• For the spirit of peaceful protest and perseverance that the Egyptian people have shown can serve as a powerful wind at the back of this change.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on a Historic Day in Egypt

  • Time and again it tried to pull itself back into the shelter of the wing, but the wind was relentless.

    BBC: Snake clings to Qantas plane's wing during flight

  • However, if you value a quieter, more contemplative life, one punctuated only by the scraping of chairs after a leisurely lunch and the wind rustling through the lavender fields, a few miles back from the coast lies the picturesque village of Vidauban.

    FORBES: Provencal Retreat

  • Jones later sent a clearance over the dead-ball line as he sought to take advantage of the wind at his back.

    BBC: Scarlets 16-16 Ulster

  • It began its homeward journey back from the outer reaches of gold bullion and wind farms to the productive realm of venture capital and stocks.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • The trend will affect next season, too: Many of the one-and-done free agents will wind up right back on the market next winter, pumping up supply and depressing salaries.

    FORBES: Deals

  • But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.

    FORBES: Ben Bernanke Is Steering Us Off Course

  • It has the wind at its back in the form of public policy.

    FORBES: Wind Man

  • Bettencourt went as low as 8 under in the surprisingly calm Texas weather on Friday morning before falling back after a stretch of three bogeys in four holes once the wind picked up ever-so slightly.

    NPR: McIlroy Pulls Within 3 Shots Of Lead At Texas Open

  • Laois, helped by the introduction of Brian McDonald and Billy Sheehan, fought bravely to get back into the game but they were frustrated by the atrocious conditions as a couple of efforts went narrowly wide in the wind and rain.

    BBC: Paul McCumiskey

  • We got a good look at the MSI Wind U120 about a week ago, and now the company's back with a slew of new machines and we have plenty of details for you to savor.

    ENGADGET: MSI unveils a slew of new netbooks and one lonely nettop

  • That they are not including the cost of connecting wind power to the grid, the necessary costs of dealing with variable supply, of needed back up and so on.

    FORBES: Grantham Inst. Report Shows That We Should Abandon Wind Power Subsidies

  • It had the trendy wind of righteous self-improvement at its back.

    FORBES: Overrated or Underrated? Lennon & McCartney, Celluloid Olympians

  • At the same time, Beijing wants to cut back rare earth exports to the rest of the world, instead encouraging domestic production into wind and solar products for export around the world.

    FORBES: Why China Has To Dominate Green Tech

  • Team New Zealand opted to go around the left buoy and Alinghi went around the right, but the defending champions made the most of better wind shifts and tacked aggressively to squeeze back in front.

    BBC: SPORT | Other Sport... | Sailing | Alinghi on brink of retaining Cup

  • Stores wind up heavily discounting the used goods to get them back out of the store.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • What happens when these social-media savants go back to the ballet (which I hope they do) and wind up at a program of "only" Balanchine and Robbins?

    WSJ: Culture City: The Art of Fishing for Attention

  • "The ball was vacillating on the green, not moving but just kind of shaking, and the wind was blowing my putter head when I took it back, " he said.

    WSJ: The PGA at Kiawah: Something in the Wind

  • Folks are now back to work manufacturing these enormous new towers and blades for some of the most sophisticated, high-tech wind turbines on the planet.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • He is back on terra firma when he argues that the euro will put a strong wind behind the liberalisation of capital markets and will help set Europe's over-regulated economies free.

    ECONOMIST: Yves-Thibault de Silguy, euro-navigator

  • On Father Capodanno Boulevard in Staten Island's Midland Beach, frigid gusts blew in from the water, but those residents who have moved back in to their houses said the wind wasn't as bad as feared even at the height of the storm.

    WSJ: Motorists stranded as Long Island pelted with snow

  • The energy concerns of the future have also been taken into account with grand schemes of super-fast charging batteries supplied ultimately by solar or wind power connected to the stacking stations that could even feed back into the energy grid of the city itself.

    CNN: Reinventing the wheel

  • As China expands its own use of energy, including that from renewable sources, the nation intends to hold-back its exports of REEs for its own use, with potential impacts on the development of renewable energy such as from wind across the world.

    FORBES: EU Set to Stockpile Rare Earth Elements

  • Still, you can push this argument too far, and wind up going down a dangerous path -- one that ultimately sets back the greater cause of trying to get television networks and film studios to create a broader range of meatier roles for Latino actors and actresses.

    CNN: Latino should have played lead in 'Argo'

  • Those proclaiming the virtues of wind and solar should be compelled to reveal actual output data from these sources, the required back-up, and data on the actual reduction of carbon dioxide and other emissions when alternative sources are used.

    FORBES: The EPA's Shocking 'Oops' Moment

  • It struck us the other day as we were going over some back posts that since the launch of the ASUS Eee PC (and the numerous products that have followed, from the MSI Wind to the HP Mini-Note), to the best of our knowledge we've all yet to have any normalized, agreed-upon name for these kinds of devices.

    ENGADGET: Eee PC-like ultraportables - name that product category

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