tummy time English

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tummy time noun

— (US, colloquial) Time spent by an infant in the prone position while awake and supervised, supposed to reduce the risk of skull deformation from spending too much time supine.

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But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.

I just took it for granted that, by the time I was, say, 40, space travel would be a common thing.

It has entered the history books as the beginning of something new, a new era perhaps, but in any case a time of change.

His books - which he found time to write despite the hectic demands of diplomacy - were a unique combination of enormous erudition and crystalline clarity.

At a time when public debate in Israel is torn between pseudo-religious nationalist fanatics and anti-Zionists masquerading as post-modernists, the moral certitudes of Eban, for all their urbanity, may sound shallow.

How it is received may not only determine the state of Israel-Palestine negotiations for a considerable time to come, but Saudi Arabia's domestic peace as well.

Like history, social-scientific theory is written by the victors and shaped by the context and challenges of its time.

Now is the time to set new ambitious goals for Europe.

It is time for the Security Council to try to internationalize the most dangerous parts of the nuclear fuel cycle.

The time for business as usual is over.

At the same time, small farmers would receive a steady flow of income, which they could use for micro-investments to improve their household's wealth, education, and health.

We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.

And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.

But that doesn't mean that it won't work, at least for a time.

After adjusting for inflation, today's price is nowhere near the all-time high of January 1980.

At the time (2008-2009), large international banks had to be rescued by their home countries' governments when they ran into trouble.

But a financial crisis does not give policymakers the time that they once had to explain to voters why one step required another.

At the same time, the Palestinians become objects of romanticized identifications - one of the leaders of the NAFTHE motion was seen, prior to a meeting, draped in a Palestinian flag - and unwitting condescension.

But, in a currency union with huge differences in income and development levels, the short term can stretch out for a very long time.

At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.

A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.

Given the gravity of the economic crisis, the time has come for the EU to demonstrate its strengths whenever possible.