He tucked into the figurative fetal position to take his chances in overtime, a move that showed just how little trust Saban had in his quarterback and his wayward kickers.
A figurative illustration of the relative positions of the SNPs in their protein-coding genes is shown in Figure 2.
Second, geography continues to matter, and Greece's position - on the figurative hot corner of Europe - means that without stability there, there will be an open gateway for migrant and refugee populations fleeing the violence in the Levant, the larger Arab world, and northern Africa.
In a country where products like iPhones are made but rarely invented, Lei Jun — entrepreneur, billionaire and professed Jobs acolyte — is positioning himself and his company as figurative heirs of Mr. Jobs.
(88) We're now in a position to draw a distinction between literal comparisons and figurative comparisons, similes, that accords with the idea that to speak figuratively is to speak so as to stand corrected.
In Quarles' figurative paintings, bodies never quite lay in repose — instead, these jittery figures take on contorted, often eroticized positions that seem to push them to the limits of the frame.
For both countries, it puts them in the position they strenuously sought to avoid: negotiating with a figurative gun to their heads.
