He said he told them "I will eat my hat if in five years' time" if the response times in Corby had dropped as a result of the plans.
BBC: MP Andy Sawford warns against ambulance station closures
For the past 30 years, the coolest places to hang your hat if you're a scientist, engineer or wild duck have been in private industry--Silicon Valley kinds of companies, especially.
If showy residential towers are now old hat (if often empty) in an increasing number of Chinese cities, these kind of digs are still new to much of rising India.
An MP has said he will 'eat his hat' if ambulance response times improve as a result of plans to close 53 ambulance stations in the East Midlands.
BBC: MP Andy Sawford warns against ambulance station closures
An extended family of aunts and uncles and cousins who you could turn to at the drop of the hat, if you ever got caught doing something improper on the street.
Was it true, the only socially acceptable reason to wear a top hat is if you're a Central Park buggy driver, an ersatz hippie at Burning Man or Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in "Dumb and Dumber"?
"Red Hat and others are saying that if you buy this product, you get quality assurance and the value of a relationship, " he says.
So if you're heading hat in hand to one of the big boys, you better act like one yourself.
Even if they can wear the hat to another race or luncheon, it won't be seen at another Kentucky Derby.
Match-winner Villa, who would have become Spain's record World Cup goalscorer with six goals if he had completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot, appeared more upbeat than his manager.
If I throw my Sabermetric hat on and focus on WHIP, Mr. Dickey ranks 3rd in all of baseball just behind established thoroughbreds like Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants and Jered Weaver of the L.A. Angels.
With odds like that, the men are free to be concerned with what Kruger calls their primary concern: strictly sexual relationships. they know that, in the end, there will be women around when and if he decides to hang his hat.
In an intriguing tip of the hat to a tradition on its way out, if not already dead and buried, the fiery nobleman Adriano is written for a woman.
Other than trying to scare you into buying every single product the company has ever released, the paper highlights the growing problem of Black Hat SEO, or SEO Poisoning, which (if done right) sends malware-ridden links closer to the top of your Google search results.
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If you think that junk shot and top hat reek of desperation, well maybe so.
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That is fine if it means they will not be passing the hat round in Washington, the way that the car industry does.
If you don't have an attitude about the hat, it doesn't mean anything, like a stick pin -- it's just there.
Eliot Spitzer will lose New York's governor's race and, hat and shoes in hand, will go knocking on investment banking doors asking if anyone needs a compliance officer.
Elections manager Lynn Marlowe says if one of these new voters tries to cast a ballot wearing a political hat, button or T-shirt, he or she will be asked to take it off or cover it up.
If that doesn't happen early this week then we might be in the hat.
If you are skilled and the time is right, you can put on the contrarian hat for some great risk-reward trades.
Wearing sunglasses, a hat and a bandage under his neck, Sergei Filin told reporters he would feel "great, if only my eyes could see a bit better".
In the everyday world, if we see someone walking around with a mask and a trench coat and a dark hat and gloves on we get a little suspicious.
"If you stand and watch an innings like Yuvraj played and Sehwag you have just got to take your hat off to the way they played, " said Pietersen.
Depending on what state they live in, if voters show up at the polls with a candidate's name on a T-shirt or hat, they could be turned away.
You could let your new peers know that if they get jobs opps passed their way that they can feel free to throw your name in the hat or have the recruiter contact you.
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