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Raising her head, she looked up at the dense rain drops from sky, whirlingly and flurry, falling down to her eyes by gravity.

Among the flurry of deals were the listings of three of the world's largest financial institutions and one of its biggest industrial firms.

He leaps upward in a flurry of light and I slide back into my cave, to coil around the hollow that contains my treasures.

But textile technologists like Kevin Flurry, have found a way of layering conductive and insulating fabrics to do the same job.

"Here! " cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes.

A flurry of bilateral meetings are trying to pin down specific decisions, out of which a numerical deal will be reverse-engineered.

Mother is, probably, one of those few words whose very mention inspires a flurry of emotions in the heart of even the cruelest person.

That lending is expected to produce a flurry of bad loans as projects funded over the past two years fail to turn a profit.

Even with a flurry of online traffic, retailers appeared to pull off Cyber Monday without a glitch.

What you are likely to see, and you are already beginning to see, is a flurry of geologic activity on Earth's surface.

As I noted earlier, there have been a flurry of bullish notes on the company this morning, and the positive reports keep coming.

Now the two sides are battling it out in court amid a flurry of injunctions.

The flurry of tech-sector-fueled initial public offerings we saw at the beginning of the year is now over.

It may be that the SEC's flurry of subpoenas turns up something substantial. But neither of the watchdogs has produced such evidence so far.

The result of this flurry of activity was a significant simplification of the specification.

And finally, there's been a flurry of protectionist measures, with countries from Mexico to Russia imposing new tariffs on imports.

As you roll out of the way and dodge the strike, Azriel is already on you unleashing a flurry of strikes.

A flurry of activity followed, including a move by Cfius to force Huawei to file the $2m deal, which it had already closed.

What's striking about this recent flurry of activity is how at odds it is with current investor sentiment in the U.

Everything was greenish and grainy, and the unretouched prints looked more like the lake-bed with a flurry of stirred-up sand.

Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that and won't be the last.

About that erosion: there has been a flurry of reporting recently about threats to the dominance of America's elite universities.

When finally she reached home, the whole estate was in a flurry of searching for her.

There has been a flurry of IPOs but many businesses and industries are still state-owned, somewhat immune from fluctuations in bourses.

England, " to the samurai and began an explanation but Omi impatiently cut him short and rapped out a flurry of words. "

Given these findings, Flurry suggests that developers considering timing their launches to take advantage of these apparent trends.

In addition, as the company already noted, iOS games now rival prime-time TV viewing in terms of audience size.

In a recent flurry of peninsula, had to mention the name of an American - Bill Richardson.

The flurry of unilateral actions that governments have taken in recent weeks has continued to spread.

There was a flurry of activity around her, and Dr. Sheldon strode in, a concerned look on this face.

The flurry of attention comes as the company, like others in the sector, grapples with Beijing's efforts to tame the property market.

There might be a flurry of correspondence from abroad after Mercury enters your ninth house of long-distance travel.

Deathmare flings a flurry of daggers imbued with the energy of venom death at every enemy around her to slay them all.

Then came the flurry of deadlines and busy days between the return from my holiday and the morning of that presentation.

I decided to try to access that program again, so I made an appointment through telephone, and walked in flurry to Costi.

Since about 1970, there has been a flurry of interest among economists in the previously neglected issues of trust and malfeasance.

A flurry of online-privacy-related start-ups sprang up but only a few survived due to limited consumer appetite.

Compared with a hundred retweets and a flurry of text messages, a single conversation over dinner seems awfully boring.

The CAT made headlines, and led to a flurry of magazine articles, and a book, The Perfect Fit.

Markets chopped around as there was a flurry of headlines coming out of today's EU summit.

Observers caution that it is too early to say whether the rules would actually unleash a flurry of cross-Strait deals.

A flurry of articles have popped up on the Internet citing a study that purportedly shows that the rich are not as nice as the poor.

There has also been a flurry of attacks aimed at other sensitive targets in recent months.

But a flurry of announcements from technology companies suggests that its time may have come at last.

If so, the flurry of bilateral deals may have come at the expense of a world trade agreement.

But the flurry of deals is a risky strategy, at a time when politicians, egged on by voters, are flirting with economic nationalism.

There has been a flurry of research papers and monographs about who supports these parties.

There was a flurry of activity around us. I tried to get up, but Edward's cold hand pushed my shoulder down.

In 2009 falling prices, combined with a flurry of deals, announcements and technical upgrades, primed the market for a vast expansion.

In a country where violence against journalists is rare, the bold assault stirred fears and a flurry of rumors.

In the final 30 seconds of the final round. Holmes fired away with the flurry punctuated by an uppercut and a Big right.

His jaw had been regarded as suspect for some time, yet it took a blistering flurry from Prescott to expose its weakness fully.

There is unlikely to be a flurry of activity on Thursday but the flow of free-agent signings should begin next week.

In particular, he sees another flurry of quantitative easing by the U. S. Federal Reserve as being "impotent. "

Codd's paper touched off a flurry of research into how his approach might be implemented practically.

The farm-loan waiver will, inevitably, start a flurry of me-too announcements.

The strengthening economic backdrop has prompted a flurry of capital raisings to help fund expansion plans.

A sudden flurry of stabbings left the slender teenager with near-fatal wounds to the head, face, abdomen, and one arm.

In the 1950s, a flurry of 3-D films like "Man in the Dark" and "House of Wax" were released.

A flurry of papers has shown that the Hippo complex itself is regulated by a range of signaling inputs within the cell.

As host of the 2010 World Cup this summer, South Africa has gotten its game on with a flurry of new stadiums, new hotels and safari lodges.

The flurry of activity around mixing and mingling can take your mind off the shorter days, colder temperatures and stresses of life.

They should not be deluded by the recent flurry of reasonable results into thinking that their prospects are rosy.

But a flurry of recent data suggests that Spain's severe austerity policies are working, albeit with much pain remaining ahead.

In previous auctions, a flurry of activity typically drove the winning bid higher in the last couple of hours.

Last summer, there was a flurry of complaints on the Stock Artists Alliance online forum.

The flurry of buying and selling also creates temptation for insiders to try and manipulate the market in a given stock.

Summer passed with a flurry of activities, family vacations, visiting grandparents and summer fun.

In Britain, there has been a flurry of announcements about cybersecurity, just as there has been in the US.

The talks at the White House came after a flurry of trade deals between American and Vietnamese firms.

Bosworth said there is no reason to expect a flurry of diplomatic activity in the next few weeks.

The summit follows a flurry of military diplomacy by Japan around the region, including a series of bilateral defense pacts.

After a flurry of fighting , both birds fell down and drowned in a human skull filled with water.

A lack of options up front has seen boss Frank Rijkaard use the creative ace who has responded with a flurry of goals.

Panic, fang conveniently took a belt of the saber serrated, thrust the flurry of cervical artery, wu bled wu died.

A flurry of excitement went round the hall as the party leader came in.

That and a flurry of other shark attack stories prompted Time magazine to declare 2001 the "Summer of the Shark. "

Matt Gray, who had a quiet first half, produced flurry of quality crosses in a ten minute spell before being substituted.

Sometimes the sacks were discarded in the flurry of building, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the factory for five cents a piece.

The result: A flurry of calls from around the world, as mystified guests asked her what they were supposed to wear.

We have recently witnessed a flurry of comment in the US on the long-running stagnation of wages.

They will commence with a whole flurry of activity, with one quickly following another.

A flurry of small studies suggest that sex is as good for your health as vitamin D and broccoli.

The temporary ban was meant to slow a flurry of new uranium mining operations planned near the Grand Canyon.

Davis' attorney has been filing a flurry of requests for a stay of execution until a new trial can be held.

A lobbyist in Washington de-scribed a "flurry of activity" recently as more congressmen tried to become involved in rare-earth bills.

A flurry of co-operation deals have been struck with foreign regulators, from China to the UK's Financial Services Authority.

Lifting the ban will unleash a flurry of collaborations between scientists who had been barred from working together.

Flurry is seeing a trend that, to be honest, was surprising: only 10% of users are updating their applications after download.

The initial stages of economic recovery, whenever that occurs, likely will see a flurry of spending as people restock their cupboards.

The scientists were interested in how this flurry of electronic communication influenced trader performance.

The big question now is whether the TSE's move will spark a flurry of similar investments among regional exchanges.

Needless to say, his assertion has raised an international flurry of debate.

But the flurry of no-cost maintenance deals reveals something about the state of the luxury car business.

There was another flurry five years ago, but some retreated again after facing the wrath of their private-equity clients.

But a flurry of announcements from technology companies suggests that its time may at last be at hand.

The flurry of contacts and agreements between German and Chinese ministers touches on everything from hospital management to electric cars.

First the shell begins to crack. Then there's a flurry of activity as the tiny creature curled up inside the egg breaks a hole in the shell.

There was a flurry of headlines and breathless TV-news accounts.

Mr. Remillard expects the flurry of new chief titles to generate confusion in the corporate world, where acronyms are popular.

The other faction sees that the so-called Celtic Tiger economic boom has created a flurry of unrestricted growth and development.

In 2005 there was another flurry of debate, as some well-known dissidents were freed, but once again it was short-lived.

Deep Winter ruffled his cape, and a flurry of illusionary snow swirled about the control room.

True, there has been a flurry of European complaints in the past week.

The Clinton administration began with a flurry of anti-Chinese rhetoric.

The in flurry small car stopped down, the driver complexion was pale, "send me quickly to the hospital. "

When I visit, we sit over takeaway coffee and croissants in the tiny retro-chic kitchen as a flurry of small, screaming boys dash around us.

The Fed meets Tuesday on interest-rate policy amid a flurry of reports that it is considering additional ways to juice the financial system.

There was a brief flurry of fear that it would kill 1 percent to 10 percent of the country's 70 million dogs.

Bankers say the flurry of convertible bonds demonstrates Asia's maturity as a global capital market.

And as a flurry of decisions last week demonstrated, that success could continue to reshape domestic policy for decades to come.

A new industry report from mobile analytics firm Flurry reveals some unique insights into the smartphone industry as of right now.

A flurry of excitement went round the crowd AS the film star arrived.

The arrival of a new James Bond film kicks off a flurry off new travel promotions , in addition to the standard car and watch pitches .

A flurry of such missiles can completely overwhelm BMD ( ballistic missile defence) systems.

Despite a flurry of denials and refutations, the Obama administration gave up on on the idea of resettling them in the US.

Monday brought a flurry of purchasing managers' indices underlining the robustness of manufacturing.

This raised trade barriers in the US and set off a flurry of tit-for-tat retaliation around the world.

Flurry also took a close look at eBook applications and noticed that the number of active users there is showing tremendous growth.

Beautiful and stylish wigs created out of paper by Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry.

Those hopes will be tested again this week by a flurry of key releases, including widely anticipated U. S. jobs data due Friday.

Indeed, the past week has seen a flurry of changes for a regime typically characterized as stagnant by its many critics.

But the disclosure, such as it was, raised a little flurry of excitement in diplomatic and journalistic circles.

flurry After a quiet spell there was a sudden flurry of phone calls.

Your day goes by in a flurry of activity. But despite your busy day, it feels like you aren't making any progress.

These numbers came from the latest Flurry Industry Pulse, an ongoing status check report for the mobile industry.

The whole process starts with inexperienced flurry, through skilled excitement and ends up with bored body reflexes.

i can't look at my Twitter or Facebook stream without seeing a flurry of shared links from Instagram.

Energy-hungry China has signed a flurry of deals to search for and develop oil and gas in former Soviet republics, Africa and elsewhere.

Reading the tea leaves, my NSC staff at the end of January nevertheless experienced a flurry of hope.

The work also has sparked a flurry in research circles to build upon a proven approach.

They were off in a flurry, little metal buckets reflecting the morning sun.

SIXTEEN million migratory birds fly to Britain every year from sub-Saharan Africa in a flurry of wing beats that herald the spring.

The recent flurry of Asia-Pacific summits is, indeed, a clear sign of the shifting global balance, as Kishore Mahbubani rightly points out.

In a Samurai film's inevitable finale, sword wielding hero and villain clash in a flurry of steel.

But there has been a big flurry of cases in the past four months, and regulatory sources say more are coming.

PetroChina's dismal post-IPO performance has prompted a flurry of online anger in chatrooms and blogs that investors read.

That year a flurry of ballot initiatives banning gay marriages ended up on general-election ballots across America.

New roads bind neighbours along the Mekong River. Central Asia is also seeing a flurry of road-building.

As social games expand their reach, virtual goods and advertising revenues will both increase, says Flurry.

The fighting comes amid a recent flurry of diplomatic activity, and conferences in Berlin, Cairo, and Doha, Qatar.

Work swiftly in an orderly fashion; never compete with time in a nervous flurry.

There was a flurry of other e-book deals and announcements during 2009.

A flurry of pro-gay marriage rulings and votes in Iowa and New England this year has reversed a trend toward banning them. Most U.

You will be prompted for your root password, and then your screen will show a flurry of activity.

After a brief flurry of interest, most astronomers decided the evidence of Nemesis was pretty flimsy, and the idea went away.

A flurry of privatizations from Southeast Asia are proving that India and China aren't the region's only hot deal stories.

And resorts out West are offering a flurry of deals to entice skiers and snowboarders to get on a plane.

If the latest flurry of chatter means anything, it needs to produce some movement quickly.

A flurry of upbeat reports show a U. S. economy recovering from the worst recession in decades and headed for expansion.

This flurry of sudden activity is another indication of how close you are to the changes long promised you by our Earth allies.

How does one assess the degree of harm from a flurry of messages to a person's reputation, which is the test for determining damages?

This flurry of deals shows how Taiwanese, South Korean and Chinese firms have caught up with Japanese ones.

The stems were green with flurry thorns. The old stems were purple. Some even older ones looked even grey.

"Beg pardon, " the steward said, ignoring the flurry of feathers, "shall I fetch m'lord some breakfast? "

The Hornets' fast-break was in gear, resulting in a flurry of layups and dunks.

A flurry of blows from the fledgeling Sith leave Obi-Wan on the defensive before we see him flung backwards across the room.

Flurry: Now grants the proper number of charges when it triggers.

By and by Mrs. Melbury came upstairs with a slight air of flurry and abruptness .

The flurry of activity came against the backdrop of another big sell-off in markets.

Despite a flurry of zinc mine cutbacks and closures, still more are needed before metal output falls.

The authors would like to thank Greg Flurry who reviewed this article and gave valuable comments.

Flurry estimates that the average lifetime for a game is about 3 months.

Flurry Increases your attack speed by 30% for your next 3 swings after dealing a critical strike.

A typical combat encounter is a clash between two sides, a flurry of weapon swings , feints, parries, foot-work, and spellcasting.

Confidence can turn on a dime in Hong Kong, and this transaction flurry could dry up in the flash of a bear-market rally.

This week a flurry of downbeat indicators suggested that Europe's economy is continuing to slow.

The Kepler telescope will be launched amid a flurry of discoveries of planets circling distant stars.

This was addictive, but the flurry of debate was disturbing, too.

In a flurry and strident voices often make others feel nervous.

You'll need this time to get over the initial flurry of excitement at being wanted!

There will be a flurry of activity in January, culminating in Florida's vote.

In contrast, a recent flurry of bearish reports warn that China's economy could soon implode.

Following a flurry of deals over the past 18 months, five African and Middle Eastern operators are now vying for supremacy.

The bonds have aroused a flurry of interest from emerging markets.

for this flurry of activity was a letter written on February 20th by TCI, a hedge fund holding 1% of the bank's shares, to ABN Amro.

Yet the past couple of months have brought a flurry of changes at the top.

The day started with a flurry of activity.

The flurry of layoffs comes on the heels of similar action by big-name companies just last week.

A flurry of offhand "tablet" shout-outs in tangentially related patents followed, but none carried much weight.

Whirlwind: Critical strikes with the off-hand weapon from this ability can now trigger Flurry and Rampage.

Flurry: The text on the tooltip has been corrected to indicate it triggers on all types of attacks.

That is music to the ears of coaches like Troy, who said: "The record flurry was fake. This is real. "

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A flurry of new data Friday showed the economy is improving -- with temporary help from the government.

That jump has prompted a flurry of calls for further reductions to the feed-in tariff.

In a flurry of F-and-C-words he threw a fistful of coins at the taxi.

Now, a flurry of new cognitive science research is showing that in fact, language does profoundly influence how we see the world.

Adidas also didn't want to compete with the general flurry of advertising that accompanies the Chinese New Year period.

Blade Flurry: This ability now works correctly in all cases with shielded targets.

Then all people emerged from everywhere in a flurry.

At the same time, a flurry of scientific papers was released that seemed to explain all the late-spring suffering.

A flurry of articles and editorials in government-controlled newspapers have argued that the time is right for faster appreciation.

Hence a flurry of new thinking about higher education.

Another reason to think that m-health has a promising future is the flurry of business interest in it.

Among a flurry of gulls, three polar bears are tugging at the carcass.

After a flurry of activity, you'll see a directory named trip-planner.

Bernanke's comments on keeping the financial sector in private hands come amid a flurry of debate over how to handle the ailing U. S. banks.

Admittedly, a flurry of hopes surfaced when Mr Medvedev first got the nod.

The recent flurry of M&A deals continued, with several new tie-ups surfacing.

Several stocks were moving on the latest flurry of corporate news.

What other professions might benefit from a flurry of IMing?

Glyph - Blade Flurry 01 (Rogue): Reduces the energy cost of Blade Flurry by 100%.

The flurry of activity to make his last few months comfortable and even joyous and then after - a crushing void.

Flurry tracked nearly 3 million active users of eBook apps in July, up from just around half a million in March.

After a flurry of debt-fueled holiday spending, household debt was 122% of personal income at the end of 2010.

At present, the cadre of property flurry of publicity issues.

A 7Up ad this year using prison-rape jokes was pulled after a flurry of complaints, including Wilke's thumbs down.

After a brief flurry of coverage in the Chinese news media, coverage of the strikes has been all but silenced by government censors.

The past decade has seen a flurry of US and European business schools develop programmes in China, but the tide is now turning.

Although there was a record plunge in confidence in April, the "Golden Week" holiday in early May produced an unexpected flurry of tourism.

As we begin to eat, my monitor shows a flurry of activity, a shimmer of waves rushing over my olfactory cortex.

It announced a flurry of revisions to soften the impact.

This is producing a flurry of innovation in what is infelicitously known as "human-resource management" .

the flooding of disease triggered a flurry of scare.

In a flurry of activity it took its benchmark interest rate from 4. 25% in early October to 2% by mid-January.

Automatically cast Blade Flurry when able and in combat.

A diplomatic flurry may exasperate foreign friends, and lead to little.

A flurry of quick moves followed, until finally the thin man smiled and said, "Death, my friend. "

This has caused a flurry of excitement in some state-controlled newspapers.

windy shower of rain, snow , etc or cloud of dust; flurry.

The bill, which is clearly aimed at China, follows a flurry of China-bashing proposals over the past year.

Wednesday's flurry of bond buying could end up hurting the upcoming 30-year bond sale.

The change of stance came after a flurry of online protests.

Flurry and Toughness will now be the tier 4 options, both left unchanged.

But to my suprise a flurry came last night.

You need to fill a flurry of forms, then download and install a client software. This is time consuming and usually takes an hour.

The past year has seen a flurry of ministerial visits to Latin America.

A flurry of wind upset the small boat.

They drew an impressive attendance of 40, 000-plus and both witnessed a flurry of buyers from abroad.

Most farmers have never had access to loans but Beijing is backing a flurry of initiatives to change this.

Researchers have unveiled a flurry of advances in recent months in the development of "induced pluripotent" stem cells.

But they are poised to rise quickly, if a flurry of recent deals is anything to go by.

Central Asia is also seeing a flurry of road-building.

"I think the poles have just opened up a flurry of new questions, " he said.

For example, it took that flurry of protests to prompt PG&E to open a dedicated call centre for questions about smart meters.

Nobody expects this flurry of voting to change anything in this troubled country.

The mobile apps analytics firm studies some 35, 000 mobile developers.

But, after Mr Paulson left town and the flurry of diplomacy wound up, China said what it really thought.

A flurry of privatizations from Southeast Asia last year led to a spate of record-breaking IPOs in that region.

Quick flurry of clothes, confusion, how one could not find the socks, shoes pulled to open the door.

But JP Morgan's results due out at 1200GMT (0700ET) could cause a flurry of excitement, so watch out.

Indeed, over the last year, a flurry of reports have predicted a Verizon iPhone was imminent.

Anelka is due a flurry of goals.

Why the flurry?

There's a big flurry of research in that arena.

Who? ' I asked in a flurry.

Shanghai, home to about 9m ordinary bikes, aroused a flurry of media criticism last year by banning them from main roads in the centre.

Astronomers also use massive clusters to study distant starbursts that occur when galaxies collide, igniting a flurry of star formation.

Chinese investors are already among the targets of a flurry of luxury listings in the Chinese city of Hong Kong.

But it follows a flurry (should that be a McFlurry? ) of offshore renminbi activity centred on Hong Kong.