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We were running up and down the court, laughing our asses off as the players got hammered with no whistles.

Jitters about whether the emergency loan package would be enough to stem the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis also hammered Spanish stocks.

When tearing down the walls, he found that there was a lizard stuck there because a nail from outside was hammered into one of its feet.

Beethoven thought of an air, hammered at it, altered it again and again.

The exhausted Lev reached the temple and hammered with his failing strength on the door. At least he'd made it to here. . .

The cover, which had already heed roughly fitted into position, was now hammered down.

Petersburg again, that statues of him are toppling everywhere and that the country he hammered together is falling apart.

Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

The cover, which had already been roughly fitted into position, was now hammered down.

With the details of an additional bail-out for Greece still to be hammered out, Germany wants private investors to share the burden.

Every bank investor has been hammered in the past two years, of course, but some have done much better than others.

Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger the number of nails hammered gradually dwindled down.

Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily dwindled down.

They made the lampstand of pure gold and hammered it out, base and shaft; its flower like cups, buds and blossoms were of one piece with it.

Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

And the author might have hammered even harder on how the phenomenon is affecting our response to issues like climate change.

sailing ship. Instead, it was hammered into a simple fishing boat and was taken.

In the early dawn civilization mankind discovered that a heated piece of metal was more easily hammered into different shapes.

If it overestimates, the company fears getting hammered in a bust.

It seems Pongracz had gotten hammered and decided to take her drunken anger out on the old man.

For a fast dash of flash, top a dark countertop with a piece of hammered-aluminum sheet metal, available at home centers.

Just as bad is the now common practice of "binge drinking, " otherwise known as getting hammered on the weekend.

But the Japanese take great pride in the agreement hammered out in their country, as they do their environmental efforts generally.

In the first week of my Yale career it was hammered home to us that plagiarism was the capital crime in the academic world.

This point is hammered home by Moscow, the great loser of the cold war.

So the next morning when he was out taking a walk in the roof garden, she hammered anvil exactly where the fly had stayed.

When fuel prices started falling back to earth in the second half, a credit crunch and economic slump hammered sales of any kind of vehicle.

The speaker hammered away at her point but the crowd did not believe her.

Frosty reception , a winter storm, yes, another one, hammered parts of the midwestern and northeastern of United States this week.

The buds and the branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

By the end of the month details have been hammered out and a modus vivendi has been established to create the foundations for future growth.

For many, even while experiencing weekend fun, we dread the numerous tasks with which we'll be hammered on Monday morning.

The oligarchs hammered out a secret deal that would enable them to acquire key industries at a knockdown price.

Ultimately, the two companies agreed to work together and hammered out a unique revenue-sharing deal.

The conditions imposed by the government were hammered out over a week of negotiations.

I got hammered and fell on the coffee table knocking all their drinks all over the place.

What does that mean? We can never come back to it often enough, even though I think I have hammered it out a little.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have hammered out a common position on the euro debt crisis.

When they hammered out a joint programme for government, the main theme other than austerity was decentralisation.

Some theories on why the chain armor that knights used to wear was called mail include the idea that it was hammered together.

She feels pressure from her friends and her family, and the message gets hammered in by China's state-run media too.

The crisis has hammered Ireland's economy and left taxpayers with a bill that will take a generation to pay.

The "yang qin" , a hammered dulcimer of Near Eastern origin, is commonly used for entertainment.

Nissan's strategy is one example of a slow but steady recovery in TV ad spending, which has been hammered by the dot-com bust and recession.

Instead the once strong tree was hammered and sawed into a simple fishing boat.

The company said profit dropped 12 percent, after it was hammered by recalls that pulled its products from shelves.

Instead the once strong tree was hammered and awed into a simple fishing boat.

After much discussion the negotiators hammered out a compromise settlement.

Hammered out the dents in the fender; hammered out a contract acceptable to both sides.

Finally, one night in 1990, when he was "so hammered [he could] barely stand, " he decided to check into an Arizona rehab facility.

The opening of trade in services, for instance, might be hammered out by smaller groups of exporters.

The deal, finally hammered out early yesterday, had been expected to commit countries to deep cuts in carbon emissions.

She was hammered pretty hard in her last evaluation.

Moreover, many of the small early sparks between the transition team and members of the legislative branch have been hammered out.

BP's disaster has mired a regional economy, hammered the company's share price and dragged down the FTSE 100.

As a result, this drought is likely to have the cultural impact of the great 1930s drought, which hammered an already weakened nation.

These independent artisan-artists made their pieces out of metal, but he hammered and riveted while she moulded.

The old ideas hammered into their heads by the priests no longer fitted at all.

Since 2006 it has been hammered by an electoral crisis, a swooning economy and the swine-flu epidemic.

Kaka might want to reconsider his loyalty to AC Milan after the Italians were hammered by his summer suitors Chelsea in Moscow.

With his bow drill, the workman bores small cavities for brads of soft copper to be hammered in, binding the pieces.

That was the lesson hammered into the heads of investors in the 1990s when the "cult of the equity" was at its peak.

And that was back in the day when I could have hammered and drilled.

AGAINST the clock, as usual, California's leaders on July 20th hammered out a budget agreement.

Citigroup has been hammered by the fallout from the subprime-mortgage debacle and its repercussions in financial markets.

Before today's news, its stock has been hammered, down over 40% from the beginning of the year.

The Clarets were hammered at Anfield as Yossi Benayoun scored a hat-trick, with a Dirk Kuyt goal sandwiched in between.

So when a government ban on the advertising of Sina's fortune-telling phone - message service hammered its share price, Shanda swooped.

The buds and branches shall be of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.

Throughout the campaign, the Republicans have hammered away, above all, at economic issues: the deficit, the debt and unemployment.

Week after week, columnist Vicky Pelaez hammered away at U. S. policy in the pages of a New York City newspaper.

The system could detect if a plate was being hammered and which one, thus indicating the location of the person hitting it .

All joints shall be hammered to assist the cleaning of these places.

Lowering the nuclear risk from Iran, a draft deal has been hammered out in Vienna, Austria.

The required beliefs cannot be hammered in; the needed attitudes cannot be plastered on.

when all sides have "converged" on accurate and identical assessments, a surrender or peace deal can be hammered out.

Teams now more likely to shut up shop when getting hammered against expectation to avoid further embarrassment.

Chile continues to get hammered with what might be called aftershocks except that they are so large in relation to the original 8. 8 quake.

Hammered by the plasticizer scandal, natural fruit juice becomes extremely popular, and the price of fruits continues to rise.

An included SoundFont focusing on hammered instruments (tubular bells, piano, xylophone) is included with the Downloads.

Our differences were at last hammered out in discussion.

It is a two? story building made of red and grey brick, dark bush-hammered concrete, and copper.

Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out.

With details yet to be hammered out, the plan's effects are hard to gauge.

It didn't take long for our volunteer status to be confirmed and our living arrangements at Tsinghua University to be hammered out.

The world's financial watchdogs hammered out new rules last week to stop banks from causing another financial catastrophe.

He sketches the early lives of Diderot, Holbach, Rousseau and other players in the drama, and describes the philosophy they hammered out.

An offensive led by the AU and transitional government troops this week hammered Shabab positions on the edge of Mogadishu.

For all the high-tech componentry, the E1PC is designed first and foremost as a motorcycle, so it's meant to be hammered.

When you're young, there's one lesson that gets hammered into you more often than others: Tell the truth.

Victoria hammered at the door again.

The first acts were finally hammered out by the western countries led by France to explore the possibilities of rapprochement with China.

An airline pilot on this particular flight hammered his plane into the runway really hard.

Over the past two weeks, Bush and Congressional Republicans alike have hammered Democrats on excessive spending and earmark abuse.

For a long time, they used percussion drilling - which basically means they hammered away at the ground to get as deep as they could get.

Above all, Mr Abe has hammered home to his people the need for Japan to stand tall.

Sir Alan and others hammered this message home to Joseph and his closest political ally, Margaret Thatcher.

The storm hammered like a battering ram on the walls of the lighthouse.

"These zircons have been absolutely hammered, " Rasmussen says.

In the early 1990s, the end of the cold war hammered southern California's aerospace industry.

He too fled three years later as waves of Islamist rebels, formerly armed by the US, hammered at the gates of Kabul.

He remembered his wrinkled grandfather with his grey hairs , and how he had hammered silver with his sinewy hands .

Somebody hammered at the door.

JPMorgan Chase was also hammered last week and announced a $2. 3bn increase in its reserve for litigation expenses.

Hare gnawed nails and bolts . And hammered them into the walls and roof . Goose plucked moss. And stuffed it into the seams.

We hammered out a question in friendly debate.

The proposal was hammered out in private.

The rapid downturn in consumer spending has hammered the wider market as customers delay upgrades and hold off buying new phones.

A similar CCTV report three years ago hammered Baidu's share price and prompted a revamp of its ad-selling system.

He hammered away on the door until he got an answer.

This was a point that Le hammered home repeatedly.

First the pegs were hammered into the ground in a large circle, then the tent was raised and the ropes fastened.

Wilson hammered out a bunch of StringIO specs in a couple hours.

He carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers on them and overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

That mat has to be hammered down at the edges to stop it curling.

Metal must be hammered, worked and cooled rapidly to relieve internal stresses causing (caused) by heat.

I hammered a tack into the wall and hung a small picture from it.

The message being hammered home throughout a five-day stay in Vegas by company after company made it blindingly obvious.

North Korea's Kim Jong-il would have hammered missiles into ploughshares to feed his destitute people.

Even retail sales, hammered by the outbreak earlier this year of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, still managed to grow by 8. 4%.

Democrats hammered Bush for years on his handling of U. S. policy toward China's currency.

In concert with neighbouring Saudi Arabia, Yemen's air force has hammered rebellious tribesmen in the north.

On Thursday, concerns about global-debt problems hammered financial markets, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 500 points.

Goldman had the highest profile of several big quantitative hedge fund managers hammered by wild swings in markets in early August.

Outside, dusk gathered and the southwest wind, laden with chill from the perpetual snows of the Andes, hammered under the eaves.

Emily: Well, this is certainly a more appealing option than getting hammered in Florida. It's always nice to get back to nature.

He hammered at the door .

Commodities are mixed, however, some hurt by the stronger buck, while the yen is getting hammered on yield differential calculations.

"China has really been hammered, " says Cameron Brandt, global markets analyst at EPFR.

But before Comet could stop him, Spanner hammered the sharp flagpole into the ground.

Confidence in "efficient" market prices has been hammered, as has the principle that accounts are designed mainly for investors.

At this temperature the metal becomes plastic. The ends are then pressed or hammered together, and the joint is smoothed off.

In the event, a special summit of euro-area leaders hammered the essentials out two weeks ahead of schedule.

It says Lloyds should pay for the insurance it has already enjoyed while the details about the scheme are hammered out.

Doubts over when the EU could come in to help, and at what terms, have hammered Greek bonds for days.

Any lines or pipe under pressure should not be hammered on.

He hammered some nails into the piece of hard wood.

She hammered out a tune on the piano.

French bank shares were hammered Wednesday also, with some traders citing the triple-A jitters.

With the exception of U. S. Treasurys and the dollar, nearly every type of investment was hammered.

The economic downturn has hammered advertising like never before.

Hammered vintage studs reinforce seams while metal rings and airbrush drawings give jackets a punkish attitude.

Each time a wedge was hammered, an acute portion of the shin bone was shattered.

They hammered out their differences over a glass of beer.

After that i hammered at the tin with the mast till I was worn out, when Harris lent a hand.

His pieces, hammered up and out from a single flat sheet of silver, have been praised for their "sublimely flowing" quality.

Then the nail must be straightened before it can be hammered into place correctly.

So who gets hammered if Chinese construction workers stop hammering?

The pilot is the pneumococcal vaccine pledge, made in principle back in February 2007 , and now being hammered out .

The speaker hammered his point home with examples that the listener could not deny.

China's products were hammered by quality scandals even before the uproar over contaminated milk.

Since Lehman Brothers went bust three months ago, almost every asset class has been hammered.

The beads were made from local gold hammered flat and then rolled, and strung on wool string.

These prose-widgets are not hammered out by robots, surprisingly.

We hammered out our differences over a glass of beer.

The euro and most Asian currencies were hammered on concerns about the eurozone's debt crisis.

Mourinho's Real Madrid showed that without that discipline you can get hammered, as they were 5-0 this season.

While he hammered away at his metals the dog slept, despite the noise.

14 i bet if we downed a shot everytime we read the name' lynette', we'd be hammered up by page two.

Words were hammered flat into instruments of power and violence.

The two countries finally hammered out an agreement.

The world's largest economy had a net loss of 598-thousand jobs as the recession hammered the factory and construction sectors.

The market tumult of the past two weeks has hammered stocks from New York to Sydney.

copper decoration is hammered into relief from the reverse side.

The weak manufacturing report and fears about European banks hammered Wall Street stocks. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index dropped 4 percent.

He hammered a nail into the wall.

But today, just after 10. 30am, a series of sharp and violent explosions hammered home just how relative normality is in Baghdad.

GM was hammered in the second quarter by a one-fifth drop in North American sales.

They moved up broadside on, closed to torpedo range and hammered my BBs.

The worker hammered a piece of metal flat.

The blacksmith hammered a horseshoe from the red - hot metal.

I did get hammered about the way I was playing, I would rather be on the pitch but it got stupid and I stopped.

Therefore - prisons are hammered by youth.

Bush hammered Kerry in 2004 as a "flip-flopper" for months until "about 40 days before the election, it kicked in, " Madden said.

You might expect North Dakota to get hammered with snow on winter.

That in turn hammered residual values and damaged GM's brands.

Bach "Stradivarius" USA - . 525 " medium large bore, 8" one-piece hand-hammered bell, brass outer slide, clear lacquer.

The Gulf of Aden, off coast from Somalia, began getting hammered, over 43 quakes in short order.

Tourism has been hammered by the recession and swine flu.

Hey, isn't that the guy who hammered you in the face.

American football and international hockey have gotten hammered for their brutal hits, which can lead to serious brain injury.

The speaker hammered at his opponent's ideas.

Never mind that the moon gets hammered with space junk all the time.

If you're hammered when the cops show up, do what they say and complain about them later.

In past years, China has hammered home its claim to Taiwan.

I hammered on all the doors to raise the alarm .

But, no matter how hard they hammered, the well would eventually bottom out and the oil would dry up.

Here is the best example: Tea towels, with grommets hammered into them, so they can be hung on hooks easily.

The domestic industry is completely non-competitive with respect to [the] Chinese, and they have been finding themselves hammered.

My chest hammered. Calm down! I told myself.

Concern over how Athens will service its debt has hammered the euro - it is down nearly 10% versus the dollar since late 2009.

Dude, stop drinking, you are already hammered.

Filippo Inzaghi netted a hat-trick on Sunday night, as Milan hammered relegation struggles Torino 5-1 at San Siro.

And the way they have hammered Fulham and Charlton in recent weeks would suggest they are getting back to their best.

Many of the details, such as the delicate issue of how to split revenues between countries, are still to be hammered out.

You've just hammered a big sharp flagpole into its backside, explained Captain Comet.

In the past few years sales of CDs have been hammered by illegal file-sharing and digital downloading services such as Apple's iTunes.

The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car.

When I go, I usually just get hammered and ride the cable cars.

After 21 years in office, Bashir is being hammered from all sides.

The worker hammered the iron flat.

He hammered a tack into the wall and hung the picture from it.

The brand-building lesson is that a clear, utopian message, hammered home relentlessly, can obscure inconvenient facts.

Even before the surprise vote, the FTSE 100 had closed down 5. 3 per cent on a tumultuous day which saw financial stocks hammered.

We hammered it flat; we hammered it square, but we couldn'tmake a hole in it.

They brought their own fans, turned Yao Ming and Bonzi Wells loose and hammered the Spurs 97-78.

Some critics have hammered Google for giving Android away when other companies such as Microsoft charge for their operating systems.

The teacher hammered into the students the multiplication tables.

Before the IBM offer, Sun shares had been hammered, hitting a 52-week low of $2. 60 on Nov. 24 and under $5 when IBM approached.

He hammered the nail in the wood.

The Nasdaq was practically an index of Web 1. 0 companies v. the "old economy" NYSE, and it got hammered.

Foil Metal, such as gold , tin, aluminium, etc, hammered or rolled into thin sheet .

He hammered on the table with his fist.

His fund, which was invested chiefly in Asian stocks, was hammered by the Asian debt crisis, and lost 19%.

Global solar demand in 2010 is expected at just 7. 0 gigawatts and the over-supply has hammered prices.

"We can envision the landscape getting hammered over and over again, " says Breshears.

We hammered a team.

So that middle class families and working families aren't just hammered by the $4. 00 gas and the $300. 00 heating bills. . .

Go out, get hammered, and find a cute girl to take home for the night.

I like the way t-mac is going to the hole, however he is getting hammered and not getting calls.

This is what has hammered Japan all these years.

It took skilled engineers and technicians ten years to construct, using materials and laws we have hammered out over centuries.

then he hammered on the door , using his fists as if they were mallets

Last year's semi-finalist will renew Crucible acquaintances on Tuesday with Davis, who he hammered 10-2 in the first round last year.

Home prices in big US cities dropped at a record rate last year as slumping sales and rising foreclosures hammered the housing market.

How hammered are you? These are Joey's sisters.

They made the lampstand of pure gold and hammered it out, base and shaft;

The Chair hammered and hammered with its gavel, and kept shouting

Hammered out a contract acceptable to both sides

it has been getting hammered in the marketplace and in the court of public opinion

they have had english grammar hammered into them

Philippines hammered by successive typhoons

The critics hammered away against us, but after the Champions League final at Istanbul it's normal;

"Wind hammered at us violently in gusts" (Thor Heyerdahl)

Smith hammered the iron bar on an anvil

A 1929 Agreement hammered out by the Italian government and the Pope

Hammered gold mask with nose ornament

Hammered out the dents in the fender

Of hammered gold and gold enamelling

Hammered away at the problem

The beef balls hammered out this way taste much better,