Can you touch your toes without bending your legs?

Karenin frowned, and bending his hands backward began cracking his fingers.

Bending the cable too tightly can also adversely affect signal quality.

Two figures in dark dresses (they had been light coloured before) stood bending over something.

I can place the palms of my hands on the floor without bending my knees.

I can place the palms of my hands on the floor without bending my knees.

Bending forward and catching the steps with his goloshes, Kapitonich ran after her, trying to overtake her.

While the state is bending over backwards to host the summit, it's not acting for its citizens.

The woodcock that was flying high up instantly folded its wings and fell into the thicket, bending down the thin young shoots.

'But you are ill or in trouble,' he continued without releasing her hand, but bending over it. 'What were you thinking about?'

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

Nor did anyone point out that the EU member states spend much of their time bending their formal rules if it suits them.

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.

Anna stopped and, throwing back her head and bending it to one side, she began with her quick hands to take out her hairpins.

We grow straight and tall, without bending. (Holiday July 7th is the Tanabata Festival) Why does it have to be rainy on Sun day?

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.

And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer But my breath fogged up the glass And so I drew in a face and laughed

To the right of the door stood a bed on which sat the boy, his nightshirt unbuttoned, bending his little body backward, stretching himself and finishing his yawn.

That bombing has been going on for over three weeks now, but there is still no sign that the NATO allies are succeeding in bending Milosevic to their will.

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.

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.

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.

And with this concept the leftists go like woooow , she says, bending backwards, and continues Private property is what we amass in our lifetime starting with our first properties body and mind.

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.

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.

How many of you haven t heard someone say we need a good man, who doesn t only think about himself ? she says, bending over and then standing up again to regain her previous proud attitude.

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 her left arm she put her hand on his shoulder, and her little feet in their pink shoes began moving quickly, lightly, and rhythmically in time with the music, over the smooth parquet floor.

The little girl lay with her head thrown back, wriggling in the wet nurse's arms, and would neither take the breast nor cease screaming, despite the hushing of two nurses who were bending over her.

Prone to natural disasters from what seems like the beginning of time, Bangladesh has become very good at dealing with all that Mother Nature decides to throw at her, bending like bamboo but never breaking.

But the US believes that even this is not enough it will interpret these rules in ways which suit its political interests, bending and breaking them at will, challenging those who do not like it to do something about it.

Now he only saw that Makhotin was quickly galloping away, while he, reeling, stood alone on the muddy, stationary ground before him, breathing heavily, lay Frou Frou, who, bending her head toward him, gazed at him with her beautiful eyes.

When he moved toward her his fine eyes brightened with a special tenderness, and carefully and respectfully bending over her with a scarcely perceptible, happy, and (as it seemed to Levin) modestly triumphant smile, he held out to her his small broad hand.

'Won't you take a seat?' He pointed to a chair beside a writing table covered with papers, and himself took the principal seat, rubbing his little hands with their short fingers covered with white hair and bending his head to one side.

'For one thing, I did not give him any message for you and for another I never say what is not true. But chiefly, I wanted to stay, so I stayed,' he replied with a frown. 'Anna! Why? Why?...' he asked after a short pause, bending toward her and opening his hand, hoping that she would place hers in it.

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. Sexual abuse in US operated prisons got worse and worse over time, ultimately including, according to doctors who examined detainees, anal sodomy.