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As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye.

And BP is facing civil and criminal probes and a wave of litigation that could tie it up in the courts for years.

If prices were to turn, the amount of vacant property being held as investment would make a wave of forced selling more likely.

The latest figures suggest at least 295 people have been killed as a wave of tornado sweep across the southern states.

It travels at 186, 000 miles per second and behaves as if it were both a solid particle and a wave of energy.

In spite of a wave of floats and trade sales by hedge funds, only 13 per cent said they expected such a move in the next two years.

With a wave of his hand and a "Good night, gentlemen, " Mr. J. J. Continued on his way home, smiling confidently.

With a wave of resistance will not fade, the same type, three-dimensional sense of strong features, decorative logs are the best match.

This buckling of the jet stream dragged with it a wave of low pressure from the west, a system PMD calls the "westerly wave. "

People will then be able to make purchases securely with a click of a few buttons and a wave of the hand.

Comparing ourselves makes us feel like a wave of the sea tossed5 to and fro by the wind.

He leans back against the wall, and a wave of sensation washes over him. He refuses to admit it might be pain.

Suddenly my legs felt a little lighter, and I made it to the finish line, carried along on a wave of encouragement.

Elsewhere in Asia the only real mover besides the yen was the Australian Dollar which benefitted from a wave of good economic data.

Though we certainly weren't trying to inflame or shock , we set of a wave of anger.

Time did not ride a wave of auto-motive opportunity. Nor did he luck into a business relationship with a rich benefactor.

However, the shareholders of the banks will not be so pleased if the credit binge ends up in a wave of new bad loans.

Without a watchdog of this kind the bail-outs could easily have escalated into a wave of tit-for-tat subsidies for national champions.

But that is politically unpalatable: European leaders do not like the idea of testing for a wave of defaults they insist will not happen.

His case was one of the first of a wave of spying charges against Russian academics that critics claimed were trumped up.

Examples included the Belgian contamination fiasco in 1999, when the company took a week to accept responsibility for a wave of sickness.

"Prudential is among a wave of foreign companies exploring the possibility of listing in Shanghai, " said a person familiar with the matter.

dimmed, and he looked up to see Luclin broken apart in the sky , a wave of energy carrying chunks of debris rapidly toward Norrath.

With a wave of his hand he would speak of a certain bazaar in Hyderabad.

It turned out to be a wave of slum dwellers streaming to the air and sea port to greet the American guests.

Doomsayers warn that it is only a matter of time before excess capacity leads to a wave of bankruptcies and sour loans.

But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

Though reluctant to respond to what was felt to be a wave of harmful sensationalism, the information was given.

He kissed off their objections with a wave of his hands.

Equally striking has been a wave of lay-offs at much smaller start-up companies, which are bracing themselves for a coming recession.

No big French bank has had to be rescued, nor has there been a wave of mortgage repossessions.

The strong financial position of American companies could unleash a wave of new investment over the next couple of years.

Oil producing regions saw the return of a fragile calm following a wave of attacks and abductions at the beginning of the year.

The verdict triggered a wave of furious comment in online forums and drove university students out on a candlelight vigil for the victim.

Ben desperately tried to locate his mother, but instead felt her death in a wave of Force energy.

The latest figures suggest at least 295 people have been killed as a wave of tornado sweep across the southernstatestates.

Mr Hurley, 29, and Mr Chen, 28, are part of a wave of internet entrepreneurs to have grown up in the online world.

"This is the start of a wave of job losses that will likely extend through the first half of this year, " he said.

Experts warned the significant spike in couples splitting up could be the beginning of a wave of divorces.

Let your squad leaders know if you see a wave of enemy or a cluster near them and have them call it in on the enemy location.

Death woke up the next morning and peered at the man asleep on the bed and a wave of pity came over him.

The Wicked Witch reaches for the ruby slippers. But with a wave of her star wand, Glinda has transferred them to Dorothy's feet.

I wouldn't have seen how, with a wave of his hand, the blue light of Heaven's threshold could flare on the other side of darkness.

India is caught up in a wave of investor interest sweeping through the region.

The long-hoped-for move of individual investors back into stocks was supposed to bring a wave of money off the sidelines.

My interpreter signals with a wave of a finger not to pursue the subject any further.

Flowing threateningly toward me over the crest of a hill was a wave of black men draped in weird mustard-colored clothing.

The guiding principal is not to confine energies into defined spaces, but to explore the play of energy till it explodes as a wave of joy.

EBay executives are bracing for a wave of dissatisfaction among some of its users as the changes take effect.

The calm had led many to believe that Taliban insurgents had decided to spare the election a wave of a violence.

He said those investments "unleashed a wave of innovation" that created new industries and millions of jobs.

It has also hurt Oasis' already thin margins, although the airline insists it has not been hit by a wave of cancellations.

ANTICIPATION THAT a wave of cash from mainland China will eventually reach Taiwan is helping to turn its real estate into a hot property.

A wave of bank failures beginning in the fall of 1930 dashed those hopes and plunged the U. S. into three more years of contraction.

Devaluation would, at a stroke, produce a wave of defaults in euro-denominated contracts.

In the wake of the banking crisis, there has been a wave of shareholder revolts over directors' remuneration.

Despite this attempt to spread the pain, the Greek government has been confronted with a wave of strikes by public-sector workers.

Lin wants to remind the public of a wave of viruses that are responsible for an epidemic of stomach flu this winter.

In the rest of the world, meanwhile, technological development and a wave of consolidation have produced lots of genuinely global companies.

Florida is also considering cutbacks, in what advocates for the unemployed fear may be a wave of such measures across the country.

A wave of refinancing that will hit private-equity-owned firms over the next few years may prove profitable for distressed-debt funds.

"There is no need to, as long as the thing still I can! " the drunkard red nose said with a wave of his hand.

Immediately, my impatience gave away to a wave of pity for her.

A similar fast in April fueled a broadcast media frenzy, along with a wave of popular demonstrations around the nation.

The deal is the latest in a wave of financial-institution transactions that have altered the landscape of the industry in a matter of weeks.

Neither country wants to see a wave of democratisation sweeping the Middle East.

But it has crept back, as a wave of religiosity has prompted many to embrace a more distinctively Muslim look.

Bad debts, risks lurking off the balance sheet, and a wave of potential takeovers of weak banks all sound distant.

She beckoned her friends closer with a wave of her hand.

Once the Romans packed it in at the beginning of the 5th century, a wave of Germanic immigrants flooded these shores.

Over the next five weeks in the ICU, a wave of secondary infections, also acquired in the hospital, overwhelmed his defenses.

They love to see themselves as brave, "truth" -wielding Galileos standing up against a wave of pseudo-scientific indoctrination.

Fleur whisked round, threw him a wave of her hand.

Most worm-like creatures are propelled by a wave of motion, and when they hit an obstacle, they change their shape to deal with it.

But as the housing bubble deflates, it also drags innocent victims into a wave of fore- closures.

Are we expecting a magician, with a wave of his wand, will remove all our troubles and problems in life?

In the next two to four years, retiring manager baby boomers will trigger a wave of new openings for high-responsibility jobs, says Levit.

But investors began to question the ability of bank capital to withstand a wave of recession-related defaults.

The test results come amid a wave of criticism that policymakers have not been as tough on Wall Street as they should have been.

Suddenly, a wave of heat ripples up Rahul's back and blankets his head.

Marian: Well, you know that light acts like a wave of electromagnetic energy, right?

The leaves, jostling and overlapping, produced, as it were, a wave of deep green.

His company, which trades illiquid securities, started trading bankruptcy claims this year in anticipation of a wave of corporate defaults.

There have been a wave of redundancies in the IT industry.

Electric wands could allow future firefighters to extinguish flames with a wave of the hand, recent experiments suggest.

But some government battered by a wave of foreign money could overdo it, as they have done before.

The Simpson-Bowles report on the deficit was an opportunity to begin a wave of institutional reform.

A wave of religious zeal has swept the province and a group of followers committed to your cause have joined your armies.

The King's Speech is riding high on a wave of success, having won seven awards at the Baftas and a slew of other prizes.

A wave of sci-tech innovation is surging up in the ancient Luzhou land, a dynamic innovation pilot city is on the rise.

The Simpson-Bowles report on the deficit was an opportunity to begin a wave of institutional reform.

A wave of religious zeal has swept the province and a group of followers committed to your cause have joined your armies.

The King's Speech is riding high on a wave of success, having won seven awards at the Baftas and a slew of other prizes.

second, to help end a wave of re-drawing school in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia between the rise.

Don Corleone dismissed this emotional nonsense with a wave of his hand.

If that balance is compromised, the result could be a wave of social upheaval not seen since the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of 1989.

Mr. Llewellyn is part of a wave of laboratory-adept European entrepreneurs who see gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs.

Even after a wave of government-induced consolidation, there are at least a dozen systemically important commercial banks.

With a wave of Kindle competitors hitting the market, sales for Amazon's reader and similar devices are expected to double again this year.

"Petition" is part of a wave of recent documentaries that examine, in relentless detail, social and economic conditions in the country.

Both Venus and the Sun move into your home zone early in the week, bringing a wave of positive energy to this area.

The U. S. real estate industry hoped that the trips were an early indication that a wave of Chinese buyers was on its way.

Ollanta Humala's victory has provoked widespread fears he would lead a wave of nationalisations and higher taxes on foreign companies.

Perlin's research suggests that the primary obstacle to a wave of lawsuits is simply the reluctance of unpaid workers to file complaints.

The numbers provided fresh evidence of a serious trade slump that has caused a wave of factory closures and staff layoffs, analysts said.

The Malaysia plant is just one example of a wave of investment into the solar industry by Asian technology companies.

A wave of sympathy ensued with even enemies impressed by his spirited response.

Secondly, it took the very sensible step of opening its API early on. This has generated a wave of new secondary applications.

A wave of blazing energy radiates from Gusaka's body, damage the enemy who swarm too closely.

The big allocation comes as the Chinese fund stands poised to make a wave of investments directly into hedge funds around the world.

Clifton Lawrence dismissed his words with a wave of his hand .

is set to be the first in a wave of Chinese food-services chains that plan to go public.

The dramatic act sparked not just sympathy but a wave of protest that has carried on for three weeks, with no sign of stopping.

Nigerian police blame the raids in the town of Gombi on Islamist militants, who've been linked with a wave of violence in the region.

A wave of tablet frenzy swept across the country last week with the concussive force of an earthquake.

Currently, retaliation suits are contributing to a wave of litigation that has employers in a panic.

On top of which, a state-mandated break-up could trigger a wave of lawsuits, further eroding trust in the system.

Many countries of the continent were greatly influenced by the Xinhai Revolution and met a wave of national liberation and independence.

Analysts predict a wave of acquisitions and mergers over the next few years.

Industry insiders expect a wave of restructuring or legal action as some of the deals that were refinanced move near to maturity again.

A wave of high-profile positive coverage by the state-controlled media shows the central government is interested in promoting its efforts.

The incident set off a wave of fear and anger across the country. The public demanded action against union extremists.

A wave of distressed selling could turn a welcome easing of property prices into a rout.

From the narrow world to the wider world of the road. there is a wave of the wind.

The gangs are believed to be responsible for a wave of killings, mutilations and be headings in the state.

Stanford's action sparked outrage from conservationists and civic groups and a wave of media coverage.

Where the snowstorms were not a factor, stores prepared for a wave of shoppers using gift cards.

Later, under a wave of bad press, it said it would publish part of its finances this year.

Interruptions were swept aside with a wave of his hand.

The apology is the latest in a wave of official acts of remorse around the globe.

b. Suppose a wave of business pessimism reduces aggregate demand. Show the effect of this shock on your diagram from part (a).

In the business card printing and membership card making business sparked a wave of support for the climax of the disaster area.

Time did not ride a wave of auto-motive opportunity.

The counter-reaction was a rush of piety, exemplified in a wave of church- and chantry-building.

But it could signal wider discontent among politicians about a wave of proposed Chinese investments in Australian companies.

Militants have launched a wave of attacks in response to a major army operation against their strongholds on the Afghan border.

A wave of anti-Israel demonstrations swept through cities around the world and Turkey recalled its ambassador.

The response of the FARC, the main guerrilla army, was a wave of attacks and ambushes.

Across the world a wave of mass deaths began, plants and animals perishing in a decade-long asteroid winter.

These bodies are not well explained by standard models, and a wave of fresh theoretical work is under way.

Most analysts trace America's current economic woes to tight credit conditions sparked by a wave of home foreclosures and mortgage defaults.

Revenues have tumbled, profits have been squeezed and some owners are keen to sell. Fund management is set for a wave of mergers.

The next year promoters floated a wave of commodity offerings; in Shanghai alone, more than 140 stock exchanges sprang up.

kissed off their objections with a wave of his hand.

Indeed, a wave of "low-carbon cities" is sweeping across the land.

But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China.

Sellers of protection will be watching nervously for a wave of corporate defaults as big economies slip into recession.

With a wave of his hand , the magician made the fish swim in the fish tank.

The judge's own code briefly caused a wave of amused speculation when it was discovered by a lawyer this week.

At the start of the year a wave of optimism was washing over the Asian hedge fund industry.

His rival Republicans are gaining momentum on a wave of support for the Tea Party, a fast-growing conservative grass-roots movement.

When a wave of redemptions hit the Madoff funds, the Ponzi scheme, as Mr Madoff himself reportedly called it, became unworkable.

A trace of spring blew hearts, calm a lot, as if a wave of emotion, suddenly excited.

They have also just significantly boosted the ISDA budget to cope with a wave of new requests from the Federal Reserve and other regulators.

This is the hard - won economic boom ushered in a wave of the African continent is no different from a head - on blow .

Ms. Seth is part of a wave of Indian women who have, in recent years, started working and living away from their parents before marriage.

Teams have also had to increase their expenditure on security to ward off a wave of attempted armed robberies of their local academies.

Four Russian policemen were killed by a suicide-bomber in Chechnya. The Russian north Caucasus has seen a wave of violence in recent months.

A wave of interest in courses and electives that cover everything from human rights to climate change has swept business school campuses.

Kim-Chi is part of a wave of bright, highly-motivated Asian-Americans who are suddenly surging into our best colleges.

With a wave of his hand, the magician MADE the rabbit vanish.

She closed her eyes on a wave of shame.

Certainly it has been helped by a wave of liquidity from near-zero interest rates and quantitative easing.

But if it stalls, a wave of even angrier protest may well erupt in September.

Since then he's launched a wave of litigation against people and businesses deemed to have profited from the fraud.

A wave of encouraging clinical-trial data is raising hopes for a new class of drugs to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

Almost overnight, a wave of brilliant dramatists emerged, including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Ben Jonson and Shakespeare.

Last week UBS became the first overseas bank to offload its stake in a Chinese bank in a move expected to trigger a wave of divestments.

South Africa is becoming a significant investor throughout sub-Saharan Africa, while China is leading a wave of interest from Asia.

US President Barack Obama has signed into effect a wave of steep spending cuts which he has warned could damage the US economy.

The growth of industry and a wave of immigrants marked this period in American history.

By lowering overhead and easing application management, a government cloud could yield a wave of application innovation across agencies.

in the present environment, it made little sense for China to be experiencing a wave of footloose capital inflows.

The family are part of a wave of immigrants leaving China even as rapid economic growth is transforming the world's most populous nation.

A wave of industrial unrest has not just grounded aeroplanes but has also closed job centres and threatens to halt trains.

The model is Sweden, which responded to an economic crisis in the 1990s with a wave of reform from which it still benefits today.

A wave of stock buying would be cheered by investors still dreaming about their portfolios fully recovering from the past year's damage.

The culmination of this metamorphosis was a wave of initial public offerings that began in 2005.

With a wave of his hand he materialized a taxi.

Here he has a drink; with a wave of his hand he darts off without paying.

It triggers a wave of popular anger in the Middle East that topples any regime seen as too close to Washington.

A wave of relief came over me. He had stapled his report card down the middle to keep it open, and it already looked a little ragged.

A pair of jeans, a wave of T, to keep returning to piercing high.

No matter how small it may be, few people can deny that there is a 'wave' of minimalism happening right now.

The markets have greeted the latest package with a wave of euphoria. No great surprise there.

Atlanta, Georgia's image soared after its first atrium hotel, the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, triggered a wave of new development.

A wave of foreign takeovers, and forays abroad by Brazilian firms, have both increased demand for managers with international experience.

There was a wave of encouragement among the people.

Safety scandals involving Chinese goods have sent a wave of panic through multinational companies that outsource production to China.

The redevelopment of Qianmen is part of a wave of construction that has been accelerated by the 2008 Olympics.

The price collapse of the 1980s forced companies to slash investments and prompted a wave of large mergers through the industry.

She was in Chicago, a city that's been affected by a wave of gun violence.

Signs of waning sales come as New York's economy prepares for a wave of job losses on Wall Street.

China is gripped by price inflation that has triggered a wave of strikes and protests across the country.

Why can we not pay for vending machines, subway tickets or movie tickets with our cellphones via a simple text or a wave of the phone.

Conservatives hope that they will ride a wave of good publicity and economic recovery to an election at which they finally win a majority.

He has been right to resist, with minor exceptions, calls for a wave of protectionism.

A wave of online protests forced the police to cancel the wanted notice. However, they have not closed their investigation.

Chinese firms listed overseas have been struck by a wave of accounting scandals.

When an Iranian parliamentarian mentions nostalgically that Bahrain was once a Persian province, a wave of Sunni suspicion erupts.

"I want to push them out, to make them suffer a little like we had to, " Wang said with a wave of determination that quickly melted.

In response, PepsiCo launched a wave of innovation and acquisitions designed to broaden its portfolio and improve its health profile.

The hope emerged in a wave of community solidarity that has flooded Hanwang with volunteer relief workers eager to alleviate the suffering.

Then a wave of demutualisation set shareholders seeking higher profits and executives in pursuit of self-aggrandisement.

the darkness gnawed at her body and soul , sending a wave of emptiness and despair through her body.

The recent surge in petrol prices has triggered a wave of interest in car sharing among individuals and businesses.

Layered onto those fundamental forces is a wave of fresh money being pumped into the markets by the Fed.

He dismissed us with a wave of his hand.

To be sure, if investors grow bullish again, a wave of IPOs could hit the market quickly.

With luck, this pressure could spark a wave of innovative planning focused on improving the return on infrastructure spending.

Woman is fickle. woman is like a wave of the sea.

All it takes is a wave of the hand, a smile, and a "No, thank you. "

With a wave of Flora's wand, they see themselves in the mirror, all in peasant woman's clothes.

Exactly as in Tunisia, their suspiciously complete exit sparked a wave of looting, vandalism and banditry.

A wave of food-price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake.

the elections sent a message to political quarters that the party was riding a wave of popularity.

We believe the bottom line is that we might see a wave of redemptions in the coming year.

Long ago humans combust in false ascensions underneath the land and they set a wave of fire over the land above.

Kumar helped manage a wave of severe cases in the city in June, mostly in young Canadian aboriginals, who required the most advanced care.

This comes after a wave of severe weather moved through the Midwest, causing deaths in Missouri and wide-ranging damage.

If Greece goes ahead with the referendum, its citizenry would most probably reject the plan, creating a wave of instability in the region.

His treatment triggered a wave of protest from scientists, both in Brazil and, eventually, internationally.

Currently, a wave of enthusiasm personality household domestic kitchen cabinet industry and also try dance.

At the same time a wave of intense virility seemed to surge out from him and impinge upon her .

Other companies would fade by comparison; but once the adjustment was complete, equity indices might reflect a wave of growth.

Amid a wave of bank failures globally, many other governments have in recent weeks expanded their guarantees on bank deposits.

Now, however, a much gloomier view prevails, accompanied by a wave of revisions to the figures.

Each country is different, while references to a wave of change are simplistic.

A wave of hate had wiped out two-thirds of the town, destroying houses and mosques, schools and clinics.

The move is the first of a wave of likely listings intended to revive the flagging growth of the Chinese insurance sector.

Citizens are flocking to the Strip in droves amid a wave of terror caused by a band of raiders known as theFiends.

because there was a wave of emotion, you've got nothing.

Step eight would be a wave of corporate defaults.

That shift in mentality comes as a wave of patent suits crisscross the wireless industry.

Interruptions were swept aside with a wave of the hand.

England had received a wave of Huguenots in the 17th century and one of Irish immigrants in the early 19th.

Mr Lee has been the target of a wave of personal insults unleashed by the North.

A wave of labour unrest swept through factories midyear, though foreign-owned businesses were most affected.

Even though hundreds fled to the nearby city of Herculaneum, a wave of unimaginably intense heat arrived to kill them.

But there's still the risk of serious losses, if there were a wave of government defaults.

A wave of cold and snowy weather continues to grip Europe, grounding airplanes, trains and cars and causing dozens of deaths.

Occasionally a wave of public criticism or disgusted American pressure would force some cabinet change.

A low-budget film that Muslims say insults the Prophet Muhammad has prompted a wave of protests across various countries.

After a decade of false dawns for the industry, it leads the way in a wave of new "geolocative" social networking tools.

He rode to power in 2000 on a wave of Taiwan-first pride, winning support for his promise of cleaner government.

The sale and servicing of Japanese vehicles is a major business, and Putin's diktat has unleashed a wave of protests.

There's a wave of powerful new competitors on the horizon who can price their goods and services at startlingly low levels.

His vision blurred and a wave of dizziness washed over him.

Some years ago a wave of youthful suicides was a telling sign of the level of family and social breakdown.