• When I touched my hand against the Western Wall and placed my prayer between its ancient stones, I thought of all the centuries that the children of Israel had longed to return to their ancient homeland.

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  • "When you have people saying thank you (by coming) to your home to swing a hammer and paint a wall, it says something different than shaking your hand and buying you a drink, " said Gallina, 34.

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  • Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond at the University of Montpellier, France, deduced the prehistoric cave painters' handedness by spraying paint against cave walls to see which hand they pressed against the wall, and therefore did not use for drawing.

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  • The jury heard that during one argument Miss Manning punched her boyfriend twice and cut her hand when she hit a wall by mistake.

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  • Actually, first she swung into the room like a broken gate, holding the door frame with one hand and slamming the other one flat against the wall.

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  • Former NFL players were on hand to sign autographs for guests, and one wall was transformed into an enormous mural of plasma screens so no one would miss a moment of pre-game entertainment or commentary.

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  • When a pretty girl asks you for a piece of wall, instead hand her a hammer and a chisel.

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  • On the other hand, Wall Street expects the most of a Republican and is disillusioned after the election.

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  • The wall sconces date to the 1700s, and hand-carved mahogany millwork as well as European forged bronze hardware gleam throughout.

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  • Twentysomethings spend their days rearing children, living hand to mouth in Asia, and working sixty-hour weeks on Wall Street.

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  • Back at the Revere Hotel, the city's Hand Wall showcases actual clay moulds of the hands of notable theatre and local arts visionaries.

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  • Having been shown a yellow card, rather than a red, Kiraly retreated to his line, only to see Arteta curl a superb free-kick over the wall and past his dive into the top left-hand corner.

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  • The famed management theorist, who died this month at 95, was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where his hand-typed (chicken scratches and all in those days) manuscripts would reach us nearly every month.

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  • We are staring at a wall of handsome, hand-tooled saddles: English, Western, and, for the die-hards, a version of a buttero saddle in rich, leather-trimmed suede, filled with jute, horsehair, and hay over a heavy wooden yoke.

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  • Best buys are babouches (traditional leather slippers), silver Berber jewellery, the famous blue-glazed Fassi ceramics, hand-sewn linen and cotton embroidery, Berber hendiras (traditional woven cloaks that make great wall hangings), argan oil (for cooking or in soap), saffron and other spices, brassware, and carpets of every type, style and quality.

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  • On the other hand, there are very few safeguards for backers, and accountability remains buried behind however opaque a wall each project wants to put up.

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  • The Occupy Wall Street movement, on the other hand, is something of a hybrid of online and real, physical-space dissent.

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  • On the one hand we find preposterous the proposition, offered four years ago in the Wall Street Journal by James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, that stocks should be trading at maybe 100 times earnings.

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  • At age 43 Will is an old Asian hand, having spent 20 years in these parts, a dozen of which were for the Wall Street Journal and its parent, Dow Jones, where we had first met.

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  • It allows three numbers to break through the safety wall (meaning you can still chat with your special someone, hand-free of course), and one application can run.

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  • England wing Vainikolo went over in the right hand corner during the second half to narrow the gap to 13-12 and the writing seemed to be on the wall for a Gloucester comeback.

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  • Perhaps, in a time of abundant liquidity, they thought that all the slicing and dicing done by the mortgage industry and its Wall Street allies had spread the risk sufficiently thin that a genuine productivity payoff in finance was at hand and no great upset was in store.

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