Using a comparable ratio, China would today have to hurl 3 million troops across the strait.
They had but one goal in mind: hurl a one pound payload exactly one mile.
The media will be denied the endless opportunities to hurl embarrassing questions about plebs.
Hurl a pair of chopsticks in any direction and chances are they will land in something edible.
By contrast, conservatives have rushed to hurl the skewers aimed at Mr Bush back at his accusers.
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There was none of the pressure, implicit from teachers and explicit from classmates, to leap, climb or hurl projectiles.
Mr Chuan's government, however, vows to fight back and threatens to hurl accusations at several members of the opposition.
We get to see them scheme and react under pressure and hurl their various styles of magic at each other.
Arab boys, who have rarely even seen rain, hurl soggy snowballs at each other, revelling in the sensation of being cold.
His performances in front of all-female crowds, who hurl knickers and bras into the ring, are watched by huge audiences on television.
In May, the intensification of fighting in Shia shrine cities prompted state-organised mobs in Tehran to hurl petrol bombs at the British embassy.
In the war of ideas, the U.S. has to be ready to combat the lies and slander that its enemies hurl at it.
Its landmark event is the Man-Powered Flight, for which contestants build rudimentary wings and propellers and hurl themselves off the harbour wall, flapping wildly.
It is not certain he believes in the need to separate powers, letting his fans hurl abuse at judges when they ruled against him.
The 'Actionnaires, ' as Asec supporters are known, also congregated outside the main gates of the stadium to hurl abuse at Asec president Roger Ouegnin.
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Notwithstanding the criticisms I'm about to hurl in the next paragraph, Metro is much neater, calmer and indeed more keyboard-friendly than Windows 7 ever was.
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The election results show that the mood of the country has now reached critical mass to hurl the country towards the situations of Greece, Spain, etc.
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The result eliminated Senegal from the 2010 World Cup, prompting furious fans to hurl stones and metal bars on to the pitch before rioting in the streets.
And, although some might hurl anti-monarchist brickbats, victory in the race for the Queen would be a massive moment for the sport as well as for her.
Waiting competitors have been passing the time by using a powered watercraft to hurl themselves into waves, using the extra speed to perform aerial manoeuvres off watery ramps.
Nor did he entirely shake off one of the worst calumnies a Canadian can hurl at another: that he wanted to make Canada more like the United States.
"The Cherrymount link crannog was thought initially to date back to the 14th century but now evidence suggests it went back to early medieval times, " said archaeologist Declan Hurl.
For all the economic team's efforts, many state governors who, like Mr Cardoso, can now seek re-election will hurl the cash from privatising their utilities or banks into vote-winning public works.
In Galaxidi, a small fishing village in Greece, revellers hurl multicoloured flour to celebrate one of the holiest (and most ironically named) days of the year - Clean Monday.
Now what I see on the BBC news is Moslems coming straight from prayers at Al-Aqsa, armed with stones to hurl at Jews worshipping at the Western Wall below them.
Maybe what they really want is the problem -- something to hurl at their opponents at election time to rile up Latinos so they turn out and vote for Democrats.
Many critics are too cautious to hurl their hats in the air, but Mr. Tynan poured his excitement straight onto the page, and his reviews crackled with a sense of occasion.
You need a creative bottle design, something that will be embarrassing enough to make all the people at TSA laugh when they make you hurl it in the trash at the airport.
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