While it might look like a series of misses, the Navy claims this is just a trick of the camera angle, with all six missiles apparently making contact.
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The creative geniuses of Silicon Valley, Seattle, Cambridge, Austin and places like them have pulled a trick of far greater consequence than to ship, every week, the latest whippy gadget to the world.
Indeed, it may just be a trick of the brain, but both the slow and fast rolls in Demon seem slower and faster than in Dark, making the decision between playing a brawler and a rogue somewhat more important.
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We've always believed that the perceived quality boost that comes from using high-end cables is really just a trick of the mind (read: justifying the ridiculous cost of premium cables to yourself) -- if you've dropped enough cash, you can probably hear anything you want.
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Since this was a classified mission for the Department of Defense (you know, to handle super secret military stuff), the shuttle's crew was forced to encrypt the images of the damaged tiles it sent back to NASA, which lowered the resolution of the images enough that the ground crew wrote off the damage as a trick of the light.
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Rather, this was something of a rhetorical trick of the devaluationists, who have been around long before John Maynard Keynes was born.
Spain's defeat ended their hopes of a hat-trick of Davis Cup titles, a feat that has only been achieved by the United States.
At about the same time, a team of professional astronomers was pulling off a similar trick for a planet the size of Jupiter in orbit around a star 32m times farther from Earth than the sun.
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For someone of the all-too-common opinion that a strong defense is the cause of war, a favorite trick is to advance a wholesale revision of strategy, so that he may accomplish his depredations while looking like a reformer.
After going to the turn in 32, including a hat-trick of birdies from the seventh, McIlroy stormed clear of the field with a brilliant run of birdie-eagle-birdie from the 14th.
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"It's a bit of a party trick, whenever someone comes round, to show him off, " says the genial father of five.
Consequently it is no surprise that wily cats may avoid the temptation of a tethered meal, a common trick in the armoury of a generation of hunters in the Chitral Gol.
So this is a kind of trick for flogging the brain and the pituitary and the thyroid to dump out a lot of their respective hormones.
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But, claiming a hat-trick of giant-killings was always going to be a tough ask against a side ranked 18 league positions above them.
Paul Scharner seemed to have the freedom of the City box and could have had a hat-trick of headers.
On Friday, Fiji winger Rupeni Caucaunibuca scored a hat-trick of tries to lead defending Super 12 champions Auckland Blues to a 38-29 win over Canterbury Crusaders.
Giles Long missed out on his chance to complete a hat-trick of S8 100m butterfly crown.
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He kicked a magnificent 45-metre drop-goal which proved crucial as well as landing a hat-trick of penalties.
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The Ting Tings were the other major winner scoring a hat-trick of prizes.
"I really thought I had a chance of a hat-trick, " said Ntini afterwards.
So it must have felt like a hat-trick of sorts when Iwelumo pounced again six minutes into the second half.
It was cruel luck on the Tigers, for whom Joe Westerman scored a hat-trick of tries and kicked five goals.
Kramer is targeting a hat-trick of golds at the Canada Games as he goes in the 10, 000m and the team pursuit.
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The Algerian current CAF Cup holders won 2-0, 2-1 on aggregate, and are now on course for a hat-trick of titles.
And he completed a hat-trick of Masters victories in 2004 when he came from 7-2 down to beat Ronnie O'Sullivan 10-9.
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Connacht seemed set to grab a rare win at Parc y Scarlets thanks to a hat-trick of tries from wing Fionn Carr.
He drive over from two yards from the resulting scrum, but Aled Thomas made it a hat-trick of misses with his conversion attempt.
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