Sentence examples for firm kick from inspiring English sources

"Tres, Pietersen and Harmo need a firm kick up the ar$e, like wot Geraint got.

"You just make that door entry the goal," he said, giving the ball a firm kick kitchenward.

Dressed in denim capris, a black-and-yellow striped T-shirt, and white loafers, she gave it a firm kick, and then a few more, but it wouldn't budge.

And Stevie – after watching Liam curl his lip disdainfully at the idea of a job in the wrong kind of retail – looked as if she thought he should get nothing but a firm kick up the backside from an Asda-brand trainer.

A French team who man-for-man looked to have all the attributes of an outstanding side but who, collectively, had about as much subtlety as a firm kick in the unmentionables from Alain Esteve or Laurent Rodriguez or any other one of their storied hard men of the past.

Some days you need a kind word, and other days you need a firm kick in the butt.

The deal comes in the same week that Starwood Capital Group, a private equity firm, kicked off the auction for French champagne house Taittinger.

But McCurley says this decision was only made because the judge who intervened is especially sympathetic and the firm "kicked up an almighty fuss", mobilising her MP and women's rights organisations.

This is almost comical: To handle FORBES' inquiries, Moore's office retained the Durham, N.C. law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, and it turns out lawyers from that firm kicked in $34,560 to Moore's campaigns.

Ilhan gathers the reins tightly and with a couple of firm kicks to his horse's girth, the pair canter off, both black mane and hair swishing in the breeze.

The quirky, San Diego-based software firm kicked off 2010 with the introduction of the Sony Dash, a Web-enabled alarm clock that runs Chumby's Internet applications and other streaming media.