• Ditas explained Spanish men to me in pantomime (I barely spoke the language) a few days after I arrived: "If you give one your fingernail, he'll take half your arm, " was her gist.

    WSJ: Escabeche: A Seafood Dish for the Fish-Phobe

  • In its latest incarnation, Fenelon's window regulator is less than half the weight of the arm-and-sector design, 2 pounds rather than 5.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Half is held by the arm of telecommunications concern BCE, soon to control the Globe and Mail, the nation's largest commercial television network (CTV) and Sympatico, the largest Internet portal.

    FORBES: Split Screen

  • But when a cross brushed Walker's arm midway through the half the referee did point to the spot for the first time, and Bent confidently beat Gomes low to his right.

    BBC: Sunderland 3-1 Tottenham

  • Preussag hopes to finance the deal, in part, by floating half of its Hapag-Lloyd logistics arm on the stockmarket.

    ECONOMIST: Tour operators

  • That left the hosts with just 33 overs to make that 168 to win at five and a half an over - and left-arm swing bowler James Tomlinson then made life even more uncomfortable when he took three quick wickets to reduce Lancashire to 17-3.

    BBC: Lancashire keep their nerve to see off Hampshire

  • It was a scintillating start to the match for the Welsh side and, although they suffered a blow as scrum-half Jason Spice went off with a broken arm, they soon took the lead with a quite brilliant try.

    BBC: Cardiff Blues 50-12 Gloucester

  • Ganguly often chanced his arm but quickly posted his 70th ODI half century, and when Lewis returned he swotted him into the stands at mid-wicket.

    BBC: India victory keeps series alive

  • Gripping the inner tube under his arm, he steps over the edge and half slides half stumbles down, feeling the warm sandy earth spilling over the tops of his feet.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Closer

  • Over the past year about half a dozen Intel-based smartphones have hit the market, a drop in the bucket compared with the hundreds of designs using ARM-based technology, but still a half dozen more than Intel could claim last year.

    FORBES: Intel's Otellini to Step Down in May

  • The Pacers had to be happy to be within arm's reach of the Knicks through one half.

    WSJ: The Knicks Live to Fight in Indy

  • This arm-and-sector design, around for half a century, made sense in the old days because the elbowlike fixed fulcrum allowed for the hand cranks to stay in one place.

    FORBES: Making "Eureka!" Pay

  • "It usually excludes his arm, his elbow and his shoulder, " Ganis half-jokes of a typical pitcher policy.

    FORBES: The Talent

  • Around half of the supermarket's sales growth came from the online arm and smaller convenience stores, he said, with general merchandise and clothing growing at more than twice the rate of food over the year.

    BBC: Sainsbury's full-year profits fall despite rising sales

  • Feel the warmth and security as you curl its plush arm around your body and rest your head on the half-chested slab of memory foam that oddly happens to be wearing a full button-down shirt to bed.

    CNN: Apparently This Matters: The Boyfriend Pillow

  • Sheffield United held Middlesbrough at arm's length in the early stages of the second half, with only Alves threatening to break the deadlock with another shot that Kenny saved low down.

    BBC: Middlesbrough 1-0 Sheff Utd (aet)

  • The second came 18 minutes into the second half when Kightly whipped in a cross from the right and Wilson's arm made contact with the ball but neither referee Howard Webb or his assistant saw the misdemeanour and awarded Wolves a corner.

    BBC: Wolves 0-1 Portsmouth

  • The hosts dominated the first half and were unlucky to be denied a penalty when Craig Cathcart appeared to use an arm to block Victor Obinna's volley.

    BBC: West Ham 0-0 Blackpool

  • The only problem was, nobody at the station had an arm small enough to actually reach in through the two-and-a-half inch opening and pack grease around the bearing.

    CNN: The 10-year-old who helped Apollo 11, 40 years later

  • The AIRarm prototype is essentially a Packbot whose metal arm's been replaced with an inflatable version able to lift four times its own half-pound weight.

    ENGADGET: iRobot's AIRarm prototype bot has an inflatable arm for manipulating objects, was built at DARPA's behest

  • Tommy Bowe scored an early second-half try but David Wallace and Johne Murphy touched down before O'Connell saw red for a swinging arm on Jonathan Thomas.

    BBC: Munster 22-16 Ospreys

  • The home side pushed forward at the start of the second half, but Stephen Craigan blocked well from Kevin Nicoll and Motherwell proceeded to keep their Third Division opponents at arm's length without looking entirely convincing.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Stranraer 0-2 Motherwell

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