She pumped and squatted away — on one leg at times!
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Executives squatted next to their boss and delivered pep talks.
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My father squatted beside the cow, observing the calf's muzzle.
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We squatted at our holes, dipping and raising as instructed.
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Naomi squatted more than 300 pounds in a preliminary lift.
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He squatted close to the ground, dipped his head and wept.
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Bernstein squatted next to the patient and gently spoke her name.
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Lying fallow for decades, the building was looted, flooded, rotted and squatted.
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And in between nights in the car, he squatted in empty houses.
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Sure enough, within minutes women from neighboring gers entered and squatted on stools.
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No word on who cyber-squatted the phrase -- they've chosen to stay anonymous.
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He squatted down, stuck his tongue out and ran head on at Mahal.
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It ran with a photo of Bonk as he squatted, bar in hand.
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He went to prison and, afterward, squatted in abandoned houses in West Baltimore.
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Note that we will not release squatted usernames except in cases of trademark infringement.
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We squatted around Brixton and moved all the time when we were kicked out.
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But they have squatted for two days with no transport, and no way out.
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The stud RB put 495 pounds on the barbell Wednesday and squatted it ... THREE TIMES!!
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They squatted on a rooftop in Brooklyn before taking up residence in their current location.
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Finally he squatted, miserable, looking back at John as he took a creamy little shit.
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As men prepared the burial ground in daylight, relatives squatted around babies covered in cloth.
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Rina ambled out to the riverbank where she squatted down to finish smoking the joint.
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He handed off his phone, squatted beside the dying man, and spat in his face.
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Some of these vacant buildings are being squatted in by homeless Syrian refugees, Gürkan said.
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It well could be ... someone knew Cynthia wasn't in the country and squatted in the house.
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Her mom was worried because her knees would make a popping sound when she squatted down.
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She even appeared to have squatted a bit so as not to tower over the men.
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He squatted down on his knees and took out the tape measure he brought with him.
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She made it all, barking out orders to subordinates from a squatted position over simmering pots.
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He paces back and forth: I squatted on the wet straw and stretched out my hand.
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The man dropped to his belly to peer through the grate as the woman squatted beside him.
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Marie's knees and ankles hurt because she had so often squatted and kneeled to clean the floors.
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When I squatted, I had to put my hands behind my neck and keep my body straight.
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It trotted precisely to the center of the sightline and squatted, briefly, in the exact scat spot.
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He squatted down and peered up through its black metal bars at the mansion, framing a shot.
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HONG KONG — The beige van squatted outside of a Wuhan hospital, its side and back doors ajar.
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The miners had squatted there for years, using mercury that poisoned the soil and a nearby stream.
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The group dropped the lightsabers on the floor and jump-squatted over them to perform Lightsaber Leaps.
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Yeah, the Fast and the Furious franchise has squatted on "family" as a catchphrase for some years now.
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Still, Earl, knowing his inadequacy, mimed the movements and the words until his cousin squatted into hiccupping laughter.
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The women perched on rustic wooden chairs in the one-room house and the men squatted out back.
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The front passenger could be seen scanning the parking lot as the driver squatted next to Dugas's truck.
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They squatted next to buckets, wielding shears with one hand and catching bunches of grapes in the other.
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Vilaiveng squatted to lay the C20073 charge on top of the bomblet and pressed in the fuse wires.
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Mr. Tillman worried that conditions were just going to get worse as the storm squatted over the Carolinas.
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She squatted down as low as she could on the floor of the car, down below the back seat.
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So the next time you feel like rocking it out, just remember these foolproof steps: The Squatted Foot Tap:
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Harry squatted down to examine one craftsman's pieces made of cedar wood, chatting with the seller as Meghan listened.
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In the early aughts, a bunch of punks, queer people, freaks, and anarchists squatted here, and Atlantide was born.
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His fiancée, in a short jacket and heels, slipped her hair behind her ears and squatted next to him.
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Fewer than a quarter of the new arrivals settled in the camps; the rest squatted or lived with relatives.
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Beshey squatted next to Bailey for a selfie, much like the ones Warren famously takes at her town halls.
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The law used to be that if you squatted a residential building for ten years then you could own it.
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In Italy, people often had an affinity with squatted social centres be it in Bologna, Milan, Naples, Rome or Turin.
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Spider-Man is depicted more like a insect than human, with arthropod eyes and the squatted pose of an arachnid.
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The clouds that moved into the skies above the New York City region on Sunday have squatted there for days.
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"The Taliban will always be the Taliban," Mr. Sufi said as he squatted on a carpet inside the chilly mosque.
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The mother-daughter team squatted wide-kneed over a propane tank and scraped lobster marinating in coolers into enormous skillets.
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We squatted on a concrete curb in the gray cast of parking-lot lights and surveyed what lay before us.
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He squatted and sang for his visitors in a youthful tenor: In our chains there are lessons to be learned.
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For those who were not, Moshe squatted in front of them and did the deed to them himself, one by one.
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I was living in a shared squatted house at the time, so it was nice to be in a clean space.
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Her newborn twins had died the previous day, and she squatted in her grass-roof hut, shattered by pain and grief.
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Dr. Crozier squatted down in front of her, and told her he'd had the same operation she was about to undergo.
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"So I squatted down and I was expecting the jaguar — hoping the jaguar — would just walk off," he told On Being.
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Several times, Mr. Pandit said, the Sentinelese have turned their backs on anthropologists and squatted down, as if they were defecating.
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"Here, my monthly rent is 200 lev" (or $125), Mr. Alexandrov told me as I squatted on the sidewalk looking in.
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More than 2,500 migrants have squatted in the camp while their cases wind their way through immigration court in Brownsville, Texas.
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Opened in June 2015, the Ventimiglia camp houses several hundred asylum seekers who had previously squatted in makeshift facilities along the border.
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She is squatted over a toilet, scowling, in a yelling match with a nurse who's just trying to get her to pee.
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Channing Tatum is now legally protected from a woman who broke into his home and squatted there for more than a week.
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Any sympathy we had mustered for Valizadeh evaporated (unlike the urine) as we squatted and noticed but two sheets of toilet paper.
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The rent strikes, the squatted libraries, the Westfield die-ins, and the mass demands that make us a bit harder to ignore.
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My boyfriend at the time brought me to a secret area of the party venue, and we squatted down behind a ledge.
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There are a ton of accounts that get squatted on, forcing new users to use crappy AOL-like names, such as Joe583822.
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He spotted another on the ground, squatted down to pick it up and then handed it over like it was a souvenir.
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The hotel where Drollinger would be staying, a Crowne Plaza shaped like a perforated ziggurat, squatted up on the hill just beyond it.
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ALEPPO, Syria — On the edge of Aleppo's ancient citadel, Zahra and her family squatted in a once-grand apartment, now facing rebel lines.
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I came out of the direct action movement in the 1990s, and was involved in setting up squatted arts centers and community spaces.
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Others were taken aback that Ms. Cain squatted in the house last summer, and intended to draw a salary from the fund-raising.
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I hovered six feet or so high, while my passenger climbed out and squatted on the skid to relieve himself over the Pacific Ocean.
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As I squatted down in a wide plié in my baby-blue corduroy cargo pants (IDK, it was like 2002), I heard a rip.
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This is the same atmospheric phenomenon that squatted over the state for three winters in a row during California's record-setting, five-year drought.
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The Migos rapper, 26, squatted to kiss the "Bodak Yellow" star's growing bump and paused to put an affectionate hand on her baby belly.
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While interacting with the rest of the students and shaking each of their hands, Harry and Meghan often squatted down to speak with them.
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Two French bulldogs who had tagged along with their owners were squatted on a bench made for humans, but no one seemed to mind.
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LFO: "Summer Girls" Little known fact: When you sign on to join a boy band you're contractually obligated to periodically sing in that squatted position.
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In 203, the city sold squatted buildings (for one dollar a piece!) to the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board to renovate them for low-income housing.
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A few years ago, a former intern squatted inside AOL's campus because he couldn't afford to live in Silicon Valley after his internship was over.
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He has squatted 1,000 pounds in competition, and his 5/3/1 program for weightlifting has been taught to millions of athletes around the country.
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She squatted on a floor damp from fresh donkey shit, struggling to get a fire going, making so much smoke that our translator almost choked.
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He mimed licking himself, and then spun around and squatted, reaching his hands around and motioning as if he were pulling something from his ass.
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Alvin Carrasco squatted beneath a tree, manning a grill fashioned from a metal tray and fueled by the branches and detritus left from the storm.
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After Rose tapped in for bogey, the spotlight belonged to García, who rammed in his birdie attempt, and then squatted in relief — or maybe disbelief.
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She squatted atop the wall to chat with Karen below, before returning to her hut, where she signaled for the gate behind us to close.
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I put the glasses I was carrying down, got the dustpan and brush, and squatted down in front of him to clean up his mess.
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"It's a special place that was an army base that got abandoned and almost immediately got squatted by hippies and homeless people and criminals," says Graham.
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She didn't stop dancing, but I could finally make out what she was saying once she squatted on the table like a much sexier Buster Posey.
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At one children's hospital in Hyderabad, large crowds of parents, having made the trek from distant villages, squatted recently in a concrete lot in the rain.
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They squatted low and collapsed on Leonard and at times left him frustrated enough that he was tossing uncharacteristically long, off-balance shots at the hoop.
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The tribe owns two acres at Hill 57, a sandstone bluff on the northwest edge of Great Falls where tribal members once squatted in extreme poverty.
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The oldest one said something in a loud voice that I didn't quite hear because of my headphones, and then he squatted down and pressed play.
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I explore fascistic dietary regimens and admire women who have squatted or implanted their butts into a condition that would give R. Crumb a heart attack.
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But Congress denied any funding for its management, water rights were not granted and, as droughts hit and lake levels dropped, settlers squatted on the lake bed.
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As Palmer squatted down and began to carefully balance Liam on his legs to change him in a bathroom stall, Isaiah began taking pictures of his dad.
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He jumped up and ducked in the ring, kept his head down, squatted and did this kind of rapid breathing I'd learned once in a yoga class.
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The man told me that he once got so messed up he and a friend took over an abandoned house for the night and squatted in it.
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Then she squatted to speak with a beggar, an older man in a satiny white robe sitting on a bridge over a dry riverbed covered with garbage.
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The Governor, wearing pale chinos and a dark windbreaker, watched a worker demonstrate the magnetic wand, then squatted and ran the instrument under a rail flange himself.
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But she's not on Twitter (someone else has squatted on her name and is offering it to her), so it's not like Musk could follow her anyways.
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I half-squatted over the loo—a lavatory that made Trainspotting look like a Dior advert—finished up, fumbled for my belt and started to feel something.
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In the dim light, there was a strong whiff of SoHo when it was young, when artists squatted in abandoned industrial buildings and punk was the soundtrack.
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The automakers financed an experiment in which 10 monkeys squatted in airtight chambers, watching cartoons for entertainment as they inhaled fumes from a rigged diesel Volkswagen Beetle.
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She squatted alone on a dirt floor waiting, like I was, for her firstborn, feeling all the same worry and uncertainty but so much more of it.
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The socks never slid or fell while I lunged, squatted, ran, planked, or worked on core exercises when I can't say for the normal pairs I'd wear.
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The automakers financed an experiment in which 63 monkeys squatted in airtight chambers, watching cartoons for entertainment as they inhaled fumes from a rigged diesel Volkswagen Beetle.
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Another video filmed by a fellow passenger was also seen thousands of times and captured the passengers shrieking with joy when he squatted down and then bent over.
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Right after Cheese finished, he stood up, squatted down behind his chair and held his face in his hands as the built-up intensity and stress released itself.
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On a hot day in early July, Mr. Soto squatted in the shade near a LinkNYC kiosk, typing texts on his basic cellphone to his wife in Panama.
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After Kevin Durant gave the Warriors a lead with less than a minute to go in Game 3, Curry stopped on the court, looked at Durant, and squatted.
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Following the instructions, I squatted pants-less over my toilet and sprayed the lubricant all over my clitoris, inner labia, outer labia and the inside of my vagina.
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In the past, she said, drug users might have squatted in abandoned buildings or empty lots — places that would have kept drugs out of sight from the general public.
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Dressed in the kind of black bustier top and leather pants that would make Sandy from Grease proud, she squatted next to a horse and smized to the camera.
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Trudeau welcomed the family at the tarmac of the Victoria International Airport and squatted to Prince George's level in an attempt to get a high five from the toddler.
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When the tribespeople squatted, their readouts pinged, indicating that their leg muscles were contracting far more than when they sat, and almost 40 percent as often as during walks.
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"We just parked stubbornly outside the tube station, we squatted there and thought we'd see what happened, and for the next six months ostentatiously stayed there," Mr. Screech said.
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Thousands of supporters of the nascent settlement movement marched in a pouring rain and squatted at an abandoned Ottoman-era railway station near the West Bank city of Nablus.
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The site had been squatted for years by opponents of the plan to build a 580 million euros ($686 million) regional airport, which the government decided to drop in January.
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Standing off to her side, Kardashian, 39, squatted down low, pushing her backside out to pose for the camera while wearing a white t-shirt and lime green bikini bottoms.
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Quick explanation for non-Italian readers: A "centro sociale"—which translates to "social center"—is a squatted and repurposed building where local youth and communities organize events, classes, and concerts.
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Iraqi Kurdish officials were taking no chances on Sunday as they prepared one suspected fighter in a small office as his wife and four children squatted on the dirt outside.
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"The overheated fuel would have dropped from here, and melted through the grating around here," Mr. Hirose said, as we squatted to avoid banging our heads on the reactor bottom.
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Licis -- a 29-year-old who's considered the future of strongman sports -- picked the Patriots legend up, put him over his head and squatted the guy like it was nothing!!
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Behind our home, in what's known as the boys' quarters, a "houseboy" named Ali, who didn't look more than 19703, squatted over a cookpot, making rice over a coal fire.
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As I squatted to pick up a 25-pound box on the floor of SuitX's warehouse in Emeryville, the bionic legs shot me back to a standing position, no effort required.
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I squatted for years, until the early 90s when I moved out of London, and when the other women got offered cheap apartments that were hard to rent to others buyers.
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At its heart, the dispute is about whether the Samburu squatted on the land from the early 1980s, as they testified in court, or whether they invaded after AWF bought it.
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He's squatted against the sofa at completely the wrong angle, and he's fumbling himself inside "Minx," who lowers herself onto him with the pained dignity of someone entering a hot bath.
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By 9, as a wispy 88-pounder competing in the 97-pound weight class, she squatted 215 pounds to break a world record held by a 44-year-old German woman.
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Beaten in the final by Cuba's Robeisy Ramirez, now a two-times champion, Stevenson left the Rio arena and squatted, sobbing, outside with a towel covering his head to hide his distress.
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John Kasich and Chris Christie essentially sat out the active national campaigning and simply squatted in New Hampshire, hoping a strong second place in the Granite State would catapult them into relevance.
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The mother of three, 34, shared a video Friday of her serene exercise, in which she squatted then segued into a butterfly sitting position before rolling her neck from side to side.
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Panos Tsakloglou, a professor at the Athens University of Business and Economics, said he and his students were once turfed out of their classroom by a group who squatted for the weekend.
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Two rows of seats had been ripped out of the van, so a few of us squatted on tiny plastic stools that slid along the greasy metal floor when the road curved.
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"I feel like one of the guys in the posters," Philip said as they squatted in the Mississippi mud — although, with his pony-tailed Southern-man disguise, he wasn't looking very heroic.
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Hospital Squat—an abandoned hospital owned by the Red Cross that in February had been occupied and converted into a living space for Syrian refugees—wasn't the only squatted building targeted by authorities.
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If you squatted a Gmail address for your kid years ago, bad news: You'll need to create a new address for them through this process—you can't just "kidify" that pre-existing account.
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When I arrived at the bar, I couldn't feel the hard trace of credit card in my back pocket, so I squatted down on the ground and removed the contents of my backpack.
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A representative of the company also said it would be disinclined to sell the property to Ms. Cain, who squatted in the house during the summer of 2016 to protest the developer's actions.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — The 183-year-old boy squatted on his haunches on the floor of the prison and, unbidden, began to chant the verses of a Pashto poem in a high, beautiful voice.
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"Our son Nick [who was 10 at the time] was very afraid of dogs, but when he saw Pepper she just came right to him and he squatted down and joined her," Roker says.
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With about 2 miles (3.5 kilometers) to go, Alaphilippe alternated between pedaling and the supertuck, in which he squatted down on the frame of the bike, reaching speeds of over 30 mph (47 kph).
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Freed from having to like the Red Sox, I began to root for Rickey Henderson of the Oakland Athletics, mostly because I liked how deeply he squatted while taking a lead off first base.
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Tiger Woods stood in the 15th fairway of Bethpage Black on Thursday waiting to hit as the retired Mets third baseman David Wright squatted in a catcher's crouch a few yards away.
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At the vigil for Mr. Lander, a fellow Resistencia member squatted, his Converse high-tops touching the spot where Mr. Lander was killed, and vowed to stay in the street until the government falls.
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Calais has borne the brunt of the migration crisis in France and at its peak up to 10,000 migrants squatted in a sprawling camp dubbed "The Jungle", before former president Francois Hollande sent in bulldozers.
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In one instance, a vacant flat above a launderette in South London that Morris and a friend, Liz Obi, had squatted in was turned into a bookshop, called Sabaar, that catered to the black community.
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Liam S. squatted to peer up her skirt, and when she crouched to stop him it was Jyoti who pulled the pins from her hair, as if the button might be hidden in its roots.
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Crowell scored his second TD with 7:54 left in the second quarter, and was flagged for excessive celebrating when he squatted and wiped the ball on his backside before flinging it into the crowd.
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That organization also worked with the Oakland activists known as Moms 4 Housing, the group of homeless mothers that squatted for months in a vacant, investor-owned property they hoped to purchase at a fair price.
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At the final stop of their walkabout, the pair stopped to spend a moment with several little girls — one who said Meghan was her "role model" — as Harry squatted down to talk to the young fans.
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White men from town claimed the folding chairs closest to the ring, then came the staff, and beyond that the student body crammed into the bleachers or squatted on the floor, ashy elbow to ashy elbow.
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In vast open-pits in Jharkhand, children as young as six squatted among glittering rocks scouring with their bare hands for shiny, brittle mica flakes, while older ones descended rickety ladders into shafts seeking better quality silicate.
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It lost its Category 4 status relatively quickly after making landfall, and then just squatted over Houston, covering an area of Texas that would stretch from New York City to Boston if it were laid out east.
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A Sports Illustrated article in the summer noted that Barkley ran the 40-yard dash in 4.33 seconds, broke a Penn State-record with 405 pounds in the power clean lift, and squatted 261 pounds five times.
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The two of them had squatted together in an East 12th Street tenement that Adler refers to as a "laboratory" for his artistic experiments — painting on anything and everything, playing with the layering of words and images.
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An investigation commissioned by the China Trademark Association (CTA), a lobby group, into around 300 of its best-known members found that the trademarks of around a third had been squatted, each in around four countries on average.
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"No immediate set of exigent circumstances that I could sense, unless she thought the passenger in the car was imperiled," Gagliano said, referring to a man who was in the car as Franklin squatted by the passenger door.
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The youngest kid, a toddler in a polo shirt, had taken off his pants and underwear—had gone full Porky Pig—then squatted and pushed out a public feces on the sidewalk in front of the soda machine.
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From the sandbar, I watched as Kamotolo squatted by a fire set among the rocks on the shore, tending to something as it cooked: a stingray that he had spotted in shallow water and killed with an arrow.
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My theory is that it speaks to an insecurity among EV makers about whether their cars can stand up to the muscle cars and Ford F150s that have squatted in the frontal cortex of the American car buyer for decades.
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The Samburu, a semi-nomadic people with the same language and culture as the Maasai, claim ownership of the disputed ranch in Kenya's troubled Laikipia County, saying they squatted on it for 25 years before being evicted for wildlife conservation.
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Nearly a week after the quake and tsunami, Kartono, who goes by a single name, squatted in a sea of rubble near his destroyed home in Petobo, where 744 houses were inundated by liquefaction, according to Indonesia's national disaster agency.
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We later placed one end of the band beneath a foot, holding the other end with a hand and lifting it above your head, and then the middle of the band went underneath the foot while we squatted and pulled the band up.
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The 98 brands owned by Vivo, a smartphone-maker, were the most widely affected, in 53 countries and regions including America, Brazil, and the EU. Another victim was Hunan China Tobacco Industry, a cigarette brand squatted in 21 places, from Panama to Indonesia.
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By the 1960s and 1970s, TriBeCa had become a gathering point for artists and actors, some who had squatted in the sprawling industrial cast-iron buildings that are now lavish loft-style apartments where one-bedroom units go for about $6,800 a month.
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On Friday, the men, women and children packed in a pen beneath the international bridge that connects the United States to Mexico squatted on the ground, munching on sandwiches out of clear plastic bags while breathing in fumes from the cars above.
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To Natasha Millikan, a self-described mouse expert who squatted on the checkered floor on Sunday afternoon, her head pressed into her hands as around her mice shivered, chewed bits of wood or slept beneath her boots, it was an exploration of torture.
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In short; Israel was given land under a Mandate that was never repealed, two other countries attacked Israel and squatted on the land for a while, and then, when they attacked Israel again and lost, Israel regained the land she had originally been given.
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FRANKFURT — In 713, as evidence mounted about the harmful effects of diesel exhaust on human health, scientists in an Albuquerque laboratory conducted an unusual experiment: Ten monkeys squatted in airtight chambers, watching cartoons for entertainment as they inhaled fumes from a diesel Volkswagen Beetle.
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"His face tight-lipped, Doc Bowman, the Giants' great little trainer, squatted beside Monte Irvin holding a shattered right leg with the foot which was dangling at almost a 90-degree angle firmly in his grasp lest the slightest movement make things worse," Arch Murray wrote.
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In 2014, the students doing his program squatted in an abandoned, unheated shopping mall in Leipzig; last spring, in Milan, they slept on the floor of a gallery; and, three years ago, in Shanghai, they installed their student exhibition amid counterfeit "Prado" bags at a street market.
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Cain lived in San Francisco for 10 years in the late 1990s and early 2000s; she studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later Berkeley, then stayed in the area, making ephemeral large-scale paintings inside the abandoned buildings where her artist friends squatted.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK.For the last two weeks, the Sofia House Solidarity Centre has been welcoming homeless people from across London to a legally-squatted vacant four-story commercial property just north of Oxford Circus—one of the ten percent of Westminster properties owned by offshore tax vehicles.
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Taking extensive, observational notes in one of the tribe's camps every hour for several days, the researchers found that, in their off-hours, the Hadza would often sit on the ground, but also frequently squatted, spending almost 20 percent of their inactive time with knees bent and bottoms off the ground.
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In the years since, there has been great confusion in the national heart and soul over whether our flooded cities should be enshrined as somber cemeteries, squatted upon and protected like a dragon's hoard from refugees who might wish to settle there, or razor-wired off and forgotten completely, left to nature as you would a Chernobyl or a San Francisco.
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I've had a cold a few days now and waffled on going to the gym at all, but then when I did, I squatted 235 pounds for four reps, which I'm pretty sure at least matches my all-time PR. I would not have known I'd actually be more than okay doing this workout if I hadn't gone to feel it out.
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The two create a peculiarly domestic scene that beckons closer examination: the mat is the work of Do Ho Suh, its uniform thicket of rubber tines revealing, upon squatted inspection, an army of individual figures standing with arms raised; the photograph is the work of Dorothea Lange, its classical composition of a migrant mother and child, lit by the California sun, instantly evoking Depression-era American history.
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After I asked about the engagement during a customary daily briefing I gave him, Abrams rose from his simple steel desk, picked up a ubiquitous cigar, pulled out a telescoped pointer, squatted down in front of a map board in his office, described the disposition of friendly and enemy forces, and explained why he thought things had not gone well — the sort of careful, thorough response a general officer would give a peer, near-equal or a visiting dignitary, but not a junior officer like me.
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He wanted to move, like the whale, in a sonar world that still contained the pulses of fifty-million-year-old sagas of continuous whale-mind: "elegant cetacean music…lyrical litanies on the bio-radio…rumours of ancestors, memories of loss, memories of ideal love…" The closest he could come to this was perhaps the state of anarchy in which he lived in the late 1970s, in his Free Independent Republic of Frestonia in Notting Hill, where buildings were squatted and food and beds shared in a ferment of ideas.
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