Militarily speaking, Gaza is utterly defenseless. That's why the IDF chooses this area to flex its muscles.

China will want to flex its muscles and proclaim to the world that the Party has delivered the goods to its people, while making the country strong and prosperous.

With President Putin recently completing a Middle East tour to flex Russia s diplomatic muscles and sell arms, now is a good moment to assess his country s influence in the region.

Please refrain from flexing your muscles in the future.

Too many powerful countries now feel able to flex their diplomatic muscles in defense of their interests. Mao s hundred flowers may have bloomed only briefly, but today s myriad species of Weltpolitik are certain to bloom perennially.

Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you'll live and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well being? Prepare to flex a few facial muscles as you learn more about this evolutionarily contagious behavior.

Now the Army teaches you to do five points of performance the toes of your feet, your calves, your thighs, your buttocks and your push up muscles.

If your body temperature rises, you start to sweat in order to cool down if your temperature falls, your muscles vibrate (shiver) to warm up.

AM It's a company in San Diego called Flex Foot.

Their muscles are adapted to pushing their way through the ground, with the skeleton and deep muscles acting as a piston inside the skin and outer muscles.

One quote from Surkov that day is particularly telling Make ready for the elections, train your brains and muscles.

One quote from Surkov that day is particularly telling Make ready for the elections, train your brains and muscles.

A visitor to Brazil today will see these flex fuel cars everywhere.

There's the solar panels of the cell, some switches that turn your genes on and off, the girders of the cell, motors that move your muscles.

The spasms usually spare the facial muscles.

We use skeletal muscles so much. It's the one portion of our body our heart's always beating. We're always moving our muscles.

Other designs have joints or hinges in the branches of the stirrups to allow for them to flex.

And I quote, As my muscles weakened, my writing became stronger.

Of the thigh muscles, semitendinosus is especially involved in hip adduction.

It turns out that our brains are actually wired for throwing things and, like muscles, if you don't use parts of your brain, they tend to atrophy over time.

For example, the materials used in girdles for women are used in artificial hearts because of their good flex life.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

These problems may directly affect the extra ocular muscles themselves, and may also result from conditions affecting the nerve or blood supply to these muscles or the bony orbital structures surrounding them.

In anatomy, flexor carpi radialis is a muscle of the human forearm that acts to flex and (radial) abduct the hand.

The flexor carpi ulnaris (FCU) muscle is a muscle of the human forearm that acts to flex and adduct the hand.

Those muscles were put to use outside the Kremlin walls that very day.

Severe myasthenia may cause respiratory failure due to exhaustion of the respiratory muscles.

Diphtheria can also cause paralysis in the eye, neck, throat, or respiratory muscles.

Then it grew longer and stronger, and acquired muscles capable of closing the developing jaw.

If Europe is to be taken seriously as a global player, they argue, it must also flex some muscle when it delivers the money.

Russia is again seeking a role as a global power and is therefore flexing its muscles.

Despite his lack of muscles and hair, Berlusconi is the embodiment of this form of success.

During myotome testing, the clinician is looking for muscle weakness of a particular group of muscles.

The long crankshafts of the latter suffered from an unacceptable amount of flex when engine designers began using higher compression ratios and higher rotational speeds.

In human anatomy, the abductor pollicis longus (APL) is one of the extrinsic muscles of the hand.

Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

Weight training is a common type of strength training for developing the strength and size of skeletal muscles.

They would anesthetize people, convulse them, but the real difficulty was that there was no way to paralyze muscles.

In addition to issues like climate change, there is also a sense that other players are flexing their muscles.

How do northern Europeans do it? All of them use active labor market policies, including flex time, school to work apprenticeships (especially Germany), and extensive job training and matching.

Well our patients have to use very code y systems of using just their arm muscles to operate robotic limbs.

How do northern Europeans do it? All of them use active labor market policies, including flex time, school to work apprenticeships (especially Germany), and extensive job training and matching. 160

Individuals are encouraged to change positions regularly throughout the day to balance the muscles being used and the bones under pressure.

In a related German study, researchers used fMRI imaging to measure brain activity before and after injecting Botox to suppress smiling muscles.

Ophthalmoparesis or ophthalmoplegia refers to weakness ( paresis) or paralysis ( plegia) of one or more extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.