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And though Loddar could barely care less about that, this may be one area in which David Beckham is likely to surpass his achievements.

It's not unusual to see the bumpers on Geely cars barely hanging on after a few years of use.

She had become so small, at the end of her life, that she was barely taller than the artichoke plants.

We are barely beginning to understand its translational and applied aspects.

In an economy where income per person used to rise by barely 1% a year, today's growth rates feel like a miracle.

If you just barely get to the coexistence curve, of course then you could see how much material you've got in the two phases.

Whether or not I got rid of it, it barely makes a bit of difference to me now.

I said I could never give up my car, but I barely drive now and am going car-free next month.

So tired of all the sad face of a man, sometimes barely holding on really fast, just as in life, like a puppet!

Aquino, facing his first major test barely two months after taking office, said he would concentrate on preventing a repeat of the incident.

But I guess he has the last laugh on me. He's a famous brain surgeon and me, I'm selling used cars and barely make enough to live on.

The door was unlocked. She went inside and sat in a stupor. She was near collapse, barely able to move her swollen feet.

It occurred to him that the fortress seemed unusually deserted, but he barely gave it a second thought.

I did not come barely to let you know that I was informed of these things as if I wanted a bribe to conceal them.

Even then, employers say that many graduates emerge inarticulate, unable to think critically and barely able to read or write.

"Farmers were barely able to work three or four hours a day, four times a week on average (during the conflict), " calculates Daud.

'I'm a mess, ' she mumbles out of the side of her mouth, which she can barely move due to the anaesthetic cream smeared all over her face.

Barely more than a year has passed since the start of his campaign, and already Alexander has accomplished all that he set out to do.

Keep your thighs close to the surface of the water, but barely allow your knees to break the surface.

It starts with a barely perceptible blurring of vision from time to time - the sort of thing you might chalk up to getting older.

In the dark and barely able to move his hands, he leaned forward and bit down to see if it really was his foot.

Behind them was the dead tiger, looking like a big sack made of coloured cloth, so heavy that even four men were barely able to carry it.

My sister-in-law gave an embarrassed laugh, then scooped up her barely weeping son and plopped him in her lap.

In a stunning performance in the butterfly final, Phelps was barely able to see as his goggles filled with water.

The streets were filled with the dead and barely living. She kept on running, knowing only that she had to be home.

The next morning she could barely get out of bed and that night, she had shaking chills and a high fever.

The selection in many vending machines has barely changed, if it has changed at all, in a generation.

"Every time I logged on it was just messages from bands I barely heard of, " she said.

At the bottom end of the range, the difference would be barely noticeable.

His muscles are barely visible and his long, silky hair pops up in the air as he gallops across court.

Once upon a time, although it seems barely credible to us now, we were all children.

Seven-year-old Madison Kung barely looks up from the screen of his iMac computer when his mother, Terri, calls his name.

He arrived in New York City a week ago and barely knows his way around.

She said the $79 in monthly child support she gets from her ex-husband barely helps pay for food.

China's trade volumes are growing at barely half the rate they were a year ago, and are expected to slow in coming months.

The result of this self-restraint was that exports soared in real terms, whereas consumer spending barely budged (see chart).

The eclipsed sun seems to hover over the horizon on Sunday, barely lighting the high, snowy plains of Patagonia in southern Argentina.

He grew up poor in Kentucky and barely had a year of schooling, but he went on to become the President of United States.

The company he took over was a wreck: ancient recipes, a barely functioning call center, nine long-suffering franchisees.

By the time I got to Boston University, I'd buried my secret so deep that I barely thought about it when I was with my new friends.

That might have recommended him for the task of overhauling an administrative machine that John Paul barely touched.

She was sitting in a chair in the office. Her head was bowed and when she raised it to look at me, she could barely smile without pain.

SO FAR, barely a week after the opposition captured the bulk of Tripoli, things have gone astonishingly well.

There was a moment of hesitation, then the boy, barely taller than the grass, made his way down.

He closed his eyes and barely looked at me, just wanted to hug me and touch my skin.

This frees mainframe resources that may have otherwise been used for threads handling barely active client connections.

We had barely broached the airport perimeter when he pulled to a halt, and a second man climbed into the front passenger seat.

After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil.

Found a new job but his increase in salary barely covers the insurance costs & fuel for him to drive 35 minutes one way.

His eyes were sunken deep into his head and he had lost at least five pounds. He could barely respond to my questions.

But she was also intrigued by the rhino stamp, barely a kiss of a postmark, and her address in caps.

The train had been barely a quarter full, but the arrival of a few more passengers for the final leg into Belgrade gave it a busier feel.

At one point, it looked as if Mr Rajoelina, who has been in politics for barely a year, might have overplayed his hand.

Since then the youth-unemployment rate has risen by over a third. Barely a week goes by without some form of industrial action.

She was barely able to walk and she had oxygen cylinders fitted in her bedroom.

And by the time I was an intern house officer, I could barely afford to maintain my mother's 13-year-old car, and I was a paid doctor.

You are barely able to duck below the scythe blade but a few of your army members aren't so lucky.

In this article, the new and noteworthy features have been outlined, but we have barely scratched the surface of this new version of Groovy.

China may have rapidly increased outlays on welfare pensions and health, but it has barely scratched the surface.

I'd finally moved out on my own, and I barely saw him all year.

One of his forehands he hit well but it barely got to the baseline, and I only just managed to pick it up.

Earning twenty dollars a week , John barely keeps his head above water .

By the time the end of the year arrived, losses piled up on my pad and my job security was at the mercy of a select few I barely knew.

We barely sit down in anger Ma Sheng, then the newspaper connected with the shop, then prepared to put the moon cake and eat moon cakes!

She could barely get out of bed to interact with her children.

Later, under the mercy of her mother married a non-loving girl, barely over two years, gave birth to a daughter, the two divorced.

It was barely a yellow card. When you make a decision like that you show you do not know football.

If there had never been a banking crisis, news that Bob Diamond will take over as chief executive at Barclays would barely deserve comment.

The woman in front of him was eating roasted peanuts that smelled so good that he could barely contain his hunger.

Composed primarily of ices, most comets circle the dark fringes of the solar system, barely within the sun's gravitational grasp.

A few blemishes prove that this planned trilogy still has potential for growth, but they barely diminish the game's overall impact.

Living without feedback, even in the lap of luxury, would be for all but a few recluses barely living at all.

She did, she says, but it was Mr. Clegg, to whom she had previously barely given a thought.

I remember our first meeting, when she was barely a young woman-more a girl, actually- and I saw her on the side of Kelvin's Cairn.

And the jar of pills he had, he said, were the tiniest little pills he could find, so small you could barely see them.

He began to think that Abrahim was wrong, and that the rebels, despite their foolishness, would sweep into town with barely a struggle.

I'm barely back on the couch before I hear "How about this one? " and get up to do it all over again.

Julia: Yes. Sergio: He grew up poor in Kentucky and barely had a year of schooling, but he went on to become the President of the US.

With barely the flicker of his smiling eyes, he took the bracelet and put it on.

Golden retriever pups, barely seven days old. Almost helpless and yet, capable of sophisticated behaviors that they share with wolf pups.

You start feeling insecure and wonder where you will be in a year or two, but then get scared because you barely know where you are now.

Experts say the barely distinguishable letters and numbers represent something of a real-life Da Vinci code.

Without that as a means of financing consumption, the economy would barely have grown at 1 per cent a year under President George W. Bush.

As the mispronounced and barely intelligible words were dragged out of him, he became instant prey for his classmates.

Will all this be enough? So far, investors seem sceptical: Starbucks' share price remains barely a quarter of its all-time high in 2006.

At last he said one word, barely shaping it with his contorted lips, and the word was "Life. "

That $50 a month leaving your bank account on payday that you barely notice will add up to $600 a year, plus your return on investment.

Yet, at the end of each day he would only have collected one or two rupees, barely enough to buy a dry chapati and a cup of sweet chai.

I just barely got the lights out in time for you to be able to see those gobs of light hitting the transect screen and then just glowing.

It was as if Mother Nature had let out a soft sigh, the feeling of calm longing just barely carried along with the breath.

Yet, at the end of each day he would only have collected one or two rupees, barely enough to buy a dry chapati and a cup of sweet chai.

I just barely got the lights out in time for you to be able to see those gobs of light hitting the transect screen and then just glowing.

It was as if Mother Nature had let out a soft sigh, the feeling of calm longing just barely carried along with the breath.

Shortcomings of others can be spotted at once as if stains on white paper, but those of our own can be barely found by ourselves.

He arrived in New York City a week ago and barely knew his way around. What's more, he only speaks a few words of English.

But what none of her fellow residents or supervisors realized was that she was barely surviving at home as a victim of domestic violence.

By the end of his matches he could barely limp around the court, much less move with the agility and speed the sport requires.

Nature. It is possible to live such an air-conditioned existence that you are barely.

Unfortunately, Wall Street's history suggests that its track record in IT spending is barely better than its ability to stay out of trouble.

Onlookers said the teenage sensation looked close to collapse and she barely moved between points to conserve energy.

Not surprising, then, that I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone a year ago.

He had bought me a drink but now was being very quiet and was barely looking at me.

Mr Edelman survived, escaping with a handful of colleagues along tunnels barely two feet high, slimy water up to his lips, to safety.

She barely knows him, so when he gave her that lovely purse, she was really taken aback.

The father found the girl in bed with a heavily bandaged jaw and a swollen face, barely able to speak.

The pick sliced through the air where his head had been and smashed against the wall with awful impact, barely missing the swirl stone node.

Meanwhile, Wall Street's culture of excess seems to have been barely dented by the crisis.

Barely a year after she set up the FI Group, later called Xansa, she gave birth to her only child, Giles.

Now I started seeing this fluff cloud, barely on March 18, but I had to wait a few days more to be sure.

Barely out of his teens, he made his first trip to Memphis, Tennessee, with his guitar and $2. 50 in his pocket.

Bob : I've got to start my holiday shopping. Christmas and new years are just around the corner and I have barely started.

He said he barely got through school. He told me he did really badly at university.

A year later the journalist was savagely attacked, leaving him barely able to talk and brain-damaged.

This was the culmination of a week of barely controlled excitement after six years of preparation.

He said he had stolen the food because his mother was starving to death and there was barely any food left in the house.

None of this was visible the evening I got there. We stepped on to Guling's main street in mist so thick you could barely see your hands.

To see how far China has come, so fast, look no farther than Ms. Zhang's own family. For her parents, education was barely an option.

How is an abstract art piece that sort of almost barely resembles a computer going to remind people of your software company?

However, most of these sections are surveys that barely scratch the surface on any specific process or technique.

A Tepco spokesman said the smoke seemed to be ebbing as of Tuesday evening local time, while the steam had become barely visible.

He grew up poor in Kentucky and barely had a year of schooling. But he wanna become the president of the US.

In late summer, as Europe's economies barely ticked over, bankers across Europe seemed ready to ease their grip on the purse strings.

She was in such pain that she could barely stand to get dressed. Even the touch of her cotton clothes seemed like the scraping of a knife.

of water in a torrent, he had no alternative but to be swept along by the multitude around him, his feet barely touching the ground.

Barely a week goes by without one or other public figure apologizing for a disaster of monumental proportions.

By the time her modeling career got off the ground, while barely out of her teens, she had already been married and divorced.

Young as she was, she barely understood what was happening to her.

Barely a week earlier, on their trip to Europe, Hillary and Chelsea had been on the same plane with some of the same crew members.

In the mean time, green conversation is all about chasing alternatives that can barely scratch the surface of our energy needs.

I turned and handed the book to a very pretty western girl who barely looked old enough to be getting married.

Although barely acquainted, I felt compelled to connect with him and called out "Richard, I'll be praying for you. "

I can barely make out his silhouette in the dark.

On the Sex Scandal Richter Scale, Representative Weiner's misdeeds barely move the needle, at least in light of recent history.

Barely a couple of minutes later, Zhang Jian began to talk about other topics with his 3 distant relatives from China as they ate dim sum.

The hinges appear to be a bit small in relation to the laptop's size, but barely allow a teetering after opening angle adjustments.

The 'Atomic Ant' barely had a chance to shine last season, but with Ranieri now gone, it might be a different story for him next season.

The whole of our recorded history, on this scale, would be no more than a few seconds, a single human lifetime barely an instant.

Though barely able to speak, he ordered them to bring five different options for the mask and he would pick a design he liked.

We barely knew one another in the beginning, but we became fast friends after all the training and experiences we went through.

and the theater continues its tradition of radical, shocking productions, which barely seem to turn most hairs20 .

At the sound of the gun I was into the water with barely a splash, skimming the surface like a water bug.

High up in the trunk, TSU'TEY and his hunters leap rapidly from spoke to spoke, climbing barely ahead of the fireball.

In Washington, our leaders seem to have barely noticed this turmoil in one of the world's most important economic zones.

Despite his rank, General Butler had been a professional soldier barely four weeks.

Lipper, an information group, reckons that the median European fund has euro25m of assets, barely enough to be economic to run.

I caught my breath. Usually she could barely speak more than two words at, a time. "Don't worry, " I started to say.

Barely was surprised to see Buckwheat was raising her head and said.

Such was the intensity of the heat , they could barely approach the fire sometimes, and many houses were reduced to ashes.

"I'm overwhelmed, " he said, so softly that I could barely hear him, and then his breathing trailed off and the phone went dead.

The Rockets are barely in game mode, but the Bobcats are sorry. If we were playing any other team in the NBA tonight it would be trouble.

Kugelmass bundled Emma into a cab and took her back to the Plaza. He barely made it to his class on time.

Barely had he done this when another gust rolled the dark clouds over half the sky.

That rocky, flat, barely vegetated land mass is now thought to be Baffin Island, shown in the second image above.

On closer inspection French Catholicism is not dead, but it is splintering to the point where the centre barely holds.

On stage he is still most often played by a young actress, but in films he is more likely to be a prepubescent or barely pubescent male.

Those that have managed to survive - sometimes just barely - have done so with a mix of technology and determination.

She had cancer, and it was spreading rapidly. She had barely enough resources to put a cent in the medical treatments she would need.

THE demise of GM had been expected for so long that when it finally died there was barely a whimper. Wall Street was unmoved.

The words were barely out of my mouth, when a very large piece of Skylab came crashing down through our roof.

Before the crisis some boards barely thought about this, naively assuming that procedures for it were well honed.

In a week of touring China? s start-up scene, I? ve barely heard the KPCB brand mentioned at all.

'You can see that their remit is to keep the animals barely alive, ' she said.

Consumer prices, which the Federal Reserve would prefer to see growing 1. 5% to 2% a year excluding food and energy, are barely rising.

In the trial Naomi said she barely spoke to Charles during the course of the dinner but in this photo at least they look extremely friendly.

Elements occupying the far depths of the periodic table are so exotic and ephemeral it seems as if they are only barely there.

The video, however, is not as effective as it could have been, as Doyle is clearly reading from a script and barely looks into the camera.

Then this old guy decides to give the newlyweds a toast. He made a crappy joke and barely anybody laughed.

The content of sustainable development reports being barely meaningful is not just a Chinese problem.

This seem to be a bad connection. I can barely hear a word you is saying.

High-speed, double-decker elevators would rush visitors to the top levels in barely a minute and a half.

Plus Denise found a nice raspberry color that you can just barely see in the cherry stand picture.

I've barely scratched the surface of JSF 2 features so far, with managed bean annotations, simplified navigation, and support for resources.

Yet because the two main parties disagree so much, the grand coalition has barely begun to tackle any of these.

The links of our new chain are frail, and barely strong enough to hold their weight, but every moment of determination thickens our resolve.

looking above , the sky is reduced to a barely seen thread , hence the name.

Gradually, our relationship began to feel the strain; we were barely speaking.

No wonder, though barely a year after the advent of the crisis, that some investors are muttering about Goldman having excess capital.

Pull back after kissing for a bit, etc. Demonstrate you're in control of your sex drive, but just BARELY.

[It continues to grow] But that growth is barely half the average increase during the initial four years of the previous four recoveries.

A smile barely touched her eyes, but anyone who knew her could tell she was most pleased .

Her head barely reached his chest, and I could see she was about to faint from the excitement.

This is all of a piece with its barely visible profile in the global arena.

Over the past 13 millennia, you lived in a reality in which you were barely able to use 12 % of what you actually possess.

Sarah was his eight-year-old daughter. He gave her some change and off she went, barely able to open the door by herself.

How you used to be able to talk for hours and how now, you can barely even look at them.

Eyes and antennae barely reveal the head of the leaf insect Phyllium giganteum.

At this point, it's typical to wonder how others can get hundred or even thousands of votes while your submissions barely get any.

He would sit in a tiny, wooden chair, barely large enough to hold even his slight frame.

Seasoned traders in Tokyo barely batted an eyelash as the news began to emerge soon after trading began Wednesday.

She barely has any time to wait for you as she will be leaving for Canada in a few seconds.

"That, " said the barman in a barely audible whisper, from between dry lips, "will do nicely, sir. "

From gratuitous puke porn (and worse) to the barely titillating maid cafes, Tokyo is like a dirty old man in a teenager's body.

Heads turned when they came in, and a murmur, barely audible, of astonishment and pleasure swept over the church.

But the public sector has barely begun to adjust, and has built up a huge liability to its staff.

Barely a week goes by without new word of a troubled project or impending default.

The rich are better off with a smaller percentage of a fast-growing economy than a larger share of an economy that's barely moving.

Look, we're running out of time here and I've barely had a bite of my lunch.

Barely missing the opportunity for a new and better life, Anne died from illness two weeks short of her release from the concentration camp.

The bows of the canoe grounded upon the gravelly beach with a gentle motion, and a sound barely audible.

But the subsidy is such a small part of overall public spending that eliminating it would barely move the needle on the deficit.

But I've barely chipped the surface of our project management dilemma thus far.

She could barely stand up and couldn't even make it into the aviary , she was just exhausted.

I feel like I've just BARELY gotten to the surface of the water to catch my breath before fading away into nothingness.

She was barely out of the room when the little girl screamed. Rushing back in, she asked, "What happened? "

One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place.

Schoenberg died a poor man in 1951, and and his widow and three children barely survived on the copyright royalties from his music.

Status Offline In the robot domain, we have barely scratched the surface of what new capabilities machine intelligence may possess.

Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it.

When Frederick Smith submitted his idea for an overnight delivery service to his professor at Yale, he barely got a passing grade.

They rated the intensity of taste on a commonly used scientific scale, ranging from barely detectable to strongest sensation of any kind.

Shifts were barely perceptible but sure, even if it's down a cog or two to the latest offerings.

Like many others, I grew up in a community where the people were barely a generation away from colonial rule.

M: I guess not, They haven't officially introduced her to the whole staff yet, she barely started yesterday.

There was barely a page I couldn't imagine vividly, as if this were a movie.

Claudia Castillo suffered a collapsed windpipe after a severe tuberculosis infection, and was barely able to breathe.

Bush noted the queen's long history of dealing with successive American governments, just barely stopping himself before dating her to 1776.

"They were saying that they were inspired by me personally to not be afraid, " he says, barely able to hide a smile of pride.

He had barely entered into the matter, when the bell rang.

Most books are the result of direct experience, whether the barely disguised autobiography of first novel or a straightforward travelogue.

He said this because this time last year I had spent the day crying and was barely able to scrape myself off the floor.

Few places, even in the United States, have the same patience for iconoclasts, outsiders, and entrepreneurs barely out of their teens.

But a college-educated black woman is no more likely to have a husband than a poor Caucasian woman with barely a high school diploma.

Lumps of coal can be barely ignited. However, coal dust in coal mines is one of the causes of explosive combustion. Explain.

She barely speaks English, I doubt if she speaks French or any other languages for that matter. She is good at foreign tattoos though.

Ram Kaur looks fondly at her grandson, barely hours old, lying beside his mother.

Even in the U. S. , barely half of respondents (53%) said they think U. S. companies will be the most innovative over the next five years.

"I'm looking for my daughter, " he said, barely breaking his stride as we negotiated fallen electricity poles and mangled cars.

Key findings are: Three out of 10 reckon they have far less "me time" than their own mothers did - barely three hours a week on average.

But as you may surely understand, I barely get a free second in the office.

So why are global stockmarkets, after a wobbly January, acting as if they had barely heard of the credit crunch?

Over the 46 years of his enterprise, his technique and materials barely changed.

Note that our loaded M45's as-tested price would barely get you out of the door in a BMW 550i devoid of optional equipment.

I could barely support her weight and ended up helping her to the sofa where we sat.

Sometimes it runs away with him. Boris Yeltsin is dismissed in barely a page as a "sinister clown" .

Or I'm just a substitute for your barely working relationship?

Since Xiao Sha left to join the national squad, there have been nine years of newspaper cuttings but barely any personal contact.

I saw him yesterday before we left and he could barely breathe, he was really bunged up and had a temperature.

It seems like we barely got over all that wrapping and unwrapping for christmas . And here we are with another holiday : new year .

It was based in London and employed barely 100 of these people.

But that leaves barely three full working weeks before Copenhagen to try to put that bill to a vote.

S. relay team. In 1996, Lewis barely qualified for the U. S. Olympic squad, placing third in the long jump trials by only three centimetres.

They had to work from early morning until late at night for a wage barely enough to keep body and soul together.

Even though barely a dozen of the hundreds of favelas have been reclaimed so far, the drug lords are clearly already feeling the pinch.

A book that he wrote a year before the 2007 presidential election, intended as a draft manifesto, contained barely a word on the subject.

Medium-sized firms continued to contract, though at a barely perceptible rate.

Barely a week ago Portuguese officials said they lacked the constitutional authority to deal with either the IMF or the EU.

In reality, though, that workaround would have barely changed the status quo and did not satisfy the EU.

So the net government stimulus was barely $100 billion a year in a more than $14-trillion economy.

With its high standard of living and generous social models, Europe is a very comfortable place to live, but can barely afford it anymore.

The runners were barely able to stand after finishing the long race .