• After all, I live in Los Angeles and have myself brandished the universal hand gesture of disrespect.

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  • The contact appeared accidental but Salisbury immediately brandished a red card which he rescinded after the match.

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  • Allison Spitz, 16, brandished a sign reading "Oil and Water Don't Mix" as she attended her first political demonstration.

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  • Following the riots in London on Monday, Andrew Bayles' photograph of brooms being brandished in the air became an internet sensation.

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  • The Santer commission's resignation was a triumph for the parliament: it brandished the threat of a censure vote, and the threat worked.

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  • Mr Doyle told the court that, on 30 June, Ms Rees had brandished a knife which she was using to cut up leather.

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  • In rain and blustery winds, a dozen or so people brandished posters calling on the Kirk, the Presbyterian church shaped by the Scottish Reformation, to repent.

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  • On his last campaign flight, Romney brandished his iPad to show reporters he had just finished writing his acceptance speech for Election Night.

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  • The referee was extremely lenient throughout, but he eventually brandished a yellow card at Leeds skipper Lucas Radebe for a dangerous tackle on Vincenzo Montella.

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  • He brandished the downgraded growth forecasts for this year and next as supposed proof of the folly of fast and deep cuts to public spending.

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  • But even after Eliot Spitzer brandished the chain of e-mails he dug up, corporations seem blithely unaware of the legal damage that can be wrought in electronic discovery.

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  • So if no property was lost because a burglar fled when a household member brandished a gun, many or most of those incidents may not have been recorded.

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  • Music blared as revelers brandished American flags across the city.

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  • In that proceeding the air force's lawyer had brandished a sealed envelope supposedly containing evidence, though its contents were never to be seen by the accused or his defenders.

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  • At a presentation in London on Wednesday, Chief Executive Todd Stitzer brandished a new brand of gum, called "Layers, " due to be released in the U.S. later this year.

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  • Demanding documents connected to a tax case in Kazakh courts, the troops brandished their weapons to remove AES employees and seize the mine's administration building, according to internal AES e-mails.

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  • S. agent named Jeff Novitzky, whose biggest claim to fame, before all this, was helping to bring down an extortionist California kickboxing instructor who brandished a samurai sword and called himself the Immortal Tiger.

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  • It was a marginal decision, but replays suggested that Faye - who clumsily bundled Adebayor over as the Togo international raced goalwards - was indeed the last man, and after consulting his assistant, Wiley brandished the red card.

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  • Politicians have publicly brandished recent purchases.

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  • Others thanked him for coming and later the mayor got big cheers from a separate crowd as he brandished a broom and thanked those volunteers who had arrived to help clear up the mess as representing the real "spirit of London".

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  • In the late 1990s, teams of researchers at the Harvard school of public health interviewed dozens of people who had wielded a gun for self-defense. (In many cases, the guns were not fired, but were simply brandished.) The researchers pressed for the fullest description of exactly what happened.

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