Examples of flex
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A new urban bourgeoisie was growing, demanding change, and flexing its muscles.
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This allows the proximal phalanx to flex separately to the other two, wrapping the fingers more around a target object.
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The change in strike could be wholly or partly due to flexing of the eastern domain boundary about the antiform axis.
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As a result, optimized policy in a flex-prices nominal-debt structure entails sizable inflation volatility, but only small movements of the tax rate.
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But from the point of view of the mathematician, sort of flexing his mathematical muscles, one would not be so excited.
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Furthermore, so-called flex-flex pairs do not have to be considered in this case, in contrast to general higher-order unification.
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During swing, as the joint flexes, more differences are seen.
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Attacks of brief vertigo, nausea and imbalance provoked by turning over in bed, lying down, sitting up from lying position, extending or flexing the neck.
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Two arms are indicated on the frontal side of the sculpture, first running parallel to the torso, then flexing slightly inward.
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Since the tendons get stiffer as they are stretched, they allow finger joints to flex or extend within a limited range.
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Pressure in the antecubital fossa will flex the forearm so that it can be grasped and delivered over the chest.
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Apparently, federalism is a concept in flex, and presents itself in various forms of political arrangement.
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Once the elbow is flexed, the operator continues to guide the hand around the elbow to grasp the forearm and wrist as described above.
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The paper here shows that similar predictions (effect of flex vs. sticky prices) hold when policy is described by simple optimized rules.
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Their arms are placed in the following position: forearms neutral, 2 elbows flexed to about radians and shoulders slightly abducted and flexed.
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Nevertheless, it appears that, over the course of practice in the task, expansion rate comes to specify when and how fast to flex the elbow.
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The head flexes and resistance is avoided once the head aligns its long axis along the long axis of the birth canal.
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This moment will cause the knee to flex for floor clearance.
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Lateral from the facet, the anterior side flexes slightly laterally for the flat surface that indicates the distal contact with the fibula.
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By contrast, a flex-prices structure with nominal debt implies very different optimized tax behavior than the baseline sticky-prices model.
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The paper here shows that similar predictions (effect of flex- vs. sticky prices) hold when policy is described by simple optimized rules.
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If the proximal joint is halted then the distal joints flex (b), however unobstructed the two close together (c).
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For example, other more complex polycentric knees with six or more linkages have been designed to flex up to 15 degrees during early stance phase.
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to make someone become happier or less worried, or to become happier or less worried
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