Sentences with phrase «wriggle about»

But rather than people, she is describing the movements of tiny transparent worms as they wriggle about in laboratory dishes at the Rockefeller University in New York, where she holds the position of Torsten N. Wiesel Professor.

Like I've mentioned before, little ones can wriggle about, especially when they are being changed, and if you're not paying attention, there's a real possibility that she could flip off of the changing table.

The reason for this is quite simple: your little one could wriggle about and push a blanket over her face; however, she probably won't be able to push it off.

Not exact matches

They have about 125 bps of wriggle room at present before they invert the yield curve.

Ask Barclays about ABN Amro, or Energy Transfer, which recently preserved $ 6 billion of much - needed cash by wriggling out of its far larger purchase of rival pipeline operator Williams.

Your baby may appear to be «fighting» between waking and sleeping: wriggling, moaning and thrashing about.

And then I talk about those other days... the ones where you set aside your worries and fears, you curl up with your squishy, wriggling babies while holding hands with the one you love, and you breathe in the moment.

It also comes down to how you feel about sharing your bed with a wriggle - meister, and some parents are put off by a whole range of downsides:

How to ensure that the government does not wriggle out of telling the full story about what Brexit...

They are direct refutations of reality — and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum.»

The request sparked a sudden rapture as supporters from both the PNC and the NDC leapt from everywhere into the centre of the rally ground in an unusual spectacle that got Mr. Mornah, the party's General Secretary, Atik Mohammed, as well as constituency and regional executives wriggling to the song for about 60 seconds.

To learn about the everyday lives of these difficult creatures, Fischbach and his colleagues have been attaching satellite tags to walruses — a difficult operation in itself, requiring the biologists to land a helicopter downwind of the herd, then slowly wriggle forward on their bellies until they can fire a tag into an animal's thick skin.

DiChristina: Even Charles Darwin wondered about this puzzle, and he had an idea about it; he thought that it may be the worms were trying to escape a predator, moles who are seeking protein in the form of wriggling worms.

Chapman: Yeah, he was really wriggling on the hook, and I don't know, I mean think, I've run into, I mean, I have traveled around America a lot and I love actually going into the middle bit where regular people live and, you know, I have met people like that before here and there; and you have to conclude that really what it's about is that without faith, these people couldn't survive and therefore given our choice between faith and evidence, it doesn't matter what the evidence is; you have to chose the faith in order to survive.

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Wriggle and Write I can copy shapes and talk about symmetry.

Ken wriggles down into the now cushion-less seat and looks about as happy as I would if I was about to be hurled around by some bloke I hardly know.

It literally starts wriggling around, talking excitedly about all the bumps in the road and sometimes making a bigger gesture as a camber attracts its attention.

He eventually strikes a deal with his publisher: he will write a nasty and brutal tell - all about his mother the «terrorist» and wriggle out of his publishing commitment.

And the iPad mini isn't about competing with the wriggling tadpoles already in the «small tablet» pond, it's about a big fish extending its dominion.

However, the rules around disclosure are changing and from August 2016 insurers will be unable to unfairly reject customers» claims if they've given the wrong information about a part of their policy that is irrelevant to their claim (see the news story: New insurance laws will stop insurers wriggling out of claims).

A good way to think about it is how a kid will wriggle out of his mother's grasp as she tries to kiss and hug him — not because he doesn't love his mama, but because he'd had enough mushy stuff for the time being.

Her works impede their viewers» movements: in order to move about the exhibition space, they often need to wriggle their way through or stoop to get past her works.

Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld coined the term «known unknowns» when attempting to wriggle out of a tricky question about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.

You will not wriggle out of this by closing your eyes, ignoring the result of the calculations or lying about what I have said.

For the scientists gathering in the Danish capital, this meeting is about removing as much wriggle room as possible from the political negotiations on a new global climate treaty taking place in December.

I will just briefly mention here, as I did on realclimate.org, that I have tried to contac Mark Bahner about his bet, but have not received a reply and he seems to be doing the same wriggle and squirm that all the septics do when asked to put their money where there mouths are.

You'd rather wriggle and thrash about, contorting the truth in order to avoid backing down.

Luckily, because more people are becoming aware of the risks of DVT and so your wriggling and jumping about should irritate them less.

You've hooked a fish, but it could always wriggle away if you aren't careful about how you present the offer.

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