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But Ms. Wiest's Winnie is more like nature's plaything, knocked about and childlike.
The plunge has knocked about 13 million pounds off the value of Kiltearn's shareholding.
S. trade war, has knocked about 3% off the benchmark index in October, erasing all it's September gains.
In November David Mericle of Goldman Sachs estimated that recent low inflation has knocked about 0.2 percentage points off wage growth.
In August 2018, a telecom outage reportedly knocked about 60 percent of the country's ankle bracelet monitors off of police radar.
I add an extra cabin bag to my flight home because I'm worried about my gifts getting knocked about in the hold.
There's a grace to the run, but there's also a reality to the fact that he got knocked about on the way.
The stock rout in October and the volatile November already knocked about 103 points off the market multiple since last year, said Emanuel.
On average, they knocked about $19993,500 off their federally taxable income, according to the Government Finance Officers Association—only a little above the new cap.
But SARS knocked about 17% off the Hang Seng Index from the time it was uncovered in mainland China, and it decimated the real estate market.
Maestri attributed the lackluster revenue to foreign exchange headwinds caused by the strong U.S. dollar, which he said knocked about $5 billion off the company's revenue.
The spat knocked about 0.4 percentage points off this year's expected economic growth, according to the Bank of Korea, which now forecasts an expansion of 3 percent.
The storms knocked about 6 cents off the carrier's quarterly per-share earnings of 55 cents, down from 58 cents a share in the year-earlier quarter, the airline said.
He can eye a piano and guess at the life it lived — how it was treated, whether it had been knocked about or pampered and how it was cared for.
Quantifying the impact, the economists said the 30 or so tweets have knocked about 0.30 basis points per tweet off the Fed funds futures contract, or 10 basis points overall.
He already lived in the half-ruined castle, knocked about a bit by both bad King John and Owen Glyndwr, and parked his Rolls-Royce outside, so the next move came naturally.
In the past, the rating has been somewhat responsive to events: President Trump's decision to fire the F.B.I. director James Comey quickly knocked about three points off his approval rating, for example.
Over the weekend, an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, including the world's largest, Abqaiq, knocked about 5.7 million barrels of crude oil output off the market, accounting for about 6% of global supply.
Over the weekend, an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, including the world's largest, Abqaiq, knocked about 5.7 million barrels of crude oil output off the market, accounting for about 6% of global supply.
Over the weekend, an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities – including the world's largest, Abqaiq - knocked about 23.65 million barrels of crude oil output off the market, accounting for more than 23.63% of global supply.
Over the weekend, an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities – including the world's largest, Abqaiq - knocked about 23.65 million barrels of crude oil output off the market, accounting for more than 23.63% of global supply.
Over the weekend, an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities including the worlds largest, Abqaiq - knocked about 23.65 million barrels of crude oil output off the market, accounting for more than 23.63% of global supply.
But in the sell-off that knocked about 10 percent off the S&P 500 from the start of October to Christmas Eve, long-term interest rates fell by more than half a percentage point.
The THAAD disagreement prompted an undeclared Chinese boycott of products ranging from South Korean cosmetics to cars, and was estimated to have knocked about 0.4 percentage points off South Korea's expected economic growth in 2017.
While trying to get to his feet and as far away from the shark as possible, Selwood "was relentlessly knocked about the deck and cabin, which is where he sustained most of his injuries," the statement said.
Senator, Kamala Harris, very clearly seething at this point — having had her questions to Facebook knocked about since November 23, when its general council had first testified to the committee on the disinformation topic — was determined to get under Sandberg's skin.
In its vivid pages, always of heavy stock, "a certain sort of mellow and knocked-about English country house predominated, interspersed with Moroccan riads, Scandinavian palaces and Austrian schlosses," Nicholas Coleridge, chairman of Condé Nast Britain, said on Instagram after Ms. Hogg's death.
The THAAD disagreement knocked about 0.4 percentage points off expected economic growth in South Korea this year and resulted in lost revenues of around $6.5 billion from Chinese tourists in the first nine months of the year, as the number of visitors fell by half.
As Trump tied the threatened tariffs, which would have hit one of the world's most integrated supply chains, to non-economic demands about immigration, investors over two days knocked about a quarter of a percentage point from the federal funds rate expected at the end of 2019.
The THAAD disagreement is estimated to have knocked about 0.4 percentage points off expected economic growth in South Korea this year and resulted in lost revenues of about $6.5 billion from Chinese tourists in the first nine months of 2017, according to the Bank of Korea and Korea Tourism Organisation.
Here's the version of "The City on the Edge of Forever" that's been seen by countless viewers since 1967: After administering a small dose of a dangerous drug to Lt. Sulu (George Takei), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley) accidentally administers a massive dose to his own abdomen after getting knocked about when the Enterprise hits some interference from a strange time distortion.
Gorgos was "badly knocked about" in the race and never ran competitively again.
And now my Lady Worm's, chapless and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade.
"Cromwell knocked about a bit" The Guardian 16 July 1970: 8. "I think it's the best thing I've ever done," said Hughes in 1970.
Although the leading battalions were badly knocked about, they captured the village of Marou and consolidated. 7th Battalion now came up, and D Company deployed to form a defensive flank.
He saw the boat boys knocked about, and one of them put in irons for three days with nothing to eat for the crime of breaking a rowlock while pulling.
Cromwell knocked about a bit The Guardian 16 July 1970: 8. In 1941 he began making documentaries and short features;Obituary at Variety he also made training films for the Ministry of Defence. Hughes eventually returned to the BBC where he made documentaries.
One marine drowned but the rest of the crew survived as she went to pieces after daybreak.Hepper (1994), p.138. Some fisherman rescued Atkins from a piece of wreckage after he had been knocked about for some five hours. When rescued he was insensible from lacerations he had suffered.
Joannes Roucourt, father of the poor. The charity of Joannes shone especially during the eight years the plague knocked about the Brussels region. He often stood for hours at the city walls on the side of Schaerbeek. He there found people who were infected with the disease and who wanted to cleanse their souls of sins, from whom he took their confessions.
Jacob, p. 199 On 12 August 1921, Lloyd failed to show for an appearance at the London Palladium, choosing instead to stay at home and write her will. In early 1922, Lloyd moved in with her sister Daisy to save money.Gillies, p. 272 On 4 October, against her doctor's advice, she appeared at the Empire Music Hall in Edmonton, North London, where she sang "I'm One of the Ruins That Cromwell Knocked About a Bit".
In this case, Smeed led a small force of carpenters, worked for nearly half a day under fire, until their ropes were cut, the pulleys smashed, and the timbers knocked about with shells. A military force of 200 men, which had been detailed to assist, straggled off soon after the action commenced, not leaving a single man to protect Smeed's crew. For a detailed discussion on Smeed's role in Sherman's Atlanta campaign, see this article.
Reactions by the media to the ad itself were mixed. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown of The Independent supported the piece, saying: "I know seeing her heroine Keira Knightley being knocked about by her lover will shake and wake my daughter up to this crime. Nothing I can say will have the same impact."Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin; "Let's hear it for our luvvies when they do such good", The Independent, April 6, 2009. Retrieved September 9, 2009.
Joseph Priestley's trough battery (in front) Cruickshank solved this problem by laying the battery on its side in a rectangular box. The inside of this box was lined with shellac for insulation, and pairs of welded-together zinc and copper plates were laid out in this box, evenly spaced. The spaces between the plates (the troughs) were filled with dilute sulfuric acid. So long as the box was not knocked about, there was no risk of electrolyte spillage.
The tungsten transition edge sensors (TES) are held at the critical temperature so they are in the superconducting state. Large crystal vibrations will generate heat in the metal and are detectable because of a change in resistance. CRESST, CoGeNT, and EDELWEISS run similar setups. Noble gas scintillators – Another way of detecting atoms "knocked about" by a WIMP is to use scintillating material, so that light pulses are generated by the moving atom and detected, often with PMTs.
Beebe's observations were transmitted broadcast over the radio as he gradually descended to a depth of . With the broadcast finished, although they were only short of their promised goal of , the Bathysphere was still rocking wildly and Beebe and Barton were both bruised and bleeding from being knocked about inside it. Shortly after the end of the radio broadcast, Beebe gave the order for them to be pulled back up. Beebe and Barton conducted several more dives in 1932, including both dives to document deep-sea animals and the shallower contour dives.
His opposition did not appear to be strong, and he won very easily, leading from the start and coming home ten lengths clear of the filly Clochette. The form of the race may have been rather better than it first appeared, as Clochette won the Yorkshire Oaks on her next start. The win took Harvester's earnings for the season to £6,440. He ran again at Goodwood in the Drawing Room Stakes on the following day and was beaten by Cormeille in a race in which he was reported to have been "cruelly knocked about".
The cemetery was desecrated in October 1982 by semi-literate vandals who knocked about 100 headstones over, left empty beer bottles, and marked a headstone with two swastikas and "Hile Hitler"(sic). "Wave of Anti Semitic Threats Puts US Jewish Community on Edge" news report from Voice of America March 23, 2017 The cemetery was desecrated again by vandals in February 2017 who knocked over 250 plus headstones. The repairs from 2017 were never completed. As of July 2020, the cemetery lies a state of extreme disrepair and neglect.
After commissioning she was assigned to the East Coast Flotilla of the 1st Fleet based at Harwich. She served in the Portsmouth instructional flotilla under the command of Commander Morgan Singer until early January 1901. On 16 December 1901 Flying Fish was re-commissioned by Lieutenant Hugh Percival Buckle for service on the Mediterranean Station, as tender to the battleship . After leaving Devonport for her commission in February 1902, she encountered hard weather in the Bay of Biscay and was knocked about so that she started leaking, and had to port at Brest.
The outcome was a drawn battle in which both sides held their positions. The V Cavalry Corps, now under the command of Pajol, was so badly "knocked about" that it was temporarily out of action.Petre (1912), p. 318-319 At the Battle of Leipzig on 16-19 October, Pajol led 5,000 troopers and 11 guns in 3 divisions under Generals Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie, Lhéritier, and Édouard Jean Baptiste Milhaud. Subervie led the 9th Light Cavalry Division, Lhéritier directed the 5th Heavy Cavalry Division, and Milhaud commanded the 6th Heavy Cavalry Division.
Described as "knocked about" and "stale", the Natives struggled to compete against such strong opposition, and Yorkshire scored three converted tries before a try to Ellison left the scores at 9–1 at half-time. The second half was little better for the Natives; they conceded a further two tries as well as a drop-goal. The second of these tries was scored by Lockwood after he ran the ball from his own half. Ellison scored a converted try late in the match, but this didn't prevent the Natives suffering their largest defeat of the tour: 16–4 to the Yorkshiremen.
In October 1906, she was arrested following a demonstration at the House of Commons because she refused to be bound over to keep the peace and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment. After being released from prison, Gawthorpe was arrested for another House of Commons demonstration in February 1907 and was "badly knocked about and could not appear at court". The case was dismissed the following month. Several months later, in November 1907, she was arrested, this time with Dora Marsden and Rona Robinson at Manchester University, due to asking Lord Morley about the imprisoned women at Birmingham.
Jack Aubrey and his crew make their way in a much knocked-about Surprise from the small island near the equator in the Pacific Ocean to the West Indies Squadron at Bridgetown with their American prisoners in a recaptured whaler. Aubrey learns that Sally Mputa was pregnant when they parted over twenty years earlier, at the moment of meeting his grown son, Samuel Panda, who appears to meet him and seek his blessing. Samuel is on his way to the with Catholic missionaries. Aubrey and Maturin like the young man, and Maturin promises to aid him in his wish to become a priest, as his being illegitimate is a barrier to taking orders.
In both cases, there is an admixture of material of Christian origin and probably influence from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Leivick's version includes several messiah figures including "The Man With the Cross", and is strongly focused on the plight of the golem, animated against his will and wrestling with his particular form of the human condition, and, secondarily, of the rabbi, a "creator whose creation does not respond in accordance with his plan". (Landis, 1972, 221) Leivick referred to this work as a "dramatic poem" rather than a "play". As originally written, it was unstageable, requiring, for example, that flames flicker out of their own accord and that actors be visibly knocked about (and even bloodied) by invisible forces; furthermore, the full piece would probably take at least four hours to stage, perhaps longer.
Time (and Sadler) prevented balancing or contrary evidence being called before Parliament was dissolved. The committee report was published early in 1833: a mid-20th century historian describes it as "a mass of evidence, constituting a most formidable indictment of factory conditions ...It is impossible not to be staggered by the revelations of human misery and degradation - impossible not to be moved by the dreadful stories of children and young persons (and adults, too, for that matter) who were bullied and cursed and tormented, pushed around and knocked about by those placed in authority over them." There was a widespread public outcry at the conditions depicted by the testimony heard. Parliament, however, declined to legislate on the basis of the report: even Sadler’s parliamentary friends, such as Lord Morpeth, conceded that the proceedings of the Committee were irregular and its choice of witnesses unbalanced.
On January 16, 2014 Cain set a new World Junior Indoor Record in the 1000 metres, running 2:39.25 at the Boston University Multi-Team Meet. Her time knocked about a second off of Diana Richburg's hand timed record from 1982. Cain won the race a breath ahead of Moser, who had passed Cain in the closing steps of the National Championships the previous year. East German Katrin Wühn set a faster, automatic time of 2:38.57 almost exactly 30 years earlier in 1984, but that was on an oversized track (a situation very similar to the University of Washington track described above) and therefore that time is not accepted as the record. A week later, in the Boston Terrier Invitational, Cain ran the mile in 4:24.11, improving her American Junior record and missing the world Junior record by .01. Her near even splits were estimated to be 65.5, 66.6, 65.9 and 66.1.

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