But at the chainwheel the small ring is low gear and the big ring is high.
Spectators established themselves in big numbers on the tiered seating round the big ring and stayed there for hours, fascinated by the quality and quantity of the wrestling.
In Iceland, you never know if it could be that just-married guy taking off three to six months next year, instead of the woman with the big bad wedding ring on her finger.
Retailers are readying to ring up big sales as the holiday grows in popularity.
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How big can the diamond ring get, and how much more wealth will be promised to her before she agrees to a finite, two-decade marriage?
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The other view is that is is largely a cosmetic change - which reflects on the general low regard people now have for the banking sector, but does not make a big difference to the ring-fence, for good or ill.
Mr Kohl may look groggy, but he is an old pro when it comes to landing big punches in the national ring after being drubbed in the regions.
His whole life on a chunky ring, a big masculine array of Chubbs, Banhams, and Yales, his office, his house, his second home, his mailbox, safe, and second car, and all the other parts of his existence that he had kept from me.
It used to be that if you walked in the door of a Cleveland industrial pump distributor, the guy at the door would lug you a big catalog in a three ring binder and let you spend 15 minutes flipping through it to see which ones you thought you might like to buy.
The Independent Commission on Banking is expected to recommend that the government should legislate almost immediately for big banks to put a ring fence or firewall around their retail banking operations - but the implementation of the ring fence, to separate retail banks from investment banks, should then be phased in over a period of years.
In the Big Garden Birdwatch 2006, the ring-neck parakeet was among the 20 most-sighted birds in London, seen in all 33 boroughs and jumping from 19th place in 2005 to 15th.
Small states can become big power brokers and television stations can ring up millions in ad sales to candidates.
Typically, the chief executives of big-IPO companies show up to ring the opening bell, a publicity stunt, but a coveted invitation nonetheless.
Among the top contenders are a prime Doberman named Veni Vidi Vici that reached the best-of-seven final ring last year, a big-winning wire fox terrier, a German wirehaired pointer ranks as the nation's No. 1 show dog and a prized American foxhound.
The circus was invented in the 1760s by a British cavalry officer, Philip Astley, who started with trick riding, moved on to "hippodrama" (plays in which horses took center stage) and established many of the basics of circuses, including brass-band marching tunes, a broad center ring and even the "big top" itself.
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The pair are big admirers of each others achievements in the ring with Jones Jr this week comparing Calzaghe to the great Rocky Marciano.
Any sort of licensing deal would suffice as a stamp of approval by big pharma, and off they went to ring the NASDAQ opening bell.
While the word "millionaire"--fodder for a TV quiz show and even the name of a magazine--still carries a nice ring, it isn't a big deal anymore.
The ring roads that roar around Mexico's big cities have speed limits of up to 80kph.
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"My big line was always, 'Not without a ring you don't, ' " Ms. Funicello told the Los Angeles Times in 1987.
The commission, chaired by Sir John Vickers, an independent-minded economist, also called for a big increase in the amount of capital held within these ring-fenced banks as a buffer against losses.
Big companies have the lawyers and the money to build ring fences of utility and design patents around their products so only the largest and best-financed competitors can even think of entering their markets, he said.
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Apps such as Key Ring and CardStar let you store the information for grocery stores, pharmacies, big-box retailers and other stores.
His big break came at the age of 24 when he earned his first million dollars by selling Hip-hop ring-tones to mobile phone subscribers in the United Kingdom.
Actually, in an interview with WGN-TV that appears on the Resistance Pro web site, Corgan aspires not so much to be Vince McMahon (so that means Corgan will stay out of the ring?) as he does a developer of wrestlers who can arrive to the WWE and the wrestling big leagues better-trained, and less concussion-bashed when they arrive.
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