazed by our swatting, but they could in fact be rattled, a bit like us when we feel fear.

When the drone returned, this time with a camera, Tushi used hers to swat it out of the sky.

When a woman feels sexually withdrawn or guarded, she will often recoil, brace herself, or swat her partner away when they toWhen a woman feels sexually withdrawn or guarded, she will often recoil, brace herself, or swat her partner away when they towhen they touch.

For example: When the trained military, fresh from the horrors of Vietnam, first encounter Kong they circle around him and open fire despite how easily he swats them out of the sky.

For those who prefer more traditional tactics when it comes to swatting the fly that is feeling lonely, joining a book club is a classic method of engaging with new people in meaningful ways.

Mosquito bites frequently induce a sharp sting in people and some animals, with severe evolutionary consequences for the mosquito when it gets swatted.

Also, at moments when Devoe and his he - men SWAT team types are suddenly at sea - duh, which way did he go?

As we view the unrelated strands of their lives, the patrons are suddenly and dramatically brought together when a lunatic with a gun opens fire on the diner, as a SWAT team attempts to bring him down and restore order while protecting the lives of the people inside.

Saw IV (R for profanity and pervasive torture and gruesome violence) Despite the apparent demise of the infamous Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) and his apprentice (Shawnee Smith), we find the slasher franchise revived for a fourth installment of grisly fare when a couple of FBI profilers (Scott Patterson and Athena Karkanis) are assigned to the depleted police precinct only to find themselves and the surviving SWAT team members (Lyriq Bent and Costas Mandylor) suddenly facing a sinister series of deadly traps perhaps set by the serial killer's ex-wife (Betsey Russell).

Elliot doubts his ability as a doctor when he's sued for his role in the death of a SWAT officer.