You beat against the tiles, unable to break through, like somebody trapped beneath a frozen lake.
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The February report was the biggest beat against expectations since December 2009, according to Bespoke Investment Group.
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Life jackets floated singly, and men without life jackets beat against the sides of boats, trying to clamber into them.
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The bodies of the two helplessly beat against the ship's side when they were hoisted by a loop under the arms.
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The stoppage coincides with legal action taken by local app Beat against the head of the taxi drivers union for alleged defamation.
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Within seconds, there were rhythmic pulsations all around, then a strong thump-thump-thump-thump as the air beat against my window.
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Within seconds, there were rhythmic pulsations all around, then a strong thump-thump-thump-thump as the air beat against my window.
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Airbnb has also sought to use its platform-reach to beat against local authority rule changes that threaten its 'home sharing' business model.
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The ebony bulk of a grand piano is majestic, yet it is also made into a drum-kit for Mr Frahm to beat against hypnotically.
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But that was just enough to get him beat against a pitcher who has defeated Pittsburgh (6-8) in nine of his last 11 decisions.
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Instead of setting up slowly moving tones that beat against one another in steadily observable ways, "Double Helix" contained uneasy pauses, and starker shifts of energy.
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" Others in the "China lobby" like Douglas MacArthur would keep up the drum beat against Acheson by decrying those "who advocate appeasement and defeatism in the Pacific.
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But something happened in between their catcalls and the moment Nettles fell to, and was beat against, the pavement: the men realized she and her friends were transgender.
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But if some patches of cilia beat against the prevailing motion they create vortexes, swirling eddies that the researchers found bring algae close to the surface of the larva, and eventually, to its mouth.
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In the end, thinness left me as quickly as it came; I quit my horrible job and started freelancing from home right in the thickest part of winter, and I snacked as I wrote and beat against impending deadlines with bags of treats.
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PARELES "Where Angels Fear to Tread," one of a pair of new songs by Disclosure, is jovial and contemplative, juxtaposing the wonky strut of a house-music beat against an impossibly smooth extended sample of the 1950s vocal jazz outfit the Four Freshmen.
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I will refuse to leave heaven, and I will offer up the black heroin I once hid from my mother and wouldn't return to her, even as her fists beat against me, even as she lay shaking and sweating, howling like a trapped fox, and I sat, ignoring her, watching TV. The sacrifice of my gift shall cause Jesus to weep at my feet.
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A flock will also make a "wooshing" sound as their wings beat against the wind.Hilty, S. L. (2003) Birds of Venezuela. Second edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey.
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Thiruvanchikulam Siva Temple in the city, "where the mountainous waves of the ocean beat against the shore", figures in the lyrics of Chundara Murti. Periyapuranam also gives a full account of the city of Kodungallur ("Tiru-Makotai") as the capital of the Perumal.Narayanan, M. G. S. Perumāḷs of Kerala. Thrissur (Kerala): CosmoBooks, 2013. 102.
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Vauxhall debuted its BTC-T Vauxhall Astra Coupe for both the Vauxhall Motorsport team and Egg Sport both run by Triple Eight Race Engineering. The Astra was the car to beat against its competitors. Muller and teammate Plato fought for the championship the whole season. Muller finished 2nd in the championship after his car caught fire in the final race leaving Plato as the champion.
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Because the island is low-lying, during high tide and storms sometimes waves will beat against some of the surviving structures."James Island (Gambia)" Kunta Kinte, a character described in Alex Haley's book and TV series Roots, has become associated with James Island. The book states that Kunta Kinte was among 98 slaves that the slave ship Lord Ligonier brought to Annapolis, Maryland in 1767.
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The exact meaning of the word "ebestol" is unclear, but has been variously translated as "epistle", tales", "account", "spite" and "lies."Annwfn'.Preiddeu Annwfn'. Pryderi is named once in the Welsh Triads, as one of the three powerful swineherdsBromwich, Rachel. Trioedd Ynys Prydein while the Stanzas of the Graves refer to his final resting place as: "Aber Gwenoli...where the waves beat against the land.
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In contrast, the irregularity of the large amplitude Population II stars is more challenging to explain. The variation of the pulsation amplitude over one period implies large dissipation, and therefore there exists no center manifold. Various mechanisms have been proposed, but are found lacking. One, suggests the presence of several closely spaced pulsation frequencies that would beat against each other, but no such frequencies exist in the appropriate stellar models.
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Yvan Muller retained his seat at Vauxhall and was more determined to take the title. Plato's seat at Vauxhall was filled by James Thompson moving up from egg:sport. The season saw the Astra Coupe again the car to beat against rivals MG, Honda, Peugeot and Proton, however the Astra suffered reliability issues throughout the season. Despite this, Yvan Muller and James Thompson and for much of the season Matt Neal (egg:sport) fought for the championship.
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35 Walker came on deck in his dressing gown, and saw that the ship was being driven toward the western lee shore by the east wind. When the French navigator came on deck, he explained to Walker where he was; Walker immediately ordered the anchor cables cut, and beat against the wind to escape the danger.Parkman, p. 166 Two of the warships, Montague and Windsor, had more difficulty, and ended up anchored for the night in a precarious situation, surrounded by breakers.
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Gary Herbert "The Choirboy" Jones (born 29 October 1972) is a professional poker player from Stafford, Staffordshire, England. He is also a regular color commentator on The Poker Channel. Jones had a 2nd-place finish to Jac Arama in his first appearance on Late Night Poker. He went on to finish 5th in the Runners-Up Final (having suffered a bad beat against Marty Wilson) eventually won by Joe Beevers. At the 2004 World Series of Poker, Jones finished in 17th place.
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Most English metre is classified according to the same system as Classical metre with an important difference. English is an accentual language, and therefore beats and offbeats (stressed and unstressed syllables) take the place of the long and short syllables of classical systems. In most English verse, the metre can be considered as a sort of back beat, against which natural speech rhythms vary expressively. The most common characteristic feet of English verse are the iamb in two syllables and the anapest in three.
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Polyrhythm 4:1.5 Even more metrically destabilizing and dynamic than 3:4, is the one and a half beat-against-four (1.5:4) cross-rhythm. Another way to think of it is as three "very slow" cross-beats spanning two main beat cycles (of four beats each), or three beats over two periods (measures), a type of macro "hemiola." In terms of the beat scheme comprising the complete 24-pulse cross-rhythm, the ratio is 3:8. The three cross-beats are shown as whole notes below for visual emphasis.
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"Takin' Over the World" "goes for these [girls] idea of global-pop" over "cool electro grooves." The sixth track, "Out of This Club" which features American singer R. Kelly and producer Polow da Don is "a slow jam" consisting of "rudimentary piano melodies" and a "plush beat against a romantic chorus." "Who's Gonna Love You", a leftover from Her Name Is Nicole, has been noted to have Janet Jackson influences, as well as "shimmering 80s gloss." In "Happily Never After" Scherzinger narrates the story of a woman who walks out on a dead-end relationship.
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The harmonica is a free reed aerophone, also often made from brass. In organ pipes of the reed family, brass strips (called tongues) are used as the reeds, which beat against the shallot (or beat "through" the shallot in the case of a "free" reed). Although not part of the brass section, snare drums are also sometimes made of brass. Some parts on electric guitars are also made from brass, especially inertia blocks on tremolo systems for its tonal properties, and for string nuts and saddles for both tonal properties and its low friction.
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Image response (or more correctly, image response rejection ratio, or IMRR) is a measure of performance of a radio receiver that operates on the superheterodyne principle. C-W and A-M Radio Transmitters and Receivers, United States Department of the Army, 1952 page 229 In such a radio receiver, a local oscillator (LO) is used to heterodyne or "beat" against the incoming radio frequency (RF), generating sum and difference frequencies. One of these will be at the intermediate frequency (IF), and will be selected and amplified. The radio receiver is responsive to any signal at its designed IF frequency, including unwanted signals.
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In 1513 Juan Ponce de León while exploring the east coast of Florida discovered the Gulf Stream. A few years later his pilot, Anton de Alaminos, used the Gulf Stream to push him north to the westerlies and return to Spain. This established the standard Spanish route to the Americas: south to the Canary Islands, west on the trade winds to the Caribbean, then beat against the wind north of Cuba using the Florida Current to the Gulf Steam, use it to go north to the westerlies which led directly home. Since wind systems move north in summer and south in winter, there is a question of the best season, which is poorly documented.
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Already in 1998 the number of refugees requesting asylum in Switzerland from the area increased due to the simmering conflict in Kosovo to such an extent that the civilian response capacity in Switzerland beat against their limits. The Federal Council decided that at the end of 1998 to use the army to care for and to engage directly in the crisis area to prevent further swelling. After the outbreak of war in Kosovo in 1999, the Governments of Albania and Macedonia asked for an international humanitarian intervention after major refugee flows Kosovo Albanian civilians came to this country. The Federal Council decided on 1 April 1999, just before Easter, military assistance to support the primary helping Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) and the UNHCR.
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In the case of the clarinet, the reed beats against its mouthpiece, opening and closing the instrument's cylindrical closed tube to produce a tone. When the instrument is overblown, with or without the aid of its register key, the pitch is a twelfth higher. In the case of a saxophone, which has a similar mouthpiece-reed combination to the clarinet, or an oboe, where double reeds beat against each other, the conical bore of these instruments gives their closed tube the properties of an open tube; when overblown, the pitch jumps an octave higher. As for a flute, which does not have a reed, but rather is a reedless cylindrical instrument open at both ends, the pitch similarly increases by an octave.
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Also, most modern combines are self-powered (usually by a diesel engine) and self- propelled, although tractor powered, pull type combines models were offered by John Deere and Case International into the 1990s. Today, as in the 19th century, the threshing begins with a cylinder and concave. The cylinder has sharp serrated bars, and rotates at high speed (about 500 RPM), so that the bars beat against the entire plant as it is mechanically fed from the reaping equipment at the front of the combine to the gap between the concave and the rotating beater/cylinder. The concave is curved to match the curve of the cylinder, and the grain, now separated from the plant stalks falls immediately through grated openings in the concave as it is beaten.
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A newcomer to the Olympic scene, Saathoff could not mount enough pressure to beat against the world's best running target shooters in front of a partisan crowd, rounding off the 20-shooter field to a dead last at 555 points. Under the tutelage of Belarussian-born coach Sergey Luzov, Saathoff began training with him shortly after the Games to further improve his craft and mettle towards a major world-shooting competition. In 1998, Saathoff came from nowhere to stun the entire field of expert shooters in the 10-metre running target, as he surprisingly won the silver medal with a score of 677.9, but could not chase China's Olympic bronze medalist Niu Zhiyuan for the title by just nine tenths of a point. Heading back to his second Olympics in Sydney 2000, Saathoff continued to dominate at the national trials, and watched his fellow marksman Lance Dement earning the other berth to join with him on the U.S. shooting team.
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