There is always a ladder of analogies that takes us from the familiar to the new.
Manipulators use the above example of a ladder of supporting bids to absorb sell orders and serve as a cushion against any selling pressure.
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He splashed over to the foot of the stairs and looked up at a ladder of water coming down, a scrim of ice on the edges like a mountain stream.
So while in India, our protagonist scrambles up a ladder of fantasy and make-believe to take on his tormentors as a slumdog millionaire, in America, our protagonist ascends a ladder given to him by his own society and its people--given to him as reward for a mutiny that was thought to ennoble not merely the protagonist and His Kind, but all of America.
Police decided to send a team of SWAT officers up a ladder in the middle of the crane "to try to reestablish communications with him and to, hopefully, safely get him down from the crane so we could get him whatever help he needed, " he said.
By forging relationships with leading Chinese state-owned and private energy and technology companies, U.S. companies -- at times working with the federal government -- can create a "ladder of cooperation" with the Chinese to lead the world forward on climate change.
Dad began to paint it, with a borrowed ladder and a gallon of yellow paint.
As soon as the Preakness winner is declared official, a painter climbs a ladder to the top of a replica of the old clubhouse cupola.
If you are willing to buy individual bonds, you can also build a ladder with bonds of differing maturities to offset future interest rate risk.
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Inventables suggests companies might make a rollable ladder out of it.
He realises he's at the bottom of the ladder and has a lot of hard work ahead of him, but he deserves this chance.
In my TV report we showed rats unable to climb a metal ladder after one of their front paws had been paralysed to mimic a spinal cord injury.
I've never actually fallen in but I've had the ladder slip a couple of times and the dangerous bit is stepping from the launch onto the ladder and with the launch rising up and down it can come in and break your legs if you're not careful or quick.
The history of business like everything else has been a painstaking climb up the ladder of human needs.
Dennis Lenahan is an itinerant high-dive artist who makes a perilous living by leaping off an 80-foot ladder into a shallow tub of water.
Here recently completed lives are examined and evaluated, in a formal proceeding something like a trial: if the defendant wins the case, he moves up the cosmic ladder to a higher form of consciousness.
You had your feet on the ladder, a ring of promise on your finger and endless eggs cueing up to nest in your belly.
But, caught between lawsuits claiming they failed to protect consumers from "hidden" hazards--is there really any mystery about what can happen when you stand on the top of a ladder?
The purpose of it was to keep people from falling into the abyss, keep us from sliding into a literal depression, and begin to build a ladder to climb out of that hole.
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Crews rescued a man from the rear of the house using a ladder.
Outside, a quick clamber up a wall ladder to the roof reveals a sculpture made of duvet covers and pillow cases, twisted on a stool.
Scottish financial firms, for example, have found that fear of losing a place on the London property ladder deters some professionals from moving north of the border, though this is now less of a problem since a recent boom in Edinburgh house prices.
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Those who had been breastfed had a 58% chance of moving up the social ladder compared to 50% of those who were bottle-fed - a relative difference of 41% when the statistics were adjusted to take into account other factors which might influence the outcome.
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The baby had been either murdered or killed accidentally after being snatched from his crib and, in the dark, still in bedclothes, carried out a window of the second-story nursery and down a makeshift ladder to the ground while the nurse and mother were occupied in their ordinary evening activities in another part of the house.
And because women are still a rarity at the top of the corporate ladder, they often get a lot more attention than their male counterparts on the way up--and on the way down.
At the top of the ladder, a billion dollars isn't enough to get on the coveted Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans.
One afternoon, I sat sketching on the porch, my feet balanced on a rung of the wooden ladder leading up to the house.
They might be instructed to draw a ladder on a certain part of the sheet, or a chimney, or a bridge.
Dr High warns that researchers are still at the bottom of a tall ladder, though she expects quicker progress in the future.
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