Bending, much less breaking, will not come naturally to such a prideful country.

A common example is a plant root growing in humid air bending toward a higher relative humidity level.

And most important, a wise person does this improvising and rule bending in the service of the right aims.

The arc of EU history seems to be bending to catastrophe the sort of periodic European disaster that integration was intended to prevent.

Do you see how much it's bending like that? We can't figure that out that's an unsolved mystery. We don't know how it works.

This means that he will have to deal with a large number of threats, vulnerabilities, and independent actors who may resist bending to America s will.

Indeed, the Putin administration established a track record of bending rules and bullying foreign investors, with the support of prosecutors, tax authorities, regulatory agencies, and courts.

Nutation is the bending movements executed by some plant organs, such as stems, leaves, roots, etc., by which the part is inclined successively in various directions.

Most tensile structures are supported by some form of compression or bending elements, such as masts (as in The O2, formerly the Millennium Dome), compression rings or beams.

Well, there are teams of scientists at Harvard and the University of Utah that are bending their brains to try to figure out what the Tarahumara have known forever.

So for Aristotle, the kind of rule bending, rule exception finding and improvisation that you see in skilled craftsmen is exactly what you need to be a skilled moral craftsman.

Since Earth is round, if their downward bending curve is about the same as the curvature of the Earth, light rays can travel large distances, perhaps from beyond the horizon.

Currently, other member states can provide assistance to Greece only by bending the rules, which prevent them from lending except in response to natural disasters or circumstances beyond a country s control.

They're the ones that are embedded in that sea of dark matter that are causing the bending of the light to cause these optical illusions, or mirages, practically, of the background galaxies.

She stands vis a vis in front of the victim at the right hand side, bending its abdomen and inserting a single egg, a single egg into the body fluids of the aphid.

As November s elections approach, many US lawmakers will demand that the country with 10 unemployment persuade the country with 10 growth to stop bending trade rules and manipulating the value of its currency.

It's not about compliance. It's about setting, getting the job done, by bending or breaking the rules just look at your Indian people around here, you'll see them smile they know what it is.

Sarkozy misjudged the balance of power between France and China, and France came out of that diplomatic episode badly bruised, with its president swallowing his human rights claims and bending to the diktat of realpolitik.

Bending his neck , that he may lead astray from the way of Allah his shall be humiliation in the world , and We shall make him taste on the Day of Judgment the torment of Burning .

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.

After many years of bending gears with a pair of pliers, I made that tool, and then I made this other tool for sort of centering gears very quickly sort of developing my own little world of technology.

( Disdainfully ) bending his side , in order to lead ( men ) astray from the Path of Allah for him there is disgrace in this life , and on the Day of Judgment We shall make him taste the Penalty of burning ( Fire ) .

Perhaps the most important advantage to mounting the engines under the wings is that the total aircraft weight is more evenly distributed across the wingspan, which imposes less bending moment on the wings and allows for a lighter wing structure.

The rice that you ate in the lunch, and you will eat today, is transplanted by women bending in a very awkward posture, millions of them, every season, in the paddy season, when they transplant paddy with their feet in the water.

The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

The memo cites a female interrogator rubbing lotion on a shackled detainee and whispering in his ear during Ramadan when sexual contact with a strange woman would be most offensive then suddenly bending back his thumbs until he grimaced in pain, and violently grabbing his genitals.

The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

Bending his neck in pride ( far astray from the Path of Allah ) , and leading ( others ) too ( far ) astray from the Path of Allah . For him there is disgrace in this worldly life , and on the Day of Resurrection We shall make him taste the torment of burning ( Fire ) .

Now, if you're taking the same system, and you're putting vertical, you're bending, and if you're moving this way forward, your instinct will tell you that you might go this way, but if you're moving fast enough, you might create what we call lateral lift, so we could get further or closer to the wind.

How do you stage an international art show with work from 100 different artists? If you're Shea Hembrey, you invent all of the artists and artwork yourself from large scale outdoor installations to tiny paintings drawn with a single haired brush. Watch this funny, mind bending talk to see the explosion of creativity and diversity of skills a single artist is capable of.