At last, Girardi had had enough, but he wasn't leaving without a curtain call.
The fixture will be a curtain-raiser to New Zealand's own Four Nations warm-up Test against Samoa.
Other judgments seemed to part a curtain, revealing American qualities too intrinsic for him to have noticed before.
As for the Junior Hurling, it was "a curtain-raiser because it was agreed there would be a curtain-raiser".
All set was he to grant his necessary imprimatur when one wee issue peeked out from behind a curtain.
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Above, a curtain of glowering cloud was fat with the possibility of rain.
Giving evidence from behind a curtain on Thursday, she said she knew something bad had happened at the hotel.
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London 2012 volunteers are to take a curtain call with a starring role in the capital's New Year's Day Parade.
With a push of a button, a curtain pulls back to reveal a stage filled with life-size dancers and musicians performing a jig.
"I can remember very clearly being on airplanes in which the cockpit was separated from passengers by a curtain, " Eastlake said.
As they reacted to sketches of the exterior and interior, four GM designers listened from behind a curtain, scrawling changes on paper.
The legislation would require stores to keep tobacco products in cabinets, drawers, under the counter, behind a curtain or in other concealed spots.
It is a modest home with a raised bed, a television, a few utensils, a shiny red refrigerator and a washing machine tucked away behind a curtain.
The inquest heard how the fire on the ninth-floor flat of the 15-storey block started after a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.
Mr Lee said the blaze quickly spread into the living room, melting polystyrene ceiling tiles which dropped on to the carpet, setting it and a curtain alight.
The dead man, a 35-year-old from Calderdale, was walking on a bridge over the Aire on Neville Street when a curtain-sided lorry toppled over on Thursday afternoon.
Next door to the museum, visitors pass through a curtain of bullet shells to enter a guerrilla camp, re-constructed to provide a taste of daily life during the conflict.
It also publishes downloadable guides telling children with autism what to expect during the show, including the plot, what ushers do and what to do during a curtain call.
The blaze which killed the two men started in the ninth floor of the tower block in Church Street after a curtain left draped over a light bulb caught fire.
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Even so, titles may not be the best starting point when selecting a mortgage originator, remember, even the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz is really just a guy behind a curtain.
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But Ms. Hellman knew how to nail a plot together so tightly that the seams don't show, as well as how to ring down a curtain so hard that the audience gasps.
According to officers, English, of no fixed abode, had a bottle of white spirit which he had spread around the flat, and he tried to set light to a sofa and a curtain.
Mr Shears and Mr Bannon were one of a pair of two-man teams first to arrive at the flat after the fire broke out when a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.
The free concert on Thursday, which also acts as a curtain raiser to the new football season in the US, will see the band playing in Times Square and Giants' Stadium in New York.
Kah Inn Lee, a 23-year-old student from Malaysia, said a curtain separated the men's and women's beds in the tiny basement she shared with seven other students in a house owned by Mr. Cheung's son.
In this environment, unsoftened by so much as a cushion or a curtain, Gary Yershon's amplified rock soundtrack echoes and re-echoes, assaulting us as we share this dismal space with the grey-tracksuited ranks of prisoners.
Next-door neighbours were looking down at us through the gap from their tiny dwellings just feet away, as we climbed the stairs to her bedroom - a curtain serving as a door because the lower half was missing.
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