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He unwisely called Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak the "wisest of men" , only to see him toppled.

Before microarrays can live up to their full potential as research and diagnostic tools, several roadblocks have to be toppled.

The fixture was hissing and smoking as he ripped it from the wall and toppled down to the landing below, still clutching it in his hand.

The crisis has toppled seven euro-zone governments in less than a year, including those in Spain, Italy and Portugal.

The Dark Lord toppled into a sacrificial well as the fight resumed, and the Rebels escaped.

This may take a while to clean up. A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go has been set in the Netherlands.

Aziraphale had already toppled backward into a rhododendron bush, a dark stain spread? ing across his coat.

He seems to want to continue to squeeze the Gaza Strip until its elected government, run by the Islamist movement, Hamas, is toppled.

Colonel Qaddafi had sought refuge in Surt after the rebellion that toppled him in August.

Ms Shaaban told the opposition veterans that they should tell the protesters to stop calling for the regime to be toppled.

In a minute or two it started off again, but soon toppled.

But then the world was shaken by an economic catastrophe that toppled banks, destroyed businesses and ruined countless livelihoods.

In his first few weeks in office they toppled about him like nine pins .

A witness at the scene reported violent gusts , which caused some young trees to be toppled and dustbins and road signs blown around .

The tiger tried to give one last offence, but toppled back, and was finished by the dogs.

Such are the emotions that Europe's leaders feel as their friends across the Mediterranean are toppled by long-suffering subjects.

The United States is in much the same situation today as the Soviet Union was in 1989, as a series of socialist dominoes toppled.

With that, Zuma and his allies at the top of the ANC moved and toppled Mbeki.

He is one of many survivors of the Khmer Rouge still seeking justice more than 30 years after the Vietnamese toppled the genocidal regime.

In the early 1990s Italy was the first to fall; after it toppled, Britain, Spain, Portugal and eventually France were forced to follow.

His eyes staring, his mind reeling, his legs trembling, he at last toppled over.

In macro terms, it all worked beautifully, like a machine in perpetual motion. Until, of course, it toppled over.

Closer to the quake, scores of residents were feared trapped in an apartment building that toppled onto its side in the city of Concepcion.

The flagpole toppled over, and a crane bad to be used to erect it.

Toppled trees, fallen debris and flooding caused hundreds of roads to be closed over the weekend.

And rescuers are digging desperately through the ruins of toppled buildings in parts of Christchurch.

Just days after a revolution toppled Egypt's longtime ruler, Hosni Mubarak, unrest is rippling through the region, and the U.

Ron landed a short way off and toppled immediately from his Thestral on to the pavement.

He swayed and toppled and landed on the edge of Wilbur's trough. The trough tipped up and then came down with a slap.

Today, Mr. Abbas heads a more moderate government in the West Bank, but Israel fears he could be toppled by Hamas.

Nearly seven years after the Americans toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq is still groping towards normality.

Concern about soaring food costs and limited supplies have toppled Haiti's government and caused riots in parts of Africa.

The truce efforts come amid growing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert who could be toppled by a corruption scandal.

oil derricks were toppled and people ordered off the downtown streets to avoid injury from flying objects.

I got up one move, the results of excessive force, cardboard boxes toppled by me, "bang" , came up with a lot of noise.

Suddenly, the birth of the Internet can, in a certain sense, almost toppled the whole traditional life.

Driven beyond the limits of forbearance, the people rose up in arms and in the end toppled Chiang's reactionary rule.

That in turn led to another overload, eventually triggering a series of failures that toppled Google's data centres like falling dominoes.

So after nearly two years a list finally toppled the reign of the incredible recordings.

The activities Sunday marked the fourth anniversary of a 2006 military coup that toppled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Trees infested by the beetles are easily toppled by wind, creating potentially dangerous conditions for campers and picnickers .

It is just you, who toppled over your parents'lives. We had no longer got former easy life, weekend relaxation and freedom.

No significant dominoes fell after U. S. troops withdrew in 1975, however, and it was the Berlin Wall that eventually toppled instead.

Within a decade it may have toppled the US as the pre-eminent power in east Asia.

One was impeached for "mental incapacity" , one fell to a military revolt and one was toppled by street protests.

IN FEBRUARY we put together an index that attempted to predict which Arab regime would be toppled next.

Our plan of taking a hike toppled down when it began to rain.

But it knows that will not end the cycle of confrontation that began when Mr Thaksin was toppled in a coup in 2006.

With high savings and a current-account surplus, China lacks many of the vulnerabilities that toppled Western credit systems in 2008.

They have also become more wary of lending to Portugal and Spain, stoking fears of toppled dominoes along the euro-zone's weak perimeter.

The huge tree in back of their house had toppled over while she was out chasing after her son.

And in Maharashtra, a state where a housing scam toppled Congress's chief minister last month, a new scandal is brewing.

The two hijacked planes which toppled the World Trade Center both originated out of Boston.

Moreover, Mr. Mubarak had survived challenges before, and few took seriously the idea he could be toppled.

The majority of the revolutionaries of the older generation, nearly all Han, were toppled, including myself.

The huge storm also toppled trees and cut power to thousands of residents in Washington and Oregon.

Twenty-seven hours and one toppled piece of heavy machinery later, Reeves was faced with a 6, 000-pound blast door.

As the night wore on, he slumped to one side and eventually toppled off his barstool.

Many of its newer buildings toppled this time, along with the spire of the Anglican cathedral, crushing visitors.

His idea of winning power quickly toppled down when he learned who his opponent was.

As Arab revolts have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, Iranian opposition leaders resumed calls to take to the streets.

It was unclear, however, what role the Brotherhood played in the protests or might play if Mr. Mubarak were toppled.

The results toppled the old perception that young college students are most impressed by the stars of shows.

Their homes were toppled by the tremor and then flooded by the rising waters of the Tang- jiashan quake lake.

Filipinos revered Mrs Aquino because she toppled a corrupt dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, and restored democracy.

They had risen tenfold since the Americans had toppled Mr. Hussein, they said.

Governments have been toppled, but the underlying economies still remain and are ignored at our peril.

Violence in Afghanistan is at its deadliest since US-led troops toppled the Islamist regime in 2001.

The Arab Spring takes photojournalist Kate Brooks to Cairo to witness the protests that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.

Today, Dolphus Shields lies in a neglected black cemetery, where patches of grass grow knee-high and many tombstones have toppled.

Another official on duty at the center, Gao Shaotang, said many houses had been toppled.

On board ship, no storm ever bothered him; he was practical and calm, even when pianos toppled and chinaware smashed all round him.

Toppled cement mixers could be seen amid the rubble as workers swept up the debris from the explosions at one building site .

In southern Japan, it damaged homes, shattered windows in high-rise office buildings and toppled walls and stone statues.

Patrick's Day were killed after the crane broke away from an apartment tower and toppled onto buildings as far as a block away.

As American forces toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, they rounded up suspected followers of Osama bin Laden.

It passed in the nick of time, three days before the wobbly Liberal government toppled in a no-confidence motion.

Protests by yellow-shirted "royalists" and court rulings had toppled an elected government loyal to Mr Thaksin.

The strong gale of the tornado blew away the roofs of the Indian villagers in the mountains, and even toppled their houses.

Constitutions were written and discarded. Monarchs were toppled and restored.

It focuses on the situation in Madagascar since the 2009 coup, which toppled the elected President.

The landslides and mudslides have toppled homes, and the torrential rains that caused them are forecast to continue.

He insists that he and his acolytes will lay down their arms once Colonel Qaddafi is toppled.

Street protests have never toppled a Philippine president without support from the armed forces.

But, alas, both movies might get toppled by another 3-D movie, Clash of the Titans, scheduled to hit some movie theaters next weekend.

But no one appeared ready when Tunisia erupted into protests that toppled longtime strongman Zine el Abidine ben Ali.

Another said: "Everything toppled over in the house. It's a complete mess. Even the floor got pushed up by the water. "

Hours earlier, a 50-ton crane toppled and crushed its operator to death at the site of a future Metro station on Line 9.

With production in August hitting record levels, Russia toppled Saudi Arabia from the number one spot.

The self-styled king of beers has been toppled by a drink that most Budweiser lovers have never heard of: Snow.

The baby bird toppled from the nest unable to fly yet.

Here, a Chechen soldier poses over a toppled statue of Lenin in October 1991 in Grozny, Chechnya's capital.

If he is toppled, Beijing will not mourn his departure.

The damaged ship listed badly to starboard. Erosion first listed, then toppled the spruce tree.

The tombstone inscriptions are blurred by a barrel of toppled red paint.

I stayed on and the bike toppled. The people outside the cafe laughed and I'm pretty sure they knew that I was new to Amsterdam.

A few days after the Taliban were toppled in 2001 I was in Kabul.

This year's protests in the Middle East captured world attention and toppled some governments.

He has also added an image as a visual metaphor: a glass vase toppled over with liquid leaking out.

In the weekend's bizarrest news, a nearly finished, newly constructed building in Shanghai toppled over, killing one worker.

A corruption scandal in 2005 toppled Shanghai's powerful party boss, Chen Liangyu, a prime driver of the Expo.

But the Argentine precedent shows just how savage the crisis can be; massive social unrest, a sequence of toppled presidencies, and so on.

It also toppled Germany as the biggest exporter of manufactured goods, according to year-end trade data.

Another undercover Jedi, Siri Tachi, spearheaded a slave revolt that eventually toppled Krayn's empire.

Getty Images ONCE they started falling, the totems toppled like nine pins this week.

Wars have been fought and nations toppled in 87 hours! Fortunes made and squandered.

A general view of a toppled 13- storey apartment building that buried one worker in Shanghai .

Many incumbents were themselves new companies less than a decade ago, and they are nimbler than the big guys they toppled.

Could add Iran and Chile to the list, but alas the West toppled those Governments.

And it toppled totalitarian regimes, crippled the music business, and neutered the porn industry.

More than 70, 000 houses were toppled during yesterday's tremor in Qingchuan, Sichuan province, state television reported.

After the West toppled the regime in 2001, and arrested or killed many of al-Qaeda's leaders, officials believed it was largely broken up.

Governments have been toppled inEgypt and Tunisia.

ONCE they started falling, the totems toppled like nine pins this week.

The 6. 9 magnitude quake toppled buildings, destroyed roads and knocked out power and phone lines in Qinghai province, which borders Tibet.

Today, I was taking a motorcycle taxi, when we lost balance and toppled over. I fell on my back on an open sewer.

In other words, when the glass panels toppled down, each labourer had to resist a direct load of 300 Kg on average.

The workers were pouring concrete for the bridge when the pier toppled.

The financial quake of the past year has toppled almost all the world's stockmarkets.

Somalia has been without an effective government since 1991, when warlords toppled a military dictator.

The Soviet Union took home the gold when they toppled the US team in a controversial 1972 game.

Two governments on the other side of the world were toppled in short order.

"But after three years, China has already toppled the US as our single largest market, " Mr Bethge said.

File cabinets and computers toppled around him.

Roofs toppled and walls and other debris fell onto unsuspecting people asleep.

By comparison, about one-quarter of people in Egypt, where protests toppled president Hosni Mubarak in February, have Web access.

True, they have executed Saddam Hussein and toppled the Taliban (for now).

He is the highest-ranking official to be toppled in the partys nationwide campaign against corruption.

eg. He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.

We were just approaching S-Gate when we knocked into someone who slowly toppled over.

AS INVESTMENT banks toppled in the autumn of 2008, panic swept the corporate-bond market.

The wounded soldier toppled down time after time.

This year has seen the most bloodshed in Afghanistan since US-led forces toppled the Taliban in 2001.

The explosion toppled the old chimney.

Col Gaddafi was toppled from power in August after 42 years in charge of the country.

One fall I gutted a bee tree that a neighbor felled. I took a chain saw and ripped into this toppled old tupelo .

Roofs collapsed and buildings toppled, hundreds of people were buried under the stones and bricks.

Lieberman said that if there is war, Syria would lose and Mr. Assad and his family would be toppled from power.

Zakrison was completing a trauma surgery fellowship at the University of Miami when January's earthquake toppled the Haitian capital.

She is the youngest sister of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was toppled in an army coup in 2006.

As a result, when a truck was rumbling on the bridge, it toppled.

A construction worker was killed when the 13-story building toppled over almost intact.

Every morning for the past week I have awoken with the same thought: I have witnessed a miracle; we have toppled a dictator.

WE all enjoy speculating about which Arab regime will be toppled next, but maybe we should be looking closer to home.

The Xinhua News Agency says the quake has also toppled around 700 homes, and damaged more than 140 others.

We had two sky srapers toppled for pissing the wrong people off. Anything can happen.

Many of the icebergs that crumbled from the edge of the shelf were too tall and narrow to float upright, and they toppled over.

In 2008, huge street protests against imports of American beef nearly toppled the government.

Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs .

Predictably, the bookshelf couldn't handle the weight of even my tiny body, and it promptly toppled over.

As a result, the whole stack of glass panels toppled and trapped the labourers.

In the forum the tall columns toppled.

The whole stack of goods toppled over.

some containers were toppled by strong gales on the 18th of last month , injuring 4 people.

The pile of books toppled over onto the floor.

The pile of bricks toppled over.

He toppled into the mud and slid all the way to Violet's feet .

The pile of books toppled onto the floor.

vt. He toppled his opponent.

The pile of boos toppled onto the floor.

A finger broke off and toppled in.

The Americans toppled the emirate [of the Taliban] and we are fighting to bring it back.

32. A crowd watches the statue of KGB founder Dzerzhinsky being toppled in Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow, on August 22, 1991.

A truth commission began investigating the coup that toppled Manuel Zelaya, the former president of Honduras, last year.

Many of the 3m refugees who came home after the Taliban were toppled feel particularly let down.

Last year Spain teetered on the brink over which Portugal, Greece and Ireland have toppled.

Aug. 29, 2011 -- This is what hurricane damage looks like to most people: a tree toppled on a house.

Some Americans construed the people-power revolution that toppled Mr Mubarak in February as a blow to the United States;

the handle of saucepan and mouth of kettle should be turned inwards during cooking to avoid being toppled over by accident

Trial study on deformation simulation of toppled sliding mass

What is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, which have toppled their leaders, and in Libya and Syria, fighting to topple theirs

Lost Regalia of the North: The Toppled Thrones

A truck carrying chili peppers lies toppled by the highway explosion in Hubei province on Dec. 5, 2009. [Xinhua]

After racking up an impressive 16, 660 points while playing the game "Berzerk, " Jeff toppled over and died of a heart attack. ( Gamespy)