• He has his defenders moving on the training ground as if joined together by an invisible rope - the key idea being that they must defend as a unit.

    BBC: Argentina's case for the defence

  • Tihar jail officials said Ram Singh appeared to have hanged himself with an improvised rope made from a blanket at about 05:00 local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday) while his three cellmates were asleep.

    BBC: Delhi rape: Ram Singh's body released after post mortem

  • Although no DNA was recovered from the Omagh bomb because it had exploded, Baxter believed that together the four failed bombings, and other bombings linked to them, "produced an evidential rope" which proved Mr Hoey had made the timers for all of them, including Omagh.

    BBC: Omagh: 10 years on

  • He next bisected an inch-thick rope, then set his sights on three water bottles, stacked about 6 inches apart, which he had to cut vertically.

    WSJ: World Championship Cutting Competition Features Knife-Wielding Experts

  • Jayawardene was single-handedly holding the innings together and his ability to find the rope with an element of regularity drove Sri Lanka past the 100 mark.

    BBC: Sri Lanka see off valiant Ireland

  • There are grab bars on the front steps that he used to hoist himself into his home, an elevator with a rope pulley that he operated himself, and he fashioned his own form of physical therapy in the long driveway, challenging himself to crutch down to the road and back.

    BBC: A new New York, just up the Hudson

  • Would he stop running up and down rope lines like an afternoon game-show host?

    CNN: What the Loser Should Do

  • Just as a good writer is best given his rope, so an art director needs conceptual room to convey the rest of the story and to integrate the assorted elements of a magazine.

    FORBES: Coming: The Trillionaire Issue

  • During the contest, knights ride horses at full gallop along a main street, aiming lances at an iron ring hanging on a rope.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • During a break in action, there was an awesome routine by a jump-rope team.

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  • The owner, an Indian, sold him all the rope he had in stock: forty yards of braided hemp, which Pereda examined at length, as if looking for loose threads.

    NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

  • At the time, the state-of-the-art means for clearing a cave was to tie a rope around the waist of an infantryman, who would crawl in and toss ahead a grappling hook to probe for mines or booby traps.

    MSN: New robots well trained for war

  • In the credit sequence, a fried egg took on an unnerving affinity to a sliced eye, and shoelaces resembled rope tugged tight.

    NEWYORKER: Final Cut Pro

  • For a less strenuous hike close to the guesthouse, there is an excellent tree-top canopy walk along a series of rope-and-plank suspension bridges 15m above the ground.

    BBC: Exploring Queensland��s rainforest hinterland

  • Ascending a free hanging rope that twists in the breeze and juts over an edge (how sharp is that rock?) is one of the scariest things a climber can do.

    WSJ: Training for the Big Wall | By Michael J. Ybarra

  • Mr Galassi, an experienced wakeboarder, found that his hand became trapped in the rope that was to pull him along.

    BBC: Lost finger turns up in Idaho lake fish

  • Contrary to an initial theory that the piece could have been lowered by a rope found still wrapped to it, the police department clarified Monday that a police officer had attached the rope last week to maneuver the part to better see a serial number and other indicators.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Drop a rope ladder to the envious Jets fans, still fuming from an exasperating season and another Rex Ryan prediction that came up short.

    WSJ: This Game Won't Be Super Bowl XLII, Part II

  • But an interim report from the official post-mortem examination suggested "there were no marks of injury or bruises on the body except the rope marks on the neck, " Dr Sharif Astori, an official spokesperson, said.

    BBC: Raja Pervez Ashraf (June 2012)

  • The harrowing ride while holding onto a rope as a spacecraft zooms through skyscrapers and enemies fire at you from an open bay door is breathtaking.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • As he explored underwater, holding a rope, she rode in a canoe, tugging the line if she saw an alligator.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • The 3, 500-pounder resisted the first gaff for an hour and a half and thrashed for another hour before they got the tail-rope round it.

    ECONOMIST: Frank Mundus

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