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We put out our hand to touch it as it went by, but the friend grabbed the arm and pulled it back sharply, for he knew something of tigers.

The pilot turned the plane sharply to the right and upward. Within moments we were above the wind. Obviously, it was too dangerous to land.

And unless it accepts sharply intrusive inspections, the IAEA will have no better chance of getting to the bottom of its nuclear intentions.

Yes, share prices had been falling sharply across the globe, but the slide was orderly and the system had not seized up.

Hanging on to the bank until stockmarkets picked up might have sharply diminished its remaining franchise value.

Citigroup's third-quarter core revenue fell but the bank's earnings on Monday were better than expected and credit losses fell sharply.

The courts that have considered the question so far have been sharply divided. The U.

"Pesky new fossils. . . sharply at odds with conventional wisdom never seem to cease popping up, " Ruben wrote in his PNAS commentary.

It seems to me that China's housing prices rose sharply in the post, is bound to decline, and are becoming more and more reasonable.

Friday, summit leaders take up a report by an independent audit panel that sharply criticized the organization's leadership.

"No, " she said sharply, and shuddered because she could not stand the touch of his hand on her door.

His feeling for her, lulled into unconsciousness by the dull round of domesticity, had been sharply stirred by the loss of her presence.

Those who buy protection could make substantial profits if the company gets into trouble, since the value of the swap will rise sharply.

Indeed, Item said the only real bright spot in its forecast was that it saw exports rebuilding sharply after the falls of early 2009.

The two companies disagree sharply on how much SAP should pay.

Any sharply localized area with a fibrotic appearance should be regarded as suspicious, especially if it has a stellate shape.

The public finances also deteriorated sharply as some of the costs of the recent banking rescues came into the official figures.

What is not clear, though, is how much it will do for many homeowners facing sharply higher payments.

"This isn't the road, " said the Stork, as she twisted her long neck and looked sharply at the queer party.

"Yes, " he said rather sharply. He felt for the first time that it was a shortish name.

"Breathe with it" , she whispered sharply, but there was no response from the Elf.

But in the article, the experts said the only way to sharply reduce abuses was to remove detention centers from local police control.

Equities, which had been flat most of the week, dropped sharply today on a raft of bad data.

The State Department sharply rebuked the Swiss decision, and said the Justice Department would decide what steps to take next.

Whether China will rise sharply to be a great power or not depends on whether China can establish and carry out right geo-strategy or not.

The Institute for Supply Management said the U. S. service sector contracted sharply in October.

The divisions between the various classes of society are not so sharply marked as they used to be.

Fairtrade campaigners said the predictions of sharply rising prices provided a "stark warning" to international policymakers.

Romer, the president's economic aide, said the interventionist approach sharply reduces the danger of a new depression.

According to industry statistics, the assets of money funds have grown sharply since the credit crisis began to intensify last summer.

He turned sharply, and there, just above him on the branch of a tree, sat a large Parrot, busily preening his feathers.

If frequently repeated cell references occur, the extraction time will decrease sharply compared with that of flat extraction.

But Republicans and Democrats differ sharply as to which mighty institutions pose the greatest threat to the little guy.

These companies decided to invest in farming a few months before the property market began to weaken sharply.

Between April and June businesses sharply increased the number of hours worked by employees, which is often a prelude to hiring new workers.

Once, without thinking, I turned away from her as I was speaking. "I can no longer hear you, " she said sharply.

Often known as the fear index, the VIX tends to rise sharply in times of turmoil, as it did last autumn.

Defaults haven't been a major problem, but the market values of these CDOs fell sharply over the past year or so.

He said asthma cases had increased sharply, as had the number of patients with nonsmoking -related lung cancer.

But economists are sharply divided on the cause of this inflation and the degree to which policy needs to be tightened.

He made the point more sharply on Thursday, in a part of his opinion in which he spoke only for himself.

'I've a right to think, ' said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.

Copper, used for pipes and wiring, is relatively easy to trade and fell sharply after China's rate rise in October.

It has much more sharply tapered edges, and a new, optional, white color adds to the sense of lightness.

The news did not dampen investor exuberance in the United States or elsewhere, as financial markets worldwide rallied sharply higher.

Price increases seem to be interfering with the UK's love of shopping: clothing and food price inflation all rose sharply on the month.

Standing in the sharply pointed bow, he gazed at the endless expanse of flowing ice, up and down the length of the river.

Whatever the case, no one expects UBS to fall sharply down the Asia investment banking rankings, even if it does lose the top spot.

The incongruity of the word "spirit" in his mouth struck him so sharply.

Even so, such rebates will raise the deficit sharply relative to how much they boost growth.

Google's costs have continued to rise sharply as the company seeks to compete with newer rivals.

Only if there were a number of years of sharply lower growth are there likely to be more than isolated disturbances.

The audits of 11 suppliers so far followed a meeting in August as the coalition prepared to release a sharply critical report.

U. S. stocks fell sharply for a third straight session Wednesday as recession fears continued to batter sentiment.

Then, for days on end there does not seem to be a wobble (as per LISS) and earthquakes sharply decrease in number and magnitude.

He did not want to forget what he had just heard, so he pinched himself sharply around the joint of his foot.

Traders said Monday's intervention was the largest since the financial crisis led Russia to let the ruble drop sharply in 2009.

The bank said the trading loss was due to market turmoil in May and June, when global stock markets fell sharply.

Since he took office in 2002, violence has fallen sharply. As confidence returns, the economy is growing at 8% a year.

Then it rose sharply, suggesting the desirability, whenever practical, of using blood within the first 14 days after it had been drawn.

Just as he said that we heard a 'boom', and our cars swerved sharply to the left.

You were supposed to see a vivid, restless clockwork of sharply defined plant cells.

Sometimes the oiler had to scull sharply to keep a sea from breaking into the boat, but otherwise sailing was a success.

and the main object, along with the others, changed direction and accelerated away sharply, as if in response to the flash.

The U. S. recovery braked sharply at the start of the year, with the economy growing at just a 1. 9 percent pace in the first quarter.

It would if it struck just as America's economy was slowing sharply and as weakness was afflicting both western Europe and Japan.

Economists said the data underpinned the case for the Fed to lower interest rates sharply at a meeting next week.

Relations between the two Koreas, which are technically at war, have chilled sharply since Lee took office a year ago.

Some economic indicators, like steel and electricity production, slowed sharply in August, and housing sales have continued to deteriorate.

$4 Gas: Get Used To It Oil prices fell sharply today, which means gas prices are likely to fall a bit in the short term.

Merrill's share price fell sharply and other Wall Street bank shares suffered on fears that there was more pain to come.

If it is not seen to be working right away, real interest rates will continue to rise sharply and quickly as they have this week.

American stocks and bond yields fell sharply as concerns mounted that the economy might be in for a slowdown.

But Darwin also saw that interests at the two levels often conflict sharply. In those cases, he said, individual interests trump.

Samsung said the hybrid electric vehicle market would grow sharply, backed by tightened environmental rules and soaring oil prices.

What's the matter now? " repeated my sister, more sharply than before. "

Since the dark days earlier this year, the stock market has bounded sharply higher.

She looked at him sharply, then returned to the contemplation of the sunset.

The beginning of this week to fly from Chengdu, the main commercial city and major tourist cities ticket prices were rising sharply.

Indeed, declines in interest rates, which also weakened countries' exchange rates, help explain why GDP did not decline even more sharply.

Investing even a small part of that money in factories in the United States would sharply increase capacity.

After years of very rapid growth, China's energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions now look to be slowing sharply.

Properties of asphalt mixture will not change sharply when the quantity of fly ash is changed just a little.

Skiff Miller looked at her sharply, seeking in her face the guile her words had led him to suspect.

The chances of four years of stable conservative government in Spain after the next election have risen sharply.

In fact during both of those years consumption continued to decline sharply as a share of GDP.

It will, perhaps, be said that this is not the time to raise an issue on which opinions clash sharply.

Manganese will hope the news will cause its share price to turn as sharply as one of its cabs.

Stocks fell sharply in early trading Tuesday, a day after major indexes posted their biggest gains in more than a year.

The bubble in Treasuries looks ready to pop, sending prices on government debt sharply lower.

In a speech, Merkel sharply criticized the recent liquidity policy of the Fed, calling for a return to what she called 'sensibility.

Shares of stockbrokers retreated sharply, reflecting a decline in market volumes to around a third of the level a year ago.

The bridegroom pretended to be very angry and spoke sharply, then quickly drew his sharp knife, ran towards the horse and cut its throat.

I sharply chid him, and said "Go! " ; but he did not stir.

Tokyo traders said the election outcome initially sparked unwinding in long yen positions, which rose sharply last week.

due to the price of cotton is sharply rising , and the RMB appreation . we are ready to communicate raise price with customer.

Even if airline accident rates were to remain constant, the number of crashes would still rise sharply over the coming decades.

Spreads on the ten-year government debt of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain over that of Germany have widened sharply.

Ireland at least has some good news to balance against the bad: both foreign direct investment and industrial production are up sharply.

The next day, newspapers sharply criticized her. They said she sang the European music without feeling or understanding.

Yet after the market fell sharply , officials changed tone and began to talk the market up .

Some of the appendages are sharply bent, as if at a joint.

Bond yields did rise sharply for a while; of late, however, they have been dropping like a rock.

Fearful of a currency collapse and sharply higher interest rates, the British had no choice but to agree.

And he saw sharply what his own end might be-unless-unless he could get the wolf.

Then the driver drew his hand out of his tattered cuff and sharply turned off the radio.

Due to the question of U-Ra balance, its scale and reserves was discounted sharply.

Under Reagan, deficits increased sharply but seemed to bring back prosperity, moving Dick Cheney to remark that they did not matter.

But if they are not undertaken at all, the risk of a global double dip, and a new financial crisis, will grow sharply.

The most stressed developers would be forced into a fire sale of inventory, sharply lowering prices to attract buyers.

I'd hold on to that house for the time being; house prices are rising sharply at the moment.

The cost of insuring against corporate-bond defaults did not fall sharply.

Thereafter, Spain's share of top foreign players rose sharply and diverged from that in Italy, which had followed a similar trend.

If he seeks to defend himself, he risks a protracted battle likely to turn the tide of opinion more sharply against him.

Temporary hiring, which tends to recover early, deteriorated sharply after marked improvement in May.

By means of seeding EM(effective microorganisms) to domestic wastes, the concentration of total phosphorus can BE decreased sharply.

Public life is not as sharply distinguished from private life as it used to be.

The most intense dynamic responses are measured on the surface and graded gravel area; it reduces sharply with the increase of depth.

Or the fact that this morning the most recent US GDP figures are almost certain to be revised sharply downwards?

Average inflation for the year has now reached 3% and is likely to march higher unless the readings slow sharply in the next two months.

They came out on another path that veered downhill sharply.

Sales have increased sharply since he started accepting credit cards on his iPhone, he said.

He pulled the ball back sharply and that led to a series of corners but no efforts on goal.

Last week, rival Dell reported sharply higher sales and earnings on the back of a strong PC refresh cycle for corporations.

The company's debt is set to rise sharply this year, albeit from a low base, as it funds its ambitious investment programme.

Gill said the technique could make kidney donations more palatable by sharply reducing recovery time.

Mr Cook cautions that the body count would have to rise very sharply indeed to affect the mid-term congressional elections next year.

Furthermore, the question of causation could be put far more sharply.

The majority of aircraft approach the runway directly from the direction of the Mediterranean as inland the land rises sharply.

The rapid economic expansion in countries like China, India and Vietnam tends to sharply increase the demand for food.

When the time came to speak, there was the row of images sharply in his mind.

What matters is an incredibly strong value proposition to a very sharply defined set of customers.

Having settled the difficulty of the conflicting doors, he had to steer sharply to the right to avoid the kitchen.

Sperm counts fell sharply within a week of male monkeys being given the contraceptive.

Wage rates have been rising sharply across the delta following the deaths, but some of the underlying problems remain.

Sharply falling property prices notwithstanding, welders can be seen laboring on high rise structures at midnight, like stars in the sky.

Employment stumbled in May and manufacturing braked sharply, while a pick-up in core inflation gathered speed.

In this film, the peaceful life of the manager's is contrasted sharply with the violent life of his opponent's.

The "new orders" component of that report, perhaps the leading indicator of the health in manufacturing, dropped off sharply.

"A sharply slower GDP number would have triggered a lot more criticism from interest groups opposed to tight money, " he said.

Finally, labor market slack is sharply rising in the U. S. , and rising, as well, in Europe and other advanced economies.

All that betrayed his surprise was a sharply indrawn breath.

At this time in fashion history the division between haute couture and ready-to-wear was not sharply defined.

They said the new system would let them adjust bonuses more sharply to reflect employees' performance.

He refinanced his mortgage at a rate that adjusted sharply upward, and afterward he lost one of his jobs.

Until late October, businesses across the 15-country region had been enjoying the benefits of a currency that was weakening sharply.

Mr Austin said the food supply had deteriorated sharply between February and September this year.

In Europe, banking stocks fell amid concern that the value of loans to the emirate would have to be written sharply lower.

There will be no reason for the rates between them to move sharply, something that would potentially upend investors.

Companies producing nickel and zinc are under particular pressure as the price of these metals has fallen sharply over the past few months.

This has created inflation pressures within many of these countries; it has also led to sharply rising global demand for raw materials.

Although Chinese wages have risen sharply in the last five years, Vestas still pays assembly line workers here only $4, 100 a year.

Bharti's investors seem to agree: the firm's shares fell sharply on Monday when news of discussions with Zain emerged.

"With rice, so little is traded internationally that a small increase in demand leads to the price going up sharply, " he said.

Among the main losers would be the banks in the revaluing countries, which would see the value of their foreign assets decline sharply.

Obama restated his opposition to the war in Iraq after a voter asked him why the U. S. image abroad has sharply declined in recent years.

As an example, American new-home sales slowed sharply after an initial end-of-November deadline for the expiry of a buyers' tax credit.

Now in Afghanistan, the general has fully embraced counter-insurgency and has sharply reduced the number of air strikes.

But the proportions seem to be shifting sharply in favour of the older cohorts, especially those aged 55 to 65.

Then he melted the ghee in the fire and the charcoal hissed so sharply that Gold Teeth could not make out his words.

The S& P 500 index, which had been down, rallied sharply, though gains later subsided.

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

lobes triangular-ovate, fleshy, at least as long as gynostegium, apex blunt, sometimes extended and sharply incurved.

See that your lower front ribs aren't protruding sharply toward the ceiling, which hardens the belly and compresses the lower back.

Employment rates for new college graduates have fallen sharply in the last two years, as have starting salaries for those who can find work.

Clearwire shares traded sharply higher Wednesday after the company announced a joint development deal with China Mobile.

There used to be two sharply differentiated types of investors: angels and venture capitalists.

Dynamic stress is distributed as saddle along the lateral direction of subgrade surface. Dynamic stress along the depth declines sharply.

But retailers caution that if the euro climbs sharply, some of that retail strength could diminish.

He answered sharply, "no ! " I felt hurt. It was important for me to have the tickets.

The S&P 500 index, which had been down, rallied sharply, though gains later subsided.

Prices fell sharply and portfolios that were assumed to be well-diversified turned out to be highly correlated.

The company produces poisonous gases day and night; consequently , the incidence of cancer among residents nearby rises sharply .

The company's share price fell sharply on the day of the announcement, wiping $7 billion from its market value.

The excitement of these last manoeuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough upon the coxswain .

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

A few days later , the ant saw a hunter aiming a gun at the dove . He bit the man in the foot sharply .

The sorry state of small entrepreneurs contrasts sharply with the west's prevailing view that China is now a capitalist haven.

"Do you think I'd better go? " she said sharply.

The volume of financing his firm provides the property sector has dropped sharply since then, he said.

You might have expected the stockmarket to rebound sharply on the news.

Scientists hope it could sharply reduce the transmission rate of malaria, one of the biggest killers in the developing world.

If the fiscal deficit is to be sharply reduced, the surpluses in the rest of the economy must also fall.

The cutbacks come as Harley (HOG, Fortune 500) scales back in the face of a sharply shrinking market.

Many trying to sharply cut interest rates on loans to home buyers, people who buy a car is a heaven-sent opportunity.

In the case of stock index continuous killing fell sharply, possibility of a rebound in the near future is enormous.

Even though the economy has rebounded this year, BNDES loans have continued to rise sharply.

Alternatively - and more probably - the Bank of England would respond to spiralling wages by sharply increasing interest rates.

On top of that, various sentiment indicators, ranging from consumer confidence to investors' view of the stock market, have slid sharply.

But others worry that product placement will increase sharply or the ads will be shifted to the beginning and end of the TV dramas.

Volk says the Russian housing market is at a beginning stage, and living conditions differ sharply in various regions of the country.

Even as the price of many everyday consumer products has fallen sharply, the good things in life feel more out of reach.

That sharply contrasts with Chen Shui-bian, who at the end of his final term was allowed only short refuelling stops in Alaska and Hawaii.

The number of mothers-to-be increased sharply in 2006 because many young couples are eager to have babies in the year of pig.

Marriage began to experience a decline in the 1980s, but in the last decade its popularity has fallen more sharply.

The doctor, tough and quick, turned the baby upside down and slapped his bottom sharply. The baby cried, and he survived.

And ceramic insulated sheet is clamped on the fixation end of bimetal strip. The safety and reliability would be sharply improved.

These huge costs contrast sharply with those in other countries that have had to rescue their banks.

The spread between the cost of borrowing for governments and that for banks has widened sharply in recent weeks.

Qm of the thickness mode dropped sharply with increase in mechanical stress while Qm of the wall thickness mode remained almost unchanged.

The Roaring Twenties were also a time of fast-moving economic change. Productivity grew sharply.

Now, with Thailand's economy slowing sharply, the DIY cash is beginning to flow freely again.

The accidents have been going up sharply, and a variety of latent perils have increased apparently in recent years.

If the fiscal deficit is to be improved without pushing the private sector into greater deficit, the current account must improve sharply.

Do not inflate your lifejacket until you are outside of the aircraft. To inflate put the red toggle sharply downwards.

How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky.

A strong report on manufacturing out of China sent shares in that country sharply higher Monday.

People to see the CPI and the rapid climb of the general price level rose sharply.

He leveled the T-33 jet , then put the nose down sharply and began, a dive into a second loop .

The conversations left me with great memories but sharply curtailed my career as his driver.

His spokesmen have been unable to explain why crime has increased sharply in recent years despite a reduction in poverty.

People are delaying marriage: the proportion of people who have never been married rose sharply, to 28. 6% of women and 35. 2% of men.

The IMF's insistence has sharply slowed the flow of donor funds on which the Afghan government relies.

S. dollar was falling. The peg meant the cost of goods imported from anywhere but the U. S. rose sharply and fueled inflation.

Which side, where now was that line that had so sharply divided the two armies?

Due to a bounce in both risk and commodities AUD has bounced sharply from its recent lows back above parity with the USD.

China raised its reserve ratio on a day when global markets, including China's, fell sharply amid concerns of a global credit crunch.

If supply and demand had been allowed to prevail, the value of China's currency would have risen sharply.

She ran up, stung him in the foot sharply, made him miss his aim, and so saved the dove's life.

To turn sharply to the left, the driver can brake the left rear wheel separately with the left hand lever.

The challenge, for the government and for the banks, is to do this against a background of a sharply deteriorating global economy.

They have climbed sharply since and continued to rise after the announcement of the CCB sale.

Recent debt limit agreement was a wake-up call for people, predict this in the long term may worsen sharply.

Even in China, growth seems to be slowing sharply, prompting the government to lift its quotas on bank lending at the start of this month.

The worst effects may not be felt until the mortgage payments of many borrowers with no equity in their homes rise sharply.

'Did you see anything when you opened your bedroom door? ' he asked, glancing sharply at me.

However, the purchases fell sharply as global equities stumbled into a bear market and bank-to-bank lending totally froze.

"Don't force me to hex you, " he said sharply.

French home prices fell faster than the euro-zone average during the crisis but have rebounded sharply enough to cause some consternation.

Global equity markets fell sharply and then trimmed some of their losses after the White House made clear its intentions.

The terms of trade have shifted swiftly and sharply against Mr Murdoch in a way that Hosni Mubarak might appreciate (see article).

The American market turned round sharply a week ago .

Weak commodity prices could push the region into running a large current-account deficit, just as private-capital inflows decline sharply.

"We sharply decelerated in November and December, " he said. "There are no clear signals we have accelerated. "

Italian car sales data, also due out this week, are expected to be down sharply as well.

Production of the crop is rebounding after having sharply dropped during implementation of the land reform program over the past decade.

Before Beijing's announcement, the Japanese yen had been falling sharply amid talk of an early general election in Tokyo.

In the early 1970s, for reasons that are still ill-understood, productivity growth slowed sharply, pulling down the trend rate of growth.

But it has rebounded sharply since then, leading some investors to speculate whether the currency has reached a bottom.

Inflation expectations in the US have jumped sharply this week, with one measure rising to its highest level since late June.

Over-irrigation led to the depositing of mineral salts on the soil to such an extent that crop yields were reduced sharply.

When local resources could not meet the needs, China began to import resources, and then prices of global resources rose sharply.

Residential investment fell so sharply during the economic downturn that it has little room to decline further.

China reacted sharply to the coordinated push, and Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi spoke out against the U. S. proposal.

Giorgio Del Vecchio distinguish sharply between the concept of law and the ideal of law .

And although a few loopholes in the current salary-cap system would remain, they would be sharply curtailed.

Home prices and transactions have rebounded sharply and car sales leapt 70 percent in July from a year earlier.

China's exports have been hard hit by the consumer- led recession in the west and its economic growth has slowed sharply in recent months.

Both parties woo the amorphous middle, to the dismay of those voters who want political contours to be drawn sharply.

But it has not risen as sharply as some of the agricultural products or metals.