They have to prove that they can endure in-your-face rudeness without batting an eyelid.
He watched the police come in, and he watched the body being taken out, and he never batted an eyelid.
And when Manisha and a friend pose for the BBC in female clothes on the building's rooftop, builders next door scarcely bat an eyelid.
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Around 77 of the 200 hedge funds sold in Australia offer their products to the general public, sometimes over the internet, without officials batting an eyelid.
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How can a company that has done one thing for over a century suddenly claim, without batting an eyelid, that it is in fact better at something else entirely?
"I was hobbling through Wymondham in Norfolk, absolutely black and blue - completely battered - and not a single person batted an eyelid until the police investigation started, " she said.
Obviously an eyelid-like shutter mechanism would be too large and complicated for something as small as a print head, so an electrical field is applied instead to keep the film spread thin.
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When Ecowas was formed in 1975, the majority of its members states had military heads of state - and a new coup leader was therefore warmly welcomed at meetings, without anybody batting an eyelid.
Other Fossil Fuel companies on a divestment strategy are BP who are selling their stakes in fields in the North Sea, Russia, the Arctic and the Gulf to name but a few and not even batting an eyelid about being refused license to buy future assets in the Gulf.
Yet Hollywood is one of the most ruthless industries in the world: a place where giant multinationals package pap for the masses, slippery agents carry the art of the double cross to levels undreamed of by Talleyrand, and nobody bats an eyelid when the stars make millions and the rest of the crew is thrown on the dole at the end of a production.
The UCL team discovered that MIP-1a plays a key role in the early stages of an allergic response within the clear membrane that coats the inner surface of the eyelid and outer surface of the eye, known as the conjunctiva.
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