What with his back the way it was, he couldn't even bend down or
kneel down or squat to examine the body.
That one doesn't disengage me at all: I kneel very consciously, sinking my weight onto my knees with a sense of relief.
"The peasants had no understanding of what was going on, so they would kneel, as if before a holy event they were more or less watching."
"On Sundays and feasts the people who were full participants would stand, bowing their heads during the elevation, but on penitential days they would kneel throughout." By the 15th and 16th century, "all Masses began to be modeled on the low Mass and people would kneel throughout, except at the gospel, When they stood."
Marcie's knees bother her, so she doesn't kneel. Instead, she and Frank sit close together and say the rosary.
As I kneel in the chapel trying to pray, I can't help but think about all those who have come here before me in the last 24 hours.
We kneel several times as part of the service on Yom Kippur, and once on Rosh Hashana, because that's when it was done in Temple times.
I gave some thought this year at Yom Kippur to whether, during the Great Aleinu--when, at our Sixth and I service, many people kneel and prostrate themselves, not just the rabbi and the cantor--I should encourage people to kneel instead, as a way to connect to the football players who are "taking a knee."
They're kneeling in order to build power, whereas we kneel in order to give power away, to show our submission to God.
If any type of air leak occurred within the overall system, the van just kneeled to the ground and had no backup to lift it so the operator could drive it to the repair shop.
This allows the vehicle to be operable in the upright position and reach a repair shop even though the kneel may malfunction.
In isolated cases, the chain that pulls down the vehicle gets tangled and causes even this system to be stuck in the kneel position.
