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Keefer kept moaning and gripping for us to get rid of him; said he couldn't sleep in the cabin with a dead man.

"Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, depending on the placement of the antennas, " he said.

But unlike the novels on which those were based, Das Kapital has never been noted for its vivid characterisation or gripping plot.

A few of the men hold onto their composure by gripping armrests and clenching teeth, but their fear was written all over them.

If it never quite fulfils its state-of-the-nation aspirations, Babe's play is utterly gripping as an exaggerated police procedural.

With her arms under Kyla's body and her fingertips gripping the edge of the pool, Cindy used her head to push the child upward.

"I got goose bumps. It was like a dead person suddenly gripping your hand. " he said.

STOLEN is her gripping story of survival, of how she has to come to terms with her living nightmare--or die trying to fight it.

"You look as if someone was following you, boy, " the old man told Hiro. His eyes flashed softly, his hands gripping the umbrella tighter.

And yet, despite everything going really well for John, he was struggling, fighting addiction and a gripping depression.

'This was the happiest moment, ' she said, gripping the picture. 'But this is only a picture of me. I wanted a picture of my husband. '

But what was a melodramatic device in that film becomes gripping drama in "Zodiac" , which has also seen a refining of his visual style.

Blood-soaked pop theology for a doom-laden time, its effect that of a gripping yet reductive paradox: It lifts us downward.

Outwardly I was calm and reassuring, but I was beginning to feel fear gripping my throat.

One of a series of small ridges or grooves on the surface or edge of a metal object, such as a thumbscrew, to aid in gripping.

Followed by the Frenchman. Only his hands gripping a child, a beautiful woman holding the hands of children, the belly.

In April, Aisha granted a rare interview to the New York Times, summing up the sense of fatalism gripping her besieged family.

But none of these fixes will help much because they do not deal with the underlying anxieties now gripping American voters.

Ms. Fisher has certainly emerged as the star of a reality TV soap opera far more gripping than any part she was offered in Hollywood.

Dragging his injured leg, he pulled himself out on the wing, gripping the struts for support against the roaring wind and snow.

I was dizzy, but after a while it subsided and I got up, gripping the rail at the head of the bed, and I took my first step.

Bottled Lightning is a gripping introduction to this sophisticated technology and its place in our society.

With fear gripping her heart, Cindy pinched the child's nose shut and began puffing short breaths into her mouth.

A hot-burning drive motor propels the central gripping tread that runs the entire length of a Persuader's frame.

But, with an upbeat heroic theme and sensational plot of underground struggles, I have to say the story was gripping to a young mind.

All the way back to the surface Henry could feel his friend Louis gripping his hand hard.

He perched himself on the table, his hands gripping the edge of IT.

Any of various hooked or U-shaped metallic devices used FOR gripping or holding heavy objects.

It was the most fascinating time of my life and there were gripping years.

Now the national broadcast networks will agree to devote only a few hours to prime-time coverage of today's much less gripping conventions.

Gripping the handle, he slammed the door behind and plunged into water, with the saw bonded on his wrist.

A gripping study of sin, guilt and obsession, in which love proves to be the ultimate gamble.

In fact, what makes the series so gripping is a quality missing from most other supernatural shows: It has a sense of gravity.

Gripping the pistol, Kari peeked through the front-door curtain.

The opening between the jaws of a vise or other holding or gripping tool.

Most disturbing are the creature's paws, which are like leathery black hands. . . almost human in shape, with a thumb for gripping.

Besides being an instant topic of conversation, the extreme heat gripping much of the northern hemisphere is an economic phenomenon.

Strong winds, and a drought gripping south-east Australia, made for a lethal combustion.

Dialect is a little more informal--- "gripping" is a stronger word than " tyrannous " , yet the dialect does not sit very comfortably.

It is a gripping tale of high geopolitics and low cunning, and it is all about who gets to sit where.

The utility model relates to a gripping device used for gripping a steel belt waiting for being grinded.

The teacher said loudly that it was a gripping narrative about the war, and that all of us should enjoy reading it.

The utility model discloses a paper gripping device and a desk lamp with a gripping device, which is convenient for printing and reading.

With your feet on the floor, lift the hips and stretch the legs, firmly gripping the tops of the kneecaps with the quadriceps.

Pre - gripping: Touch and Line-out . Gripping a team - mate in the line-out prior to the ball being thrown in.

The disaster movie tonight was exciting and gripping, half way through the movie I remembered this photo, do you know why?

Just about anything can be turned into a gripping test of wits or stamina.

Drawing part: It has adopted pneumatic gripping and the famous brand frequency control systems which enable the stable drawing of the pipes.

If you're looking for a gripping tale of intrigue and fear, horror and hope, make this your next read. Tragic that it isn't fiction.

Super-gripping top and bottom surfaces help prevent safety seats from slipping and sliding for a more secure feel.

Raised toe bar design allows for the natural gripping motion of your foot, exercising your legs and aiding circulation.

"Living in China today, " he said, "is like watching a gripping film-it's just too hard to get up and leave half-way. "

The plurality of projections are formed at least on one of the first gripping surface and the second gripping surface.

Riding a Segway personal transporter means gripping a set of handlebars while standing on a platform positioned between two wheels.

Raised toe bar is designed to encourage the natural gripping motion of your feet, exercising your legs and aiding circulation.

The book's detailed inside accounts of Georgian and Western manoeuvring before, during and after the war are gripping.

The activity that diverts the average American for some four and a half hours each day should become more gripping, not less.

LaserMotive's beam struck a photovoltaic panel on the robot, generating electricity that turned a set of wheels gripping the cable.

The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a first handle connected to the outboard end of the first cross beam for gripping by a user.

THE long cycles of agriculture are seldom associated with gripping suspense.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping story.

Gripping device for measuring core resistivity which can regulate the holding force between the core and electrode is designed.

At this, one lone festival-goer stepped out from the crowd, wearing the clothes of a gentleman, but gripping the sword of a knight.

"And most certainly, fear is now widespread, gripping even seasoned investors. "

He found her sitting on the edge of their bed, her head bent, her hands gripping the mattress.

Whatever the flaws, this remains an often gripping (and splendidly illustrated) work from which two main lessons can be drawn.

Their tales make for gripping narratives , but they do not make sound science.

Ronnie talks us through clips of gripping footage that made snooker history and brings us action from all the top players.

Since the beginning of Games Age you have never seen such gripping tetris as this game is!

Mr Lieven is no less gripping when he writes about the crucial issue of logistics.

Londoners sickened by the violence gripping their city are using technology to fight back against this weekend's surge of local criminality.

They are made of the finest woods and perfectly shaped for easy gripping and swinging.

It was pointed out that body-gripping type active feeding system would be development tendency of feeding machine in the future.

I looked at the girl gripping Donny's arm. Though she'd been with him all night, I hadn't really noticed her, and she hadn't said a word.

Most of this section, notwithstanding a gratuitous sex scene plus some comic capers, lacks a gripping atmosphere.

This type of mechanism can increase the output force of the linear motor efficiently and reduce the applied voltage for gripping action.

We delineate three separate mechanisms, friction, suction, and interlocking, that contribute to the gripping force.

SELF-GRIPPING FASTENERS. DIMENSIONAL STABILITY. DETERMINATION OF WASHING AND DRYING VARIATIONS.

The story is so gripping; it makes you thirst for the next episode.

Then he sat, head to one side, hands gripping the arms of his chair, and thought.

A master-slave haptic device with gripping force feedback for the microsurgery of the blood vessel is presented.

Declining home prices have been at the root of the crisis gripping the financial market.

Cold fear is gripping the bellies of the elite, as they watch this progress, on schedule and in the sequence we described.

In short, the anxiety gripping the middle class is not simply a product of the current economic slowdown.

I remember, when my grandmother died, walking up the church aisle, gripping my mother's hand.

Manipulator with pneumatic tooling for gripping and inclination of cylinders having different dimensions.

She moves through the trailer gripping at counters and walls to steady herself, using her bright purple cane only when necessary.

You hold on to my leg, gripping hard, as your own bare legs stretch out behind you. I continue to spank you.

I was gripping the handle of the door so hard, I noticed my knuckles had gone totally white.

A gripping sensation deep in the pit of his stomach rose rapidly towards his throat.

This gripping story is the work of a collaboration between mega seller Patterson and Roughan.

By turn entertaining and funny examinations of the day-to-day work of policemen, they are also gripping and complex thrillers.

This opens up new possibilities for the design of simple, yet highly adaptive systems that excel at fast gripping of complex objects.

His film is as gripping as "Grbavica" , more complex and will appeal to a wider audience.

In this article, the friction coefficient, roughness, striking elasticity, static gripping force of top roller are measured.

Its gripping strength on the forefeet also recovered to up to 80 percent.

President Ahmadinejad left Iran to attend a summit in Russia, where he failed to mention the crisis gripping his country.

They are the ugly symptoms of a new "beauty terror" gripping Western society.

Their retail enthusiasm contrasts with the fear gripping those looking a little way ahead.

The troubles on the farm are emblematic of an overall feeling of paralysis gripping Japan, the world's second-largest economy.

It's good the England players got a taste of the excitement gripping the country before they left for World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

On the screwdriver is provided with a mobile apparatus for gripping screw.

To replace seat module, pull out of body by gripping at reinforcement ring.

America's financial and budgetary policies were the wellspring of the crisis gripping the world's financial markets.

Headlines that try too hard to be funny, clever, or gripping often fail.

The biggest handshake problems they identified were sweaty palms, limp wrists, gripping too hard and lack of eye contact.

The first three thrillers, while entertaining and gripping, occasionally suffer from unfocused and uneven writing.

In the light-pipe condition the string will be ejected from the wellbore if the gripping force of the slips is lost.

Here is a work which, in a chiaroscuro more gripping than the light of day, permits us to seize man's struggle against his hopes.

SELF-GRIPPING FASTENERS. STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS. METHODS OF TEST.

SELF-GRIPPING FASTENERS. CHARACTERISTICS OF DYEING FASTNESS. TESTS FOR DYEING FASTNESS.

Hold your toothbrush like a pencil, rather than gripping it like a handle.

Peace and quiet dispersiveness is good, remove the charcoal effectively, prevent the piston card from gripping.

Miss river's clan, the grandpas all degenerated to the degree of gripping a package of elder brother amplitude.

It has an ambitious president, who was elected following a long, gripping national campaign.

Manipulator with adjustable suction cups tooling (Venturi) for gripping and handling tanks.

Later he repeats the trick, this time lying face down while gripping the sides of the "magic carpet" .

Gripping force and synchronization are totally independent of each other.

His manner is measured, precise and academic, though he makes his points forcefully, gripping the table as he argues.

WOOD AND COMPOSITE-MATERIAL PACKAGING. DEVICES FOR GRIPPING TRANSPORT PACKAGES.

Any of various devices for gripping or holding things together; a clasp or fastener.

By Harper Lee. It's a gripping story set in a small southern town with memorable characters.

Hand gripping , by interlocking fingertips and pulling arms in opposite directions .

Manipulator with suction cup tooling (Venturi) for gripping and inclination of cylinders.

For me, Milan still go into Wednesday night's potentially gripping return leg as slight favourites.

Amid the devastation gripping Zhouqu County has emerged hope and new life. Twelve babies were born after the disaster in the region.

A long-simmering economic crisis has erupted, gripping the country in a fierce and unrelenting embrace.

Mr Rees takes the reader on a gripping journey into the depths of Palestinian society.

Manipulator with suction cups tooling (Venturi) for gripping and inclination of tanks.

A weighted mass is disposed at the second end of the gripping member.

Running shoes are too gripping on the floor, and that's the reason why i sprained my ankle.

But Murakami also includes less-expected, and therefore more gripping, violence.

In the heavy-pipe condition, the string will drop into the wellbore if the gripping force is lost.

Manipulator with suction cup tooling (Venturi) for gripping and manual rotation of tanks.

Manipulator with suction cup tooling (Venturi) for gripping and releasing the tanks into the car.

The anti-government uprising in Libya quickly became the most violent of all the protests gripping the Arab world.

China's high inflation has shoppers furrowing their brows and gripping their wallets these days.

Manipulator with suction cups tooling (Venturi) for gripping and handling of tanks.

Television is extremely good at creating characters and gripping stories.

The move was prompted by the crisis gripping Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The kinematics and dynamics simulations of the gripper for gripping the different shape objects with ADAMS are carried out.

Television's ability to build brands by surrounding adverts with gripping content is unsurpassed.

Young people are weaker in controlling themselves and when they find the computer games gripping they will quickly become addicted.

Assists one-handed dressing by passing through button hole and gripping thread of button.

These are a disaster, it is incomparably gripping, leaving disaster among the great people who suffer the pain.

this haptic device can realize the interactive gripping force sensing under the master-slave manipulation.

Oh yes, that was very powerful. Well, one has to admit that it was a gripping story.

But, for the gripping story of an extraordinary figure in American history, this is a good place to start.

The results in Fig. 6 show a linear variation of the finger resistance with the applied gripping force.

AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping has called the surge of Somali piracy an extension of the anarchy and political chaos gripping the country.

The squeeze is worst in the construction industry but is also gripping sectors as different as baking and banking.

This Level 3 Reader is packed with action and illustrated with gripping and colorful comic-book style artwork throughout.

Perhaps the most dangerous phenomenon gripping the nation today is. . .

The story is so gripping , it makes you thirst for the nest episode.

This window is not an iron yarn, because this window above, that is gripping the entire castle of iron over the mantle.

Each material allows for different gripping ability.

The first three books make for pleasant and occasionally gripping beach reading.

Also, take note of the workpiece gripping force and balance.

After you have cultivated the reading habit, you can move on to more difficult stuff, but for now, go for the fun, gripping stuff.

Gripping and holding of objects are key tasks for robotic manipulators.

Forks gripping system for particular pallets .

Offensively she has large, sharp claws to assist with climbing and opposable thumbs to providing better gripping ability against opponents.

Past love to mania. This has the strong clench of the madman, this is gripping the ledge of unreason before plunging howling into the abyss.

Any of various hand or power tools with fixed or adjustable jaws for gripping, turning, or twisting objects such as nuts, bolts, or pipes.

In recent days Europe has been convulsed by the fiscal woes gripping Greece.

It's just that it doesn't make for an especially gripping book.

Thermo grip is a new gripping system for cutting in high speed and high precision.

Datong kaolin resource depot in C-P period coal series strata which is chief coal gripping gangue and bed's roof and floor kaolin.

sheer terror gripping tight their hearts with icy fingers.

SELF-GRIPPING FASTENERS. MECHANICAL STRENGT TESTS.

The ants connect by gripping each others' mandibles and claws.

The ongoing drought is gripping huge areas in Southwest China.

Gripping mode: Air compression type grip holder.

I still said nothing, and she lunged toward me, gripping my upper arms.

Apple said that "gripping almost any mobile phone in certain ways will reduce its reception by 1 or more bars. "

a gripping tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.

Her scholarly, gripping account is based on interviews with, and the unpublished diaries of, former PKK militants.

Gripping the plastic with my teeth wasn't good either.

In both cases, seeing the colour red led to the students gripping harder.

Her cello concerto is a complex, gripping affair.

Cronin's 750-page epic is part literature, part gripping horror yarn, but most importantly it's a vampire tale that doesn't feel cheap.

He listened, gripping my hand with the sure strength and calm he had always had.

New York has baked in a thick tropical heat and humidity that is gripping eastern America.

Cody smiled shyly, gripping my hand for dear life.

THE past year in the life of Barnes &Noble would make a gripping page-turner.

The programme, which has now run for six seasons, is the most gripping and intelligent thriller I have ever seen.

a gripping rendering of Peter Morgan's screenplay about three disparate people who all live in the shadow of death.

It's the state of America now that is the most gripping source of anxiety for Americans, not Al Qaeda or Iraq.

Much more gripping than an oil spill.

The play was so gripping, the audience couldn't take its eyes off the stage.

It can do four grasping models (gripping, pinching, lateral gripping and lateral pinching), and the wrist can bend and rotate.

Others think it says as much about the fear gripping the market as house prices in China tumble after soaring growth.

It's a way for soldiers to scale buildings using the kinds of tiny gripping hairs and sticky goop found in climbing animals in nature.

Using force or pressure, such as pinching pens, gripping the mouse too hard, or pounding the keyboard.

Amid the financial turmoil gripping the international economy it is easy to overlook the millions who are less fortunate than many of us.

The financial turmoil gripping Wall Street will probably spill over onto every other street in America.

The play was so gripping that the audience quickly-fied with the actors.

These are highly emotional and gripping experiences that are so compelling for them that ordinary reality seems bland.

They are gripping paintings but not engaging ones.

ON HER HAND -- GRIPPING Jake's convulsively, as she tries to anchor herself to this world for a few more seconds --

My hand hurt because I could not stop gripping my towel.

It is a film with gripping plot.

This is a gripping story, let a person fondle admiringly.

He also did his level best to make the weather forecast gripping.

To climb (a rope or pole, for example) by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs.

"Do you have a mobile phone? " he called out, gripping the handlebars of his bike in just one hand.

eg. I have read a gripping story.

I have a gripping pain in the abdomen.

"They can put away flower pots and improve their gripping ability, for example, " Neuberger says.

This had been gripping Hong Kong's often scurrilous press for some time, and it's no surprise Jonathan Watts's version proved a hit, too.

a dowel plate is arranged outside the ratchet tray, and the front end of the dowel plate is fixed on the gripping head;

which tells the gripping tale of how only a few days ago,

he felt his fingers close on the cold Snitch but was now only gripping the broom with his legs,

I'm gripping what I thought control Was falling faster

Gripping the Opportunity of University's Assessment and Promoting Construction and Development

Pliers and nippers - Pliers for gripping and manipulating - Dimensions and test values

Discussion on Gripping and Detection Technology of Feeding Cotton Layer in Carding Machine

I remember an old man Gripping my wrist, he was dying

the difference among different professional groups in gripping power isn't obvious;

gripping the inverted "umbrella" -shaped doping device on the grip holder of crystal seed;

Postures: standing, left hand gripping a 5-pound dumbbell, with wide legs and shoulders, knees relaxed, slightly bending;

a gripping mechanism with jaw is mounted at the right of the heater box;

Study on Bionics and Robot Arm for Gripping and Throwing of Factory-Sprouted Rice Seedlings

the gripping force is proportional to the force difference between two springs in the finger;

Research on Gripping Delivery Mechanism of Corn Harvester

Gripping beam with adjustable head for sluicegate gantry crane

Results Analysis of Gripping Power and ECG Examinations in Welders

Mechanical gripping device for flat specimens

Effect of gripping exercise on the radius bone mass of patients with Colles fracture

Gripping device for round specimens without thread

Master-Slave Haptic Device with Gripping Force Feedback

The Reverse Design of Gripping Teeth On-off Mechanism in the Printing Machine

The firm control is gripping tightly we two tacit understandings

Hydraulic gripping device for flat specimens

the navvy gripping the two redcoats , staggers forward with them

Part-gripping precision analysis of robotic assembly system based on deviation vectors

One year on, the story makes for a gripping read

b c . the most dangerous phenomenon gripping the nation today

im gripping on your handles,

The hands gripping the falling down shivers

Improvement on Structure of Gripping Jaw Cylinder in Semi-auto Hydraulic Lathe

Gripping Jaw Chuck of Vertical Lathe

I'm gripping at the ground I stand upon

Why Snakes Are So Gripping

Automatic production line featuring automatic gripping of work-in-process