Standard adjustment of a standing martingale allows enough slack to bring the strap to the horse's throatlatch when the animal has its head in a relaxed, natural position.

A standing martingale may be used: if so, a breastplate is a necessity for safety.

Parade horse regalia, showing a noseband attached to a bridle, an example of a noseband used primarily for style, though it also is the point of attachment for a standing martingale.

* Fourth, it can be an attachment for other equipment, such as a standing martingale or shadow roll.

* Aachen or Flash noseband: The flash was originally developed for show jumping riders, so they could close the mouth lower down in addition to having an appropriate noseband for a standing martingale.

A flash noseband may be used with a standing martingale when the martingale is attached to the cavesson piece.

Due to its position on the lower part of the face, it should not be used with a standing martingale.

# A relatively strong noseband, often on its own headstall, may be worn for the purpose of supporting a standing martingale or tiedown.

The two most common types of martingale, the standing and the running, are used to control the horse's head height, and to prevent the horse from throwing its head so high that the rider gets hit in the face by the horse's poll or upper neck.

The standing martingale.

The standing martingale, also known as a " tiedown " or a " head check ," has a single strap which is attached to the girth, passes between the horse's front legs and is fixed to the back of the noseband.

A variation of the standing martingale, called a tiedown, is seen almost exclusively in the western riding disciplines.

A tiedown is adjusted much shorter than a standing martingale and is intended primarily to prevent the horse from flipping its head up when asked to abruptly stop or turn in speed events.

The noseband can be of leather, but may also be of lariat rope, or even plastic-covered cable, which can make the western tiedown considerably harsher than the English-style standing martingale.

The standing martingale is competition legal for show hunter and hunt seat equitation riders over fences in the US, show jumping competitions in the UK, and is permissible and in common use in fox hunting, polocrosse, horseball, and polo.

The standing martingale is more restrictive than the running martingale because it cannot be loosened in an emergency.

A horse that trips in a standing martingale could potentially fall more easily because its range of motion is restricted.

If a horse falls wearing an incorrectly fitted standing martingale, the animal cannot extend its neck fully, plus will have a more difficult time getting back up.

A standing martingale can be attached to the cavesson ( the upper, heavier strap ) of a flash noseband, but not to the lower, " flash " or " drop " strap.

If used in conjunction with a gag bit, a standing martingale can trap the head of the horse, simultaneously asking the horse to raise and lower its head and providing no source of relief in either direction.

A running martingale provides more freedom for the horse than a standing martingale, as the rider can release pressure as soon as the desired result is achieved.

`` The standing or rank of an actor in a given social system is determined by the evaluation placed upon the actor and his acts in accordance with the norms and standards of the system ''.

In October 1994, Panama's Legislative Assembly approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the creation of a standing military force, but allowing the establishment of a special temporary military to counter acts of " external aggression.

Later, King Edgar refounded the nunnery, in around 960, as a Benedictine house under the rule of St Ethelflaeda who was sanctified for such acts as the chanting of psalms late at night, whilst standing naked in the freezing water of the nearby River Test.

Also, because there be some that, taking pleasure in contemplating their own power in the acts of conquest, which they pursue farther than their security requires, if others, that otherwise would be glad to be at ease within the modest bounds, should not be invasion increase their power, they would not be able long time, by standing only on their defence, to subsist.

Finally, after the Fox gives an extended dissertation on Tweetle Beetles who fight ( battle ) with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle ( a Tweetle Beetle Bottle Puddle Paddle Battle Muddle ), Knox acts on his frustration by stuffing Fox into the bottle, reciting a tongue-twister of his own:

Taking its fixed point from below, it acts upon the pelvis, supporting it and the trunk upon the head of the femur ; this is especially obvious in standing on one leg.

The Militia acts not only as New Crobuzon's police force, but also as its standing army and an intelligence-gathering operation.

The Permanent Council, composed of ten elected members representing the Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao regions, acts in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws of the CBCP, and the policies and standing decisions of the Plenary Assembly.

If a warrior remains standing on a temple, it acts as a sanctuary where they become invisible to enemies around them and heal hit points at twice their normal rate.

" Les Brutes " ( 1980 ) describes the savage acts done by the Warsaw Pact military forces at the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia, " H & D " ( 1979 ), with " H & D " standing for " Hôpital & Débiles " (" Asylum & Psychos "), accuses the Soviet Union and its secret services ( KGB ) of suppressing dissent by sending political opponents to psychiatric hospitals under fake diagnoses.

As the propellant explodes and expands, the standing breech ( a rigid, immovable object ) acts to prohibit rearward movement of the cartridge and causes the expanding forces to move against the bullet ( a somewhat more movable object ), propelling the bullet toward the muzzle.

In some acts, the magician is locked in the box first, then appears standing atop the box.

# Single oarsman with one oar, standing near the stern of the boat ( the oar also acts as a rudder )

Under the reform, all practices having no authority other than custom were to be abandoned, canonical regulations were to be followed not mechanically but in spirit, and acts intended to improve an individual's standing on the road to nirvana but having no social value were rejected.

In the case of truly rare acts, where the audience member has been touched emotionally by the performance, they may give a " silent O ", which is the same as a " standing O ", but without the humming.

From 1959 to about 1994 — before the Mother Lode tourist boom — a summer theater company called the " Claypipers ' staged comedic melodramas with interspersed " olio " ( song and dance ) acts to mostly standing room only audiences.

I was standing beside her, watching the outspread palms and wondering about the old horsehair sofa against the wall on which he sometimes napped.

To return now to the four-element physics, a mixture of muddy, frothy water will, when standing in a jar, separate out with earth at the bottom, water on top, and the air on top of that.

`` I must then be standing on the line between France and Germany ''.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

He whirled around, suddenly hot all over, finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed.

Start with the class standing in a circle, with weight on the right foot and the left extended a little way into the circle.

`` Do you see that pretty girl standing next to the car with slacks on ''??

It is not difficult to see that the stamens of the catkin are always arranged in pairs, and that each individual flower is nothing but one such pair standing on a green, black-tipped little scale.

After all, the henpecked husband with his shrewish wife is a comic figure of long standing, in literature and on the stage, as Dr. Schillinger points out.

Leg cramps, one person tells me, were relieved by standing barefoot with the weight of the body on the heel and pressing down hard.

She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??

The white policeman standing on a Harlem street corner finds himself at the very center of the revolution now occurring in the world.

They've got no official standing on this side of the Bay.

Cooper was beside his car, on the curb at the right, just standing there morosely ; ;

It was a level at which some of the investors standing on the sidelines were thought likely to buy the pivotal issues represented in the averages.

Gallery Director John Walker greeted the group, standing on one of the benches in the downstairs lobby to speak to them.

The crowd staged its own mad scene in salvos of cheers and applause and finally a standing ovation as Miss Sutherland took curtain call after curtain call following a fantastic `` Mad Scene '' created on her own and with the help of the composer and the other performers.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

This type of military fiefdom enabled the nomadic Turks to draw on the resources of the sedentary Persians, Turks and other established cultures within the Seljuq realm, and allowed Alp Arslan to field a huge standing army, without depending on tribute from conquest to pay his soldiery.

Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women — his largest sculptures — entitled Grande femme debout I through IV ( 1960 ).

The polygonal walls of the acropolis may still be seen in a fair state of preservation on a circular hill standing about above the little plain of Exarcho ; one gateway remains, and there are also traces of town walls below.

He felt that he could not always rely on the local populace in providing a loyal army ; and therefore bought a massive standing army consisting mainly of Berbers from North Africa as well as slaves from other areas.