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They were tough football players doing what they love, which was crushing skulls and separating shoulders on the football field.
Well, it means that our big carbon footprint is crushing the very creatures that sustain us.
Second aspect: I still had crushing migraine headaches.
Powerful, crushing blades.
If there is a monster underground, it is the crushing psychological remoteness that begins to hit every member of the team once you cross about three days inbound from the nearest entrance.
With one look at Benandonner’s thick neck and crushing fists, Finn turned and ran.
Now, stories like Naghma's unfortunately are all too common, and from the comforts of our home, we may look at these stories as another crushing blow to women's rights.
Then, in the aftermath of a crushing naval defeat for Athens in 411 BC, Aristophanes wrote "Lysistrata."
What I see is that building sustainable security has a lot less to do with crushing enemies, has a lot less to do with winning on the battlefield, and has a lot more to do with protecting victims and building stability.
60, 70 meters down, I keep falling, faster and faster, because the pressure is crushing my body more and more.
The pressure starts crushing me, and it doesn't feel bad at all.
You'd have to be very careful when you're shaking someone's hand so you don't end up breaking their bones or crushing everyone you hug.
They were simply interested in crushing our government, just because they did not want to have to deal with the architectural fault lines that were running through the Eurozone.
Patients describe it as crushing or vice-like.
And this was done to convince them that they were much better off under crushing white rule than they were living in a black and free nation.
Love still feels totally maddening and crushing some days, and when I feel really frustrated, I have to remind myself: my job in this relationship is to talk to my partner about what I want to make together.
I was like, "How do we reduce the crushing vulnerability of people living in these types of fragile settings?
So rather than encase all that variety and diversity in buildings of crushing sameness, we should have an architecture that honors the full range of the urban experience.
Now, my dad is my biggest fan, so in that crushing moment where he wanted to kill my new little life form, I realized that actually I had failed him, both as a daughter and a scientist.
Bill said he had this crushing depression for weeks, and when he went back to work, his colleagues would say things to him like, "Hey, did you fry him?"
He'll find Jamie wherever he is, you know, wherever kids are, crushing rocks by a stream or something, and take him a little message that says, "Hey, dinner's ready.
She had a family history of heart disease, however, and one day, she had the sudden onset of crushing chest pain.
They have sticky bits on their ribs that prevent their enormous stomach from crushing their lungs.
A lack of confidence pulls us down from the bottom and weighs us down from the top, crushing us between a flurry of can'ts, won'ts and impossibles.
This barrage of negativity is what we're up against: the crushing statistics, the violence, the mental health risks, the well-meaning but flawed response my parents gave me when I came out, that they didn't want me to have a harder life.
It's crushing when the audience sees it the right way.
My students were writing about their crushing anxiety, the unbearable pressure on them to succeed, their mental health diagnoses, their suicide attempts, how alone and isolated they felt and wondered if they'd gone into the right profession, and they weren't even doctors yet.
Sharks with crushing tooth plates.
Crabs, stingrays and other fishes with crushing teeth appeared, smashing shells and leading to an arms race between predators and prey.
And that makes failure seem much more crushing.
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