Since signatures can now be printed on correspondence, if you hand-sign with black ink, it may not be clear you actually signed it.
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Recently, Brasserie Le Coze, one of Atlanta's premier French restaurants, offered a special Boulud menu with Boulud on hand to sign copies of his new cookbook.
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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One hand-painted sign leads to a two-storey restaurant facing a dunebacked beach.
He also makes a hand-printed sign with the passenger's name and then drives to the gate of the inbound flight, parking at the bottom of the jet-bridge stairs.
This humanization works, because someone wrote each sign by hand, and it makes consumers think about the supermarket more in terms of its employees than its large corporate size.
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During cross-examination, Mr Edis challenged Ms Pryce's account earlier in the trial that Huhne stood in their hallway with a pen in his hand urging her to sign after a letter arrived with her named as the nominated driver.
Retirees sign contracts to hand over their pension payments in exchange for a highly discounted lump sum by placing them in separate bank accounts.
He's going round the changing room with a pen in his hand telling all the lads to sign his match ball.
You're greeted with a solid plastic box that holds your documents, a branded mousepad, toolkit, T-Shirt and a hand-written quality-assurance sign-off sheet from the person who tested and set up your gear.
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Although there are many of the trademark features of American rap in his videos - cars with bouncing suspension, ostentatious jewellery and much semaphore-like hand signalling - there is no sign of the gyrating, scantily-clad ladies that are more or less ubiquitous to the genre in the West.
Muscle soreness, on the other hand, isn't always a sign to take a day off.
When most artists sign record deals, they hand over these rights in exchange for an advance payment, a smaller royalty of 10-15% on music sales and the prestige of recording an album for a major record label.
One the other hand, 103 elected members of Congress did sign this bizarre letter.
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Also, excessive bad news surrounding a stock (remember Burke's contrarian bent) is a sign that the bottom is at hand.
After all, maintenance and service contracts help build and keep cash flow from customer channels, and it is not enough to simply have them sign off on such contracts to hand over to the support department.
The exhibition includes one of these gifts, the head of a woman identified as Cleopatra (c. 1532-33), which like the Madonna and Child has passages so finely worked that any sign of the artist's hand has disappeared.
On the other hand, if you singled out Manhattan for a sign, it might be taken by sensitive, proud Brooklynites that you were disrespecting their historic borough.
As in Ireland, prices in Spain fell faster in the year to October than in the rest of the euro area, a sign of improving competitiveness (see right-hand chart).
In a 1993 court appearance that shocked Italians, a Mafia turncoat testified he saw Mr. Andreotti kiss the hand of Italy's top Mafia don in a sign of respect an allegation Mr. Andreotti promptly dismissed as slander.
Referring to this incident, Mr Zygner said that while walking home from work with tools in his bag Mr Kulinski drove past and gestured the sign of a gun at him with his hand, then got out and chased him.
This, by itself, is one early sign that a market bottom may be close at hand for gold.
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Asked exactly what happened in 2003, she told the court Mr Huhne had called her downstairs and was standing in the hallway with a pen in his hand with the speeding form, which he asked her to sign.
So it was all too happy a year ago to sign a deal with Holland that might encourage more companies to hand out purchasing cards to employees.
During the playoffs last year, Marty Prather, a Cardinals season-ticket holder since 1983, gleefully held up a sign showing Pujols watching the playoffs from his couch, popcorn in hand.
On the one hand, the strike, backed by business as well as labour, showed no sign of weakening.
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When you perform certain gestures with your hand--such as touching your thumb to your index finger in the "okay" sign--there are electrical signals associated with that gesture that pass through the nerves in your upper arm as they carry commands from your brain to your hand.
Overall, our correspondent says, the German visit is a sign that Serbia is moving more into the European mainstream and that the West has its hand outstretched.
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On the other hand, these agencies are asking for a judicial imprimatur of their actions, making judges reluctant to blindly sign-off on settlements when their approval represents a key component of the enforcement process.
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With men on first and third bases, and with two outs in the first, Redman threw three balls to hand the initiative to Matsui, who hit the subsequent fastball on a line over the 408-foot sign.
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