Ramie fibres are split from the plant by fingernail and twisted into threads by hand.
Sometimes quotes are mangled so badly as to be twisted into a complete opposite of their intentions.
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Between the Watch and various other villains, the city has been twisted into a dangerous, authoritarian place.
But now that the Japanese have been arm-twisted into cutting back TV exports to the U.S., profits in that area should improve.
"It's kind of like your arm is twisted into participating, " says Romil Patel, a Baskin Robbins franchise co-owner in Milwaukee.
Even healthy banks have been arm-twisted into accepting taxpayers' money so that weaker rivals would not stand out for doing so.
But companies should be happy that they are not having their arms twisted into buying other sorts of advice from their auditor's colleagues.
Huge metallic claws resting on uplit pedestals compete for attention against giant inflatable rats singing love songs to each other and a boardwalk twisted into rollercoaster-like hoops by a pallet truck.
Accounting standard-setters have been arm-twisted into relaxing rules that force banks to mark certain assets to market, but in the long run that may hurt confidence in the health of bank balance-sheets, not help it.
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The broader problem is that EU leaders had assumed that potential non-ratifiers would either be small countries, such as Denmark or the Czech Republic whose arms might be twisted into voting again or a more sceptical country such as Britain.
Magnetic fields in this swirling mass are twisted into a kind of "magnetic spaghetti, " and electrically charged particles squirt out through this spaghetti at nearly the speed of light, blasting out into the universe across thousands of light-years.
Be that as it may, Mr. Mullan, who played the title role in Ken Loach's "My Name Is Joe, " evokes a nightmare world of sadistic nuns and predatory priests, a world in which religious tenets have been twisted into pitiless tyranny.
Arad Productions is also turning games like EverQuest, Uncharted and Twisted Metal into big screen franchises.
Even though it is twisted up into the famous double helix, all that matters is the order of the bases that form it.
Worse, you have unfairly twisted my column into some right-wing apologia, which it is not.
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He arm-twisted the supermarkets into lowering their prices and let consumers deduct some of the interest on their loans from their taxes.
Then he allowed himself to be arm-twisted by the party into appointing Koko Sato, a convicted bribe-taker, to his cabinet.
Most of the game takes place in Limbo, where our world itself transforms into a twisted nightmare out to destroy the character.
It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood.
Kernighan had written the early tutorials for the language, and at some point, he "twisted Dennis' arm" into writing a book with him.
The rise agreed by Arcelor for this year comes on top of price increases of 19% last year and makes it highly likely that other steelmakers will be arm-twisted by the ore miners into accepting similar hikes.
Ripe red or yellow cherries are twisted off the bush and dropped into wicker baskets.
From 2007 to 2012, the San Francisco band Girls made bright, twisted rock music that reached back into rockabilly and glam.
It leveled schools, turning one, Plaza Towers Elementary School into a pile of twisted metal and planks, with little school chairs and backpacks in the ruins.
Search and rescue teams continued their desperate efforts at Plaza Towers Elementary, where the storm ripped off the school's roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal as students and teachers huddled in hallways and bathrooms.
It propelled its hulking frame out of the battleship-grey waters and twisted through the air, before crashing back into the white surf.
An uneasy quiet returned to Guyana , after Caribbean leaders arm-twisted its opposition leader, Desmond Hoyte, into a deal with President Janet Jagan.
Working with two at a time, I twisted the ropes of dough together and tucked them into baking tins.
She appears in red with twisted and distorted limbs, fingernails that curve into large hook shapes and white hair that appears like a cloud out of head and down her back.
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