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Behind the company's auction frenzy is a desire to keep from being the odd man out in the domestic auto industry.

my mother was all too aware of the odd distance between us, with which this puzzlement is intimately connected.

Then I started to go on the odd night out with a young man I met while researching a story.

Sure, it had the odd cheesy line ( "I live life a quarter mile at a time" ), but it's safe to say most car fans would have enjoyed it.

She was the odd one out, just as she had been at school and university: a square peg in a round hole.

It's as if no one asks him questions about the food any more, just the wealth, the forceful personality and the odd television scam.

I have gone through the odd period in the year where I have been a bit down and not been as motivated as I need to be.

And with heavy promotion for , 24, and Lie to Me in full , it isn't hard to see who the odd man out is.

Her bedroom haunted me with its silence, its unaccustomed tidiness, with the odd souvenirs from a childhood that was now history.

A slim, prosperous couple in their sixties, they moved easily: she with a simple precision, he with the odd heel-tap, a bit of dash.

It has no troops on the ground and is not exchanging fire with hostile forces (unless you count the odd drone strike).

Voynich asked the leading cryptographers of his day to decode the odd script, which did not match that of any known language.

But after careful proofreading and revision of the odd phrase here and there, that frosty error message continued to appear.

That does not imply that politicians will abandon the odd intervention, or stop trying to talk the yen down through verbal intervention.

The Beijing News did not specify whether the odd-even system would be used for the Games.

When he used to come in for the odd game, he looked nervy but now he's got that confidence about him - he looks the part.

It's not easy when most of the people you know are married or in relationships and you feel like the odd man (or woman) out.

The odd thing is that America's politicians should find this attitude so hard to understand: their sentiments on the matter are the same.

The odd thing was that the four of us were still friends, even though Greg and I had this secret.

It's common to see large predatory sharks come in and feed on schools of bait-fish - the odd thing was I didn't see any bait-fish at all!

Then we got Barney and, a few months later, Dylan began to talk. It was only the odd word, but I could clearly understand what he said.

I knew I was trying to do something different, but you keep on looking for the odd thing you recognise.

Of course there was still the odd screamer - the long-range, right-foot winner against Liverpool was a case in point.

The odd thing was, his daughter had been right behind him when the free paper took the photograph - shown in the photograph above.

Some subjects were told to imitate the odd sounds. Others were told to simply listen, or to repeat the sentence in their normal voice.

The odd looking "creature" or "hand" extending down from the top of the above photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule.

He got his first job in a Chinese restaurant in London, he did all the odd jobs.

The robot's "head" has an array of sensors that give it the odd appearance of a cross between a bug and a dog.

Among the four skills in learning English, which one of these is the "odd-man-out" ?

The odd thing about him was his body weighed five pounds and his balls weighed five pounds.

Republicans, however, will have none of it, raising objections that range from the odd to the incoherent.

This time too, some things are familiar: the odd bit of violence, a lot of incoherent ranting and plenty of inconsistency (see article ).

The odd property on which Dr Hess's plan rests is called negative refraction.

Didn't the size of his boots and the odd appearance of the water around him raise any questions with the public?

Research suggests this sort of scenario is more common than the odd high-profile case that makes it to court would suggest.

I was the odd man out in the group, and I couldn't really blame everyone else for not taking me seriously.

That is not to say that the occasional drink is bad for you, nor is the odd cigar or slab of chocolate cake.

After poking him with sticks, the odd-looking creature fell to the ground, and was dragged, screaming and scratching, back to the village.

And yet a revival of hopes that the odd penny might yet be squeezed from loyal readers is under way.

No, the odd thing about this record is the label pasted on the upper half of the French Odeon label.

The odd part was that Aunt Peg had been dead for three months.

The odd shilling he kept for himself, protesting he could ill afford to have so great a sum of money lying "locked up" .

Apart from the odd bug fix, poor Eric was on his own, plodding through all those different collection versions by himself.

It is now 16 years later. When I go out with my family, we still get the odd look or two.

Although the cloud has many benefits and is generally quite reliable, it is clearly bound to produce the odd thunderstorm.

The odd looking "creature" in the center of the above photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule.

The odd-looking return value server. NOT_DONE_YET is a flag to the Twisted server to flush the page content out of the request object.

The odd result of this is that if, by some magic, you were to touch the corona, you would freeze rather than fry.

It is true that China is now the odd man out on Iran in the Security Council.

Is it the colour of his clothes, the length of her arms or even the odd facial scar?

So enthusiastic was the popular response that he was catapulted into leadership of the rebellion against Taft and the Odd Guard.

Cheese - to take photos of myself, of course. (Actually, to do the odd recording of me playing guitar or drums or something).

Infrequently, though, there is the odd hairstyle that appears to have had its time only to soon reappear, though thoroughly evolved.

like buying economy eggs and, by garnishing them with the odd bit of parsley, hoping they will look and taste like caviar.

All the odd-numbered angles add up to a straight line.

she opened it, and, seeing that the odd man's eye was thoroughly fixed on its pages, she ran her finger quickly up and down the columns.

His formal clothes made him the odd one out in the club.

They are the civilised world, and know themselves to be such by virtue of righteously disembowelling the odd barbarian now and again.

Globefish , nutritious, delicious and rich fertilizer with Game, is the odd smell in the aquarium are all up and down Po.

Teenage pregnancy is still too common, but it has been declining, with the odd hiccup, for ages.

A tactical commander facing a snap decision might only have time to ask the odd cursory question.

Out of the odd little instrument came his own voice, saying the poem.

But then, if you really believe we are in a "war for talent" , you should expect the odd bit of war reporting.

Back in the restaurant, after hours of talking politics, generational despair, career crises and the odd movie, he examines the bill.

Except for the odd scrap of rotting meat (mainly among car-parts makers and airlines) they have had little to sink their talons into.

True, there was the odd dry year. But rainfall was usually abundant, and harvests adequate.

If you want document chapters always to begin on an odd page or on an even page, use the Odd page or Even page section break option.

Life would be very dull without the odd adventures now and then.

Life would be very dull without the odd adventure now and then.

It works through one of the transmission's two clutches and engages the gearbox shaft carrying the odd-numbered gears.

Hit up a local concert. Most cities have local bands that play at the odd dive bar or coffee shop. There's tons of great energy there.

This is in contrast to Tapestry 4, which had an elaborate type mechanism with the odd name "DataSqueezer" .

It is one of the odd old laws on the statute book, although rarely enforced by even the keenest police officer.

They were all very keen on having the odd mistress back then.

The real effort is to stay there, rather, in so far as that is possible, and to examine closely the odd vegetation of those distant regions.

Chelsea just plough on , improvising ways of scoring the odd goal or two while keeping their opponents out.

There could be the odd confrontation through the day, not because you are assertive, but you just feel a little over-emotional.

Missing my electronic voice, I could only listen to the conversation of the staff, discussing the odd conduct of their new cook.

Instead, you need to find other capable people who can share the load and perhaps allow you to have the odd night off.

When inexperienced banks write blank cheques abroad they usually accumulate losses as well as the odd art masterpiece.

Above the coral sea - South Ari Atoll, Maldives Think blue lagoons, rainbow fish and a wave from the odd passing diver.

I've always been one to sneak out and have the odd fag in the lea of a veranda roof at the pub. Or more.

Even if listening and reading work best for you, treat yourself to the odd video lecture, or get-together with other learners.

Michael's competitive fire burned intensely. He hated to lose, and reacted angrily on the odd occasions when he did.

He jogged in the mornings and studied hard, even if he did allow himself the odd joint here and there.

I take the odd bit of exercise, but nothing regular.

All of it: petrol, food, rent, clothes, car loan, insurances, household bills and if you're lucky, the odd social outing.

Peter is the chastened but loving friend of Jesus, still capable of the odd mistake but ready now to die for Jesus.

Inform HR department immediately and try to call some tempstaffs to do the odd jobs, explain to other people to give us some more time.

There may be the odd suspicious death in custody, but there have been no mass killings, as in Myanmar or Sudan.

But a genetic mutation leads to defective microglia, which drive the mice to perform the odd, self-mutilating behavior.

When the pressure was released, the flat bonds returned, and the odd carbon turned back to its pliable, glassy form.

Although he scored the odd sensational goal, Reyes had a notoriously awful time in England and never settled on or off the pitch.

At half the price of a comparable European model, drivers can afford to overlook the odd aesthetic blemish.

Behind the billboard advertising an island getaway, atop the odd little building owned by the bead seller, above the city.

Only a few communists, anarchists and the odd democrat braved the riot police.

The streets went completely quiet, except for a few barking dogs and the odd gunshot.

Militias, hate groups and other right wing radicals all spread their message of violence and are known to throw around the odd pipe-bomb.

In order for you to our table to know, it is also by the odd air-to-date from a catalog for reference.

'It's so health conscious that if you don't participate you feel like the odd one out, ' he says.

Thus, the police school became has accepted each kind of character's place, the prodigal son, the odd person in abundance.

Of course, the odd official number will encourage the odd government to do something foolish, but they have plenty of other provocations.

Fortunately, it is usually possible to find the odd bit here and there - and that is what this list is about.

Sadly it's a condition which, although it has the odd period of remission, is likely to recur every two years.

But if he just wants to have fun and win the odd tournament then good luck to him.

After Somalia's collapse into civil war in 1991, some Somalis began to steal the odd small fishing boat.

Thus, the odd mix of rustic savvy and advanced technology displayed in the pages of The Whole Earth Catalog was not confusion but synthesis.

This means you miss the odd Facebook, but I can live with that.

So we invite you to request assistance as needed or just the odd friendly chat when desired.

Surely the odd hour spent screaming atop a chair is better than your best jumper being nibbled to threads?

But it seems that a daughter's influence on her dad goes far beyond the odd favour.

Whatever the odd mixture of origins, St. Valentine's Day is now a day for sweethearts .

I do the odd interview with Spanish press but I have never come out with these quotes that may or may not have been attributed to me.

But odds are it has something to do with staff shortages (young Chinese workers are becoming more demanding) and the odd strike as well.

Despite the odd conspicuous walkout, industrial relations have been serene for nearly two decades (see chart).

The odd thing is I just invested in a company that uses a very similar technique to Kai Fu Lee's othello program .

They see Mr Semel as the odd man out in their industry.

Secretaries, hairdressers and even the odd street-corner potato-seller have begun to take an interest in the market.

The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things.

Epigenetic variations "could explain the odd discordance of diseases among identical twins, " Whitelaw suggests.

Guess the odd touch that Abhisit has been informed of this to him. King of the dissolution decree is awaiting approval.

His performances have even drawn the odd comparison to the senior members of the Reds' rearguard, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.

Disregard the odd appearance of the design page for now, because you will correct it shortly.

The odd behaviour of Treasury yields does not in itself prove that QE was ineffective.

Dark matter might not really be "stuff" - it could just be a misleading name for the odd behaviour of gravity.

The solution: Stop swearing and don't "over-egg the pudding" on policy issues and everyone will excuse the odd shake of the sauce bottle.

I'm sitting quietly at my computer and the odd word pops into my head.

Under odd-periodic correlation condition, the odd-periodic punctured binary complementary sequence pair set is proposed.

Windows that open send rail buffs into delirium on the odd occasion when a steam locomotive takes the lead position.

Odd flavor seasoning is an important factor which affects the quality of the odd flavor dish.

Then all the odd number rooms were empty, and there were an infinite number of odd rooms.

He was rescued from Interstate 880 near the Oakland Coliseum after dozens of drivers reported the odd sight on the freeway's center divider.

This means that the odd glove is worth little, unless you are holding down a career as a Michael Jackson impersonator.

Why do we allow the odd mistake or error to cloud our thinking, become the focus of our internal dialogue, or self talk?

The streets are emptying here now, give or take the odd shout and scuffle, leaving the clean-up vehicles scurrying about in their scores.

Even at school Kate was the odd one out. She preferred to read books while the others were playing games.

They did nothing all day but have sex - and play the odd game of chess.

There has even been the odd nod from Davos, the church of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, to the possible merits of more interventionist policies.

If things do proceed in this manner, the odd effect of recapitalisation will be to increase leverage in the system.

" Ming Dynasty Great traveler, geographer Xu twice Huangshan, Huangshan see wins like, sigh for the " odd life view.

" Ming Dynasty Great traveler, geographer Xu twice Huangshan, Huangshan see wins like, sigh for the " odd life view.

Their two parties continue to fight, but Tsvangirai describes the odd couple's meetings as "cordial . . . not acrimonious" .

The type of intensity alternation(whether the even or the odd lines are strong)is determined by another important nuclear property.

That approach simply won't produce secure code, because you can't create enough tests to represent all the odd things an attacker can do.

Or are you telling us the odd surge up the wing then making a futile challenge will turn you into a quite quintessential player?

"I love the smell of sundown, " she told me once, and the odd phrase stayed with me.

The husband is having an affair but the wife chooses not to notice the late absences or the odd stains on his clothing.

The flat doors of the Odd Cabinet are hung on simple hinges of wooden dowel and enhance the cupboard's direct visual appeal.

Financial regulators did little to restrain banks when the boom was under way, bar the odd comment that the industry was underpricing risk.

These women riding the odd toys that the manufacturer makes. He started out as a cab driver.

Mongolia's landscape is basically a strip of green beneath a stripe of blue, with the odd fluffs of white and slopes of emerald in between.

You get the odd Everton fan shouting that Liverpool aren't the best, but you try to ignore these ones.

Notwithstanding the odd billion dollars of one-off trading gains, JPMorgan will continue to glow after yesterday's third-quarter results.

Meanwhile, Japan remains the odd man out in Asia.

All stock in warehouse shall be marked with product code, type and quantity. The odd box shall have odd label.

Then one Saturday morning my attention was drawn to the odd goings-on of our two youngest sons .

There was also the odd over-literal translation to figure out.

But the magazine's editors did themselves no favors with the odd specificity of their prediction for Venezuela.

In our quest to be morally superior, have we forgotten that people like to indulge in the odd destructive habit?

Tian Gen knew well the odd temper of these men of perfect practice.

And he couldn't understand , why he was seen as the odd one, while everyone else was considered normal.

Greenhouses where the odd melon different is what really strange, there are some I do not call on the name of the strange fruit.

The odd trait of the city's weather is never be forecasted by the satellite. . .

Mr Obama courted his audience by speaking the odd Arabic word and by quoting from the Koran and emphasising his links to Islam.

The odd device has a camera and light on the end of a flexible tube.

The odd looking 1884 De Dion 'Steam Runabout' was sold to an unknown buyer in front of a packed Pennsylvania auction auction house.

" Mom? " I knew instantly from the odd pulse in Maura's the usual weekly phone call home from college.

Joe: Yes. A traveler should train himself to observe the odd customs there.

I love the odd sunglasses the kids are wearing, which, Deborah tells me, Peterson painstakingly hand-painted.

After a dramatic courtship, government intervention and the odd Supreme Court order, Fiat and Chrysler have finally tied the knot.

u complain so much, but you have a good family, parents, health, and money. What's the odd so long as you're happy.

Two properties are defined , one returning the odd numbers , the other returning the even numbers .

Charles Darwin was puzzled by the odd arrangement of boulders on the South American coast.

In his professional life, he was exploring the way moods affect memory, and the odd couple got him thinking.

The odd man out is a person left out of a group.

You might tolerate the odd road hog, but nowadays the well- mannered motorist is the exception to the rule.

Curious about the odd amount, I asked him if there was a special significance to buying 17 roses rather than the normal one or two dozen.

The odd collection of air pirates are more rivals than villans, and their screwball antics are played for comedy.

You may notice things (scratching your nose, saying the odd um and ah) that were not that noticeable in the live presentation.

Struggling companies agree with Congress: in hard times an obvious way to save money is to sell the odd jet.

EXAMPLE: The odd stories my elderly uncle told at his birthday party were so funny that our whole family was in stitches.

After all the good, the odd, the average, and the bad voices, Hunan TV's Super Boy is finally shifting into finals mode.

Although there is no known way to prevent breast cancer, understanding the disease is an important part of beating the odd.

Balinese workers busily wash down sidewalks and sweep up crushed beer cans, food wrappers, the odd rubber sandal and other detritus.

And if during the Latin American tour he starts on March 8th Mr Bush bumps into the odd demonstration, so what?

The result of their collaboration is a book called The 50th Law , written by Greene but in which 50 is given the odd quote.

The aristos are paternalistic, the staff deferential and devoted, give or take the odd dashingly radical chauffeur.

For increasing the security of communication the odd check is adopted, at the same time the character string is converted in coding system.

I think taking the odd sick day to rejuvenate your mind and soul is a healthy choice probably resulting in less actual sick days.

Russia was the "odd one out" , said Mr Rendell.

But the odd strategic error or failure to integrate will not stop the outbound trend.

The only game I've gotten 100 percent completion on is the odd Sudoku.

Seasonal flower in the middle is printed across the odd no.

In the early draft scripts of Return of the Jedi, Bib Fortuna has the odd title of "High Beeser of Hoth. "

Floating around in this pigs will were some genuine complaints: about a leaking cup or the odd duff vanilla latte.

The night elves are fascinated by the goods they fashion and the odd customs they practice.

In some cases, the computers are actually parsing writers' words, sentence structure, even the odd emoticon.

Critiquing your own sketches, including the odd mirror sketch, can generate a lot more ideas.

I actually loved whenever I came across the odd foreigner who wandered into my town.

Smashed bits of space equipment orbit along with items dropped by astronauts, including tools and the odd glove.

Supporters foisted gifts on him; cakes, flowers and the odd baby.

The market contains a sea of sober sedans: dark Volkswagens and Toyotas and the odd Chinese-made vehicle.

The odd column in a 5 or 7 column newsletter grid can offer extra "thumb space" along the outer edges.

Then came a hug with maybe the odd kiss, and before you knew it, things were getting really emotional.

The odd thing is, people on the left might actually agree, though for very different reasons.

These days, he admits, he only indulges in the odd bout of "Guitar Hero" with his children.

Only philosophers would ever notice such things, and perhaps the odd linguist.

This year in July, odd tiger 360 company officially launched a free anti-virus software, and then the odd tiger shady's query followed.

Instead, I was the odd foreigner no one spoke to.

For a start we are talking about hundreds of papers, not just the odd dozen.

Each team has a projector and on the odd weeks when people are off site, each team has a conference phone.

These collisions can also reverse the disks' spin, leading to the odd orbits seen in many alien solar systems today.

Dubai's woes may dent the odd bank, but aggregate corporate earnings will barely be dented.

The odd months of the latter half of the year are all lesser months which have only 30 days.

News, sports, pets, music, personals, short films, autos, the odd and the absurd -- it's all here.

Within the same layer, the odd-numbered groups appear contiguously from 1 through 6 from the upper right corner.

The odd man added an additional riddle to the middle of the saddle .

We get the odd complaint but most of our customers seem quite satisfied.

Everybody was in the army; I was the odd man out, excluded.

The Voting of the celebrities is done at the ISF Congress, which is held every other year on the odd year.

It loves the odd can of lager and a barbecue.

One very helpful hint is the odd shapes of malignant cell clusters - often linear or angulated and not rounded like balled aggregates.

the odd tool dropped by a spacewalking astronaut.

Wayward members can usually be brought into line by public exposure and the odd lawsuit.

A few poor, dry and teeming countries, such as Egypt, already depend on food imports, along with the odd rich one, like Japan.

The odd group that excessive to the machine infatuation causes makes a person thoughtful.

In these situations, someone often has to be the odd man out.

But research by other astronomers confirmed the odd finding.

While saying firmly that he will stay in the classical tradition rather than do crossover, he is keen to try the odd experiment.

Change the odd detail and that could be me.

The Broad Walk of tall plane trees is a favourite with walkers and the odd skate-boarder.

They may even write the odd cheque to support their wives' bearded friends.

Interlaces the odd and even scanlines of a video clip.

But at very low temperatures, the odd rules of quantum mechanics reign.

Young people are swiftly losing cursive, using it only to sign their names or write the odd cheque.

He was solid enough, wearing dark clothing, and in the odd lighting he appeared very pale.

About 10, 000 cameras and other monitoring devices have been installed to catch drivers who flout the odd-even number-plate restrictions.

eg. She sat silently, flinging the odd word into the conversation from time to time.

Luckily, Gerrard does provide the odd glimpse of football.

The odd ordor permeated through the office before the fire alarm went out.

He put the odd weather down to nuclear explosions.

Recovered from a life-threatening brain disease in 2008 and can now be seen playing in the odd charity match.

I don't take advice from my relationship managers but I do enjoy the odd gin and tonic with them.

As far as the games themselves are concerned, China delivered the good, the bad, and the odd.

For much of the past decade, barring the odd tiff, the wager worked.

There are some funny incidents - the odd woman tries to pull up your apron, or kids try to look up it - but in general it's a great job.

But Zenna Atkins was quite right. We do need the odd bad teacher.

Now, ice microphysicist Andrew Heymsfield and colleagues have found that aircraft really can create the odd clouds.

Now, with the odd exception such as Google and Apple, the mega cap sector looks less exciting (banks, energy companies, pharmaceuticals).

The odd shapes that tufa take can sometimes resemble coral.