But they seemed to symbolise one thing now within East Timor's grasp - real hope for the future and with it peace at last.
But I think the bottom line is when Dr. Romer and Dr. Bernstein came out with that, nobody had a full grasp -- us included -- on just how deep this was.
The Welsh side were ultimately thwarted by Ulster bravery and no little cunning - with the ball often ripped from the attacker's grasp - and a swarm of tacklers when the ball did reach the backs.
There strokes so incapacitated him that he had sometimes to write left-handed and sometimes to grasp his half-paralysed right wrist in his left hand in completing his Ninth Symphony, which opened amidst jubilation in Moscow this summer.
In testing for six months and launching formally on Oct. 10, MyBizHomepage.com aims to give busy entrepreneurs like Lapides an easy-to-grasp financial snapshot, rendered in bite-sized charts and graphs that are as immediately intuitive as, say, the speed and fuel dials on a car.
What Obama's team seems to understand -- and others grasp with varying degrees of success -- is that it's not just about broadcasting to a hard-to-reach demographic.
In order to understand the nature of this search--and to grasp its implications for modern Japan--it is necessary to look at some recent trends in Japanese historiography.
Victorian liberals failed to grasp that laissez-faire could produce over-mighty individuals, Friedman thought.
The prosthesis also has an auto-grasp feature, which prevents accidental slippage when, say, holding a soda can or picking up an apple.
Connects to the device with magnets that grasp and auto-align it.
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The journal Nature recently reported on two paralyzed individuals who were able to command a robotic arm to make reach-and-grasp movements by thought, using only a Braingate neural implant.
Writing about the report, study director Mr. Frost was critical of European governments for failing to grasp the far-reaching political and strategic implications of the rapid proliferation of ballistic missiles.
As investigators Friday tried to find the gunman in a black Range Rover SUV who triggered the shocking chain of events, families and friends tried to grasp the blink-of-an-eye finality of it all.
Yet he also absorbed the daring new techniques that were emerging at the time, illustrated here by the work of Masaccio and Uccello with their grasp of three- dimensional form and the rules of perspective.
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Earlier he had admitted to the Iwate governor that being from the south-west he had little grasp of the geography of the north-east where the tsunami hit.
My wife, who was born in Guadalajara and came to the United States legally as a child, reminds me that there is friction between Mexicans and Mexican-Americans because Mexicans have a firmer grasp of who they are and Mexican-Americans resent that.
If you analyze this well, you have a far-better grasp of the opportunity costs.
Readers without a grasp of the so-called standard model in particle physics may well flounder in the chapter on the physics prize.
Mr. Pollini's father was a noted architect, and some observers have linked his vocation with the pianist's much-lauded grasp of musical structure.
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After all, the tablet computer is covered with a glass plate and is large and heavy enough (1.5 lbs) to easily slip out of a one-handed grasp.
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Faced with any problem, any crisis - given any excuse - Labour grasp for more information, pulling more and more people into the clutches of state data capture.
Unfortunately, this trait is something that is still too dangerous to show in an American election, as is a too-thorough grasp of facts and statistics (which did Al Gore in).
It was the invention not of a journalist, but of a leading business lobbyist with a close grasp of the balance-sheet realities for companies in the manufacturing, retail, education and tourism sectors.
This account of his tribulations drags toward the end, but you leave with not only an admiring grasp of his Quixote-like obsession but also an absolute determination never to work in pictures.
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At this point, Qwest (nyse: Q - news - people ) has got next to no chance of snatching MCI (nasdaq: MCIP - news - people ) from the grasp of Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ).
The son of tycoon Li Ka-shing, Richard Li recently snatched HKT from the grasp of Singapore Telecom, a government-linked corporation, just as it was about to close a deal for a majority stake in Hong Kong's dominant telco.
Langfield was at fault this time round, as Conway's powerful drive spun out of the goalkeeper's grasp and over the goal-line.
In his new project, Krug offers up a glimpse of himself as a mad sonic alchemist, as he expands his compositional grasp to create a full-fledged rock opera.
There are a number of reasons to believe that he went into discussions with a poor grasp of how HuffPo functions--and may have overestimated Huffington's importance to the operation.
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