bendings

The problem with wanting to educate the public about Europe is that you would get an even bigger anti vote once the corruption, undemocratic practices, and rule bendings (hello Romania and Bulgaria) were better known.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

But Joe Nickell of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, a group of skeptical scientists who check out UFO sightings, spoon bendings and similar claims, has amassed a catalog of ordinary explanations for UFO photos.

Is There Anything To It? Evidence, Please. 2008

And he went on to discover to him his hidden beauties, striving to turn the reins of his reason with his bendings in graceful guise, whilst the Dervish turned away his face and said, I seek refuge with Allah!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

And now, life was returning to this thing and that on every side of me, with slow stretchings and bendings, with twitterings, with a little start and stir ....

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Whence it appears that in the structure of the universe the motions of living creatures are generally effected by a quaternion of limbs or of bendings.

The New Organon 2005

As the man turned towards us in his bowings and bendings, Tam suddenly sprang to his feet and shouted at him a piece of schoolboy rudeness then fashionable in Kirkcaple.

Prester John 2005

And though the river is from thirteen to fifteen feet in depth at its lowest ebb, and broad enough to allow a steamer to ply upon it, the suddenness of the bendings would prevent navigation; but, should the country ever become civilized, the Chobe would be a convenient natural canal.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

If, however, we make allowances for roughness of bottom, bendings of channel, and sudden descents at cataracts, and say the declivity is even seven inches per mile, those 800 miles between the east coast and the great falls would require less than 500 feet to give the observed velocity, and the additional distance to this point would require but 150 feet of altitude more.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

If the numerous bendings and windings, and ups and downs of the paths could have been measured too, the distance would have been found at least fifteen miles a day.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

The carriage having reached the walls, followed their bendings to a considerable extent.

The Italian 2004