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'It's like you're walking on stilts, ' he says. 'The ball of your foot is up a couple of inches off the ground in platform shoes.

To use it, loop the scale's strap around the suitcase handle and lift the scale and bag off the ground for a few seconds.

Either, man cannot be off the ground with his hair pulled up by his own hand.

All this cushioning results in a bulkier-than average midsole that some testers felt lifted them too high off the ground.

He forgot, however, to check the melting point of aluminum, and his rocket did not get off the ground.

Unable to contain herself, she picked-up the clay jug off the ground and, with all her might, threw it at the burly man as he walked away.

Another shot and a bullet skipped off the ground within inches of his feet.

That should be enough to get your mission off the ground, don't you think?

Well, so far, none of his plans have managed to get off the ground .

Will one of the co-founders be keeping her day job until the company gets off the ground?

This center looks like the Death Star and consists of a spherical glass and steel nest and a very long, low building raised off the ground.

I was lucky that I got my foot off the ground. If I hadn't it could have been a lot worse.

Heavy iron chains around his feet and hands were fixed to a metal bar that ran round the hall about ten centimetres off the ground.

When the ball first bounces off the ground at frame 50, it seems to float and slip rather than rebound.

When I asked him about his moon rocket, he said, "All I'm trying to do is get things off the ground. "

He said the government's strategic plan to re - launch French wine on the world stage had struggled to get off the ground so far.

As it lifted off the ground it realized it could fly and began to soar in the air.

He took his airplane off the ground, flew for ten minutes, and then returned to land safely.

By the time her modeling career got off the ground, while barely out of her teens, she had already been married and divorced.

A bubble that bursts, big losses in the stock market, and a long economic recovery that never seems to quite get off the ground.

Pete: well, so far none of his plans have managed to get off the ground.

Are you ready to burn 100 hours a week for the next two years to get your start-up off the ground?

You could crawl with your stomach off the ground easily, and you liked to pull yourself up and stand. You liked to walk with help.

At the point of departure, the accompanying adult must remain at the gate until the flight is off the ground.

He dunked the ball and I hung there on his arms, both my feet off the ground and hanging to Wilt for dear life until he put me down.

Push a ping-pong table against a wall and play ping-pong with the wall, try to keep the ball off the ground.

It was at the exact moment he took a deep breath that he began to lift off the ground. He would begin soaring like an eagle.

But a number of projects have continued, and there are also projects that have never gotten off the ground, due to lack of financing.

In teeing , if a player uses a non-conforming tee or any other object to raise the ball off the ground, he is disqualified.

It took a while for the business to get off the ground, but it''s making a profit now.

Even the surface had been burned off the ground.

The car hit her with such force that she was lifted clean off the ground.

One of the motors inflates a 'skirt' around the vehicle to lift it off the ground, while the other drives it forward and controls direction.

Balance yourself on a corner of the ottoman and rub your clit on the corner and periodically lift your hands and my feet off the ground.

Anchiornis's wrist bone was so wedge-shaped that it could fold its arms to its sides, keeping its arm feathers off the ground as it walked.

manage to After a few false starts, we managed to get the company off the ground . . .

I don't know why I found so much comfort in that thought, but it nearly lifted me off the ground, and suddenly, everywhere, I felt embraced.

The man tries to move, lifting his head a few inches off the ground.

The large bull elephant stared at Dan, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down.

Put the fish in baskets and keep them in a cool, dry place off the ground. Dried fish must be kept completely dry until they are eaten.

It's a concept that's been around for decades but never really seems to get off the ground.

We keep part of the commandment and (pardon the pun) never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

I hand a loose piece of rotten soil with the shell off the ground and just dissolve as one of the earth.

We were unable to get the new product off the ground and will have to wait until next year.

While Haverstick got the charity off the ground, his wife, Cathy Kane, supported him financially.

This would be at the expense of the market for seed capital, which means more businesses could struggle to get off the ground.

During the reception, guests will fork off the ground, to be polite for a change.

The bad news is the same: that BYD's plans to be a mass producer and exporter of electric cars has yet to get off the ground.

Raise the front of the vehicle off the ground and install tow dollies under front wheels.

The project , if it takes off the ground, will be co-ordinated by the university s history department .

I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.

Much of the rest will be getting off the ground shortly, White House aides say.

We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

The rocket plane may fulfil some of its goals before it even gets off the ground, by whipping up interest in commercial space flight.

As soon as she swallowed the elixir her body floated off the ground, dashed out of the window and flew towards heaven.

Nestled among the branches, up off the ground, there's a nine-foot-diameter hardwood floor and groovy round mattress inside.

Hoping for a competitive quote to help me get this project off the ground!

When they were done, Hoff bent down and picked something off the ground, then walked contentedly back to the car.

The next client to enter my office wasn't crying, but he was grief-stricken about a relationship that just didn't get off the ground.

The middle ball effectively suspends them on a cushion of air 700mm off the ground and the ball is then rolled down a hill.

And everyone that tried to hold us down My friends and I we pull each other Up off the ground.

Harrison Martin eased about three feet off the ground, the engine roaring with a whine so loud that some kids covered their ears.

My congratulations to Fred Cao and CD Liang also for supporting this activity, and for helping Renmin financially to get it off the ground.

Lift up your left leg so that your foot is at least 6in off the ground (above, bottom).

In terms of job creation today, getting construction projects off the ground is critical.

As you roll onto your toes, try to spring off the ground.

Water heater stands raise gas units off the ground and reduce the risk of fire in the event of a flammable liquid spill nearby.

To spring off the ground or other base by a muscular effort of the legs and feet.

But he credits the extensive relationships he has with government agencies for helping him get off the ground with a banking license .

The wind blew the fallen leaves off the ground.

We're hoping you can help them get it off the ground. [laughter] And then Steve came along and said, they said what?

SUVs also stand higher off the ground, he says, so more of the force hits the frame below the driver's seat in a side-on crash.

"They have done several high-speed taxis with the nosewheel off the ground, " says another veteran analyst.

Even a fat man would be able to jump off the ground.

But any attempt to alter our relatively easy access to guns rarely gets off the ground.

I will be happy to look at all bids, so this is a good opportunity for you to get off the ground by getting a rating, or adding to them.

Otterhounds do not lift their feet high off the ground and may shuffle when they walk or move at a slow trot.

The Bush Administration suggested that, somehow, Constellation could get off the ground within NASA's existing inflation-adjusted budget.

I connected high speed internet to it -- it's about three feet off the ground -- turned it on and left it there.

lie on your front and join your hands behind your back . lift your legs and shoulders as far off the ground as possible.

There were too many plants on the forest floor. But one need fell on the dead tree. It was high off the ground. This seed had room to grow.

a fast gait of a horse; a two -beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

But a reluctance to dirty their hands gives Librans a streak of laziness which may mean a delay in getting their many plans off the ground.

These pull the rider up the slope without lifting the board off the ground, as do chairlifts and other aerial contraptions.

If we want to get this internet business off the ground, we've got to do something fast.

The second one is about creating critical mass to get your SOA off the ground and operational across the enterprise.

After some initial difficulties, it looks like travel plans are going to seriously get off the ground.

The satellite bounces laser light off the ground, allowing researchers to measure the terrain with extraordinary precision.

The intricate controls and the guidance system have little to do with the force needed for getting a rocket off the ground.

I am mostly grateful to my supervisor Ms. Zhou Jia without her support and patience this project would not have been got off the ground.

Both clubs are aware further negotiations are delicate, but restoration work towards smooth talks could lift the move off the ground. ?

Since it was slow, small and could only get so high off the ground, the flying platform was never put into production.

They should, he instructed, wear a skirt that finishes three inches off the ground and knickerbockers of "soft angora, not cashmere" .

The more powerfully you can push off the ground, the less effort each stride will take, and ultimately it will be easier to run faster.

After a meeting with Chetan I was convinced that he had the right technical thinking and innovative ideas to get my website off the ground.

He takes her in his arms, lifts her off the ground as they continue to kiss.

Carpet aspiration, stone, Saul, wipe off the ground glial glass and glass interval impression of the hand.

He waved, it is two servant from lifting Tito, clean up the debris, water-soaked wiped off the ground.

The impact lifted the Spartan a half meter off the ground, and he landed in a heap.

If you are too ambitious at the beginning, you may never get the site off the ground.

Nor can moral reasoning get off the ground without an empathetic understanding of the welfare of others.

"He lifted that side of the car completely off the ground, " police spokesman Frank Amado told Reuters by telephone.

I stomped to the end of the driveway, jerked the cans off the ground and wheeled them to the garage.

Lincoln tried to lift his opponent off the ground and slam him hard on his back.

CSL designed a bespoke roller conveyer mounted on special feet so it could be operated at a height of 30cm off the ground.

Early in their careers, even the most driven, Type A entrepreneurs need other people around them to get an idea off the ground.

The new model, which sits higher off the ground for easier accessibility and includes a number of advanced technolgocial features.

They saw the body tangled among fishing nets and buoys that had caught in the branches 14 metres off the ground .

Virgin has been slow to get off the ground: it has 3m credit card and saving customers but has delayed launching a full suite of products.

One must treat budding programmes leniently : programmes may take decades before they get off the ground and become empirically progressive.

Supine, Shuangshoubaotou, left leg straight, slightly off the ground, right leg bent, lift, touch left elbow right knee, head to the right.

Thanks to the constantly falling cost of computing power, a start-up needs less money to get off the ground.

Sure, it takes huge commitment, energy, and stamina to get a new venture off the ground.

This large expenditure will help us get off the ground, because we'll have all the proper equipment.

This compared with many of the women experienced sexual intercourse, the seeds from other species add off the ground to the more reliable.

But it never got off the ground; the program folded four months after he was picked to participate.

I can't wait for this to get off the ground. Orders will pour in and we'll make money hand over fist.

As the helicopter floats off the ground, Abruzzi looks out the window. The green prison yard fades to white.

And for anyone with a decent idea and the drive to start a company, $100, 000 to get it off the ground is easy to come by.

The group got off the ground only after the manager told his worst performers that they had to join - or else.

This helped the new business get off the ground and attract new customers, including large hotel chains.

Several high-speed ground tests, in which the craft's front wheel rose off the ground, preceded the first flight.

Machines have been developed to shake nuts from the tree at harvest, and others sweep them off the ground.

Some never got off the ground, while others have gone bust or been acquired by more powerful state-owned rivals.

To get all the stages of the rocket off the ground, a first big push is needed.

Meanwhile, the partnership with Chery never got off the ground, thanks in part to the recession.

Without unique-mutually distinguishable-individuals, the story could never get off the ground.

Where does it take an average of 694 days to clear government red tape and get a company off the ground? Suriname.

Orville and Wilbur Wright had many crashes and ruined many planes before they finally got off the ground.

That same area is used to push off the ground, generally wearing down this area of the shoe much quicker.

In the far West, cowboys lifted their partners off the ground during "the swing" .

Supine, hands on hips, the head and shoulders slightly off the ground.

We were only just getting the cosmetics department off the ground.

It's only when these two chains meet, about a hundred feet off the ground, that we see the lightning bolt's flash.

Then came an earthmover to level off the ground for a fire engine.

that ran round the hall about ten centimetres off the ground.

These 100-year-old Okinawan women are getting up and down off the ground, they sit on the floor, 30 or 40 times a day.

Their return has been predicted many times, but attempts to revive the idea of huge airships have never got off the ground.

6 drag dry land: the ground, make net dragged off the ground, and keep clean, or not.

Supine, lift the legs close together, feet pointing to the roof, head slightly off the ground.

To get that off the ground, though, I'll have to briefly explain Aristotle.

Then simply lash the cot to four trees a few feet off the ground.

A quick read through the official NetBSD Guide helps get new users off the ground.

No sooner was the frost off the ground than the work began.

Whether that trust ever got off the ground under the repressive regime of the reclusive state is unclear.

Are inventoried sheets stored in a dry location, properly palleted, and off the ground?

To get Apple off the ground, Steve and Steve "sold their most valuable possessions. "

Many such schemes involve large capital outlays, however, to get them off the ground.

This embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.

The temple was high off the ground and only the priests were allowed inside.

mountain and glen are accurate enough, but had the mountain not become, the glen rushy, might never have got off the ground with his poem.

Place your legs one in front of the other. If your knees are up off the ground, place some support cushions underneath.

But the work shows that research into complex genetic traits is getting off the ground.

Bend your knees, keeping them off the ground, and hold that position (above bottom).

It took 13 failed attempts before the system finally got off the ground in 1959. Once it did, however, the results were spectacular.

a device that supports a football off the ground preparatory to the kickoff .

I'm holding on your rope, got me ten feet. . . off the ground.

They lift off the ground to a so- called spiritual level.

Raise the heel of the leg you are balancing on off the ground until your foot is fully extended.

Then put the basket in a cool, dry place off the ground.

While renewables were struggling to get off the ground, the world's demand for energy would grow quickly.

They just need a little help securing the financing they need to get off the ground.

I could barely get off the ground, I couldn't go very fast (maybe 5 miles per hour), and I couldn't turn easily.

In 2007, YouTube continues to dominate. Meanwhile Internet TV services are slowly getting off the ground.

The carbon tax hasn't gotten off the ground. And let's just say that U. S. energy policy could be more coherent.

Even if you are a good high-jumper, you can jump only about seven feet off the ground.

Chances of this idea getting off the ground? Slim.

Jewish legend and tradition describe the Ark lifting it's bearers off the ground.

Dorkin said filmmakers would do well to follow Thompson's lead if the project gets off the ground.

The Hatfield Puffin is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Mr. John Wimpenny, is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.

Thus, acoustic waves retain more of their energy when they reflect off the ground.

While the plans are impressive, so far, little has got off the ground.

Gravity is the force that both planes and birds must overcome to get off the ground.

Janis worked hard to get her fledgling business off the ground.

Even before the Wikileaks project got off the ground, the mainstream media was implicated.

If his remarks help this proposal get off the ground, it will be no small contribution to eurozone financial stability.

Their pressure becomes so strong that it lifts the car off the ground.

If your business doesn't get off the ground, learn from that. And try again, but do it better this time.

move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time.

To get all the stages off the ground , a first big push is needed.

Once things get off the ground, one-on-oneliaisons, partner swapping and group play are standard fare.

in 1961 , two human - powered aircraft built by british designers got off the ground , but could not turn safely or fly far.

But one seed fell on the dead tree. It was high off the ground.

Entrepreneurs get their ideas off the ground with funding from anywhere in the world.

We used satellite digital elevation data, which is generated by bouncing a laser off the ground from space.

It gets the house up off the ground (especially important in damp or termite-prone areas).

The bird fluttered its wings wildly but it could not get off the ground.

the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground.

Starting loans can help small companies get off the ground.

It was high off the ground. This seed had room to grow.

You swept my feet tight off the ground, you're the love I found.

This gets a new fully configured project off the ground in minutes.

If you have been attempting to get something off the ground in any of those areas, you will make definite progress.

If you are just starting out, you will spend every waking hour getting your business off the ground.

It is a modern aeroplane, but its designer, Is finding it difficult to get it off the ground.

But that program also had trouble getting off the ground.

Take, for instance, the ease of getting a new venture off the ground.

And many appointed projects fail to get off the ground.

How do birds and bats and other flying beasties manage to get off and stay off the ground?

The shot he hit was a topped ball and it never got off the ground.

I'm holdin' on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground. . .

Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

You're flying about a 120 miles, 10 feet off the ground. You can just look out there; feel like you can almost touch it.

Four feet off the ground instead of Ta Kong, a shoulder plow instead of dressing.

To get Vertical off the ground, UBS certainly bust a gut.

Chaos all aroundExplosions and fire You took me off the ground And lifted me higher.

This is most evident off-road when one tire breaks traction and spins (like in the mud or when one tire lifts off the ground).

During a typical grand jete, a dancer's center of gravity rises 2 feet off the ground.

We have never gotten this project off the ground.

A kangaroo cannot jump if its tail is off the ground.

He had climbed really far off the ground.

The argument centered on whether a fast trotting horse ever had all four feet off the ground at one time.

They generally hover just 10 inches off the ground, however.

A kangaroo could not jump if its tail is lifted off the ground.

If a guarantee program does get off the ground, there remain many details to sort out.

The oil market's usual spring bounce mightn't get far off the ground this year.

Want to say the Carter dunk 36 inches off the ground.

few inches off the ground (above top).

His restaurant never got off the ground because he didn't advertise.

Swan lake, dancing, such as the blue sky from the snow, off the ground like Su-Kam, stirring, !

A kangaroo can't jump if its tail is off the ground.

PENNIES: Would you take time to pick a penny off the ground?

Legs, wheels, and treads - those are for bots that can't get off the ground.

The higher you lift yourself off the ground, the greaterthe shock you have to absorb when landing and the faster your legs willfatigue.

The propellers lifted off the ground at 28 miles per hour.

Got me ten feet off the ground. . .

It shakes a lot, but when you get off the ground it gets calm.

eg. The aircraft hadn't enough power to get off the ground.

Sam pulls Frodo up off the ground.

It's really taken off the ground.

toe-reach, lift right leg to about 15 cm off the ground.

In this diagram, 100 newtons is required to lift the weight 10 cm off the ground.

He lifted the car off the ground.

I'll pick you up off the ground.

Yet you are ten feet off the ground.

New areas such as mobile, video and music are still getting off the ground.

As long as nothing is getting off the ground, we can't say anything for certain.

The dogs followed the fishy smell, pick up off the ground meat to eat such as sporadic, a happy new year.

He shook me and lifted me off the ground.

That is making it difficult for new funds to get off the ground in Asia.

Many people don't find it worth their time to pick a penny off the ground.

Even if you are taller, if guys can get off the ground more quickly than you can, they have a better chance at getting the board.

That's pretty cool! The propellers lifted off the ground at 28 miles per hour. And they say there are 12 solar cells built into its wings.

Palms and buttocks to the mat at the same time, under pressure, so that legs 15 cm off the ground at the same time.

It will take time and money to get the project to get off the ground.

Jessie: What do you do when you need to pick yourself off the ground?

he went in with his foot raised off the ground and we can't complain about it.

But that assumes they can get it off the ground.

And so do you, it's just that sometimes you're standing too high off the ground to notice.

If we can get the new Taichung store off the ground, I think we can control the market there.