• When he scored against Arsenal, where he spent eight seasons, his first move was to hold up his hands, even as Wayne Rooney threw himself onto his shoulders.

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  • Ring is told repeatedly to take his hands out of his pockets, even though his hands appear to be out of his pockets already.

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  • By this logic, the leak is designed to force his hand and perhaps even to tie his hands.

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  • The new hearing, brought by his allies in the Czech Senate, neatly ties his hands: he cannot sign the treaty, even if he wants to.

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  • But even if he does get his hands on the Webb Ellis Trophy six weeks later, Brooke can already foresee the next jibe from future opponents.

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  • Of all the recent comic-book transplants to the big screen, Tobey Maguire's Peter Parker has been the most likable, quirky and reliably human, even when he's squirting web-juice from his hands as the semi-superhuman Spider-Man.

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  • He only got the chance when Kenya recently decided to make primary education free to everyone - and even then, Kimani had a bit of a fight on his hands to get accepted.

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  • When the old man (Nelson Mandela) lived in Soweto he would walk around, shake people's hands, greet and talk to them, he even invited us into his home.

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  • Even in America, the typical skier still hands less than 20% of his holiday cash to the resort owners.

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  • Even after the motor company went bankrupt in 1982, Wynne and his partner had their hands full.

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  • Even assuming that Mr Davis can be ousted, Mr Schwarzenegger has a fight on his hands to win the second, beauty-contest, part of the ballot.

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  • By the end of opening night, Gelb had on his hands a full-blown fiasco, with boos resounding from the orchestra seats, the upper galleries, and even the plaza outside, where people had watched on a screen for free.

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  • Mr. MEYERS: Well, I suppose the simple power of the theme and the idea that a man who is weak and poor and old, and has gone through tremendous physical hardships, including having his hands sort of torn up by the rope and the struggle, does in fact endure, and prevail, even though he's lost what he's fought for, because the sharks have eaten the marlin.

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  • Wren is a lot more hands-on than was his predecessor, the reserved Bruce Crawford, and makes himself available to selected accounts, even negotiating some deals.

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  • And even his celebrations are tame compared with those of former teammate Manny Ramirez, who would often throw his hands skyward as the bat left his hand.

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  • When, or if, he does eventually retire, the bank will be in safe hands: those of his 62-year-old chief executive, Charles Snipes, who is said to be even more frugal than his boss.

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  • This, coupled with an aggressive television campaign (in which a famous warlord about to leave for battle ponders whether to leave his kingdom in the hands of his wife or Mobit), has won it some 3, 000 loan applications a day, more even than the industry leaders.

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