If the giraffe wants to bend down to drink, it either spreads its front legs or bends its knees.

Tiberius received the diadem on his knees ; and Justin, who in his abdication appeared most worthy to reign, addressed the new monarch in the following words: " If you consent, I live ; if you command, I die: may the God of heaven and earth infuse into your heart whatever I have neglected or forgotten.

Because of this, members of this cofradia are referred to as the “ bent ones .” If the procession stops, they are allowed to rest only by going down on hands and knees.

If bars are applied between the knees and between the ankles, the subject may be forced to bend their knees, making walking even harder.

" The third time, he told her, " If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web ...." On the fourth occasion, he gave her the true reason: that he did not cut his hair in fulfillment of a vow to God ; and Delilah, when Samson was asleep on her knees, called up her man to shave off the seven locks from his head, then betrayed him to his enemies: " The Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass ; and he did grind in the prison house.

If the exercise is not done correctly or the rider's position is bad, injuries can occur ; problems with the lower back and knees are most common.

If the lock-on is yellow, the player slips the bag over his head and continuously knees the enemy in the head.

If the evening gown is trumpet shaped, it is tight-fitting until it reaches the knees, where it flares.

If all manners of labor were forbidden to thee you would fall to your knees and beg an early death.

If possible, let the feet extend back a bit over the body toward the head, but do not let the knees bend.

# If seated, the kaishakunin will rise slowly, first on his knees, then stepping with the right foot while drawing the katana very slowly and silently and standing up in the same fashion ( keeping in mind that the opponent ( teki ) is not an enemy, but rather a fellow samurai ).

If the hamstrings are very strong or tight, the knees are bent to allow the spine to lengthen fully.

If holding the guitar in the normal vertical position, it is more common to use the tube type of slide.

If both have the working end passing over the standing line, slide the second loop underneath the first one.

If you made both loops with the working end under the standing line, slide the second loop over the first one.

In all cases, resting contact requires special treatment: If two objects collide ( a posteriori ) or slide ( a priori ) and their relative motion is below a threshold, friction becomes stiction and both objects are arranged in the same branch of the scene graph.

If it were to catastrophically slide into the ocean, it could generate a wave with an initial height of about at the island, and a likely height of around at the Caribbean and the Eastern North American seaboard when it runs ashore eight or more hours later.

If the stirrup is too far forward, on the toes, the rider risks losing if he pushes with too much pressure ( forcing it off the foot ) or too little ( allowing it to simply slide off ).

If a pawn lands at the start of a slide ( except those of its own colour ) by direct movement or as the result of a switch with the 11 card or a Sorry card, it immediately moves to the last square of the slide.

If one lamp fails during a presentation, the presenter can merely move a lever to slide the spare into position and continue with the presentation, without needing to open the projection unit or waiting for the failed bulb to cool before replacing it.

If too much throttle is applied during cornering, the drive wheels will lose traction and slide sideways.

If a whole column is cleared, the elements slide to the center of the field.

If one attempts to slide on an indoor field, painful burns and / or cuts can occur.

If the person performing the spinal tap rapidly looks at the heated wet mount slide the trophozoites can be seen to swarm while monocytes do not.

If the patient uses the supine position, the physician will ask the patient to slide down to the end of the examination table until their buttocks are positioned just beyond the end.

If the event happened 67 ns after the last clock, then the triggered oscillator transition will slide by − 1 ns after each subsequent clock pulse.

If the defensive player moves away from second base as he prepares to throw the ball toward first, the baserunner may still slide directly toward the defensive player, even though that means sliding away from second base itself.

If a baserunner strays too far from the base when attempting a take-out slide, the umpire may declare the slide to be an example of illegal interference and call an extra out.

If each angle and slide distance is known, the position and orientation of the end of the robot arm relative to the base can be computed with the simple trigonometry in robot control.

If multiple tires aquaplane, the vehicle may lose directional control and slide until it either collides with an obstacle, or slows enough that one or more tires contact the road again and friction is regained.

If all four wheels aquaplane at once, the car will slide in a straight line, again towards the outside of the bend if in a turn.

If a double play has begun, and the runner running to second knows he will be forced out, he will often try to aid the runner running to first base by performing a take-out slide, to stop the player with the ball from throwing to first.

If the slide coagulase test is negative, a tube test should follow as a confirmation.

If, as the Discworld version of the popular " big bang theory " states, Great A ' Tuin is moving to its mating grounds, then at the point of mating might the civilizations of the Disc be crushed or simply slide off?

* If the offence attempts a forward pass and it is intercepted by the defence ; the defence takes possession immediately ( and may try to advance the ball on the play ).

If the fibers are first aligned by combing them and then the spinner uses a worsted type drafting method such as the short forward draw, the yarn is smoother and called a worsted ; by contrast, if the fibers are carded but not combed and the spinner uses a woolen drafting method such as the long backward draw, the yarn is fuzzier and called woolen-spun.

If the index finger of the right hand is pointed forward, the middle finger bent inward at a right angle to it, and the thumb placed at a right angle to both, the three fingers indicate the relative directions of the x -, y -, and z-axes in a right-handed system.

If an ineligible receiver is beyond the neutral zone when a forward pass which crosses the neutral zone is thrown, a foul of " ineligible receiver downfield " ( penalty — a loss of yardage, but not loss of down ) is called.

If a forward pass is caught near a sideline or endline it is a complete pass ( or an interception ) only if a receiver catches the ball in bounds.

If brass is used after this ring appears, it risks a crack, or worse, a complete head separation, which will leave the forward portion of the brass lodged in the chamber of the gun.

Since counter-clockwise may be defined in terms of up, forward, and right, this experiment unambiguously differentiates left from right using only natural elements: If they were reversed, or the atoms spun clockwise, the radiation would follow the spin axis instead of being opposite to it.

If for any reason there are complications, the village midwife will forward the ‘ patient ’ to the ‘ nurse ’, and if she is unable to help then they are forwarded to the Primary Health Center.

If the rotor disk is to be tilted forward ( to gain forward velocity ), its rotation requires that the downward net force on the blade be applied roughly 90 degrees ( depending on blade configuration ) before, or when the blade is to one side of the pilot and rotating forward.

If the sails are properly oriented with respect to the wind, then the net force on the sails will move the vessel forward.

If a word has two vowels, one far back in the mouth and the other far forward, more effort is required to pronounce the word than if the vowels were closer, and therefore one possible linguistic development is for these two vowels to be drawn closer together.

If he were one of the uninitiated it was necessary for him to bring forward witnesses to his innocence from among the initiated, whose number varied according to the number on the side of the accuser, but twenty-one in favour of innocence necessarily secured an acquittal.

If there is a problem with Release 11, the customer can return to Release 9 without experiencing dataset, configuration, or security profile compatibility problems ( fallback ) until ready to try moving forward again.

If necessary, the finite difference can be centered about any point by mixing forward, backward, and central differences.

If the link includes a communications relay satellite, the forward link will consist of both an uplink ( base station to satellite ) and a downlink ( satellite to mobile user ).

If the router does not know how to forward the packet, it typically drops the packet.

If it knows how to forward packet, it changes the destination physical address to that of the next hop router and transmits the packet.

If the wheel is leaned away from the vertical so that the top of the wheel moves to the left, the forward rim of the wheel also turns to the left.

This strategy also results in unanticipated, or " windfall " profits: If the contract is purchased forward twelve months at $ 100 and the actual price is $ 150, the refiner will take delivery of one barrel of oil at $ 100 and the other at a spot price of $ 150, or $ 125 averaged for two barrels: a gain of $ 25 relative to spot prices.

If B's rotation period is shorter than its orbital period, the bulges are carried forward of the axis oriented towards A in the direction of rotation, whereas if B's rotation period is longer the bulges lag behind instead.

If both servers are online or in some way connected to one another, the backup MX will typically queue a message briefly and immediately forward it to the primary MX.

If the ball is hit into the backward area, the batter may not pass first post until the ball is returned to the forward area.

If a forward canard is used for pitch control, rather than an aft tail, the canard is designed to meet the airflow at a slightly greater angle of attack than the wing.